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CONTENTS

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June 4, 2013 + Volume 34

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JEREMY ALFORD, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, MEGAN BRADEN-PERRY, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, GUS KATTENGELL, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, IAN MCNULTY, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS, DALT WONK Contributing Photographer | CHERYL GERBER

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Bed Rock ...........................................................19 With its new album, Brass Bed drives a new sound out of Acadiana

7 IN SEVEN

Seven Things to Do This Week................. 5 Geto Boys, Hell’s Belles, Vox and the Hound and more

NEWS + VIEWS

News .........................................................................7 The New Orleans Mojo completes its first season of women’s football Bouquets + Brickbats .....................................7 Heroes and zeroes C’est What? ..........................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt..........................................................10 News briefs from all over Commentary ......................................................12 Of hawks and budgets Jeremy Alford .................................................... 13 Winding down in Baton Rouge Blake Pontchartrain ......................................14 OK, so what’s a Creole, anyway?

Clancy DuBos ...................................................16 Scott Cowen prepares to leave Tulane University

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What’s in Store ...............................................25 Saucy’s BBQ

HEALTH + WELLNESS

Gambit’s Fitness Expo................PULLOUT Your guide to the June 8 event at Lakeside Shopping Center

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Review ..................................................................27 Dominique’s on Magazine Fork + Center....................................................27 All the news that’s fit to eat 5 in Five................................................................28 Five CBD specialty sandwich shops 3-Course Interview ......................................28 Clara Gerica of Pete and Clara’s Seafood

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

A + E News .........................................................35 The third annual Loving Festival examines issues of interracial relationships

Music .....................................................................36 PREVIEW: Iceage Film .......................................................................40 REVIEW: After Earth Art ..........................................................................43 REVIEW: Beyond Beasts: The Art of Court 13 ...........................................43 Stage....................................................................46 REVIEW: Other Places REVIEW: Redesigning Women Events ..................................................................49 PREVIEW: Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival Crossword + Sudoku...................................62

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Employment + Job Guru ............................53 Mind + Body + Spirit....................................54 Pets ......................................................................54 Legal Notices ..................................................54 Services .............................................................56 Picture Perfect Properties.......................57 Real Estate .......................................................58 Market Place ...................................................63

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Geto Boys Fri. June 7 | Forget last year’s questionable union with Insane Clown Posse and recall when Scarface’s crew struck fear into the hearts of sucka MCs and fax machines alike. The 1991 landmark We Can’t Be Stopped and 1999’s Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly both proved correct. At the Howlin’ Wolf. PAGE 36.

Ballzack Sat. June 8 | Representing the West Bank, rappers Ballzack and Odoms are at One Eyed Jacks for a rare live performance and to release their new album, Ace and Ernie. Shadow of Capricorn also performs. PAGE 36.

All People Fri. June 7 | Local DIY label Community Records launched this progressive punk supergroup, and the band kicks off a nationwide summer tour with the release of its debut LP Communicate (Asian Man Records) and the premiere of its veggie oil-powered van, successfully backed by Kickstarter in January. Vox & the Hound and Salesman also are on the bill at Carrollton Station. PAGE 36.

Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival Sat.-Sun. June 8-9 | The annual festival features performances by Lost Bayou Ramblers, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, Rosie Ledet, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Bruce Daigrepont and many others. At the Old U.S. Mint. PAGE 49.

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After Earth | Cypher Raige (Will Smith) crash lands on Earth 1,000 years after humans had to flee the planet and must escape with his son and crew. They face evolved animal species and fearsome alien-controlled robots as they try to signal for help in the summer sci-fi thriller. PAGE 40.

Hell’s Belles Fri.-Sun. June 7-23 | A wounded Union soldier seeks refuge in the French Finishing School for Little Confederate Women, home to the South’s bawdiest belles and spinster sister headmistresses Flossie and Fannie French (Brian Peterson and Yvette Hargis, respectively). Running with Scissors presents the raucous mashup at Mid-City Theatre. PAGE 46.

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heroes + zeroes The Milan Golf Scramble raised $24,000 for Lighthouse Louisiana (formerly Lighthouse for the Blind) at its fourth annual golf tournament at Audubon Park May18. Serving New Orleans for nearly 100 years, Lighthouse Louisiana helps promote independence for blind and visually impaired people by providing competitive employment, classes and technology training. It’s the largest employer of the blind in the state.

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New Orleans’ full-tackle women’s football team closes out its first season this week. By Alejandro de los Rios PHOTOS BY CHeRYL GeRBeR

hen Yvette Schubert tells people she plays football, she says the first question they ask is if she plays in the Lingerie Football League. “I ask them: ‘Do I look like I play Lingerie Football?’” Schubert says, laughing. Schubert, a defensive end on the New Orleans Mojo women’s football team, has played sports all her life — but when she tells people she’s been playing full-pads tackle football, nobody believes her. “Then I pull out my phone and show them pictures of me playing in full pads and they realize I’m not joking,” she says. Schubert is one of more 50 women that make up the New Orleans Mojo. The team plays its final game of its inaugural season Saturday night at Tad Gormley Stadium. Her story about pulling out her phone is one echoed by several of her teammates. After people realize she’s not joking, Schubert says, people

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sometimes become curious about women’s football and take in a game. “People see that I’m serious, and they’re like, ‘That’s awesome, I want to go see you play,’” she says. That’s the attitude Mojo founder and owner Christine Urrata is banking on to help grow the sport in New Orleans. Urrata left her job as a Kenner police officer to manage the team full time. “When people think about professional sports in this city, they think of the Saints, the Pelicans, the Zephyrs,” Urrata says. “I want the Mojo to be in that conversation as well.” Urrata admits the Mojo has a long way to go. Most of the Mojo players had never played football before joining the team. Urrata herself didn’t even know that women’s professional football existed until she visited Pittsburgh last year on her way to see the New Orleans Saints play in the NFL Hall of Fame game. The day she went to see Heinz Field was the same day the Women’s

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Football Alliance (wFA) was holding its championship. “i was in awe,” Urrata says. “i thought this is something that New Orleans needed to have.” New Orleans has had a women’s football team before — the Blaze — but that player-owned team dissolved two years ago. while women’s football has had trouble gaining a foothold in the New Orleans area, the sport has existed in the United states since the 1970s, with a dozen leagues forming and disbanding. There are three leagues currently operating in the United states, including the women’s spring Football League and the independent women’s Football League. The wFA is the largest and most successful league, with 49 teams. it consolidated 36 teams from

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were quickly humbled. The team lost its first game 40-0 to the Acadiana Zydeco. Chestnut says that once he saw his players get through the first couple of plays, he began to have confidence in the team’s potential. “The first game, I just wanted to see how they’d react to their first blow,” he says. “Now they’re talking about hitting gaps and zone blocking, and that puts a smile on my face.” Just three weeks after its first loss, the Mojo played the Zydeco again and won 32-13.

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The Mojo roster consists of students, teachers, police officers, emergency medical service technicians, mothers and others. Though the Mojo is considered a professional team, players have to pay a fee to join and cover their travel expenses. Players practice four days a week at various locations, play games at Tad Gormley and Pan-American stadiums and attend film study at the team’s Kenner office. Injuries are a real issue. Though there are professional trainers and an ambulance at every game, women’s football players don’t receive free medical care like NFL players. For women, one major injury could end their career. Running back Keshawn Patterson — who was wearing a brace on her right wrist — says injuries don’t scare her. “I say a prayer before every game, but it’s not something I’m concerned with,” she says. “People think I’m crazy but you can get hurt driving your car.” Tight end Liz Pax, who heard about the Mojo through Play NOLA’s flag football league, loves bringing her pads and helmet to St. Louis King of France Catholic School, where she teaches kindergarten. Pax says her football-playing sideline is often met with disbelief. “Then all people say is, ‘You’re not allowed to get hurt,’” she says. Center Staci Ortolano said she first heard of the Mojo through her softball team. Though she had never played football before, she took it as a challenge to learn and play the game. “It’s an awesome feeling,” she says. “You feel very, very powerful.” Defensive end Ashley Ernst — who brought her 19-month-old daughter Eva to a Mojo film study session — says one of her motivations is to show her daughter and other young women that it’s possible for them to play football. “Like every little girl, I always wanted to play football but never had the opportunity,” she says. Though this Saturday’s game will be the team’s last of the season, Urrata says the Mojo is just getting underway. She plans to turn the office space that is the team’s de facto headquarters into a pro shop that sells Mojo merchandise alongside Saints and Pelicans gear. She also is planning football workshops for women interested in learning more about the game, as well as training camps and team trips to local schools to show young girls that football is an option for them. “We’re like the 1967 Saints in their first year,” she said. “They didn’t win a lot but they had the community support. ... Now it’s all about letting people know who we are.”

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$10.10 PER HOUR? Former Mayor Marc Morial, who is now President and CeO of the National Urban League, has announced the Urban League’s support of the “Fair Minimum wage Act of 2013,” which would incrementally raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour over three years and adjust it for inflation thereafter. Current federal minimum wage, established in 2009, is $7.25 per hour. The minimum wage for tipped employees, such as restaurant servers, is $2.13 per hour for employees whose combined tips and salary regularly meet minimum wage standards. in his February state of the Union address, President Barack Obama ex-

news + views pressed support for raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour. in March, sen. Tom Harkin, D-iowa, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced the measure. “The National Urban League wholeheartedly supports the Harkin-Miller bill,” Morial wrote. “it would result in 30 million people receiving a raise, nearly half of whom would be people of color.” Morial also touted the support of the U.s. women’s Chamber of Commerce, but the notion is opposed by other business interests, including the lobbying group the U.s. Chamber of Commerce. According to statistics compiled by the U.s. Department of Labor, Louisiana is one of only five states with no statewide law regarding minimum wage. eighteen states and washington D.C. have established minimum wages higher than those specified by federal law. The state of washington tops the list with a $9.19 per hour minimum wage, but the highest minimum wage in the country is in the city of san Francisco: $10.55 per hour. — KeviN ALLMAN

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tate lawmakers will conclude the 2013 annual legislative session this Thursday (June 6). By all accounts, this year’s session has been one of the most contentious in memory. After spending months trying to gain support for his controversial tax-swap proposal, Gov. Bobby Jindal abandoned the plan on the opening day of the session. When the initial shock of the governor’s decision wore off, lawmakers realized that they — along with voters — had lost their taste for “tax reform” as espoused by the governor. At a minimum, the protracted debate over Jindal’s idea of swapping much higher sales taxes for no state income tax proved that, while Louisiana’s tax code has its share of shortcomings, its income tax is not one of them. Our state’s top bracket of 6 percent puts Louisiana squarely in the middle of the 40-plus states that impose an income tax. By contrast, our combined state and local sales tax rate of almost 9 percent ranks thirdhighest in the country. Jindal’s tax-swap plan would have given Louisiana the highest combined state and local sales tax rate in America. The governor was right to drop the whole idea, though he still wants to eliminate Louisiana’s income tax. As it turns out, events soon proved how wrongheaded the governor is in his determination to eliminate the income tax. After the House passed its version of the state budget for the next fiscal year (which begins July 1), the state Revenue Estimating Conference recognized more than $150 million in additional revenue for next year — most of it from higher-thanexpected state income tax collections. Income taxes may not be popular, but Louisiana’s is at least efficacious. Jindal also was wrong in his decision to punt the whole idea of tax reform to lawmakers. In effect, he walked away when things didn’t go his way. He claimed he wasn’t pouting, but it sure looked as though he was. Leadership, a topic on which the governor loves to bloviate, requires much more than a “my way or the highway” approach to governance. When one idea goes south, a leader puts forth another — or at least sticks around to help search for another. Many observers guessed that lawmakers would waste valuable time trying (in vain) to confect their own tax reform plan and that, at the eleventh hour, Jindal would step in and push his original tax-swap plan anew. Fortunately, House members did not take the bait. In relatively short order, even Jindal’s allies pronounced the whole topic of tax reform D.O.A. Instead, House conservatives focused their efforts on the budget. On that front, the House distinguished itself.

For the first time in decades, House members asserted their independence from the governor on fiscal matters and acted as though the notions of “separation of powers” and “co-equal branches of government” actually mean something in Louisiana. Led by a group known informally as the fiscal hawks (formally organized as the Budget Reform Campaign), the House substantially rewrote Jindal’s budget by taking out millions in “one-time” and speculative revenue that Jindal had planned to use to cover ongoing expenses. The folly of Jindal’s fiscal policies is evident: Louisiana has seen midyear budget cuts every year that Bobby Jindal has been governor. Those cuts have devastated Louisiana’s public colleges and universities. The voters are tired of it and, finally, so are lawmakers. As expected, the Senate rewrote the budget bill as well, making it more to

Louisiana has seen midyear budget cuts every year that Bobby Jindal has been governor. the governor’s liking. But, as the session entered its final days, it was clear that the governor and his Senate allies would not be able to force the House to accept their version of the budget in the closing hours — as has happened so many times before. Instead, Senate and House leaders searched for common ground on the budget, no doubt sensing that a growing number of House members seem perfectly willing to reject the budget and force a special session. In the end, Jindal is likely to get more than he gives on the budget, but it’s still noteworthy that the House mustered the chops to call his bluff on the use of onetime money and speculative revenue. The larger goal of the fiscal hawks — true budget reform — remains elusive, however. Several of the hawks’ budget reform bills cleared the House by large margins, only to get watered down or killed in the Senate. “Sometime it takes a few years to pass good bills,” said state Rep. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, one of the hawks. “At least we seem to be moving in the right direction.” We agree.

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wasn’t planning on working Sunday.” That’s what rep. Katrina Jackson told Speaker Chuck Kleckley last Tuesday afternoon. Jackson, d-Monroe, said it from the floor, after pulling her microphone out of her desk and being recognized by Kleckley, r-lake Charles, who had just announced the session’s final schedule. Each representative has her or his own microphone, which isn’t to say the mics should always be used. Standing on his perch two levels higher than the floor, Kleckley, who already towers over most people at the Capitol, leaned into his reply. “Well,” he said, “you don’t have to come.” It was true. Even if it wasn’t the last Sunday of the session, no one was going to dock Jackson’s salary or take away her $149 per diem, payable for all regular session days, worked or not. But smart lawmakers know the final days of a session — this one ends Thursday (June 6) — are when the real action happens. “I wouldn’t leave you here by yourself,” Jackson told the speaker. “I wouldn’t do you like that. I promise.” There has been no shortage of lastminute surprises in recent days, starting with the lSU Board of Supervisors, which approved four more of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s hospital privatization contracts — even though the contracts included blank pages. Think of it as a louisiana version of obamacare, though this is one that Jindal wholeheartedly approves. despite lacking financial and operational details, lawmakers are expected to pass a budget to support the deals. Most lawmakers know by now that the pay raises they’ve been advancing for assessors, clerks of court and judges will also hike the pay of other elected officials. a 2012 law stipulates that if district judges get a raise, so do sheriffs. on the local level, some parish charters likewise connect the salaries of parish presidents with those of assessors, sheriffs and clerks of court — the latter category is up for a raise this session as well. Then there’s Senate Bill 226 by Senate President John alario, r-Westwego. Even if the bill doesn’t pass, it’s the craftiest legislation of the session and lawmakers are already trying to work similar language into another measure that’s connected to the budget. To get around the requirement that surplus money can only be spent on non-recurring needs such as infrastructure and debt, alario’s bill washes surplus cash through special funds so that it can be used to help plug annual budget holes. Specifically, it deposits $87 million of

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hristiaan Mader puts his phone on speaker inside a Ford econoline van. He can barely hear over the hum of the road as his band Brass Bed drives back to its hometown of lafayette, la., from a gig at Manhattan’s Cake Shop. The show was the last of a monthlong east Coast tour, and the band packs up again in July for the West Coast. Both tours are on the heels of April’s The Secret Will Keep You, the group’s sophomore full-length lP on Crossbill records. The band is lafayette’s power-pop constant. Brass Bed made its debut in 2004, when its members were barely out of high school, and has reached nearly a decade of recording, touring and remaining the reliable rock ’n’ roll presence in the Cajun music capital’s growing alternative scene. While progressive Cajun outfits like Feufollet and Pine leaf Boys reach international audiences, lafayette’s rising indie rock scene — including breakout hometown

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Acadiana’s star players like Lost Bayou Ramblers and Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys share a landscape with face-painted pop band GIVERS, whose songs appear in Lipton ads, and Royal Teeth, which has headlined national gigs and made TV appearances even before it released its debut album (Glow is out in August). “I think because Lafayette is such a Cajun capital of the world, it’s (got) a little more music business savvy,” says Brass Bed’s Jonny Campos. “A lot of the reasons why these bands can explode, like, ‘Holy shit, how did that band from Lafayette get huge?’ is because everybody knows somebody in the business, from Lil’ Band O’ Gold or Lost Bayou Ramblers, and everybody’s friends with those guys. Everybody knows everybody. ... It’s a music town with a past.” On the DIY front, Lafayette’s Cloudheavy Recording Collective features more than a dozen bands and artists, including noise-pop trio the Cavemen and lo-fi sweetheart harmonists Carbon Poppies, featuring Campos and Brass Bed drummer Peter DeHart. The grassroots-driven collective produces shows and multimedia art events and releases EPs and albums that can be downloaded for free on its website. Lafayette’s traditional music profile also has increased significantly — Lafayette area musicians C.J. Chenier and Steve Riley were nominated in the new Regional

Roots category at the 2012 Grammy Awards, and in 2013, Riley, Wayne Toups and Wilson Savoy took the award, and Corey Ledet grabbed a nomination. Meanwhile, progressive Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers has toured with the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, and the band’s 2012 album Mammoth Waltz featured appearances from Dr. John and Scarlett Johansson. (DeHart did the album art.) “People who left Lafayette are coming back,” Mader says, calling that city a “culture center.” “We’re seeing that a lot at the kinds of restaurants opening up, bands, people doing multimedia stuff and thinking outside of what Lafayette used to consider the alternative to Cajun music and rock ’n’ roll. It’s becoming more nationally conscious, while retaining whatever local charm makes it so attractive. It’s magnified by the fact that it’s a small place. One or two people moving back from New York City who want to do something with the arts can make a ripple.” Lafayette’s clubs book across musical genres. Blue Moon Saloon acts as the scene’s sort-of nerve center, where Brass Bed and Feufollet regularly perform together. “There’s sort of a weird profile of music listener in Lafayette,” Mader says. “They might like the American archives and also really like Spoon. There’s a strange appeal there where a lot of people seem to like both.

“You can live around Cajun music and not really feel like you’re a part of it — which is not to say we feel separate from it either. The crossover comes mostly from the crowd. They like local Cajun bands and really like local independent music.” Brass Bed’s challenge is to manage its national ambitions while still holding tight to Lafayette, which has embraced the band for nearly a decade. (Campos already has moved to New Orleans and travels to Lafayette several times a week for rehearsals.) But Lafayette is in no danger of losing steam. “It ebbs and flows,” Campos says. “There are dry spots and floods. Right now there’s a flood.” “I don’t think any of us really grew up into Cajun music,” Mader says. “It would be hard to call it an influence.” In middle school, Campos and DeHart assigned themselves guitar and drums, respectively, despite neither of them knowing how to play. DeHart owned drumsticks and a drum pad. They learned together and practiced in Campos’ mother’s office building. He had a key to use when the office emptied on weekends. “That’s what we did instead of going to high school parties,” Campos says. The pair met Mader and formed Boxcar Ira, which quickly fell apart as the members went to college — Mader to Emory University, DeHart to Savannah College

Mader still counts Feufollet’s country waltz cover of Brass Bed’s “If I Was A Farmer” as the superior version. The Cajun romance didn’t last long — Brass Bed’s idiosyncrasy shone in 2012’s On Nilsson, a brief EP of Harry Nilsson covers with DeHart’s wife Allison Bohl. With The Secret Will Keep You, the band’s bright, fuzzy pop gets personal, from the sobering opener “Cold Chicory” to the manic “How Do I Live in a Bad Dream.” The band recorded the album live to tape at Public Hi-Fi Studios in Austin, Texas. “This record was an honest record,” Mader says. “That doesn’t mean things have to be necessarily dark.” The band ditched its whimsical pop-rock and lyrics. Bursts of feedback, heavy guitar hooks and brooding keyboards carry mature themes — whether dead-end dreams, romance or regret. “I’ve been thinking, I could quit this / I’m so tired of waiting for this knock on my door” Mader sings on the single “A Bullet for You.” Band members agree they’ve stepped into a more mature direction, but it reflects where they are — physically, as decadelong survivors down South, and as a group that has played together since its members could play anything at all. “The definition of the band doesn’t come from the genre of the band, it comes from the people in it,” Mader says. “It’s only recently that people say, ‘This is my worldbeat band,’ or, ‘This is my garage-psych band.’ They define everything by the sound they want to make, not ‘These are the people I want to play with.’” “I write compulsively,” says Campos, tucking a moppy handful of hair behind his ear. Campos has a “back catalog” of more than 40 songs waiting to be pruned by the band between tour schedules. “Then we’ll start looking at what kind of record we want to make next,” he says. As another tour approaches, Campos has trouble keeping track of how many times the band has toured the West Coast. The group’s spring tour, which circled the East Coast from Rochester, N.Y. back to Manhattan, was its most successful ever. “This tour, we drove the most amount of miles, sold the most [merchandise], played to the most amount of people and probably made the most money,” he says, laughing. “Best tour ever.”

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of Art and Design and Campos to University of New Orleans. They traded songs over AOL Instant Messenger and spent summer and winter breaks recording in Lafayette. After Hurricane Katrina, Campos took online courses in order to spend a month writing and recording with Mader in Atlanta. “After we graduated college we said, ‘All right, this is what we’re going to do,’” Campos says. Brass Bed’s self-released Midnight Matinee caught the attention of Park the Van Records — which launched popular mid-2000s indie pop bands like Dr. Dog and The Spinto Band. Founder Chris Watson relocated his budding company from Chicago to Louisiana in 2008, and Campos approached Watson at a Lafayette bar with an iPod loaded with the album. The pair listened to it in Watson’s car in the parking lot. Watson agreed to release Midnight Matinee, and the band, along with Baton Rouge indie pop duo Generationals, became the company’s poster children for its new Louisiana lineup. In 2010, Park the Van released Melt White, Brass Bed’s first proper release for the label. The album bursts with playful psychedelic pop (“People Want to be Happy”) and generous nods to band heroes Big Star and predecessors in the Elephant 6 collective. The band’s buzzworthy profile increased on the road and at home, where Brass Bed shared bills with contemporaries Feufollet. Those gigs manifested in the 2011 release The Color Sessions, on which Feufollet covered Brass Bed songs, and Brass Bed covered Feufollet songs — sung in Cajun French. The band turned Feufollet’s dreamy bayou folk on “La Berceuse du Vieux Voyageur” into dreamy, fist-pumping guitarpop, and “Les Jours Sont Longs” went from Beatlesesque bayou country to Beatlesesque rock. “So much of Cajun music can be pretty formulaic, which I think is a good thing,” Mader says. “It’s what makes traditional music traditional. Feufollet as a Cajun band is very progressive. Some of those songs were relatively easy to adapt because they had a pop orientation. Other parts were more difficult because there was something distinctly Cajun about it. It was hard to imagine it another way. Aside from the basic difficulty of being a non-French speaker and singing in Cajun French, it was hard to do something true to the idea of the song and also fresh for us.”

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tough crowd to please, will want to know the details of Saucy’s process. The restaurant serves a dry-style barbecue in which the meat is seasoned with a dry spice rub and smoked. Diners add sauce at the table. All meats are smoked in-house using a mix of hickory, mesquite and oak to add flavor. The restaurant’s compact size guarantees freshness; everything smoked at night goes out to the table the following day. Kurz also is proud of the restaurant’s sauce options. Five sauces, including a tomato-vinegar blend called Carolinastyle and a heavier Texas-style option, can be added to sandwiches and barbecue plates. They serve other things, like Abbeville boudin and chicken with a house-made chipotle mayo. Classic sides, including baked macaroni and coleslaw, round out the menu. For now, Kurz and Labatut plan to keep things low-key, looking ahead to neighborhood-friendly events like their “dads eat free” special on Father’s Day. Though plans for a second location and expansion of their catering program are in the works, they are happy to focus on the everyday experience of the current business. “If it’s not right, we don’t serve it,” Kurz says. “We tell everyone, from our waitresses to our people in the back, always look at it, take the temperature. We say, ‘If that’s your grandmother out there, would you want to serve this food?’”

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each Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and offers fresh produce, live music and health education sessions with Common Ground Health Clinic staff.

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even days a week you’ll find coowners Rich Labatut and Gary Kurz popping in and out of their barbecue restaurant Saucy’s (4200 Magazine St., 504-301-2755; www.saucysnola.com). They lend a hand in the dining room, create new recipes, look over the ledgers and do everything else. “You have to when you’re first starting out, [because] you can’t afford to pay anybody,” Kurz says. “It helps you stay focused. You know what your product is. You know what you’re serving. … You see it every day.” The Uptown storefront, which used to house the restaurant Ignatius, functions as a dining room-turned-cupboard. A refrigerator filled with fresh eggs stands next to the cash register; extra condiments and ketchup bottles line shelves on the walls. It’s a comfortable, down-home atmosphere for a casual lunch or Saturday supper. Labatut and Kurz have been friends since their days at Brother Martin High School, though their passion for barbecue goes back even further; as a boy, Kurz couldn’t wait to get his hands on the tongs at family barbecues. Many years later, when transitional points in their careers coincided, the two batted around the idea of opening a barbecue restaurant together. Before they knew it, a casual suggestion from Labatut became a business plan. “[In the city], there’s not many barbecue choices,” Kurz says. “That’s one reason why we opened, we lack really good barbecue … [and] I always loved grilling and cooking. I’m not a cook-cook, but I grill. When my kids were growing up, I’d barbecue, have pork chops, hamburgers. … I just like the taste better than doing it in the oven.” Barbecue aficionados, a notoriously

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Sometimes, a regular seat at your neighborhood bar can open doors. That’s what happened to Chris Smedley. He was chef at Rambla until that CBD Spanish restaurant closed last year, but he wasn’t idle for long. He soon discovered that the owners of Kajun’s Pub, his usual post-shift watering hole in the Marigny, also had a large, fully-equipped kitchen in a building attached to the bar and were looking for a chef to make use of it. This tucked-away kitchen has proved fertile ground for a pair of eateries Smedley says he’s long wanted to develop. One is now open — a late-night hot dog and sausage parlor called Borracho (2256 St. Claude Ave., 504-267-6108; www. borrachonola.com). The second will be a more conventional restaurant serving small plates. Smedley expects this second eatery to open in late fall adjacent to Kajun’s Pub. Borracho (Spanish for “drunk”) is open from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily and serves in the Kajun’s Pub barroom and its rear patio. page 28

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cuddled with a smooth creme fraiche/ cauliflower concoction and daubed with a silken, spicy tomato sauce. Most entrees are rather modest plates defined by immaculate main ingredients and a restrained hand. The beef coulette, an uncommon cut of sirloin, carries a seam of Creole cream cheese but otherwise speaks for itself, and thin, green mango relish accentuates the ocean freshness of skin-on yellowtail snapper. And it may seem silly to order spaghetti and meatballs at a restaurant decorated with light-projection art installations, but this version uses the same Kobe-style Wagyu beef and delicate, fresh spaghetti that proved a sensation when it debuted at the prior address. Great attention also goes into the cocktails and desserts here, and neither should be missed. But of course, people who remember the first Dominique’s on Magazine would expect that.

Chef Dominique Macquet cooks herbs grown in the gardens at Dominique’s on Magazine. PHOTO By CHERyl GERBER

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a restaurant redo worth a sequel

languedoc-Roussillon is the oldest wineproducing region in France, dating to as early as the fifth century B.C. Owned by the same family for more than 300 years, this estate produces grapes from plants with roots reaching deep into the sandstone soils on rocky hillsides near the sea. Blended primarily from old vine carignan grapes with 20 percent grenache and 10 percent syrah, the wine went through 25 days of maceration to develop its color and characteristic style, and it touched no oak. In the glass, it exudes aromas of blackberry and herbal notes. On the palate, taste cherry, black currant, spice, an appealing minerality, bracing acidity and chewy tannins on the lingering finish. Open an hour before serving for best flavor. Drink it with red meat, game, osso buco, cassoulet, hearty stews, pasta dishes, sausages and firm cheeses. Buy it at: Swirl Wine Bar and Market. Drink it at: Swirl Wine Bar and Market.

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ike a band’s sophomore album or a director’s new film, the latest restaurant from a well-known chef is always judged against its predecessor. Rarely, though, is that comparison so apt as it is with Dominique’s on Magazine. After all, this is essentially a redo of an excellent but short-lived restaurant, now drawn on a larger canvas and put in a grander frame. Chef Dominique Macquet opened the first Dominique’s on Magazine in 2010, racked up rave reviews and then abruptly left his namesake before it reached its first anniversary, citing disagreements with the owner (who revamped the restaurant as Apolline). Tamarind by Dominique followed quickly, and despite an intriguing French/ Vietnamese fusion concept, it also lasted less than a year. Given this recent history, then, it’s reassuring that the new Dominique’s on Magazine at least looks permanent. It’s a sleek, white, intricately detailed modern space that stretches over two floors and continues into a sheltered courtyard. There’s a feeling of sanctuary in the stylish coolness inside, especially when the world outside is blazing hot. Many ideas from the original Dominique’s on Magazine are realizing fuller expression here. At the original iteration, herb gardens were crammed between shotgun alleys, but here they flourish from wall-mounted beds and hydroponic columns. The new place’s longer bar doubles as a dining counter. Most notably, many of the dishes that won Macquet earlier acclaim are back on an elegantly eclectic menu. There are the same sweetbreads with chimichurri and lobster salad lightly dressed with aioli. The unique beef tartare still has its charred edge, imparting deeper flavor, but its new lacing of bits of onion added only soggy texture when I tried it. A couple of chilled seafood dishes also are familiar. The shrimp ceviche is a fairly conventional blend of seafood marinated in citrus juices but it is a touch too astringent. But Macquet’s unique oyster presentation still proves brilliant. Poached, cooled and returned to their shells, the oysters are

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interview The setting is very casual, but Smedley’s approach in the kitchen draws from his fine-dining background. He sources extensively from local suppliers, makes his links and most of his toppings in-house and last week added house-made buns to the mix. Patrons can get a hot dog or sausage link dressed to order or pick a specialty version, like lamb sausage with mint chimichurri and preserved lemon tzatziki or the Sonoran dog, which is dressed with bacon, pineapple/chili relish and escabeche. A burger, fried chicken livers, pimento cheese and hand-cut chips with melted leek dip round out the pub fare. Renovations have begun for the unnamed restaurant next door, and some long-range food prep is already underway, including prosciutto hams now curing. The menu is still a work in progress, but Smedley says it will focus on local flavors in a small plates format. “We’re starting out with Southern ideas and Southern ingredients and expanding on it from there,” he says. One dish he knows he’ll serve is a sweet tea pork chop — smoked with a mix of tea and sugar and finished with sweet corn succotash, grilled peaches and red wine gastrique. The chef describes another dish as an interpretation of a Nicoise salad crossed with a bloody mary, with pickled vegetables and quail eggs. The restaurant will have table service and Smedley plans to have a full bar.

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Whetting the palate

The culinary arts will get some attention alongside the fine arts at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) (1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, 504-6584100; www.noma.org) thanks to an annual summer cooking series that resumes this week. The series, called Art You Can Eat, will be held each Friday from June 7 to Aug. 2 in conjunction with the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, which operates Cafe NOMA inside the museum. Recently Travel + Leisure magazine ranked that cafe among the top 12 museum restaurants in the country. Art You Can Eat events begin at 6 p.m. and are free with paid museum admission. Cafe NOMA offers drink specials during the events, including $15 bottles of wine and $5 cocktails. This year’s series has an international theme that follows NOMA’s current exhibition, Inventing the Modern World, an exploration of the decorative arts of world fairs. For each edition, a chef from a Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group property will lead a demonstration of culinary trends, traditions and influences related to one of the host countries featured in the exhibition. The series begins this Friday with “Coast to Coast: In Celebration of Chilean Seafood,” led by Red Fish Grill chef Austin Kirzner and continues on June 14 with “Irish New Orleans Family

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Soft-shell crabs have been slow to come along this season. Is this a concern? Gerica: We are worried about it. We’re worried it’s part of the BP spill. You know the people in Alaska, after the (Exxon) Valdez spill, they tell us they didn’t see the effects for three years. We’ve had trouble with the fish before, we’re having trouble with the crabs now, and that’s a big part of the business.

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Under normal circumstances, what’s the most difficult part of getting your soft-shell crabs to market? G: That you have to get up every three hours to check on them. The whole family works it in shifts. Once they start cracking out of their shells you have to move them to another tank. If you aren’t watching them, and they come out of that shell, they just turn into hard crabs again and you’ve lost your chance. But when they first come out of that shell, oh, they’re so soft. We sit there and pet them. What makes a farmers market a good place to sell your seafood? G: I used to run a retail shop, and I can tell you it was very different. We’d buy from others and sell it all at the shop. You didn’t really have the same control over it all. But here we know everything about our product. I wash all our shrimp; we scrub our crabs. My husband thinks I’m crazy sometimes, but he caught it and I want people to see how good it is. Most people who shop the markets understand that. They respect what’s local; they understand there’s a culture behind it. You can get the foreign imports but the flavor’s just not there. Sometimes people bring us dishes they made with our seafood. One lady came back with this crab salad she’d made just the other day. That’s what these markets are all about. — IAN MCNULTY

Cooking Traditions,” led by Chip Flanagan of Ralph’s on the Park. Visit www. cafenoma.com for full schedule.

Market fresh

Creole tomatoes are beginning to turn up at local farmers markets and celebrations are afoot to welcome the short season for this beloved fruit. The term “Creole tomato” generally means any tomato grown in southeast Louisiana, but it’s more than just a matter of pride in local produce. Some farmers and aficionados talk about the influence the area’s alluvial soils and climate have on these tomatoes in the same way winemakers discuss terroir. Most of all, the tag Creole tomato suggests freshness. Since they don’t need to travel very far to market, Creole tomatoes can ripen on the vine longer and likely won’t spend long periods in chilled storage — refrigeration being a sure way to stanch a tomato’s flavor. This weekend, June 8 and 9, the French Market (1008 N. Peters St., 504-522-2621; www.frenchmarket.

org) hosts its annual Creole Tomato Festival to celebrate the harvest. Food vendors and restaurants set up booths around the market and offer their own tomato-based creations. Produce is available from farmers market vendors. The Creole Tomato Festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, and admission is free. Throughout the weekend there’s also the Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival (www. jazzandheritage.org), which is held on the grounds of the Old U.S. Mint (see p.49). As the season progresses, Creole tomatoes will be highlighted on menus at restaurants around town. At Muriel’s Jackson Square (801 Chartres St., 504-568-1885; www.muriels.com), they are the inspiration for an entire Creole tomato menu, which is available throughout June. The local tomatoes are worked into a ragout served with grilled shrimp, paired with jumbo lump crabmeat in a salad, used in sauces for either a softshell crab or pork tenderloin entree and engineered into dessert — a Creole tomato tarte tatin with caramel ice cream. The four-course menu is $45 and items are available individually as well.

125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844 www.redgravycafe.com The menu features original and traditional Italian sandwiches, with breakfast versions as well.

Reuben’s Soup & Sandwich Co. 920 Gravier St., (504) 373-6687 www.reubenssandwich.com This sandwich joint offers many build-your-own options.

Terrazu Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., (504) 287-0877 www.terrazu.net This modern deli serves plenty of pressed sandwiches.

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O’HenrY’s FOOd & sPIrITs — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 866-9741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, (504) 461-9840; www.ohenrys.com — Complimentary peanuts are the calling card of these casual, family friendly restaurants. The menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ sOMeTHIn’ else CaFe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island BuFFeT — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

BaR & GRILL BaYOu Beer garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french

fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ dOWn THe HaTCH — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sundried tomato pesto. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ rendOn Inn’s dugOuT sPOrTs Bar — 4501 Eve St., (504) 826-5605; www.therendoninn. com — The Boudreaux burger combines lean ground beef, hot sausage and applewood-smoked bacon on a ciabatta bun with cheese, onions and remoulade. Fresh cut fries are served with Parmesan cheese and a drizzle of truffle oil. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ THe rIVersHaCK TaVern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ sHaMrOCK Bar & grIll — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 301-0938 — Shamrock serves an Angus rib-eye steak with a side item, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more. No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $

BaRBeCUe BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., (504) 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ HICKOrY PrIMe BBQ — 6001 France Road, (757) 277-8507; www. hickoryprimebbq.com — Proprietors Billy Rhodes and Karen Martin have won several barbecue competitions. They serve Texas-style brisket, smoked chicken, ribs and more. The pulled pork platter features pork cooked for 12 hours over hickory and white oak and it comes with two sides. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ sauCY’s — 4200 Magazine St., (504) 301-2755; www.saucysnola. com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken. The cochon blue is a sandwich of pulled pork, blue cheese and melted mozzerella on a bun. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

BURGeRS CHeeseBurger eddIe’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CaFe anTOIne’s anneX — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines. com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Breads On OaK — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations. Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CaFe FrereT — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ CaFe nOMa — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www. cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ laKeVIeW BreW COFFee CaFe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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Jung’s gOlden dragOn — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

COFFee/DeSSeRt angelO BrOCaTO’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www. angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop and serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ PInKBerrY — Citywide; 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 BaYOna — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 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. $$$ OaK — 8118 Oak St., (504) 302-1485; www.oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. The hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ One resTauranT & lOunge — 8132 Hampson St., (504) 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., (504) 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. $$$ THe landIng resTauranT — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

OuT to EAT MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., (504) 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www. redemption-nola.com — Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade. Roasted duck breast is served with red onion and yam hash, andouille, sauteed spinach and grilled Kadota fig jus. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ ROUX ON ORLEANS — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ SAINTS & SINNERS — 627 Bourbon St., (504) 528-9307; www.saintsandsinnersnola. com — Styled to reflect era of Storyville, the restaurant serves Creole and Cajun dishes, raw oysters, seafood, steaks, poboys, burgers and more. The Politician’s Special features a trio of jambalaya, crawfish pie and a cup of gumbo. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$

WILLIE MAE’S SCOTCH HOUSE — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI JIMS — 3000 Royal St., (504) 304-8224 — The Reuben is fill seeded rye bread with corned beef, pastrami, provolone and Swiss cheeses, German sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing. The Bywater cheese steak sandwich combines marinated steak, grilled onions, green pepper and Havarti cheese on a rustic roll. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch Tue.Sun. Credit cards. $ KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com

MARDI GRAS ZONE — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 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. $$

9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 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., (504) 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., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

QUARTER MASTER DELI — 1100 Bourbon St., (504) 529-1416; www.quartermasterdeli.com — Slow-cooked pork ribs are coated in house barbecue sauce and served with two sides. Slow-roasted beef is sliced thin, doused in gravy and served on 10-inch French loaves. No reservations. 24 hours daily. Cash only. $

TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 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. $$

QWIK CHEK DELI & CATERING — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., (504) 895-0900; www.flamingtorchnola.com — The menu includes pan-seared 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. $$

ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemoncream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tassomushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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MAXIMO’S ITALIAN GRILL — 1117 Decatur St., (504) 5868883; www.maximosgrill.com — Sit at the bar overlooking the open grill and watch chefs prepare dishes like the fish of the day pan-sauteed in habaneroinfused olive oil and served with seasonal vegetables. Osso buco is a braised veal shank served with garlic, thyme and white wine demi-glace, herb-roasted Parmesan potatoes and grilled asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

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MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant.com — This eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular

MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 8918495; 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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STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, (504) 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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KAKKOII JAPANESE bISTREAUX — 7537 Maple St., (504) 570-6440; www. kakkoii-nola.com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKhOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ORIGAMI — 5130 Freret St., (504) 899-6532 — Nabeyaki udon is a soup brimming with thick noodles, chicken and vegetables. The long list of special rolls includes the Big Easy, which combines tuna, salmon, white fish, snow crab, asparagus and crunchy bits in soy paper with eel sauce on top. Reservations ac-

cepted. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ROCK-N-SAKE — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www. rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ YUKI IZAKAYA — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www. facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 ON FULTON — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton.com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ hERITAGE GRILL — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www. heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ MANNING’S — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ RALPh’S ON ThE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare,

seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ RESTAURANT R’EVOLUTION — 777 Bienville St., (504) 5532277; www.revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ TOMAS bISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 5270942 — Tomas serves dishes like semi-boneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. The duck cassoulet combines duck confit and Creole Country andouille in a white bean casserole. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE bAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 5254790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ZAChARY’S RESTAURANT — 902 Coffee St., Mandeville, (985) 626-7008 — Chef Zachary Watters prepares dishes like redfish Zachary, crabmeat au gratin and Gulf seafood specials. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN ATTIKI bAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ bAbYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St., (504) 314-0010; www. babyloncafe.biz —The Babylon platter includes stuffed grape leaves, hummus, kibbeh, rice and one choice of meat: lamb, chicken or beef kebabs, chicken or beef shawarma, gyro or kufta. Chicken shawarma salad is a salad topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN JUAN’S FLYING bURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; www.

juansflyingburrito.com — Mardi Gras Indian tacos are stuffed with roasted corn, pinto beans, grilled summer squash, Jack cheese and spicy slaw. Red chile chicken and goat cheese quesadilla features grilled Creole chicken breast, salsa fresca, chile-lime adobo sauce, and Jack, cheddar and goat cheeses pressed in a flour tortilla. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 5238995; www.lucysretiredsurders. com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-0077 — This casual cafe serves creative takes on Southwestern cuisine. Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguesestyle fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg and served with smoked paprika aioli. Outdoor seating is available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ TIJUANA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL — 533 Toulouse St., (504) 227-3808; www. tijuanasmexicanbargrillnola. com — This eatery serves nachos, flautas, quesadillas, burritos, enchiladas, tacos, fajitas, ropa vieja and more. Fritanga features traditional carne asada with gallo pinto, fried pork, cabbage salad, fried plantains and fried cheese. Reservations accepted. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www. thebombayclub.com — Mull the menu at this French Quarter hideaway while sipping a well made martini. The duck duet pairs confit leg with pepperseared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ ThE COLUMNS — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ hOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www. hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffet-style gospel brunch fea-

tures local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

bello mushrooms and sun-dried tomato mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

LITTLE GEM SALOON — 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www.littlegemsaloon.com — Little Gem offers Creole dining and live jazz. Chef Robert Bruce prepares dishes including Two Run Farms oxtail stew, Creole crab cakes with caper-lemon beurre blanc and fish amandine. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

ThE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. Potato and cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $. $

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., (504) 309-7557; www. artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. Get one with a schmear or as a sandwich. Salads also are available. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ CAFE B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 4886582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA DON FORTUNATO’S PIZZERIA — 3517 20th St., Metairie, (504) 302-2674 — The Sicilian pizza is topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, prosciutto, roasted red peppers and kalamata olives. The chicken portobello calzone is filled with grilled chicken breast, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, porto-

NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., (504) 891-2376; www.newyorkpizzanola.com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. The Big Apple pie is loaded with pepperoni, Canadian bacon, onions, mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, Italian sausage and minced garlic and anchovies and jalapenos are optional. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ThEO’S NEIGhBORhOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www. theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

celebrate summer with

Crab Fête

10 dishes featuring Lake Pontchartrain crabmeat

at dinner JUNE 1 - AUGUST 31

starters Crab Cocktail

entrées

Crab Beignets

brown butter, toasted pecans, shiitakes

marinated tomatoes, horseradish, lemon Abita Amber beer batter, ravigote sauce

Crab & Truffle Linguine

Flash Fried Soft-Shell Crab

Grilled Romaine & Crab Salad risotto, red chard, citrus-herb vinaigrette tomatoes, lemon-Parmesan dressing, Crab & Creole Tomatoes brioche crumbles caper dressing, preserved lemons

Creole Crab Dip

housemade Creole cream cheese, scallions, toasted chevre, brioche

Corn & Crab Bisque

roasted corn, red peppers, sweet cream

Roasted Mahi Mahi & Crabmeat artichoke hearts, roasted cauliflower, chili butter, toasted pecans

Pan Fried Crab Cakes

marinated heirloom tomatoes, fried green tomatoes, Creole tartar sauce *a la carte dinner menu and kids menu also available; menu subject to change

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SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS BEAR’S POBOYS AT GENNAROS — 3206 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 833-9226 — The roast beef po-boy features beef slow-cooked in house, sliced thin, soaked in gravy and dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on toasted Leidenheimer bread. The 10-ounce Bear burger is topped with roast beef debris, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on a toasted brioche seeded bun and served with fries or loaded potato salad. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., (504) 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. Original topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ JUGhEAD’S ChEESESTEAKS — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 304-5411; www.jugheadsneworleans.com — Jughead’s specializes in cheese steaks on toasted Dong Phuong bread. The regular cheese steak features thin-sliced rib-eye, sauteed mushrooms, onions, peppers and garlic and melted provolone and mozzarella. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

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OUT to EAT KILLER POBOYS — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $

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PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 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., (504) 322-2446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — The Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar where patrons can choose their own toppings. Red beans and rice comes with grilled andouille and a corn bread muffin. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

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MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original po-boys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. There are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice is known for pizza on thin crusts made from 100 percent wheat flour. Other options include a barbecue shrimp po-boy and the shrimp Portofino, a pasta dish with white garlic cream sauce, shrimp and broccoli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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ACME OYSTER HOUSE — 724 Iberville St., (504) 522-5973; 1202 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 246-6155; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 309-4056; www. acmeoyster.com — The original Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter has served raw oysters for more than a century. The full menu includes chargrilled oysters, many cooked seafood dishes and New Orleans staples. The Peace Maker po-boy combines fried shrimp and oysters and is dressed with Tabasco-infused mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New

Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$ GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5208530; www.grandislerestaurant. com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MR. ED’S SEAFOOD & ITALIAN RESTAURANT. — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ NEW ORLEANS HAMBURGER & SEAFOOD CO. — Citywide; www.nohsc.com — Menus vary by location but generally include burgers, salads, po-boys, fried seafood and New Orleans favorites. . No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash frieReservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SERGIO’S SEAFOOD — 533 Toulouse St., (504) 227-3808; www.facebook.com/sergiosseafoodnola — The Fritanga plate includes a grilled petit filet mignon, pork loin, gallo pinto, fried plantains, fried cream cheese and cabbage salad. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SOUL FOOD BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 241-2548; www.bigmommaschickenandwaffles.com — Big Momma’s serves hearty combinations like the six-piece which includes a waffle and six fried wings served crispy or dipped in sauce. Breakfast is served all day. All items are cooked to order. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

STEAKHOUSE AUSTIN’S SEAFOOD AND STEAKHOUSE — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — 322 Magazine St., (504) 522-7902; www.chophousenola.com — This traditional steakhouse serves USDA prime beef, and a selection of supersized cuts includes a 40-oz. Por-

terhouse for two. The menu also features seafood options and a la carte side items. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH MIMI’S IN THE MARIGNY — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Or enjoy hot and cold tapas dishes ranging from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ VEGA TAPAS CAFE — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe. com — Paella de la Vega combines shrimp, mussels, chorizo, calamari, scallops, chicken and vegetables in saffron rice. Pollo en papel features chicken, mushrooms, leeks and feta in phyllo pastry. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — August Moon serves a mix of Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine. There are spring rolls and pho soup as well as many popular Chinese dishes and vegetarian options. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFE MINH — 4139 Canal St., (504) 482-6266; www. cafeminh.com— The watermelon crabmeat martini is made with diced watermelon, Louisiana jumbo lump crabmeat, avocado, jalapenos and cilantro and comes with crispy shrimp chips. Seafood Delight combines grilled lobster tail, diver scallops, jumbo shrimp and grilled vegetables in a sake soy reduction. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ DOSON NOODLE HOUSE —135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlight the menu. The vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ PHO TAU BAY RESTAURANT — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ ROLLS-N-BOWLS — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.facebook.com/ rollsnbowlsnola — This casual eatery serves a variety of spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, a few stir fry entrees and bubble tea. The vermicelli noodle bowl features noodles over lettuce, cucumber and carrots and shrimp are an optional addition. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

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The Loving Festival explores diversity through art, photos and film. By Will Coviello

a gifted student from Tanzania, who grew up in a rural area near Mt. Kilimanjaro. Her mother’s family emigrated from Korea to the U.S. During Kimaro’s childhood, the family spent summer vacations in Tanzania, and Kimaro realized she was perceived as an American and not as someone with shared roots in the Chagga tribe. As an adult, she started her film project with the notion that she’d try to explore her roots, but it became a very different project. A Lot Like You doesn’t seem like the best title for such a rare set of global connections, but it becomes clear that it refers to Kimaro’s father and her attempt to better relate to him — not that he isn’t extremely forthcoming about his life experiences. She realizes significant cultural differences weigh heavily on her connections to the Chagga ancestry she’s trying to find in herself, but her efforts to relate to her aunts, who candidly talk about subjects like the ordeal of clitoral circumcision, become rewarding for her and revealing for the film. Kimaro shares her complex personal story in a way that’s both intimate in its approach and sophisticated about racial and cultural issues. It screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Ashe Cultural Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-569-9070; www.ashecac.org) and Kimaro will attend the screening and discuss her latest project. Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s Indochina explores links between Africa and Vietnam. As Viet Minh revolutionaries battled French occupiers (1946-1954), France conscripted soldiers from its African colonies to fight alongside French soldiers. The film focuses on the African soldiers and biracial children born in Vietnam. There are interviews with men who were coerced into fighting for the French, Vietnamese women who married soldiers and went home to Africa with them and Vietnamese army officers who recognized kinship with Africans who resented French colonialism. But the most moving interviews are with men like Christophe Duc, who travels to Vietnam to try to find his mother. Besides their own children, many soldiers adopted Afro-Vietnamese children they feared would not be cared for in Vietnam. The subjects’ experiences are varied and often moving, and the film sheds light on a fascinat-

ing subject. The A show of Life photographer Grey Villet’s movie is mostly portraits of Richard and Mildred Loving in French and opens at Stella Jones Gallery. Vietnamese with English subtitles. Mora-Kpai will The New Orleans attend a recepJUNE Loving Festival tion at 6 p.m. and the film screens June 6-12 at 6:30 p.m. Sunwww.charitablefilmnetwork.day at Ashe. weebly.com The Japanese term “hafu” is a transliteration of the word half, and it refers to people who have only one Japanese parent. For most of its long history, Japan has maintained an isolated and homogeneous population. In the wake of its economic ascendancy and globalization, the increase in interracial couples and mixed-race children has given rise to a new and conspicuous group. Hafus explores the subject in a culture just beginning to recognize and grapple with the complexity of diversity. It screens at 7 p.m. Friday at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.).

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he third annual Loving Festival includes films about multiracial identity, art and social events, as well as a new look at the couple behind the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which declared race-based marriage bans unconstitutional. The festival begins Thursday, June 6, with a reception at Stella Jones Gallery for the opening of Grey Villet: Loving Family Portraits. Villet was a Life magazine photographer who took a series of portraits of Mildred and Richard Loving in 1966. Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter married in Washington, D.C. in 1958 because interracial marriages were illegal in Virginia, where they lived. The Lovings were arrested and sentenced to jail terms after someone in their town notified police of their marriage. Eventually, the American Civil Liberties Union took up their case, appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, which nullified the Virginia law and banned all similar state miscegenation laws. The Lovings were not activists fighting for a political cause — for them it was a personal matter — but their name is forever attached to the civil rights case. Villet’s portraits show them with their three children and relatives in rural Virginia. The show debuted at the International Center of Photography in New York City last year, and it included never-before-published or -displayed images. This show includes additional photos not previously available to the public. The festival is named for the Lovings, but it was created by Jerald White, who runs the Charitable Film Network, in response to more recent local events, including a Tangipahoa Parish justice of the peace’s refusal to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple in 2009. “It rattled me,” White says. “What makes this community great is the diversity of the community. There are problems, but overall it’s a supportive community. … I started the festival to bring people together in a public event.” Past festivals included films and art, and this year’s event also includes a comedy night, an ice cream social, poetry readings and a mass dedicated to the Lovings. The slate of films includes three documentaries about multiracial identity around the globe. Hafus is about the development of a mixed-race identity in Japan. Indochina, Traces of a Mother is about children born to Vietnamese women and African soldiers during the Vietnamese revolution against French colonialism. Eliachi Kimaro’s A Lot Like You profiles the director’s exploration of her identity. Kimaro’s parents were international students who met in graduate school in New York. Her father was

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3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top — meta the man, Zack Kouns, shawn eib, 7 Banks Street Bar — fayuca, 9 Checkpoint Charlie — sweet Jones, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Jon Cleary, 8 Columns Hotel — John rankin, 8 d.b.a. — the treme brass band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — tom Hook & wendell brunious, 9:30 Funky Pirate — blues masters feat. big al Carson, 8:30

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Showcasing Local Music

MON Jon Cleary & the Absolute 6/3 Monster Gentlemen TUE 6/4

Rebirth Brass Band

WED 6/5

The Upstarts

THU The Trio feat. Johnny V 6/6 & Special Guests FRI 6/7

Raw Oyster Cult

SAT 6/8 SUN SUN 6/9 3/13

Khris Royal & Dark Matter Joe Krown Joe CrownTrio Trio feat. Russell Batiste & Walter

Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Jason marsalis, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Charlie miller, 5 The Maison — gregory agid, 6; magnitude, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — rebirth brass band, 10:30 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — meghan stewart’s too Darn Hot, 6; Viper mad, 9:30 Old Point Bar — ian Cunningham, 8 Preservation Hall — preservation Hall-stars feat. shannon powell, 8 Siberia — iceage, lower, Heat Dust, DJ wesley stokes, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Davell Crawford, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — andy J. forest, 4; Dr. sick & the late greats, 6; meschiya lake & the little big Horns, 6; smoking time Jazz Club, 10 Tipitina’s — Dawes, shovels & rope, 9

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Banks Street Bar — the shiz, 9

The Blue Note — bella nola, 9 all show times p.m. unless otherwise noted.

specialty & frozen

Armstrong Park — mike “soul man” baptiste, 5; Joe Krown trio feat. walter “wolfman” washington & russell batiste Jr., 6:30

Blue Nile — micah mcKee & little maker, 7

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Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz orchestra feat. Delfeayo marsalis, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — ben polcer, 4; orleans 6, 6; st. louis slim & the frenchmen street Jug band, 10

Brass-A-Holics

Trivia Night

aids monkeys, oxyrotten, 9

WedneSday 5 Algiers Ferry Dock — bag of Donuts, algiers brass band, 6 Banks Street Bar — major

bacon, 10

Bombay Club — rhodes spedele trio, 7

Blue Nile — new orleans rhythm Devils, 7; gravity a, 10

Cafe Negril — sam Cammarata & Dominick grillo, 7:30; another Day in paradise, 9:30 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — smoking time Jazz Club feat. Chance bushman, 8:30 Circle Bar — radiation City, King rey, 10 Columns Hotel — andy rogers, 8 d.b.a. — tin men, 7; walter “wolfman” washington & the roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — meghan stewart & too Darn Hot, 9:30 Funky Pirate — blues masters feat. big al Carson, 8:30 House of Blues — Domenic, 6 House of Blues (Parish) — Jet lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — the brand new life, the Quickening, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Kipori woods, 5; irvin mayfield’s noJo Jam, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — paul tobin, 9 Little Gem Saloon — marc stone, 5 The Maison — tarik Hassan, 6; lagniappe brass band, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Upstarts, 10:30 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — leah rucker, 6; lagniappe brass band, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — lars edegran, topsy Chapman & palm Court Jazz band, 8 Preservation Hall — preservation Hall Jazz band feat. mark braud, 8 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Yat pack, 8:30 Siberia — murder Junkies, stovebolts, patient Zero & the

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Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Wendell Brunious Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Vaughan’s — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30

FRIday 7 8 Block Kitchen & Bar — Anais St. John, 9 Andrea’s Capri Blu Lounge — phil Melancon, 8 Banks Street Bar — Gal Holiday & the Honky tonk Revue, 10 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Corey Henry’s treme Funktet, 10 Bombay Club — Dr. Bone & the Hepcats, 9:30 Buffa’s Lounge — Greg Schatz, 8 Cafe Negril — El Deorazio, 7 Carrollton Station — Vox & the Hound, Salesman, All people, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes & the Louisiana Hot Spots, 9

Columns Hotel — ted Long, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New orleans, 6; Good Enough for Good times, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Eric traub trio, 10 Dragon’s Den — Mad Conductor, Bujie & the Highrise, 9 Fulton on Tap — Loose Willis, 11 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 Hangar 13 — Boys Gone Wild, 10 House of Blues — Jukebox Heroes, 8:30; Sabotage: tribute to Beastie Boys, 10 Howlin’ Wolf — Geto Boys, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Sour Notes, Scarecrow Sonic Boom Box, Natalie Mae, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 JuJu Bag Cafe and Barber Salon — Les Getrex ’n’ Creole Cookin’, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9

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Elias Bender Ronnenfelt, the tornadic vocal presence at the center of Iceage, sings just one song in his native Danish on the band’s second album, You’re Nothing (Matador). the song is “Rodfæstet” (the title translates as “Rooted”), and despite the 21-year-old thrasher’s developing mastery of English punk lyricism’s desperate vernacular — “Bliss is momentary anyhow/ Yet worth living for, take me now,” he bellows over a deceptively pretty descending chord progression on pressurized opener “Ecstasy” — it’s enough to make you wish you could never understand him. Much of Iceage’s amazingly direct body of work, which now totals 24 tracks and barely 52 minutes of music, is dispensed in the deep-breath confessionals of goth or the dislocated jawing of hardcore, but “Rodfæstet” comes out differently, spinning and churning, the centrifugal hub of a tightly wound, barely contained vessel. Where Ronnenfelt’s unintelligible delivery on out-of-nowhere (Copenhagen, actually) 2011 debut New Brigade gave the album brutish power, here, sandwiched between the acid-rain assault of “It Might Hit First,” the Replacements-leveled pop of “Awake” and the alarm-clocked titular closer, it’s a respite, revealing beyond words. Lower and Heat Dust open. tickets $10. — NoAH BoNApARtE pAIS

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Banks Street Bar — Dueling Banjos, 4; Ron Hotstream & the F-Holes, 9 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 8; to Be Continued Brass Band, 10 Bombay Club — tony Seville, 7 Botanical Garden, Robert B. Haspel Garden Stage — Eric Lindell, Colin Lake, 4 Cafe Istanbul — Cindy Scott feat. Leah Chase & Michael Pellera, 7 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 6; Weatherbox, timberhawk, 10 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m. d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Jeremy Lyons & the Deltabilly Bugs, 10 Funky Pirate — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 House of Blues — Brint Anderson, 1; Carlo Ditta & Smoky Greenwell, 6; Jaunes, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Mark Hessler, 8 The Maison — Dave Easley, 5; too Darn Hot, 7; Soul Project, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10:30 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Kevin Clark & tom McDermott, 11:30 a.m; DJ Cruz, 11 Old Point Bar — Chip Wilson & Christina Fris, 3:30; Albert Allenback Quartet, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Ritz-Carlton — Armand St. Martin, 10:30 a.m; Catherine Anderson, 2 Roosevelt Hotel (Blue Room) — James Rivers Movement, 11 a.m. Siberia — Get Wrongs, Blind texas Marlin, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Mark McGrain & Plunge, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Rights of Swing, 3; Ben Polcer & the Grinders, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sounds, 10 Three Muses — Raphael & Norbert, 5:30 Tipitina’s — Say Anything, Eisley, 8

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THE INTERNSHIP (PG13) — two salesmen (Vince Vaughn and owen wilson), whose work is becoming obsolete, take internships at google to prove their relevance. THE PURGE (R) — a family struggles to survive during a government-sanctioned 12-hour period in which all criminal activity is legal.

sPEcIAl scREENINGs THE ANGELS’ SHARE (NR) — a young man who’s rough around the edges tries to change for his newborn son, though he finds it hard to get honest work because of his criminal past. Tickets $8 general admission, $7 students and seniors, $6 members. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday and June 12-13, 9:30 p.m. Monday and June 11, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net THE BIG LEBOWSKI (R) — a slacker mistaken for a millionaire of the same name seeks restitution for his ruined rug. Tickets $10.50 general admission, $9.50 students, $8.50 children and seniors. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www. theprytania.com BURN (NR) — a documentary about Detroit firefighters explores housing and racism. Partial proceeds from screenings benefit the Leary Foundation for families of fallen firefighters. Tickets $10 general admission, $8 students and members. 6 p.m. FridaySunday and June 12-13, 5:30 p.m. Monday and June 11, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (NR) — the theater screens a newly restored, 3-D digital print of the 1954 horror classic.

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there’s no form of mass enDirected by M. Night Shyamalan tertainment as seasonal as Starring Will Smith and the Hollywood movie. And Jaden Smith there’s no season so clearly delineated by Hollywood Wide release as summer. the movies are bigger and noisier, and too often they’re driven by special effects instead of story, but there’s also a shift in audience expectations. there is a general willingness to cut movies a certain amount of slack as long as they deliver on the unspoken promise of worthwhile distraction while audiences cool themselves in the air conditioning. It’s a simple transaction, a sort of social contract in which all parties deserve to come out ahead. So why does it go wrong so consistently? Sci-fi thriller After Earth is mildly entertaining in a nontaxing, summer movie kind of way. It doesn’t really insult your intelligence or adhere openly to strict action-movie formula. But once you get an idea of this too-simple tale’s origins, it gets a little harder to indulge. Producer and star Will Smith also gets a “story by” credit here, as he came up with the premise of a son rescuing his father and developed it with a particular person in mind. Smith happened to have a 13-year-old movie star, his son Jaden Smith, living under his roof. A futuristic setting and a steady stream of attack creatures were added to the mix. this was enough to set the giant gears of high-budget moviemaking into motion. Co-writer and director M. Night Shyamalan needed a safe gig after the drubbing he took for The Last Airbender a few years ago, so all the pieces fell into place. After Earth sets its story a thousand years in the future. Earth has been uninhabitable for almost all of that time due to pollution and climate change. Humans have established a colony on a distant planet, where a brave Cypher Raige (Will Smith) fends off an aggressive alien race called the Skrel that fights through large acid-spitting, insect-like robots known as Ursas. Raige has a troubled son (Jaden Smith) who longs for the approval of his dad. they fly into outer space for some father-son bonding only to crash-land on Earth. Raige’s legs are broken so the kid must run the gauntlet of earthbound animals — all of which have evolved into human-killers — to retrieve the distress beacon that fell 100 kilometers away and represents their only chance for rescue. His all-knowing dad guides him via high-tech cameras and such. there’s nothing more to the plot. the most impressive thing about After Earth is how quickly its fragile construction falls apart once you make the mistake of giving it a little thought. Even Darwin-haters know that it takes more than a thousand years for a creature to evolve. And how could animals evolve specifically to kill humans when there have been no humans on the planet? Artistic license is one thing, and bad pseudoscience is another. those killer robots detect humans by sensing the pheromones we secrete when we’re scared — a plot point designed to work with a primary theme about overcoming fears and growing up to be a good warrior. But since Ursas are weapons and not biological creatures, couldn’t the Skrel simply have fitted their super-high-tech monsters with cameras? there’s more, but you get the idea. At least the movie’s not in 3-D. — KEN KORMAN

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Tickets $6.75. 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday-Monday then nighty through June 13, Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, (504) 304-9992 DRIVING MISS DAISY (PG) — An elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta builds a decades-long friendship with the black driver her son hired for her. Tickets $5.75. 10 a.m. Sunday and June 12, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com INTO GREAT SILENCE (NR) — German director Philip Groening’s documentary looks inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, 522-8014; www. deutscheshaus.org. THE LESSER BLESSED (R) — A teenager from a remote town in Canada deals with life in high school. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net A LOT LIKE YOU (NR) — The narrator explores her mixed-race identity and roots in the documentary. A Q&A with director/producer Eliachi Kimaro follows the screening. The screening is part of the The New Orleans Loving Festival. Free admission. Reception 6 p.m., screening 6:30 p.m. Monday, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070;

In Noah Baumbach’s comedy Frances Ha, Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives on the highest of hopes and joyfully refuses to compromise as she reaches for far more than she can grasp.

www.ashecac.org MORE THAN HONEY (NR) — The documentary on bees and beekeeping explores the worldwide decimation of the bee population, something scientists call “colony collapse disorder.” Tickets $10 general admission, $8 students and members. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net POST TENEBRAS LUX (NR) — An upscale family’s move to the Mexican countryside results in domestic dissonance and class friction. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 8:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net PURPLE RAIN (R) — A man uses music to escape from a troubled home, but he finds his love life and career aspirations equally frustrating. The screenings are part of Prince’s BYOB birthday party which includes costume contests and is hosted by DJ Soul Sister and Samantha Beaulieu. Tickets $10.50 general admission, $9.50 student, $8.50 children and seniors. 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com THE WOMEN (NR) — The love lives of several women intertwine in the 1939 film

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FILM FESTIVALS DOCUMENTARY SUMMIT. Loyola University New Orleans, Bobet Hall, room 332, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5888; www.loyno.edu — The summit features networking opportunities and seminars with documentary filmmaking industry professionals including grant reviewers, production and post-production experts and legal advisers. Admission $85-$159. Saturday-Sunday. AMC Palace 10 (Hammond), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 12 (Clearview), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 16 (Westbank), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 20 (Elmwood), (888) 262-4386; Canal Place, (504) 363-1117; Chalmette Movies, (504) 304-9992; Entergy IMAX, (504) 581-IMAX; Grand (Slidell), (985) 641-1889; Hollywood 9 (Kenner), (504) 464-0990; Hollywood 14 (Covington), (985) 8933044; Kenner MegaDome, (504) 468-7231; Prytania, (504) 891-2787; Solomon Victory Theater, National World War II Museum, (504) 527-6012

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OPENING ANTENNA GALLERY. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street. com — “Mixed Messages.3: Multiracial Identity, Past & Present,” a group exhibition, through June. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422 A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Echo,” photographs by Anastacia Ternasky, through July 5. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “E Pluribus Unum,” paintings by Sarah Ferguson, through July 13. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront. org — “Neon Graffiti,” works by Jerry Therio; drawings by Christopher Deris; “Bonfire,” installation by Claire Rau; all through July 7. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. NORTH VILLERE STREET GALLERY. 2448 N. Villere St., (504) 975-4235; www. embersoberman.com — “Fishing for Gar,” paintings by Ember Soberman, through July 5. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. SECOND STORY GALLERY. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.

STAPLE GOODS. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Shape of Place: How Space/Place Shapes Identity,” works by members of the gallery’s artist collective, through July 7. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery. com — “Loving Family Portraits,” photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving by Grey Villet, through June. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.

GALLERIES 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP. 1638 Clio St., (504) 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Personal Landscapes,” works by David Nadalin, Dana Beuhler and Stephanie Reed, through June 29. A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., (504) 5681313; www.agallery.com — Photographs by Diane Arbus and Lisette Model, through June. AKG PRESENTS THE ART OF DR. SEUSS. 716 Bienville St. — Works by Dr. Seuss, ongoing. ANGELA KING GALLERY. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www. angelakinggallery.com — Paintings by Richard Currier and Paul Tamanian, through June 15. Works by Peter Max, ongoing.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Life Under the Sweet Magnolias,” oil paintings by Larry “Kip” Hayes, through June.

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Paintings, Drawings and Photographs,” mixed media by George Dureau; “Southern Gothic: An Insider’s View,” paintings and sculpture by Willie Birch; both through July 13.

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www. jonathanferraragallery.com — “Philadelphia,” a group exhibition curated Jonathan Ferrara, through July 27.

BENEITO’S ART. 3618 Magazine St., (504) 8919170; www.bernardbeneito. com — Oil paintings by Beneito Bernard, ongoing. BOYD | SATELLITE. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Sanity: Repeating the Same Process Over and Over ... and Getting Different Results,” works by Deborah Pelias, through July 1. THE BRASS CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY. 1201 St. Philip St.; www.thebrasscamera. com — “New Orleans Street Celebrations,” photographs by L.J. Goldstein, ongoing. CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Creeper Lagoon,” mixed media by John Folsom, through June 27. CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www. carolrobinsongallery.com — “Turning Corners,” paintings by Karen Jacobs, through June 29. COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery.com — “Jaguar Empire,” oil and wax paintings by Paul Tarver, through June 29. D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., (504) 524-3936; www. docsgallery.com — “So Much Art, So Little Time IV,” a group exhibition of gallery artists, through Aug. 1. DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., (504) 818-6032; www.dumoisgallery.com — “Intorsion,” works by Chad Harris and John Norris, through June 15. THE FOUNDATION GALLERY. 608 Julia St., (504) 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — Works by Zhang Chongguang, through July 6.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., (504) 5225988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “Wisdom: a Book Art Exhibition,” a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 30th anniversary, through July 27. MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www. martinechaissongallery.com — Works by Taryn Moller Nicoll, Rachel Jones Deris, Shelley Aucoin, Ryn Wilson and Joli Livaudaus, through June 29. NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — An exhibition of glass paperweights in conjunction with the International Paperweight Collectors Association’s visit to New Orleans, through June. NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www. neworleansphotoalliance. blogspot.com — “Generation LA 2,” a photography exhibit featuring recent graduates from Louisiana colleges, through July 22. OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Translucents,” paintings by Julie Robinson, through June 29. PARSE GALLERY. 134 Carondelet St.; www.parsegallery.com — “Swells for the Night Season,” multimedia works by Jane Cassidy, through June 14. RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS GALLERY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts. com — Works by Lauren Thomas, Sabine Chadborn, Vitrice McMurry, Andrew Jackson Pollack and others, ongoing. TEN GALLERY. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414 — “I Like Coconuts. They Remind Me of the Good Times,” collaborative works by Valerie

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THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann.com — “Expressions of Scale: Big and Little Ideas in Metal,” works by Thomas Mann and BRM Design, through Thursday. TULANE UNIVERSITY, NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Endless Line” and “Self Portrait,” site-specific wall-drawing installation by Pat Steir, through June 16.

SPARE SPACES HEY! CAFE. 4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www. heycafe.biz — Paintings by Mario Ortiz, ongoing. LA DIVINA GELATERIA. 621 St. Peter St., (504) 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com — New Orleans photographs by Rita Posselt, ongoing.

CALL fOR ARtIStS ALL HAIL OUR SACRED DRUNKEN WOOKIEE: A CHEWBACCHUS ART SHOW. 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top, 1638 Clio St., (504) 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus seeks works in all mediums that celebrate fandom (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics, gaming, etc.) for an upcoming exhibition at the Big Top. Email chewbacchusartshow@gmail.com for details. Submissions deadline is June 14. NO DEAD ARTISTS NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400A Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery. com — Artists can apply to be included in the annual juried exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. One artist from the September exhibition will win a solo show at the gallery. Visit the website for details. Submissions deadline is June 15. SALVATIONS. Green Project, 2831 Marais St., (504) 945-0240; www.thegreenproject.org — The Green Project seeks entries for its upcoming design competition and exhibit. Call (504) 388-7140 or email cwhite@thegreenproject.org for details. Submission deadline is June 28.

muSEumS AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER. 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 862-3222 — “Am I Not a Brother, Am I Not a Sister?: An Exhibition Commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation,” through June 28. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno. org — “Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations,” an exhibit curated by Miranda Lash; “Beyond Beasts: The Art of Court 13”; “I’m Not Lost, Just Undiscovered,” works by New Orleans teenagers curated by the CAC Teen Board; both through June 16. “After You’ve Been Burned by Hot Soup You Blow in Your Yogurt,” site-specific installation by Margot Herster, through Aug. 18. LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “A Year and One Day,” sculpture by Andy Behrle, through Dec. 20. LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “They Call Me Baby Doll: A Carnival Tradition,” an exhibit about the Baby Dolls, the African-American women’s Carnival groups, through January 2014. “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond”; both ongoing. MADAME JOHN’S LEGACY. 632 Dumaine St., (504) 568-6968; www.crt. state.la.us — “The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans,” ongoing. NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Portrait of Faith: John Paul II in Life and Art,” through June 16. “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939,” through Aug. 4. “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through Oct. 7. OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “What Becomes a Legend Most?: The Blackglama Photographs from the Collection of Peter Rogers,” through June. “To Paint and Pray: The Art and Life of William R. page 44

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BYWATER ART LOFTS II. 3726 Dauphine St., (504) 945-1881; www.bywaterartlofts.com — “Pigment of Your Imagination,” works by Tom Harvey and Shima Ghamari, through June. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

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ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., (504) 5243233 — Works by George Loli, jewelry by Betsy Meyers Green, crafts by Renee Melito and works by Jacques Soulas, through June.

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JUNE Beyond Beasts at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is really two shows in one. For the many fans of Benh Zeitlin’s acclaimed film Beasts of the Southern Wild, it is an inside look at the homespun locally shot movie that received four Oscar nominations. A floor-to-ceiling spectacle, it includes videos showing how Beasts was made by Zeitlin’s Court 13 collective, some earlier short films and various props. But there also is a significant visual art story here because the “look” of Beasts is mostly the work of Zeitlin’s sister, Eliza, whose art will be familiar to anyone who saw New Orleans Airlift’s 2011-2012 Music Box installation of musical shanties, for which she built the first and biggest musical structure. Both projects featured some of the same artists and an organic localized aesthetic that is not only a St. Claude arts district undercurrent but also coincidentally echoes elements of Elizabeth Shannon’s and Robert tannen’s early CAC exhibitions years ago. Eliza Zeitlin’s influence also might have inspired other aspects of the film. Some moviegoers professed shock at the way the characters in Beasts lived in shanties cobbled from found materials, yet when Benh was asked if he really knew “anyone who lives like that,” he said, “Yes, my sister.” Like Hushpuppy in Beasts, Eliza prefers living in primitive spaces she shares with her menagerie of critters. that love of animals also explains her large and enigmatic stand-alone sculpture in the corner window gallery — actually a metal found-object assemblage cobbled from auto parts and inspired by her beloved cat who was killed by a speeding motorist. Eloquently crafted into a fearsome feline protector deity, it looks ready to pounce on the cars whizzing by outside. In the Zeitlin siblings’ worldview, all things appear animated by an intelligent inner spirit that we may not always understand but which their efforts bring to life in any number of unexpected and brilliantly executed ways. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDt

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SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; seaa. tulane.edu — “the Dome,” an exhibition anticipating the 40th anniversary of the Superdome, through Nov. 1.

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24. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www. theallwayslounge.com — Playwrights, directors and actors have 24 hours to create and rehearse the plays they premiere at Skin Horse Theater’s festival. Visit www.skinhorsetheater. org for details. Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Saturday. THE ADVENTURES OF BUTT BOY AND TIGGER. Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St., (504) 218-0055; www. elmtheatre.org — Steven Dawson’s comedy follows two men who meet online and embark on a raunchy ride through the world of Internet chatting. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, through June 8. CLYBOURNE PARK. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2988676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — Cripple Creek Theatre Company presents the regional premiere of Bruce Norris’ exploration of past and present race relations and middle class hypocrisies in America. Visit www. cripplecreekplayers.org for details. Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, through June 23. CRIMES AGAINST NATURE: A LOVE STORY. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.com — Featuring music by Ratty Scurvics, the play follows two cousins who hit the road and end up in New Orleans after getting caught in the act together. Tickets $10 Monday performances, $15 all other performances. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday. HELL’S BELLES. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www. midcitytheatre.com — Sassy women in a Civil War era charm school help nurse an injured Union soldier back

to health in this Running with Scissors production. Tickets $20 Sunday performances, $25 all other performances. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, through June 23. NEXT TO NORMAL. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Leslie Castay stars in the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical about a suburban mother’s fight with mental illness and her family’s attempts to hold everything together. Visit www.southernrep.com for details. Tickets $20-$35. Thursday-Sunday. SANCTIFIED. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www. anthonybeantheater.com — In the gospel musicalcomedy written by Javon Johnson and directed by Anthony Bean, a congregation works together to host a revival in an attempt to save the church. Tickets $20 general admission, $18 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, through June 30. SHIPWRECKED. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — The theater presents its monthly storytelling showcase. Visit www. shipwreckedinnola.com for details. 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

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

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We rarely get a chance to see the works of Nobel laureate and absurdist playwright Harold Pinter, so it was a joy to see Other Places presented by Four Humours at the Dryades Theater. Other Places is actually four one-act plays. At Dryades, each had a different director, and the staging throughout was minimal but effective. In One For the Road, directed by Ed Bishop, Nicholas (Mikko) sits at his desk in a suit and tie. He’s the head of some sort of bizarre institution, but he seems more like a sadistic cult leader. And a drunk. One by one, his patients/ prisoners enter in bare feet and rags: Victor (Jake Bartush), his wife Gila (Cat Wilkinson) and their 7-year-old son Nicky (Maxwell Canko). They are almost catatonic, and Nicholas torments them verbally. He brags that everyone in the building knows the voice of God speaks through him and also that there is a brothel on the sixth floor. Gila is apparently being raped upstairs with such regularity she can’t remember how many times it has happened. It’s a dystopian fable that could have been dreamed up by Kafka. Kathryn Talbot directed the slightly less absurd Victoria Station. A London cab dispatcher (Kathryn Merris Scott) calls Driver 274 (Blake Buchert), who seems clueless. The dispatcher wants him to go to Victoria Station (one of the best known spots in London) to pick up a fare, but the driver does not know where or what Victoria Station is. Eventually, the driver reveals he has a woman asleep in the back of his cab, which surprises the dispatcher and elicits jealousy. Edging closer to realism is Family Voices, directed by Daniel Schubert-Skelly. A young man (Bartush) has left his mother’s (Rebecca McNeill Meyers) and father’s (Bob Edes Jr.) country home to live in a city. Most of the play alternates between scenes of him recounting his exploits in the city and his lonely mother pining for him. He doesn’t respond to her letter informing him of his father’s death. Finally, he says he will return to his mother, but it’s not clear if he will. Andy Niemann directed A Kind of Alaska, which uses the Yukon as a metaphor. Deborah (Claudia Baumgarten) lies in a coma. Sitting beside her, Hornsby (Edes) queries her and hopes for a response. She wakes and reacts, and we learn she has been unconscious for 29 years. The tale is hardly Ibsen, but it’s the closest Pinter gets to realism. Much of Alaska deals with Deborah’s struggle to understand what’s happened, and that effort is further complicated by the arrival of her younger sister Pauline (Scott). Baumgarten handles this demanding role with delicacy. In all of these pieces, excellent acting and directing made the plots more appealing than they sound. Thanks to Four Humours for bringing us lesser-known works by a modern master. — DALT WONK REE. Windsor Court Hotel, 300 Gravier St., 523-6000; www.windsorcourthotel.com — Leslie Castay leads an evening of cabaret featuring Troi Bechet, Jessie Terrebonne Thompson, Lisa Picone, Clint Johnson, Ann Mahoney, Fleur de Tease and the cast of Southern Rep’s Next to Normal. The event also features auctions, food and drinks. Visit www.southernrep.com

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OPERA NEW FANGLED FESTIVAL OF OPERA. Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, University of New Orleans, Lakefront Campus, 2807469 — The festival features new opera works performed by young artists. Visit www.

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StAGE LIStINGS Blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band. Free admission. 8 p.m. thursday. BITS & JIGGLES. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855 — the show mixes comedy and burlesque. Free admission. 9 p.m. Monday. C-4 COMEDY NIGHT. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-2951; www. eiffelsociety.com — Corey Mack hosts the stand-up comedy showcase. Visit www. c4comedy1.eventbrite.com for details. Admission free in advance, $5 at the door. 8 p.m. Wednesday. COMEDY BEAST. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www. thehowlinwolf.com — the New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. tuesday. COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 9440099; www.lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. tuesday. COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., (504) 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. thursday. COMEDY NIGHT. Grit’s Bar, 530 Lyons St., (504) 899-9211 — Vincent Zambon hosts the free stand-up comedy showcase. 9 p.m. thursday. COMEDY SPORTZ. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — the theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

FEAR & LOATHING WITH GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — the double bill includes Fear and Loathing, the sketch comedy show, and God’s Been Drinking, the improv comedy troupe. tickets $10, $5 with drink purchase. 8:30 p.m. Friday. THE FRANCHISE. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — Claws With Fangs performs for the house troupe showcase. tickets $5. 10:30 p.m. Friday. GIVE ’EM THE LIGHT OPEN-MIC COMEDY SHOW. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues. com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. tuesday. LAUGH & SIP. Therapy Wine Lounge, 3001 Tulane Ave., (504) 784-0054; www. therapynola.com — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians. Call (504) 606-6408 for details. tickets $7. 8 p.m. thursday. THE MEGAPHONE SHOW. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www. newmovementtheater.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which inspire improv comedy. tickets $8. 10:30 p.m. Saturday. THE NEW SHIT. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — two improv teams perform an improv form they have never attempted before.

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Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Friday. NOLA COMEDY HOUR OPEN MIC & SHOWCASE. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the open mic series that features a booked showcase on the last Sunday of every month. Free admission. 8 p.m. sign-up, 9 p.m. show. Sunday.

SATURDAY NIGHT LAUGH TRACK. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 2317011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a stand-up comedy showcase. Tickets $5. 11 p.m. Saturday. SIT-DOWN STAND-UP. Prytania Bar, 3445 Prytania St., (504) 891-5773; www. prytaniabar.com — Jonah Bascle hosts the stand-up comedy

show presented by Accessible Comedy. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Monday. THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? COMEDY SHOWCASE. Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www. carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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FAMILY SATURDAY 8 CHILDREN’S ART WORKSHOP. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Jewelry artist margo manning and others lead children in making rainsticks, drums and other musical instruments. Email artboxrhino@gmail. com for details. Admission $5. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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LES COMEDIENS FRANCAIS LECTURE. Williams Research Center, Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — Alfred E. Lemmon presents “Louisiana musical treasures from the bibliotheque nationale de France,” which is followed by musical performances. Free admission. 6:30 p.m. MOMS NIGHT OUT DISHCRAWL. Feet First, 4122 Magazine St., (504) 899-6800; www.feetfirststores.com — Attendees can network and visit four restaurants at the Dishcrawl event co-hosted by new orleans moms blog. Visit www.dishcrawl.com/ momsnight for details. Admission $45. 6:30pm

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GENEALOGY SERIES. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190 — Sal Serio, curator of the library’s American italian research center, leads a series of genealogical seminars for beginners. Free admission. 1 p.m. LUNCHBOX LECTURE. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum. org — the semi-monthly lecture series focuses on an array of World War iirelated topics. call (504) 528-1944 ext. 229 for details. noon. PAPERWEIGHT COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION. Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 Bourbon St. — the group’s biennial convention includes two lectures open to the public — “Studio Glass movement” and “paperweight primer” — and a dealer’s fair featuring thousands of glass paperweights. Visit www.paperweight.org/ conventions for details. Lecture and dealer’s fair admission $5, general convention admission starts at $150. Wednesday-Saturday. URBAN WATER SERIES: STRATEGIES THAT WORK. New Orleans BioInnovation Center, 1441 Canal St. — the Greater new orleans Foundation, Urban institute and others present a series of workshops addressing stormwater management. the topic of this workshop is “comprehensive and regional Approaches to Green Stormwater management.” Advanced

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the Louisiana cajun-Zydeco Festival features two days of cajun and zydeco bands on two stages at the old U.S. mint. performers on Saturday include rosie Ledet, chubby carrier and the bayou Swamp band, bruce Daigrepont and corey Ledet and his Zydeco band. there’s also a music stage on Ursulines Street at the French market in conjunction with the creole tomato Festival, and Sean Ardoin, Jonno and the babineaux Sisters are scheduled there. on Sunday, Lost bayou ramblers, beauSoleil avec michael Doucet, Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, Geno Delafose and French rockin’ boogie and nathan and the Zydeco cha-chas are at the mint. there’s also a craft market and food vendors. the event is one of the new orleans Jazz and heritage Foundation’s neighborhood festivals. Admission is free. — WiLL coViELLo

registration is recommended. Visit www.gnof. org/urbanwaterseries for details. Free admission. 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — the market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art, live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

THURSDAY 6 GIRLS NIGHT OUT FOR GIRLS FIRST. Cafe Adelaide and Swizzle Stick Bar, Loews New Orleans Hotel, 300 Poydras St., (504) 595-3305; www.cafeadelaide.com — Wanda Sykes is the celebrity bartender for the annual fundraiser. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

JAMMIN’ ON THE RIVER FOR DOLLARS & SENSE. Steamboat Natchez, Toulouse Street Wharf, (504) 586-8777; www. steamboatnatchez.com — Delfeayo marsalis plays at the 100 black men of metro new orleans’ event, which benefits the group’s educational initiative and scholarship program. call (504) 208-9337 for details. Admission $80. 9 p.m.

Sisters, City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 482-4888 — A different musician performs every week at the event that includes food, mint juleps, wine, beer and soft drinks. Admission $10, $3 children ages 5-12. 6 p.m.

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MARKETPLACE AT ARMSTRONG PARK. Armstrong Park, North Rampart and St. Ann streets — the weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, handmade beauty products, art, crafts and entertainment. Visit www.icdnola.org for details. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

ALL ABOARD GALA. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 9489998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — the homer A. plessy community School is celebrating its opening with a gala including live music and food from musicians and restaurants in the neighborhood. there also will be a silent auction. Visit allaboardgala.eventbrite. com for tickets. Admission $50. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St. — the weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green plate specials and flowers. Visit www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8921873 — the market offers fresh locally produced foods every week. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

EVENT LISTINGS Conti St., (504) 529-3306; www.yayainc.com — The Treme Brass Band and Hot 8 Brass Band perform at the event, which also features glass-blowing demonstrations. Guests can purchase the “Goblet Grab,” which includes admission, a choice of handmade drinking glasses and free drink refills. Admission $35 Goblet Grab, $10 general admission, free for children under 12. 7 p.m. FIRST FRIDAYS ON FULTON. Harrah’s Casino, 1 Canal St., (504) 533-6000; www. harrahs.com — The casino hosts live music, crawfish and food and drink samples from Fulton Street restaurants on the first Friday of every month. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www. noma.org — The museum’s weekly event features music, performances, lectures, film screenings, family-friendly activities and more. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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JULEPS IN JUNE. Private residence — The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society event is a garden party with an open bar, a buffet dinner, music and juleps. Call 524-2940 or email faulkhouse@aol.com for details. Admission $75-$150. Patron party 7 p.m., garden party 8 p.m.

LOYOLA ALUMNI COLLEGE. Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2011; www.loyno.edu — University alumni and the general public alike can take classes in Mardi Gras history, cybercriminals, terrorism, global climate change and other topics during the weekend event, which also features “extracurricular” activities including hands-on art classes, neighborhood tours, piano lessons and more. Visit alumni.loyno.edu/ alumni-college for details. Admission $250 for the weekend, $125 Saturday only. Friday-Sunday. PLESSY DAY. Press Street Railroad Yards, corner of Press and Royal streets — Plessy Day will begin with a short ceremony at the site of Homer Plessy’s 1892 arrest and then continue with music, student readings and a panel discussion on the link between music and the civil rights movement at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (2800 Chartres St.). Freedom Rider Doratha “Dodie” SmithSimmons will be on the panel. Free admission. Visit www. plessyandferguson.org for details. 5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 8 610 STOMPERS BALL CRAWL: A STREETCAR NAMED DA FIRE. Grit’s Bar, 530 Lyons St., (504) 8999211 — The 610 Stompers’ fourth annual bar crawl begins at Grit’s Bar and meanders around the Uptown area with stops at bars, contests and prize giveaways. Proceeds benefit Team Gleason, a charity founded by former New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason to raise ALS awareness. Visit www.610stompers.com for details. Registration before Friday $30, day of event $40. 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. CAMP BON COEUR TRIVIA NIGHT. Jerusalem Shrine Temple, 1940 Ormond Blvd., Destrehan, (985) 725-1716; www.jerusalemshriners.com — The event raises money for children to attend Camp Bon Coeur, a summer camp for children with congenital heart defects. Admission $250 per team of six to eight people, $31.25 individuals. Call (985) 212-4368 or visit www.heartcamp.com for details. 6 p.m. CREOLE TOMATO FESTIVAL. French Market, French Market Place, between Decatur and North Peters streets, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The one-day festival features fresh Creole tomatoes, food, live music and indoor and outdoor activities. Free admission. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Magazine Street Market, Magazine and Girod streets, (504) 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon. GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon. GRETNA FARMERS MARKET. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 362-8661 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Free admission. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. LOUISIANA CAJUN ZYDECO FESTIVAL. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. crt.state.la.us/museum/properties/usmint — Three stages of Louisiana music, an arts and crafts area, food and a

stage where musicians are interviewed are among the highlights of this two-day festival. Admission free. Hours 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. ; www. jazzandheritage.org/cajunzydeco. Saturday-Sunday. NIGHT MARKET. 4000 St. Claude Ave. — Local chefs, bakers, artists and artisans sell their goods at the outdoor market. Visit www.stclaude. org for details. 6 p.m. PHARMACY MUSEUM GOLF TOURNAMENT. Lakewood Golf Club, 4801 Gen. DeGaulle Drive, (504) 373-5926 — Lunch and contests precede the tournament which concludes with a live auction and prizes. Proceeds benefit the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum’s building renovation project. Call (504) 565-8027 or visit www.pharmacymuseum.org for details. Participation $200, includes green fees, cart rental, practice balls, refreshments and a $75 Nike Store gift card. 11 a.m. PIETY STREET MARKET. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741 — More than 40 vendors sell art, handmade jewelry and crafts, vintage collectibles and flea market finds. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. SANKOFA FARMERS MARKET. ARISE Academy, 3819 St. Claude Ave. — The weekly market offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, fresh eggs and other goods. Call (504) 872-9214 or visit www. sankofanola.org for details. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ST. BERNARD SEAFOOD & FARMERS MARKET. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi — The market showcases fresh seafood, local produce, jams and preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment, children’s activities and more. Call (504) 355-4442 or visit www.visitstbernard.com for details. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

SUNDAY 9 ADULTS/SWIM. W Hotel New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444 — The

hotel opens its rooftop pool to the public at events featuring DJs, drink specials, food, bottle service packages and more. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. BURGERPALOOZA BASH. Rock ’N’ Bowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-1700; www.rocknbowl. com — The benefit and bowling competition features live music from Refried Confuzion, an open bar, food from local restaurants and a silent auction. All proceeds go to the Miracle League of Greater New page 52

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS VOLUNTEERS. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana, 2626 Canal St., Suite 203, (504) 309-7304; www.bbbssela. org — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana needs volunteers to serve as mentors. A volunteer meets two to three times a month with his or her Little Brother or

Sister. You can play games, watch movies, bake cookies, play sports or plan any other outings you both would enjoy. Call for information. CASA NEW ORLEANS. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; thorough training and support is provided. Call Brian Opert at (504) 522-1962 ext. 213 or email info@casaneworleans. org for details. HANDSON NEW ORLEANS. The volunteer center for the Greater New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various opportunities available, how to sign up for service projects and general tips on how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@ handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org for details. HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS. Harmony Hospice, 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Jo-Ann Moore at (504) 832-8111 for details. IRON RAIL. The book collective seeks volunteers to table shows and other events, help catalog the library, host free movie nights, organize benefits and other duties. Email ironrailbookcollective@gmail. com or visit www.ironrail.org for details. LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS. The Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals. Email Dionne Simoneaux at dionne@la-spca.org for details. MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS. Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults. Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed. Call Gail at (504) 888-5880 for details. SENIOR COMPANION VOLUNTEER. New Orleans Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., (504) 821-4121; www.nocoa. org — The council seeks volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Call for details. TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION. The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks

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WORDS ADRIAN VAN YOUNG & MICHAEL JEFFREY LEE. Maple Street Book Shop at Bayou St. John, 3122 Ponce de Leon St.; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — Young signs The Man Who Noticed Everything and Jeffrey Lee signs Something in My Eye. 6 p.m. Tuesday. CLAIRE MANES. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs and discusses Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family. 6 p.m. Tuesday. COLD•CUTS. Kajun’s Pub, 2256 St. Claude Ave., (504) 947-3735; www.kajunpub. com — The monthly poetry and performance series features three readers. Visit www.coldcutsreading.blogspot.com for details. 7 p.m. Saturday. FAIR GRINDS POETRY EVENT. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon St., (504) 913-9073; www. fairgrinds.com — Jenna Mae hosts poets and spoken-word performers on the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month. 8 p.m. FRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE. Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 5962625; www.nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday. KENT WASCOM. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author signs and discusses The Blood of Heaven. 6 p.m. Thursday. TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www. neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m. Wednesday. WALTER CULPEPPER. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author discusses and signs The Replacement Son. 6 p.m. Friday. THE WELL: A WOMEN’S POETRY CIRCLE. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 947-2121; www.stannanola. org — The group for writers of all levels meets at 2 p.m. Mondays. Call 655-5489 or email fleurdeholly@gmail.com for details.

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LEGAL NOTICES 24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 674-899 DIV. I SUCCESSION OF JOHN T. SCURLOCK NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of this Estate, and to all other persons herein interested, to show cause within 7 days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the First Tableau of Distribution presented by Patricia B. Scurlock, Testamentary Exexutrix of this Estate, should not be approved and homologated, and the funds distributed in accordance therewith.

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CLASSIFIEDS 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 726-785 DIV. O

NOTICE TO SELL MOVABLE OR IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE SUCCESSION OF HERBERT P. PLAISANCE Whereas the Administratrix, Kathy Plaisance Parfait of the above Estate, has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property herein described, to-wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS GROUND in what is known as BELT BRIDGE SUBDIVISION, situated in the Fifth Ward of the Parish of Jefferson, above the Town of Westwego, Louisiana. According to a plan of said subdivision made by J.W.T. Stephens, C.E. and Victor Hawkins, Surveyor dated May 13, 1936, (a copy of which plan is on file in the office of the Clerk or Court for the Parish of Jefferson, filed in Plan Book 13, Folio 25) said lots are designated by the Nos. Nine and Ten, of SQUARE SEVEN, which square is bounded by COMMERCE, FOURTH, INDUSTRY, and FIFTY STREETS. Said lots adjoin and measure each Twenty-five (25’) feet front of Fifth Street, by a depth of One Hundred (100’) feet between equal and parallel lines. Improvements thereon bear Municipal Number 219 Fifth Street, Bridge City, LA., 70094. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: TWENTY TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND NO/100 ($22,500.00) DOLLARS cash for one hundred

percent (100%) interest in said property less the usual and customary expenses of the sale, all as per the agreement to purchase and sell. Notice is hereby given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. BY ORDER OF THIS COURT, May 9, 2013 Edna Golsby, Deputy Clerk Attorney: Roy J.D. Gattuso Address: 401 Weyer Street Gretna, LA 70054 Telephone: 504-368-5223 Gambit: 5/14/13 & 6/4/13 LOST PROMISSORY NOTE: Anyone knowing the whereabouts or having possession of one (1) certain promissory note executed by Brenda Jones Jackson, dated November 29, 2004 in the principal sum of 111,549.00 please contact Kimberly Calais at P.O. Box 80459 Baton Rouge, LA 70898 or at 225-216-1099. Gambit: 5/21/13, 5/28/13 & 6/4/13. Louis H. Gomez, or anyone knowing the whereabouts of Louis H. Gomez, his heirs, or assigns or legatees, or successors in interest, please contact Atty., Bonita Y.Watson, 1100 Poydras St., Ste. #2900-129, NOLA, 504.708.3975. www.thewatsonfirm. com (504) 708-3975.

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STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.:2009-6170 DIV. I SECT. 14 SUCCESSION OF BEATRICE ALCORN NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Administrator of this succession has petitioned this Court for authority to sell the immovable property of the Deceased at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure for the total price of ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($119,000.00) DOLLARS cash, “AS IS” without warranties. Real estate taxes for the current year are to be prorated through the date of the Act of Sale. All necessary tax, mortgage, conveyance, release certificates or cancellations and SELLER closing fees shall be paid by the succession. The Succession shall pay all previous years’ taxes and assessments. The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as follows: Portions of Lots 5 and 6, Square 598, Sixth Municipal District City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans. Improvements bear Municipal Nos. 2522-24 Peniston Street. Acquired by Beatrice Butts widow of Oliver J. Alcorn, by Act of Sale dated September 13, 1976 of record in COB 740, Folio 47 of the records of Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Any heir, creditor or interested party who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within seven (7) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears. BY ORDER OF THE COURT Dale N. Atkins, Clerk Attorney: C. Richard Gerage

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evard, Ronson Drive, Castle Drive, the north boundary of the subdivision, the east boundary of the subdivision, and the south boundary of the Canal No. 12 side. Lot 30 commences 1,458.31 feet from the corner of Ronson Drive and Chateau Boulevard, measures 50 feet front on Castle Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 100 feet. All in accordance with a survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated April 20, 1976, resurveyed July 29, 1986, a copy of which is annexed to an act dated June 17, 1986, registered in COB 1499, FOLIO 97.

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO. 2011-3531

DIV. L

IN RE: INTERDICTION OF SUSAN WOODRUM

The improvements thereon bear the municipal no. 3228 Castle Drive.

NEWSPAPER NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

Upon the following terms and conditions, notice is given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the Interdict, and of the Interdict’s estate, to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.

WHEREAS Alyce Jean Cornell, curator of the above Interdict’s estate, has made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the following movable or immovable property: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances, and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, City of Kenner, State of Louisiana, in that part therof known as Greater Holly Heights Subdivision Section IV, being a resubdivision of section G of Chateau Estates, in Section 37, Township 12 South, Range 9 East, in accord with a plan of subdivisions by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. dated November 1, 1974 approved by the City of Kenner, under Ordinance No. 1764, and registered in COB 844, FOLIO 414. According to said plan of subdivision, said lot is designated as Lot 30 of Square V, which Square V is bounded by Chateau Boul

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 11-7186 DIV. D SECTION 16 DOCKET 1

SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of this Estate and to all other interested persons, that a Fourth Tableau of Distribution has been filed by the acting Dative Testamentary Executrix of this Succession, with her Petition for Filing of Fourth Tableau of Distribution praying for homologation of the Fourth Tableau and for authority to pay the debts and charges of the Succession listed thereon; and that the Fourth Tableau of Distribution can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the Petition and Fourth Tableau of Distribution must be filed prior to homologation. By Order of the Court Attorney: Eric M. Schorr Address: 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 3815, NOLA 70170 Telephone: 504-582-1500 Gambit: 6/4/13

By Order of the Court, DALE N. ATKINS Clerk of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans Attorney: Andrew J. Treuting Bar#: 30098 Smith & Treuting, LLC Address: 700 Camp St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 525-1491 Gambit: 5/14/13 & 6/4/13

JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF COURT BUDGET SUMMARY FOR FYE 6/30/2013 AND FYE 6/30/2014

Revenues: Licenses Charges for services: Court Costs, fees etc Recording legal documentation Certified copies Advance deposit funds Miscellaneous Interest income Other Intergovernmental Total revenues Expenditures: Personal services and related benefits Operating services Materials & supplies Travel and other Capital outlay Intergovernmental Total expenditures Deficiency of revenues over expenditures Fund balance: Beginning of year End of year

ORIGINAL BUDGET FYE 6/30/2013

TEN MONTHS ENDED Apr-13

$88,200.00

$66,531.25

$13,306.25

$79,837.50

-9.48%

$79,837.50

0.00%

1,986,104.65 4,599,739.80 758,525.64 6,157,597.99 159,000.00 317,208.42 816,454.79 101,613.26

1,559,928.17 4,158,217.00 699,932.95 4,874,063.30 51,325.55 319,685.22 707,369.88 52,362.28

311,894.44 831,643.40 139,986.59 974,812.66 10,265.11 63,937.04 141,590.68 52,362.28

1,871,822.61 4,989,860.40 839,919.54 5,848,875.96 61,590.66 383,622.26 848,960.56 104,724.56

-5.75% 8.48% 10.73% -5.01% -61.26% 20.94% 3.98% 3.06%

1,871,366.61 4,989,860.40 839,919.54 5,848,875.96 61,590.66 383,622.26 848,960.56 104,724.56

-0.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

14,984,444.55

12,489,415.60

15,029,214.05

0.30%

15,028,758.05

0.00%

13,403,618.95 2,063,102.06 576,377.29 36,629.54 500,000.00 99,703.73

10,852,806.91 1,650,636.96 296,308.51 31,741.05 479,918.20 70,006.68

12,950,943.64 1,970,155.68 372,807.22 38,089.26 547,901.84 84,008.02

3.38% 4.51% 35.32% -3.99% -9.58% 15.74%

13,463,228.65 1,809,923.74 372,807.22 38,551.50 343,750.00 84,008.02

-3.96% 8.13% 0.00% -1.21% 37.26% 0.00%

16,679,431.57

13,381,418.31

15,963,905.66

4.29%

16,112,269.12

-0.93%

(1,694,987.02)

(892,002.71)

(934,691.61)

44.86%

(1,083,511.07)

-15.92%

8,967,722.82

9,564,359.77

6.65%

8,629,668.16

-9.77%

$7,272,735.80

$8,672,357.06

8,629,668.16

18.66%

$7,546,157.09

-12.56%

2,098,136.73 319,518.72 76,498.71 6,348.21 67,983.64 14,001.34

AMENDED BUDGET FYE 6-30-2013

% CHANGE FAV (UNFAV) ORIGINAL BUDGET VS AMMENDED BUDGET FYE 6/30/2013

% CHANGE FAV (UNFAV) AMMENDED BUDGET VS PROPOSED BUDGET FYE 6/30/2014

ESTIMATED REMAINING REVENUE EXPENSES FOR FYE 6/30/2013

PROPOSED BUDGET FYE 6-30-2014

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A public meeting will be held on Thursday June 27, 2013 in the office of the Clerk of Court, Parish of Jefferson, Jefferson Parish Government Building, 200 Derbigny Street, Suite 5600, Gretna, Louisiana, beginning at 10:00 a.m. for the purpose of adopting a budget for the General Fund of the Clerk of Court for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014. A copy of the proposed budget to be considered for adoption at such meeting is available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of Court from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. A general summary of the proposed budget follows. Also reflected is the amended budget for the year ending June 30, 2013 which was adopted on May 28, 2013. /s/ Jon A. Gegenheimer Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court

CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICE

PROPOSAL NUMBER 13-001 THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE WILL RECEIVE SEALED BIDS UNTIL THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 AT 10:30 A.M. AT WHICH TIME BIDS WILL BE OPENED AND PUBLICLY READ AT THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE, 200 DERBIGNY STREET, GENERAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING, SUITE 5600, GRETNA, LOUISIANA FOR A FISCAL AGENT FOR THE PERIOD BEGINNING ON OR ABOUT JULY 1, 2013 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2015. TO BE A QUALIFIED BIDDER, THE BANK MUST OPERATE WITHIN JEFFERSON, PARISH, LOUISIANA AND MUST HAVE A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK CHARTER. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE PROPOSED FISCAL AGENCY CONTRACT ARE THAT THE FISCAL AGENT SHALL PERFORM ALL DUTIES AND DISCHARGE ALL OBILIGATIONS IMPOSED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA UPON FISCAL AGENTS AND SHALL RENDER THE FOLLOWING SERVICES TO THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE : COLLATERALIZE ALL TIME AND DEMAND DEPOSITS 100% WITH GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. THE BANK WILL PROVIDE CHECKS FOR ALL ACCOUNTS AT NO COST TO CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE. ALL BANK STATEMENTS WILL BE CUT-OFF ON THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH FOR ALL ACCOUNTS. STATEMENTS MUST LIST EACH CHECK CLEARING IN CHECK NUMBER ORDER. IMAGES OF CANCELLED CHECKS MUST BE RETURNED ON COMPACT DISK WITH STATEMENT. ALL ACCOUNTS MUST BE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE INTERNET FOR PURPOSES OF TRANSFERS AND VIEWING.

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THE BANK WILL PROVIDE EQUIPMENT FOR PROCESSING OF CREDIT CARD CHARGES.

THE BANK WILL PROVIDE PROCEDURES TO ALLOW INTERNET COMMERCE FOR ONLINE CHARGES (PAYPAL). THE BANK WILL SUBMIT INFORMATION REGARDING OTHER SERVICES AVAILABLE AND THEIR COST. THE BANK WILL INDICATE THE AVAILABILITY OF CONTRACT EXTENSIONS UNDER THE SAME TERMS. THE BANK WILL SUBMIT COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR THE INTEREST RATE TO BE PAID ON ALL DEPOSITS. THE INTEREST RATE ON REGISTRY FUNDS IS TO BE FIXED FOR TWO YEARS. THE BANK WILL SUBMIT COMPETITIVE BIDS FOR ALL CHARGES AND COSTS. A SWORN STATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE BANK SUBMITTING THE BID AS OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH PRECEDING THE MONTH THE BID IS SUBMITTED MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE BID FOR THE FISCAL AGENT CONTRACT. THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING BIDS IS TO BE CLEARLY MARKED “FISCAL AGENT BID.” ALTERNATIVELY, THE BANK MAY SUBMIT A BID ELECTRONICALLY TO HYPERLINK “mailto:KYOUNG@JPCLERKOFCOURT.US” KYOUNG@JPCLERKOFCOURT.US WITH THE SUBJECT LINE MARKED AS “FISCAL AGENT BID”. ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED BIDS WILL BE OPENED ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED AS THE DEADLINE

FOR RECEIVING BIDS. THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS. JON A. GEGENHEIMER CLERK OF COURT JEFFERSON PARISH GAMBIT: 5/21/13, 5/28/13 and 6/4/13

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA NO.: 12-2183 SECT. D-4

MOSAIC UNDERWRITING SERVICE, INC. V. MONCLA 101 IN REM ET AL JUDGE MARTIN L.C. FELDMAN, MAGISTRATE KAREN WELLS ROBY, NOTICE OF SALE OF VESSEL by virtue of an Order entered February 20, 2013, issued out of the above Court in the above-entitled cause, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the MONCLA 101, together with all of its tackle, appurtenances, etc., will be sold on an as is, where is basis, free and clear of all claims, liens, maritime liens, and encumbrances of any kind, to the highest qualified bidder or bidders, for cashier’s or certified check, without appraisal, concluding on June 7, 2013 at 10:00 A.M., local time, with the sale proceeds to be held in escrow pending resolution of the above claim. Bids may be submitted to Central Maritime, Inc. 5575 Hwy 1, P.O. Box 217, Lockport, LA 70374, (985)532-0442. The successful highest bidder(s) for said vessel shall make payment in full within fifteen (15) days of the close of bidding. In the event of default by said bidder, the next highest bidder will be chosen. The sale will be confirmed if no written objections have been filed with the Court within a period of three (3) court days following June 7, 2013. Any such objections must be made in writing and filed within the time stated above and, if filed, a hearing shall be held before the Court not later than ten (10) days after the date of sale, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays excepted. Any objecting party shall serve copies of written objections to all known and interested prior to the sale, including all parties to the abovecaptioned matter and the highest bidder. Any persons wishing to inspect the vessel shall do so solely at their own risk and expense, through contacting Central Maritime, Inc. and shall visit the office of Central Maritime, Inc. for the purpose of signing a hold harmless agreement before boarding. The Vessel presently lies afloat at

Bollinger Larose, 1515 Hwy 24, Larose, LA 70373. The attorney for plaintiff, Mosaic Underwriting Service, Inc. is Harry E. Morse of Duncan & Sevin, LLC. Telephone: (504) 524-5566, Facsimile (504) 524-9003. Gambit: 5/14/13 & 6/4/13 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Catherine Hill Soniat, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Duwayne Perkins and/or Tracy Meyers Perkins, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Elmore Arnold Gibson, Sr, or his heirs, please contact Norlisha Parker Burke, atty, 504-444-1943. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Janelle L. Crescioni, please contact Atty. B. Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Krischell Monique Evans, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michael Ben-Edward, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Neil M. Ostroff, please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of ROSALIND JONES WIFE OF/AND GREGORY M. LARKINS, please contact Justin A. Reese, Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Willie Lee Adams, Jr., please contact Atty. Bonita Watson, 504.708.3975. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Net-Worth Commerce Solutions, LLC, and/or Olan Parker its registered agent, please contact George V. Perez, Jr., Attorney at Law (504) 858-8127. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of RODNEY B. THOMAS, SR. AND JOYCELYN M. THOMAS, please contact Justin A. Reese, Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500. Pursuant to the requirements of La. R.S. 47:6007 (D) (2) (e), Chemical Mind Production, LLC has completed principle photography on the feature film titled “2 Bedroom 1 Bath”. Any creditor will need to file a claim by June 15, 2013. All claims should be sent to: Chemical Mind Production, LLC, 102 Cambridge Drive, Belle Chasse, LA or via fax at (504) 524-2969. Please note that the outstanding obligations are not waived should a creditor fail to file by the specified date.

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