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“Some of my left-wing critics call me a fanatic. Well, they’re certainly right that I’m a fan. And I set my priorities that way. I sent out the following comment on social media today: ‘Will listen to President’s speech carefully . . . from my priority area for job creation, Who Dat nation. Family and friends coming over for big game. On to recovery — and super bowl!’” — Sen. David Vitter in an email and on Facebook, explaining why he was choosing to watch the opening game of the 2011 NFL season at his home in Metairie rather than attend President Barack Obama’s jobs address in Washington D.C. His plans were spoiled when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scheduled a last-minute floor vote requiring Vitter to remain in the Capitol.

Attack of the Kevlar Tomatoes BARRY ESTABROOK’S NEW BOOK DISHES THE DIRT ON THE MODERN TOMATO AGRIBUSINESS. BY MEGAN PECK

Q: I’ve been reading interviews that you’ve done for the book and reviews of the book, and you’ve likened your relationship to tomatoes to [Marcel] Proust and his madeleine. Can you describe that association? Barry Estabrook: Well, I’m talking about a good tomato, a real garden-ripe tomato — not a winter tomato. Proust tasted a madeleine, and it brought back all these memories to him. Tomatoes are a thing that I really do associate with pleasant memories from when I was

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“It’s a sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party when a Republican senator whines about having to show a modicum of respect to the President of the United States, and do the job his constituents hired him — and are paying him— to do.” — Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Reid, responding to Vitter.

In his new book Tomatoland, Barry Estabrook says he tried to answer the question: “What has industrial farming done to this thing, from a flavor point of view, from a gastronomical point of view?” younger. My father was a businessman who spent a lot of time traveling around the country, and I wasn’t a great athlete or anything, but the one thing we sort of bonded over were tomatoes. Wherever we lived and whatever the circumstances were, he’d plant a few tomatoes — half a dozen tomato plants. I can remember their smell. I remember the leaves, and their little white roots when he took them out of the container to transplant them. I remember in the heat of summer pulling a few tomatoes off the vine and eating them, and then bringing some in and serving them with a little salt and pepper. And mayonnaise. The way you talk about it, about how you can taste all the elements in the tomato, sounds like drinking wine.

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“This is not a collegial body anymore. It is more like gang behavior. Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two Senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That’s what Congress has come to.” — Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., to New York Times columnist Joe Nocera. Cooper was first elected to Congress in 1982. PAGE 12

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helped collect 250,000 books for New Orleans’ Recovery School District with his “Epic Book Drive,” which he launched last spring. The rapper encouraged his fans to hold community book drives for the public schools in New Orleans and gained the support of more than 100,000 people in the process. The largest contributor was Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown, Penn., which collected 16,000 books.

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president of Nonesuch Records, was honored with a central walkway in his name at the newly opened Musicians’ Village Toddler Park in the Upper 9th Ward. “Hurwitz Way” is a keyboard- and treble clef-shaped path in the middle of the park. In the month after Hurricane Katrina, Nonesuch rush-recorded a benefit album, Our New Orleans, which raised $1.1 million for the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity. Nonesuch is a division of the Warner Music Group.

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issued several tickets to drivers who created wakes while driving down flooded streets during Tropical Storm Lee. Laws against it had been on the books, according to Superintendent Ronal Serpas, but were publicized and enforced for the first time in years. Nothing is worse for a homeowner or renter than to escape street flooding — only to have a motorist unnecessarily push water into a dry house. If it takes a few tickets to get the message across, so be it.

Garland Robinette

failed to disclose to his listeners that his family obtained a $250,000 loan from River Birch Landfill co-owner Fred Heebe, who is now reported to be the subject of a federal investigation. Robinette also should have repaid the loan long ago. When the news broke earlier this month, Robinette promised to explain, but on his first day back on the air, the WWL-AM host whiffed. “I’ve been asked to refrain from discussing these matters,” he said. Garland the radio host wouldn’t settle for that. Neither should his listeners.

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nyone who has ever bitten into a sandwich and, on second thought, removed that sad, pink, watery slice of tomato will appreciate Tomatoland, Barry Estabrook’s new book about Florida’s tomato trade. Estabrook’s detective work started years ago on the road in South Florida. As he was driving behind a produce truck, he saw a bright green fruit break free, strike the highway and emerge intact. The food writer was shocked to see that this was a tomato, usually a soft, red fruit that splits and oozes at the slightest rough handling. That tomato led Estabrook to travel from South Florida farms to rural Peru in search of answers. In his travels, Estabrook discovered that year-round demand for the summer fruit has created a troubled tomato industry in Florida. Farmers pump the soil full of pesticides to combat the challenges of an inhospitably humid climate, and, since vine-ripened tomatoes are too delicate to withstand cross-country shipment, they’re picked well before they’re ripe and gassed with ethylene to turn them red. In Tomatoland, Estabrook uncovers a trade fueled by low prices and, alarmingly, incidents of slave labor.

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A good tomato, to me, is like a good red wine. Its flavors are very, very complex. That’s what I like. The sweetness and the tartness play off of each other, and all the other elements that are in a good-tasting tomato are very similar to drinking a good burgundy. In 2009 you published “The Price of Tomatoes,” an article about migrant slavery in South Florida tomato fields, in Gourmet. The book is equally concerned with the taste of the tomatoes themselves. So how did this interest come about? I first got interested in tomatoes because there were issues around the flavor. Years ago that tomato came flying at me off the truck. It hit I-75 at 60 miles per hour and I thought, “My God! These are the things that grow at home in my garden … but here they’re these rock-hard things that are hitting me at 60 miles an hour without suffering any harm!” So that’s the way that I came into it, and it was doing that that brought my attention to the labor issues. Before I realized all the labor practices existed, I [wondered]: What has industrial farming done to this thing, from a flavor point of view, from a gastronomical point of view?

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If Florida is such a hostile environment for tomatoes, then why are we growing them here? And what are Florida farmers doing to enable these tomato crops? The reason you’re growing them there has nothing to do with horticulture and botany, and everything to do with commerce. You load a trailer up and in two days that’ll be in a supermarket or warehouse in twothirds of the country —from the East to the Midwest. That’s the only reason they’d ever grow tomatoes in a place like Florida. The problems start with the weather — the humidity. The tomato’s wild ancestors are a desert plant. They love dry, sunny weather. They hate humidity, as anyone trying to grow them in the garden in Florida will know. They’re susceptible to all sorts of funguses and wilts and rusts. There are blights and all manner of insects all year round. So from that point of view, Florida is the wrong place to grow tomatoes. In the parts of the state that tomatoes are grown, they’re grown in the sand, which has no more nutrients than the sand on Daytona Beach. Everything the plant needs, all the nutrients, have to be put in the sand and sealed under plastic. So they plant the tomatoes in this hostile sand, which doesn’t have very many nutrients, and then they cover it with plastic. Well, before the growers do anything, they go along and create the rows in the sand, and then they inject methyl bromide, which is a fumigant which kills every living organism in the soil — every germ, every bug, every bacteria. Then they put the plastic

over the plants at that point to keep the bromide in there for a couple of weeks to do its job. They also put fertilizer in. After a couple of weeks, when the soil is sterile — dead — they then poke holes in the plastic and put seedlings in. If they’re putting all these deadly chemicals into the ground to kill everything in the soil, is there any chance that the tomato plants will pick up traces of those chemicals? The USDA has found … traces of more than 30 different agricultural chemicals — I’m talking about pesticides — in supermarket tomatoes. So there are more than 30 pesticides on slightly more than half the tomatoes tested by the FDA. They have residues on them. They say that it’s not a level that’s going to hurt you.

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit By Barry Estabrook Andrews McMeel Publishing; 240 pp. So these pesticides are found on the skin of the tomatoes, and we can at least get the comfort that we’re washing part of that off. But are we really washing all of it off? According to the officials [the chemicals] are in quantities that are below those which would hurt you. They’re there, but in quantities below the threshold of being toxic … to consumers. It’s a different story if you’re in the fields picking the tomatoes. Fresh tomatoes have to be picked by hand. Machines can pick canning tomatoes, but that will bruise the fruit. What kind of lifestyle are these pickers facing? The people who pick tomatoes are at the very, very bottom of the last rung of the working poor in the U.S. You may be able to get a crummier-paying job, although I can’t think of one offhand, or you can get a harder or more dangerous job, but you’re not going to find one that combines all three in the way

that tomato harvesting does. They average about $10,000 to $12,000 a year. For a lot of hours. Yeah, but they never know. They have to be on call every day, but they might not be called. If it rains they’re sunk, and if there’s been heavy dew, they’ll keep them out in the fields until the dew dries. Also, it seems to happen almost every year now — you get a freeze, and that puts them out of work for six weeks. And on and on. So it’s erratic work that comes in fits and starts. They have to be there. They have to be available for when tomatoes need to be picked. It seems like pickers are mostly migrant workers. While out researching this book, did you get an idea of how many of the workers are here without documents? The National Farmworkers Association has an official figure of 70 percent as undocumented. That’s farmworkers overall. The whole industry is dependent on workers who are not properly documented. It’s intentional. If you don’t have the proper documentation, you’re not going to go running to the cops or screaming about somebody shorting you on your hours. ... So it’s really a business built on people who are desperate for work. [Florida] governor Rick Scott ran on a hard-line anti-immigration stance. He’s since taken heat for backing down. Might this have anything to do with agriculture companies and migrant workers? He may have taken a look across the border at what’s happening in Georgia. Florida’s agricultural sector is huge. [In Georgia] you have a situation where they had enacted one of these crazy laws, and right now there’s $300 million lost so far, with crops rotting in the fields because the workers simply — well, they are nothing if not migrant. Can migrant workers get any kind of visas? There are [H-2A] guest visas, which are like tickets to exploitation. Some of the worst exploitation and slavery cases in the country have been with people on these guest worker visas. ... The problem is that you can’t leave the farmer who hired you. So it’s not like you can leave Farmer Joe, who underpays and doesn’t house you properly, to work for Farmer Smith. So that’s not a solution. [The guest worker visa] ties you to one person, and if he chooses to be abusive, what are you going to do? Why can’t big agriculture afford to pay more for labor? [The] Florida tomato industry has been engaged in market-share war for decades. The farms are smaller than the big billion-dollar corporations they sell to. The

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“I came in third place behind Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul. I think that’s enough for any one person to endure.” — Former Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty on The Colbert Report, explaining to Stephen Colbert why he dropped out of the 2012 presidential race after the Iowa straw poll.

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QUALIFIED QUANTITIES

Voters are mad, mad, mad and they’re looking for alternatives. That’s the conventional wisdom — borne out by polling — but you’d never know it from this week’s filings for the fall elections. Two of the biggest will-they-or-won’tthey candidates — John Georges, who has run both for governor and mayor of New Orleans, and former lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Caroline Fayard, who had indicated some interest in running for secretary of state — officially became won’t-theys when they didn’t file for elections by the Sept. 8 deadline. That leaves Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser as the main challenger to incumbent Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne, and the little-known Tara Hollis, a teacher from Haynesville, as the Democrats’ biggest hope against Gov. Bobby Jindal. Seven other candidates also filed to run against Jindal. So who’s in statewide? Without Fayard, the secretary of state’s race will be a GOP clash between incumbent Tom Schedler and outgoing House Speaker Jim Tucker — as will the contest for attorney general, which pits incumbent Buddy Caldwell (the state’s most high-profile Dem-turned-Republican) against former Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, who had also reportedly flirted with the idea of seeking the position of Louisiana Secretary of Education. State treasurer John Kennedy drew no opposition, while insurance commissioner Jim Donelon was challenged by political newcomer Donald Hodge, a Baton Rouge attorney. Mike Strain, the incumbent Secretary of Agriculture, drew two opponents, including Belinda Alexandrenko, a perennial statewide candidate running under the Reform Party banner. Many Orleans Parish officials drew no opposition, serious or token, including Sens. Ed Murray, Karen Carter Peterson, David Heitmeier and Conrad Appel (all but Appel are Democrats). Reps. Walt Leger III, Helena Moreno, Jared Brossett and Austin Badon, all Democrats, will run unopposed. The few local horse races in the legislature were mostly due to the 2010 redistricting. Senate District 3 will see a battle between two familiar names when former city councilwoman and state Rep. Cynthia Willard-Lewis challenges incumbent J.P. Morrell (Willard-Lewis was elected to represent Senate District 2 last year when Ann Duplessis left to

join Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration). State Sen. A.G. Crowe will face off against current Rep. Nita Hutter for his seat (both are Republicans). Rep. Neil Abramson drew three challengers, while Reps. Wesley Bishop and Jeff Arnold drew one apiece. Perhaps the biggest surprise was Jefferson Parish’s comfort with its own status quo, given the number of suburban scandals, feuds and resignations there in recent years. The only challenged council seats are those with no incumbent, and only three legislative incumbents (all in the House) have been challenged. Parish President John Young, Assessor Thomas Capella, Councilmen at-large Chris Roberts and Elton Lagasse and Clerk of Court Jon Gegenheimer drew no opposition. West Bank representatives Robert Billiot and Girod Jackson each now have a challenger, but the big race among Jeff Parish representatives will be the clash between incumbent Rep. John LaBruzzo and Nick Lorusso for the redrawn District 94 seat. Anyone who’s driven down West Esplanade Avenue in Metairie knows that LaBruzzo has had the “sign advantage” in the lakeside communities for months, but Lorusso is certain to hammer home LaBruzzo’s enthusiastic support for the 2008 legislative pay raise — a position LaBruzzo later frantically reversed after voters began a recall campaign. Despite some bluff, vague talk from state Democratic Party leaders in recent months about the strength of their candidates, for Democratic voters in Louisiana, it was the expected apocalypse even before the races had officially begun. When a relative unknown from Haynesville is the best a party can muster against the formidable and wellfinanced Jindal, Democrats have a right to feel blue. “Huey Long must be turning over in his grave,” noted an editorialist at the conservative website RedState. The primary is Oct. 22. — Kevin Allman

STAT oF ThE CITy

Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin will present a status update Sept. 13 to the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR), the government watchdog group, on the Landrieu administration’s ongoing efforts to reform city government operations. Kopplin is expected to measure the city’s progress against a report produced last year by the Public Strategies Group (PSG). Last year, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s office reached out to Minnesota-based PSG to produce a series of recommendations for streamlining city government operations. As PSG put it in its final report, City of New Orleans: A Transformational Plan for City Government, released in March, the goal was to “conduct a diagnostic assessment of the city organization to identify opportunities for trans-

formational change that will increase the organization’s effectiveness, efficiency, adaptability, and capacity to innovate.” PSG consultants studied city budgets and policies and conducted interviews with more than 60 people in New Orleans — including politicians, citizens and city workers. The group was led by the company’s senior partner David Osborne. Osborne — who last year authored a study on California’s troubled budget for the libertarian-leaning think tank the Reason Foundation — is something of a government efficiency guru for the post-Reagan era, when politically salable government reform means less regulation, smaller public payrolls and, often, increased private competition for work that has traditionally been performed by the public sector.

“Huey Long must be turning over in his grave,” noted an editorialist at the conservative website Red State.

Janet Howard. “And we haven’t really heard too much about it lately.” Howard tells Gambit she hopes to hear from Kopplin on parts of the PSG report she said the city has yet to address, particularly the civil service recommendations. Asked about the city’s overall status in meeting the goals in the plan, Landrieu spokesman Ryan Berni wrote in an email that the administration had “divided into internal working groups to begin work on each overall issue [identified in PSG’s ten-point first phase of the plan]. …We also have a group working on internal communications. Generally, we’re making progress on most of these fronts.” Landrieu previously worked with PSG in 2005 as the state’s lieutenant governor. He and then-state Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism head Angele Davis commissioned the group to reform that department’s budgeting process. In 2007, Mayor Ray Nagin’s administration awarded a $1.1 million city contract to Philadelphia-based municipal advisory firm Public Financial Management (PFM) to develop a fiveyear fiscal strategy for the city. City contract records show that PFM brought PSG in as a subcontractor for that work. This year’s transformation plan, however, was not funded publicly, according to the Landrieu administration. “Their work was paid for by a number of community partners including the Business Council, Baptist Community Ministries, RosaMary Foundation, the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, and Loyola and Tulane universities,” Berni wrote. “It was not a contract with the City.” — Charles Maldonado

ThE FLACk Who WASN’T ThErE

Osborne’s assessment, as reported in March in The Times-Picayune: “I think [the Landrieu administration] inherited the least competent city government I’d ever seen in this country and the most corrupt — a really tough experience. I just haven’t run into this level of dysfunction before, and I’ve been doing this work for almost 25 years.” The report called for a multi-year, twophase set of strategies for the city. They include civil service reform — a management-friendly type of reform centered around lifting or easing rules for hiring and firing employees; transparency and accountability improvements — making public data more readily available, in many cases through the city’s new data-and-meeting driven “Stat” programs (all under the umbrella program PerformanceStat) like the already enacted BlightStat; and fewer regulations in the procurement process. “We thought this was a very important report,” says BGR president and CEO

The Louisiana Democratic Party is, to put it mildly, in some disarray, with a landslide of high-profile defections to the state GOP and a dearth of candidates for statewide office in the fall elections. But it was still a surprise to get an email from the state Dems last week mourning the loss of Louisiana AFL-CIO president emeritus Victor Bussie. The sentiment wasn’t surprising, but the sender was: Kevin Franck, the pugnacious former communications director who left last May to head up messaging for the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Clearly the “from” line on the email had never been updated. So who’s been the mouthpiece for the Dems all summer — and who will be guiding their public image and statements through the fall elections? Gambit sent an email to the party’s communications office and heard back from Renee Lapeyrolerie, the party’s executive director. “It’s me for now,” Lapeyrolerie wrote. No official spokesperson for the state’s Democratic Party after more than three months, on the eve of some historic fall elections? That explains a lot right there. — Kevin Allman

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Got Gas? AmericA’s Top 10 GAs Drillers by NicholAs KusNeTz • propublicA

atural gas — often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy — has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry’s rosy business projections. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing whether gas companies have exaggerated their reserves and adequately disclosed the risks to investors from drilling’s potential environmental damage. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has requested similar information from several companies. Natural gas production has grown steadily in the United States since 2006, reaching new highs this year. But who are the leaders in this burgeoning field? More than 14,000 oil and gas companies, many of them small businesses, were active in the United States in 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). But multinational giants like Exxon Mobil and BP now produce much of the nation’s gas. The 10 biggest drillers account for one-third of all production, data from the Natural Gas Supply Association and the EIA show. The 40 largest producers pump more than half of all domestic natural gas. We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 drillers in the country, ranked by their daily natural gas production, and pulled together some key facts about their operations. Though there are other ways to measure these companies—revenue, market capitalization, reserves—industry experts say production numbers give the best snapshot of today’s landscape and also separate drillers’ gas operations from oil. The list features both “integrated” oiland-gas giants, such as Exxon Mobil, which refines and sells gasoline around the world, and “independents,” such as Chesapeake Energy, which are primarily in oil and gas exploration and production. Though industry P.R. initiatives often emphasize independent mom-and-pop drillers, most of the companies on our list are Fortune 500 corporations. Much of the growth in gas production has come from drilling into shale formations, which provided 23 percent of the nation’s gas in 2010, according to the EIA. Our list shows how integrated behemoths have expanded into this area as production has become proven, sometimes by swallowing up independents that led the way. Last year, Exxon (No. 8 in 2009) bought XTO (No. 2 in 2009) to catapult to the top of the list. Also last year, Chevron (No. 9) bought Atlas Energy (No. 50 in 2009 and an early entrant into Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale).

1. Exxon Mobil — The biggest natural gas producer is also the country’s biggest oil company and one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Exxon has operations in every continent but Antarctica. Its oil and gas operations range across several states, from Pennsylvania to Colorado, and Exxon also has wells in the Gulf of Mexico and off the California coast. With the purchase of XTO, Exxon produces nearly 50 percent more gas than its closest competitor. Earlier this year, Exxon began running ads touting natural gas as a safe, clean source of domestic energy. About two-thirds of the company’s domestic reserves are now in natural gas, with the rest in oil. Gas Average Daily natural Production: 3.9 billion cubic feet. Revenue, 2010: $370 billion. Reserves, 2010: 8.9 billion barrels of oil (2.3 billion in the U.S.), 2.1 billion barrels of bitumen (none in the U.S.), 681 million barrels of synthetic crude (none in the U.S.), 78.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (26.1 trillion in the U.S.). Executive Compensation, 2010: Rex Tillerson, Exxon’s chairman and CEO since 2006, received almost $29 million in total compensation. 2. ChEsAPEAkE EnERGy — Chesapeake calls itself the most active driller in the country, with operations in 15 states, from the Rockies to Texas to Pennsylvania. The company is a good example of how “independent” doesn’t necessarily mean small. As of last year, the company owned an interest in 45,800 wells, of which 38,900 were primarily gas wells. Chesapeake has built itself as a gas company, but it is increasingly looking for “liquids-rich plays,” according to its annual report. Gas wells generally produce oil and other hydrocarbon liquids as well in varying amounts, depending on the geologic formation. With oil prices high and gas prices low, many companies are seeking more wells that are oil- and liquids-rich, particularly in North Dakota, southern Texas and Pennsylvania. Average Daily natural Gas Production: 2.6 billion cubic feet. Revenue, 2010: $9.4 billion. Reserves, 2010: 14.3 trillion cubic feet of gas equivalent (10 percent of that is oil or other liquids, converted to the equivalent volume in gas). Executive Compensation, 2010: Aubrey McClendon, the chairman and CEO, is also the company’s founder. He has the unusual option of purchasing

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THURSDAYS a small stake in every well the company drills. He received $21 million in total compensation. 3. AnAdArko — Anadarko is one of the biggest independent oil and gas producers in the country, with exploration or production work in all major domestic drilling areas as well as South America, Africa, Asia and New Zealand. The company was a minority owner in BP’s Macondo well, which exploded last year, killing 11 people and spilling more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Worldwide, natural gas makes up just over half of Anadarko’s reserves, but 87 percent of the new wells it drilled in the United States last year were gas wells. Like many other companies, Anadarko is increasingly looking for oil- and liquidsrich production this year. Average daily natural Gas Production: 2.4 billion cubic feet. revenue, 2010: $11 billion. reserves, 2010: 749 million barrels of oil and condensate (458 million in the U.S.), 320 million barrels of natural gas liquids (307 million in the U.S.), 8.1 trillion cubic feet of gas, all in the United States. Executive Compensation, 2010: James Hackett, the chairman and CEO, received $24 million in total compensation.

5. BP — Fortune lists BP as the fourthlargest corporation in the world. The company drills in 29 countries and sells its products in 70. While BP is headquartered in London, 42 percent of the company’s assets are in the United States. BP

6. EnCAnA — Encana is one of the largest independent gas companies in the world, with operations mostly in the western United States and Canada, where it is based. The company has focused almost exclusively on gas. Average daily natural Gas Production: 1.8 billion cubic feet. revenue, 2010: $8.9 billion. Reserves, 2010: 93.3 million barrels of liquids (38.5 million in the U.S.), 13.8 trillion cubic feet of gas (7.5 trillion in the U.S.). Executive Compensation, 2010: Randy Eresman, president and CEO, received $10 million in total compensation. 7. ConoCoPhilliPs — ConocoPhillips is currently an integrated oil corporation, but it recently announced plans to split into two companies, one focused on refining, the other on production. The company has listed acquiring more shale reserves in North America among its top strategic goals over the past couple of years, and it drills in several western states as well as in Louisiana and Arkansas. It is exploring for shale gas in Poland and has operations in six continents. Average daily natural Gas Production: 1.6 billion cubic feet. revenue, 2010: $198.7 billion reserves, 2010: 3.4 billion barrels of oil and natural gas liquids (1.9 billion in the U.S.), 1.2 billion barrels of bitumen (none in the U.S.), 21.7 trillion cubic feet of gas (10.5 trillion in the U.S.). Executive Compensation, 2010: James Mulva, chairman and CEO, received almost $18 million in total compensation. John Carrig, who retired as president in March, received more than $14 million.

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4. dEvon EnErGy — Devon is an independent driller primarily active in the United States and Canada. The company is in the process of divesting operations in Angola and Brazil, its only holdings outside of North America. More than 70 percent of Devon’s U.S. reserves are in natural gas, with most of that lying in Texas’ Barnett Shale. Like its peers, however, Devon says that this year it will focus on drilling in areas rich with oil and other liquids. Average daily natural Gas Production: 2 billion cubic feet. revenue, 2010: $9.9 billion. reserves, 2010: 681 million barrels of oil (148 million in the U.S.), 479 million barrels of natural gas liquids (449 million in the U.S.), 10.3 trillion cubic feet of gas (9 trillion in the U.S.). Executive Compensation, 2010: J. Larry Nichols, the chairman, received almost $19 million in total compensation. John Richels, president and CEO, received almost $18 million.

reported a $3.7 billion loss last year after spending nearly $41 billion on cleaning up the Gulf oil spill and compensating those who were affected. The company remains primarily an oil producer, with about 40 percent of its reserves in natural gas. Average daily natural Gas Production: 1.9 billion cubic feet. revenue, 2010: $297 billion. reserves, 2010: 10.7 billion barrels of oil (2.9 billion in the U.S.), 42.7 trillion cubic feet of gas (13.7 trillion in the U.S.). Executive Compensation, 2010: Chief Executive Robert Dudley received $1.7 million in total compensation.

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wardell Quezergue: 1930-2011 egendary bandleader, producer and arranger Wardell Quezergue, who died Sept. 6 at the age of 81, made an indelible mark on New Orleans and American music. Beginning with hits in the 1950s, he became a leading architect of the New Orleans R&B sound and a fixture in the local music community. Prolific into his later years, Quezergue completed his classical A Creole Mass in 2000 and released an album in 2009. Known to many by his nickname, “The Creole Beethoven,” Quezergue enjoyed a prolific career as the producer and arranger. He wrote the classic New Orleans tune “It Ain’t My Fault” and helped engineer Professor Longhair’s “Big Chief,” the Dixie Cups’ “Iko Iko,” Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff,” and King Floyd’s “Groove Me.” Quezergue worked with artists including Fats Domino, Earl King, Dr. John, Neville Brothers, Paul Simon and Willie Nelson. Quezergue learned to play music at an early age and began writing arrangements in high school. After military service in the Korean War, he started the band the Royal Dukes of Rhythm and later was hired by Dave Bartholomew to work for Imperial Records. In the mid-1960s, Quezergue cofounded Nola Records, which released Robert Parker’s Top 10 hit “Barefootin’.” Quezergue’s wife Yoshi Tamaki Quezergue died in May. He is survived by his brother Leo, 13 children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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independent producer focused largely on natural gas. It owns 13,900 miles of pipelines, which it says deliver 12 percent of the natural gas consumed in the United States. The company recently announced plans to separate its exploration and production activities from its other operations. Williams has holdings in many of the major shale basins across the country, from Pennsylvania to North Dakota to Texas. The company also owns interests in several international companies. Average Daily Natural Gas Production: 1.2 billion cubic feet. Revenue, 2010: $9.6 billion. Reserves, 2010: 4.3 trillion cubic feet equivalent (3 percent of that is oil or other liquids, converted to the equivalent volume in gas). Executive Compensation, 2010: Alan Armstrong, president and CEO, received $2 million in total compensation. Sources: The production numbers are from the Natural Gas Supply Association and reflect the average for the first half of 2011. Revenue figures are from the companies’ 2010 annual reports and reflect total revenue from all sources, not just gas production. Revenue may include sales and other income and may not be adjusted for taxes. Reserves numbers are from the companies’ annual reports. Bitumen and synthetic crude represent oil from Canadian tar sands or other unconventional reserves. The compensation information is from Forbes and Bloomberg Business Week.

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Meanwhile, Robinette continued to rail against the eastern New Orleans dump site. Now here’s a fact that somehow has escaped the media’s attention, even though it is common knowledge: The following year, in October 2007, Robinette contracted a rare, life-threatening disease and was given less than two years to live. To make matters worse, his vocal cord was severed during a medical procedure, leaving him unable to speak. He was faced with the prospect of either dying within two years or surviving without being able to earn a living. Robinette made a decision that people facing their own mortality often make:

Clearly, Robinette had an ethical dilemma, which he should have addressed and disclosed. He turned to a passion he felt he had not fulfilled in his life, which was painting. It is undisputed that he is a gifted artist. He decided to open a studio and use his remaining time to paint, but he needed money to do that. Here’s where the media narrative picks up again. He asked several wealthy acquaintances to lend his wife money, secured by a piece of property she owns on the Northshore. He was asking a personal favor, no doubt about it, but anyone who knows anything about borrowing money knows that no bank would ever lend $250,000 to a dying man, particularly one who would not be able to work even if he survived. Fred Heebe, who has extensive real estate holdings, agreed to make the loan. This was in October 2007. Now, let’s not be naive here. While it was generous of Heebe to make the loan — interest free — he very well may

have had ulterior motives. He owns a large and very successful landfill that could have brought him even more millions had FEMA used his landfill and not eastern New Orleans. But remember: this was in October 2007, not right after the storm or in 2006. Up to then, all of Robinette’s comments on the eastern New Orleans landfill mirrored those of others in the media. Another salient fact: Heebe at that time was not under federal scrutiny. That investigation didn’t begin until about two years later, in late 2009 or early 2010. After five months off the air, Robinette not only beat the disease but also got enough of his voice back to return to the air in 2008. Now here’s where Robinette, in my opinion, made his mistakes, and they were twofold: First, as soon as possible after returning to work — or at least immediately upon learning that Heebe was in the federal crosshairs — Robinette should have gone to a bank and borrowed enough money to repay Heebe, who had become radioactive. Second, Robinette should have disclosed the loan — and its repayment — not only to his employers but also to his listeners. He failed to do either of those things, and those mistakes are now costing him dearly. But do those mistakes make Robinette a “sellout,” as some now claim? Clearly, Robinette had an ethical dilemma, which he should have addressed and disclosed. Friend or not, I cannot excuse his mistakes — but I do not join those who proclaim him a sellout. There are too many stubborn facts in the way. My other friends in the media may criticize me for taking this position, but my loyalty is not to them or even to Robinette; it is to those stubborn, stubborn facts. Which brings me back to John Adams, who was ostracized by his fellow Bostonians for defending the soldiers accused of murder. The full text of his quote is instructive: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” After all the facts were presented into evidence in 1770, six of the eight soldiers were acquitted. Two were convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter. Shouldn’t we consider all the facts in Robinette’s case as well?

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ohn Adams famously declared, “Facts are stubborn things.” That quote came to mind as I read the various media tirades against WWL radio talk show host Garland Robinette, who is accused of selling out to wealthy landfill owner Fred Heebe Jr., who is under federal investigation, by accepting a $250,000 personal loan from Heebe. Adams’ quote comes from his impassioned closing argument in defense of eight British soldiers accused of murder during the Boston Massacre of 1770. It occurs to me that some salient facts have been consistently omitted from accounts of Robinette’s transgressions. I write this not to defend Robinette — whom I consider, by way of disclosure, a professional friend — but merely to present additional facts, to posit that even more facts may yet come to light, and to suggest that final judgment be withheld until then. First, let’s review what’s been presented thus far: Robinette rose to hero status in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He gave voice to south Louisianans who felt abandoned by local, state and federal governments. He also took up the cause — as many in the media did, including this newspaper — of eastern New Orleans residents who, in addition to losing everything in the federal flood, suddenly found themselves living near a massive under-regulated dumpsite that was being filled daily with all manner of potentially toxic storm debris. Robinette, a veteran environmental reporter, gave voice to this particularly powerless group of New Orleanians. This was in late 2005 and 2006. Remember that, for timing is crucial in this narrative. At one point — but before the loan from Heebe — Robinette visited The Times-Picayune with an offer to turn over previously undisclosed government documents that he felt proved that the eastern New Orleans dump site would become a health hazard, possibly a Superfund site. The newspaper’s editors declined his offer, saying their reporters were already on the story. (They recently claimed that Robinette’s offer was “unusual.” I and other reporters have passed along many tips to the T-P many times, for the same reason Robinette approached them in 2006: The One Big Daily has more resources than all other area newsrooms combined. The same thing happens on a national level at The New York Times and The Washington Post.)

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Gambit’s first-ever New Music Issue features some young faces as well as some more seasoned ones, but they’re all aiming to hit the big time — jumping to larger labels, working with new groups and releasing new music. At just 18 years old, Kourtney Heart has already been working on music for seven years. Signed to Jive Records last year, she’s poised to reach ever bigger national audiences. King Louie Bankston is a familiar face to local rock fans, and now, together with the Missing Monuments, he’s set to claim the mantle of Southern power pop. Punkers the Small Bones also are getting buzz from media exposure. And hip-hop group the Rap Pack features a collection of seasoned performers banding together as the city’s newest crew of rappers. Indie rockers Big History and Empress Hotel also are making waves with new music. Chosen from across the spectrum of New Orleans music, these are bands you’re sure to hear more from soon.

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make sure (for) the people that doubt that title, we have to live up to that title. “ That means two things for the Rap Pack. One is demonstrated skill, which Suit Music Vol. 1 — a mixtape with a few originals but mostly a collection Rap Pack vocals over some of their favorite artists’ music — more than accomplishes that with its catchy, radio-friendly singles “Ooh La La La” and “Dead Presidents,” and its more cerebral lyrical showcases like “Johnny Blaze” and “Alpha Numerics” — the latter featuring dizzyingly fast, intelligent word (and number) play by Gates, Luck and The Show. The group also is aiming for national exposure. There are precedents for New Orleans rap groups making it big, most notably the Hot Boys and the 504 Boyz, but Luck says the Rap Pack is aiming even higher than that. “In my eyes, we can be the biggest group to ever come out of New Orleans,” he says. The single “I’m Feeling Like” is tentatively set for release this week on RapPack.net and WeArePSP.com, Cooper says.

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he Rap Pack — formed late last year by emcees Dappa, Y. Luck, The Show and K. Gates plus producer Lovel “U-P “ Cooper — is a concept supergroup, the concept being that it’s loosely modeled after entertainment’s most famous and de facto supergroup. “Basically, Y. Luck — it was his idea,” K. Gates says. “He had this idea about having a group called the Rap Pack, a hip-hop group modeled after the Rat Pack.” The group performs, at the very least, in suits and ties, and just as often in tuxedos, as in the music video for the most recent single “Ooh La La La.” The upscale “jazz persona” as Show describes it, reinforces the Rat Pack image and the band hopes it will help the group reach a broader audience. The group already has a built-in local audience. Each emcee already has an impressive resume as a solo artist, hence the supergroup concept. “I’m definitely comfortable with that,” K. Gates says, half-jokingly. “The point is, not only am I comfortable with that, I want to

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eg Roussel has something to confess. “I’m a history nerd,” she says over coffee at Rue de la Course on Magazine Street. It’s lunchtime on a late August Tuesday, and Roussel has sneaked away from her day job as a curator at the National World War II Museum, where she’s currently planning her first major exhibition. Clad in neatly pressed khakis and a polo shirt, Roussel, 24, looks like your everyday academic. Concertgoers in New Orleans may know her as another kind of exhibitionist: the sultry, smoky-voiced electro lounge singer at the center of the pop band Big History, cradling a microphone and moaning seductions like “The heart is an army and all of its guns are drawn” from behind mirrored shades. Don’t be fooled, Roussel says. It’s a disguise. “I’m so not a performer,” she says. “It’s why I wear those glasses — my eyes are closed under there. People are like, ‘You need to look at people.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t want to look. I don’t want to see how many people are there.’” Big History formed in early 2010, unveiling its live set to a packed house at Carrollton Station in September. A melange of veterans from other Crescent City rock outfits (Silent Cinema, Antenna Inn, Rotary Downs), the incipient six-piece had one rookie: its frontwoman, staring out at almost everyone she knew. “I was terrified,” Roussel says with a shiver. It didn’t show. Where most bands wobble through their debut like a toddler learning to walk, Big History didn’t miss a click. Singer/ songwriter Matt Glynn fingered synthesizers and triggered samples from a deck of electronics at stage left, while guitarist Blandon Helgason and bassist Cory Schultz injected organic countermelody and thrummed steady rhythms from stage right. But Roussel was the eye magnet. Halfway through the short set — the band only had four songs — she was jumping up and down, feeding off the crowd, a natural performer born onstage. She still isn’t buying it. “I hate that feeling,” Roussel says with a laugh. “I had always been writing (music). It was, for me, my little therapy. I never intended to play in front of people.” Her initial opportunity actually came earlier in 2010, with Empress Hotel, another pop group that rose from the ashes of Silent Cinema and Antenna Inn. After a solo show at the inaugural Foburg Music Festival in March, Roussel says, Helgason approached her with an unexpected offer. “This was right when I had been kicked out of Empress Hotel — but I didn’t know that yet. ‘So, now that you’re not in Empress Hotel anymore ...’ I went, ‘What?’ ‘Just wondering if you’d like to be in our band.’ I was like, ‘Well, hell yeah. Hell yeah, I’ll be in your band.’” Any hard feelings dissolved with the success of both bands. Roussel and Schultz hit the road this month with Empress Hotel to play the Hopscotch Music Festival in

Raleigh, N.C., and Big History closes out September with a gig at Eiffel Society (Friday Sept. 23) before going into brief hibernation in advance of its debut EP release party, scheduled for Nov. 19 at One Eyed Jacks. The record has five tracks, all familiar to Big History fans: leadoff charge “Wardrum,” the slick, love-is-a-battlefield first single, all percolating synths and urgent yearns; live staples “Every Bone,” “All at Once” and “Wolf Blood,” inflated and rerecorded from their spare MySpace demo versions; and “Baby,” a Roussel ballad fleshed out in shiny metallics by Glynn and Helgason. Amid a flurry of whirring computer effects and precise metronomic beats, her voice is the most striking instrument, husky and deprived, Kathleen Turner as a dance-pop Fembot. “I keep getting compared to Adele,” Roussel says. “I don’t see it. When I first recorded ‘Every Bone,’ whenever we went to play it live, it sounded totally different. I think I went into it using my little folk voice. ... I haven’t found all that I can do. We haven’t pushed it yet.” The band takes inspiration from self-made Internet sensation The Weekend, whose single “Wicked Games” was the skeleton for a recent Big History video shoot at Eiffel. “Like, how on earth did this dude do this?” Roussel starts, and then stops. “I’m a little scared to tell you about it because there’s a lot of cursing in it, and I’m really worried my job’s going to hate me.” It might be time to add a fake mustache to those shades.

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“The stuff that I’m working on now, I’m handson,” she says. “I’ve learned a lot about being in the studio — I live in the studio, I guess you could say — … and I’m actually arranging and producing my music now, and also writing like I had been before. I’ve been getting more hands on with how I want the sound to come out. I feel that my fans will really see the growth, because it’s coming from me.” page 28

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ver since signing to Jive Records — the label behind a slew of successful pop, hip-hop and R&B acts since the 1980s — New Orleansbased singer Kourtney Heart has learned there’s much more to being a singer than just singing. Participating in Jive’s two-month artist development program, Heart got a crash course in what it takes to be a pop artist. “I thought I could just get onstage and sing my heart out, but I learned different techniques of singing — I learned things as small as how to hold a microphone, how to put the microphone on the mic stand, how to walk away from the mic stand, about working out, and how to work out while I’m singing,” she says. “Oh man, it was amazing. So many little things.” Eighteen-year-old Heart says ever since signing to Jive in September 2010 she has “been moving on a train that is nonstop,” and her days are filled with traveling, doing shows in local venues and working in the studio. Before the record deal, Heart had a minor hit in her bubblegum-bounce single “My Boy,” which features the late Cash Money Records artist Magnolia Shorty. The song got radio play in New Orleans and across the South (“Even some people in California said they heard it,” Heart says) and got the attention of Jive, but Heart says the music she’s working on now has a much more grown-up sound. “It’s nothing like ‘My Boy’ … I can tell you ‘My Boy’ was just a fun, young Kourtney trying to get her name out,” she says. “I recorded ‘My Boy’ when I was about 16.” Heart has been performing around the city since she was 11, and at age 13 connected with local hip-hop DJ Raj Smoove — who is currently her manager — to record a 90-second demo of Heart singing the National Anthem in hopes of singing at New Orleans Hornets games. The two continued to collaborate, and during Heart’s senior year at Edna Karr High School they recorded her first album Eye Dee Kay (that’s “IDK,” or “I don’t know,” in Internet parlance). The album includes the R&B-flavored unrequited high school crush anthem “Spell it Out” and the breakthrough single “My Boy” with

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of other ’90s-influenced outfits, Halfys rely on near-sloppy riffs and propulsive rhythm, with Guion’s vocals ringing clearly above the racket. Martinez’s infamous feedback is scaled back, leaving jangling or charging guitars. The former Hatchback song, Guion notes, is dissonant only in its beginning. “Then it’s like a classic rock song. It’s like Boston,” she says with a laugh. “We are the Boston of New Orleans.” Martinez and Roussel met in high school, when Martinez answered an ad in a Werlein’s music store on the West Bank. “We were looking for a girl bass player, and Eric was the only one that responded,” Roussel says. “The flyer said like, ‘Do you like Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Nirvana?’ I was like, ‘Yeah!’” Martinez says. “Then it said, ‘Do you play bass?’ I was like, ‘Yeah!’ Want to be in a band? Are you a girl? I took it anyway. I meet most of these things, so, maybe they’ll let me have at it.” The two later created Hatchback, whose members would help spawn dozens of bands, including seminal New Orleans hardcore outfit Dear Diary I Seem To Be Dead and Gathered Here, among others formed in the early 2000s. During that period, Martinez joined Red Beards, Promis and Secret Passage, all typically featuring his screeching guitar (or flailing drums). Bands broke up, others formed, and following Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, bands dispersed. Some returned, but many called it quits.

The short-lived Rougarou featured Martinez on drums, Guion on bass, Adam Beebe on guitar and Paul Thibodaux. It self-released a seven-song demo (packaged, on tape, in wood blocks) and parted ways in 2009. Martinez and Guion regrouped with Roussel as Halfys and recorded an EP at A Studio in the Country in Bogalusa. The EP, Half, made its digital debut in July. Following the split of Rougarou, Beebe joined Opposable Thumbs, which revisited melody- and punk-driven ’90s alternative rock, much like the band’s familiars Lovey Doveys. Halfys’ contemporaries Small Bones — hailing from New Orleans via Norco and the east and west coasts — landed on the August 2011 cover of longtime national punk ’zine Maximumrocknroll. That feat likely had to do with the band’s 2010 self-titled album, released by PlanIt-X, an infamously, fiercely DIY label and one of the last vestiges of independent punk (it launched the recording careers of Against Me!, Japanther and dozens of others). The album walks a thin, brittle line between anthemic pop and chaotic hardcore, but it’s all parts full-throttle and playful urgency. Darin Acosta’s and Nathan Jessee’s dueling guitars aren’t guttural, chugging monsters but are bright and wide-open against call-andresponse, shouty vocals and breakneck drums. The album received thumbs up throughout the punk press, and a 2011 summer tour ended this month.

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lectronic house music is not New Orleans’ best known export. Kenneth Bryan, known as Kynt, may be New Orleans’ only documented male house singer. “My version of house is repetitious but complex,” Kynt says. “It’s vocal, tribal, with full choruses, storylines and plots based on my personal experiences.” Unlike many artists, says Kynt, “I write and sing songs.” Kynt also is a trained dancer. He studied ballet at Loyola University. That training gives him something many electronic artists lack: stage presence. “My shows are full of real singing and dancing,” he says. “And big elaborate costume changes.” Bryan had a rocky childhood and lived at Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Town. He was a drum major and choreographer for his high school marching band, and he snuck out at night to go

to now-defunct black, gay dance clubs. On the dance floor he discovered himself and his talents. In 1992, Kynt began recording and performing his own high-energy dance music, mixing house with a little R&B. Kynt was one of the first MP3.com artists to reach No. 1 on its charts. Inclusion on a compilation by EMI Germany led to prominent use by DJs Junior Vasquez and Roger Sanchez, who spun Kynt’s underground hits including “Show Da DJ Some Luv,” “Adrenaline” and “Makes Me Hot.” Following the success of those songs, Kynt moved to New York, but it wasn’t the perfect fit he expected. “I found it was easier to do all my music here in New Orleans and then just fly up there,” he says. After he returned home, Kynt learned a hard lesson about the competitive nature of the business. “I had gone to Brazil to record five demo songs,” he says. “Soon after, (Brazilian duo) Altar and Jeanie Tracey re-recorded one of those songs, ‘Party People,’ without my permission.” The song hit the Billboard charts, and found its way onto more than 20 compilations. “It was like watching my dream come true, but for someone else,” he says. “And that really made me reclusive for a while.” Kynt settled down in New Orleans as a ballet and hip-hop dance instructor at the Lighthouse for the Blind, as well as for Loyola University, New Orleans Ballet Association and several other organizations. “I purposefully tried to keep myself out of music, for healing purposes,” he says. “I didn’t want to perform at all.” Only recently has Kynt, now 36, returned to the stage for performances at Oz and a benefit show at The Howlin’ Wolf. Kynt will perform several shows in November to celebrate his self-released comeback album The Whole World is a Stage.

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A tribute to 1930s string band The Tennessee Chocolate Drops and innumerable roots musicians, The Carolina Chocolate Drops — an old-timey trio from Durham, N.C. — augment their Grammy-winning, pickin’-and-singin’ 2010 debut Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch) with ragtime and blues multi-instrumentalist Hubby Jenkins and Carnegie Hall beatboxer Adam Matta. Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns opens. Tickets $16. 9 p.m. Wednesday. Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., 8958477; www.tipitinas.com

Eighties-awakening Canadian space-funk duo Chromeo was born in the wrong decade, in the wrong country and on the wrong planet. The funniest thing about the Astroglide pickup lines, Casiotone sound effects, chintzy beat machines and talkboxed interjections of 2010’s Business Casual (Big Beat) is that they aren’t remotely joking. Michigan soul man Mayer Hawthorne opens. Tickets $25. 8 p.m. Sunday. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com

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enth anniversaries don’t always come easy. It’s no coincidence that 10 years of marriage are commemorated as the “tin” or “aluminum” anniversary, symbolizing how flexible and durable anything must be to last a decade. While it’s hard to imagine the free-spirited Ponderosa Stomp as anything but a swinging single, the annual New Orleans roots-music festival celebrates 10 unlikely years of perseverance this weekend at Howlin’ Wolf. In addition to two nights of music, there is a conference with musician interviews and panel discussions and the Clandestine Celluloid Film Series (see p. 49). Over its first 10 years, the Stomp has grown over time while remaining true to its original ideals, says founder Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos. “The mission of the Stomp has always been to celebrate the legacy, preserve the history, and revitalize the careers of American music and musicians,” Padnos says. “Basically it’s a festival of unsung heroes, unrecognized influential bands, one-hit wonders and sidemen. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect it to last this long. When we first started out, I was happy doing a show every once in a while at the Circle Bar.” The years have brought a number of venue changes for the Stomp, plus a one-year “Stomp in Exile” Memphis edition after Hurricane Katrina. The Stomp also organizes regular programs at the SXSW Conference in Austin and at Lincoln Center in New York City, giving it a national presence. Last year Padnos and company moved the annual festival to September. Previously the Stomp had filled the gap between the

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All show times p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Tuesday 13 BANKS STREET BAR — Michael Matthews & Friends, 10 BAYOU PARK BAR — Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 9 BLUE NILE — Kyle Cripps, 10

BMC — Spillway, 6; Royal Rounders, 8:30; Lagniappe Brass Band, 11

BULLETS SPORTS BAR — Kermit Ruffins, 6 CAFE NEGRIL — John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Domenic & Matt El DeOrazio, 7; Blues Frenzy, 11

CHICKIE WAH WAH — Waylon Speed, 8

CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — Bart Ramsey, 6:30 COLUMNS HOTEL — John Rankin, 8

CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Olga, 9:30

FUNKY PIRATE — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 GENNARO’S — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 8

HOUSE OF BLUES — Bright Eyes, First Aid Kit, 8 HOUSE OF BLUES (PARISH) — Miniature Tigers, Little Maker, King Rey, 9

HOWLIN’ WOLF NORTHSHORE — The Groove, 9

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — The Session, 8

LAFITTE’S BLACKSMITH SHOP — Mike Hood, 9 THE MAISON — Gregory Agid Quartet, 6; Magnitude, 9 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Rebirth Brass Band, 10

MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — Maryflynn & Prohibition Blues, 6; ADO & Hot Lyrix, 9:30

On Friday, in the fifth date of a 10-show tour, Wye Oak (pictured) opens for Okkervil River at Tipitina’s. The rock bands continue on to Texas, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin, concluding their circuit on Sept. 24 in Rochester, N.Y. Four days later, in the first date of another 10-show tour, Wye Oak opens for Explosions in the Sky — at Tipitina’s. Outside of a pathological po-boy fetish or hurricane death wish, the circuitous scheduling is hard to figure. The upshot for New Orleanians is two chances to catch the Baltimore duo’s seething live set, which pulls back the shroud from gauzy March release Civilian (Merge). On record, singer/ guitarist Jenn Wasner is a chameleonic mood swinger, moving without pause or warning from chiming chords and matronly assurances to cleaving shreds and suspicious aspersions. In person, backed by percussionist Andy Stack’s rattling kickdrum wallops and clattering snare clacks, she’s a captivating snake charmer, fixing the audience in her gaze as she raises serpentine melodies only to release their stinging venom. Austin, Texas’ Okkervil River, which gave One Eyed Jacks a dress rehearsal of sixth album I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar) in April, returns for a deserved encore. Tickets $16 in advance, $18 at the door. — Noah Bonaparte Pais

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SPOTTED CAT — Ben Polcer, 4; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 10

Wednesday 14 BANKS STREET BAR — Micah Mckee’s Songwriters Showcase, 8; Major Bacon, 10 BAYOU PARK BAR — U.S. Nero & Friends, 9 BLUE NILE — United Postal Project, 8; Gravity A, 10:30

OLD OPERA HOUSE — Charlie Cuccia & Old No. 7 Band, 7

BMC — Bryce Eastwood, 6; Blues4Sale, 9:30

ONE EYED JACKS — Futurebirds, J. Roddy Walston & the Business, New Grass Country Club, 10

CANDLELIGHT LOUNGE — Treme Brass Band, 9

OLD POINT BAR — Josh Garrett & the Bottom Line, 8

SIBERIA — Dead Earth Politics, Necrotic Priapism, Marais Noir, 10

CAFE NEGRIL — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 9

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — T-Bone Stone, 7; Nervous Duane, 11 CHICKIE WAH WAH — Tom McDermott & Meschiya

Lake, 8

CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — John Autin, 6:30

CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 DISH ON HAYNE — Kermit Ruffins, 6

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Bob Andrews, 9:30 EIFFEL SOCIETY — Vivaz!, 8 HI-HO LOUNGE — DJ Bees Knees, Sinful Friends, 10

HOWLIN’ WOLF (THE DEN) — Hopetoun Collective, Gravy Flavored Kisses, 9

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S I CLUB — Kristin Diable & Mia Borders, 8 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Sasha Masakowski, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s NOJO Jam, 8 KERRY IRISH PUB — Chip

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Oakkervil Combo

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Wilson, 9

KRAZY KORNER — Death by Orgasm, 8:30 LACAVA’S SPORTS BAR — Crossfire, 9

LAFAYETTE SQUARE — Harvest the Music feat. Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Mia Borders, 5 THE MAISON — Jerry Jumonville & the Jump City Band, 6; Cat’s Pajamas Funk All Stars, 9 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Up Close & Personal feat. Cornell Williams & Big D Perkins, 10 MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — Alexey Marti Band, 6; Lagniappe Brass Band, 9:30 ONE EYED JACKS — Earth, Mt. Eerie, 10

PRESERVATION HALL — Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Mark Braud, 8 RENDON INN BAR & GRILL — Marc Stone Band, 7

ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Joe Krown, 8:30

RUSTY NAIL — Jenn Howard, 8 SIBERIA — Vockah Redu, Noir Fonce, Prom Date, 10 SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10

SPOTTED CAT — Ben Polcer, 4; Orleans 6, 6; St. Louis Slim & the Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10

STAGE DOOR CANTEEN AT THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM — Victory Belles, 12

TIPITINA’S — Carolina Chocolate Drops, Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 9

Thursday 15 BANKS STREET BAR — Dave Jordan & the Neighborhood Improvement Association, 10 BAYOU PARK BAR — Pocket Aces Brass Band, 9

THE BEACH — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30

BLUE NILE — Bottoms Up Blues Gang, 7 BMC — Ramblin’ Letters, 6; Troy Turner Band, 9:30 BUFFA’S LOUNGE — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Domenic, 7; The Great In Between, 11 COLUMNS HOTEL — Alex Bosworth, 8

CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 D.B.A. — Ponderosa Stomp feat. Hip Drop, 11

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Todd Duke Combo, 9:30 HI-HO LOUNGE — Stooges

HOUSE OF BLUES — J. Cole, 8

THE INN ON BOURBON — Joe Ashlar, 6 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S I CLUB — Amanda Shaw, 8

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Kipori Woods, 5; Shamarr Allen, 8 KERRY IRISH PUB — Michael Brown, 9 KRAZY KORNER — Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, 4; Death by Orgasm, 8:30

LAFRENIERE PARK — Jefferson Chamber of Commerce concert series feat. Bucktown All-Stars, 6

THE MAISON — Those Peaches, 5; Gris Gris, 10 MAPLE LEAF BAR — The Trio, 10 MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — Andre Bouvier, 6; Smoky Greenwell’s Blues Jam, 9:30 OAK — Kristin Diable, 9

BLUE NILE — Mykia Jovan & Jason Butler, 8; Mike Dillon Drum Summit, 9; Brass-AHolics, 10:30

BMC — Moonshine & Caroline, 7; Dana Abbot Band, 10; The SoulaBillySwampBoogie Band, 12:30 a.m. BUFFA’S LOUNGE — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 8 CARROLLTON STATION — N’awlins Johnnys, Hillbilly Hotel, 9:30

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Motherlode, Justin McCain Band, Riffs, Barnson Adams, 7

COLUMBIA STREET, DOWNTOWN COVINGTON — Sunset at the Landing Concert feat. ARPA, St. Tammany Blues Annex, 6 CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 D.B.A. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10

PEACHES RECORDS — J. Cole CD listening party, 4

HI-HO LOUNGE — Meta the Man, 10

ONE EYED JACKS — Meat Puppets, Tomatoes, Mahayla, 7

HERMES BAR — Shannon Powell Trio, 9:30 & 11

PRESERVATION HALL — Survivors Brass Band feat. Jeffrey Hills, 8

RAY’S — Bobby Love Band, 6

HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION — Concerts in the Courtyard feat. Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, 6

ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Chris Ardoin, 8:30

THE INN ON BOURBON — Joe Ashlar, 6

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Myra Taylor & Carol Fran, 8 & 10

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — The Professor Piano Series feat. Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8; Burlesque Ballroom feat. Trixie Minx, 12 a.m.

RIVERSHACK TAVERN — Major Bacon, 8

HOWLIN’ WOLF — Ponderosa Stomp, 7

SIBERIA — Royal Pendletons, Redondo Beat, Cheveau, 10

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S I CLUB — Javier Guitterrez & Vivaz, 8

TARPON JOE’S BAR AND GRILL — Minus Linus, 9:30 THREE MUSES — Tom McDermott, 4:30; Washboard Rodeo, 7:30

TIPITINA’S — MyNameIsJohnMichael, G-Eazy, Christoph Andersson, 10

VAUGHAN’S — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30

KERRY IRISH PUB — Patrick Cooper, 5; Beth Patterson & Kenny Klein, 9

KRAZY KORNER — Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraisers, 1; Death by Orgasm, 8:30

THE MAISON — Those Peaches, 5; Courtyard Kings, 7; Soul Project, 10

MAPLE LEAF BAR — Revivalists, 10

Friday 16

MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — Bryce Eastwood, 4; Fredy Omar con su Banda, 10:30; The Mumbles, 12:30 a.m.

12 BAR — Consortium of Genius, 9

OLD POINT BAR — Johnny J & the Hitmen, 9:30

407 — Mo Jelly Band, 9

BANKS STREET BAR — Righteous Buddha, 10

OAK — Coco Robichaux, 9

ONE EYED JACKS — She’s Still Dead, Crotchbreaker, A Hanging, 10

BAYOU BEER GARDEN — Jeb Rault Band, 9

THE PERFECT FIT BAR & GRILL — Rechelle, Regeneration, 5:30

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE LOUNGE — Frank Williams Jr. & Friends feat. Bobby Love, 8

ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Sgt. Pepper’s Beatles Tribute Band, 9:30

BAYOU PARK BAR — Revealers, 9

RIVERSHACK TAVERN — Pig Pen & the Porkchops, 9:30

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CHICKIE WAH WAH — Pfister Sisters, 5:30; Paul Sanchez, 8

OLD POINT BAR — Blues Frenzy, 6:30; The Mumbles, 9

SPOTTED CAT — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; New Orleans Moonshiners, 10

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MUSIC

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RUSTY NAIL — Jenn Howard & Crazy McGee, 10:30

KERRY IRISH PUB — Speed the Mule, 5; Rites Of Passage, 9

SIBERIA — Goddamn Gallows, Jayke Orvis & the Broken Band, My Graveyard Jaw, James Hunnicutt, 10

KRAZY KORNER — Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraisers, 1; Death by Orgasm, 8:30

SHAMROCK BAR — Karma, 9

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THREE MUSES — Moonshiners Trio, 4; Joe Cabral, 6:30; Glen David Andrews, 10

Saturday 17

MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — Kristina Morales, 4; The SoulaBillySwampBoogie Band, 11

ABITA SPRINGS TOWN HALL — Steve Anderson Group, Porch Rockers, Driskill Mountain Boys, Rodney Thibodeaux & Tout les Soir, 7 ALLWAYS LOUNGE — La Nola Sirene, Saint Bell, 10

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BAYOU PARK BAR — Bunga Bunga, Pile, 10

BLUE NILE — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Andrew Duhon (upstairs), 9; e.company CD release feat. Gravity A & Big Rock Candy Mountain, 10

BMC — New Orleans Jazz Series, 3; Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, 6:30; The Revealers, 9:30; Ashton & The Big Easy Brawlers Brass Band, 12:30 a.m. BUFFA’S LOUNGE — Royal Rounders, 8

CARROLLTON STATION — Outside Lights, 9:30

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Stephanie Nilles, 7; Sweet Jones, 11

CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 THE CYPRESS — Pacific Skyline, Calibrate the Massacre, The Mothercell, 7

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LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY — John Sinclair, 2; Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 3; Michael Hurtt & His Haunted Hearts, 4

THE MAISON — Magnitude, 7; Two-Year Anniversary Party feat. Jeremy Phipps, Ashton Hines, Phil Breen and others, 10

TULANE LAVIN-BERNICK CENTER QUAD — Mia Borders, 4

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KING PIN — Major Bacon, 9

D.B.A. — John Boutte, 8; Rotary Downs, 11 DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Gringo do Choro, 10 HERMES BAR — Johnny Sansone, 9:30 & 11

HI-HO LOUNGE — Lighthouse Music, Loud Valley, Youth Sounds, 10 HOWLIN’ WOLF — Ponderosa Stomp, 7 THE INN ON BOURBON — Joe Ashlar, 6 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S I CLUB — Cyril Neville, 8

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Shannon Powell, 8; Brass Band Jam feat. Brass-A-Holics, 12 a.m.

MAPLE LEAF BAR — Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew, 10

MUDLARK THEATRE — Carla Bozulich, John Eichenseer Duo, Rob Cambre, Donald Miller, 8 OAK — Sunpie Barnes, 9

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART — Roland Guerin CD release, 6 & 8 OLD POINT BAR — Dana Abbott, 9:30

ONE EYED JACKS — Grant Watts, Old Family, Coyotes, Howl, Danny Burns, 10

PRESERVATION HALL — Gregg Stafford’s Jazz Hounds, 8 REPUBLIC NEW ORLEANS — Archnemesis, Kastle, 2 a.m.

RIVERSHACK TAVERN — Austin Sicard & the Medics, 10 ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Cajun Fais Do-Do feat. T’Canaille, 2; Vince Vance & the Valiants, 9:30 SIBERIA — Malcolm Weston benefit feat. HAARP, Mountain of Wizard, Ponykiller, She’s Still Dead, Dummy Dumpster, 10

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Tim Laughlin & Connie Jones CD release, 8 & 10 SPOTTED CAT — Charlie Chan, 3; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Davis Rogan Band, 10

THREE MUSES — Bottoms Up Blues Gang, 6:30; Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 TIPITINA’S — Bonerama, Super Fans feat. Whistle Monsta & others, Cha Wa Mardi Gras Indians, 10 TOMMY’S WINE BAR — Julio & Caesar, 10

Sunday 18 BANKS STREET BAR — Elliott Cohn, 9

BAYOU PARK BAR — Roarshark, 4 BLUE NILE — Sasha Masakowski, 7; Mainline, 10:30

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CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE — New Orleans Street Beat, 6 D.B.A. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; The Fessters 10th Anniversary, 10

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FUNKY PIRATE — Blues Masters feat. Big Al Carson, 8:30 HI-HO LOUNGE — Dancing Man 504, Skin ‘N’ Bones Gang, 6; Mardi Gras Indian practice, 7 HOUSE OF BLUES — Sunday Gospel Brunch, 10 a.m.; Chromeo, 8

HOWLIN’ WOLF (THE DEN) — Hot 8 Brass Band, 9

IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Tyler’s Revisited feat. Germaine Bazzle & Paul Longstreth, 7

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debut, Kiel starred as the last caveman, the title character who miraculously survived undetected in California. He stumbles upon and terrifies teenage Roxy, and when she tells her father (Hall Sr.) about the giant, he heads into the mountains to see for himself. When he doesn’t return, Tom (Hall Jr.) and girlfriend Roxy go looking for him. Eegah captures Roxy, and in a sometimes campy way the film flirts with the giant’s sexual attraction to her.

Arch Hall Jr. played a young musician in Wild Guitar and Eegah. It doesn’t have the fast pace of a contemporary monster film (though it’s not intended to be a monster film), but it’s got an amusing and precocious take on cultural sensitivity. The Sadist (1963) achieved cult status for its dip into criminal depravity and was ahead of its time for drive-in movie releases. Hall Jr. plays a young psychopath on a killing spree, and he likes to watch his victims suffer in anticipation of their fate. It’s in black and white, and the cinematography was handled by Vilmos Zsigmond, who went on to do The Deer Hunter and other classic films. Of the three, Eegah is the most entertaining, but together they offer a fun look at modest-budget independent filmmaking from the early 1960s.

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uring one of Arch Hall Jr.’s first trips to New Orleans, he played music to promote a movie. His band Arch and the Archers starred in the 1963 film Wild Guitar, created by and also staring his father Arch Hall Sr. After their show, the band went to an after-hours club. “It was at a place called the Dreamroom and it had a revolving stage,” Hall says. “We got to play with Mac Rebennack – or Dr. John.” More recently, Hall has returned to New Orleans to perform at the Ponderosa Stomp (see page 39). He grew up an avid fan of blues and R&B, and the Stomp has been a treasured experience for him. “These guys are some of my heroes,” he says. This year, Hall will reunite with some members of his band onstage (9:20 p.m. Saturday), and he’ll be a guest for a daylong program in the festival’s Clandestine Celluloid Film Series. Hall made several films with his father in the early 1960s, and he’ll do a Q&A following Saturday’s screenings of Wild Guitar (11 a.m.), Eegah (1 p.m.) and The Sadist (3 p.m.). The Clandestine Celluloid program features rare concert footage, features and documentaries. Friday’s screenings include a Fats Domino concert film from 1962, the documentary The Original Soul Men: Sam & Dave and a compilation of clips of Stomp performers. Although Hall has performed at the Stomp before, these are the first screenings of his films at the festival. Hall and his father worked together on a diverse collection of films from 1959 to the mid’60s. Wild Guitar (1962) lifts and melds parts of both of their lives. Hall Sr. grew up in South Dakota and moved to Hollywood to work in radio and film. In the film, Hall Jr. plays Bud Eagle, a young guitarist from South Dakota who moves to Hollywood to break into the music business. He’s spotted by an unscrupulous talent agent, played by Hall Sr., and the story pits the wide-eyed and good-hearted youngster against the industry’s unseemly practices, including payola and publicity stunts. Although the young Hall actually loved blues and R&B music, in the film Eagle is more of a crooning teen idol. Eegah (1962) also features Hall as a young musician, but it’s a beauty-andthe-beast story. James Bond fans will recognize the 7-foot-tall Richard Kiel, who starred as Bond nemesis Jaws. In his film

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NOW SHOWING APOLLO 18 (PG-13) — The

found-footage-style horror depicts a failed mission to the moon. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand

ATTACK THE BLOCK (R) — A

London teen gang is up against savage alien invaders. AMC Palace 20

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

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

BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (R) — Nick Swardson

plays Bucky Larson, a nerd from the Midwest who moves to Hollywood to follow in his parents’ footsteps and become a porn star. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand

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witnessing the murder of her parents as a child, a woman (Zoe Saldana) grows up to be a professional assassin with a goal of revenge. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R) — The warrior embarks on a

journey across the continent of Hyboria to avenge the murder of his father. AMC Palace 16

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airborne virus rapidly spreads across the world in the drama starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Laurence Fishburne. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (PG13) — A desolate city in 1873 is

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CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (PG-13) —

A recently divorced 40-something (Steve Carrell) gets back into the dating game with the help of a young Lothario in the romantic comedy. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 20 CREATURE (R) — Friends on a road trip to New Orleans encounter a terrifying swamp creature that is half-man, half-alligator. Chalmette Movies, AMC Palace 16, AMC

Three decades before the 2009 release of Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help, on which the current film is based, Gary L. Goldman filmed a documentary in New Orleans which featured interviews with black domestic laborers and the white families they worked for. The 48-minute film screened at a couple of documentary film festivals and was broadcast on PBS. It gets a rare theatrical screening this week at Chalmette Movies — technically its local premiere. Goldman worked on Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby (1978) and stayed in New Orleans to make Yes Ma’am with the help of Bethany Bultman and Tulane University’s Amistad Research Center. It has some narrative but mostly stitches together interviews. The restored film is grainy, and many scenes feature seated subjects talking directly to the camera. But the interviewees are candid and it’s a powerful juxtaposition of the experiences and perceptions of employers and employees. There’s also a wide range of attitudes about the arrangements, including workers who defend their relationships as friendships that include generous caretaking, and others who candidly critique the value placed on sycophancy. Often, children and teens offer the most inadvertently revealing insights. One group of teens is interviewed while swimming and they talk about their triangulated relationships with their mothers and the maids who work in their homes. In another story, a woman recounts a little girl’s inadvertent revelation that in private her mother uses the word “nigger.” While it exposes some of the racism entrenched in the domestic arrangements, it sensitively explores how people felt and how they dealt with the situation. The film is 30 years old and this ground was broken long ago, but it’s a very good document of its time. — Will Coviello

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Palace 20, Grand DEEP SEA (NR) — Audiences

experience the depths of the ocean. Entergy IMAX THE DEBT (R) — Helen Mirren

stars as a former Israeli Mossad agent who must confront her haunting past when a Nazi war criminal she believed to be dead resurfaces. AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (R) — Katie Holmes and Guy

Pearce star in the horrorthriller about a family that moves into a mansion already occupied by hellish spirits. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand

FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R) —

Survivors of a bridge collapse learn there’s no way to evade death in the latest installment of the horror franchise. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20 THE GUARD (R) — An Irish cop with a subversive sense of humor is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate a drug ring. AMC Palace 20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-13) — The Harry Potter

series culminates in an epic showdown with Lord Voldemort. AMC Palace 20 THE HELP (PG-13) — In the

film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s hit novel, an aspiring journalist shakes up her conservative Southern

town when she interviews the black maids of the city’s upper class. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Prytania HORRIBLE BOSSES (PG-13) — A group of friends devise a convoluted plan to get rid of their intolerable bosses. AMC Palace 20

bers. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand UNDER THE SEA 3-D (G) — Jim Carrey narrates the documentary exploring the Great Barrier Reef. Entergy IMAX WARRIOR (R) — A man trains

HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU (NR) — The film tells the story

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) — In the Woody Allen film, a dissatisfied screenwriter and aspiring novelist (Owen Wilson) finds himself travelling back in time to the Jazz Age while touring Paris at night. Canal Place ONE DAY (PG-13) — The film

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OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R) —

After being released from prison, an idealistic organic farmer crashes at his sisters’ homes and wreaks havoc in their lives. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand story of the cult classic takes place in modern-day San Francisco, where a geneticist’s engineering begets intelligent apes. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA (G) — A failed golfer finds himself stranded in Utopia, Texas, where he meets an eccentric rancher who prompts him to re-examine his life. AMC Palace 20 SHARK NIGHT 3-D (PG-13) —

While at a Louisiana lake house, a group of friends happens upon hundreds of flesh-eating sharks in the Shreveport-filmed horror. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand THE SMURFS (PG) — After getting chased out of their village, CGI Smurfs end up in New York and must find a way back home. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4-D (PG) — The

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plays a Hollywood stunt driver by day and a getaway driver for heist operations by night.

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG-13) — Based on Allison

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS 13 ASSASSINS (R) — Takashi Miike’s acclaimed Japanese period film follows a group of samurai tasked with bringing down a sadistic lord. Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com BRIT WIT — The Big Top

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Stomp event screens rare concert footage, features and documentaries. Visit www. ponderosastomp.com for the full schedule and other details. Admission $20 per day (includes music conference admission). 11 a.m. FridaySaturday, Renaissance Arts Hotel, 700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2330

DIRT! THE MOVIE (NR) —

Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, the film explores the environmental, social and political impact of soil. The screening is part of the Green Project and Charitable Film Network’s Green Screen series. Free admission. 7 p.m. Thursday, Green Project, 2831 Marais St., 945-0240; www. thegreenproject.org

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary uses interviews with teenage girls and public figures Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem and others to explore how media messages affect young women. A Q&A session with Tulane professor Celeste Lay follows. The screening is part of the Newcomb Feminist Film Series. Free admission. 7 p.m. Friday, Newcomb College Campus, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 327-0009; www.newcomb. tulane.edu

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OPENING NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — “Pictures for Books,” photographs by Thomas Roma; “Jazz People: New Orleans Portraits,” photographs by Lee Friedlander; “Pop Shots,” Polaroid portraits by Andy Warhol; all through Oct. 9. Reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. REYNOLDS-RYAN ART GALLERY. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., 896-6369; www. newmanschool.org — “Poetry

& Motion,” mixed media on panel and canvas by Demond Matsuo and Karoline Schleh, through Oct. 13. Opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

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1022 GALLERY. 1022 Lowerline St., 301-0679; www.1022gallery. blogspot.com — Mixed media and ceramics by Dana Beuhler, Hannah Scheurich, Brandon Zeringue and Chris Scheurich, through Oct. 8. 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 5692700; www.3rcp.com — “Greet-

ings from Louisiana: Graphic Grattitude,” screenprints and mixed-media typography by Daniela Marx, through Sept. 24. A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Exhibition of gallery artists

featuring Louviere + Vanessa, Sebastiao Salgado, Joshua Mann Pailet and Herman Leonard, through September.

ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 — Faculty

exhibition, through Sept. 24.

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

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

ALL IN THE FRAME GALLERY. 2596 Front St., Slidell, (985) 2901395 — “Serene Waters, Clear Horizons,” paintings by Annie Strack, ongoing. ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 957-4255; www.pressstreet.com — “Ash Column,”

drawings by Angela Driscoll, through Oct. 2.

Dead Ringers

Of late, New Orleans in general and St. Claude Avenue in particular have emerged as something of a national epicenter of DIY emerging artist activity, and in some ways it is extraordinary. But it’s also a phenomenon with deep roots tracing back to institutions and galleries that have focused on emerging artists all along, not just in the present. In that sense, the 15th annual No Dead Artists show at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery marks a continuation of an old tradition. As always, it is something of a grab bag. The 37 works were selected by jurors Toby Devan Lewis, William Morrow and Susan Taylor from the roughly 1,500 submitted by more than 300 artists, and viewing them is like reading tea leaves as portentous trajectories of talents and trends converge to reveal names and ideas that, if history is any guide, may later resurface with increasing luster. Many of this year’s offerings focus on questions of identity and appearance with an emphasis of how traditional perceptions are affected by ongoing technological evolution. That things are not always what they seem is evidenced in Rebekah Miller’s Skins sculpture of suspended birch tree trunks that, up close, reveal zippers in their bark with telltale traces of lace showing underneath in a kind of trans-species cross-dressing. But Britney Penouilh’s mixed-media collages of technological breakthroughs suggest the scientific process may always have been more nuanced than we thought. Alissa Polan’s psychodramatic portraits explore a realm where photography, identity and the subconscious coalesce in emotionally charged imagery, and Ema Sintamarian turns the visible world inside out, reducing it to colorful vortexes (pictured) in works that remind us that everything we thought was solid is really energy in motion. That energy reverts to gravitas in Meg Turner’s meticulous photogravures of old industrial structures, suggesting the processes of entropy are like a slow dance in which the grandeur of the past yields, often grudgingly, to an ever more conjectural future. — D. Eric Bookhardt THRU

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ANTIEAU GALLERY. 927 Royal St., 304-0849; www.antieaugallery. com — “Gambling for Souls,” works by Molly McGuire and Stephen Warde Anderson, through Oct. 10. ANTON HAARDT FOLK GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.antonart.com — Works

by Anton Haardt, Christopher Moses and others, ongoing. ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings by

Martin Welch and Dexter Brecht, jewelry by Don David, through September. ART GALLERY 818. 818 Royal St., 524-6918 — Paintings, sculp-

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ture and jewelry by local artists Noel Rockmore, Michael Fedor, Xavier de Callatay, Charles Bazzell, Bambi deVille and Ritchie Fitzgerald, ongoing. ARTICHOKE GALLERY. 912 Decatur St., 636-2004 — Artists work on site in all media; watercolors and limited-edition prints by Peter Briant, ongoing. BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Precipice,” paintings

and constructions by Kathleen Loe, through Oct. 1.

BERGERON STUDIO & GALLERY. 406 Magazine St., 522-7503; www. bergeronstudio.com — Photographs by Michael P. Smith, Jack Beech, Harriet Blum, Kevin Roberts and others, ongoing. BERTA’S AND MINA’S ANTIQUITIES GALLERY. 4138 Magazine St., 895-6201 — “Louisiana! United We Stand

to Save Our Wetlands,” works by Nilo and Mina Lanzas; works by Clementine Hunter, Noel Rockmore and others; all ongoing.

BRYANT GALLERIES. 316 Royal St., 525-5584; www.bryantgalleries. com — Paintings by Dean Mitchell, ongoing. BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com —

“Altered Spaces: Conversations, Reflections, and Observations,” silkscreen prints by Brian Folley Kelly, through Oct. 4.

CAFE BABY. 237 Chartres St., 3104004; www.markbercier.com —

Paintings and works on paper by Mark Bercier, ongoing. CALICHE & PAO GALLERY. 312 Royal St., 588-2846 — Oil paintings by Caliche and Pao, ongoing.

Louis Valtat and other artists of the Barbizon, Impressionist and PostImpressionist schools, ongoing.

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

ists featuring works by Bruno Paoli and Andrea Stella, ongoing.

CARIBBEAN ARTS LTD. 720 Franklin Ave., 943-3858 — The gallery show-

cases contemporary Haitian and Jamaican art.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Blueprints:

Reflections of Modern Design,” works on canvas by Nell Tilton, through Sept. 24.

CARROLL GALLERY. Newcomb Art Department, Woldenberg Art Center, 314-2228; www.tulane.edu/~art/carrollgallery — “Text/Image,” a group exhibition featuring works that integrate text and images, through Sept. 22. CASELL GALLERY. 818 Royal St., 524-0671; www.casellartgallery. com — Pastels by Joaquim Casell;

etchings by Sage; oils by Charles Ward; all ongoing.

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

David Rex Joyner and Stephan Hoffpauir, through Sept. 24.

the Blue Series by Joseph Pearson, ongoing.

COLLECTIVE WORLD ART COMMUNITY. 2820 St. Claude Ave., 339-5237; www.collectiveworldartcommunity. com — Works by members of Galerie

Nothburga, featuring Elisabeth Melkonyan, Johanna Bair, Inge von Reusner, Anna-Maria Achatz and Gabriela Nepo Stieldorf, through September. COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “And the

Earth Begot ...” works by Michele Basta, through Oct. 8.

COURTYARD GALLERY. 1129 Decatur St., 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing.com — Hand-carved wood-

works by Daniel Garcia, ongoing.

DIGEST. 723 Louisa St.; www.digest.723louisa.org —

Monotypes, watercolor, paintings and mixed media by Patch Somerville, Cayla Zeek and Mark Waguespack, through September. D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 —

“Jump ’N’ Jive,” oil paintings by Perry Morgan III, through Sept. 29.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Fear is a Man’s Best

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ELLIOTT GALLERY. 540 Royal St., 523-3554; www.elliottgallery.com —

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THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www. gardendistrictgallery.com — “Sum-

524-5462 — The gallery specializes in 18th and 19th century European oil paintings by artists from the French Salon and Royal Academy as well as French Impressionists.

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

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

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

LE PETIT SALON DE NEW ORLEANS. 906 Royal St., 524-5700 — Paintings by

mer Showcase,” works by 16 gallery artists, through Saturday.

works by Joe Hobbs; works by Christy Lee Rogers; both ongoing.

GUTHRIE CONTEMPORARY. 3815 Magazine St., 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary.com — “Schemata,”

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GUY LYMAN FINE ART. 3645 Magazine St., 899-4687; www.guylymanfineart.com — Mixed media with mechanical light sculptures by Jimmy Block, ongoing. HAROUNI GALLERY. 829 Royal St., 299-8900 — Paintings by David

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HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www.heriardcimino. com — “Perchance to Dream,” box

assemblages by Audra Kohout, through Sept. 24.

ISAAC DELGADO FINE ARTS GALLERY. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., 671-6363; www.dcc.edu —

“Boys/Bunnies/Singles/Doubles,” works by Alex Podesta, through Sept. 27.

ISABELLA’S GALLERY. 3331 Severn Ave., Suite 105, Metairie, 779-3202; www. isabellasgallery.com — Hand-blown

glass works by Marc Rosenbaum; raku by Kate Tonguis and John Davis; all ongoing.

JACK GALLERY. 900 Royal St., 588-1777 — Paintings, lithographs and other

FAIR FOLKS & A GOAT. 2116 Chartres St., 872-9260; www.fairfolksandagoat.com — “Foot-a-Night,” instal-

works by Tom Everhart, Gordon Parks, Al Hirschfeld, Stanley Mouse, Anja, Patrick McDonnell and other artists, ongoing.

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

JAMIE HAYES GALLERY. 621 Chartres St., 592-4080; www.jamiehayes.com — New Orleans-style art by Jamie Hayes, ongoing.

lation by Hannah Chalew, ongoing.

Thompson, Phillip Sage, James Michalopoulos and others, ongoing.

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

Guess, ongoing.

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

Clay Blancett, Tod Seelie, Megan Hildebrandt and Valorie Polmer, through Oct. 2.

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

by Carol Hallock, through September.

JON SCHOOLER GALLERY. 8526 Oak St., 865-7032; www.jonschooler.com — “Subliminal WOWs,” paintings by Jon Schooler, ongoing. JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — No Dead Artists

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National Juried Exhibition, a show featuring 14 emerging artists, through Sept. 24.

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

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

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

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GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu.com — “Bending the Curve,” acrylic on panel by Michael Kessler, through Sept. 25. GALLERY VERIDITAS. 3822 Magazine St.; 267-5991 — “Cycles of Discovery,” photos by Thomas Kiefer and Stewart Harvey, through Oct. 9.

“Facade,” photographs by Lesley Wells, ongoing.

KAKO GALLERY. 536 Royal St., 565-5445; www.kakogallery.com —

Paintings by Don Picou and Stan Fontaine; “Raku” by Joy Gauss; 3-D wood sculpture by Joe Derr; all ongoing.

KEN KIRSCHMAN ARTSPACE. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St. — Alumni exhibition, through

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LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — Paintings by Billy Solitario,

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LIVE ART STUDIO. 4207 Dumaine St., 484-7245 — Venetian glass mosaics

by Randy Sanders; “Capture the Moment,” clocks made from vintage and collectible vinyl albums by Judy Di George; oil paintings by Sean Friloux; all through September.

LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD. 608 Julia St., 558-6198; www.louisianacrafts. org — Group show featuring works from guild members, ongoing. MALLORY PAGE STUDIO. 614 Julia St.; www.mallorypage.com — Paintings by Mallory Page, Mondays-Fridays. MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — Acrylic and

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

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OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — Mixedmedia paintings by Meredith Keith, through Sept. 24. ONE SUN GALLERY. 616 Royal St., (800) 501-1151 — Works by local and national artists, ongoing. PEARL ART GALLERY. 4421 Magazine St., 228-5840 — Works by Cindy and Drue Hardegree, Erica Dewey, John Womack, Sontina, Lorraine Jones and S. Lee, ongoing.

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

nent exhibits of jazz artists, a St. Joseph’s altar replica, the Louisiana Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and a research library with genealogy records. ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Ashe in Retrospect: 19982008,” photographs by Morris Jones Jr., Eric Waters, Jeffrey Cook and others, ongoing. BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude Ave.; www.backstreetmuseum.org —

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

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “The Center Cannot Hold,” paintings and drawings by Brooke Pickett; “Drip: The Music of Water in New Orleans,” sound installation by John Kleinschmidt and Andy Sternad; “Patterns and Prototypes: Early Paintings by Tina Girouard and Robert Gordy,” curated by Dan Cameron; all through Sept. 25. GERMAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER. 519 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna, 363-4202; www.gaccnola.com — Museum exhibits

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HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “The 18th

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AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www.noaam.com — “Drapetomania: A

Disease Called Freedom,” 18thand 19th-century documents and artifacts about slavery from the Derrick Beard Collection; “Restore the Oaks: Art Under the Overpass in Treme,” paintings by artists of the murals under the 1-10 overpass; both through Oct. 29. NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma. org — “Thalassa,” a 20-foot-

tall suspended sculpture by Swoon, through Sept. 25. “The Elegant Image,” figural bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent from the collection of Siddharth K. Bhansali, through Oct. 23. NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 5658027; www.pharmacymuseum. org — Exhibits about 19th-

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OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Self-Taught, Outsider

and Visionary Art from the Collection of Alexa Kleinbard & Jim Roche”; “Spotlight on Mississippi,” paintings, drawings and sculpture by Mississippi artists; “Mississippi Photographs: 1860s-Present”, through Sunday. “Mississippi Mud: The Potters of Mississippi”; “Looking to Learn,” works by New Orleans Center for Creative Arts visual art students, through September. “Whispering Pines,” photographs by Birtney Imes, through Oct. 16.

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ricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” an exhibition of stories, artifacts and science displays, through Sept. 25.

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Theatre, 325 Minor St., Kenner, 468-7221 — John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical satire is set in Prohibition-era Chicago, where the justice system is corrupt and murderers have celebrity status. Tickets $35 general admission, $33 students and seniors, $17 children. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Oct. 2.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’S DRALION.

New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The show fuses traditional Chinese acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil’s brand of avant-garde circus elements. Visit www. cirquedusoleil.com/dralion for details. Tickets $24-$75. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday.

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Byrdie’s Gallery, 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — Four Humours Theater presents Barbara Wiechmann’s character study of two young people and the unlikely bond they form over the course of a night. Tickets $6, or two tickets for $10. 9 p.m. Friday and Monday through Sept. 26.

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for burlesque dancers and enthusiasts features performances, parties and daytime workshops. Visit www.neworleansburlesquefest. com for the full schedule and other details. Thursday-Saturday.

Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The sketch comedy show with vampires, zombies, relationship advice and other horrors is followed by the improvised comedy program. Admission $10 ($5 with drink purchase). 8:30 p.m. Friday.

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NOTHING LIKE A DAME: THE WOMEN OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN. Eiffel

Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., 5252951; www.eiffelsociety.com — Amy Alvarez and Jefferson Turner star in the cabaret show. Call 975-5504 or email jon@onepartharmony. net for reservations. Tickets $30 (includes one cocktail) or $60 (includes three-course meal and one cocktail). 7 p.m. dinner service, 8 p.m. show. Friday.

GROUND ZERO COMEDY. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 371-5543; www. maisonfrenchmen.com — The show features local stand-up comedians. Sign-up is 7:30 p.m.; show is 8 p.m. Friday. IVAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., 525-5515; www. therustynail.org — The Rusty Nail hosts a weekly open-mic comedy and music night. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

AUDITIONS CRESCENT CITY SOUND CHORUS. Delgado Community College, City Park campus, Orleans Avenue, between City Park Avenue and Navarre Street; www.dcc.edu — The women’s chorus holds weekly auditions for new members. Call 453-0858 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com for details. 7 p.m. Monday. JEFFERSON CHORALE. First Christian

Church, 8121 Airline Hwy., Metairie — The chorus holds auditions by appointment only. Rehearsals begin Thursday. Call 390-3598 or 390-5331, or email llabruyere70123@ yahoo.com, fstoppixlator@me.com or choralmusicrules@hotmail.com for details.

SYMPHONY CHORUS OF NEW ORLEANS. Loyola University, College

THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Playmakers

Theater, 19106 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc.com — The theater holds auditions for its November production of Stephen Mallatratt’s horror play. Call (985) 789-4024 for details. 7 p.m Tuesday.

OPERA BON OPERATIT! The Inn on Bourbon,

541 Bourbon St., 524-7611; www. innonbourbon.com — The opera trio performs “The Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein.” Free admission. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

CALL FOR THEATER RUBY PRIZE. Southern Rep will award a $10,000 prize, a 10-day writer’s retreat, development workshops and readings at Southern Rep New Play Bacchanal to a female playwright of color. Visit www. southernrep.com for details. Submission deadline is Thursday.

COMEDY BROWN IMPROV COMEDY. 12 Bar, 608 Fulton St., 212-6476; www.12barnola.com — The improv comedy troupe performs. 8:30 p.m Friday.

Dino Might

The Corbian Visual Arts and Dance recently presented one of the most imaginative shows I’ve ever seen in this town. Darwin the Dinosaur has toured internationally, but the run at the Contemporary Arts Center was its first appearance in New Orleans. Darwin can be taken anywhere because it has no dialogue: It’s all dance, mime, music and captivating visuals. It’s almost a puppet show with the puppeteers (dressed in black on a black stage) inhabiting large-as-life puppets. The piece begins with a phantasmagoric prehistory with a pair of pterodactyls. They, like all the creatures, are animated skeletons made of electroluminescent wire. A magical scientist creates a dinosaur — the eponymous Darwin, who toys with the idea of devouring his creator when he realizes he has teeth. So the scientist creates a heart for Darwin, and the beast becomes a gentle pet. Darwin wanders off to explore the world and much of the story follows his often comic and entertaining adventures, like a dance with an ostrich who likes to get down and boogie. But evil lurks in the form of a fierce tyrannosaurus. There is a special sensibility at work in the piece. At one point, the tyrannosaurus crosses the stage growling and to our surprise (and the delight of kids in the audience) he drops blue poop as he goes. After he exits, four blue droppings transform into flowers which come to life and dance. Another haunting effect is a glowing blue line on the floor. A turtle tries to convince Darwin to cross the line, but he’s afraid. The line is the shore of a body of water. Darwin jumps in and the line zooms up over his head, leaving him swimming with glowing fish. The scientist is distraught over his runaway dinosaur and sets out to find him. The tyrannosaurus tries to eat the man for dinner, but Darwin appears and the two dinosaurs engage in a duel — with light swords, no less. Ian Carney and Corbin Popp created, choreographed and directed the piece (with additional direction by Coy Middlebrook). The cast included Carney, Eleanor Carney, Stephen Charles Nicholson, Jonathon Whalen and Michael Quintana. The group is preparing a production of The Ugly Duckling. Don’t miss it. — Dalt Wonk

COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost

Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 949-2009; www.lostlovelounge. com — The bar hosts a free weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a weekly open-mic comedy night. (Sign-up time is 10:45 p.m.) Free admission. 10 p.m. Friday. COMEDY SPORTZ NOLA. La Nuit

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

Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a safe-for-allages team comedy competition. Tickets $10 ($5 with drink purchase). 7 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY OPEN-MIC. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300;

FEAR & LOATHING IN NEW ORLEANS/ GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit

COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf

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

LAUGH OUT LOUD. Bootleggers Bar and Grille, 209 Decatur St., 525-1087 — Simple Play presents a weekly comedy show. 10 p.m. Thursday. NATIONAL COMEDY COMPANY. Yo Mama’s Bar & Grill, 727 St. Peter St., 522-1125 — The audience interactive comedy show features live local music. Call 523-7469 or visit www. nationalcomedycompany.com for tickets. Tickets $8 online, $15 at the door. 10 p.m. Saturday. PERMANENT DAMAGE STAND-UP COMEDY. Bullets Sports Bar, 2441

A.P. Tureaud Ave., 948-4003 — Tony Frederick hosts the open mic comedy show. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

SIDNEY’S STAND-UP OPEN MIC.

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

SNACK TIME WITH THE ANVIL COMPANY. La Nuit Comedy Theater,

5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www. nolacomedy.com — The improv and sketch comedy troupe performs. Tickets $10 ($5 with drink purchase). 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

STUPID TIME MACHINE. Howlin’ Wolf (The Den), 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The improv comedy troupe performs. Tickets $5. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up is 8:30 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday. THE TIM & MICAH PROJECT. Shadow-

box Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 523-7469; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — Improv comedians and Second City Training Center faculty members Tim Soszko and Micah Philbrook perform. 10:30 p.m. Friday and 9 p.m. Saturday.

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of Music, 6363 St. Charles Ave — The principal chorus of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra holds auditions for its 2011-2012 season. Auditions are by appointment only. Call 525-2111 or visit www.symphonychorus.org for details. Tuesday.

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FAMILY Tuesday 13 KINDER GARDEN: BACK TO SCHOOL IN THE GARDEN.

Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — Children and accompanying adults explore the world of insects through ageappropriate activities. Tickets $10 members, $12 nonmembers. Call 293-4722 or email lvaughn@longuevue.com for details. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. TODDLER TIME . Louisiana

Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The museum hosts special Tuesday and Thursday activities for children ages 3-under and their parents or caregivers. Admission $8, free for members. 10:30 a.m.

Thursday 15 ART ACTIVITIES DURING AFTER HOURS. Ogden Museum of

Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden offers art activities for kids during its weekly After Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

KIDS MURAL WORKSHOP WITH RAJKO RADOVANOVIC . Staple

Goods, 1340 St. Roch Ave., 9087331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — The children’s event is a part of Local Threads, a free arts festival in the St. Roch Neighborhood. Noon. SOUTHERN ART, SOUTHERN STORIES. Ogden Museum of

Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Children can hear stories, explore the museum and create art inspired by themes found throughout the museum in the monthly event. The program is for children ages 4-7 accompanied by a caregiver. Call 539-9608 or email ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org for details. Admission $15 members, $18 nonmembers. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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Dancer Lola van Ella (pictured on right) started a burlesque festival in her native St. Louis, but she should be a familiar face to local burlesque fans. She’s performed several times in New Orleans’ Bustout Burlesque shows and she competed in both previous Queen of Burlesque competitions at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. At the inaugural pageant in 2009, Lola sang and stripped to “If I Knew You Were Coming I’d’ve Baked a Cake,” an act that left her wearing only pasties, a smear of icing and a spatula. It earned her second runner-up honors, and last year she improved to first runner-up by singing “Dream a Little Dream of Me” and incorporating a giant swing and some aerial acrobatics. This year she’s aiming for top honors with an act she promises will be much edgier, titled “More than VanElla.” “I’m known for my charm and humor and singing,” Lola says. “This is my grandest, most over the top, sparkly, bawdiest act yet.” It’s inspired more by RuPaul than the classic American songbook. Lola was a singer who mostly performed jazz standards in cabaret theaters before she switched to burlesque. She now runs her own troupe, the Bon-Bons, who also will perform at the festival, and she started a dance studio. At the festival, Lola will conduct several workshops for dancers. Lola is one of many headliners at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival making a living as professional burlesque dancers. Many travel to other high-profile burlesque events including the Miss Exotic World Pageant and Striptease Reunion held at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and the London Burlesque Festival. Lola says she likes the New Orleans competition because it requires working with a live band, which is part of the traditional approach highlighted by the festival. Many new burlesque dancers use modern music and embrace the retro-culture looks of Bettie Page hairdos and colorful tattoos. The competition takes place Saturday night at the theater at Harrah’s New Orleans. There are burlesque showcases at both Harrah’s and the House of Blues featuring a host of touring dancers including Catherine D’Lish, Kitten De Ville, Medianoche, Coco Lectric, Perle Noire and many others. Festival events also include workshops, panel discussions, appearances by burlesque performers from the 1950s and ’60s and the closing night party at Republic New Orleans. See www.neworleansburlesquefest.com for schedule and details. — Will Coviello

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Church, 1130 Nashville Ave., 895-1222 — The meeting features a screening of The King’s Speech, followed by a discussion led by analysts Marilyn Marshall and Karen Gibson. Visit www.jungneworleans. org for details. Admission free for members, $10 nonmembers. 6 p.m. CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Tulane University

Square, 200 Broadway St. — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. LOUISIANA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT WEEK . More

than 30 local restaurants offer two-course lunches for $20 and three-course dinners for $35 for the Louisiana Restaurant Association and We Live to Eat’s inaugural event. Visit www.welivetoeatnola.com/restaurant-week for the list of participating restaurants. Tuesday-Sunday. NEW DOCENT TRAINING .

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden trains prospective docents, people who lead museum tours, in museum techniques and education strategies for engaging visitors. Call 539-9608 or email ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org for details. 10 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER .

NEW ORLEANS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS REDISTRICTING FORUM . The

Chapel of the Holy Comforter, 2220 Lakeshore Drive — Gambit’s Clancy DuBos, research analyst Silas Lee and consultant Greg Rigamer discuss the political effects of redistricting in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. 7 p.m.

THE PEOPLE SAY PROJECT: BURLESQUE PERFORMERS WILD CHERRY & TRIXIE MINX .

Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, 523-4352; www.leh.org — Louisiana Humanities Center program director Brian Boyles moderates a discussion with local artists and musicians. Call 620-2632, email boyles@ leh.org or visit www.thepeoplesayproject.org for details. Catered reception at 5 p.m., program 6 p.m. PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA SOCIAL . Ralph’s on the Park,

900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com

Wednesday 14 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS MEETING .

Maximilian’s International Showroom, 8600 Oak St., 895-1115; www.maximiliansinternational.com — The New Orleans chapter of the group hosts a buffet supper meeting with an orchid raffle. Call the store for reservations. Visit www.asidneworleans.org for details. 5:30 p.m. COVINGTON FARMERS MARKET. Covington City

Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — 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. FRENCH MARKET FARMERS MARKET. French Market,

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

Grocery, 801 Harrison Ave., 293-1201; www.lakeviewgrocery.com — The market features items from local artists and crafters, food, drinks and live music. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM .

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo Collections Facility, 1000 Chartres St., 568-6968; lsm.crt.state.la.us — The Friends of the Cabildo hosts behind-the-scenes viewings of the paintings, portraiture and photography at the Louisiana State Museum’s storage facility lead by curator Tony Lewis. Reservations are required. Call 523-3939 or email rebecca@ friendsofthecabildo.org for details. Tickets $10 Friends of the Cabildo members, $15 general admission. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

MAKING BOOKS SYMPOSIUM . Newcomb College Campus, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 3270009; www.newcomb.tulane. edu — Photographer Thomas Roma, curator Susan Kismaric and author Phillip Lopate discuss the creative process involved in making photography books. Free admission. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. ROUND TABLE LUNCHEON .

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., 586-0300; www.sonesta.com/neworleans_royal — The monthly luncheon hosted by Margarita

Bergen features a panel of speakers and live entertainment. Call 553-2220 or email nscallan@royalsonestano. com for details. Admission $42. Noon. WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. 484 Sala

Ave., Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art and more, with live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

Thursday 15 CELEBRATE RECOVERY. Victory

Fellowship Church, 5708 Airline Drive, Metairie — The group addresses addictions and other emotional issues through a spiritual perspective. Call 733-5005 for details. 6:30 p.m.

CHANGES. Hey! Cafe, 4332

Magazine St., 891-8682 — The weekly meetings teach focusing, a method of directing attention outside one’s body to affect change. Call 232-9787 for details. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH . Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www.newcombartgallery. tulane.edu — Thomas Roma leads a gallery talk and walkthrough of Pictures for Books: Photographs by Thomas Roma. A reception with light refreshments follows. 1:30 p.m.

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

LIFE HURTS, GOD HEALS.

Victory Fellowship Church, 5708 Airline Drive, Metairie — The support group focuses on teens and young adults with addictions, hang ups and emotional pain. Call 733-5005 for details. 7 p.m. PARENTS OF TROUBLED ADULTS MEETING . Jewish Family

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The District, 711 Tchoupitoulas St., 301-1476; www.districtnola.com — Mr. New Orleans, fire fighter Leonard Daigle Jr., hosts the event to benefit the organization. Visit www. nationsbravest.com/events for details. Admission $10. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

— The newly formed New Orleans chapter of the public relations association hosts a happy hour event with drink specials and a tasting menu. Email ashley@gambelcommunications.com for details. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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from depression, mental illness, addiction disorders and other difficulties. Dr. Edward Foulks discusses “Creating Boundaries With Your Troubled Adult Child That Promote A Healthy Sense Of Self.” Call 8318475 or 828-6334 for details. 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. SAVE OUR CEMETERIES & DELGADO FUNERAL SERVICES PROGRAM LECTURE . Delgado Community

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College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, 616-6066; www. dcc.edu — The program will discuss the history of the funeral service, burial preparations, dynamics of grief and other topics. A Q&A session follows. Reservations are required to receive a parking pass. Call 525-3377 for details. Free admission. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

SISTAHS MAKING A CHANGE . Ashe

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

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PONDEROSA RECORD SHOW.

Renaissance Arts Hotel, 700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2330 — Held in conjunction with the Ponderosa Stomp music conference, the show features rare and collectible records for sale. Visit www.ponderosastomp.com for details. Admission $5, or free with the $20 conference daily admission fee. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Saturday. SCALES & ALES. Audubon Aquarium

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of the Americas, 1 Canal St., (800) 774-7394; www.auduboninstitute.org — The Audubon Nature Institute fundraiser features live entertainment, a silent auction, food, beer and wine and “animal encounters.” Visit www.auduboninstitute.org/scalesandales for details. Tickets $35 general admission, $75 patron party. 7 p.m. patron party, 8 p.m. general admission.

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Southern Food & Beverage Museum, Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — Chefs, food scholars, writers, policymakers and others discuss a broad range of topics related to the history of eating in the South. The gala features food, cocktails, live music and auctions. Tickets $65-$165. Symposium 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday; gala 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. WHERE Y’ART. New Orleans

Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — The museum’s weekly event features music, performances, film screenings, family-friendly activities and more. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday 17 BROADMOOR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION GALA . Muriel’s

Jackson Square, 801 Chartres St., 568-1885; www.muriels.com — The fundraiser includes food, auctions, and live music from Roots of Music, 3 Pc. Spicy and others. Call 309-2571 for details. Admission $100. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

BUCKY THE LAKE MONSTER NIGHT. Live Bait Bar and Grill,

200 Hammond Hwy., Metairie, 840-0902; www.livebaitnola. com — The New Orleans Bigfoot Society and the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus present the “community forum on Bucky the Lake Monster,” with performances from The Valparaiso Men’s Chorus and Eat Moby Dick Moby, raffles and more. Call 301-8201 or visit www.nolabigfoot.com for details. Admission $7. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

CATHERINE BROWN MEMORIAL LECTURE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP.

New Orleans African American Museum, 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www.noaam.com — Landscape historian Thaïsa Way leads a discussion on the future of the museum’s Treme Villa garden. Reservations are requested. Call 293-4726 or email hschackai@ longuevue.com for details. Free admission. 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. CITY BARK ADOPTION DAY. City Park, 1 Palm Drive — The Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society hosts a dog adoption event. 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET.

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

Loyola University (Joseph A. Danna Center), 6363 St. Charles Ave. — Local food experts and representatives from the LSU AgCenter discuss growing and preparing vegetables and herbs at home. Visit www.mggno.org for details. Admission $10. 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. FALL ARTS & CRAFT SHOW.

Northshore Harbor Center, 100 Harbor Center Blvd., Slidell, (985) 781-3650 — The show features goods from Louisiana artists. Visit www.steinhauerproductions.com for details. Admission $5. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. GALLERY TALK . Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Jim Roche discusses and leads a tour of the museum’s Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from the Collection of Alexa Kleinbard and Jim Roche exhibition. Free for museum members, $10 nonmembers. 2 p.m. GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET.

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

GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD SELLABRATION . Preservation

Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., 581-7032; www.prcno.org — The homebuyer fair provides prospective homebuyers neighborhoods with the tools to find, purchase and renovate historic homes. Call 636-3399 or email sblaum@ prcno.org for details. Free admission. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. GRETNA FARMERS MARKET. Gretna

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

GUIDED CANOE TOUR . Bayou

Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expwy., Westwego, 736-7140 — The park staff leads a canoe trip around the park’s waterways, during which participants learn about the park’s ecology. 10 a.m.

HORNETS BUZZ PATROL AUDITIONS. Alario Center, Bayou Segnette Complex, Westwego, 349-5525 — The New Orleans Hornets hold auditions for the group that energizes home game crowds with cheers, on-court promotions, dance routines and skits, as well as make appearances at community events throughout the year. Auditioners must be 18 or older. Visit www.hornets.com for details. Noon. MADISONVILLE ART MARKET. Madisonville Art Market, Tchefuncte River Front at Water St., Madisonville, (985) 871-4918; www. artformadisonville.org — The monthly market features fine art from local artists including painting, mixed media, photography, jewelry, wood carving, sculpture, stained glass and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. SANKOFA FARMERS MARKET. Holy

Angels Complex, 3500 St. Claude Ave., 875-4268; www.sankofafarmersmarket.org — The weekly market offers fresh produce and seafood from local farmers and fishermen. 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 355-4442 or visit www.visitstbernard.com for details. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

TREME UNDER THE BRIDGE MARKET.

North Claiborne Expressway, between Ursulines Avenue and Gov. Nicholls Street — The new monthly market highlights local artwork and features live music from local bands, high schools and choirs; community services like health and legal aid; and educational services and exhibits. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WOMEN BUSINESS FAIR . Dillard University, Samuel DuBois Cook Theatre, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., 8164857 — The workshop discusses how female business owners can take advantage of opportunities available through the government. Call 589-2756, 589-6688 or e-mail jo.lawrence3@sba.gov for details. Free admission. 9 a.m. to noon.

Sunday 18 ABITA ARTISTS. 9th Street Gallery,

71377 St. Mary St., Abita Springs — Local artists hold a monthly meeting. Call Lana at 898-3071 for details. 3 p.m.

SATELLITE MAGAZINE LAUNCH PARTY. The Front, 4100 St.

Claude Ave.; www.nolafront. org — Satellite, the new biannual magazine focusing on cities, culture and politics, hosts a launch event. Reservations are recommended. Email info@satellitemagazine.ca or visit www.satellitemagazine.ca for details. Free admission. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

WORDS C.S. FRIEDMAN. Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author signs Legacy of Kings. 6 p.m. Thursday. GERALD ELIAS. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The author and musician performs, as well as signs and reads from Death and the Maiden. 6 p.m. Saturday. “THE RED FEATHER” LAUNCH PARTY.

The Shop Gallery, 509 Royal St., 304-6493; www.blackettpeckgallery.com — The event celebrates the release of Sherry “Leddy” Milam’s new children’s book. Big Chief Kevin Goodman and the Flaming Arrows Band perform. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER . Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The author signs and discusses A Small Hotel. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. TIFF HOLLAND. Octavia Books,

513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The author signs and reads from Betty Superman. 6 p.m. Friday.

VINCENT CELLUCCI . Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 8664916; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — The author signs and reads from An Easy Place to Die. 6 p.m. Friday. WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ . Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 895-2266 — The author signs and discusses A Jane Austen Education. 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

CALL FOR WRITERS WORKSHOP IN FICTION/ NONFICTION . Arts Council of New

Orleans, 818 Howard Ave., Suite 300, 523-1465 — James Nolan teaches a 12-session fiction and creative nonfiction workshop on Tuesdays from Sept. 20 to Dec. 13. Call the Arts Council to register. WRITING WELL-CRAFTED FICTION . Author Stephen Rea (Finn McCool’s Football Club) teaches the 10-week class starting Sept. 27. The class is open to writers of all levels. Visit www.loyno.edu/wpc for details. Registration deadline is Tuesday. For complete listings, visit www. bestofneworleans.com.

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Vegetarians have always had options on the wide-ranging menu at Mat & Naddie’s (937 Leonidas St., 861-9600; www.matandnaddies.com), but for the next month they’ll also find meatless wine dinners. Pick from a panzanella salad or tempeh sloppy Joe to start, and the roasted pepper cannelloni or sesame-crusted oyster mushrooms for an entree. Dessert is saffron rice pudding. Get it all with wine pairings for $48, or without for $28. The restaurant offers a separate deal combining any three salads or appetizers and a glass of wine for $28.

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straightforward, contemporary Creole menu, though cutting-edge ingenuity is not. Most meals here have been highly satisfying, though the sparks of excitement that get you planning your next visit were few. Pasta jambalaya, stuffed flounder and pork loin with mango are all good, and they’re all dishes you’ve had countless times before. The menu has its moments though. Shrimp and grits is almost unavoidable on local menus, but Springfloat’s rendition is a standout, with a fried grits cake oozing its creamy interior into a spicy, buttery sauce akin to the base of barbecue shrimp. Another head-turner is quail stuffed with boudin, wrapped in bacon and paired with collards. Though tight preparations are the rule, exceptions turn up, like an over-salted snapper lost in a muddle of black beans, and the crab cakes and fried green tomatoes were separate appetizers that seemed to share the same bland batter. The salvation for the latter dish, though, was the lode of crabmeat escorting it. In fact, Atchafalaya’s appetizer list reads like a crab tasting menu. Large, beautiful lumps turn up everywhere, and their best turn might be over an exuberantly fresh, lightly dressed salad with cilantro, hearts of palm and peanuts. Crab gets plenty of play at brunch too, but duck confit hash is my first choice here. The extremely popular brunch service can approach bedlam, and even those with reservations often must wait for tables. However, a self-serve bloody Mary bar helps keep antsy, hungry customers pleasantly distracted.

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aking a name for a restaurant takes a lot of work. But remaking that name once established — and particularly recasting it as something better — can be more challenging still. That was the tall order for Tony Tocco when he bought Cafe Atchafalaya in 2009. The Uptown restaurant has seen a succession of owners, and each had a different idea of what it should be. It took a turn toward the upscale after Hurricane Katrina, but soon began a decline that would drive it nearly into the ground. Today, however, the place seems like the successful subject of one of those restaurant improvement reality shows, only without the cameras and consultants. Tocco is a local service industry veteran who started the indispensible Uptown dive Snake & Jake’s back in 1992. He had finer things in mind for his new restaurant, however. He charged chef Mark Springfloat with transforming the menu and then set about rebranding the place. He shortened the restaurant’s name to Atchafalaya and knocked on doors, asking neighbors to give the place another chance. He set up a food booth at the downtown concert series Wednesday at the Square to woo the after-hours crowd there, and he started hosting wine dinners to bring back a skeptical fine-dining crowd. He also brought in popular musicians, and today there’s live music at Sunday brunch and at dinner on Sundays and Mondays. Atchafalaya now comfortably occupies a desirable yet nebulous culinary niche, one considerably above the neighborhood restaurant but decidedly below the top tier. Consistency is a hallmark of Springfloat’s

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A new pizzeria opened last week, serving slices and pies along a stretch of Tulane Avenue in Mid-City that’s seen quite a bit of change lately. Pizzicare (3001 Tulane Ave., 301-4823) is the work of Jeff Baron and Bart Bell, who also run Crescent Pie & Sausage Co., a restaurant known for handmade meats, creative pizzas, Cajun dishes and craft beer. But Pizzicare will be a different type of restaurant. Fitted with gleaming white tile and dominated by a large, glass-topped service counter, Baron likens it to a style of pizzeria common in the Northeast, where an entire menu’s worth of different pies are served by the slice. Pizzicare also serves whole pizzas, calzones, stromboli and salads. Baron plans eventually to add beer and wine at Pizzicare, though it’s serving just soft drinks for now. He also has plans to expand. “I’m building it as a model for a franchise from the ground up, but you have to start with one and so right now we’re just focused on doing this one right,” says Baron, who also runs the Dough Bowl (1039 Broadway, 861-2200), a take-out pizza parlor close to the Tulane University campus. Baron and Bell have been busy lately. In addition to the Pizzicare venture, they’ve been retooling Crescent Pie & Sausage Co. Last weekend they closed Huevos, their breakfast/lunch joint adjacent to Crescent Pie & Sausage, and they’re now renovating that space to be a production kitchen and retail spot for the sausages and artisan meats that gird the Crescent Pie menu. These meats are Bell’s particular specialty, and he’s making more as toppings for Pizzicare. Many of the breakfast dishes from Huevos will live on through a new brunch service at Crescent Pie & Sausage that starts this Sunday, Sept. 11. Meanwhile, those headed over for a slice at Pizzicare (the Italian name translates as “to pinch,” as in what you do when making pizza dough) may notice a new look in this long run-down part of town. The new restaurant is in the center of a sleek new strip mall built in concert with the new Crescent Club apartments just across the street. Both are projects from the local real estate developer the Domain Cos., which has built other residential complexes in Mid-City since Katrina. The Domain Cos. also figures into something else Baron and Bell have in the works. The real estate developer plans to build a new residential and retail

complex on what is now a cluster of surface parking lots near the Superdome. Baron says for Saints home games this fall, Crescent Pie & Sausage Co. and NOLA Brewing will set up public tailgate events on one of those lots, selling jambalaya, pork shoulder sandwiches, sausage on a stick and other pre-game snacks. — Ian McNulty

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Along Freret Street, two more restaurants have recently joined the resurgent Uptown corridor’s new restaurant row. The latest is Midway (4725 Freret St., 322-2815, www.midwaypizzanola.com), a Chicago-style deep dish pizza restaurant which opened Sept. 2. The guys behind Midway are Ben Sherman and Steve Watson, who also run the King Pin Bar. Midway will serve lunch and dinner and late-night (until at least midnight) every day. Watson says the restaurant is serving a limited menu for now with just pizzas and salads, and the bar is open and ready. Local foodies likely know by now that the other new Freret addition, just one block down, is the Company Burger (4600 Freret St., 267-0320, www.thecompanyburger.com). This stylish new burger joint is the work of Adam Biderman, a New Orleans native who recently moved back home after a culinary career in Atlanta where he was a chef at the widelyacclaimed Holeman & Finch Public House. At the Company Burger, which he opened in mid-August, he’s replicating a specialty burger that attained cult status at Holeman & Finch. It’s worth noting that the Company Burger is in a building that used to house a Wagner’s Meat (as in “You can’t beat ...”), which seems appropriate enough, and also a fitness center and a yoga studio, which is just plain hilarious. So even as the weather comes down, things are still perking up along Freret. In our cover story last month on Freret Street’s emerging restaurant row (“The Rebirth of Freret Street,” Aug. 9, 2011), we included a “Freret by the numbers” sidebar. Looks like it’s already time for an update, so here goes: 10 new bars and restaurants since 2009; five so far in 2011; two more announced with plans to open later in 2011 (a Japanese restaurant called Origami and a bar and music venue called Publiq House). — McNulty • Got a tip for Scuttlebites? Contact Ian McNulty at imcnulty@cox.net.

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FAT HEN GRILL — 1821 Hickory Ave., Harahan, 287-4581; 7457 St. Charles Ave., 266-2921; www.fathengrill.com — Fat Hen serves barbecue, burgers and breakfast. Pit-cooked barbecue options include St. Louis-style spare ribs. Burgers are made with all Black Angus beef ground in-house daily. Reservations accepted. St. Charles Avenue: breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Hickory Avenue: breakfast, lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$

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CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St., 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

O’HENRY’S FOOD & SPIRITS — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., 866-9741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 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. $$

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DINO’S BAR & GRILL — 1128 Tchoupitoulas St., 558-0900 — Dino’s kitchen serves burgers, chicken tenders, salads and wraps. Happy hour is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards and checks. $ THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449

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

BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks

St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.Sat. Cash only. $

WALKER’S BAR-B-QUE — 10828 Hayne Blvd., 281-8227; www.cochondelaitpoboys.com — The makers of the Jazz Fest cochon de lait po-boy serve pork, ribs, chicken and more. The family feast includes a half-slab of ribs, half a chicken, half a pound of brisket, pork and sausage, two side orders, bread and sauce. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Saturday. Cash only. $

BREWPUB CRESCENT CITY BREWHOUSE —

527 Decatur St., 522-0571; www. crescentcitybrewhouse.com — Live jazz and German-style beers complement creative cooking at this brewpub. Grilled Brewhouse ribs are served with house-made barbecue sauce. Starters include Brewhouse hot wings, baked oysters and fried calamari with red pepper aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BURGERS BEACHCORNER BAR & GRILL —

S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938 — Shamrock serves burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, Reuben sandwiches, cheese sticks and fries with cheese or gravy. Other options include corned beef and cabbage, and fish and chips. No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $

4905 Canal St., 488-7357; www. beachcornerbarandgrill.com — Top a 10-oz. Beach burger with cheddar, blue, Swiss or pepper Jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms or house-made hickory sauce. Other options include a grilled chicken sandwich. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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son Hwy., Jefferson, 832-0830 — Zaddie’s serves burgers, alligator sausage, boudin, tamales and meat or crawfish pies. Thrusday’s steak night special features a filet mignon, butter-garlic potatoes, salad, grilled French bread and a soft drink for $15. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $

budsbroiler.com — Bud’s Broiler is known for charcoal-broiled burgers topped with hickory-amoked sauce. The menus also includes hot dogs and chicken sandwiches. The Clearview Parkway and 24-hour City Park location also offer shrimp and catfish po-boys. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

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ECO CAFE & BISTRO — 3903 Canal St., 561-6585; www.ecocafeno.com — Eco Cafe serves sandwiches like the veggie club, layered with Swiss cheese, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, spinach and baby pickles. There are fresh squeezed juices, and Friday and Saturday evenings feature tapas dining. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GOTT GOURMET CAFE — 3100

Magazine St., 373-6579; www. gottgourmetcafe.com — This cafe serves a variety of gourmet salads, sandwiches, wraps, Chicago-style hot dogs, burgers and more. The cochon de lait panini includes slow-braised pork, baked ham, pickles, Swiss, ancho-honey slaw, honey mustard and chili mayo. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE —

5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK —

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream till early evening. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

PRAVDA — 1113 Decatur St., 5811112; www.pravdaofnola.com — Pravda is known for its Soviet kitsch and selection of absinthes, and the kitchen offers pierogies, beef empanadas, curry shrimp salad and a petit steak served with truffle aioli. No reservations. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ RICCOBONO’S PANOLA STREET CAFE — 7801 Panola St., 314-1810

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59, Abita Springs, (985) 892-0205 — Slow-cooked brisket and pork are specialties at this Northshore smokehouse. The half-slab rib plate contains six ribs served with a choice of two sides. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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1402; www.vine-dine.com — The cafe serves cheese boards and charcuterie plates with pate and cured meats. There also is a menu of sandwiches, quesadillas, bruschettas, salads and dips. No reservations. Lunch Tue.Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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865-1428; www.chinaorchidneworleans. com — This longtime Riverbend restaurant offers a wide array of Chinese dishes. Sizzling black pepper beef or chicken is prepared with onions, red and green peppers and brown sauce and served on a hot plate with steamed rice on the side. Other options include fried rice, noodle and egg foo young dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

CHINA ROSE — 3501 N. Arnoult Road.,

Metairie, 887-3295 — China Rose offers many Chinese seafood specialties. The Lomi Lomi combines jumbo shrimp, pineapple and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, fries them golden brown and serves them on a bed of sautéed vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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

JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009

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

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Causeway Approach., Mandeville, (985) 626-4476; 2100 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, (985) 345-6789; www.tryyuen. com — House specialties include fried soft-shell crab topped with Tong Cho sauce, and Cantonese-style stir-fried alligator and mushrooms in oyster sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/ DESSERt ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 5814422; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Royal Street salad features baby spinach and mixed lettuces with carrots, red onion, red peppers, grapes, olives, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

KUPCAKE FACTORY — 800 Metairie Road, Metairie, 267-4990; 819 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 464-8884; 6233 S. Claiborne Ave., 267-3328; www.thekupcakefactory.com — Choose from a large selection of gourmet cupcakes. The Fat Elvis is made with banana cake and topped with peanut butter frosting. The Strawberry Fields tops strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream frosting. Other options include white chocolate raspberry and a banana cupcake. No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

MAURICE FRENCH PASTRIES — 3501 Hessmer Ave., Metairie, 885-1526; 4949 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 455-0830;

www.mauricefrenchpastries.com — Maurice French Pastries offers an array of continental and French baked goods as well as specialty cakes, cheesecakes and pies. No reservations. Hessmer Avenue: breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. West Napoleon: breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PINKBERRY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Maga-

zine St., 899-4260; www.pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

St., 566-9051; www.le-citronbistro. com — Located in a historic building, the quaint bistro serves starters like chicken and andouille gumbo and fried frogs legs. Entrees include choices like fried chicken, Gulf fish and burgers. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters

St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

CONtEMPORaRY 5 Fifty 5 — 555 Canal St., 553-5638;

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

BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ THE GREEN GODDESS — 307 Exchange

Alley, 301-3347; www.greengoddessnola. com — Chef Chris DeBarr’s contemporary cooking combines classic techniques, exotic ingredients and culinary wit. At lunch, Big Cactus Chilaquiles feature poached eggs on homemade tortillas with salsa verde, queso fresca and nopalitos. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ OAK — 8118 Oak St., 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., 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St.

Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GUMBO SHOP — 640 St. Peter St., 5251486; www.gumboshop.com — Gumbo and New Orleans classics such as crawfish etouffee dominate the menu. Their spicy flavors meld into a dish that represents the city’s best and redefines comfort food. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LE CITRON BISTRO — 1539 Religious

CuBaN/ CaRIBBEaN MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 252-4800; www.mojitosnola.com — Mojitos serves a mix of Caribbean, Cuban and Creole dishes. Caribbean mac and cheese pie is made with chunks of lobster, tomatoes, scallions, garlic and creamy cheese sauce and is served over a bed of spicy corn maque choux. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

DELI CG’S CAFE AT THE RUSTY NAIL —

1100 Constance St., 722-3168; www. therustynail.biz — Inside the Rusty Nail, CG’s offers a menu of sandwiches. The Piggly Wiggly features pulled pork on a sesame seed bun with coleslaw and pickle chips on the side. The Wild Turkey is layered with Granny Smith apple slices, provolone, bacon and garlic mayo. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $

ommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine

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

GOuRMEt tO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez,

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

INDIaN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-6666; www.

schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Mag-

azine St., 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie,

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

MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave.,

ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th

888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — The wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. The Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. The Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

DINER DAISY DUKES — 121 Chartres St., 561-5171;

www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — Daisy Dukes is known for its seafood omelet and serves a wide variety of Cajun spiced Louisiana favorites, burgers, po-boys and seafood, including boiled crawfish and oysters on the half-shell. Breakfast is served all day. No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. Credit cards. $$

FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-

0900; www.flamingtorchnola.com — Chef Nathan Gile’s menu includes pan-seared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash. Coffee- and corianderspiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations rec-

ItaLIaN St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-

2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

RICCOBONO’S PEPPERMILL RESTAURANT — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, 455-2266

— This Italian-style eatery serves New Orleans favorites like stuffed crabs with jumbo lump crabmeat with spaghetti bordelaise and trout meuniere with brabant potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411

Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni. Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic

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and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644

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

MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave.,

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

MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., 410-

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

ROCK-N-SAKE — 823 Fulton St., 581-7253;

www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

WASABI SUSHI — 900 Frenchmen St.,

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 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 pepper-seared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ BOUCHE — 840 Tchoupitoulas St., 267-

7485; www.bouchenola.com — This wine bar and restaurant serves creative dishes like tasso truffle mac and cheese with three cheeses and Mornay sauce, baby spinach salad with Maytag blue cheese and bacon lardons, and crispy duck breast with Grand Marnier sweet potatoes and vanilla-balsamic extract. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

MIA’S — 1622 St. Charles Ave., 301-9570

— Veal Oscar features lightly breaded veal topped with lump crabmeat and hollandaise, served with garlic red potatoes and grilled asparagus. The alligator pear and crabmeat salad combines avocado and crabmeat over tomatoes, red onions and greens in balsamic glaze. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

www.milaneworleans.com — MiLA takes a fresh approach to Southern and New Orleans cooking, focusing on local produce and refined techniques. Try New Orleans barbecue lobster with lemon confit and fresh thyme. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri. dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip. There also are brunch specials. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., 3093570 — Redemption offers contemporary Louisiana cooking. Chambord duckling is served with cherry vinaigrette. Seared foie gras is complemented by vanilla parsnip puree. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitou-

las St., 525-4790 — 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. $$

MEDITERRA—NEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN ATTIKI BAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur St.,

587-3756; www.attikineworleans.com — Attiki features a range of Mediterranean cuisine including entrees of beef kebabs and chicken shawarma. Reservations recommended. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$

PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun St.,

861-9602 — Diners will find authentic, healthy and fresh Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTH� WESTERN COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St.,

522-1138 — Country Flame serves a mix of popular Mexican and Cuban dishes. Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickorysmoked pork and char-broiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Maga-

zine St., 569-0000; 4724 S.Carrollton Ave. 486-9950; www.juansflyingburrito.com — This wallet-friendly restaurant offers new takes on Mexicaninspired cooking. It’s known for its meal-and-a-half-size signature burritos. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

NACHO MAMA’S MEXICAN GRILL — 3242

Magazine St., 899-0031; 1000 S. Clearview Pkwy., Harahan, 736-1188; www. nachomamasmexicangrill.com — These taquerias serve Mexican favorites such as portobello mushroom fajitas and chile rellenos. There are happy hour margaritas on weekdays and daily drink specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-

0077 — This casual cafe serves creative takes on Southwestern cuisine. Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style 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. $$

TOMASITO’S MEXICAN CUISINE — 755

Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — Tomasito’s is an upscale cantina with a patio for outdoor dining. The carnitas platter features marinated and slow-cooked pork served with Mexican rice, refried beans and a choice of salsa verde, smoky chipotle or a traditional Mexican sauce. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 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 buffetstyle gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

THE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur

St., 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855 — This music clubs serves dishes like fish and chips, spicy hot wings, tacos and more. There are weekly specials and vegetarian and vegan options. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — 626

Frenchmen St., 949-0696; www.snugjazz.com — Traditional Creole and Cajun fare pepper the menu along with newer creations such as the fish Marigny, topped with Gulf shrimp in a Creole cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD BRAXTON’S RESTAURANT — 636 Frank-

lin Ave., Gretna, 301-3166; www.braxtonsnola.com — Braxton’s serves a mix of salads, po-boys, deli sandwiches and entrees. Start a meal with oysters Louise, featuring fried oysters on a bed of spinach and cheese. The seafood platter includes fried shrimp, oysters, catfish strips, french fries, potato salad and vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., latenight Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ KOZ’S — 515 Harrison Ave., 484-0841;

6215 Wilson St., Harahan, 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — Louisiana favorites such as seafood platters, muffulettas and more than 15 types of po-boys, ranging from hot sausage to cheeseburger, are available at Koz’s. The Will’s Chamber of Horrors sand-

wich features roast beef, ham, turkey, Swiss and American cheese, Italian dressing and hot mustard. . No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

OLIVE BRANCH CAFE — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 348-2008; 3700 Orleans Ave., 302-1220; 5145 Gen. de Gaulle Drive, 393-1107; www.olivebranchcafe. com — These cafes serve soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and entrees. Chicken and artichoke pasta is tossed with penne in garlic and olive oil. Shrimp Carnival features smoked sausage, shrimp, onion and peppers in roasted garlic cream sauce over pasta. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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leon Ave., Metairie, 883-5513; www. rajuncajuncafe.com — The cafe serves soups, salads, po-boys, muffulettas, seafood plates and a few entree platters. Daily specials include items such as breaded pork chops on Wednesdays and seafood options on Friday. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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PIZZA ITALIAN PIE — Citywide; www.italian-

pie.com — Italian Pie offers an array of pizzas, calzones, sandwiches, wraps and salads. The Mediterranean pie is topped with artichoke hearts, kalamata olives, red onion, tomatoes, herbed ricotta, mozzarella and pesto sauce. The spinach and artichoke pie includes mushrooms, onion, feta, mozzarella and garlic sauce. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING —

2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8328032; 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. $

NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125

Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Gourmet pies are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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REGINELLI’S — 741 State St., 899-1414;

817 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, 7126868; 874 Harrison Ave., 488-0133; 3244 Magazine St. 895-7272; 5608 Citrus Blvd., Harahan, 818-0111; www. reginellis.com — This New Orleans original offers a range of pizzas, sandwiches and salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

R&O’S RESTAURANT — 216 Old Ham-

mond Hwy., 831-1248 — R&O’s offers a mix of pizza and Creole and Italian seafood dishes. There’s everything from seafood gumbo and stuffed artichokes to po-boys and muffulettas. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $

SLICE PIZZERIA — 1513 St. Charles Ave.,

525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800 — Neapolitan-style pizza rules, but you can buy pizza by the slice and add or subtract toppings as you choose. There are also a full coffee bar, Italian sodas and organic teas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., 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 top-

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943-9433; 8550 Pontchartrain Blvd., 2673263; www.wasabinola.com — Wasabi serves a wide array of Japanese dishes. Wasabi honey shrimp are served with cream sauce. The Assassin roll bundles tuna, snow crab and avocado in seaweed and tops it with barbecued eel, tuna, eel sauce and wasabi tobiko. No reservations. Frenchmen Street: Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Pontchartrain Boulevard: lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Open Tuesday - Saturday 5:30 pm –9:30 pm

504.436.8950 4137 Hwy 90 WestWego

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page 71 pings. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton

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Ave., 888-4004 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SaNDWICHES & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., 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. $

MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP —

2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of poboys 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. Cash only. $

MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454

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

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PARKWAY BAKERY AND TAVERN — 538 N. Hagen Ave., 482-3047 —

Parkway serves juicy roast beef po-boys, hot sausage po-boys, fried seafood and more. No reservations. Kitchen open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $

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erans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-3416; www.parranspoboy. com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. The veal supreme po-boy features a cutlet topped with Swiss cheese and brown gravy. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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899-2054; www.traceysnola. com — The roast beef po-boy dripping with garlicky gravy is the highlight of a menu transplanted from the former Parasol’s to this Uptown bar. Other options include fried seafood and bar noshing items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Cash only. $

SEaFOOD GRAND ISLE RESTAURANT — 575

Convention Center Blvd., 5208530; www.grandislerestaurant. com — Grand Isle offers seafood options from raw oysters to lobster St. Malo with combines Maine lobster, shrimp and mussels in seafood broth. Baked Gulf fish are served with compound chili butter, potatoes and a vegetable. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ JACK DEMPSEY’S — 738 Poland

Ave., 943-9914 — The Jack Dempsey seafood platter serves a training-table feast of gumbo, shrimp, oysters, catfish, redfish and crawfish pies, plus two side items. Other dishes include broiled redfish and fried soft-shell crab. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat. and dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ LA COTE BRASSERIE — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2350; www.lacotebrasserie.com — This stylish restaurant in the Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel serves an array of raw and cooked seafood. Tabasco and Steen’s Cane Syrup glazed salmon is served with shrimp mirliton ragout. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St.,

598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood creations by executive chef Brian Katz dominate a menu peppered with favorites like hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

VILLAGE INN — 9201 Jefferson Hwy., 737-4610 — Check into Village Inn for seasonal boiled seafood or raw oysters. Other options include fried seafood platters, po-boys, pasta and pizza. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

SOuL FOOD BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd.,

241-2548; www.bigmommaschickenandwaffles.com — Big Mamma’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 Sat.-Sun., Lunch daily, dinner Sun. Credit cards. $

StEaKHOuSE CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS —

322 Magazine St., 522-7902; www.centraarchy.com — This traditional steakhouse serves USDA prime beef, and a section of super-sized cuts includes a 40-oz. Porterhouse for two. The menu also features seafood options and a la carte side items. Reservations recommended. Diner daily. Credit cards. $$$

CRESCENT CITY STEAKS — 1001

N. Broad St., 821-3271; www. crescentcitysteaks.com — Order USDA prime beef dry-aged and hand-cut in house. There are porterhouse steaks large enough for two or three diners to share. Bread pudding with raisins and peaches is topped with brandy sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri. and Sun., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE —

Harrah’s Hotel, 525 Fulton St., 587-7099; 3633 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 888-3600; www.ruthschris.com — Ruth’s top-quality steaks are broiled

in 1,800-degree ovens and arrive at the table sizzling. Reservations recommended. Fulton Street: Lunch and dinner daily. Veterans Memorial Boulevard: Lunch Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

taPaS/SPaNISH MIMI’S IN THE MARIGNY —

2601 Royal St., 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. $

SANTA FE TAPAS — 1327 St. Charles

Ave., 304-9915 — The menu includes both tapas dishes and entrees. Seared jumbo scallops are served with mango and green tomato pico de gallo. Gambas al ajillo are jumbo shrimp with garlic, shallots, chilis and cognac. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

VEGA TAPAS CAFE — 2051 Metarie

Road, 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Vega’s mix of hot and cold tapas dishes includes a salad of lump crabmeat on arugula with blood orange vinaigrette. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

VIEtNaMESE AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania

St., 899-5129; www.moonnola. com — 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. $

DOSON NOODLE HOUSE — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., 309-7283 — Noodles abound at this Mid-City eatery, which excels at vinegary chicken salad over shredded cabbage, as well as bowls of steaming pho. Vegetable-laden wonton soup and thick spring rolls make a refreshing, satisfying meal. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ PHO HOA RESTAURANT — 1308

Manhattan Blvd., 302-2094 — Pho Hoa serves staple Vietnamese dishes including beef broth soups, vermicelli bowls, rice dishes and banh mi sandwiches. Bo kho is a popular beef stew. Appetizers include fried egg rols, crab rangoons and rice paper spring rolls. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

PHO NOLA — 3320 Transconti-

nental Drive, Metairie, 941-7690; www.pho-nola.com — Pho NOLA serves spring rolls and egg rolls, noodle soups, rice and vermicelli dishes and po-boys. Beverages include boba teas, milk teas, coffee drinks and smoothies. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

PHO TAU BAY RESTAURANT — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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CERTIFIED GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTORS with a passion for helping our community Please send your resume and references to beautyvsthebeast@gmail.com or call 504-390-8951

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(Corner of St. Roch and St. Claude)

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Mulate’s Cajun Restaurant is looking for SERVERS with at least 2 years experience in restaurant business. You must be reliable and available to work holidays and special events. References will be checked.

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8 Block

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Is seeking waitstaff for its soon to be open Central Business District restaurant. Seating over 300 guests, 8 Block requires organized and energetic individuals seeking to make a healthy living. Experience is not necessary. If you ever wanted to wait tables, are available to work breakfast and lunch, and enjoy talking with people from all over, this is the job for you. A full two week training program will take you from learning about food and beverage to being a professional server. 8 Block will serve customers from area hotels, the Central Business District, and Superdome and Arena events. With a focus on New Orleans area farmers and cuisine, 8 Block provides a familiar dining experience, in a casual setting, that provides tourists and locals alike with a memorable dining experience. Why work a retail job at a set wage when instead you can learn how to work in a restaurant and make an average of a $150 in tips daily.

Requirements:

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AUTOMOTIVE

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PETS

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BYWATER BODYWORKS

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

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A BODY BLISS MASSAGE

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24 yrs exp to give you the ultimate in relaxation. Call Matteo. LA 0022, for your next appt. Metairie area. 504-8320945. No Outcalls

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Swedish, Relaxing Massage. Hours 9am-6pm, M-F. Sat 10-1pm $70. LA Lic #1910. Sandra, 504-393-0123.

PET ADOPTIONS 6wk sweet m kitten striped cat Archie is fun & full of gusto. If interested Please contact Traci-tbkestler@ cox.net 504-975-5971

Alexa

Purrfect 14 wk old adorable, beautiful & sweet kitten silver tabby ,vacs & spayed . rescue 504 462 -1968

ALLEY CAT

DSH White with Gray Tabby Markings, de-clawed, appx 1 year old, Vet Ck/ Vacs/Neut./Litter Trained/ Super Sweet/Rescue Wt. 9 lbs.. (504) 460-0136

Blk. Cocker Spaniel ,sweet & loving Maggie- sweet & loving dog. She is blind, but gets around very well by hearing & excel scenes of smell Loretta 504-715-0674

Adorable male 12 wk old Bobtail kitten Very sweet and playful ,tested vacs neutered 504 462-1968 DSH, Gray/Brown/Black Tabby white chest, chin, feet. Appx. 1years, Neut. Vacs/Vet Ck/litter trained/Rescue. Small, Precious, Talkative & Super gentle! Would be great pet for child or Senior. Wt. 7 lbs. (504) 460-0136

RELAX RELAX RELAX

Swedish massage by strong hands. Call Jack at 453-9161. La lic #0076.

Very cute sweet petite kitty, 3yrs old , only 6 lbs, white/black spayed,shots 504 462-1968

MISHKA

Beautiful long hair Russian Blue mix 5 yr old sweetie ,spayed vacs ,504 462-1968

Nina-female boxer

sweet, friendly, loves belly rubs, kids & to be near you Traci- tbkestler@cox.net 504-975-5971

Princess Leila

solid white 6yr old female cat , very loving and talkative spayed ,shots ,rescue 504 462-1968

Sugar-rodesian ridgebace/ hound mix

6mth big loving eyes, affectionate, enjoys playing w/ oth dogs, in obed training. call Ann Marie zmom8699@ yahoo.com ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Itty Bitty Inky

Muted Gray Tabby DSH , appx. 1 year old, VetCk/Vacs/Spayed/ Litter Trained/Super Sweet/ Rescue (504) 460-0136

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LOST/FOUND PETS

‘05 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT

Elijah

Weekly Tails Lab mix. She’s been at the shelter for over ½ of her life and has no idea why people keep passing her by. Cassie is a happy/playful pup and looks forward to romping in the park. To meet Cassie or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

ART/POSTERS VINTAGE N.O. JAZZFEST POSTERS

Dating back to 1980, Still in protective tubes, Will sell as collection or by year. 704-681-4914.

FURNITURE/ACCESSORIES

CASSIE Kennel #A13428640

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NOTICE

Headshot Film Productions, LLC has completed photography. Louisiana accounting offices wil close on September 16, 2011. Through then, send claims to: 1231 Prytania Street, FL4 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: (504) 521-6205 After September 16, claims should be mailed to: 15821 Ventura Blvd. Ste. 535 Encino, CA 91436 (818) 905-0151 Email: headshotfilm@gmail.com

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MERCHANDISE

$125 Full/Double Size Mattress Set, still in original plastic, unopened. We can deliver. (504) 846-5122 $295 Brand New Iron Queen Bed with mattress set, all new. Can deliver. (504) 952-8403 King Pillowtop Mattress, NEW!!! ONLY $199. Can deliver. (504) 846-5122 NEW Pub Height Table Set all wood, still boxed. Delivery available. $325 (504) 846-5122 Queen Mattress Set $149 Still in wrapper. Will deliver. (504) 846-5122

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Ryder is a 4-month-old, neutered, black/white DSH. He’s the smallest kitty at the shelter, but wants to make sure you notice him, so is the most vocal. Ryder is still a bit uncoordinated, so is quite comical to watch. To meet Ryder or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191. To look for a lost pet come to the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), Mon-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5 or call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org.

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SHOWCaSe FRENCH QUARTER

RIVER RIDGE 9012 Rosecrest Lane Newly renovated brick home, 1420 sq. ft., 2 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors through out, appliances included, covered carport, large 62x120 lot w/open backyard & additional shed. 5 min. from Mathews & St. Rita.

Call (504) 915-3220

Reduced! Asking $169,000

922-24 Dauphine St. $900K Four 1 bedroom apartments. Parking for 5+ cars.

938 Royal St. A $216K Great location for this condo. Perfect for your weekend getaways! Quaint & comfortable. 1 br, great kit & bath.

835 Royal St. $365K Great location, secluded hideaway! Spac 2 br, 2 marble tile baths. Small rear balc overlooking garden.

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

CLASSIFIEDS GENTILLY

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

2500 GENTILLY BLVD. 2BR/2BA, Lr, dr, den, kit w/granite, fp, hdwd flrs, inground pool. Call (504) 669-7263.

OLD METAIRIE METAIRIE TOWERS 401 Metairie Rd

1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, renovated with new appliances and AC’s. $118,000. Call 504-275-5700

EAST NEW ORLEANS LOOK NO FURTHER! $175,000

7516 Ebbtide Dr. 3/2, Mstr w/jac tub & dbl vanities, wbfp, hdwd flrs, ss appl, vltd ceils, granite, custom closets, fnced yd, 2 car garage, tiled patio, auto sprinkler 504-421-4841.

LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE 1161 ROBERT E. LEE BLVD

Luxury home in Lake Vista near the lakefront. Over 4000 sq ft. 4 BR, 4.5 BA. Custom kit Lovely pool. $775,000. G.L. Schroeder Realtor, Contractor. 504.241.1000. Cell 504.722.2928. schroederbuild@yahoo.com

LOWER GARDEN DIST./ IRISH CHANNEL MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL AGAIN!

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY 514 DUMAINE , Units 3 & 6. Charming ground & 2nd fl courtyard/ balcony. Awesomely located. Each unit $105,000 www.JudyFisher.net; Judy Fisher, Inc, 504-388-3023 301 Decatur St. Rare corner. Zoning allows live entertainment. 9,000 sq ft (Approx 3,000 sq ft ea. floor). Beautiful light filled loft style spaces. Possible owner financing. $1,650,000. Judy Fisher Inc. 504-388-3023. www. JudyFisher.net

Irish Channel did not flood Katrina damaged house w/2 & 1/3 L-shaped lots. 2 lots each 30x120’ = 60’x120’ & rear portion of corner lot 35’x25’, dble driveway in front w/a single tin garage & single driveway on side street. $8,567 roof, 7 rms & 3 bathrooms. 4th sewer line in rear, 2 lg walk in closets. Large walk in pantry. Huge, red brick floor to ceiling dble sided fireplace. Could house 1 family or owner occupied + 1 rental, or 2 rentals, or could build single/double on second lot. Much space to add on. Huge yd for in-ground pool. Many options for house & land. Paved front patio w/ 2 lg. red brick planters. $195,000, 504-832-1901.

THE FERNANDEZ HOUSE

2320 - 2322 LOWERLINE

Spacious raised basement duplex. Craftmen windows, built-ins, large balconies. Wd flrs up & down. Lg basement. Off st. pkg. $359,000. Jennifer Pearl, Realtor. Cell 504-258-5724, Ofc 488-0950. www.jennifervpearl.com

CONDO FOR SALE

1 Blk off St. Charles. 2/2, wd flrs, appls & w/d incl., grnite cntrtps & ss appl. OS pkng. REDUCED PRICE! $148,000. Darlene, Hera Realty 504-914-6352

Chic, 3 BR,4.5BA. Gourmet kit, Mstr suite w/ custom closets & shower. Upstairs room w/ full bath. Front porch & back screened porch. $675,000. Darci Lambert, Prudential Gardner. 504-338-3055. www.darcilambert.com

TCHEFUNCTA COUNTRY CLUB New remod 4 or 5 br, 3.5 ba, gour kit w/gran & Italian tile. Toto whirlpool & spa. It tile shwr in mstr. Designer fixtures. 4700+ total sf. $595K. Suzy McDaniel 985-640-1836/504-9443605. DB Sotheby’s Int’l Realty

ABITA SPRINGS HISTORIC ABITA SPRINGS

Steps to Tammany Trace & Abita fairs & festivals. 5 br, 3 ba cottage w/ porches. Less than a year old. $255K. Suzy McDaniel 985-640-1836 or 504944-3605. DB Sotheby’s Int’l Realty

COVINGTON COVINGTON COTTAGE

Charming 3 or 4 br, 3.5 ba, 2500 sf. Close to park. Lush landscaping, oversized lot, pool. $359K. Suzy McDaniel 985-640-1836 or 504-944-3605. D. B. Sotheby’s Int’l Realty.

ELEGANT COUNTRY LIVING

Min. from downtown Covington. Custom European estate on Bogue Falaya River. Main house 3500 sf ft 3 br, 3.5 ba. Guest house 2 br, 1 ba. On 4.66 acres. $1,099,000. By Appt. 985-5022882. CovingtonRiverEstate.com.

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

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

FOLSOM

621 BOCAGE CT. TERRA BELLA

LACOMBE

LUSH FOLSOM ACREAGE

LACOMBE OAKLAWN AVE

50175 SAGE RD, FOLSOM $249,000

STUNNING OAKLAWN/ LACOMBE

40 rolling acres w/2500sf cottage & 4000sf barn. Pecan & walnut grove, blueberry orchard, live oaks, friuit trees, pond. $625K. Suzy McDaniel 985-640-1836 or 504-944-3605. DB Sotheby’s Int’l Realtors

Adorable Acadian Cottage on 5 cres. 3BR/2BA w/new kitchen, all new appl & updated baths. Only 40 min from NOLA. Country living close to the city! Delery Comarda Realtors, 504-8753555 www.NOLAHomefinder.com

Classic, well kept on acre. 4 or 5 br, 3 ba, gamerm,bonusrm, scr porch. 3000sf liv. Close to La. Heart Hosp. $369K. Suzy McDaniel 985-640-1836 or 504-944-3605. DB Sotheby’s INt’l Realtors.

Beau pool w/wtrfall/jacuzzi,1400sf putting gym, home theat, gamerm, library, fab mst ste w/sep ofc/gym, chandlrs, 10,500 sf tot. $1,250,000. Suzy McDaniel, 985-640-1836, 504944-3605. DB Sotheby’s Int’l Realty.

Ann de Montluzin Farmer

broker

1016 NAPOLEON AVE • $350,000

3 br, 2.5 bA, 2088 Sq Ft. Spacious 1st floor w/ wrap around pvt brick patio. Separate dining room and living room with built in bookshelves. Wood burning fireplace in den with French doors opening onto the patio. Located at rear of complex so very private. Assigned parking space. Located on parade route and close to Magazine Street and many amenities. Must see!

(504) 895-1493 (504) 430-8737 farmeran@gmail.com www.demontluzinrealtors.com Licensed in Louisiana for 32 years, building on a real estate heritage since 1905

FOR SALE

NEW ACADIAN HOME

New 3BD, 2BA, Jacuzzi, screened porch, stainless steel appliances, wd flrs. 2 acre lot. Workshop and two car carport 10 min N of I-12 from Goodbee Madisonville Exit 57.

51136 Spirit of the Forest Louisiana • $299K 985-796-9130 • lapolofarms.com • lapolofarms@gmail.com

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FRENCH QUARTER STUDIOS

PRIME FQ COMMERCIAL

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

$174,900

REAL ESTATE

CLASSIFIEDS REAL ESTATE Metairie house for Lease

5 BR, 3.5 bath house for Lease, near Transcontinental & W. Esplanade, great neighborhood, schools and churches, convenient shopping. Pets ok. $1950 per month + deposit.

A HIDDEN GEM

Chic seclusion - Heart of Metairie. 1 bdrm + bonus room, from $735. Wtr pd., Rsvd pkg,1 car. No smoking/ pets 504-780-1706 orrislaneapts.com

OLD METAIRIE 1/2 OFF FIRST MONTH OLD METAIRIE SECRET

DOWNTOWN 1329 FRENCHMAN ST.

Living room, 1 BR, kitchen, tile bath. No pets. $500/mo. Call 504-494-0970.

ESPLANADE RIDGE 1208 N. GAYOSO

Upper 2 BR, LR, DR, 1 BA, KIT, wood/ ceramic flrs, high ceilings, cen a/h, w/d hkups, no pets. $1100 mo. 432-7955.

MID CITY

1205 ST CHARLES/$1050

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail 10/1. 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

1508 CARONDELET ST 2 APTS

Studio, newly remodeled kit & ba, hdwd flrs. $800/mo. Util incl. Huge 2 BR Apt. Bright, spacious,, high ceilings, hdwd flrs, $1100 Both have Cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles St Car, easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. 1-888-2396566. mballier@yahoo.com

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

Efficiency $575; On red streetcar line Includes water and WiFi. Call 504-782-6564

2 Eff apts. Lower $650 tenant pays elec. Upper $700 incl util, w/d on site 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@ yahoo.com

METAIRIE TOWERS

SMALL OFFICE SPACE

1750 ST CHARLES #424

MID CITY - Offstreet parking for one vehicle. Separate entrance. Available 10/1. Contact Jane, (504) 482-5292

1 br + study, total renov, SS appls, wd flrs, gar pkg. Mardi Gras parade rt. $1700. Debbie w/L&B, 952-09591

215 MILLAUDON

WEST BANK TERRYTOWN

434 Bruce Ave, 3 BR, 1.5 BA, patio, util rm, carport, lg liv/din, kit w/oven, refrig, cabinets, cooktop. Lg yd. Lse $1000/mo. No smoke. 451-0913.

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

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

BROADMOOR 1819 S. LOPEZ ST.

Broadmoor 1/2 Shotgun dbl 2BR/1.5BA. Hrdwd flr. Cen. A/H, w/d. $1100/mo. 1 yr lse req. + sec. dep. Avail. 10/1. 504-577-0938. edgeglow@yahoo.com.

Good landlord looking for good tenant! 1 blk off Carrollton. 2br/1ba, 1/2 dble, hdwd flrs, CA&H. $850/mo Call Chuck at 504-236-3609

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 4228 ORLEANS AVE.

1/2 Dble 2 Sty, 2Bd, 1Ba, A/C, Refig, Stove, W/D, Garage. $1275/mo, 1-yr Lse Sec Dep., No Pets. Call 225802-6554/ email dicklea@cox.net

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1006 WASHINGTON AVE

1 BR, 1200 sf, furn, cen a/h, hdwd flrs, d/w, w/d, gated parking, pool, no pets, $750/mo. Lse. 504-458-6509.

3921 CONSTANCE

1/2 double, living room, bedroom, kitchen, bath, a/c unit. $675/mo. Call 895-6394 or 289-9977.

4917 S MIRO ST

2 BR, 1 BA, pool, cen a/h. $885 mo, water incl. Furn kit, w/d. Safe neighborhood. Call 452-2319 or 821-5567

Great landlord looking for great tenants! Near Tulane Univ., 1 br, 1 bath, CA & H, equip’d kit, fenced in yard. $695 Call Chuck, 504-236-3609.

FURN 2BDRM/1BA HOUSE

Complete w/fridge, w&d, mw, stove, sec sys, CA&H, os pkng. On srtcr & Busline. Quiet n’bhood. $1,100 mo + sec dep. No pets/smokers. Call (504) 866-2250

SNGL SHTGN - RIVERBEND

Double parlor, furn kit, br, ba, c-a/h, wd flrs, hi ceil/fans, lg closets, deck, yd, offst pkg $1100. Lyn, 504-8667000 #136

LOWER GARDEN DIST./ IRISH CHANNEL 1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

UPTOWN/ GARDEN DISTRICT

1, 2 & 3

BEDROOMS AVAILABLE CALL

899-RENT HOWARD SCHMALZ & ASSOCIATES

2 BR, Newly renov shotgun style $895/mo Also: Rms by week, private bath. $175/wk all util incl. 504-2020381, 738-2492.

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

FRENCH COUNTRY BRICK HOME FOR LEASE

4 br, 3 ba, Jacuzzi & full shower, 9 ft ceil, antique pine flrs, porches, 2 car gar, sep workshop. Loc on 6 acres 10 min N of I-12 off Turnpike Rd. 50275 Huckleberry Ln. $1950/mo. 985-7969130. lapolofarms.com

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ROOMS FOR RENT CANAL ST - 1 ROOM

Very, very clean. Great n’hood, 6 mo rent agreement. $140/wk, incl wtr & elec. 282-7296. NO CALLS AFT 7PM

CBD CONDO WITH BALC

441 Gravier cor Magazine. Large 1 bdrm, 1 ba, with garage parking, huge windows, fully equippped kit, w/d. Avail Sept 1. $2035/mo. S. Talbot 504-9759763. TALBOT REALTY GROUP

FOLSOM

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REAL ESTATE Call Bert: 504-581-2804 6608 Marshall Foch 3br/2ba "Lakeview Duplex" $1400 87 Egret 2br/2ba "Sanctuary Living" $1275 1406 Magazine 2br/1ba "Lower Garden District" $1100

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UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

Perfect for prof’, Renov Vict hse, 2br/,1 full + 1/2 ba, LR, DR, kit, wd flrs, w/i balc., appls, ca&h, security, pool privileges. $1500/mo. 813-8186 274-8075.

1510 CARONDELET 1 block to St. Charles

4511 CANAL ST

1BR, 1-1/2 BA, pool. Elec & cable included, parking. 24 hr Concierge Service, $970/mo 914-882-1212.

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RENOVATED VICTORIAN GEM! 3br, 2ba charming Uptown cottage. Open floor plan, bright airy great room. Spacious eat-in kitchen with stainless appliances. High ceilings, crown molding, hardwood floors. Large private backyard, great for gardening and entertaining. $225,000

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