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ON THE COVER Big Easy Music Awards ...................................... 74 All the hoopla from the event honoring the best in New Orleans music
7 IN SEVEN Seven Things to Do This Week............................7 Drive-By Truckers, Charles Bradley, Christian Scott, Perfect Pussy, Fiya Fest and more
NEWS + VIEWS News............................................................................ 9 As the historic Carver Theater prepares to reopen in Treme, neighborhood residents are optimistic — but offer words of caution Week-A-Pedia ........................................................... 9 What’s trending online — and in Y@ Speak Scuttlebutt...............................................................12 From their lips to your ears
C’est What? ..............................................................12 Gambit’s Web poll Bouquets & Brickbats .........................................13 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................16 Recommendations for Jefferson Parish voters Jeremy Alford ..........................................................18 Mary Landrieu and her TV ads Clancy DuBos...........................................................19 Help save the lawsuit against Big Oil Blake Pontchartrain............................................20 The N.O. It All answers your questions
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Wed. April 30 | Trumpeter Christian Scott performs a free show at Jazz in the Park. Tysson, the new project by John Michael Rouchell (formerly of MyNameIsJohnMichael) and Organ Grinders open. There’s also an art market and kids’ stage. From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Louis Armstrong Park.
Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires with Hurray For the Riff Raff
Thu. May 1 | Next year makes it a trend. Late-rising soul man and Victim of Love (Daptone) Charles Bradley returns to anchor the second weekend of Jazz Fest, this time paired with Hurray For the Riff Raff, whose lovely ATO debut Small Town Heroes is the secret that got out. At 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.
John Legend
Thu. May 1 | R&B and neo-soul singer/ songwriter John Legend’s 2013 release Love in the Future featured the hit “All of Me” and drew the nine-time Grammy Award winner another nomination. At 8 p.m. at Saenger Theatre. Thu. May 1 | What changed between Perfect Pussy’s 2013 EP I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling and April debut LP Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)? Not a thing. The Syracuse, N.Y., punk band led by howling force Meredith Graves formed by accident but took over on purpose. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and Green Dreams open at 8 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.
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Fri. May 2 | Twisted psychedelic spawn of Animal Collective, David Portner’s freakish experimental rock outfit released Enter the Slasher House in early April. It slouches toward the House of Blues for a 10 p.m. show.
Fiya Fest
Fri. May 2 | Former James Brown sideman Maceo Parker, Eric Krasno, Nikki Glaspie, Nigel Hall and the Shady Horns headline a day stacked with all-star lineups and funk and jazz jams. The Headhunters Superjam features Bill Summers, Donald Harrison Jr., Fred Wesley, Karl Denson and others. Noon to 8 p.m. at Mardi Gras World.
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>> The Queen Diva debuts a new track from the upcoming Just Be Free.
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Southern Rep announces 2014-2015 season BY WILL COVIELLO
>> Season features works by or about Louisianians.
After an $8 million renovation, the historic Carver Theater reopens this week in a changing Treme neighborhood.
Toast to open April 29 BY SARAH BAIRD
>> Eggs, crepes, and more coming next week to Laurel Street.
Hitchcock lives on at Prytania Theatre BY KEN KORMAN
>> It’s mornings in May with the Master of Suspense.
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On Wednesday, Carver Theater opens with a ribbon-cutting and a celebration of International Jazz Day from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. At 7 p.m., it screens the documentary Rocking the Opera House, and a panel of celebrity musicians including Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and Vernel Bagneris discuss the film. The main topic of conversation, however, will be the significance of Carver’s reopening. A concert at 8:30 p.m. with Big Chief Donald Harrison will christen the renovated venue. After the Carver closed in 1980, the building was reopened in 1984 as a medical clinic. Dr. Eugene Oppman, an optician at the clinic, bought the structure in 1991 with the dream to bring back the old Carver Theater, Marshall says. The brick building was heavily damaged following Hurricane Katrina and the levee
failures of 2005, and the The Carver Theater opened road to restoring it was a in 1950 and ceased operation long one. as a theater in 1980. “It was strange because P H OTO BY J E A N I E R I ES S Dr. Oppman took me here about five years ago and brought me to this place after it had been through 30 years and Katrina,” Marshall says. “I remember at the end of the day saying, ‘Well, that was a waste of half the day, meeting with this guy and his dream and what he’s gonna do now.’ It had gone through Katrina, it had the flood, you know. And then Treme wasn’t famous, there was no Treme [television] series back then. We lucked out that Treme came back and was rebuilt, but when I first saw it I said … ‘This is preposterous.’” Once Oppman began renovating, a host of problems delayed the theater’s grand opening, which originally was slated for 2012. The floor had to be raised 3 feet, which Marshall says was expensive, and Oppman had to add another wing to the building to install an elevator. Several years and $8 million later, the building glimmers. The outside is clean and fresh, and the Carver’s iconic marquee is lighted for its grand opening. The interior walls are a deep purple that adds warmth to the classic red of the exterior. A $1 million lighting and sound system gives the theater the ability to host everything from plays to concerts to weddings. The main showroom seats 800 people. “We have all the acoustics in the room done, so there’s no slapback (delayed echo) or anything; the sound is excellent,” Marshall says. There’s also a balcony and two VIP booths. In addition to events and shows, the theater will host a monthly market, where Marshall says vendors from the neighborhood will set up booths. The Carver also has its own nonprofit in the works, though it won’t be operational PAGE 11
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n Saturdays at the Carver Theater, 10 Pepsi-Cola bottle caps earned you a free movie ticket. So Leah Chase would dress up her children, round up all the neighborhood kids and head to the movies — carrying a sack of Pepsi bottle tops she’d collected from behind the bar at the family restaurant, Dooky Chase’s. “So you see?” she says. “It wasn’t like every child would have to save his own 10 tops, because maybe you wouldn’t have 10 tops. But I had them here because we were selling Pepsi. So we’d get all the tops and we’d go to the Carver.” It isn’t hard to get people to talk about their memories of the Carver Theater. The historically black auditorium and movie theater on Orleans Avenue was a cultural epicenter of Treme in the mid-20th century, and its reopening April 30 has inspired reminiscing. The theater opened in 1950 as one of the few theaters in New Orleans exclusively for black audiences during segregation. It’s the venue where Irma Thomas was discovered after winning second place in a talent contest, and it’s where Dr. John’s dad used to drop him off when he couldn’t get into the bigger theaters downtown. “The community is really excited about it,” says Dino Marshall, managing director at the theater. “There’s not a day that goes by that somebody doesn’t come by and tell me a story of their Carver experience.” Marshall says one man told him his wife was about to give birth, but he found out a Bruce Lee movie was playing at the Carver. He was two hours late to visit his newborn.
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The interior of the Carver Theater, which includes a $1 million sound and light system. P H OTO BY J E A N I E R I ES S
Arnatra Hulbert, who works at the Community 6 Grocery near Carver, says she’s excited for the theater to open.
“I lived here when it was open before,” she says. “The last movie I saw there, I think it was in the ’70s. ... It’s a good memory.” Hulbert also thinks Carver Theater will boost business as events and shows there draw more people to the neighborhood. As for Chase, she says she’s excited the theater where she spent so much time is reopening — though she’s keeping her eyes peeled. “You have to watch what people do in the neighborhoods,” she says. “If you’re going to come in a neighborhood like this, I don’t want you to come in here feeling like, ‘Oh, this is all poor black people,’ which it’s not anymore because the whites are moving in like flies. I don’t want you to feel that way and bring us nothing. Bring us quality stuff. Bring something good, something uplifting, and that uplifts the neighborhood. You don’t want people hanging out and doing all that kind of stuff. So I’m watching them very closely. “The Carver really is a good thing,” she summarizes before heading back to her kitchen.
CARVER THEATER GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION
2101 Orleans Ave., 504-304-0460; www.carvertheater.org WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30
10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. — Ribbon cutting and International Jazz Day celebration 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. — Rocking the Opera House documentary is screened, followed by a panel discussion among entertainers and experts 8:30 p.m. — Big Chief Donald Harrison performs
THURSDAY, APRIL 1
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until the theater starts to make money, he says. The Treme Arts Center will teach kids the mechanics of lighting and sound design. “A lot of the nonprofit programs right now for kids teach them music and art,” Marshall says. “We’re going to teach kids sound engineering, lighting and gaffing and all of the things that you can use for convention services and production services, so they’ll immediately be hireable. We’re going to partner with sound companies and light companies.” Most important, the new Carver won’t lose touch with its history or the neighborhood, Marshall says. At the monthly market, for example, visitors can eat food prepared by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews’ grandmother, who lives just a few blocks away. The Carver also has contacted nonprofits such as Providence Community Housing to negotiate parking, and local restaurants will cater events at the reopened venue, among other neighborhood involvement.
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“There’s always been a slight prejudice against the South — actually, not slight. I was trying to be kind. There’s always been a prejudice about the South and Southerners in movies because they are portrayed as bigots. Generally they’re cartoon characters and when they do romantic comedies about the South, they use that broad accent and all the women are these catty, Southern belles. It’s just kind of silly.” — Actor and Arkansas native Billy Bob Thornton, talking to Fox 411 about his new TV series Fargo.
City noise ordinance silenced
Clarkson: I still support music curfew Despite ongoing revisions and years of studying the impact of sound on New Orleans, the New Orleans City Council on April 24 killed an ordinance to curb noise on Bourbon Street. The ordinance — which had the support of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration — aimed to cut down noise, particularly heavy bass sounds, coming from bars and businesses on the street. The proposed ordinance also would have lifted the curfew placed on street musicians from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. The curfew has been on the books for nearly six decades. District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer said the curfew is unconstitutional, as it is not equally applied to all people making noise after a certain time. What remains is a law opponents have called unenforceable and uneven.
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The recent battle over a noise ordinance took shape in January when the City Council withdrew a citywide ordinance that used language identical to a document from the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates (VCPORA) and ignored recommendations from a lengthy, City Council-commissioned report from acoustician David Woolworth. Palmer and the Landrieu administration led revisions to a Bourbon Street-focused ordinance using recommendations from Woolworth and input from musicians and business owners. The resulting proposal shifted enforcement responsibility from the New Orleans Police Department to the city Health Department and made violations civil rather than criminal offenses. It also included instructions for sound measurements, which would be taken five feet from a building when its doors and windows are closed, and would last 20 seconds — instead of the 10-minute rule in present law. The ordinance also aimed to lift the curfew for street musicians, an amendment that could have had citywide implications. The debate at City Hall last week lasted more than two hours, including attempts to add amendments. “We’ve been amending and amending, and we’re going to find out some of the things we’re amending are not legal,” said District D Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell. “What is the rush? Get it right.” Several public speakers — including WWOZ-FM general manager David Freedman — noted that the City Council was voting on a music issue as thousands of people visit New Orleans for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Clarkson said she “proudly [stood] alone” in her amendment to keep the curfew. “Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater,” she said. “I’ve been the biggest music promoter in the city. … This is a music preservation ordinance if it’s done properly. … Noise is noise.” With Councilwoman Stacy Head absent, the ordinance failed to pass by a 3-3 vote, with Clarkson, Hedge-Morrell and District B Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell voting against it. The April 24 meeting also was the last for Clarkson, Hedge-Morrell and Palmer before they leave office in May. “I hope all the stakeholders stay at the table for another two years,” Palmer said. — ALEX WOODWARD PAGE 14
NEWS VIEWS BOUQUETS + brickbats ™ heroes + zeroes Savannah Logan,
a senior at Loyola University New Orleans, was awarded a 2014-15 Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Logan will join Fulbright’s English Teaching Assistantship in Madrid, Spain, where she will teach English and tutor at an after-school program. The St. Croix, Virgin Islands native is a double major in computational math and modern languages and cultures, a member of the University Honors Program, and president of Alpha Sigma Nu.
Jenga Mwendo,
founder and director of the Backyard Gardener’s Network, received Ebony magazine’s annual Hero Next Door award, which recognizes 10 people helping communities throughout the U.S. The Backyard Gardener’s Network offers free gardening and cooking workshops, children’s activities and other events and maintains the Guerilla Garden and Ernst Garden in the Lower 9th Ward. was named the recipient of the 2014 Louisiana Writer Award from the State Library of Louisiana and its Louisiana Center for the Book. The poet — a whose collections include Plainsongs and The Doors Between Us, among others — will receive the award at an event Nov. 1 during the Louisiana Book Festival.
Jamie Whaley,
while serving his third term as elected police chief of Brusly, pleaded guilty in Louisiana District Court April 18 to using a town-issued credit card to purchase $1,120 in gasoline for his personal truck and boat. He receives a $1,000 monthly vehicle allowance from the town. He faces 18 months’ supervised probation — and he intends to run for police chief again in 2016.
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Poll: Obama, Jindal tied in approval ratings
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Landrieu leads GOP opponents A new poll of four Southern states by The New York Times/Kaiser Family Foundation found identical percentages of Louisianans approve and disapprove of Gov. Bobby Jindal and President Barack Obama’s performances in office. Of the respondents, 40 percent approved and 54 percent disapproved of the way Obama and Jindal are handling their respective jobs. The differences were slightly more pronounced when it came to the performances of U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter. Landrieu, a Democrat, received a 49/45 percent approval/disapproval rating, while Vitter’s percentages were 51/35. Only 6 percent of respondents didn’t know or had no answer when it came to Landrieu; Vitter’s don’t know/no answer percentage was more than double that at 13 percent. Landrieu, who’s running against several Republicans in the November 2014 open primary, is out in front with 42 percent of respondents saying she’d have their vote if the election were held now. She leads challengers U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (18 percent), state Rep. Paul Hollis (5 percent) and Rob Maness (4 percent). Thirty percent of respondents weren’t sure if they would vote, or for whom. The poll was conducted April 8-15 and surveyed 1,075 Louisianans, of whom 946 identified themselves as registered voters. — KEVIN ALLMAN
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Lege committee backs bill to keep pregnant women on life support The Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee backed a bill April 23 that would require hospitals to keep pregnant women on life support until the birth of their children. House Bill 348 by state Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, was reported favorably 13-0 by the committee. The bill adds language to Louisiana’s life support measures saying a doctor must keep a pregnant woman on life support if the woman “can reasonably be maintained in such a way as to permit the continuing development and live birth of the unborn child.” “Thank you for stepping in for the child who doesn’t have a vote yet,” said Rep. Jay Morris, R-Monroe. “We have one goal in mind and that’s to protect the sanctity of life in this country,” Badon told the committee. HB 348 is among several reproduction-related bills introduced this session, including House Bill 388 from state Rep. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, which, among other regulations, requires
doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics. Opponents of the measure say it would create major hurdles for rural physicians and their patients. That bill passed the House 86-5 on March 3 and is expected to receive Senate approval and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature. — ALEX WOODWARD
Pot bill up in smoke
Morrell’s bill to reduce weed penalties dies in committee After heated debate, a bill by state Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, to reduce penalties for marijuana possession in Louisiana was snuffed out by the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 22. Senate Bill 323 would have made possession of marijuana in any amount a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $100 and/or imprisonment for up to six months. The committee attempted to add an amendment that would have made possession of no more than one ounce of marijuana a misdemeanor for the first offense only. With that amendment, the bill would mirror current state law with the exception of a first offense, a move that may have improved the bill’s chances of ultimate passage. The bill died in committee, however, after members voted 4-3 against that amendment. Ironically, throughout testimony, several speakers and legislators admitted to having smoked marijuana. State Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb, D-Baton Rouge (who voted in favor of the amendment), said she has never smoked weed or consumed alcohol, while Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, admitted both to smoking and inhaling. Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier, who opposed the measure, said he was “downwind from several marijuana cigarettes from time to time.” Adley, who co-authored the bill, said, “This committee had an opportunity to reduce what you wanted to do dramatically. We’re not even willing to do that. ... People aren’t even willing to reduce to an ounce or less to protect the civil rights violated every day because the punishment does not fit the crime.” The committee voted 4-3 to defer the bill. Louisiana’s marijuana laws are some of the nation’s most stringent. A first-offense possession of even a small amount of pot can land the owner in jail for six months. — ALEX WOODWARD
Correction
A story in last week’s Gambit about astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and his April 14 lecture in New Orleans misidentified where Tyson spoke. He was at Tulane University.
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Jefferson election recommendations his Saturday, May 3, marks more than the second weekend of Jazz Fest — it’s also Election Day in some suburban parishes. In Jefferson Parish, voters will decide the fate of three millage renewals, while voters in Kenner will settle the last remaining runoff in the City Council elections. Here are our recommendations.
Consolidated Road Lighting District — FOR
This millage renewal would continue funding to acquire, construct, improve, maintain and operate streetlights in the unincorporated areas of Jefferson Parish and in the town of Jean Lafitte for another 10 years. Only voters in those areas will find this proposition on the ballot. The current maximum rate is 3 mills, and the renewal calls for the same maximum rate for another 10 years. The Jefferson Parish Council most recently set the millage at 2.33 mills. Funding from this millage is needed to power and properly maintain nearly 40,000 street lights throughout unincorporated Jefferson Parish, to replace deteriorated wiring and pole systems (some of which are 50 years old) and to install new lighting systems along unlighted thoroughfares. Streetlights are essential to public safety. We recommend our readers in Jefferson vote FOR the renewal of this dedicated millage. GAMBIT > BESTOFNEWORLEANS.COM > APRIL 29 > 2014
Judicial and Culture Renewal — FOR
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Renewal of this 10-year millage would continue to provide additional essential funds to maintain, administer and operate judicial services in Jefferson Parish’s criminal justice system — and to provide, maintain, administer and operate cultural and park facilities and programs. This proposition appears on the ballot parishwide. Proceeds will continue to be divided equally between judicial services and cultural/park facilities and programs. The present millage is capped at 1 mill, and the renewal carries the same maximum rate. The Parish Council presently levels less than the maximum rate — 0.8 mills. We recommend voters in Jefferson vote FOR this renewal.
Special Services Renewal — FOR
This 10-year millage carries a maximum rate of 2.5 mills, of which 2.03 mills are presently levied by the Parish Council. The renewal proposition imposes the same maximum of 2.5 mills. If renewed by voters in unincorporated Jefferson and the Town of Jean Lafitte, this millage would continue to provide shared funding to support, maintain, administer and operate judicial services in four key areas: the criminal justice system (40 percent), culture
and parks (20 percent), senior citizen services (20 percent) and economic development (20 percent). State law mandates that local governments bear some of the financial responsibility of local criminal justice systems. In Jefferson, that includes the district attorney’s office, the courts and judicial system, Juvenile Court process servers, justices of the peace and related services. This millage also supports funding for the West Bank Security Task Force. Renewal of this millage would continue to provide, maintain, administer and operate park facilities and programs and cultural facilities, such as the professional operation and management of the Jefferson Performing Arts Center. If renewed, this millage would continue to fund the Jefferson Community Senior Service Fund, which is the sole source of funding for the Office of Senior Citizens Services. The millage funds six senior centers, contributes to the Council on Aging, which provides meals for homebound seniors, supports caregivers and sponsors wellness and education programs for seniors. This millage also funds the Jefferson Business Development and Economic Service Fund, which provides financial and planning help to businesses in Jefferson Parish. We recommend our readers in Jefferson vote FOR renewal of this millage.
Kenner Council District 2: Mike Sigur
District 2 straddles Interstate 10 and includes some of Kenner’s older neighborhoods, where infrastructure needs are great, as well as some newer neighborhoods north of Interstate 10, where traffic and business development are major concerns. We believe Mike Sigur offers voters in this district the kind of experience they are looking for in a new council member. Sigur served as a Kenner police officer for more than three decades, in both the enforcement and administrative divisions of the department. He capped his career by serving on the executive staffs of Kenner’s last two police chiefs and supervising the construction of the department’s administrative complex. He also has served as president of the Jefferson Alliance for Good Government and president of the Central Kenner Civic Association. We recommend Mike Sigur as the new council member from District 2. This weekend offers Jefferson citizens many opportunities to enjoy all that southeast Louisiana offers, but we encourage them to take the time to vote in these important elections.
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.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu must like being on TV. That’s the only reason she would have her campaign produce a TV commercial about her appearing on television. You only see Landrieu, the actual woman, untelevised during the first three seconds of the 1:02 spot, long enough for her voiceover to state “I approve this message.” For the other 59 seconds, the New Orleans Democrat is depicted as a political Max Headroom. Displayed on a variety of monitors and TV sets, she appears in news clips slamming the Obama Administration over oil and gas policies as concerned constituents watch. First there’s a couple washing dishes in a kitchen and watching their countertop TV set. Then there’s a father watching TV as he helps his toddler get dressed in the morning, followed by people watching Landrieu on TV in a diner and perhaps a bar. A group of guys in a machine shop or garage are glued
Ann Porter of Slidell, one of the socalled actors in the Landrieu ad, wrote on her Facebook page that she was more a “volunteer” and an “extra.” Porter sits behind Landrieu in one scene, where an aide might be positioned. “All I had to do was sit there and scribble,” she wrote on her Facebook feed. “The Senator had the hard job.” The production criticisms, however, overlook the real weakness of Landrieu’s “Will Not Rest” ad. The commercial makes the senator look as though her only relationship with Louisiana voters is through broadcast media. It gives her campaign a disconnected feeling at a time when she should be returning to the fundamentals of grassroots campaigning. While Landrieu arguably has the most government and leadership experience and the most to offer Louisiana politically as the Senate energy chair, her polling numbers haven’t bounced (or dropped).
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The commercial makes the senator look as though her only relationship with Louisiana voters is through broadcast media. to their sets. All the while, Landrieu makes tough-looking faces and dishes up stern words to those in D.C. who don’t understand how important energy is to Louisiana. The “Will Not Rest” ad, launched around April 15, represents an opening salvo of sorts, the first assault in Landrieu’s $2.6 million media buy that was reserved earlier this month. Time will tell if it wins votes for her, but Landrieu’s opposition wasted no time shooting back. Conservatives allege she staged committee debates and news coverage in the ad. The web buzzed with frame-by-frame breakdowns pointing out everything from the fonts used on the committee nameplates to the “actors” who surrounded Landrieu during the allegedly dramatized hearings. Another TV spot bankrolled by Keep Louisiana Working, a GOP “dark money” group, has picked up on those themes, stating, “Mary’s an actress, too,” repeating the GOP’s favorite meme — that she supports President Barack Obama 97 percent of the time. That mantra is what her “Will Not Rest” ad was designed to offset. The GOP-aligned OnMessage consulting firm and its Louisiana partner Timmy Teepell — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief political strategist — produced the “actress” commercial slamming Landrieu. The Landrieu campaign countered that her ad was from a “real hearing” that was broadcast on WWL-TV in New Orleans.
Supporters feel good about a New York Times/Kaiser Family poll from mid-April showing Landrieu leading the primary field with 42 percent — more than her opponents combined. Congressman Bill Cassidy follows with 18 percent, state Rep. Paul Hollis 5 percent and Rob Maness 4 percent. Other polls show Landrieu holding firm and Cassidy gaining more ground: an American Crossroads survey from earlier this month had Landrieu at 40 percent and Cassidy at 35 percent in the primary field, while Magellan Strategies’ March poll had Landrieu with 39 percent to Cassidy’s 26 percent. This far out from the election, it’s all over the map. The New York Times produced a statistical forecasting model last week predicting the GOP would capture Landrieu’s seat. Meanwhile, other outlets, including The Cook Political Report and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, declare the race a tossup. Landrieu has won tough races before, but campaigning from an ivory tower on the Hill, rather than focusing on the retail politics Louisiana voters love, won’t help her. Maybe that’s why there has been such a huge reaction to the return of former Gov. Edwin Edwards, the king of shaking hands and kissing babies. That’s not to say Landrieu should mimic Edwards. She should, however, step outside The Matrix. To transpose a famous quote from the 1999 sci-fi movie, you should never send a machine to do a human’s job.
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Will Goliath win this time? he showdown between Big Oil and those who seek to defend the constitutional right of citizens and their leaders and to hold miscreants accountable is coming this week in the state Capitol. It’s a true David-versus-Goliath story. David in this case is the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E), which sued 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies last July. The lawsuit aims to make the energy companies pay their fair share — and only their fair share — of the costs of coastal land loss caused by oil and gas activity in southeast Louisiana. Promoters of the lawsuit have consistently acknowledged that the energy
fact, the bills under consideration this week violate several constitutional provisions, but that’s no big deal to Big Oil and its allies. More than 80 percent of the voters across coastal Louisiana do not want their legislators to snuff out the SLFPA-E lawsuit. Regrettably, some coastal lawmakers are buying (and parroting) Big Oil’s big lies. Those lawmakers have forgotten the folks they are supposed to represent. I believe the voters will not forget that next election season — but by then it may be too late. Here’s the gist of the offending bills — followed by the switchboard numbers in
Coastal erosion happens silently. To stop it, you have to make noise — now. the House and Senate. If you care about saving Louisiana’s coast, the time to call is now. Because, frankly, most of the time Goliath still wins. • SB79 by Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, lets the governor fire sitting levee board members virtually at will. This bill would gut post-Katrina reforms, which were approved by more than 80 percent of Louisiana voters. Adley is in the energy business. • SB531 by Sen. Bret Allain II, R-Franklin, removes SLPFA-E’s authority to sue to enforce terms of a federal or state permit. More than 64 percent of the voters in Allain’s coastal district support the SLFPA-E suit — and 70 percent say they would be less likely to vote for a lawmaker who tries to let Big Oil off the hook for environmental damages. • SB546 by Adley removes SLPFA-E’s authority to sue over “lawful activities of an oil and gas permittee” — and it applies retroactively, despite express constitutional prohibitions to the contrary. • SB547 by Adley nullifies SLPFA-E’s contract with its lawyers — retroactively. • SB553 by Adley puts SLPFA-E under the governor’s thumb and retroactively requires the governor’s approval before the board can hire an attorney. • SB629 by Adley also puts SLFPA-E under the governor’s thumb, effectively neutering post-Katrina reforms. To call the House, dial 225-342-6945. To call the Senate, dial 225-342-2040. To find your senator and representative, go to http://legis.la.gov/legis/findmylegislators.aspx. Coastal erosion happens silently. To stop it, you have to make noise — now.
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industry is not the sole source of coastal erosion — just as the industry’s own experts have long admitted that digging thousands of miles of canals has contributed to the problem. State and federal permits require energy companies to restore the marsh as much as possible. The companies sought those permits and agreed to those terms. That makes them a contract, enforceable by law. This being Louisiana, and our political leaders being reluctant to offend those who fund their campaigns, those contracts were never really enforced. The old joke that the flag of Texaco flies over the state Capitol never really was a joke, either. Last summer, someone finally mustered the courage to challenge Big Oil. The SLFPA-E lawsuit was the first stone in David’s sling. Judging by the intensity of the industry’s response — and the rush by some politicians to rally behind Big Oil — that stone clearly hit the mark. No one has licked Goliath’s boots more eagerly than Gov. Bobby Jindal, but he’s hardly alone. Lawmakers are considering a half-dozen bills to scuttle the lawsuit. The measures range from gutting the independence of the SLFPA-E itself to retroactively deauthorizing the suit. What’s been pleasantly surprising is the number of lawmakers — Democrat and Republican — who see those bills for what they are: a profoundly un-American attempt to prevent citizens and their leaders from petitioning the government for redress of grievances. Lest Jindal and Big Oil forget, that is a fundamental right guaranteed by the First Amendment. In
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What can you tell me about the designs on the sound barriers along Interstate 10 in Metairie? Are they palmettos or lotus flowers or some other plant? How old are they? Sara
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The sound walls along Interstate 10 were built to reduce traffic noises for the residential neighborhoods adjacent to the highway. The walls that stretch from Causeway Boulevard to the Interstate 10/610 split have been there for 12 years. Since 2011, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Federal Highway Administration have been working on a $42 million project to widen the interstate for 1.2 miles between the Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Clearview Parkway exits. The width of this section has been expanded from six to 10 lanes to better accommodate the nearly 162,000 commuters who travel through it each day. Part of the project includes building sound walls along that stretch of Interstate 10. The new walls should be completed in the next four to six weeks. The lovely bas-relief designs on the walls are palmettos, and the new sound walls will be identical to the older ones.
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Are there any plans to get rid of the building that once housed tuberculosis patients? It stands in the middle of the medical center being built and is empty and ugly. Jeannine Ward
Dear Jeannine,
“Ugly” is a matter of opinion. Some parties have worked hard to protect this historic building. The John Dibert Tuber-
culosis Hospital at 340 S. Claiborne Ave. was built in memorial to John Dibert, a wealthy lumberman and foundry owner whose wife, Eve Christine Dibert, donated thousands of dollars to ensure her husband was commemorated properly. A school on Orleans Avenue was named in his honor, and he was interred in a classical-style mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery. The neoclassical five-story hospital on South Claiborne Avenue is more than 58,000 square feet and was built in 1926. At that time it had 250 beds. Tuberculosis did not have the same devastating impact in New Orleans as it did in other major U.S. cities. In 1953, a 10-bed alcoholic rehabilitation hospital was opened in the Dibert building, and most recently, the building functioned as a primary care health clinic. The building suffered damage during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and FEMA took measures to avoid further deterioration by securing and ventilating it. In conjunction with Facility Planning and Control (FP&C) and LSU, FEMA developed a strategic plan to encourage adaptive reuse of the John Dibert Building, along with eight other historically significant structures that made up the former Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO). That includes Charity Hospital, by the way. It was up to LSU to determine which of the nine properties would be suitable for its use. In a 2008 programmatic agreement, FEMA said that if LSU decided the Dibert Building was not suitable, FP&C would offer it to other state agencies or other interested parties. The most recent plan calls for converting the structure into housing for students in the LSU Health Sciences Center’s programs in medicine, nursing, dentistry, allied health professions, graduate studies and public health. As for the building’s famous neighbor, Charity Hospital, Mayor Mitch Landrieu continues to promote his plan to convert “Big Charity” into a civic complex.
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Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, Pharoah Sanders and many others perform at Jazz Fest. BY COUNT BASIN™ WITH HELP FROM WILL COVIELLO, CATE CZARNECKI, FRANK ETHERIDGE, NATHAN MATTISE, JENNIFER ODELL, BRAD RHINES AND ALEX WOODWARD
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ver since Bruce Springsteen and his Seeger Sessions band closed its 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival set with an extended version of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” the Boss has been like an adopted son of the Crescent City and a welcome face at the Fair Grounds. He returned in 2012, and he’s back this year with his E Street Band for a nearly three-hour show on the Acura Stage on Saturday. They’re among a huge roster of rock, jazz and R&B legends, top contemporary bands and local favorites performing at the second weekend of Jazz Fest, including John Fogerty, Arcade Fire, Solange, Chick Corea, Allen Toussaint, Al Jarreau, Irma Thomas, Alabama Shakes, Mary Mary, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue and many others. Plus there’s festival food, crafts, social aid and pleasure club parades and more. The following pages include Count Basin’s daily recommendations, interviews with musicians and a pullout section with a map, daily schedules and festival information. Look for Count Basin’s reviews of performances and highlights from the festival in coming issues and on bestofneworleans.com.
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The New Orleans Bingo! Show
The New Orleans Bingo! Show began before Hurricane Katrina as a ragtag bohemian vaudevillian jazz experiment-as-entertainment supporting Thursday night bingo games at Fiorella’s Cafe in the French Quarter. It has morphed into a nationally touring, critically acclaimed spectacle that offers as much eye candy as manic sonic journey. In addition to the sexy shimmying of burlesque star Trixie Minx, the New Orleans Bingo! Show features frontman Clint Maedgen, who’s ridden this wave from days of hustling fried chicken deliveries for Fiorella’s into a stellar career as saxophonist, singer and composer — and an integral part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 12:25 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Acura Stage
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The heartbeat of powwow drum music looped through electronic dance beats and mixed with an ear to hip-hop and dubstep gave rise to what this Ottawa, Canada-based DJ team calls Pow Wow Step, the foundation of its increasingly buzzedabout “electric powwow” shows. Comprised of producers DJ Bear Witness, DJ NDN and DJ Shub, the group’s unique approach to updating the sounds of traditional Native American culture has earned it two Polaris Prize nods since the trio first began performing for the youth of native tribes in Canada in 2007. Since then, they’ve released two acclaimed albums. Their performances get a visual boost from the videography of DJ Bear Witness, who says his work is politically charged. The group performed at Jazz Fest last year in conjunction with the
Cultural Exchange Pavilion’s focus on Native American music and culture. At this year’s set, the group is joined by James Jones, a dancer who puts a rave-minded spin on the traditional Native American hoop dance. 1:55 p.m.-2:50 p.m. Jazz & Heritage Stage
Stanton Moore
Galactic drummer Stanton Moore presents a set sure to be far removed from that of the jam/funk band he helped found. A disciple of Johnny Vidacovich and astute student of New Orleans musical traditions, Moore flexes fine jazz chops on his eloquent new release, Conversations (Royal Potato Family), which was recorded with his trio. The album’s groove is built on Moore’s steady syncopation with Vidacovich’s Astral Project partners James PAGE 27
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Truth Universal’s fluid, progressive-minded music was honed during a decade-plus role as host of the Grassroots hip-hop showcase at the Dragon’s Den and is reminiscent of A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip (filtered through New Orleans influences). Here, Truth partners with frequent collaborator from the Grassroots gigs, DJ E.F. Cuttin’ — a low end-bouncing wax-shredder. 11:15 a.m.-noon Congo Square Stage
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Singleton (bass) and David Torkanowsky (piano). Conversations triumphs in this trio’s renditions of local standards and modern jazz compositions. 2:50 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
Spencer Taylor & the Highway QCs
The Highway QCs (derived from Highway Baptist Church and Quincy College High School, where the original members met) formed in the fertile Chicago gospel scene that grew from a generation of African-American migration to the city from the Deep South, particularly Louisiana and Mississippi, in the 1920s and ’30s. The group marks its 70th anniversary next year, boasts more than 40 albums and tours internationally. Its alumni include Lou Rawls and the immortal Sam Cooke, a founding member. The ensemble is fronted by Spencer Taylor, who joined the group in the 1950s. 3:50 p.m.-4:50 p.m. Gospel Tent
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Greensky Bluegrass looks to kick the dancing into high gear with its blistering brand of bluegrass. The up-andcoming quintet features Dave Bruzza (guitar), Anders Beck (Dobro), Mike Devol (upright bass), Mike Bont (banjo) and Paul Hoffman (mandolin) and its superb songwriting and musicianship propels its foot-stomping appeal. The group formed in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 2000 and through constant touring has earned fans among bluegrass purists and the festival circuit. 4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
String Cheese Incident
These self-professed Colorado ski bums united in the high-country outposts of Crested Butte and Telluride in the mid-1990s and became bluegrass-influenced jam band titans — capable by 2005 of headlining summer amphitheater tours and forming Madison House Inc., a music business services company that challenged Ticketmaster before its sticky merger with LiveNation. The group split up in 2007, and there was speculation that some members were unhappy with the band’s shift toward electro-trance sounds and shows catering to rave fans — featuring spectacles with burlesque dancers and acrobatic pole dancing at late-night shows in Las Vegas. Members switched to side projects more in tune with the acoustic and rock styles that formed the basis of Sting Cheese’s early years. Billy Nershi focused on Honkytonk Homeslice with wife Jilian and the Emmitt-Nershi Band with Leftover Salmon’s Drew Emmitt. Kyle Hollingsworth became an avid home brewer and toured with his namesake band. Whatever the reasons for the split, String Cheese reunited for intermittent shows in subsequent years, and toured again beginning in 2011. It also head-
lined Hulaween, its own festival held in fall 2013 at the Spirit of Suwanee, Fla. String Cheese drew critical praise for April release A Song in My Head, the band’s first studio album in nine years. 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Acura Stage
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Lonnie Smith grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., immersed in gospel, blues and jazz. In 1969, Downbeat named him its “Top Organist,” and he became the turbaned guru of the Hammond B-3 organ. Smith’s frenetic, funky organ work is a hallmark of vintage Blue Note albums such as saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 platinum-selling Alligator Boogaloo. Blue Note offered Smith his own deal and he created a series of soul/jazz albums, all classics composed with various ensembles but always demonstrating his distinctive B-3 playing. In the mid-’70s, Smith departed from Blue Note to follow his own muse, which led him from Jimi Hendrix tribute albums to performing with a 15-piece big band. In October 2013, he released In the Beginning, Vols. I & II, a retooled collection of his early songs, on his imprint label. In February, he performed two sold-out shows at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club. Smith, who turns 70 this year, performs at Jazz Fest with his regular trio, featuring Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and Jamire Williams on drums. 5:40 p.m.-7 p.m. Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett’s latest album is 2012’s Release Me, his last on longtime label Curb and as mismatched and messy as a contractually obligated goodbye can be. And that’s a compliment. It’s a fun mess, one in which the celebrated country singer/songwriter cut only two original tracks and shares a duet with Kat Edmonson on holiday classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” There’s even
rollicking, New Orleans piano blues on “Keep It Clean” and covers of songs by late friends Townes Van Zandt (“White Freightliner Blues”) and Jesse Winchester (“Isn’t That So”), turned here into a forceful, horn-blasting soul track. Lovett also paid tribute to the late Winchester, the Louisiana-born songwriter who died April 11, on the 2012 album Quiet About It, featuring Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and others performing Winchester’s songs. (Lovett eulogized Winchester on Twitter, saying he “was one of the true greats. He was such a gentleman and was always kind to me.”) Born in the small town of Klein, Texas, and named for his great-great-grandfather, Lovett still lives on his family farm — though he tours constantly. 5:40 p.m.-7 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
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Solange
New New Orleans resident, Solange Knowles — no longer just Beyonce’s younger sister — emerged as a formidable dance-pop singer/songwriter with her 2012 EP True and its standout single “Losing You.” Last year, she launched her own label, Saint Records, which will issue her material and releases from its roster, previewed on the 2013 compilation album Saint Heron. While she obviously took cues from her sister’s performance notes, Solange infuses her neo-soul-inspired pop with ’70s future-funk, ’80s R&B and Swedish synthpop. Her killer dance moves and visual style —as seen in her collection for Puma, for which she is the art director — bleeds into her neon and Instagram-pastel videos (check the Mannie Fresh and Bun B cameos in her Michael Jackson-esque video for “Lovers in the Parking Lot”). In a stunning spread in the March Harper’s Bazaar, Solange revealed she has been living in Louisiana working on her full-length album. 6:10 p.m.-6:55 p.m. Congo Square Stage PAGE 28
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Creole crooner par excellence Philip Manuel worked with songwriting partner Mike Pellara to recruit a top-notch local ensemble: Steve Masakowski on guitar, Max Moran on bass, Doug Belote on drums and a horn section including Khari Lee, Jamil Sharif and Tony Dagradi. With a smooth vocal delivery, a dash of showmanship and the ability to swing complex arrangements, Manuel looks to add to the “Eleanor Rigby” rendition already in his repertoire with Beatles classics such as “Hey Jude” and Sir Paul’s 1966 up-tempo party-starter, “Got to Get You into My Life.” 4:05 p.m.-5:10 p.m. Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
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The Gloryoskis! featuring Helen Gillet, Debbie Davis and Myshkin
This quirky New Orleans collaboration featuring Helen Gillet on cello, Debbie Davis on ukulele and Myshkin on guitar delighted the crowd at last year’s Chaz Fest with gypsy jazz-tinged folk songs. This year, the trio makes its debut at Jazz Fest. The band’s repertoire includes heartfelt original tunes and an eclectic collection of cover songs, from Jimmie Rodgers’ “Miss the Mississippi and You” to X-Ray Spex’s “I Live Off You.” The group is working on its first EP. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lagniappe Stage
The Honorable South
The Honorable South’s mashup of musical styles defies easy categorization, but the band calls it “electric soul rock ’n’ roll.” The local quintet made a splash with the 2012 single “Beast,” which featured a hip-hop-inspired groove that falls in line with Atlanta artists like OutKast and Erykah Badu. The group is led by Ms. Charm Taylor, whose soulful vocals are backed by trippy electric guitars and bluesy bass lines. The Honorable South recently released the video for its new single, “Saint Charles Parish,” which appears on the
album Faithful Brave & Honest, due out in May. 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
Warren Storm, Willie Tee & Cypress Band with special guest T.K. Hulin
Warren Storm has been a staple of the swamp pop scene since he helped invent south Louisiana’s signature blend of traditional country and New Orleans-style rhythm and blues. Storm first hit the Billboard charts in 1958 with “Prisoner’s Song,” and he released an impressive string of singles throughout the ’60s and ’70s. In 1980, the Abbeville native teamed up with singer and saxophonist Willie Tee to form the Cypress Band, and together they introduced a new generation to swamp pop. The band broke up a few years later but reunited in 2004. Last year, it released the album Swamp Pop Jukebox. The Cypress Band is joined by another veteran of the genre, T.K. Hulin, who scored a national hit in 1963 with “I’m Not a Fool Anymore.” 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
Woodshed: Vibes feat. Jason Marsalis and Chase Jordan
It’s been a busy year for Jason Marsalis, the youngest of the musical Marsalis brothers. In 2013, Marsalis released In a World of Mallets with his Vibes Quartet. He toured Latin America with his side project Native Jazz Quartet, and he played drums on Ellis Marsalis’ new record On the Second Occasion. The good vibrations continue at Jazz Fest, where Marsalis will be joined by fellow vibraphonist Chase Jordan, an accomplished player who got his start at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. 1:35 p.m.-2:25 p.m. Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
Hurray for the Riff Raff
The secret is out. New Orleanians have long been enamored
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Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys
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critical acclaim. Escovedo made a name for himself in the Austin, Texas punk scene in the early 1980s with the bands Rank and File and True Believers, but it was his 1992 solo album, Gravity, that first exposed his singer/songwriter side and eventually drew comparisons to rock ’n’ roll street poets like Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen. Escovedo nearly died in 2003 from cirrhosis, a complication of hepatitis C, but he rebounded in 2005 and released The Boxing Mirror, the first in a string of albums that cemented his reputation. Escovedo is making a return to his rock roots with his band the Sensitive Boys, and he plans to release a new album later this year. 4:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas
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of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s freight train folk blues, and the rest of the world has been catching up since the group’s major label debut dropped in February. Small Town Heroes received rave reviews from Pitchfork and National Public Radio, and major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal profiled the hardscrabble charm of singer/ songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra. Originally from the Bronx, New York, Segarra wandered the country before landing in New Orleans and forming Hurray for the Riff Raff as an outlet for her traveling songs. After spending the first part of the year on tour with country-folk duo Shovels & Rope, the band is set to make its national TV debut April 29 on Conan. 2:05 p.m.-3:05 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
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Alabama Shakes
Though it had released an eponymous four-song EP in 2011 that gained media attention, Alabama Shakes took the indie rock world by storm following the release of 2012’s Boys & Girls. Singer/guitarist Brittany Howard put the band together while in high school in 2009, and the members covered Led Zeppelin and AC/DC songs to put together a complete set. But it’s Howard’s intense, soul-baring vocals that propel the band and have drawn her comparisons to singers like Janis Joplin on tunes like “Hold On.” The band is working on a follow-up album, which it says will go beyond the soulful Southern rock sounds that characterized Boys & Girls. 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
Chaka Khan
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going strong. Khan’s first splash was the 1974 breakout hit “Tell Me Something Good,” a collaboration between Stevie Wonder and Khan’s band Rufus, and she continued to make waves with the 1978 disco anthem “I’m Every Woman.” Last year she released the single “It’s Not Over” to preview her forthcoming album The iKhan Project, though its release has been postponed twice. 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Congo Square Stage
Lost Bayou Ramblers
The Lost Bayou Ramblers’ most recent record, 2012’s Mammoth Waltz, earned the band plenty of attention beyond its home in Lafayette. The group turned up the volume on traditional Cajun music with the addition of electric guitars and big booming drums, creating a unique sound that took it to music festivals and rock venues across the country. The band started working on a new batch of songs after performing at last year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival, where members befriended indie rock darlings Arcade Fire and spent time at that band’s Montreal recording studio. This April, Lost Bayou Ramblers played opening slots on a couple of Arcade Fire’s Reflektor tour stops. 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
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since the 1970s, often making multiple appearances. She performed on the Acura Stage on the first weekend and returns to the fest’s Gospel Tent, where she packed the house in 2013 with a tribute to Mahalia Jackson. Like many R&B soul singers, Thomas got her start singing in church, so she’ll be getting back to the basics in the Gospel Tent. 4:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Gospel Tent
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n the early 1960s, tenor saxophonist Ferrell Sanders moved from Little Rock, Arkansas, to New York City, where he was renamed Pharoah by Sun Ra and started producing some of the most spiritual and intense music jazz aficionados have heard. His recordings with John Coltrane, including Live at the Village Vanguard Again!, Meditations and Ascension, are as heavy as any music in the genre, while his recordings as a bandleader (Tauhid, The Creator Has a Master Plan, Thembi, Black Unity) can be as abstract and free-jazz spacey as any music of that era (1960s and early 1970s) — or, for that matter, any other. Sanders is most famous for those recordings, but he has released many albums since then that sound more mainstream, including the anthem “You Got To Have Freedom Now,” which appeared on a namesake anthology. As a sideman, Sanders also has worked on more electric sounds with Sonny Sharrock, and he combined that with a world music perspective on his work with Bill Laswell in the 1990s. Whatever the setting, instrumentation or lineup, Sanders has a distinct and affecting sound. In his book Song Of Praise: Homage to John Coltrane, John Sinclair discusses the Coltrane groups of the mid-1960s, in which Sanders played a large part. “You had to be there,” Sinclair says. “There was no other place you would want to be. You had to be there to hear and see and feel the message of freedom and immense human possibility blazed across your mental sky.” Times have changed, but Sanders is still here with a sound unto himself.
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Cellist Helen Gillet arrived in New Orleans by way of Belgium and Singapore and has made the Crescent City her home since the early 2000s. She is classically trained but also draws from an array of styles including French chansons, modern jazz and rhythmic Indian ragas. Her most recent album Ferdinand highlights her decadelong collaboration with local bassist and Astral Project member James Singleton. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lagniappe Stage
Nick Sanders Trio
Pianist Nick Sanders has assembled an accomplished supporting lineup featuring New York bassist Henry Frasier and drummer Connor Baker. Born and raised in New Orleans, Sanders attended the New England Conservatory of Music on a full scholarship and was signed to the jazz label Sunnyside Records in 2011. Last year, the 25-year-old released the critically acclaimed debut album Nameless Neighbors. Sanders received the Marion and Eubie Blake International Piano Award three consecutive years from 2010-2012. 12:20 p.m.-1:10 p.m. Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
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Tommy Malone
Tommy Malone has been a fixture of the local music scene for decades — both as a solo artist and member of bands including late-1980s and 1990s mellow rockers the subdudes and the Continental Drifters. The singer/guitarist is known for eloquent songwriting, and recent blues-infused rock tunes have recounted difficult post-Hurricane Katrina years. His album Poor Boy arrives this week, and his set is sure to include new material and songs from 2013’s well-received Natural Born Days. 12:50 p.m.-1:40 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
The New Orleans Hip-Hop Experience feat. Partners-N-Crime, 3D Na’Tee, Keedy
Black, DJ Mike Swift, T-Ray the Violinist and Dobama
This showcase features some of the city’s up-andcoming hip-hop and R&B artists. 3D Na’Tee’s career has soared since the release of her critically acclaimed 2012 mixtape the The Coronation, which features appearances by Keri Hilson and Lyrica Anderson. Na’Tee’s controlled delivery and flow have earned her comparisons to Nas. With hits from the 1990’s including “Pump the Party” and “Let the Good Times Roll,” the duo Partners-N-Crime are the set’s elder statesmen of New Orleans’ rap scene. 1:15 p.m.-2:05 p.m. Congo Square Stage
Cha Wa
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phrase meaning “We’re coming for you.” Led by vocalist Eric “Yedi” Boudreaux, the band’s repertoire is comprised of traditional Mardi Gras Indian percussion and call-and-response songs and chants fortified with blues and funk guitar. The lineup, which includes Colin Lake on lap steel guitar, Adam Crotchet on guitar and Tom Worrell on keyboard, takes a groovebased approach to classic Indian songs like “Ho Na Nae” and “Shallow Water.” 1:55 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Jazz and Heritage Stage
Alexis and the Samurai
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money. On our first record, a lot of the songs had this immediacy, the stomping and clapping vibe that we’d use to grab people’s attention.” The band’s self-titled album included the song “Rivers and Roads,” which was used on the TV shows Chuck and How I Met Your Mother. With support from the label, the band took a less immediate approach to the songwriting on October 2013 release Let’s Be Still. It features some somber material such as “Another Story,” which Russell penned in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings. “Can we go on like it once was?” he sings in a lonesome falsetto. “On the first record, because we were just starting to play together, there’s less of a cohesive vision. … [O]n the second record, we really wanted it to have a certain feeling and sound,” Johnson says. The Head and the Heart now headlines festivals and larger venues, but Johnson is still amazed by the band’s growth. “To be writing a song and then hear it played live in these beautiful halls is such a crazy place to be,” he says. “I feel like it was just a beautiful, happy accident.”
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Butler, Bernstein and the Hot 9
After relocating from New Orleans to Brooklyn, N.Y., pianist and singer Henry Butler found a new muse in Steven Bernstein, the trumpeter, composer and arranger behind experimental projects including Sex Mob and the Millennial Territory Orchestra. Along with their nine-piece band, the ensemble uses early New Orleans jazz as a point
of departure for explorations of post-bop, blues and even gospel, filtering the repertoire of titans like Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller through funked-up parade rhythms with plenty of soul. The Hot 9 draws on top players from New York’s creative and improvised music scene, lending a progressive vibe to the outfit’s overall sound. The group’s debut recording, Viper Drag, is due out on Impulse! in May in Europe and a domestic release will follow. 2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Blues Tent
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PJ Morton
As one of several rising New Orleans R&B stars (in a class including Frank Ocean), PJ Morton’s music reflects the gospel, soul
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and pop influences of his childhood. The son of gospel singer Paul S. Morton, PJ got his break when he was hired as a replacement keyboardist and backing vocalist for Maroon 5 in 2010. After being signed to Cash Money Records by local impresario Lil Wayne, he released New Orleans in May 2013. In part an homage to his hometown, the record blends funk, soul and R&B and there are cameos by Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. “Only One,” featuring Stevie Wonder, is a blazing, synth-laden love song that was nominated for a Grammy Award for best R&B song. 3:50 p.m.-4:50 p.m. Congo Square Stage
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Mary Mary
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Jazz Fest favorite Bruce Springsteen returns to the Fair Grounds to deliver an extended set on the Acura Stage. Springsteen has held a special place in local music fans’ consciousness since his 2006 post-Hurricane Katrina Jazz Fest performance with the Seeger Sessions band, capped by a moving rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” The Boss is touring in support of his January release High Hopes, which features
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previously unreleased material and songs re-recorded with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Springsteen’s stellar “The Ghost of Tom Joad” gets an overhaul, subbing acoustic guitar and whispered vocals for the full E Street treatment, supplemented by Morello’s guitar. With a boisterous horn section and gospel-inflected chorus, the title track sounds like it could have been conceived in New Orleans rather than New Jersey. 4:15 p.m.-7 p.m. Acura Stage
Al Jarreau
Seasoned jazz vocalist Al Jarreau’s releases have climbed Billboard jazz, pop and R&B charts, and many know him best from the 1981 hit “We’re In This Love Together.” Jarreau has collected seven Grammy Awards in his five-decade career, including a 2007 trophy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. He drew three nominations last year, including one for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Jarreau recently recorded a live album with the European orchrestra Metropole Orkest. 5:35 p.m.-7 p.m. Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent
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Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers
Hailing from Lafayette, Dwayne Dopsie (born Dwayne Rubin), is the son of Rockin’ Dopsie Sr., one of zydeco’s early luminaries. Dwayne became an accordion prodigy, and while Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. took over their father’s band, Dwayne put together the Zydeco Hellraisers when he was 19. 6:05 p.m.-7 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage PAGE 43
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As one of the most commercially successful gospel acts of the last decade, Mary Mary combines the accessibility of a contemporary female hip-hop and R&B duo with the spiritual empowerment message of modern gospel. Sisters Erica and Tina Atkins got their start on the BET show Bobby Jones Gospel. Mary Mary has won three Grammy Awards and two American Music Awards, and its crossover appeal has lifted albums Incredible (2005) and The Sound (2008) into the Billboard Top 10. The sisters’ mighty harmonies soar on songs like “Go Get It,” which earned the Atkinses the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Gospel Song. 3:55 p.m.-4:55 p.m. Gospel Tent
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A lot has changed for Lafayette’s Feufollet since its last album, En Couleurs, earned the Cajun folk rockers a Grammy Award nomination and a larger audience, which the group called upon recently during a successful $30,000 crowdfunding campaign. The money will fund the release of its new album, and fans can expect to hear new material at its Jazz Fest set. On the yet-to-be-named album, Feufollet continues its evolution away from its French-only, traditional Cajun roots. The changes start up front, as new singer Kelli Jones-Savoy and new keyboardist Andrew Toups appear on a Feufollet album for the first time. The record features both English and French-language songs (unlike En Couleurs), and Jones-Sa-
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Glen David Andrews
Everyone knows Glen David Andrews’ story by now. The local trombonist dealt with substance abuse issues and charges of domestic violence but persevered and focused on his music. His new album, Redemption, serves as a de facto memoir and a fresh start. Andrews performs songs that highlight his brass band roots and incorporate funk, gospel and blues (more and more, he’s putting down the trombone to showcase his vocals). For those interested in the album and his renewed career, Larry Blumenfeld
interviews Andrews on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage later in the day. 12:25 p.m.-1:20 p.m. Congo Square Stage 4:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m. Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
Zion Harmonizers
This gospel group has been part of Jazz Fest since the festival’s beginning. The a cappella group is celebrating its own longevity — a milestone 75th anniversary — with a new album and accompanying tour. Bringing in the Sheaves marks the Harmonizers’ first release in 15 years. The band is known for its traditional gospel repertoire, but it occasionally slips in popular tunes, such as a Curtis Mayfield song. 1:50 p.m.-2:35 p.m. Gospel Tent
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voy in particular makes her mark right away. She wrote a handful of tracks that were featured in recent live performances. Look for hints of what’s to come when songs like “Tired of Your Tears” and “Cette fois” are performed alongside the band’s familiar accordion- and strings-driven toe tappers. 12:25 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do stage
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isn’t just another elder statesman of the genre. In light of his last album — 2012’s The Bravest Man in the Universe, produced in part by Blur’s Damon Albarn — everyone wants to collaborate with Womack, including Stevie Wonder, Rick Ross, Rod Stewart and Snoop Dogg. The new album is expected to drop later this year. In the meantime, Womack has a number of dates planned for the summer. It will be his 28th studio album, and his sets draw from genre-bending work from various stages of his career. 3:25 p.m.-4:35 p.m. Congo Square stage
for a jazz composer, but Corea 2014 has always been extremely [WEEK TWO] rhythmic and he can bring that to the forefront when needed. On nights where he’s alone, Corea spans genres, performing classical tunes and homages to legends such as Duke Ellington and digging out his own classics like “Armando’s Rhumba.” Jazz Fest fans will see him reunited with long-time band The Vigil, but their past performances offer no indication of what’s likely to come. 4:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m. Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
Arcade Fire
Tracks like “Proud Mary” are long imprinted on the American rock ’n’ roll canon, and both Fogerty’s solo work and his time with Clearance Clearwater Revival produced dozens of other hits. In 2013, Fogerty set out to show that even the most familiar aspects of his music had mysteries left to unravel. Wrote A Song For Everyone featured Fogerty reimagining his classics with help from contemporary artists. Fogerty didn’t have to strain his voice to mesh with the likes of Dave Grohl or Miranda Lambert, and his guitar playing stands up to modern licks from the likes of Brad Paisley and Tom Morello. The album mimics what Fogerty can do every time he takes the stage: convince an audience to lean in when their favorite song is finally played, only to blow them back with playful twists on musical styles or elongated phrases and solos. 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Samsung Galaxy Stage
Chick Corea & the Vigil
The 72-year-old jazz pianist has been busy leading up to Jazz Fest, varying his style on what seems like a nightly basis. During evenings with Bela Fleck, Corea has shown how nimble and responsive his piano can be. Playing solo with a banjo player isn’t typical
Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard may be the most unassuming of New Orleans jazz icons. It’s not for lack of visability, though the trumpeter doesn’t actually play New Orleans all that often. But that’s not to say Blanchard has kept quiet recently. There was a new album, Magnetic, which earned Blanchard another Grammy Award nomination. He welcomed a new performer in his band for that record — 21-year-old bassist Joshua Crumbly. In recent years, Blanchard wrote his first opera and played at the Kennedy Center’s tribute to Herbie Hancock, with President Barack Obama in attendance. This month, he’s headlining a weeklong symposium on jazz at the Berklee College of Music. Fortunately for New Orleanians, a Sunday closing spot already is in his calendar. 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
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Arcade Fire gets more grandiose with each record, and last year’s Reflektor is no exception. It’s infused with the danceable knowhow of James Murphy and is double the length of the band’s previous recordings. Reviews of live shows by indie rock’s newest stadium regulars have been awe-inspired. Arcade Fire headlined and closed Coachella in April with a 17-song set. After breaking out covers of Prince and Blondie tunes in the nights leading up to that festival, the band brought Debbie Harry onstage to perform a pair of tracks (Jazz Fest fans may remember the band’s 2011 set, when Cyndi Lauper joined the group onstage). Arcade Fire replaced its signature papier-mache heads (which were stolen recently) with new ones — including likenesses of Pope Francis, David Bowie and President Barack Obama. Perhaps best for Jazz Fest fans, Arcade Fire continued its tradition of working with multiple special guests. On the band’s most anthemic track — “Wake Up,” famously used in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer — New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band helped fill out the massive soundscape. The performance spilled over into the crowd. If its Jazz Fest set can hit similar highs, the festival may reach its climax before headliner Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue take the stage. 3:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m. Acura Stage
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The String Cheese Incident
5pm-7pm
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
3:05pm-4:15pm
New Orleans Suspects
1:40pm-2:40pm
The New Orleans Bingo! Show
6:10pm-6:55pm
The Wailers
4:25pm-5:45pm
Donald Harrison Jr.
2:45pm-3:45pm
The Soul Rebels
5:40pm-7pm
Philip Manuel swings The Beatles
4:05pm-5:10pm
Stanton Moore
2:50pm-3:45pm
Marlon Jordan
1:35pm-2:30pm
Erica Falls with Larry Sieberth
Dr. Lyle Lonnie Lovett Solange Smith Trio
5:40pm-7pm
Marcia Ball
4pm-5:10pm
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys
2:50pm-3:35pm
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue
1:30pm-2:20pm
Nigel Hall
Yvette Landry Band
1:35pm-2:25pm
12:20pm-1:15pm
12:20pm-1:10pm
12:20pm-1:10pm
12:25pm-1:15pm
Flow Tribe
Delgado Community College Jazz Band
Truth Universal and DJ E.F. Cuttin’
Loyola University Jazz Band
11:15am-Noon
11:15am-Noon
11:15am-Noon
11:15am-12:05pm
Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
Bernard Allison Group
5:35pm-7pm
Luther Kent & Trickbag
4:15pm-5:10pm
Johnny Sansone
2:55pm-3:50pm
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tizuma & Tambor Mineiro of
1:45pm-2:35pm
ARK-LA-Mystics
Kenny Bill Stinson & the
12:35pm-1:25pm
Colin Lake
11:25am-12:15pm
Blues Tent
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .
PARADES: 12:20 pm — Cheyenne and 7th Ward Creole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians 1:30 pm — Sons of Jazz Brass Band with Ladies of Unity and Revolution Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs 3:00 pm — Roots of Music Marching Crusaders 4:15 pm — Parade to Casa do Brasil with Curtis Pierre & Escola de Samba with guests Sonia Pessoa & Jorge Alabê 5:35 pm — Baby Boyz Brass Band with VIP Ladies and Men of Class Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs
7:00pm
6:30pm
6:00pm
5:30pm
5:00pm
4:30pm
4:00pm
3:30pm
3:00pm
2:30pm
2:00pm
1:30pm
1:00pm
12:30pm
NOON
11:30am
Congo Square Stage
Samsung Galaxy Stage
Acura Stage
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BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
5:55pm-6:55pm
Greensky Bluegrass
4:15pm-5:30pm
Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys
2:45pm-3:45pm
Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers
1:25pm-2:25pm
Max Baca & Los TexManiacs
12:15pm-1:05pm
Ginga Munda Capoeira of Bahia, Brazil with special guests
11:15am-11:55am
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
New Orleans Nightcrawlers
6pm-7pm
Bill Summers & Jazalsa
4:35pm-5:35pm
Mariachi Jalisco
3:15pm-4:05pm
A Tribe Called Red
1:55pm-2:50pm
Forgotten Souls Brass Band
12:30pm-1:30pm
12:05pm, 1:30pm, 2:50pm, 4:05pm and 5:35pm
Located near the Jazz & Heritage Stage
Billy Iuso
5:30pm-6:30pm
Chegadão
3:55pm-5:05pm
Anaïs St. John
2:25pm-3:30pm
La Tran-K Band
1pm-2pm
Smithfield Fair
11:40am-12:40pm
Lagniappe Stage
The ISL Circus Arts Kids
5:15pm-6pm
of Caruaru, Brazil
João do Pife
4:25pm-4:55pm
Kalpana the Storytellter
3:20pm-4:05pm
Lil Bird Lady & Young Genius
2:45pm-3:05pm
Kid smART Student Showcase
1:40pm-2:25pm
Bell & Vocal Choir
St. Michael Special School
12:40pm-1:20pm
RSD Talented in Theater
11:30am-12:15pm
Kids’ Tent
Max Baca
Interviewer: Holly Hobbs
Truth Universal and E.F. Cuttin’
New Orleans Hip-Hop
4:15pm-5pm
Interviewer: Jason Patterson
Dr. Lonnie Smith
3:15pm-4pm
Los TexManiacs Interviewer: Derek Huston
with members of
2:15pm-3pm
Spencer Taylor & The Highway QC’s Interviewer: Joyce Jackson
1:15pm-2pm
Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
CASA DO BRASIL: 12:15 pm and 2 pm — João do Pife 1:00 pm and 5:20 pm — Ginga Mundo Capoeira with special guests 2:40 pm — Samba demonstrations with Sonia Pessoa and Jorge Alabê 3:40 pm — Tizuma & Tambor Mineiro of Minas Gerais, Brazil 4:45 pm parade in — Curtis Pierre & Escola de Samba with guests
Josh Kagler and HPC
5:55pm-6:35pm
McDonogh 35 High School Gospel Choir
5pm-5:45pm
Spencer Taylor & The Highway QC’s
3:50pm-4:50pm
Lyle Henderson & Emmanu-EL
2:40pm-3:25pm
Landry Walker Charter High School Gospel Choir
1:50pm-2:30pm
Donnie Bolden Jr. & Spirit of Elijah
1pm-1:40pm
High School Choir
Dwione Thomas & the Helen Cox
12:10pm-12:50pm
“Singing Mustangs”
Eleanor McMain
Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians
11:20am-Noon
Gospel Tent
11:20am-12:05pm
Jazz & Heritage Stage
11:55am, 2:25pm and 3:45pm — Native Nations Intertribal MR. OKRA: New Orleans’ singing street vendor
Folklife Stage in the LA Folklife Village
NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW:
The Pfister Sisters
with special guests
Banu Gibson
5:45pm-7pm
The Ronnie Kole Septet
4:15pm-5:20pm
Scotty Hill’s French Market Jazz Band
2:55pm-3:50pm
Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble
1:35pm-2:35pm
Connie Jones & the Crescent City Jazz Band
12:25pm-1:15pm
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
11:20am-12:10pm
Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent
Alabama Shakes
5:30pm - 7pm
Johnnyswim
3:35pm-4:50pm
Hurray for the Riff Raff
2:05pm-3:05pm
Hot 8 Brass Band
Milton Vanicor
11:15am-Noon
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
Mardi Gras Indians
Red Hawk Hunters
11:15am-Noon
Jazz & Heritage Stage Gospel Inspirations of Boutte
11:15am-11:55am
Gospel Tent
Chaka Khan
5:30pm - 7pm
DJ Soul Sister
5:10pm-5:25pm
Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters
3:35pm-4:45pm
The Wãve
2:20pm-3:05pm
Brother Tyrone & the Mindbenders
1:10pm - 1:55pm
of Bahia, Brazil
Pharoah Sanders
5:40pm-7pm
with Derwin “Big D” Perkins, Braylon Lacy, and Russell Batiste Jr.
Nicholas Payton & the New Orleans 4
4:10pm-5:10pm
Stephanie Jordan Big Band
2:50pm-3:45pm
Woodshed: Vibes featuring Jason Marsalis and Chase Jordan
1:35pm-2:25pm
John Mahoney Big Band
12:25pm-1:15pm
1:30pm-2:30pm
Andrew Duhon
12:20pm-1:10pm
Buddy Bolden Revisited
5:45pm-7pm
George French & the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band
4:20pm-5:20pm
Mark Braud’s New Orleans Jazz Giants
3pm-4pm
Lost Bayou Ramblers
6pm-7pm
Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys
4:20pm-5:35pm
Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
2:50pm-3:50pm
Warren Storm - Willie Tee & Topsy Cypress Band Chapman with special guest & T.K. Hulin Solid Harmony
1:40pm-2:40pm
Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders featuring Butch Thompson
12:20pm-1:20pm
The Iguanas
5:40pm-6:55pm
of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tizumba & Tambor Mineiro
4:20pm-5:15pm
Highsteppers Brass Band
2:55pm-3:55pm
Mardi Gras Indians
White Cloud Hunters
1:45pm-2:30pm
Pinstripe Brass Band
12:25pm-1:25pm
Patrice Fisher & Arpa
Panorama Jazz Band
5:20pm-6:30pm
Tom McDermott & Friends
4pm-5pm
Cardinal Sons
WWOZ’s The Gov
Interviewer:
Warren Storm, Willie Tee, T.K. Hulin
Swamp Pop Legends:
4:30pm-5:15pm
Grant Morris
Interviewer:
Phil deGruy
3:30pm-4:15pm
Barry Ancelet
Cajun fiddling at 95 Interviewer:
Milton Vanicor
2:30pm-3:15pm
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .
Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots
5:15pm-6pm
Micaela y Fiesta Flamenca
4:10pm-4:55pm
NOLA Mix Youth DJs
3pm-3:45pm
Interviewer:
John Swenson
Helen Gillet
1:30pm-2:15pm
Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
CASA DO BRASIL: Noon, 3pm, and 5:05pm — Ginga Mundo Capoeira with special guests 1:05pm and 3:55pm — Joâo do Pife 1:50pm — Tizumba & Tambor Mineiro 4:30pm parade in — Os Negões
Collage 3
5:55pm-6:40pm
The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas
4:45pm-5:45pm
Pastor Terry Gullage & the Greater Mt. Calvary Voices of Redemption
3:40pm-4:25pm
The Heavenly Melodies Gospel Singers of New Orleans
2:45pm-3:30pm
Harriet Tubman Charter School Choir
Bishop Sean T. Elder & the Mount Hermon Baptist Church Choir
2:30pm-3:40pm
1:50pm-2:35pm
Adella Adella the Storyteller
12:40pm-1:25pm
Young Audiences Performing Arts Showcase
11:30pm-12:15pm
Kids Tent
1:50pm-2:35pm
Guatemala
with guests from
12:55pm-2:05pm
Jermaine Hawkins & The Harvey Spirituals
(Helen Gillet, Debbie Davis, & Myshkin)
The Gloryoskis!
11:30am-12:30pm
Lagniappe Stage
12:55pm-1:40pm
NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in the LA Folklife Village Noon, 2:30pm and 3:50pm — Native Nations International MR. OKRA: New Orleans’ singing street vendor. Located near the Jazz & Heritage Stage Noon, 1:25pm, 2:30pm, 3:55pm and 5:15pm
Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires
5:50pm-7pm
featuring The Dixie Cups, Wana Rouzan, and Jean Knight
New Orleans Classic R&B Divas
4:10pm-5:25pm
Charmaine Neville Band
2:45pm-3:45pm
The Blues Masters featuring “Big Al” Carson
1:30pm-2:25pm
Eden Brent Band
12:25pm-1:10pm
Israel Martin & G.U.P.
“Kid” Simmons’ Local International Allstars
11:15am-12:05pm
Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent
Os Negões
Ivoire Spectacle featuring Seguenon Kone
11:20am-12:05pm
Blues Tent
12:05pm-12:45pm
The Northwestern University Jazz Ensemble
11:10am-Noon
Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
12:10pm-12:50pm
Govenor Reiss
11:20am-11:50am
Congo Square Stage
— Golden Sioux and Young Cherokee Mardi Gras Indians — Highsteppers Brass Band with Lady & Men Rollers and Scene Boosters SAPCs — New Orleans Indian Rhythm Section, Algiers Warriors and Young Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians — Brazillian parade to Casa do Brasil with Os Negões — 21st Century Brass Band with Original Four and Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs
Christina Aguilera
5:45pm - 7pm
Theresa Andersson
3:50pm-5pm
Amanda Shaw
2:25pm-3:25pm
Cowboy Mouth
1pm - 2pm
Mia Borders 12:45pm-1:45pm
The Honorable South
PARADES: 12:15pm 1:40pm 2:40pm 4:00pm 5:15pm
7:00pm
6:30pm
6:00pm
5:30pm
5:00pm
4:30pm
4:00pm
3:30pm
3:00pm
2:30pm
2:00pm
1:30pm
1:00pm
12:30pm
NOON
11:30am - 12:20pm
Samsung Galaxy Stage
11:30am - 12:30pm
Acura Stage
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PARADES :
7:00pm
6:30pm
6:00pm
5:30pm
5:00pm
4:30pm
4:00pm
12:20 pm 1:45 pm 1:50 pm 2:50 pm 4:00 pm 5:15 pm
Foster the People
5:30pm-7pm
Better Than Ezra
3:35pm-4:45pm
The Revivalists
2:05pm-3:05pm
Tommy Malone
12:50pm-1:40pm
Bobby Cure & the Summertime Blues with special guests Robert Parker, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and Jo “Cool” Davis
11:20am-12:20pm
Samsung Galaxy Stage
Germaine Bazzle
Trey Songz
5:30pm-7pm
PJ Morton
3:50pm-4:50pm
Al Jarreau
5:35pm-7pm
Jon Batiste and Stay Human
3:55pm-5:05pm
2:50pm-3:45pm
Wendell Brunious
1:30pm-2:30pm
Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans
12:15pm-1:10pm
Lionel Ferbos & the Palm Court Jazz Band
11:15am-Noon
Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent
4:20pm-5:30pm
Johnny Winter
5:45pm-7pm
Orange Kellin’s New Orleans Deluxe Orchestra
5:55pm-7pm
Roy Rogers & the Boutté Delta Rhythm &Lillian New Orleans Kings Gumbo Zaire
4:15pm-5:15pm
Butler, Bernstein Young Tuxedo & The Hot 9 Brass Band
2:45pm-3:45pm
Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington and Russell Batiste Jr.
2:30pm-3:30pm
1:25pm-2:20pm
J. Monque’D Blues Band
12:15pm-1:05pm
Spencer Bohren & the Whippersnappers
11:10am-Noon
Blues Tent
1:25pm-2:15pm
Nick Sanders Trio
12:20pm-1:10pm
TBC Brass Ellis Band Marsalis
2:25pm-3:25pm
The New Orleans Hip-Hop Experience feat. Partners-N-Crime, 3D Na’tee, Keedy Black, DJ Mike Swift, T - Ray the Violinist and Dobama
1:15pm-2:05pm
of Bahia, Brazil
Os Negões
12:10pm-12:55pm
Southern University Jazzy Jags
11:15am-Noon
11:10am-11:55am Kumbuka African Drum & Dance Collective
Zatarain’s WWOZ Jazz Tent
Congo Square Stage
— Big Chief Thunder & the Cherokee Hunters, Uptown Warriors, and Wild Red Flames Mardi Gras Indians — Kinfolk Brass Band with Nine Times Ladies, Westbank Steppers, and The Valley of Silent Men SAPCs — Brazilian parade to Casa do Brasil with Os Negões — in Economy Hall Tent - Lady Jetsetters Social Aid & Pleasure Club — Orig. Pinettes Brass Band with Undefeated Divas & Gents, Orig. Pigeon Town Steppers, and New Generation SAPCs — Big Chief Trouble & Trouble Nation and Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indians
E Street Band
and the
Bruce Springsteen
4:15pm-7pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
Voice of the Wetlands Allstars
2:30pm
Allen Toussaint
12:45pm-1:55pm
Marc Broussard
11:20am-12:15pm
2:25pm-3:30pm
2:00pm
1:30pm
1:00pm
12:30pm
NOON
11:30am
Acura Stage
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Jonté Landrum Thomas
Cha Wa
Original Pinettes Brass Band
5:40pm-6:55pm
Os Negões of Bahia, Brazil
4:25pm-5:15pm
Midnite Disturbers
The Bester Singers and the Dynamic Smooth Gospel Singers of Slidell
6pm-6:40pm
First Emanuel Baptist Church Mass Choir
5:05pm-5:50pm
Mary Mary
3:55pm-4:55pm
Tyronne Foster & the Arc Singers
2:50pm-3:35pm
1:55pm-2:40pm
3:10pm-4pm
MR. OKRA: New Orleans singing street vendor. Located near the Jazz & Heritage Stage 12:10pm, 1:35pm, 2:40pm, 4pm & 5:15pm
12:50pm-1:55pm
Helen Gillet
11:30am-12:30pm
Lagniappe Stage
Ashé Cultural Arts Center Kuumba Institute
5:15pm-6pm
Bari Koral Family Rock Band
4:10pm-4:55pm
Curtis Pierre & the Samba Kids
3pm-3:45pm
Hobgoblin Hill Puppets
1:50pm-2:35pm
Sundays in Congo Square
12:40pm-1:25pm
Stephen Foster’s Foster Family Program
11:30am-12:15pm
Kids Tent
Interviewer:
Interviewer:
Interviewer:
Interviewer: Alison Fensterstock
of Hurray for the Riff Raff
Alynda Lee Segarra
4:15pm-5pm
Joel Dinerstein
Andre Thierry
3:15pm-4pm
Ben Sandmel
Interviewer:
Savoy Family
Marc, Ann, Joel, Wilson
2:15pm-3pm
Jason Berry
Lillian Boutté
1:15pm-2pm
David Kunian
Henry Butler and Steven Bernstein
12:15pm-1pm
Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .
CASA DO BRASIL: Noon and 1:45pm — João Do Pife 2:20pm and 4:45pm — Ginga Mundo Capoeira with special guests 3:15 pm — parade in - Os Negões 3:45pm — Tizumba & Julia Dias: Batuca Minas
Paul Sanchez & Minimum Rage
5:20pm-6:30pm
Ed Volker’s Trio Mollusc
3:45pm-4:55pm
Alexis & the Samurai
2:15pm-3:25pm
Voices of McKee Peter Claver &Micah Little Maker
1pm-1:45pm
Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices
12:05pm-12:50pm
Audrey Ferguson & The Voices of Distinction
11:15am-11:55am
Gospel Tent
1:55pm-2:40pm
Free Agents Brass Band
12:30pm-1:35pm
Young Hunters
Mardi Gras Indians
11:25am-12:10pm
Jazz & Heritage Stage
NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in the LA Folklife Village Noon, 1:10 pm and 2:20pm -Native Nations Intertribal
Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers
6:05pm-7pm
The Head and the Heart
4:10pm-5:40pm
Pine Leaf Boys
2:45pm-3:40pm
Corey Ledet & his Zydeco Band
1:30pm-2:20pm
Savoy Family Cajun Band
12:20pm-1:10pm
Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic
11:15am-Noon
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
2:30pm
PARADES :
7:00pm
6:30pm
6:00pm
5:30pm
5:00pm
4:30pm
4:00pm
3:30pm
3:00pm
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
5:30pm-7pm
The Radiators Return
3:30pm-4:45pm
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
1:55pm-2:55pm
George Porter Jr. & the Runnin’ Pardners
12:35pm-1:30pm
Beans
5:20pm-7pm
Bobby Womack
3:25pm-4:35pm
Tucka & the Groove City Express Band
1:45pm-2:45pm
Glen David Andrews
12:25pm-1:20pm
Group
Chick Corea & the Vigil
4:10pm-5:40pm
Blodie’s Jazz Jam
2:35pm-3:40pm
The Next Generation
Jesse McBride presents
1:20pm-2:10pm
Calvin Johnson’s Native Son
12:15pm-1pm
Heritage School of Music Band
11:15am-Noon
11:15am-Noon
Los Po-BoyCitos
Zatarain’s/ WWOZ Jazz Tent
Congo Square Stage
12:25 pm 1:25 pm 2:30 pm 3:45 pm 4:45 pm
1:55pm-2:50pm
New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra
12:35pm-1:35pm
New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings
11:15am-12:05pm
Peoples Health Economy Hall Tent
6:05pm-7pm
Robert Earl Keen
4:25pm-5:40pm
12:05 pm, 1:20 pm, 2:25 pm, 3:45 pm & 5:20 pm
Jazz & Heritage Stage
Gregg Chubby Stafford’s Carrier & Jazz the Bayou Hounds Swamp Band
5:55pm-7pm
Pres Hall Brass
4:35pm-5:35pm
Leroy Jones & New Orleans’ Finest
Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars
2:55pm-3:55pm
Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band
1:35pm-2:30pm
Feufollet
12:25pm-1:15pm
Joe Hall & the Cane Cutters
11:15am-12:05pm
Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage
Franklin Avenue Music Ministry
5:55pm-6:40pm
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir
5pm-5:45pm
Dottie Peoples
3:50pm-4:50pm
Ninevah Baptist Church Mass Choir
2:45pm-3:30pm
Zion Harmonizers
1:50pm-2:35pm
Kim Che’re
12:55pm-1:40pm
Cynthia Girtley “New Orleans Gospel Diva”
Noon-12:45pm
The Rocks of Harmony
11:10am-11:50am
Gospel Tent
11:30am-12:15pm
Kids Tent
Athena
featuring
Bobby Lounge
5:15pm-6:30pm
Luke WinslowKing
3:45pm-4:50pm
The Mulligan Brothers
2:20pm-3:25pm
The Deslondes
12:55pm-2pm
Interviewer: Larry Blumenfeld
Glen David Andrews
4:30pm-5:15pm
Bobby Lounge
Interviewer: Steve Armbruster
3:30pm-4:15pm
Interviewer: Alex Rawls
Robert Earl Keen
2:30pm-3:15pm
Interviewer: Maurice Martinez
of Golden Comanche Mardi Gras Indians
Juan & Wallace Pardo
1:30pm-2:15pm
Interviewer: Herman Fuselier
Megan Berard, Joe Hall, Laura & Adrian Huval
12:30pm-1:15pm Al Berard Tribute
Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE .
Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Company and Stilt Walkers
5:15pm-6pm
The HuvalFuelier Cajun Band
4:10pm-4:55pm
Versailles Lion Dance Team
3:50pm-4pm
OperaCréole
3pm-3:45pm
Magical Moonshine Theater
1:50pm-2:35pm
Versailles Lion Dance Team
1:30pm-1:40pm
Johnette Downing and Scott Billington
12:40pm-1:25pm
Young Band Nation Blues Harmonouche Project
11:30am-12:30pm
Lagniappe Stage
CASA DO BRASIL: Noon and 1:50 pm — João do Pife 12:55 pm parade in — Os Negões 2:35 pm and 4:35 pm — Ginga Mundo Capoeira with special guests 3:35 pm —Tizumba & Juila Dias: Batuca Minas
Stooges Brass Band
5:40pm-6:55pm
Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias
4:15pm-5:15pm
of Bahia, Brazil
Os Negões
2:55pm-3:45pm
Storyville Stompers Brass Band
1:30pm-2:30pm
of Bahia, Brazil with special guests
Ginga Mundo Capoeira
12:25pm-1:10pm
Big Chief Juan Pardo & Jockimo’s Groove
11:20am-12:05pm
Jazz & Heritage Stage
NATIVE AMERICAN POW WOW: Folklife Stage in the LA Folklife Village 12:05pm, 1:15 pm and 2:30 pm - Native Nations Intertribal MR. OKRA, New Orleans’ singing street vendor. Located near
Aaron Neville
5:30pm-7pm
Deacon John
3:35pm-4:50pm
3:10pm-4:15pm
The Sammy James Rimington Andrews & International the Crescent Band City Allstars
2pm-3pm
Lynn August
12:40pm-1:30pm
Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes
11:25am-12:15pm
Blues Tent
— Brazilian Parade to Casa do Brasil with Os Negões — Buffalo Hunters and Apache Hunters Mardi Gras Indians — Pocket Aces Brass Band with Prince of Wales and Original Lady Buckjumpers SAPCs — Black Feathers, Carrollton Hunters and Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians — Young Fellaz Brass Band with Ole & Nu Style Fellas and Original C.T.C. SAPCs
Avenue
Maze John featuring 6pm-7pm Trombone The Shorty & Fogerty Frankie Terence Orleans Beverly Blanchard
5:45pm-7pm
Arcade Fire
3:45pm-5:15pm
Art Neville
with special guest
1:55pm-3:05pm
Jonathon Boogie Long
12:30pm-1:30pm
2:00pm
1:30pm
1:00pm
12:30pm
NOON
Samsung Galaxy Stage
Johnny Sketch 11:15am-12:15pm and the Dirty Creole String Notes
11:20am-12:05pm
Acura Stage
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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 11 a.m.-7 p.m., May 1-4 Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. www.nojazzfest.com Tickets:
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The 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Congo Square poster features Ernie K-Doe and was painted by Richard Thomas, who created a poster featuring Fats Domino for the 1989 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Thomas is known for his paintings and murals of New Orleans culture and celebrities. He has mentored many young artists, including Terrance Osborne, who created the 2014 festival poster of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. For more information, visit www.art4now.com.
• There are taxi stands at Stallings Playground (1600 block of Gentilly Boulevard) and Fortier Park (3200 block of Esplanade Avenue). • Gray Line operates round-trip transportation to the festival from the Sheraton Hotel (500 Canal St.), Gray Line Lighthouse (Toulouse Street at the Mississippi River) and City Park (Marconi Meadows) from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for $18 from downtown or $15 from City Park. A one-way ticket from the festival to downtown is $10. For more information call (504) 569-1401 or visit www.graylineneworleans.com/jazz-fest-express.html.
Jazz Fest Permits:
• Small bags and backpacks (17 by 12 by
10 inches) and 12-pack soft coolers • Single, collapsible chairs • Wheelchairs and medical scooters • Push-strollers for children • Blankets not exceeding 6 by 8 feet • Factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter)
Jazz Fest Prohibits:
• Large or hard-sided coolers • Wagons and carts • Pets • Glass • Personal tents • Shade canopies or beach or pole-style umbrellas • Athletic games • Large chairs with rockers, foot rests, side tables, etc. • Bicycles or other wheeled personal transport devices (e.g. skateboards) • Video- and audio-recording equipment • Unauthorized vending • Weapons, illicit drugs and other contraband • Outside beverages except factory-sealed water (up to 1 liter) • Inserting stakes, poles or any other objects into the ground, or using ropes, cords, tape, etc. to reserve space
On the Grounds:
• Jazz Fest food and drink vendors are cash only. ATMs are available on the grounds. • Jazz Fest is handicapped accessible. Call (504) 410-6104 for information. • There are two medical tents on festival grounds. One is near the edge of the track between the Samsung Galaxy and Fais Do-Do stages; the other is on the edge of the track near the Acura display tent.
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• Single-day tickets cost $55 in advance, $70 at the gate. • Child’s ticket $5 (available at the gate only; ages 2-10; adult must accompany child). • Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster. com and by calling (800) 745-3000. • Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Superdome box office, located at Gate A. All Jazz Fest tickets are subject to additional service fees and handling charges. • VIP ticket information is available at www.nojazzfest.com. • Re-entry to the Fair Grounds is allowed only with WWOZ Brass Pass, Foundation Gala Pass and Big Chief, Grand Marshal and Krewe of Jazz Fest VIP passes.
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Pen Mom a heartfelt letter and present her with this old-fashioned writing set for an especially thoughtful gift. Ink, $35, pen stand, $10, pen, $60, all at Scriptura (5423 Magazine St., 504-897-1555; Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-219-1181; www.scriptura.com).
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The eggshell-blue travel case houses more than 75 pairs of earrings in style, $54.95 at Miss Smarty Pants (5523 Magazine St., 504-891-6141; www.facebook.com/misssmartypantsnola).
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A handcrafted oyster serving plate looks delicate but can withstand ovens, dishwashers and microwaves, $105 at Oysteria (4843 Magazine St., 504-8994843; www.oysterianola.com).
A stack of petite scented satchels brings a feminine note to a lingerie drawer or vanity top, $31 at Gentry (6047 Magazine St., 504-899-4223).
This chocolate gift box offers 12 sweet ways to show Mom your appreciation, $26 at Blue Frog Chocolates (5707 Magazine St., 504269-5707; The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St.; www.bluefrogchocolates.com).
Adorn her with jewels from the deep — freshwater pearls and a sterling silver starfish pendant, $275 at Mignon Faget (The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., 504-524-2973; Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-835-2244; 3801 Magazine St., 504-891-2005; www.mignonfaget.com).
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Help sporty moms stay on the go with a quick-dry top featuring UV protection, $75 at Priorities (4858 Magazine St., 504-899-2212; www.prioritiesnola.com).
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The vintage-inspired styling and lavender hue on these cat-eye frames makes a fresh spring statement, $315 at St. Charles Vision (citywide; www.stcharlesvision.com).
This vibrantly patterned, jeweled clutch by Shiraleah also features a shoulder chain in case she needs her hands free — and what mom doesn’t? Clutch, $53 at gae-tana’s (7732 Maple St., 504-865-9625; www.gaetanas.com).
Etta James; April 28, 1979; photoprint by Michael P. Smith, photographer; ©THNOC, 2007.0103.2.249
Bring New ew Orleans history home with prints from The Shop at The Collection & RequestAPrint Now you can order high-quality reproductions of images from The Historic New Orleans Collection. Visit RequestAPrint.net/THNOC to choose your favorite or look for us at the Artist Tents during the second weekend of Jazz Fest. IN THE FRENCH QUAR TER 533 Royal Street ( 504 ) 598 -7147 www.hnoc.org/shop
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Henry Roeland Byrd “Professor Longhair” at the New Orleans Jazz Festival; April 1976; photoprint by Michael P. Smith, photographer; ©THNOC, 2007.0103.2.249
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Star Wars walking robot. Sisters Jessica For specialty (left) and Jenny cakes, prices Pacaccio are start at $25 and flanked by custom can rise into cakes in The the thousands. Sweet Life bakery. “It depends on P H OTO BY your vision, how C H ER Y L G ER B ER many people you want to feed and your budget.” Pacaccio says. During the busy wedding season, Pacaccio limits the number of cake orders. “Wedding cake-wise, we’ll stick to about five to six for the course of a weekend, because I personally deliver everything,” Pacaccio says. “I don’t want to get to a place where I’m not the face of the company.” The Sweet Life is exploring sugar-free dessert options and developing a king cake made from croissant dough to ship nationwide. New Orleans Ice Cream Company’s offerings were recently added to the bakery’s menu and milkshakes will be available during the summer. Pacaccio aspires to build a bigger space and hire more cake decorators to join her two assistants, but maintaining a personal touch is her priority. “In five years we can try to add a different location, but I don’t want the business to get too big where I can’t meet with all my customers,” she says. “Regardless if you are ordering a two-person cake or a 500-person cake, you get the attention from me.”
SHOPPING
NEWS
EIFFEL SOCIETY (2040 St. Charles Ave., 504-5252951; www.eiffelsociety.com) hosts COUTURE FOR A CAUSE from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30. The free fashion show is part of Eiffel Society’s Pay It Forward appy hour series and features live runway shows by John Delgadillo and other designers, as well as a food truck. A portion of proceeds benefits the American Heart Assocation. Visit payitforwardeiffel.eventbrite.com to register. RETRO ACTIVE VINTAGE (8123 Oak St., 504-8648154; www.retroactivevintage.com) celebrates its third anniversary with a sale Thursday, May 1. Vintage clothing, display heads and art objects will be on sale. FRANCO’S ATHLETIC CLUB (100 Bon Temps Roule, Mandeville, 985-792-0200; 2116 Magazine St., 504-218-4637; www.myfrancos.com) has re-
by Missy Wilkinson
opened in New Orleans after being shuttered in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. The two-level, 10,000-square-foot facility features group exercise classes, equipment, programs and events. There will be a grand opening party and ribbon-cutting ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8. Tickets are on sale for SIPPIN’ IN SEERSUCKER, a fundraiser for the OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART hosted by THE SHOPS AT CANAL PLACE (333 Canal St., 504-522-9200; www.theshopsatcanalplace.com) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, May 9. The event features live music, food from more than 40 restaurants, drinks, raffles and a seersucker fashion competition. Tickets are $25 for museum members and $40 for nonmembers, or $30 and $50 at the door. Visit store.ogdenmuseum.org/sippininseersucker to purchase tickets.
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hen Jenny Pacaccio opened The Sweet Life Bakery (6268 Vicksburg St., 504-371-5153; www.nolasweetlife.com) in 2009, she and her family envisioned a different type of bakery. “We started off saying we wanted a small bakery to host kids’ birthday parties where they could come in and decorate their own cupcakes or cookies,” Pacaccio says. “Well, we’ve done one birthday party and we’ve grown into custom cakes — [cakes] are really the heart of what we do.” Pacaccio got her start by attending culinary school and working in restaurant kitchens, but she found that work didn’t suit her. At her mother’s suggestion, she signed up for a pastry class at Delgado Community College and fell in love. She opened The Sweet Life Bakery in Lakeview. “I love being in Lakeview,” Pacaccio says. “It’s a great community. I grew up out here.” Pacaccio takes pleasure in being involved with every custom cake her business bakes. After customers submit an online order form, answering some basic questions about the cake’s flavor and appearance, they meet with Pacaccio, who brings her ideas to the table. Her website features about 1,500 photos of custom cakes for inspiration. The gallery’s photos include everything from fanciful tiered wedding cakes to pastel-hued gender reveal cakes. Grooms’ cakes come in shapes ranging from a simple round dartboard to a four-legged
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MEL CHIN : REMATCH FEBRUARY 21 - MAY 25, 2014
www.noma.org
New Orleans Museum of Art
IMAGE The Funk & Wag from A to Z, 2008-2012; courtesy of the artist
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Mel Chin: Rematch is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art. Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Creating A Living Legacy Program of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, the Bertuzzi Family Foundation, Susan and Ralph Brennan, Stephen Reily, Jeffery Beauchamp in honor of Toni Beauchamp, and Molly Kemp. Additional support is provided by Sabrina Franzheim, Kathy Grainger, Patricia Welder Robinson, Thomas P. W. Robinson, Mark and Lisa Sheridan, Frederieke S. Taylor, JoAnn Bass and Dr. David Russin, Storey Charbonnet, Ken Chin, Myrna and John Daniels, Ron Mills, and anonymous donors.
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Flamed berries, a switchel-soaked snowball and a stack of Fernet Branca challenge coins (tokens the amaro maker gives to experienced mixologists) marked last week’s launch of Max Messier’s cocktail menu at Root Squared. Chef Phillip Lopez’s Square Root (1800 Magazine St., 504-309-7800; www. squarerootnola.com) and its upstairs lounge, Root Squared, opened April 23. The restaurant is an offshoot of Lopez’s Root (200 Julia St., 504-252-9480; www. rootnola.com).
C’est la vegan Sneaky Pickle is a home for vegans on St. Claude Avenue. By Sarah Baird
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in the bluntly titled “bowl of food” (basically a vegan take on the now-retired KFC Famous Bowl), which is an ever-changing mishmash of ingredients, including roasted vegetables and the same grain and bean mixture used in several dishes on the menu. The freshly made vegan breads — available by the loaf — are worth purchasing in bulk, and the bouncy, chewy bite of the vegan sourdough is a standout. The highlight of many entrees is flavorful and well-executed purees and sauces. The sunflower and pumpkin seed puree adds a welcome richness to an otherwise underwhelming (but charmingly pink) beet flatbread, and the butter bean puree is a smooth and milky foil to the heaping helping of caramelized onions which make their pungent presence known on top of the tempeh flatbread. Sneaky Pickle is an example of how parts do not always make the whole. The menu would benefit from better attention to detail, ratio and consistency. On their own, many of the dishes’ components are appetizing, but when combined, individual elements are unable to shine and often are lost in a muddled mess.
Sneaky Pickle
where
4017 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5651; www.yousneakypickle.com
when
lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon.
how much inexpensive
what works
simple, fresh breakfast flatbread; dense and chewy vegan sourdough; house-made purees and sauces
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heavy use of salt; flavorless multigrain patty; long waits for meals
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creative attempts at vegan food with hit-andmiss results
At the preview, Messier rolled out seven smart cocktails using aromatized wines, vermouth, shrubs, cordials and tea concentrates. His variations on classics included a smoky Cuba libre smudged with mezcal, Mexican Coke and a lime-jalapeno cordial and a bourbon-based Manhattan made edgy with bitter liqueur and green peppercorn. The Root Squared bar will regularly feature up to a dozen specialty cocktails, $12 each; happy hour specials include $5-$8 select cocktails and runs 5 p.m.-7 p.m. daily. Dining at Square Root is by reservation only and features a $150 multi-course tasting menu; add $45 for cocktails, $65 for wine pairings. — ANNE BERRY
Hot tropic
Local tiki and tropical drinks expert Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (www.beachbumberry.com) will open his first bar, Latitude 29, in the French Quarter this fall. The space, at 321 N. Peters St. in the Bienville House hotel, is currently occupied by Iris, which will close at the end of May. Iris proprietors Laurie Casebonne and Ian Schnoebelen will concentrate on their restaurant Mariza, which opened in the Bywater in 2013. Latitude 29 will feature two other familiar names from the New Orleans hospitality industry: head bartender and co-general manager Steven Yamada, PAGE 66
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hen Sneaky Pickle opened, vegans across the city breathed a sigh of relief. The loss of pop-up stalwart Wandering Buddha was a blow to vegan diners in the St. Claude corridor, and many hoped Sneaky Pickle would fill the void. While the offerings at Sneaky Pickle are ambitious and thoughtful, the restaurant would benefit from some general improvements to both the menu and ambience in order to create a restaurant experience that not only focuses on vegan cuisine (though not exclusively) but celebrates it. It’s often refreshing to dine in a place that feels familial, but the homey, comforting appeal that makes a place a go-to restaurant is something that has to be earned. While the laid-back, quirky living room vibe (read: garage sale art and knickknacks) at Sneaky Pickle is purposeful, it misses the mark. The space also would benefit from better lighting and better air circulation to rid it of a faint but lingering musty smell. The service is cheerful but spotty, and on multiple occasions I waited more than 30 minutes for my meal. This might be acceptable if the entrees were difficult to plate, but it’s disappointing for a place so casual that there are family photo albums on the tables. Many of Sneaky Pickle’s best dishes are on the breakfast menu, which includes vegan biscuits and gravy and a chickpea and tofu scramble. The breakfast flatbread — made with either eggs or tofu — is not only the highlight of the breakfast menu, but of all the flatbread selections. Pickled local mustard greens are tart and crunchy, and roasted skillet potatoes pair nicely with the sweet heat of the chipotle spread. The over-easy preparation of the egg is a welcome surprise, creating a creamy egg yolk slurry perfect for sopping up with hunks of flatbread. While meatless patties are notorious for having the texture of a spare tire, the “multigrain patty” in Sneaky Pickle’s patty melt suffers from the opposite problem. Without any sort of proper binding agent, the patty falls apart after the first bite. The accoutrements could exist on their own as a better sandwich, especially the vegan beer cheese. (A vegan grilled cheese featuring the beer cheese, perhaps?) Several offerings were marred by an overwhelming amount of salt, which seems to be one of the few seasonings in use. This is particularly obvious
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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] who has worked at local bars including Bar R’evolution and Tivoli & Lee, and executive chef Chris Shortall of Coquette and Twelve Mile Limit. Berry’s wife, Annene Kaye, will serve as the other general manager. Interior design will be by Bosko Hrnjak. Berry, whose newest book is Potions of the Caribbean, also released his second drinks app last week, featuring never-before-printed recipes from the golden age of tiki (including some from the legendary New Orleans restaurant Bali Ha’i) and some new recipes by New Orleans bartenders. There are about 250 drinks featured in Total Tiki ($9.99), the app (iPhone/ iPad only) Berry created with designer Martin Doudoroff. When asked how many of the recipes were written by New Orleanians, Berry had the answer at his fingertips (84). That’s because the Total Tiki app lets users filter its drinks by recipe writer, decade, alcohol strength or which ingredients are already in your kitchen and home bar. The tiki king spoke with Gambit about the app (to read the full interview, visit bestofneworleans.com).
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How does Total Tiki address the notion that it’s a complicated drinks style? Berry: One of the best things about the app is that you can check off the ingredients you have on hand. Just enter it into the app, and it will tell you which drinks you can make now. Our database also suggests substitute ingredients and helps identify what you’re missing, so you can build as you go. By the way, the rest of the cocktail world has caught up to tiki. The recipes we’re seeing today — ones calling for, say, smoked rhubarb syrup — are just as complicated.
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Total Tiki lets you arrange recipes by potency. Is this because of the perception that it’s a high-octane style? B: Tiki was invented the day after Prohibition ended [Dec. 5, 1933], when Don the Beachcomber opened his first bar. Except there were no real Polynesian cocktails, and people’s fantasies were in the South Pacific. So he (and later, Trader Vic) gave Polynesian names to Caribbean drinks. I call it “Caribbean drinks cubed,” because they took the original lime-rumsugar and made drinks with two-three fruit juices, two-three base spirits and two-three sweeteners. They made Caribbean drinks more baroque, complex and elusive. Which decades are reflected in Total Tiki? B: The 1930s through the 2000s. I include contemporary recipes from leading lights in the industry. These bartenders have taken cues from the tiki canon and run with it. They’re using ingredients and techniques not available back then, and applying them to the classics. For instance, Don the Beachcomber mixed more than one rum in a glass, and now you see bartenders blending two whiskies, gins or tequilas to get base flavors. — KEVIN ALLMAN & ANNE BERRY
Domenica’s dominion
With the grand opening of Pizza Domenica (4933 Magazine St., 504301-4978; www.pizzadomenica.com) on April 24, Domenica (123 Baronne St., 504-648-6020; www.domenicarestaurant.com) happy hour devotees have another spot to enjoy chef Alon Shaya’s pizza. The restaurant’s rustic-yet-refined decor features reclaimed wood, chandeliers, chalkboard menus and tufted, mustard-colored benches. The creative pizza menu includes several favorites from Domenica (the wild mushroom and clams with garlic) and many new pies. The roasted carrot pizza is surprisingly hearty, with soft, tangy bits of goat cheese scattered among sweet, colorful beets and baby Brussels sprouts. The addition of hazelnuts adds a textural kick and makes the case for more nuts-on-pizza combinations. The bar offers more than 40 craft beers, wine and a small cocktail menu. The Carry Me Away (a breezy cocktail combining honeysuckle vodka and rosemary) is a good springtime drink, with pleasing floral notes. The dessert menu is small but mighty, with Domenica classics from pastry chef Lisa White, including the banana zuppa inglese and pistachio crostata. Pizza Domenica is open 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. — SARAH BAIRD
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3-COURSE interview
Hugo Montero Artist and entrepreneur Hugo Montero has lived in New Orleans for 27 years. Last year, he and wife Linda Stone opened Casa Borrega (1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-427-0654; www.casaborrega. com), which celebrates Cinco de Mayo with music by Fredy Omar and Gal Holiday (5 p.m.10 p.m. Monday, May 5). Montero spoke with Gambit about New Orleans’ link to Mexico and Mexican food in the Crescent City.
How well is Mexican food represented in New Orleans? M: Put it like this, the two national Mexican dishes that we are proud of are mole poblano and chiles en nogada. They are the most famous Mexican dishes, but no New Orleans restaurant has them. Chiles en nogada is the national dish. It’s a big poblano pepper stuffed with different things and covered with white sauce and pomegranate. More taquerias have opened in New Orleans in recent years. How are they doing? M: Tacos are good here, and I am a taco purist — a taco snob. Many people who didn’t grow up making tacos are now selling tacos. I think it’s cool. New Orleanians make tacos now, and they’re good. They’re different, they don’t go with a regional recipe — sometimes they’re naively good, but that’s a compliment. These are Creole taquerias, and it works. —WILL COVIELLO
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New Orleans celebrates its links to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Are we missing its links to Mexico? Montero: In the 40 years New Orleans was part of Louisiana as a territory of New Spain, my hometown, Mexico City, was the capital of New Spain, and New Spain owned Louisiana. It was in the middle of those years that the Spanish rebuilt [the French Quarter] after the second big fire. Second, and this is related to Cinco de Mayo, Cinco happened after the Mexican-American War. … [Spain lost territory that reached what is now Colorado and Wyoming] The French wanted a piece of the cake, too, and [French Emperor] Napoleon III sent troops to invade Mexico. A bunch of Mexican peasants with farmers’ tools kicked their asses [the battle which is marked by Cinco de Mayo], so the French sent a bigger army. Emperor Maximilian took the kingdom and he put the president, the first Mixteco Indian president [of Mexico], Benito Juarez, in exile in New Orleans. There’s a statue of him on Basin Street at Conti Street. He lived in New Orleans and worked outside Cafe Du Monde rolling cigars. He planned [the restoration of the Mexican republic] in New Orleans. … Lorenzo Tio taught many [New Orleans] jazz musicians to play. He didn’t teach them jazz. He taught them to play instruments. … Mexico has been present in New Orleans music, but the story never made it.
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BEER buzz Earlier this month, I visited two breweries in Shreveport and met the three co-founders of Red River Brewing (www.redriverbeer.com) at a crawfish boil. Former home brewers Jared Beville, Robert McGuire and Beau Raines all hold full-time jobs and have families, but their commitment drives them to work 18-hour days on weekends so they can brew craft beers. Their flagship beer Hay Ryed is a light-bodied but nuanced wheat and rye brew that’s easy drinking for the new craft beer drinker but has enough depth Harvey Kenney is the head brewer to engage experienced palates. of Great Raft Brewing. Accessibility for all palates also is important to Andrew and Lindsay Nations, founders of Great Raft Brewing (www.greatraftbrewing.com), and head brewer Harvey Kenney. They are trying to build a market for craft beer in the area. “Otherwise we’re just passing market share between breweries,” Lindsay says. “We want [the Shreveport community] to grow with us. Craft beer education is at the forefront of everything we do.” Great Raft will bring its Southern Drawl pale lager and Reasonably Corrupt black lager to the Washington, D.C., craft beer and food event Savor May 9-10. The Nations believe that after attendees have exhausted their palates on high-alcohol double IPAs, barrel-aged sours and stouts and experimental Belgian styles, they’ll welcome the simple pleasures of the clean-drinking and palate-cleansing lagers. The founders of Red River and Great Raft are optimistic about their beers’ acceptance in Shreveport, and with each brewery’s growth since opening in December, they have good reason to be. — NORA McGUNNIGLE
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800 Louisa St., (504) 266-2887
Dinner with a Curator
www.bootysnola.com
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tuesday National World War II Museum, American Sector, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org
The selection of aguas frescas includes strawberry zobo, which is a play on a Nigerian drink traditionally created with dried roselle flowers.
Kim Guise discusses what solders ate in the field during World War II and participants can examine mess kits and rations. American Sector prepares finer versions of mess hall classics like “shit on a shingle.”
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5 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday New Orleans Public Library, Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660
www.myhousenola.com The band Ecos Latinos performs at the food truck rally featuring La Cocinita, Theo’s Pizza, Empanada Intifada, Grilling Shilling and Food Drunk.
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5 p.m.-7 p.m. Monday Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www.facebook.com/ twelve.mile.limit
527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132 www.cafecarmo.com
Freshly pressed cupuacu juice comes from a South American fruit that has a flavor somewhere between banana and pear.
www.cocktailmuseum.org A $10 ticket includes samples of three Mexican drink specials and one full drink. Proceeds benefit the Museum of the American Cocktail.
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Carrollton Market
8132 Hampson St., (504) 252-9928 www.carrolltonmarket.com
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Trends, notes, quirks and quotes from the world of food.
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515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825 www.luckyroosternola.com
Among the sodas mixed with house-made syrups or juices is a refreshing celery soda with earthy undertones.
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“When a new restaurant opens in New Orleans, for the first three to six months, you can’t get a table, and then everybody goes back to their five favorite places. It takes about five years for a restaurant to reach that favorite status.”
American Sector, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012
— An unnamed New Orleans restaurateur quoted in USA Today in an April 21 story about the “10 Best Foodie Spots in New Orleans.” Writer Millie Ball included Restaurant R’evolution, Peche Seafood Grill (pictured), Root, Coquette, Galatoire’s, Commander’s Palace, Domenica, Upperline, Dooky Chase and Parkway Bakery.
Chef John Besh’s throwback spot in the National World War II Museum offers a creamy house-made take on New Orleans’ traditional nectar soda with flavors of almond and vanilla.
The Soda Shop
www.nationalww2museum.org/ american-sector/the-soda -shop.html
PoBoys PoBoys PoBoys 3939 Veterans • 885-3416
(between Cleary Ave & Clearview) Mon-Tues 11-3 • Wed-Thurs 11-7:30 Fri 11-8:30 • Sat 11-8:00 www.parranspoboys.com
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A floral take on the Arnold Palmer features a blend of iced tea, lavender and lemon to create the Palmer San.
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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. $$$ COMPLETE LISTINGS AT WWW.BESTOFNEWORLEANS.COM
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Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@ gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.
AFRICAN
Motherland Cafe — 1535 Basin St., (504) 342-2996; www.facebook. com/motherlandcafe — This family restaurant serves Senegalese and Gambian food, and vegetarian dishes are available. Thiebou djenne is a fish and rice stew, and boulettes are fried balls of fish. There also are house-made ginger drinks and wonjo, made with hibiscus. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
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BURGERS
Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
Charcoal’s Gourmet Burger Bar — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar.com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie. The House burger is dressed with cheddar, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard and served with house-made chips. The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and buttermilk ranch or honey-mustard dressing. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $
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late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Jigger’s Bar & Grill — 1645 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 828-3555 — The sports bar serves sandwiches and bar noshing items. Half or full-round muffulettas are filled with Italian ham, Genoa salami, provolone cheese and house-made olive salad and served toasted. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www. therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
American Sports Saloon — 1200 Decatur St., (504) 522-2410 — This sports bar serves burgers made with house-ground patties, chicken wings, 12 beers on tap and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 3029357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and
Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines. com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations. Breakfast Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-
1264; www.cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses and served on a choice of bread. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $
CHINESE
Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 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. $$ Jung’s Golden Dragon — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
COFFEE/DESSERT
Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop and serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www. facebook.comruedelacourse — The Downtown sandwich includes turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw. The Lakeview features chicken or tuna salad dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a bagel and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $
CONTEMPORARY
Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed
The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers an award-winning wine list and full restaurant menu. Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569; www.fultonalley.com — The kitchen at this upscale bowling alley offers Southern-influenced cuisine. The menu includes sandwiches, salads, meat pies, sliders, deviled eggs and smoked and fried chicken wings. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 8991330 — Chef Sue Zemanick offers a selection of small plates. Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — The constantly changing menu includes vegan dishes and house-made pasta. Sauteed sea scallops are served with fried green tomatoes, snap peas and sweet and spicy mango ginger ambrosia sauce. No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$
CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner MonSat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/ cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery. com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Crawfish Ignatius pasta features crawfish cream sauce with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and bell peppers topped with grated Parmesan. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www. mamommashouse.com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chick-
en and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Palace Cafe serves creative Creole dishes. Crabmeat cheesecake is topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter and grilled Two Run Farm lamb chops served with New Orleans-style barbecue sauce. Balcony and courtyard dining available. Reservations resommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$
DELI
Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone. com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demiglaze and smothered greens. The Deli Deluxe sandwich features corned beef, pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and Creole mustard on an onion roll. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 4566362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
FRENCH
Baie Rouge — 4128 Magazine St., (504) 304-3667; www.baierougenola.com — Shrimp and risotto Milanese features jumbo shrimp cooked with lemon over saffron risotto served with hericots verts. Pig Dip features pork debris, caramelized onions and garlic aioli on
French bread with a side of smoked pork jus. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
GOURMET TO GO
Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
INDIAN
Schiro’s Indian Cafe — 2483 Royal St., (504) 944-6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8366859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
ITALIAN
Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www. amicinola.com — Amici serves coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes. The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. Pasta carbonara features pancetta and green peas in white sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and 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. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.Sat. Cash only. $$$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare. Pork bracciole features pork loin
OUT to EAT stuffed with cheese, currants and pignoli nuts that is braised slowly in tomato sauce and served over house-made pappardelle. Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
JAPANESE
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY
7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton.com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrill-
Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN
Attiki Bar & Grill — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN
Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — The barroom and cantina is decorated with folk art, and there’s seating in the back courtyard. Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans. Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. Roasted pork tacos are topped with spicy slaw. Vegetarian Mardi Gras Indian tacos feature roasted corn, beans, cheese and spicy slaw on corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $$
MUSIC AND FOOD
Bombay Club — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www.thebombayclub. com — This elegant French Quarter hideaway is styled like an English manor and is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www. thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reserva-
tions accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Little Gem Saloon — 445 S. Rampart St., (504) 267-4863; www.littlegemsaloon.com — Little Gem offers creative contemporary and Creole dishes and live jazz. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $
NEIGHBORHOOD
Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb. com — Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — 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. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$
PAN ASIAN
Lucky Rooster — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.luckyroosternola. com — The menu features a mix of Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese and Japanese dishes. The bar offers creative cocktails and house-made sodas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$
PIZZA
Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 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. $ Mellow Mushroom — 1645 Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 327-5407; 3131 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 644-4155; 8827 Oak St., (504) 345-8229; www.mellowmushroom.com — The Holy Shiitake pie tops an olive oil and garlic brushed crust with shiitake, button and portobello mushrooms,
carmelized onions, mozzarella, montamore and Parmesan cheeses and black truffle oil. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria. com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www. theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS
Bear’s Poboys at Gennaros — 3206 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 833-9226 — The roast beef po-boy features beef slow-cooked in house, sliced thin, soaked in gravy and dressed with lettuce, tomato, pickles and mayo on toasted Leidenheimer bread. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 2526745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys, including The Dark and Stormy, featuring pork shoulder. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — The Peacemaker layers fried local oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese on Leidenheimer French bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $
SEAFOOD
Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Chad’s Bistro — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-9935; www. chadsbistro.com — The seafood Napoleon features fried eggplant medallions topped with crabmeat on a bed of angel hair pasta topped with shrimp au gratin sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri. dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8320955 — Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www. mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
STEAKHOUSE
Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno. com — Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
TAPAS/SPANISH
Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here, and there’s a range of hot and cold tapas dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $
THAI
Thai Mint — 1438 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-9001; www.thaimintrestaurant.com — Basil eggplant features pork, chicken, beef or shrimp sauteed with eggplant, onions, bell peppers and basil in spicy sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
VIETNAMESE
Doson Noodle House —135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlights the menu. The vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 340-0178; www.linsmenu. com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Pho Tau Bay Restaurant — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Rolls-N-Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.facebook.com/rolls-nbowlsnola — This casual Vietnamese eatery serves spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, stir fry entrees and bubble tea. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $
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Asuka Sushi & Hibachi — 7912 Earhart Blvd., (504) 862-5555; www. asukaneworleans.com — Asuka serves sushi and grilled items from the hibachi. The Shaggy Dog roll features tempura-fried shrimp, snow crab and avocado topped with crabstick and eel sauce and spicy sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kakkoii Japanese Bistreaux — 7537 Maple St., (504) 570-6440; www.kakkoii-nola.com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www.rocknsake. com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, panfried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www.facebook. com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $
metairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and panfried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans. com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www.martisnola.com — This brasserie serves traditional French and contemporary Louisiana cooking. The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche. Grilled Texas quail is served with spaetzle, oyster mushrooms, corn and Pommery mustard sauce. Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www. ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top tableside. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Sainte Marie — 930 Poydras St., Suite 101, (504) 304-6988; www. saintemarienola.com — Barbecue jerk shrimp are served with coconut rice and mango chow chow. Sam’s Yak A Mein combines braised beef, chicken, shrimp, egg noodles and a soft-boiled egg. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www. tivoliandlee.com — The restaurant offers a modern take on Southern cuisine in a small plate format, with dishes ranging from andouille potato tots to fried oysters. The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Half a roasted chicken comes with dirty spaetzle, sweet tea glaze and greens. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. Crispy fried wild catfish is served over stone-ground grits with Cajun tasso. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
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Dr. John exploded with 1973’s Allen Toussaint-produced, Meters-backed In the Right Place, featuring hits “Right Place Wrong Time” and “Such a Night.” In the ’70s, he turned up on The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. and Sesame Street (as the inspiration for the Muppet Dr. Teeth) and seemingly everywhere in between. More recently, he emerged as a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and Gulf Coast advocate and was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. His late-career resurgence earned him his sixth Grammy Award for 2012’s critically acclaimed Locked Down, Dr. John’s 29th studio effort, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. The album was hailed as a return to the Gris-Gris pastiche of subtropical and psychedelic pop and New Orleans-inspired Afrobeat, blasted through warm vintage amplifiers and overdriven blues. His band’s latest incarnation, the Nite Trippers, follows the disbanding of his Lower 911 band last year. “I look for people who are on top of their game, and they make me feel good about what I’m hearing,” he said. “I feel my band has an edge over any other bands and that’s the part that I can understand and relate to. They’re all kickass musicians and put a fresh spin on anything that I’m laying down from my 50 years of music. Every time we work they make me
feel the best and that’s a blessing.” Dr. John will be feted at the Saenger May 3. For Mac’s next P H O TO BY M I C H A EL W IL S O N trick, he’s looking to another local legend. “I’m currently The Musical Mojo of Dr. MAY working on a tribute John: A Celebration of Mac to Louis Armstrong,” & His Music he said. “Louis came to me in a dream 9 p.m. Saturday and told me to do Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., his music but do it (504) 525-1052; my way. To the best www.celebratedrjohn.com of my knowledge it’s coming out in Tickets $95 and up July. For this I got some of my favorite down-home cats and a gang and a half of special guests. (Nite Trippers trombonist) Sarah Morrow wrote killer charts and helped me produce it. This next record is going to be one funky-butt tribute to Louis Armstrong.” Was says he can’t reveal any big surprises for the tribute performance, though he blames his own ignorance. “My biggest challenge is I have to learn these songs on bass,” he says, laughing. “The biggest surprise will be if I don’t f—k up these songs.”
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ac Rebennack — aka Dr. John, the alligator-clad medicine man bandleader and ambassador of New Orleans music — makes a rare appearance during a season in which he typically reigns as king. On May 3, dozens of artists pay tribute to Dr. John at the Saenger Theatre at “The Musical Mojo of Dr. John: A Celebration of Mac & His Music,” including Gregg Allman, Tab Benoit, Terence Blanchard, the Blind Boys of Alabama, John Boutte, Monk Boudreaux, Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule, Mavis Staples, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Lucinda Williams, Widespread Panic and many others. “It’s a different kind of feeling having a concert put on by your peers rather than an institution,” Mac said in an email to Gambit while en route to Perth, Australia, where he was scheduled to perform with Aaron Neville. Don Was, president of Blue Note Records and a Grammy Award-winning producer, serves as the concert’s musical director (and bass player). Was worked with Dr. John most recently for Gov’t Mule’s 2013 album Shout! (Blue Note), on which Mac digs into the deep, organ-fueled funk of “Stoop So Low.” “He’s got a mastery of piano that just freaks you out,” Was says. “He’s really good — great technique with a strong personality, and man, he’s got one of the strongest personalities I’ve ever met, and you’ve got a natural-born leader in the room. The ideas just flow out of him. He plays with a combination of a wild soulfulness and incredible finesse, which you don’t find too often. … I don’t know anyone quite like him.” Dr. John — born Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. in 1940 — studied under Professor Longhair when Mac was a teenager and worked with Ace Records artists including James Booker and Earl King, all while avoiding studies at Jesuit High School. The then-guitarist assisted on recording sessions and arrangements, then moved to Los Angeles as a session man. He debuted his “Dr. John the Night Tripper” persona — a psychedelic, swampy R&B swami — on 1968’s GrisGris, produced by Harold Battiste. The album opens with an introduction — “They call me Dr. John, known as the Night Tripper.” Upon hearing the album, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun — according to Dr. John’s 1996 autobiography Under a Hoodoo Moon — yelled, “How can we market this boogaloo crap?” “Gris-Gris came out when I was a high school senior,” Was says. “I lived that album. I’d skip school, get stoned and play that album over and over.” Was counts the album’s standout track “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” as his favorite. “It holds up today. It’s so dark and raw and funky, and I wish people would make records like that today.”
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but his son, Bo Dollis Jr., accepted the award on his father’s behalf, saying the recognition was “a long time coming.” In videotaped remarks, Donald Harrison Jr., Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival producer Quint Davis congratulated Dollis on his achievements. When Lil Nathan accepted the award for Best Zydeco, he brought his father, Nathan Williams Sr., on stage to represent the band that came before him, Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, which also was nominated in the category. Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews won the award for Best Male Performer and served as honorary chairperson for the event. The FEDE awards grants to support music and art education and business development in New Orleans.
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Theodore Emile “Bo” Dollis
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR Big Freedia
MUSIC HERITAGE AWARD James Rivers
Singer/songwriter Kristin Diable and Best DJ/Electronica winner Quickie Mart presented awards.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer James Rivers was honored with the Music Heritage Award.
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WWOZ DJ Action Jackson presented the Lifetime Achievement Award, which Bo Dollis Jr. and Rita Dollis accepted for Theodore Emile “Bo” Dollis, big chief of the Wild Magnolias.
Myles Weeks, Andrew Duhon and Maxwell Zemanovic won the award for Best Country/Folk.
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MUSIC AWARDS BEST MALE PERFORMER Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
BEST FEMALE PERFORMER Helen Gillet
“A splashy sendup of a South Pacific USO tour experience prompted smiles galore.” – Variety
“This is musical comedy bliss! Critic’s Pick!” – BackStage
“Funny is one thing, but this show is brilliant!” – easyreader.com
BEST ALBUM That’s It!, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
BEST TRADITIONAL JAZZ Preservation Hall Jazz Band
BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ Nicholas Payton
BEST TRADITIONAL BRASS BAND Young PinStripe Brass Band
BEST CONTEMPORARY BRASS BAND The Soul Rebels
BEST GOSPEL CHOIR L.B. Landry-O.P. Walker College and Career Preparatory High School Gospel Choir
BEST GOSPEL GROUP/ INDIVIDUAL The Rev. Lois Dejean
BEST FUNK BAND Dumpstaphunk
BEST RHYTHM & BLUES
WEEKENDS THROUGH JUNE 8, 2014
Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters
Mistaken identities, madcap comedy, romance and musical treasures fill this sweet and hilarious show. It’s 1943
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in the South Pacific and, tonight, The Andrews Sisters headline the big USO show.
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BEST COUNTRY/FOLK Andrew Duhon
BEST ZYDECO Lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers
BEST CAJUN Feufollet
BEST LATIN Julio and Cesar
BEST WORLD MUSIC/REGGAE DJ T-Roy
BEST MIXED BAG The Mike Dillon Band
BEST EMERGING ARTIST Sweet Crude
BEST DJ/ELECTRONICA Quickie Mart
Joe Lastie and Rickie Monie of Preservation Hall Jazz Band which won awards for Best Traditional Jazz and Best Album. Best Zydeco winner, Lil Nathan, and his father, Nathan Williams Sr., joined Best Emerging Artist winners Sweet Crude on stage for a performance.
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Best Country/Folk and Best Male Performer nominee Luke Winslow-King with WWNO’s Music Inside Out host Gwen Thompkins.
Walter “Wolfman” Washington & The Roadmasters won Best Rhythm & Blues.
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Freret Street Publiq House — Marco Benevento, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — The Original Wailers, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Charlie Miller, 5; The California Honeydrops, 8 Louisiana Music Factory — Harmonouche, noon; Debbie Davis & the Mesmerizers, 1; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 2; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 3; The Iguanas, 4; Trombone Shorty, 5; John Mooney, 6; Mike Dillon’s Band of Outsiders, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 One Eyed Jacks — Dragon Smoke feat. Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Robert Mercurio & Eric Lindell, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8 Siberia — Herringbone Orchestra, Dapper Dandies, 6; White Hills, Jesse Tripp & the Night Breed, Birthstone, 9
Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Donald Harrison, Congo Nation, 8 & 10
WEDNESDAY 30 Cafe Istanbul — John Coltrane tribute feat. Jason Marsalis, Troi Bechet, Luther Gray, 3-7; Ed Volker’s Jolly House, Helen Gillet, 11 Carver Theater — Big Chief Donald Harrison, Christian Scott, The Bridge Trio, Detroit Brooks, 8:30 Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30 Circle Bar — The Pears, Kill Lincoln, 10 City Park Botanical Garden — Theresa Andersson, Flow Tribe, 7 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; The Iguanas, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Gasa Gasa — Lost in the Trees, Wild Moccasins, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — Megalomaniacs Ball with Garage a Trois, Steel Punk feat. Eric McFadden, Norwood Fisher, Mike Dillon, Stanton Moore, 9 Lafayette Square — Wednesdays at the Square: Eric McFadden, Jerry Joseph, Norwood Fisher, Eric Bolivar, Gravy, 5 Louisiana Music Factory — Kermit Ruffins, noon; Rebirth Brass Band, 1; Waylon Thibodeaux, 2; Jesse McBride, Next Generation, 4; Royal Southern Brotherhood, 4; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 5; Ellis Marsalis Trio, 6 Maple Leaf Bar — The Heard, 12:45; Catfish Alliance, 1:45; Pimps of Joytime, 2:45; Dastardly Bastards, 4:15; Eric Krasno, Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, Adam Deitch, 5:15; Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter Jr., June Yamagishi, Ivan Neville, 11 Marigny Opera House — Tucker Fuller, Megan Levad, 8
AllWays Lounge — One Love Brass, Local Skank, 10 Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park: Christian Scott, 4 Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8; Josh Paxton, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Hamiet Bluiett, 9 Carver Theater — Germaine Bazzle, Stephanie Jordan, Sharon Martin, 7 d.b.a. — Kristin Diable & the City, 5; Jon Cleary, 7; Kenny Brown Band feat. Alvin Youngblood Hart, Cedric Burnside Project, Reverend John Wilkins, 8 Gasa Gasa — Perfect Pussy, Yamatanaka, Sonic Titan, Green Dreams, 8 Generations Hall — Shorty Fest benefit concert feat. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Cedric Burnside Project, The Soul Rebels, 8 House of Blues — The Subdudes, 8; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, midnight House of Blues (The Parish) — Graveyard, Bombus, 8:30 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — Funkin’ Data Hip-Hop feat. Kool Keith, Mannie Fresh, Camp Lo, 9 Irish House — Patrick Cooper, 6 Little Gem Saloon — Andre Bohren, 5; Saint Cecilia’s Asylum Chorus, Spencer Bohren, 9; Bayou Brothers feat. Dave Malone, 11; Shady Horns, Context Killer, 2 a.m. Maple Leaf Bar — Jesus Cooms, Nicholas Payton, Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30 Mardi Gras World — The Royal Family Ball “Masquerage” feat. Lettuce, Soulive, Maceo Parker, George Porter Jr. and Dr. Klaw, 8 Marigny Opera House — Tucker Fuller, Megan Levad, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Hurray for the Riff Raff, 8; Fiya Powa! feat. Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore, Skerik, Tony Hall, Roosevelt Collier, Eddie Roberts, Rahzel, 1:30 a.m.
MUSIC LISTINGS Rock ’N’ Bowl — Geno Delafose, Horace Trahan, Chubby Carrier, 8:30
Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Guitar Lightnin’ Lee, 10
Saenger Theatre — John Legend, 8
Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5; Mark Hessler & Friends, 9
Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Hornucopia feat. Charles Neville, Delfeayo Marsalis, Wess Anderson, 9 & 11 Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club — Jessi Campo, 8 Tipitina’s — Anders Osborne, Greensky Bluegrass, 8 Vaughan’s — Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill & the Heart Attack, 9 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11
FRIDAY 2 AllWays Lounge — Helen Gillet, 10 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Jon Batiste, Stay Human, 9; Stooges Brass Band, 1:30 a.m. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Eric Lindell & the Sunliners feat. Anson Funderburgh, 10 Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7:30 d.b.a. — Jon Cleary, 7; Soul Rebels, 10; Lost Bayou Ramblers, 2 a.m. Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the La. Sunspots, 10 Freret Street Publiq House — Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Karl Denson, Carly Meyers, 9 Gasa Gasa — Lost Bayou Ramblers, Mississippi Rail Company, 9
Hangar 13 — Dory Drive, 10; Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m. Hermes Bar — Luke WinslowKing, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, Aurora Nealand, Spencer Bohren, Andre Bohren, 10 House of Blues — Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan, 8; The New Mastersounds, midnight House of Blues (The Parish) — Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — Bayou Rendezvous: The New Orleans Allstars, Ivan Neville, Sonny Landreth, Johnny Vidacovich, 8 Irish House — Beth Patterson, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Piano Professor Series, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 Jazz National Historical Park — Johnette Downing, 11 a.m.
Little Gem Saloon — Lucas Davenport, 5; Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, 11 The Maison — The Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 7; Rebirth Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rumplesteelskin, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — James Brown Birthday Bash feat. Tony Hall, Renard Poche, Raymond Weber, Roderick Paulin, Jeff Watkins, Tracy Griffin, 11; Nth Power feat. Nigel Hall, Nikki Glaspie, Nick Cassarino, Nate Edgar, 3 a.m. Mardi Gras World — FIYA FEST: Maceo Parker, Eric Krasno, Donald Harrison, Noon Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, 9; The Necessary Gentlemen, 9; Lo Faber, 10; Loves It!, 11 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Christian Serpas, GhostTown, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Ingrid Lucia, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Garage A Trois, 9; Wild Fiya feat. Stephen Perkins, Bernie Worrell, Blackbyrd McKnight, Corey Glover, Norwood Fisher, Doug Wimbish, Eric McFadden, Mike Dillon, 1:30 a.m. Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Mark Braud, Palm Court Jazz Band, 7 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Ensemble, 8; Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Prime Example — Stephanie Jordan, 9 & 11 Republic New Orleans — Cowboy Mouth, Tab Benoit’s Swampland Jam, Marc Broussard, 8:30 Rock ’N’ Bowl — The Iguanas, Kermit Ruffins, Bonerama, 8:30 Roosevelt Hotel — Antoine Diel, 5:30; Luther Kent, 9 Rusty Nail — Gal Holiday, 10 Marigny Brasserie — Buku Broux, 9 Saenger Theatre — Gov’t Mule, 8:30 Siberia — Sweet Crude, Feufollet, Pine Leaf Boys, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy J. Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & the Lonely Nights Band, 8 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 6; Glen David Andrews, 9 Tipitina’s — The Funky Meters, California Honeydrops, St. Paul,
Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Shannon Powell Trio, 5
SATURDAY 3 BJ’s Lounge — Little Freddie King, 10:30 Blue Nile — Royal Potato Family, Marco Benevento, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, 9; WimBASH feat. Doug Wimbish, Corey Glover, Khris Royal, 1:30 a.m. Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Washboard Chaz Trio, 7; Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Swamp Donkeys, 11 a.m.; Royal Rounders feat. Jerry Jumonville, Freddy Staehle, 5; Paul Sanchez, 8; Staehle, Paxton & Stone, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Jon Batiste and Human Way, Nigel Hall and Nth Power, 9 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Luther Kent Band, 9 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Dash Rip Rock, The Breton Sound, 10 Casa Borrega — Yulene Velasquez Band, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Illuminasti Trio feat. James Singleton, Mike Dillon Band feat. Roosevelt Collier, 9 Circle Bar — James Hall, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 8; Hot 8 Brass Band, 10; TEN feat. Eric McFadden, Bernie Worrell, Norwood Fisher, Steven Perkins, 2 a.m. Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Freret Street Publiq House — Cardinal Sons, Gold & the Rush, Coyotes, Kid Carsons, 9 Gasa Gasa — Flow Tribe, 9 Hangar 13 — Dance Party Revival Vol. 16, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — DJ Soul Sister’s Hustle, 11 House of Blues — Grouplove, MS MR, 7; The New Mastersounds, midnight House of Blues (The Parish) — Alejandro Escovedo, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — CROSSFIYA, Eric Krasno, Adam Deitch, Talib Kweli, The Soul Rebels, Rahzel, Break Science, Inspectah Deck, 10 Irish House — Jon Roniger, Jenny Mac, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Don Vappie, 8; Red Hot Jazz Revue feat. the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys Traditional Jazz Band, midnight Jazz National Historical Park — Delia Nakayama, Peter Nu, noon; Craig Brenner, 2 PAGE 81
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Joy Theater — The Revivalists, The Motet, Earphunk, 9 Kermit’s Treme MotherIn-Law Lounge — Neshia Ruffins, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 5; Dave James Band, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet, 8; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 9; The Meters, 1 a.m; Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Juan Pardo, Robert Walter, Kirk Joseph, Papa Mali, 2 a.m. The Maison — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Keller Williams & More Than a Little, George Porter Jr. & His Runnin’ Pardners, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Boukou Groove feat. Big D Perkins, Donnie Sundal, 9:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Igor 7, 8; Kerry Cox, 8; Beth Trepagnier, 9; Roger Ferrera feat. Maggie Havens, 10; Olivia Quillio, 11 Old Point Bar — Andre Thierry Zydeco Band, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — The Deslondes, 8:30 One Eyed Jacks — JD McPherson, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lionel Ferbos & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Prime Example — Herlin Riley, 9 & 11 Rock ’N’ Bowl — Eric Lindell, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr., Pimps of Joytime, 8:30
Rusty Nail — Dave Jordan, 10 Saenger Theatre — Dr. John Tribute feat. Gregg Allman, Lucinda Williams, Allen Toussaint, 9 Shamrock Bar — Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, Most Wanted Brass Band, G. Love, 10 Siberia — Alex McMurray, 6; Black Lips, Natural Child, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Henry Butler, Steve Bernstein & the Hot Nine, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Antoine Diel’s New Orleans Power Misfits, 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Davis Rogan Band, 10 Sugar Mill — Galactic, Rising Appalachia, The Human Experience, 9 Three Muses — Monty Banks, 11:30 a.m.; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — Trampled by Turtles, Spirit Family Reunion, 8; Galactic, 1:30 a.m. Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Montegut, 11
Banks Street Bar — Isla NOLA, 4; Ron Hotstream & the F-Holes, 9 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Funky But Better feat. Marco Benevento, Roosevelt Collier, Doug Wimbish, 9 Blue Nile (Balcony Room) — Luke Winslow King, 9 Buffa’s Lounge — Some Like It Hot, 11 a.m.; Scotch Hounds, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 6; B L A C K I E, prayer, 10 The Civic Theatre — Ghost, King Dude, 7:30 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m. Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Feufollet, 7; Stanton Moore Trio, 10; Frequinox, 1 a.m. DMac’s — Michael Pearce, 11 a.m.; Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6; Open blues jam feat. Yomomanem, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Music Club — Rebirth Brass Band album release party feat. Zigaboo Modeliste, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Lu & Charlie’s Revisited feat. Germain Bazzle, 8 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Treme Brass Band, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 8 The Maison — Dave Easley, 5 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Morning Call — Billy D. Chapman, 10 a.m. Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30; Tom Witek Quartet, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Eric Lindell, Seth Walker, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 11 a.m. Rock ’N’ Bowl — Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Jonathon Boogie Long, 8:30 Siberia — Howler, Solid Goldberg, HiGH, Pope, 6; Black Irish Texas, My Graveyard Jaw, This Stunted Sexted, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jon Batiste, Stay Human, 9 & 11 Spotted Cat — Rites of Swing, Every other Sunday, 2; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sounds, 10
Three Muses — Daniele Spadavecchia, 11:30 a.m.; Raphael & Norbert, 5:30; Gal Holiday, 8 Tipitina’s — Cajun Fais DoDo feat. Bruce Daigrepont, 5; Dumpstaphunk, Royal Southern Brotherhood, DJ Soul Sister, 8; Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, 1:30 a.m.
MONDAY 5 Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 Blue Nile — The Nth Power, 10 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 7 Buffa’s Lounge — Riccardo Crespo, 8 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Andrew Duhon Trio, 7 Casa Borrega — Fredy Omar, Gal Holiday, 5 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, Sweet Crude, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, Killeen Foundry; Missy Meatlocker, 6 d.b.a. — Luke Winslow-King, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 Gasa Gasa — Magnetic Mondays feat. Magnetic Ear, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, 8 Irish House — Celtic Harp Ensemble, 6; Traditional Irish Music Session, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kermit’s Treme Mother-InLaw Lounge — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 Louisiana Music Factory — Ingrid Lucia, noon; Stover feat. The Voormen, 1:30; Glen David Andrews, 3; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 4:30 The Maison — Chicken and Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; The New Orleans Super Jam, 9:30 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Living Legends feat. Maynard Chatters, 8 Siberia — Red Elvises, 6 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Norbert Susemihl, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8
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NOW SHOWING Bears (G) — This Disney nature documentary follows a bear family in Alaska. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal 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 Brick Mansions (PG-13) — Paul Walker stars as an undercover cop trying to prevent a drug kingpin from ruining Detroit. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place
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Divergent (PG-13) — In a world where being different means certain death, a young girl must learn why before it’s too late. Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Dom Hemingway (R) — A former safecracker (Jude Law) leaves prison and is quickly drawn back into the criminal world. Elmwood, Canal Place Draft Day (PG-13) — The Cleveland Browns’ general manager (Kevin Costner) works hard to acquire the No. 1 draft pick. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place From the Rough (PG) — A black woman is the first to coach an all-men collegiate team. Elmwood, Westbank God’s Not Dead (PG) — A student’s faith is tested when his professor asserts that God does not exist. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Grand Budapest Hotel (R) — In Wes Anderson’s caper, a hotel concierge befriends a lobby boy. Elmwood, Prytania, Canal Place
Great White Shark 3D (NR) — Shark encounters are shared in the documentary. Entergy IMAX A Haunted House 2 (R) — More paranormal events happen to Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) in the sequel to last year’s comedic horror. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Heaven Is for Real (PG) — Randall Wallace directs the film adaptation of Todd Burpo’s book about a dad sharing his son’s story of going to Heaven. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) — Morgan Freeman narrates a film about lemurs in Madagascar. Entergy IMAX Jodorowsky’s Dune (PG-13) — Director Alejandro Jodorowsky fails in his attempt to make a star-studded adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune. Canal Place The Lunchbox (PG) — Two strangers become friends through a series of letters. Canal Place The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte - Encore (NR) — Mozart’s Italian opera about sisters and their lovers is screened. Elmwood, Regal Noah (PG-13) — A man takes drastic measures to protect his family in an impending flood. Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Oculus (R) — A woman tries to convince the authorities that a supernatural being, not her brother, committed a murder. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Other Woman (PG-13) — Three women get revenge on the man who has been cheating on them all. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place
The Railway Man
The Railway Man (R) Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman Limited release
The sight of Allied prisoners of war (POW) working on a difficult construction job under direction of their Japanese captors is a familiar one to movie fans: British director David Lean’s 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai won seven Oscars and is widely considered a classic. That purely fictional film and the novel on which it was based were inspired by the real-life construction of the Burma Railway — widely known as the “Death Railway” — during World War II, in which more than 100,000 people (most of whom were Asian civilians) died while working on the extremely difficult task of building a rail line through Thailand to Burma in dense and hilly jungle. No one would confuse Lean’s Hollywood-style epic with The Railway Man. Based on the autobiography of British Army officer Eric Lomax, The Railway Man reveals the true horrors of the Burma Railway by focusing on one man’s quest to exorcise his resulting personal demons. Director Jonathan Teplitzky’s film moves back and forth in time between the young Lomax (Jeremy Irvine) during wartime and the middle-aged Lomax (Colin Firth) as he lived in the early 1980s. The elder Lomax falls in love with Patty Wallace (Nicole Kidman), who gradually comes to realize how broken the former officer remains from the trauma of his time as a POW, especially the torture inflicted upon him by Japanese officers. One of his captors resurfaces as a tour guide at the old POW camp and railway — which was made over as a tourist attraction — presenting Lomax with the unlikely chance to confront his past. Essentially an internal psychological drama, Teplitzky’s film sometimes seems like it’s working awfully hard to tell a story better suited to the printed page. Crucial liberties were taken with Lomax’s account to maximize the film’s dramatic impact, and it’s all a bit too polished to sit comfortably with the physical and emotional rawness of his story. The flashback scenes are vivid and appropriately gut-wrenching, and strong lead performances elevate the film when Teplitzky’s choices fall short. Firth has not been widely seen since his award-winning performances in A Single Man and The King’s Speech, and his elegant and understated work has begun to recall that of fellow Brits and all-time greats like Sir Laurence Olivier and Richard Harris. For what may be the first time, the 46-year-old Kidman finds herself playing an unabashedly middle-aged character. She rises to the occasion with a deep appreciation of Wallace’s emotional trauma. Because The Railway Man was in development for almost 15 years, it was based not only on Lomax’s writings but also on his extensive personal input at the twilight of his life. He lived long enough to visit the set of the film but did not get to see the finished product. That may explain how The Railway Man — despite its shortcomings — manages to deliver a fairly convincing meditation on the value of forgiveness and its potential for healing old wounds. That lesson may not be new, but it has stood the test of time. — KEN KORMAN
FILM LISTINGS Penguins 3D (PG) — A king penguin returns to his native land in the sub-Antarctic to find a mate. Entergy IMAX The Quiet Ones (PG-13) — A group of university students and their professor release evil forces while conducting an experiment on a young girl. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Railway Man (R) — A British WWII prisoner of war confronts his Japanese prison guard decades later. Elmwood, Canal Place Rio 2 (G) — In the 2011 animated film’s sequel, a family of blue macaws tries to adjust to life in the Amazon. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Transcendence (PG-13) — Johnny Depp and Kate Mara star in a sci-fi drama about a dying scientist who uploads his mind onto a computer. Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Under the Skin (R) — An alien appearing as a human seduces Scottish people. Elmwood, Canal Place
OPENING FRIDAY The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) — A strange company hires supervillains to attack Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield). Clearview, Elmwood, Westbank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place
SPECIAL SCREENINGS Akeelah and the Bee (PG) — A south Los Angeles girl participates in the National Spelling Bee. 7:30 p.m. Friday. Cut-Off Recreation Center Bayou Maharajah (NR) — Director Lily Keber screens her film about musician James Booker as part of Sync Up Cinema. She follows with a discussion. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. New Orleans Museum of Art Diary of a Nudist (NR) — A journalist reports on a nudist colony and finds she likes it. Midnight Friday. Indywood Theater Easy Rider (R) — Two bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans to find the true America. 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 6 p.m. Monday. Indywood Theater F for Fake (PG) — Orson Welles examines art, forgery and
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (R) — A sportswriter goes on a drug-fueled road trip. 10 p.m. Sunday. Prytania The Final Member (R) — The curator of a museum devoted to male genitalia seeks out the elusive human specimen. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Gladiator (R) — A Roman gladiator climbs his way through the ranks of warriors to face the man who took his freedom. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood Go for Sisters (NR) — Director John Sayles screens his latest film as part of Sync Up Cinema. The film is followed by a discussion with actress Yolonda Ross. 3 p.m. Tuesday. New Orleans Museum of Art Ilo Ilo (NR) — Economic uncertainties challenge a middleclass Singapore family. 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Inside Llewyn Davis (R) — A 1960s folk singer struggles to survive in New York. 3:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. Thursday, 2:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Monday. Indywood Theater The Key to Me (NR) — Paul and Shelly Sanchez’s lives and love impacts New Orleans. 9 p.m. Saturday. Buffa’s Lounge A Love Song for Bobby Long (R) — A young woman returns to New Orleans after her mother dies from a drug overdose. 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, 6 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood Theater North by Northwest (NR) — A New York executive must survive while a group of foreign spies mistake him for a government agent. 10 a.m. Wednesday, Prytania The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) — Two friends come across a mansion in the woods and meet a series of strange people. Midnight Friday-Saturday. Prytania Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (NR) — Alt-country singer Jim White travels through the South. 6 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 4 p.m. Monday. Indywood Theater To Catch a Thief (PG) — A retired cat burglar hunts for the criminal who is copying his style. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania A Tribute to Toussaint (NR) — A documentary about musician Allen Toussaint is screened as part of Sync Up Cinema. A discussion with Toussaint, Jim Doston, Greg Buisson and Ron Yager follows. 7 p.m. Wednesday. New Orleans Museum of Art Vanishing Pearls (NR) — Director Nailah Jefferson screens her documentary about the BP
oil spill disaster’s effect on oystermen as part of Sync Up Cinema. She follows with a discussion. 7 p.m. Tuesday. New Orleans Museum of Art A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas (NR) — The documentary traces the history of a once-famous music venue. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood Theater The Whole Gritty City (NR) — The filmmakers follow three New Orleans marching bands to explore their cultural importance. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. New Orleans Museum of Art Wuthering Heights (2011) (NR) — The film adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel tells the story of a poor boy who falls in love with his young foster sister. 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Indywood Theater AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Blvd., Metairie., (504) 887-1257. www.amctheatres.com AMC Elmwood Palace 20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan., (504) 733-2029. www.amctheatres.com AMC Westbank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey., (504) 263-2298. www.amctheatres.com Buffa’s Lounge: 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038. www. buffaslounge.com Chalmette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette., (504) 3049992. www.chalmettemovies. com Cut-Off Recreation Center: 6600 Belgrade St., (504) 364-4059 Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 581-4629. www.auduboninstitute.org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner., (504) 2294259. www.thegrandtheatre. com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell., (985) 641-1889. www.thegrandtheatre.com Indywood Theater: 630 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 345-8804. will@indywood. org. www.indywood.org National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater: 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944. www.nationalww2museum. org New Orleans Museum of Art: City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle., (504) 658-4100. www. noma.org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 8912787. www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington., (985) 871-7787. www.regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540. www. thetheatres.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858. www.zeitgeistinc.net
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Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www ariodantegallery.com — “Erin Lee Gafill: Colorscapes,” mixed media group exhibition, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283 — Works by Daniel Jupiter and Charles Anderson, 8 p.m. Friday. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Symbols and Surfaces,” mixed media by Mary Hardy, opening Saturday. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “City in Mind,” monotypes of New Orleans streetscapes by Barbara Brainard, opening Tuesday. LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Summer Stars,” astrology-themed paintings by Jon Langford, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks. com — Hand-blown glass trumpets by James Mongrain, opening reception 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Luminous metal saxophone sculptures by Robert Sarpy, opening reception 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
GALLERIES A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Photographs and photo books from all eras by various photographers, ongoing. Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www. noafa.com — “Closer Examination” by Ronna Harris and new work by Butler Steltemeier, through Friday. Alex Beard Studio. 712 Royal St., (504) 309-0394; www.alexbeardstudio.com — Drawings and paintings by Alex Beard, ongoing. Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal
St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — Jazz Fest photography group exhibition, through May 14. Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart.com — “Deep Blues,” Southern folk art group exhibition, ongoing. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www. ariodantegallery.com — Mixed media craft exhibition by Abe Geasland, Craig Taylor, Jivita Harris Casey and Alix Travis, through Wednesday. Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722 — “Art Syncopation,” paintings by Angel Gonzalez de la Tijera, through May 20. Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Chihuly,” architectural installations by Dale Chihuly, through July 12. “Still Lifes,” oil paintings by Amy Weiskopf, through July 12. Beneito’s Art. 3618 Magazine St., (504) 891-9170; www.bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings by Beneito Bernard, ongoing. Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Still,” porcelain mishima by Miki Glasser, through May 6. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “I Search in Snow,” mixed media by Sibylle Peretti, through May. Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart. com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing. Chester Allen’s Oasis of Energy. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 292-8365; www.chesterallen-oasisofenergy.tumblr.com — “Universal Groove,” silversmithing by Chester Allen, ongoing. Coup D’oeil Art Consortium. 2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Geometry of Sound,” displays of scores by composers, through May 10. Courtyard Gallery. 1129 Decatur St., (504) 330-0134; www woodartandmarketing. com — New Orleans-themed
reclaimed wood carvings by Daniel Garcia, ongoing. Freret Clay Center. 2525 Jena St., (504) 919-8050; www freretclaycenter.com — “The Human Condition,” metal rusts, wood rots’ collage, ceramic tiles and vessels by Barbie L’Hoste and Bill Darrow, ongoing. The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront. org — “Grown Ass Kid,” mixed media group exhibition, through Sunday. Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres.com — Mixed media by Ally Burguieres, ongoing. Graphite Galleries. 936 Royal St., (504) 565-3739; www.graphitenola.com — Group mixed media exhibition, ongoing. The Hotel Modern. 936 St. Charles Ave., 504-962-0900; www.thehotelmodern.com — “The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Chapter 3,” mixed media by Sanford Biggers, through May. J & S Gallery. 3801 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 952-9163 — Wood carvings and paintings by local artists, ongoing. Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg. com — “My New Orleans,” paintings by Adam K. Hall, through Wednesday. La Madama Bazarre. 1007 St. Mary St., (504) 236-5076; www. lamadamabazarre.com — Group exhibition celebrating the whimsical and weird side of Louisiana, ongoing. Lisa Victoria Gallery. 616 Royal St., (504) 315-0850; www.lisavictoriagallery.com — Mixed media group exhibition, ongoing. Live Art Studio. 4207 Dumaine St., (504) 484-7245; www.liveartstudio.com — Giclee prints of jazz musicians by Sarah Stiehl, and “Louisiana Waltz,” photography by Richard Weller, through May. M. Francis Gallery. 1938 Burgundy St., (504) 931-1915; www. mfrancisgallery.com — Acrylic on canvas by Myesha, ongoing. Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos.com — “Down and Dirty,” paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing. Morrison. 1507 Magazine St., (504) 451-3303; www.morrisonsculpture.com — Sculpture and drawings by Thomas Randolph Morrison, ongoing. New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — Etching and screenprints by Greg Giegucz and inside-out glass sculptures by Jason Christian, through Wednesday. Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — “Early Modern Faces: European Portraits 1480-
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SPARE SPACES Basin Street Station. 501 Basin St., (504) 293-2600; www.basinststation.com — Scale model of 1915 French Quarter, ongoing. Bonjour Lingerie. 4214 Magazine St., (504) 309-8014; www. facebook.com/bonjournola — Mixed media black light art by Mario Ortiz, ongoing. Buffa’s Lounge. 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge.com — Festive photographs by Rita Posselt, through Sunday. The Country Club. 634 Louisa St., (504) 945-0742; www thecountryclubneworleans.com — “All Amzie All the Time,” group exhibition
of art celebrating Amzie Adams, ongoing. Gravier Street Social. 523 Gravier St.; www. gravierstreetsocial.com — “Graffiti on Canvas,” paintings by Josh Wingerter, through Wednesday. Hey! Cafe. 4332 Magazine St., (504) 891-8682; www.heycafe. biz — Cartoons from Feast Yer Eyes magazine, ongoing. La Divina Gelateria. 621 St. Peter St., (504) 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com — Art and photographs by Thom Bennett, Mary Moring and Rita Posselt, ongoing. Top Drawer Antiques. 4310 Magazine St., (504) 897-1004; www.topdrawerantiques.net — Mixed media black light art by Mario Ortiz, ongoing. Treo. 3835 Tulane Ave., (504) 650-9844; www.treonola. com — Mixed media group exhibition, ongoing.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Contemporary Arts Center. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Curator Regine Basha seeks works by female artists in New Orleans. Visit cacno.org for details. Deadline June 11. No Dead Artists. Art is sought for the 18th annual No Dead Artists. Visit www.jonathanferraragallery.com for details. Deadline June 16. Swap Meet NOLA. St. Margaret’s at Mercy, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 279-6414; www.stmargaretsno.org — The art and farmers market seeks artists.
MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “hello I AM,” contemporary art by New Orleans teenagers, through May 17. “30 Americans,” group exhibition of works by black artists from the past 30 years, through June 15. Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Shout, Sister, Shout! The Boswell Sisters of New Orleans,” mixed media exhibition about a local 1920s and 1930s trio, through Oct. 26. Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere,” by Richard Sexton, through Dec. 7. Irish Cultural Museum. 933 Conti St., (504) 481-8593 — “Jewellery Box — Irish Hidden Gems,” photographs by Daragh Muldowney, through May 24.
There is something mysterious about Brian Guidry’s abstract paintings. Most of the abstract art we encounter is associated with modernist ideas, but Guidy’s paintings contain hints of things ancient, or at least antique, which couldn’t be more different from the existential gravitas of abstract expressionism, the sardonic aura of pop or the industrial bluntness of minimalism. What sets the Lafayette-based, New Iberia native’s paintings apart from traditional abstraction is their atmospheric patina, a somewhat hazy quality that creates an illusion of Phantom Vibrations: Recent depth that is more typical THRU paintings by Brian Guidry of Renaissance art than MAY anything associated with Good Children Gallery, modernism. That hazy 4037 St. Claude Ave. technique, known to art (504) 616-7427 historians as sfumato, was employed by artists like www.goodchildrengallery.com Leonardo da Vinci to make their subjects either stand out or recede as needed, but it does not come easily; the paint must be meticulously applied in multiple thin layers over time to get the job done. The mystical geometry of the title piece, Phantom Vibrations, is enhanced by an atmospheric aura normally associated with da Vinci-era landscapes, and if that sounds surprising, it may help to know where he gets his subtly vibrant colors. Guidry says they are “sampled from the landscape in South Louisiana; reflections from water, menacing storm clouds and September’s exhausted foliage are among the sources I reference.” Yet works like Oxizion (pictured) might just as easily harken to those Native American peyote cults whose visions of misty mountains and stark deserts suggest cryptic diagrams of nature’s secrets. Visionary geometry exists in Louisiana as well; if you have ever spent time in the swamps you may have noticed the way palmetto fronds slice the brilliant light into angular wedges of radiance. The power of nature is universal, and Guidry says his approach taps into the “forces and processes that produce and control the phenomena of the material world.” In that sense his paintings are places where inner and outer realities merge into geometric vistas where color becomes energy and shapes “suggest portals and slips in time and space.” — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT
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Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “Simply Silver,” exhibition of three centuries of silver, through Wednesday. Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm. org — Architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “The Louisiana Photographs of Robert Tebbs,” photos of plantations from 1926, through June 1. “Images and Instruments: Medical History,” artifacts and images of 19th- and
20th-century medical equipment, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt. state.la.us — “Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee,” an overview of the Carnival organization, through Dec. 1. “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items and “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond.” Madame John’s Legacy. 632 Dumaine St., (504) 568-6968; www.crt.state. la.us — “The Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans”, ongoing. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.
noma.org — “Photography and the American Civil War,” through Sunday. “Rematch,” a retrospective of conceptual artist Mel Chin, through May 25. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “I’ll Save You Tomorrow,” mixed media by Juan Logan, “Into the Light II,” Southern photography group exhibition, through July 20. Williams Research Center. Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Cameo to Close Up: Louisiana in Film,” the history of movie-making in New Orleans as seen in posters, photographs, through Nov. 26.
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1780,” old master painting exhibition, through June 29. Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “De Troit,” photographic homage to Detroit by Joseph Crachiola, through June 7. “One Foot in the Swamp: Portraits & Daydreams as Photographs,” photography by Zack Smith, through Aug. 2. Sheila Phipps Studio & Gallery. 8237 Oak St., (504) 5966031 — Oil and acrylic portraits and abstracts, ongoing. St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyart.org — “Minding the Gap,” paintings by Linda Dautreuil, through May 24. Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “The Simulated Tide,” paintings about water by Bonnie Maygarden, through Sunday. Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Conjuring New Orleans Music: Voodoo, Gumbo and Snowballs, Too,” mixed media group exhibition, through May. Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery. com — Paintings of New Orleans by Alan Flattmann, through Saturday. UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — “UNO MFA Alumni Exhibition,” mixed media curated by Rebecca Lee Reynolds, through May 4. “You Are a Weird Bird,” mixed media by Natalie McLaurin, through Sunday.
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Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate!. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena. uno.edu — Disney characters celebrate birthdays and holidays. Tickets start at $18. 7 p.m. Thursday, 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Drama Senior Recital. NOCCA Riverfront, Nims Blackbox Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 9402875; www.nocca.com — Seniors at NOCCA perform. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Kiss Me Kate. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre. org — The play inside a musical features compositions by Cole Porter. 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Musical Theatre Senior Recital. NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — Seniors at NOCCA perform. 7 p.m. Thursday. Rx. University of New Orleans, Robert E. Nims Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-7469; www.theatre.uno.edu — The University of New Orleans’ last show of the season is a comedy about a researcher testing a new antidepressant on a patient. General admission $12, students $8. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. This Sweaty City: Episode 3. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre. com — Goat in the Road Productions premieres the third episode of its eight-part series about a late-night experimental
music radio DJ. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Vocal Music Senior Recitals. NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — Seniors at NOCCA perform. 7 p.m. Friday.
CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY The Andrews Brothers. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www. stagedoorcanteen.org — Three men fill in for the Andrews Sisters when a flu outbreak quarantines the women. Dinner and show $65, brunch and show $60, show only $30. Dinner 6 p.m., show 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Arkham ASSylum: A Batman Burlesque Play. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — Gotham City’s prison is overtaken by a gas that causes Batman’s enemies to shed their clothes. Tickets start at $10. 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Beach Blanket Burlesque. Tiki Tolteca, 301 N. Peters St., (504) 267-4406; www.facebook.com/tikitolteca — GoGo McGregor hosts a free burlesque show. 9 p.m. Wednesday. Bits & Jiggles. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www. siberianola.com — The show mixes comedy and burlesque. 9 p.m. Monday. Burlesque Ballroom. Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www. sonesta.com/royalneworleans — Trixie Minx stars
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As a child, native New Orleanian Jennifer Pagan “threw up Jesus” on her first pair of “church shoes” at her communion. This experience left her confused about religion, but almost as important, ruined her white Mary Janes. That memory is part of Pagan’s alternately heartbreaking and humorous one-woman show Shoebox Lounge, recently staged at The Shadowbox Theatre. Pagan is a riveting performer and the show blends memoir pieces with excellent character work. She animates nine figures, including her shoe-loving grandmother and racetrack-aficionado grandfather. Like fragmented pieces of Pagan’s history, the characters came together in a satisfying way to formed a nearly complete whole. Her New Orleans shoe repairman vignette was particularly good. For someone who loves shoes so much — there’s a great moment when she recites a list of brands — her repairman naturaly became a therapist of sorts. The sign over his shop says, “I Will Heel You. I Will Save Your Sole. I will Even Dye for You,” and it laid out the theme of one of the show’s most emotional threads. The original version of Shoebox Lounge debuted in 2007 at Le Chat Noir, and Pagan refined the narrative for subsequent productions. Her dedication paid off; the show’s structure was tight, with no lag between scenes, and transitions from one character to the next — sometimes three in the span of a minute — were seamless. The show lasts one hour, but storylines were thoughtful and mostly realized, although one portion about a failing marriage seemed unfinished. Most characters were fully developed. Pagan balanced the show’s emotional content and humor. There are many funny moments, including a scene in which one of her main characters judges potential suitors based on the quality of his shoes. Her acting completely filled the space, but the heart of this story resides in quieter moments. The title refers to her grandmother’s stash of hidden liquor, and material about a family struggling with addiction is poignant. The show also delved into common experiences in New Orleans. In one scene, she visits her grandmother’s Lakeview house, which was flooded following Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. Pagan exhibits great intuition and control in the intense scene. Shoebox is a special show that explores life’s complexities, and Pagan’s performance is like one of the shoes she most admires: smooth, intricate and able to go the extra mile. — TYLER GILLESPIE
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in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Romy Kaye and the Brent Walsh Jazz Trio. Call (504) 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday. The Victory Belles: Spirit of America. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www. stagedoorcanteen. org — The Victory Belles perform patriotic tunes from the American canon and from the songbooks of George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin. Cuisine from American Sector is available. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.
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DANCE Contemporary Master Class Series. Dancing Grounds, 3705 St. Claude Ave., (504) 535-5791; dancingrounds.org — A choreographer teaches the class. $12, members free. 10 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Saturday. Isidore Newman School performance. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Student dancers perform. 6 p.m. Friday.
COMEDY Accessible Comedy. Buffa’s Lounge, 1001 Esplanade Ave., (504) 949-0038; www.buffaslounge. com — J. Alfred Potter and Jonah Bascle do stand-up
(504) 887-9401 — Comedian Johnny Rock hosts an open-mic comedy night. 8 p.m. Tuesday. Laugh & Sip. The Wine Bistro, 1011 Gravier St.; www.facebook.com/thewinebistrono — Mark Caesar and DJ Cousin Cav host the weekly showcase of local comedians. Call (504) 6066408 for details. Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday. Lights Up!. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — The theater showcases new improv troupes. Tickets $5. 9 p.m. Thursday. The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www.tnmcomedy.com — Each show features a guest sharing favorite true stories, the details of which inspire improv comedy. Tickets $8. 10:30 p.m. Saturday. NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic & Showcase. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Andrew Polk hosts the open-mic series that features a booked showcase. Free admission. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Sunday. Sit-Down Stand-Up. Prytania Bar, 3445 Prytania St., (504) 891-5773; www.prytaniabar.com — Jonah Bascle hosts the stand-up comedy show presented by Accessible Comedy. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Monday. Sketch Comedy. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The Sketchy Characters perform sketch comedy. Visit www.sketchycharacters.net for details. 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Student Union. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — A weekly improv for The New Movement students and alumni. 8 p.m. Thursday. Think You’re Funny? Comedy Showcase. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.
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Crescent City Lights Youth Theater. NORD’s Ty Tracy Theater, Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Ave., (504) 598-3800; www.crescentcitylights.org — The theater seeks audition applicants in the fourth to 10th grades for summer productions. The application deadline is 6 p.m. Thursday, and there is a $10 fee. Visit www.crescentcitylights. org/what/auditions for details. Monday. Crescent City Sound Chorus. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Drama Hall, third floor, (504) 616-6066; www. dcc.edu — The Crescent City Sound Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, holds auditions. For details, visit www.crescentcitysound. com. 7 p.m. Monday.
shows on a rotating basis. 11:55 p.m. Friday. Allstar Comedy Revue. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band. Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday. Chris Champagne, Mike Strecker, Nature Boy. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon St., (504) 913-9073; www. fairgrinds.com — The three comedians perform standup comedy. Donation suggested. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 9492009; www.lostlovelounge. com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. Tuesday. Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open-mic portion. 8 p.m. Thursday. Comedy Sportz. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an allages improv comedy show. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. The Franchise. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St., (504) 302-8264; www. tnmcomedy.com — Comedians perform at this weekly improv show. Admission $5. 10:30 p.m. Friday. Friday Night Laughs. NOLA Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts an open-mic. 11 p.m. Friday. Give ‘Em The Light Open-Mic Comedy Show. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www. houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday. Johnny Rock. C. Beever’s Bar of Music, 2507 N. Woodlawn Ave., Metairie,
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Yoga at the Cabildo. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — Yoga classes for all experience levels are held in the Cabildo gallery. 7:30 a.m.
Crescent City Farmers Market. Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St., (504) 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. Visit www. crescentcityfarmersmarket.org for details.
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Eatmoor in Broadmoor. New Orleans Public Library, Rosa Keller Branch, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2675; www. nutrias.org — My House NOLA, in partnership with the Broadmoor Improvement Association, presents a gathering of food trucks. Visit www.myhousenola.com for details on participating vendors. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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It’s All About the Music BIke Ride. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — As part of NOLA Social Ride, bicyclists cruise around the city, stopping a few times along the way to enjoy live music. Visit www. facebook.com/groups/nolasocialride for details. 6 p.m. Library Genealogy Series. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Sal Serio, curator of the library’s American Italian Research Center, leads a 13part genealogy series. Contact Chris at (504) 889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us for a complete schedule. 7 p.m. Outside the Tent. Jazz & Heritage Gallery, 1205 N. Rampart St., (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage.org — Local craft vendors and artists display their works. Tuesday-Saturday. Reggae Night. The Other Place, 1224 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 9437502 — DJ Kush Master plays reggae alongside craft vendors and food from Coco Hut. 8 p.m. Toddler Time. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The museum hosts special Tuesday and Thursday activities for children ages 3 and under and their parents
WEDNESDAY 30 Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Burgundy Beat. 3200 Block of Burgundy St. — The 3200 block of Burgundy Street has crafts, clothing, art, food and drinks. 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Coffee with Covington mayor Mike Cooper. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — Covington citizens talk to their mayor in an informal setting. Coffee and pastries are provided. 9 a.m. Couture for a Cause kick-off party. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-2951; www.eiffelsociety.com — The Eiffel Society begins its summer fashion show that benefits the American Heart Association. 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. Credit Ready business seminar. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Guests learn to better manage their business finances. 7 p.m. Grand Opening of Carver Theater. Carver Theater, 2101 Orleans Ave., (504) 304-0460; www.carvertheater.org — The celebration features a panel with Dr. John and Allen Toussaint and a blessing by Mardi Gras Indians. 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Magic of Snoozer Quinn. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, (504) 314-2200; www. tulane.edu — Kathryn Hobgood Ray presents her research on Snoozer Quinn through rare film and audio. Live performances of the musician’s works follow. 6 p.m. White Glove Wednesdays. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5276012; www.nationalww2museum.org — Curator Eric Rivets gives visitors the chance to wear original military uniforms and equipment. 9 a.m.
THURSDAY 1 Art on the Rocks at W New Orleans. W Hotel New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www.wneworleans.com — Artists in residence showcase and sometimes demonstrate their work, there’s a DJ, drink specials and giveaways of lodging at W Hotels. Visit www. wneworleans.com/artontherocks for details. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Jazz in the Park. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — Jazz in the Park’s fifth season of free musical and dance performances features food and art vendors, and a stage in Congo Square that’s run by and for kids. Visit the website and check Gambit music listings for details. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Launch Fest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Founders and CEOs from companies such as Geek Squad and Kickboard talk about entrepreneurship and start-up companies. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Marketplace at Armstrong Park. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.pufap.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, handmade beauty products, art, crafts and entertainment. Visit www.icdnola. org for details. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
and home ownership programs for teachers, police officers, firefighters and EMTs. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous. Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, 3900 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-3431; www.rayneumc. org — Group members help each other utilize the 12-step method to recover from compulsive eating. For details, contact Sarah at (504) 4589965. 7 p.m. Sistahs Making a Change. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Women of all experience levels are invited to dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
FRIDAY 2 Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival. Parc Hardy, 2090 Rees St., Breaux Bridge — Cajun, zydeco and swamp pop music fill three stages during the three-day festival. There are cultural demonstrations, dance contests, crawfish prepared all ways, a crawfish race, crawfish etouffee cook-off, carnival rides and more. 4 p.m. to midnight Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission $5 Friday and Sunday, $10 Saturday, $15 three-day pass. Carey Street Coalition showcase. Olde Towne Slidell, 124 Erlanger St., Slidell — Local businesses and artists show their offerings. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The weekly event includes an art activity, live music, a film and a food demonstration. 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. John McDonogh Day. McDonoghville Cemetery, 520 Hancock St., Gretna — Living history interpreters dress in uniform and tell the story of John McDonogh’s role in the Battle of New Orleans. 9:45 a.m.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 948-1285; www.fgno. com — The 45th annual festival features local and international musicians on stages and in tents. Headliners include Bruce Springsteen, Solange, Alabama Shakes and others. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission $70 per day, $5 ages 2-10, VIP packages available. Thursday-Sunday.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 948-1285; www.fgno.com — See Thursday.
Operation Houses for Heroes. Bayou Title, Inc., 8020 Crowder Blvd., (504) 242-7882 — The program focuses on financing
Parents Night Out. Bethel Baptist Church, 201 Filmore Ave., (504) 486-4679 — Kids play games, watch movies, do
Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market, 922 Teche St., (504) 3620708; www.oldalgiersharvestfreshmarket.com — Produce, seafood and more are available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
crafts and eat snacks while their parents get some free time. Call pastor Wayne Adams at (985) 981-1144 or associate pastor Roger Hurd at (985) 400-3149 for details. 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Tomato Festival. Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church, 2320 Paris Road, Chalmette — This three-day fest includes live music, amusement rides and a Tomato Queen pageant. 6 p.m.
SATURDAY 3 Celebration of Herbs & Gardens. Celebration of Herbs & Gardens, Marie Street — The 18th annual garden festival features native plants and flowers for sale, as well as fresh herbs, herbal products, yard art and food. There also are kids’ activities. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Crescent City Farmers Market. Magazine Street Market, Magazine and Girod streets, (504) 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon. Dogs & Babies workshop. LA/ SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www.la-spca. org — Parents learn to prepare family dogs for a new baby. Individual $20, couple $35. Pre-registration is required. Register at www.la-spca.org. 10 a.m. to noon. Free Comic Book Day. Crescent City Comics, 4916 Freret St., 8913796; www.crescentcitycomics. com — The store gives away free comic books as part of the holiday. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon. Girls Health Day. Lakeview Regional Medical Center, 95 E. Judge Tanner Drive, Covington, (985) 867-3800; www. lakeviewregional.com — The mother-daughter day is for girls ages 6 to 16. There are free health screenings, presentations and demonstrations. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 362-8661 — The weekly rain-orshine market features more than 30 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.growdatyouthfarm.org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon.
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 948-1285; www.fgno.com — See Thursday. Rivertown Farmers Market. Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard., Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The twice-monthly market features local fruit, vegetables and dairy, homemade jams and jellies and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. St. Bernard Seafood & Farmers Market. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi, (504) 278-4242; www.visitstbernard.com — The market showcases fresh seafood, local produce, jams and preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment and children’s activities. Call (504) 355-4442 or visit the website for details. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. StoryQuest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Authors, actors and artists read children’s books and send kids on art quests through the museum. 11:30 a.m. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art, live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. Yoga/Pilates. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The museum holds Pilates classes every fourth Saturday of the month, and yoga classes every other Saturday. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Admission $5, free for NOMA and East Jefferson Wellness Center members. 8 a.m.
SUNDAY 4 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 948-1285; www.fgno.com — See Thursday. Swap Meet NOLA. St. Margaret’s at Mercy, 3525 Bienville St., (504) 279-6414; www.stmargaretsno.org — The Humane Society sponsors a flea market, art market and farmers market. 9 a.m. Swing Dance Lesson With Amy & Chance. d.b.a., 618 Frenchmen St., (504) 942-3731; www. dbabars.com/dbano — The bar and music venue offers free swing dance lessons. 4:30 p.m. Swingin’ Sundays. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www.theallwayslounge.com — Free dance
EVENT LISTINGS lessons at 8 p.m. are followed by a live band at 9 p.m. 8 p.m. Tipitina’s Foundation’s Sunday Youth Music Workshop. Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — Kids jam with local musicians. 1 p.m. Yappy Hour. Felipe’s Taqueria, 411-1 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 288-8226; www.felipestaqueria.com — The dog social gathering benefits the Louisiana SPCA. 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
MONDAY 5 Dat Truck Mondays. Dat Dog, 5030 Freret St., 3336 Magazine St., 601 Frenchmen St., Freret - 899-6883, Magazine - 3242226; www.datdognola.com — Dat Dog and My House NOLA present a gathering of food trucks, with drink specials and live music. To find out which food trucks will be present, visit www.facebook.com/myhousenola. 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tai Chi/Chi Kung. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 6584100; www.noma.org — Terry Rappold presents the class in the museum’s art galleries. Call (504) 456-5000 for details. Admission $5, free for NOMA and East Jefferson Hospital Wellness Center members. 6 p.m.
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Bill Loehfelm. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs his book The Devil in Her Way. 2 p.m. Thursday. Bonnie Warren. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book New Orleans Historic Homes. 3 p.m. Thursday. Cornell Landry. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs his book Happy Jazz Fest. 1 p.m. Friday. Dianne de las Casas, Kid Chef Eliana. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The authors discuss and sign their books Cinderellephant and Cool Kids Cook: Fresh and Fit. 3 p.m. Friday. Dionne Nichols. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.
Edward Branley. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs his book New Orleans Jazz. 4 p.m. Friday. Friends of the New Orleans Public Library Book Sale. Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www. nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday. Johnette Downing. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book How to Dress a Po’Boy. 2 p.m. Sunday. Local Writers’ Group. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-5135; www. barnesandnoble.com — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The author discusses and signs his book Spy Boy, Cheyenne and Ninety Six Crayons. Noon Saturday. Ryan Holiday. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266 — The author talks and signs his book The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. 6 p.m. Monday. Sally Asher. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book Hope & New Orleans. Noon Sunday.
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Open Mic. Drum Sands Publishing and Books, 7301 Downman Road, (504) 247-6519; www.drunmsandspublishing. com — The bookstore and publishing house hosts an open mic for writers of all genres. 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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Rebecca Snedeker. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book Unfathomable City. 3 p.m. Saturday. Richard Sexton. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author discusses and signs his book Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere. 6 p.m. Tuesday. He also signs the book at noon Friday at Jazz Fest. Rob Owen. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. —
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Poppy Tooker. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book Louisiana Eats. 1 p.m. Saturday.
The Well: A Women’s Poetry Circle. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 947-2121; www.stannanola.org — Writers of all levels meet. Call (504) 655-5489 or email fleurdeholly@gmail.com for details.
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Michael Murphy. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs his book Eat Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Unique Food Culture of the Crescent City. 4 p.m. Thursday.
Poets of Color. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., (504) 947-2121; www.stannanola.org — Poets participate in a writing circle. 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Team Slam New Orleans. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre. com — Team Slam New Orleans brings back its monthly open mic and poetry slams. Cover $5, free to slam. 7 p.m.
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Story Time with Miss Maureen. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — Children’s books are read. 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Susan Larson. Jazz Fest Book Tent, Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gentilly Blvd. — The author discusses and signs her book The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans. Noon Thursday. Tao Poetry. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., (504) 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m. Wednesday.
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS Poetryfest. Poetryfest seeks poems no longer than 21 lines from amateur poets. Email entries to poetryfest@yahoo. com. Deadline May 16. Swap Meet NOLA. Artists, farmers, bakers and flea market vendors are invited to set up booths at recurring swap meets. Visit www.swapmeetnola.com, call (504) 813-5370 or email swapmeetnola@gmail. com for details.
seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties. Visit www.bayourebirth.org for details. Bilingual Evacuteers. Puentes New Orleans and Evacuteer seek bilingual volunteers to assist the Spanish-speaking population with mandatory evacuations in New Orleans during hurricane season. Email Luis Behrhorst at luis@ puentesno.org for details. CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and
neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; thorough training and support is provided. Call Brian Opert at (504) 522-1962 ext. 213 or email info@casaneworleans.org for details. Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running buddies, assistant coaches, committee members and race day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola. org to register. Visit www. gotrnola.org for details about the program. HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various opportunities available, how to sign up for service projects and general tips on how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@handsonneworleans.org or visit www. handsonneworleans.org for details. lowernine.org Volunteers. Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@lowernine.org for details. NOLA Wise. The program by Global Green in partnership with the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy that helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient seeks volunteers. All volunteers must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@globalgreen.org for details. Operation REACH Volunteers. Operation REACH and Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps seek college student volunteers from all over the country to assist in providing recreation and education opportunities for New Orleans-area inner-city youth and their families. For information, visit www.thegyac.org and www. operationreach.org. Touro Infirmary Career Camp. Touro Infirmary’s seventh annual summer Health Career Camp introduces juniors, seniors and recent high school graduates to health care professions. Apply at www.touro. com/careercamp or call Touro Volunteer Services at (504) 897-8107. Deadline June 2. Tulane Summer Volunteer Program. Tulane Medical Center needs dedicated high school students to join the volunteer program. Call (504) 988-5868 for details.
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Notice is hereby given that Robert Hebert, the duly appointed Administrator of the above entitled successions, has applied for an order granting him the authority to sell at private sale the following property to wit: ONE CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all right, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in what is thereof known as the Allo Subdivision, more specifically designated as LOT NO. 6 of SQUARE NO. 6. Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 621 Allo Avenue, Marrero, LA 70072. The sales price for the property is $45,000.00, cash payable at an act of sale. Pursuant to Civil Code of Procedure Article 3443, notice of the application of a succession representative to sell succession property from a small succession needs to be published once and in the Parish where the proceeding is pending or where the property is located, and shall state that any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within ten (10) days of the date of publication. By Order of Clerk of Court For the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: George S. Ruppenicker Address: 2325 Manhattan Blvd. Harvey, LA 70058 (504) 362-3861 Gambit: 4/29/14
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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 606-128 DIV. L SUCCESSION OF CHARLES V. SCHINDLER NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Oris Creighton, testamentary executor of this succession, and Jeffrey A. Jones, testamentary independent executor of the Succession of Alice Rooney Schindler, surviving spouse, have filed a petition for authority to sell the immovable property described below at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and to pay the amount of $23,369.11 to Michael Schindler, and to pay the remaining sales proceeds, after payment of commissions, normal closing costs, $2500.00 toward purchaser’s closing costs, prorated taxes, and attorney’s fees and court costs necessary for the advertising and approval of the sale due to counsel for the Succession of Alice Rooney Schindler, to the Succession of Alice Rooney Schindler. Description of Property ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF GROUND together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, prescriptions, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in Sections 19 and 30, Township 6 South, Range 13 East, St. Tammany Parish, State of Louisiana. Being more fully described as follows, to wit: From the ¼ corner common to Sections 19 and 20, T6S, R13E, run S00 degrees, 37’W, 3962.74 feet; thence N89degrees, 51’W 1227.15 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. From the Point of Beginning, run N89degrees, 56’50”W 1412.28 feet to a point; thence N00degrees, 02’27”E 2090.37 feet to a point; thence S89degrees, 51’31”E 1406.4 feet to a point, thence S00degrees, 07’,13”E 2088.2 feet back to the Point of Beginning. Said tract contains 67.60 acres. All as shown on the survey by Land Surveying, Inc., dated October 9, 2003. Being a portion of the same property acquired by Alice Carlys Meade, wife of/and Harold E. Meade from Great Southern Lumber Company, Inc., by act before Columbus H. Allen, Notary Public, filed November 14, 1940, and registered in COB 149, folio 168. Being a portion of the same property acquired by Theda Alice Meade Hodges and Ann Carlys Meade Nalty Judgment of Possession in the Succession of Alice Carlys, wife of/ and Harold E. Meade in the CDC for Orleans Parish, No. 79-11748, dated May 5, 1980 and registered in COB 971, folio 715 and the Corrected Judgment of Possession thereof, dated May 5, 1980, and registered in COB 1001, folio 651; and the Amended Judgment of Possession thereof, dated June 2, 1981 and registered in COB 1017, folio 293; and the Amended Judgment of Possession thereof, dated October 11, 1996 and registered as CIN 1020186. Being a portion of the same property further acquired by Ann Carlys Meade Nalty from Theda Alice Meade Hodges by Partition before Charles B. Meyer, Notary Public, dated June 10, 1981 and registered in COB 1018, folio 646. THIS ACT IS MADE, EXECUTED AND ACCEPTED SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING: Any and all restrictions, conditions, servitudes and encroachments that
may be contained in the chain of title and/or plan of subdivision. Servitude of Passage, registered as CIN 1023145 and confirmed in Cash Sale from Cahill to Davidson dated September 3, 1999, registered at CIN 1166779. The square footage or acreage of the subject property. Encroachments, overlaps, boundary line disputes, or other matters which would be disclosed by an accurate survey or inspection of the premises. Mineral reservation registered in COB 149, folio 168. Reservation of Mineral Rights in favor of Seller. All rights of ingress and egress are limited to those rights held by virtue of ownership of Servitude of Passage executed by Ann Meade Nalty registered in records of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Timber Sale registered as CIN 981640. The reference to any mineral reservations, restrictions, servitudes, easements, rights-of-way or Other encroachments adversely affecting the title or physical condition of the hereinabove described property shall not be construed as an acknowledgement confirmation or reestablishment thereof. Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within 7 days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears. Gretna, Louisiana, this 2nd day of April, 2014. By order of the Court. Attorney: Jeffrey Jones Address: 4700 LA Hwy 22, Suite 524 Mandeville, LA 70471 Telephone: (985) 845-0451 Gambit: 4/8/14 & 4/29/14
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 726-835 DIV. K SUCCESSION OF MARY VIRGINIA BANISTER KIERAN NOTICE TO PUBLISH NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors of the above succession and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication hereof why the “Petition for Homologation of First and Final Account and Discharge of Succession Representative” together with the “First and Final Accounting of Succession Funds,” presented by Roy J. Mullan, Jr., the Administrator of the Succession of Mary Virginia Banister Kieran, should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance therewith and the Executor discharged thereafter. The Petition for Homologation of First and Final Account and Discharge of Succession Representative together with the First and Final Accounting of Succession Funds, can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of publication and any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation. BY ORDER OF THE COURT Jon Gegenheimer, Clerk of Court Parish of Jefferson Attorney: David Greenberg, LSBN 6303 Address: 848 2nd Street, Ste. 200 Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 366-8118 Gambit: 4/29/14
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON
NO.: 683-966 DIV. N
NO.: 729-657 DIV. C
NO.: 736-521 DIV.
SUCCESSION OF DORIS MARIE PLAISSANCE GAUTHREAUX ESTE
SUCCESSION OF SHIRLEY E. LEMLEY ERNST
SUCCESSIONS OF MAE JOHNSON wife of/and JOE DONALD MANNING
STATE OF LOUISIANA
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
WHEREAS, Vernard Gauthreaux, Administrator of the Succession of Doris Marie Plaissance Gauthreaux Este has made application to the Court for the sale of the succession’s interest in the immovable property of the succession, hereinafter described, to-wit:
NOTICE is hereby given that Jorge A. Anchissi duly qualified Executor of the Succession of Shirley E. Lemley Ernst has made application to the Court for authority to sell the following immovable property at private sale, to-wit:
TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, priviliges, servitudes and appurtenances thereon belonging or in anywise appertaining, designated as PLOTS NOS. TWENTY-EIGHT (28) and TWENTY-NINE (29) of the PLAN, LOT 16, Section 56, T 14 S, R 24 E, Destrehan Division, West of the Mississippi, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 3, 1943, initiated NCH, Revised Dec. 1, 1943, according to said map plots Nos. 28 and 29 measure each One Hundred (100’) feet front on the northerly side of BAYOU ROAD, adjoin each other and have a combined frontage of TWO HUNDRED (200’) feet east of the easterly right of way of aforesaid Murphy Canal and Road right-of-way. All as shown and indicated on map entitled PLAN LOT 16, Section 56, T 14S, R 24 E, Destrehan Division, West of the Mississippi, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 3, 1943. Initialed N.C.H., revised Dec. 1, 1943, Revised April 29, 1945. Being the same property acquired by Doris Marie Plaissance Gauthreaux Este form Vernard V. Gauthreaux, Jr. by act before Roger I. Dallam, N.P., dated July 1, 1980, reg. COB 984, folio 477. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO WIT: For the sum of $23,000.00 on the terms of fifty thousand ($50,000.00) down and the balance of one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($180,000.00) financed by the seller at 6% amortized over 10 years with a balloon payment of one hundred sixty thousand one hundred sixty-three and 09/100 ($160,163.09) at the end of 18 months, with monthly principle and interest payments of one thousand one hundred ninety-eight and 37/100 dollars ($1,998.37) for the purchase of the whole property as set forth in the petition on file or on terms and conditions may be ordered by the court. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. This notice was requested by attorney David Greenberg and was issued by the Clerk of Court on the 22nd day of April, 2014. Masie Comeaux, Deputy Clerk of Court Jon Gegenheimer, Clerk of Court Attorney: David Greenberg Address: 848 Second St., Ste 200 Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 366-9119 Gambit: 4/29/14 & 5/20/14
THREE CERTAIN LOTS of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Block 111, Harlem Subdivision, bounded by Cypress, Bauvais Street, Athania Place and Harlem Avenue, designated by the No. 27, 28 & 29 on the blue print of survey made by J. J. Krebs, E. E. and S., dated August 20, 1949, annexed to act passed before Jennie Von Behren, dated September 27, 1947, according thereto said lots adjoin each other and measure each twenty-four feet (24’) front on Cypress Street, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of one hundred and twenty feet (120’). Said Lot No. 29 being nearer to and commences seventytwo feet (72’) from Athania Place. According to survey made by Gilbert & Kelly, dated May 14, 1954, a white print copy of which is annexed hereto and made part hereof, the property hereinabove described is situated in the same Parish, Square and Subdivision, has the same measurements and boundaries as hereinabove set forth lot 29 being nearer to and commencing at a distance of 72’ from the corner of Cypress Street and Athania Place, lot no. 27 being nearer to and commencing at a distance of 246’ from the corner of Cypress Street and Harlem Avenue. RESTRICTIONS This property is subject to restrictions as set out in an act passed before J.F. Stafford on June 22, 1942, registered in COB 184, folio 490. This property is subject to mineral reservation in favor of the State of Louisiana. Being the same property acquired by Shirley Elise Lemley, wife of George C. Ernst, on the 21st day of May, 1954 before a Notary, Frank Macheca, which is registered in COB 357, folio 549, Jefferson Parish on May 26, 1954, and MOB 234, folio 426. Being further acquired in the Succession of George C. Ernst. Jr., proceedings number 690484 of the 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, Division “J’, this said Judgment being signed on the 28th day of July 2010. Any creditors of the deceased who oppose the sale must do so within seven (7) days of the last date of publication issued. After seven (7) days from the last publication the court may issue an order authorizing the sale of the property for the price and sum of One Hundred and Ten Thousand and No/100 ($110,000.00) all cash to seller, at private sale. Attorney: Irvy E. Cosse’, Jr. Bar No. #4424 Cosse’ & Cosse’, L.L.C. Address: 1130 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: (504) 588-9500 Gambit: 4/8/14 & 4/29/14
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NOTICE IS GIVEN that the dative testamentary executor of these successions has petitioned this Court for authority to sell the immovable property of the Deceased at private sale in accordance with the provisions of Article 3281 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure for the total price of THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($34,000.00) DOLLARS CASH, “AS IS” without warranties. Real estate taxes for the current year are to be prorated through the date of the Act of Sale. All necessary tax, mortgage, conveyance, release certificates or cancellations and SELLER closing fees shall be paid by the successions. The Successions shall pay all previous years’ taxes and assessments. The immovable property proposed to be sold at private sale is described as follows: Lot 46, Square C, Bellevue Subdivision Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana Improvements bear Municipal No. 90 Creagan Avenue, Gretna, LA 70053 Acquired by Act of Sale dated July 27, 1973 registered at COB 796, Folio 68 of the records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Any heir, creditor or interested party who opposes the proposed sale must file his opposition within ten (10) days from the day on which the publication of this notice appears. By Order of the Court Jon A. Gegenheimer, Clerk This the 23rd Day of April, 2014. Attorney: C. Richard Gerage LSBA No. 6023 Address: 3621 Ridgelake Drive, Ste. 207 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 834-7171 Gambit: 4/29/14
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 693-034
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SUCCESSION OF AEOLUS M. SCHAFF NOTICE TO PUBLISH Notice is hereby given to the creditors of this estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the Tableau of Distribution presented by the executor of this estate should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance herewith. Jon Gegenheimer, Clerk of Court Attorney: James G. Maguire Address: 6059 Argonne Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70124 Telephone: (504) 975-3038 Gambit: 4/29/14 ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of JAMES D. DAUGHERTY, whose last known address was 11209 Schmidt Lane, Manor, TX 78653-3754, please contact Atty. Jauna Crear, 4747 Earhart Blvd, Ste I, NOLA 70125, 504365-1545. PAGE 94
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CLASSIFIEDS 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 737-268 DIV. M SUCCESSION OF MELVIN EDWARD MARTIN, SR. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
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And For Authority of- Executrix To Be Reimbursed For – Expenses—Notice Given That Merian Martin Lindsey, Executrix of the Estate of Melvin Edward Martin, Sr., has Pursuant to the Provisions of Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for Authority to Sell at Private Sale, for the price of Seventy -Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), with a reimbursement credit in the amount of Sixteen Thousand Dollars for maintenance , repairs and costs associated with said property and with the debts of the decedent, so that the total sale price of said property is Forty Nine Thousand Dollars, the above succession interest is a one third (1/3) share each of the heirs and legatees for a total of one hundred percent in and to the following described property: That portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, and appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana , in Township 12 South, Range 10 east, and being a portion of originals Lots 6 and 7 of Trudeau Plantation, and in accordance with plan of survey made by Adloe Orr, Jr., C. E., dated August 18, 1953, revised December 6, 1954, said property is situated in Lynn Park Subdivision, in Square 10, bounded by Lynnette Drive and Curry Court, said Lot is designated by the No. 146 and measures as follows:
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Lot 146 forms the corner of Lynnette Drive and Curry Court and measures 70.01 feet front on Lynnette Drive, with a width in the rear of 70 feet, with a depth on its side line separating it from Lot 145 of 99.34 feet and with a depth and front on Curry Court of 100.87 feet. All as more fully shown on survey shown on survey by F. G. Stewart, Surveyor, dated August 6, 1954. All in accordance with a survey by Sterling Mandle, Land Surveyor, dated September 29, 1977, a copy of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Legatees and creditors are required to make opposition if they have or can to such sale, within seven (7) days including Sundays and Holidays, from the date whereon the publication of this notice appears. Jon Geigenheimer Clerk of Court , 24th Judicial District Court or the Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Alice J. Grooms Address: 650 Poydras St., Suite 1400 New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 243-1135 Gambit: 4/29/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Charles Reed, Jr., please contact Atty. D. Nicole Sheppard, at 4224 Canal Street NOLA, 70119, 504-2344880. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Janie Randall Ewell (a/k/a Janie Randall, Janie Ewell, Janie Mae Ewell, Janie Mae Randall) and Abraham Ewell, Sr., (a/k/a Abraham Ewell) please contact Justin A. Reese Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.
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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS
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NO.: 14-3940 DIV. M DOCKET NO. 13
NO.: 2013-4695 DIV. I
STATE OF LOUISIANA
SUCCESSION OF ARCHIE WILSON NOTICE TO SELL PROPERTY Whereas HELEN SPEARS, ADMINISTRATOR of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the sale of the property hereinafter described, to-wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Sixth District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana in square No. 625-Bouligny, Bounded by Milan, Magnolia, Marengo and S. Robertson Streets, which said lot of ground is designated by the “C” commences at a distance of forty feet, no inches, no lines (40’0”0”’) from the corner of Milan and Magnolia Streets, and measures thence forty feet, no inches, no lines (40’ 0”0”’) front on Milan Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of ninety feet, no inches, no lines (90’ 0” 0”’) between equal and parallel lines; all according to a sketch of survey by Gilbert, Kelly and Couturie Errol E. Kelly, Surveyor, Dated May 22, 1973, a copy of which is annexed to and made part of another act passed before me, notary dates this day for reference; The improvements thereon bear the municipal numbers 2635-351/2 and 2337-371/2 Milan Street. And this reference to the above restriction and/ or conditions is not to be considered as renewing or recreating them in any manner whatsoever. Upon the following terms and conditions, to-wit: 1. The purchase price of $127,500.00 will be paid in cash when the act of sale is passed. 2. The property will be sold in “as is” condition. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decent herein, and of this estate to make any opposition which they may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Hollis Shepherd Address: 4220 Canal St., 2nd Floor New Orleans, LA 70119 Telephone: (504) 975-1210 Gambit: 4/29/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of TARA SILNIEKS FARVE please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
SUCCESSION OF URSULA FERROUILLET LAWRENCE NOTICE TO ACCEPT THE DONATION OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY Whereas the court approved Testamentary Executrix of the above estate. CATHY JACKSON SMILEY, has made application to the Court for the acceptance of a donation of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the City of New Orleans, in the Third District, Oak Park Estates, in Square 30 thereof, bounded by Cartier, Riveiera, St. Bernard Avenues and Seville Drive, as shown on a survey by Guy J. Seghers, Sur., dated November 7, 1950, said plan being recorded in COB 577 folio 597, under order of Civil District Court, dated June 12, 1951, in proceedings no. 282-285, and is described as follows: lot 12 adjoins lot 11 and lies at distance of 670.61 feet from Cartier Avenue along a partly curved line and measures thence, along a partly curved line, 60.75 feet front on Riviera Avenue, by a width in the rear, of 60.19 feet by a depth on the side toward Cartier Avenue of 113.26 feet and a depth on the opposite side line toward St. Bernard Avenue of 108.52 feet, all as more fully shown on survey by Adloe Orr., Jr. and Associates, C.E., dated September 21, 1955.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
SUCCESSION OF MICHELE A. JACOB NOTICE OF FILING OF TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Testamentary Executrix of this succession has filed a Petition for Authority to Pay Debts of this succession in accordance with the Tableau of Distribution #2 (April 23, 2014) annexed to the Petition. The petition can be homologated after the expiration of seven (7) days of this publication; any opposition to the petition must be filed prior to homologation. By Order of the Orleans Civil District Court, Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Robert L. Raymond Address: P.O. Box 340 Destrehan, LA 70047 Gambit: 4/29/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of William Cooley, Ika Lincoln Avenue, Marerro, LA 70072, contact Atty. Jeremy Epstein, (504) 309-6600.
Sandra A. Guariscoher, her heirs, or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Geralyn Garvey (504) 838-0191. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Derek A. Villavaso and Idolka L. Alvarez, a/k/a/ Idolka L. Alvarez Holmes, please contact Timothy P. Farrelly, Atty. (504) 832-4101 or 3445 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste 103, Metairie,LA 70002. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Gerard Vincent Hines, also known as Gerard V. Hines please contact the Law Offices of Rudy Gorrell (504) 553-9588 1215 Prytania St., Ste. 223, New Orleans, LA 70130. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Janie Randall Ewell (a/k/a Janie Randall, Janie Ewell, Janie Mae Ewell, Janie Mae Randall) and Abraham Ewell, Sr., (a/k/a Abraham Ewell) please contact Justin A. Reese Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of JUAN ROBERTO MURGA and/or his heirs, assigns, relatives or successors in interest, please contact attorney Julien F. Jurgens at (504) 722-7716 IMMEDIATELY. Property rights are involved in 24th JDC Jefferson Parish Court, Case # 734-139. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of TIMOTHY P. PERRY AND/OR TRENISE M. PERRY and/or their heirs, assigns, relatives or successors in interest, please contact attorney Julien F. Jurgens at (504) 722-7716 IMMEDIATELY. Property rights are involved in Civil District Court Orleans Parish Court, Case # 2013-11503.
Lena L. Magistro A/K/A Lena Lazier Magistro A/K/A Lena Lazier Snyder her heirs, or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Geralyn Garvey (504) 838-0191.
TEMPORARY FARM LABOR
Bailey Farms JV, Angleton, TX, has 1 positions for grian, rice & hay; 3 mo. experience required for job duties listed; must able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days; tools, equipment, housing and daily trans provided for employees who can’t return home daily; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $10.86/hr; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 5/25/14 – 3/23/15. Apply at nearest LA Workforce Office with Job Order TX4970719 or call 225-342-2917.
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The improvements thereon bear the municipal number 1233 Riviera Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. Being the same property acquired by donor herein by Act passed before Elmeer D. Fanders Notary Public, dated October 17, 1977, recorded in Orleans Parish, Louisiana in COB 748 folio 657. The estimated value of the subject property is One Hundred, Sixty Six thousand and 00/100 ($166,000.00) Dollars as per an appraisal report dated February 27, 2014. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of these estates, be ordered to make any opposition which they have for or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order of judgment may be issued after expiration of ten (10) days, from the date whereon the last publication of such notice all in accordance with law. By Order of Court, Dale N. Atkins
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
OUT OF TOWN 342 ST. JOHN ST. BAY ST. LOUIS MS
2 BR, 2BA, OLD town Bay St. Louis, totally renovated, wood floors, walls & ceilings/gourmet kitchen/designer bath. www.baycottagesllc.com/stjohn
MISSISSIPPI 36 C NEWTON RD LUMBERTON, MS
Secluded, custom 3BR, 3BA w/ stocked lake & barn. 79.346 ac $449,000 or w/40.783 ac $371,500. Ford Realty, Inc. www.fordrity.com (800) 354-3673.
BUY BOTH TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY
3BR/BA on 1 acre & 4BR/2BA on 4 acres or both on 5 acres! 2 miles east of Magnolia MS. Call 601-248-0888
BUSINESSES
Location, location, location. Owner relocating. Website, antiques, statuary & more. Call 504-428-5868.
SPECIAL EVENT RENTALS RIVERFRONT PENTHOUSE
With Million Dollar Views! Furnished, 2 Br + Loft Bed/2.5 BA, healthclub, pool, secured parking, All utilities & WiFi, $700 daily (3 day minimum). Call (781) 608-6115.
FRENCH QUARTER OFFICE RENTAL
301 Chartres St. $4,000 per month. Move-in well-appointed 2065 sq. ft. office, extra large wrap around balcony, large conference room that can be divided, wood floors, 2 baths, deluxe kitchen & 2 private offices. Furniture & equipment to stay. Brigitte Fredy, Latter& Blum,Inc. 504-616-4044.
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
FURNISHED NEW ORLEANS RIVERFRONT PENTHOUSE
WITH MILLION DOLLAR VIEWS! 2 BR + Loft Bed, 2.5 BA, Health Club, Pool, Secured Parking, All Util/WiFi, $3,600 monthly. Special Events: Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, etc., $700 daily (3 day minimum). Call (781) 608-6115.
NON-PROFIT OFFICE SPACE
Uptown rental space for non-profits. Rent runs from $200 to $2,000 per month. St. Charles Ave. Baptist Church, 7100 St. Charles Ave. Call (504) 891-9514 for information. www.scabc.org
ESPLANADE RIDGE 1208 N GAYOSO
2BR/1BA, lr, dr, kit, wood ceramic flr, high ceiling, CA&H, w&d hkkps. No pets. $1375 per month. Call (504) 432-7955
5416 STORY ST
3 br, 2 ba duplex. Cen a/h, furn kit w/d/w & m’wave. Close to univ & hosp. On bus line. Lg fenced bkyd. safe n’hood, sec patrolled. Avail 8/1. $1650/mo. 504- 289-5110.
OLD METAIRIE 1BR 1/2 DOUBLE AVAIL
Great location! $900/mo., utilities paid. Call (504) 782-3133.
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5000 WILTON DR. APT. A
Large 2 BR, 1 Bath Apt. Cent Air & heat, utilities incl, offst pkg. Near UNO & Dillard Univ, on bus line. Call 504-994-4119.
MID CITY 4322 HAMILTON
2BR/1BA lower, 1000 + sf, hdwd flrs, furn kit, w/d, porch, fen yd, off st pkg, no smokers, pet negot. $975/mo + dep. (504) 488-2969.
UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT
Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry/3 mo. min. No pets. Avail June 2nd. Call 504-442-0573 or 985-871-4324.
1508 CARONDELET ST2 APTS
Studio Apt., newly remodeled all utilities included, $900/mo. Huge Upper Studio Apt. Bright, spacious,high ceilings, hdwd flrs, water & garbage pd. $900/mo. 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
2630 AMELIA ST.
1 living rm, 2 br, 2 ba, furn kit, cen a/h, half double, not shotgun. Wood floors, ceiling fans, $750. Call 891-3323.
Recently remodeled, kit, c-a/h, hi ceils, hdwd/crpt flrs, fncd bkyd. w/d hookups, off st pkg. $1150/mo. 1563 N. Galvez. Call 1-888-239-6566 or mballier@yahoo.com
NEW RENTAL 1556 N. Rochblave
Walking distance to Fairgrounds. Newly renov. 3 rms, kit, bath, washrm, fridge, mw, stove & washer. $700 mo/neg. Also avail for Jazz Fest. 504-905-9086, 504-717-7394.
SPACIOUS APARTMENTS
Spacious Studio & 1BR Apartments. High ceiling, private balcony, ceiling fans, gated property in Faubourg St John/Esplanade Ridge Areas. Walk to Fine & Casual Dining, City Park,Fairgrounds, French Quarter, Jazz Fest and more. (504) 208-8896.
Call (504) 483-3100
GARDEN DISTRICT 3219 A Prytania St.
Quiet Home! Perfect for 2 people! Large unit in Vict hse, 2br/1 full & 1/2 ba, LR, DR, kit, wd flrs, hi ceil, balcony, pool priv. for tenants only, appls, ca&h, sec. guard, $1500/mo. 504-813-8186, 504-274-8075.
LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT/ IRISH CHANNEL 1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE
ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.
LRG 2 BR, 1.5 BA
FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY
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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 535 Girod - 2 bd/ 2 ba prkg ........... $2500 311 Hillary - 2 bd/ 1 ba ................. $2300 760 Magazine - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................. $1500 539 Dumaine - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................. $1500 1133 Kerlerec - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................. $1200 1016 Burgundy - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................. $850
COVINGTON / MANDEVILLE TINY RUSTIC ARTIST’S RETREAT
At 118 Hickory St. in Old Lewisburg, 100 yards from Lake; water and electricity included. $800/mo. Tel. (504) 523-3456 or 352-5270.
RENTALS TO SHARE ROOM FOR RENT - KENNER
All amenitites. Nice house. Close to transportation and shopping, $350 per mo. Call (504) 339-1292.
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2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605
5349 Prytania St. Location, $849,900
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FOR SALE 421 Burgundy #3 1/1 1125 Royal #3 1/1 611 Dauphine B 1/1 823 Burgundy #3 2/2 729 Dauphine A 1/1 816 Aline 2/2 3521 Harvard Avenue 2/2 7916 Breakwater Dr#46 1/2 1303 Burgundy #5 1/1 333 Julia #418 1/1 519 Iberville #1 1/1 519 Iberville #5 2/2 519 Iberville #8 2/2.5 1224 Royal #5 1/1
Bamboo flrs. exp wood Central HVAC. $189,000 3rd flr,exp beams,storage! Lush crtyrd $269,000 townhouse w/ common courtyard $169,900 1,600 sqft, brand renov, balcony, $599,000 HeartofFQ.Grtfrntporch.Updatedkit/ba$359,000 Uptown single fam house w/offst pkng.$349,000 Renovated down to the studs in Metairie $209,000 BoathouseoverlookingMarinaandLake! $325,000 renovated furn condo w/balc over crtyd. $219,000 warehouse district condo w/ pool, gym $194,900 renovated condo w/balcony over street! $295,000 renov condo w/ balcony over crtyd $465,000 renovated condo w/ balc over crtyd $799,000 BALCONY OVER ROYAL! Recently updated $349,000
Large Uptown family home with desirable Prytania St address. 3 stories, 5 bedrooms, renovated kitchen and baths. Parking and more!
Move in cond, lots of architectural details, 1st block off Canal, off street pkng for several cars, garage. 2 br, 2 dens, encl porch/sun rm & wood flrs. Must see to appreciate.
Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226
Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130
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CORPORATE RENTALS
1 BR apt with new granite in kit & bath. King Master w/wall of closets. Kit w/ all built-ins. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. Avail now. Owner/ agent, $699/mo. 504-236-5776.
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1750 St. Charles 2BR/2BA • $319,000 Lg open living area overlooks Polymnia St. Marble entrance foyer, lg kit has granite counters and wood cabinets. Huge master bedroom with large walk-in closet and spacious bath. All new, double insulated windows. Elev., fitness ctr and door to gorgeous courtyard are steps away. Pkng space #536 near elev.
1430 Jackson Avenue #303 • $289,000 New condo conversion. Beautifully renov in the heart of the Garden Dist with wonderful, private balc. Spacious units with wood floors, marble baths, kitch with stone counter tops and stainless appliances. New hot water heater, A/C systems and washer/dryer in every unit. Photos are of model unit #404.
924 Upperline Beautiful new construction, in classic Greek Revival style with higher than standard “HERS” rating, of 62. Beautiful reclaimed pine floors, 10’ ceilings, spacious balcony, wonderful custom kitchen and marble baths. 3 en suites and spacious living areas. Lots of closet space!
6728 Bellaire $499,000 Beautifully renovated in 2007. Wonderful for entertaining!! Natural cork floors, chef’s kitchen w/Viking stovetop & double ovens. Beautiful backyard w/large in-ground pool. Currently 3 BR, could easily be converted to 4 BR.
3724 Audubon Trace Building #37
$189,000 Absolutely beautiful condo located in demand Audubon Trace Condominiums. Many amenities including GRANITE counter tops, hardwood floors, CATHEDRAL ceilings, chandeliers, 2 LARGE bedrooms, 2 FULL baths, office, and separate living and dining room and balcony complete this stunning home. Located in the heart of Jefferson Parish near Ochsner Hospital, easy access to downtown, Elmwood and Metairie. Visit www.audubontrace.com for more information.
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Bywater 4224 Royal St. $630,000 “Urban Homestead”
Uniquely blended property in trendy Bywater offers Historic Shotgun House & 2-story Warehouse w/music and glass studios. Zoned Light Industrial. Possible uses include: Movie Studio, Radio/TV broadcasting, Theatre, Brewery/Brew Pub, Micro Distillery, Cabaret, Check Cashing, Research Center.
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Hammond 211 W Charles St. $1,250,000
3BR/2.5BA, Single Home, Lovely Patio - near Audubon Park!
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504-524-JUDY (5839)
Spectacular Historic Hammond restoration c. 1895. Premiere Northshore property offers gorgeous main house & lovely guest house. Walk to charming shops & dining. An extraordinary & stately property zoned B-2 for possible B&B, offices, etc.
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610 JOHN CHURCHILL CHASE ST. LOFT #17 - $725K Stunning 2 bedroom/2 bath Condo located on the 3rd floor of the Lengsfield Condominiums. Exquisite style throughout this spacious loft. 17’ ceilings with natural light makes this unit bright and airy! Amenities include: Stainless appl, wine cooler, w/d, walkin tile showers w/dual showerheads and the master has a designer tub. Garage gated parking. Fabulous loft.
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Male & Female. Male is deaf. Vetted/ Trained/Sweet. Call (504) 358-3714.
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Adult Blonde Pit Bull. Excellent Show Dog. Vetted/Trained/Sweet/Gentle. Call (504) 975-5971.
PETS FOR SALE PUPPIES FOR SALE
Shih-Tzu/Maltese, gorgeous 6-week-old white puppies, shots and wormed, $400 - $500. Call Janet at 504-3091703.
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Picture Perfect Properties PICTURE YOURSELF IN THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS!
DUPLEX IN HARVEY • $120K OBO
NEWLY RENOVATED!
Two bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, each side. All electric, carpet throughout. Owner will finance. Approx $20,000/yr income
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B1-A Zoning District (Neighborhood Business District) New Orleans elegance of a classic historic Greek Revival property. Outstanding property currently used as a office building located on popular Magazine Street between Louisiana Avenue and Delachaise Street in Uptown New Orleans. This well maintained charming historic property was built in 1857. Spacious property has 4,626 square feet of office space on a lot 47’ x 121’. $1,141,000 Contact Pat Browne ...
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3433 Magazine Street
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Open Sun 1 – 3p.m. 24 Yosemite Dr. $260K
Solid, well built, spacious, & for sale, this 4 bd/2.5 ba hm awaits you in Park Timbers on the WB. Lrg bds + lg closets. Sep. LR, DR+ lrg den & pkng for 4 - 6 vehs.
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2124 Cadiz St. 6843 Glengary Rd. 301 Grove Rd. 13110 Lemans St. 3125 Upperline St. 4901 - 3 Willow St. 24 Yosemite Dr.
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4317 Perrier Street
$1,150/mo
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1204 Poland Ave.
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May 10, 2014 at 11 a.m.
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A charming 3BR/2BA in the colorful Bywater District, just blocks from the French Quarter! Completely remodeled. Residential, zoned commercial. See all the details and more pics at HeadAuctions.com.
4526-28 Banks St. • $449K
Broadmoor never shined brighter, this 4 bd/3.5 ba beauty radiates w/charm & space. Over 2400 sf., & not a small room in the joint!!!! Motivated seller!!!!
3527 Ridgelake Dr., Metairie.
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Open Sun 4 – 6 3125 Upperline St. $425K
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7821 Panola St.
Approx 1,350 usable sq.ft. 2nd floor of 2 story office building. Parking, efficiency kitchen, storage room, mens and womens restrooms, reception area, conference rooms, private office.
Available immediately. 1 year lease $1,700/mo. (504) 957-2360.
501-3 S. Dupre St.
4BR/3BA + 1BR/1BA
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924 Upperline Beautiful new construction, in classic Greek Revival style with higher than standard “HERS” rating, of 62. Beautiful reclaimed pine floors, 10’ ceilings, spacious balcony, wonderful custom kitchen and marble baths. 3 en suites and spacious living areas. Lots of closet space!
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