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TUE. MAY 3 | Alex Brettin’s psychedelic pop on 2015’s Timeline (Stones Throw Records) swirls cloudy, AM radio hooks with Nuggets-inspired trips, not unlike co-conspirator Ariel Pink’s warped pop daydreams. New Orleans psych-garage bands Trance Farmers and Dead Marshes open at 10 p.m. at Saturn Bar.

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Sea of Common Catastrophe

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WED.-SUN. MAY 4-8 | A magical realist novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a city living underwater inspires ArtSpot Productions’ immersive show about displacement and change. The piece incorporates installations, video, drama and more. At 8:30 p.m. at Catapult (609 St. Ferdinand St.).

The NOLA Project presents Don Quixote in NOMA’s Besthoff sculpture garden.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

BY WILL COVIELLO THERE IS A 21-FOOT SAFETY PIN AND LOUISE BOURGEOIS’ MASSIVE LONGLEGGED SPIDER in the Sydney and

Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

There usually are no windmills. Or giants. But that doesn’t stop Don Quixote from exhorting his sidekick Sancho Panza to join him in battle.

“Some giants have arms two miles wide,” Ian Hoch marvels as Quixote.

“Where there are giants, there are illgotten treasures.”

Panza has a more pressing problem.

The thief Gines de Pasamonte, whom he has just taunted in crude terms, has escaped from a lackadaisical guard. Quixote actually intervened to help free him. De Pasamonte flees, announcing he’s going to find Panza’s wife.

Quixote and Panza pursue their storied and absurd adventures in The NOLA Project’s adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, which marked its 400th anniversary last year. Presented in partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art, Don Quixote runs in the sculpture garden adjacent to the museum May 4-22.

The story is best known for the classic scene of the delusional Quixote fighting a windmill he believes to be a giant. That vignette is part of The NOLA Project’s adaptation, but it’s just one of Quixote’s misguided quests.

Quixote is an old man who becomes enchanted by romantic novels celebrating past eras. He decides to take up arms and restore chivalry, the institution of knighthood and honor. He enlists Panza as a sidekick, but Panza, though loyal, is drawn to the possibility of acquiring riches with Quixote. Their miserable failures provide the story’s absurdity and humor. After Quixote becomes convinced a flock of sheep is an evil army, he and Panza attack the herd, and a group of outraged merchants beat Quixote and Panza,

FRI.-SUN. MAY 6-22 | J. Pierrepont Finch climbs the corporate ladder in the musical about the way the business world really works. Gary Rucker directs the Broadway hit. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts.

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a humiliating result for a couple of would-be knights.

“On the surface, it’s a story about a knight seeking adventure,” says Peter McElligott, who wrote the script for The NOLA Project. “Every deed is in honor of (Quixote’s love) Dulcinea.

It’s romantic.”

McElligott used adventures from the original story and added some new ones. While Quixote sees what he wants to see in the world, he pursues his visions with virtuous if misguided conviction.

“True madness is to see life as it is and not as it should be,” Quixote tells Antonia, his niece.

Though the story is filled with pathos, McElligott’s Quixote is a simple man pursuing grand dreams.

McElligott also wrote the script for The NOLA Project’s Adventures in Wonderland, retelling the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as an immersive production in the sculpture garden in May 2014. His characterization of the White Knight was part of the inspiration to do Don Quixote. McElligott notes that there’s

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also a bit of silliness to the show, a la the film The Princess Bride.

Directing the show is Jessica Podewell, who worked on Southern Rep’s production of McElligott’s drama With a Bang.

“The beautiful idea (in Don Quixote) is that you can’t give up your dreams,” Podewell says. “Reality is tough.

Quixote’s ability is to see the beauty in the world that we should all see.”

FRI. MAY 6 | Comedian Matt Owens is joined by a host of up-and-coming and powerhouse New Orleans comics on the marquee stand-up series: Cyrus Cooper, Isaac Kozell, Tony Frederick, Mary-Devon Dupuy, Addy Najera and CJ Hunt. Doors open at 7 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

The 1975 SUN. MAY 8 | Go ahead and try disliking this latest greatest-thing-ever hailed by the U.K. music press — those attempts should fail around track three of sophomore LP I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (objection sustained). “UGH!” is Carly Rae Jepsen-catchy, and you know it. The Japanese House opens at 7:30 p.m. at Champions Square.

Young Thug MON. MAY 9 | The worthiest heir to Lil Wayne’s mixtape-spooling mantle, Jeffrey Lamar Williams reached double digits in official unofficial releases before last year’s Barter 6 (300/Atlantic) — originally titled Carter VI before Wayne kiboshed the tribute (beef!). His 2016 already includes a third Slime Season and plans for a fourth I Came From Nothing. At 8 p.m. at Republic.

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I-10 News on the move Orleans Zephyrs plans to rename the team in 2017, in time for the AAA baseball team’s 25th anniversary, and there’s a contest to come up with the name that best suits the team. The winner will receive season tickets, participate in a ceremonial first pitch and more. For details, visit www.zephyrsbaseball.com.

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ON DEFENSE

The New Orleans Saints used a first-round draft pick to acquire some muscle on its defensive line, tapping 6-foot-1, 299-pound (the Saints’ roster lists him at 6-2, 304 pounds) Louisville Cardinals defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins (right) last week to help with the Saints’ running and passing defense.

The Black and Gold allowed an average of 4.9 yards per rush and 8.35 yards per pass last season, the highest in the NFL. Rankins could help trim those numbers; in his last two seasons at Louisville he sacked quarterbacks 14 times and made more than 26 tackles for yardage losses.

7. ‘Raise the Age’ moves forward

The Louisiana Senate will consider Sen. J.P. Morrell’s “Raise the Age Act” after a Senate committee approved it unanimously last week. Senate Bill 324 would change the law so 17-year-olds who commit crimes would fall under the juvenile justice system, rather than being treated as adults.

Louisiana is one of only nine states that treats 17-year-olds as adults in the justice system.

The bill has the support of Gov. John Bel Edwards.

8. Hazy future

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A Prince is gone

Thousands of fans flocked to Treme April 23 to celebrate the life of Prince Rogers Nelson, the Purple One, at a massive second line and block party. A parade — led by a Charbonnet Funeral Home escort with a purple cloth-draped coffin towed by a horse-drawn wagon — included members of the Baby Dolls walking group, social aid and pleasure clubs and brass bands, all starting from the Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar, circling several blocks and returning to Orleans Avenue for a streetwide dance party featuring Prince’s music.

Several local theaters also resurrected Prince’s 1984 film Purple Rain for special screenings last weekend.

3. ‘Drunk on violence’ “We are a city, we are a country that is drunk on violence.

And we need to wake up to this fact.” — Mayor Mitch Landrieu, in an address on violence April 27 at Tulane University. More than 4,600 people have been killed in New Orleans since 1994,

for medical marijuana

Landrieu said. Since the mayor took office six years ago, 1,003 people have been killed (at the time of his speech).

4. House committee extinguishes bill on short-term rental fire safety

If you’re staying at a shortterm rental in New Orleans, bring your own fire extinguisher. House Bill 952 by state Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, would have required short-term rental property owners to take basic fire safety precautions (smoke alarms and extinguishers). The measure was deferred by the House Commerce Committee, despite having support from the State Fire Marshal’s office. Opponents claimed the proposed law was an expansion of the fire marshal’s power.

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No more ‘sanctuary cities’?

Louisiana could ban so-called “sanctuary cities” (like New Orleans and Lafayette) under a measure from state Rep.

Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, that also is supported by state Attorney General Jeff Landry. Sanctuary city measures limit local law enforcement from working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations in immigration matters. Hodges’ House Bill 151 prohibits state and local authorities from drafting such policies. Hodges’ bill passed the House Judiciary Committee on April 21 and is set for floor debate in the House as early as this week.

In an April 27 letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Landry questioned why the U.S. Department of Justice, in its consent decree with the New Orleans Police Department, authored a set of policies preventing officers from inquiring about immigration statutes or working with ICE agents on immigration enforcement. NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison says immigration matters are a federal issue, not a local one.

6. Your best pitch The Krewe? The Soul? How about the Pelicans? The New

Louisiana appears to have one less shot at updating its medical marijuana laws. Following lengthy testimony and debate, state Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, deferred his Louisiana Therapeutic Use of Cannabis Act, leaving its future uncertain.

Though state Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, has a similar bill pending in the House to update a medical marijuana measure he helped pass last year, James said the state needs to move faster. After criticism from skeptical members of the House Health and Welfare Committee on April 27, James said he’s tabling his measure and backing Mills’ instead. “If what we did last year solved the problem and saved lives, made living life more enjoyable for those of us who are severely ill,” James said, “I would not be here.”

James’ House Bill 1112 expanded the ways people can use weed and added more ailments for which it could be prescribed (or “recommended,” as to avoid federal scrutiny of pharmacists). His measure added PTSD, arthritis, lupus and “intractable pain” to the list of qualifying medical conditions.

9. LGBT non-

discrimination bill moves to full Senate

It’s legal for employers to discriminate against gay, lesbian and transgender people in Louisiana, but state Sen. Troy Carter’s Senate Bill 436 would outlaw that. The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee voted 4-2 last week to advance SB 436 to the full Senate over the objections of some religious leaders, but Carter, D-New Orleans, pointed out the bill specifically exempts “a corporation, association educational institution or institution of learning, or society that is exempt from the religious discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act.” Carter’s bill may face a tougher time in the full Senate, as similar measures have failed in past years.

Last month, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued an executive order protecting LGBT state workers and government contractors. Similar measures had been put in place by past governors, but former Gov. Bobby Jindal rescinded the order during his tenure.

10. ‘Blue

Lives Matter’?

Louisiana could be the first state to adopt a measure that considers any offense against law enforcement a hate crime. A bill by state Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, received unanimous support in the House (by a vote of 910) on April 28. It now heads to the full Senate.

Hate crime laws add stronger penalties for criminal offenses targeting a person or group’s “actual or perceived, race, age, gender, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, creed, sexual orientation or organizational affiliation.”

Harris’ bill adds “their actual or perceived employment as a law enforcement officer or firefighter” as a discrimination classification.

The measure mirrors a national push among police after a growing backlash against law enforcement in the wake of high-profile deaths of unarmed black men and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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@JPMorrell: “Though you say the faith-based comm is under attack, i would argue the faith based community in LA runs Louisiana.” #lalege

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Fully a third of the luggage coming off the belt at MSY is Jazz Fest folding chairs.

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@andruokun I’ve been talking a lot about airbnb but i feel obligated to mention that tourists staying on my street asked neighbors if they knew voodoo.

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New Orleans’ ranking among cities (100,000 or more people) of people biking to work.

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, 2014 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.

MAY 20 IS NATIONAL BIKE TO WORK DAY, and the U.S. Census last week published a new infographic showing New Orleans ranked No. 18 in a list of cities with regular bike commuters. The city now has more than 100 miles of bikeways, including dedicated bike lanes, shared lanes and buffered bike lanes.

Berkeley, California and Boulder, Colorado topped the list of ride-towork cities, but New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles didn’t even make the Top 20. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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Heading for 2016 jazzfest today in the city that Dennis Hastert wanted to bulldoze. Gonna dance, drink, eat, and think of him in gen pop.

wheel someday @humidbeing

NOLA 2019: Half the city is a nolatech bar crawl and other half is a sinkhole.

Sheldon Rankins @RankinsSheldon

Excited to be a member of the @Saints. #WhoDat

For more Y@Speak, visit www.bestofneworleans. com every Monday.

New Orleans hopes to launch a privately funded bike-share program by 2017. What do you think?

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The Citypak Project UnitedHealthcare distributed backpacks Children’s to homeless people in Foundation raised New Orleans last month at Unity of Greater New Orleans, Ozanam Inn and Covenant House.

The backpacks are specifically designed by High Sierra for people who currently are homeless. The project has distributed more than 24,000 backpacks in North America.

more than $30,000 through its annual golf tournament in Kenner on April 4. Since 2007, the foundation has awarded more than 10,000 grants providing nearly $30 million to children and families to fund treatments for autism, cancer, cerebral palsy, diabetes, muscular dystrophy and other conditions.

Louisiana is the leastprepared state in the event of public health disasters, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2016 National Health Security Preparedness Index. Louisiana scored 5.6 on a 10-point scale — the national average is 6.7 — and showed stagnant health care quality over a threeyear comparison. In measuring “health care delivery” (access to routine and emergency care), the state scored only a 3.1.

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Our preview of the second week of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival drew this comment: “Thursdays is locals day!

What a joke. Jazz fest has not been for locals since the 70’s. Anytime New Orleans comes up with something good it is mandatory that we share it with the world and then eventually sell it to the world and it then belongs to them” — bob

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Short-term rentals, big-time problems The city lists exactly 214 legal short-term rentals in New Orleans. Inside Airbnb found 3,621 active short-term rentals in the city as of last week.

SIGNS STAPLED TO UTILITY POLES IN BYWATER WERE BLUNT, SARDONIC AND PROBABLY GAVE SOME TOURISM OFFICIALS HEARTBURN:

“DEAR TOURIST, WELCOME TO NOLA!!!!” the signs read.

“Are you staying in an illegal short-term rental listed on Airbnb or VRBO? If so, then YOU are directly responsible for displacing the last remaining long-time neighborhood residents that are survivors of the largest disaster that’s ever happened in America …

Enjoy your stay in our former homes, y’all!!!!”

City Hall has long promised to do something about short-term rentals. It hasn’t, unless you count extended studies and no enforcement. In 2013, Gambit found dozens of illegal short-term rentals — from rooms to mansions — being rented out before Super Bowl XLVII. In response to a public records request, we discovered that not a single administrative subpoena had been issued for violations of the city’s short-term rental law during the last half of 2012.

On nola.gov, updated last month, the city lists exactly 214 legal shortterm rentals in New Orleans — many of which are traditional hotels such as the Windsor Court and the RitzCarlton. Meanwhile, the website Inside Airbnb (www.insideairbnb. com), which is not affiliated with the company, found 3,621 active short-term rentals in the city as of last week, 72 percent of which were entire homes. The average rental rate was $207 per night.

Short-term rental advocates often portray the industry as a net good, allowing locals to combat the skyrocketing cost of living with a side job. That’s true in some cases, but the numbers show that right now short-term rentals in New Orleans are an aboveground economy that turns homeowners (and some renters) into unlicensed hoteliers, penalizes legitimate operators and leaves neighbors with little recourse as the houses around them become occupied by transients.

In 2014, the New Orleans City Council voted 6-0 to tighten archaic short-term rental regulations to

better fit the age of Airbnb. Since then, City Hall has studied and held a hearing on the subject, but otherwise little was done.

The time for study is over. This year, licensed bed-and-breakfasts saw their first-ever vacancies during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, generally a high time for room rentals. Meanwhile, Airbnb boasted in a press release it had brokered 20,000 stays during Jazz Fest — 2.5 times the number from last year. In that time, the City Council has talked a lot and done little. Short-term rental critics argue, correctly, that such an overwhelming number of illegal rentals decreases housing stock and drives up real estate prices. By taking residences (often whole houses) off the long-term renter’s market, short-term rentals take up apartments that otherwise could provide a home for permanent residents.

According to a report issued last month by the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, fewer than 2,000 of the more than 7,000 Airbnb operators in New Orleans have registered with the city. An effort by state Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, to establish minimum standards for fire safety at the state level was shot down by lawmakers last week.

New Orleans needs to get serious about regulating short-term rentals.

No more talk. No more studies. It’s time for real regulation, enforcement and taxation. It’s a matter of public safety as well as fairness.

FROM OUR ESTATE WATCH COLLECTION

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Hey Blake, Can you tell me the history of the Azalea Garden Cottages?

The neighborhood is so unique, it must have a story.

DEE

Dear Dee, The Azalea Gardens neighborhood in Old Jefferson is typical of many subdivisions that popped up to meet a demand for suburban housing after World War II. Lauricella and Sizeler Co., which developed much of that area of Jefferson Parish, built all of the houses in the Azalea Gardens neighborhood in 1947 and 1948.

“Azalea Gardens is a neat, independent community of 136 double houses, or 272 apartments, and will house approximately 1,000 persons,” according to a 1948 article in The Times-Picayune. “It is located on 36 acres of former farm land on the lake side of Jefferson Highway.”

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Azalea Gardens, founded in 1947, was the area’s first all-rental subdivision.

P H OTO B Y K A N DAC E P O W E R G R AV E S

Azalea Gardens is bounded by Adolph Street on the north, Jefferson Highway on the south, Arnoult Road on the east and Lauricella Avenue on the west. Developers touted the fact that Azalea Gardens would be the first all-rental subdivision in the area. World War II veterans were given first choice of the fourroom apartments, which rented for between $50 and $70 per month.

“Architecture of the doubles is pleasingly varied and front yards are landscaped,” the T-P article said. Driving through the area today, you still see many of the cottages’ white exteriors and screened-in front porches.

The flower reference also is present on the nearby Azalea Gardens shopping center, which opened on Jefferson Highway in the mid-1950s.

BLAKEVIEW WITH TOM AND GAYLE BENSON MAKING NEWS THIS WEEK WITH THEIR HORSES — Tom’s Ready and Mo Tom — racing in the Kentucky Derby, we

remember a previous Louisiana entrant: Risen Star, son of the legendary Triple Crown winner Secretariat. Risen Star was co-owned by auto dealer Ronnie Lamarque and businessman Louis Roussel III. Roussel also is a horse trainer and former owner of the Fair Grounds Race Track & Slots. According to Bob Roesler’s book, The Fair Grounds: Big Shots & Long Shots, Roussel named the horse after attending Christmas Mass. Risen Star’s rise to fame started slowly, with the horse winning the 1988 Louisiana Derby and the Lexington Stakes. Ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, Risen Star finished third in the Kentucky Derby. Even so, the horse made headlines, as did Lamarque, who famously penned songs about the thoroughbred (to the tune of “New York, New York” and “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans”) and sang them on television. Risen Star went on to win the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Roussel, a deeply religious man, believed in the power of prayer and had the help of the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of nuns to whom Roussel promised 10 percent of Risen Star’s winnings. The horse died in 1998 but is memorialized by the annual Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds Race Course.

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Time for an ‘extraordinary remedy’ SHERLOCK HOLMES SOLVED CRIMES BY PROCESS OF ELIMINATION.

“When you have eliminated the impossible,” he said, “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a group of inmate plaintiffs appear to have embraced that notion in asking a federal judge to place New Orleans jails in receivership.

In trying to get Sheriff Marlin Gusman to bring the city’s jails up to constitutional standards and into compliance with a 2013 federal consent decree, the feds have exhausted other options — more money, more time, special monitors and a brand-new jailhouse.

None worked. Gusman’s jails remain out of control.

The only option remaining is one that seemed obvious from the start: Gusman should be pushed aside so a competent professional can bring the jails up to snuff.

Last week, the feds and plaintiff attorneys asked U.S. District Judge Lance Africk to impose the “extraordinary remedy” of appointing a receiver to implement the consent decree. Their 61-page brief reads like an indictment of Gusman’s ineffectiveness: “[In March] Cleveland Tumblin died by hanging himself from a known suicide hazard after a mental health evaluation flagged him for mental health follow-up that he did not receive.

“The Sheriff not only has failed or refused to comply with the Consent Judgment, he has proven to be incapable of taking action necessary to comply. Indeed, the Court Monitors report that timely compliance is not possible under the Sheriff’s leadership. Urgent and extraordinary action is required of this Court to address the immediate risk of harm and death to the men, women and youth in the Jail.

Although there is no question that receivership is an extraordinary remedy, so too is the level of harm that continues to plague the Jail, with no apparent end in sight.”

For his part, Gusman continues to strike a defiant pose. He asked

Africk for more money, then issued a statement claiming the plaintiff’s motion was riddled with “inaccuracies and misleading statements.” He promises to aggressively defend his record of progress in court. The sheriff’s formal response is due May 10, and the feds can reply by May 16. The issue will come to a head at an evidentiary hearing that begins May 25.

The judge will no doubt weigh all arguments before ruling, but this much is clear: As the enforcer of the consent decree, Africk holds in his hands the fate of the jails — and their inmates. He does not want any more deaths on his watch.

Africk has been more than patient with Gusman, who thus far has produced more excuses than progress. Placing a jail in receivership is the atomic bomb of legal remedies, but it is no silver bullet. It is, however, a definitive way around Gusman’s ineptitude.

Meanwhile, the feds have charged several of Gusman’s high-ranking underlings with corruption. The sheriff himself has not been implicated, but that’s about the only jailhouse scandal he has dodged.

Is all of that enough to warrant receivership?

In light of all other attempted (and failed) remedies, the answer seems, well, elementary.

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The high cost of

KILLING BY

DELLA

HASSELLE

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@DELLAHASSELLE

Some Louisiana conservatives are thinking twice about their support of the death penalty. The reason?

The state deficit.

IN 1999, SIX MEN ATTEMPTED A NOTORIOUS ESCAPE from the

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. In the mayhem, a guard was beaten to death with a hammer.

One of the inmates was killed, and the others, who became known as “the Angola 5,” already were serving life sentences for other crimes.

Prosecutors sought the death penalty, and five capital murder trials ensued. Seventeen years later, none has been executed.

Three either have pleaded guilty and received life sentences or gotten juries that refused the death penalty.

Estimates show that last year more than $14 million was spent on just one of those death penalty cases. Since then, a court ruling has reduced the number of death sentences in that case to two — but because both defendants are still exhausting appeals, the cost of trying to execute the two continues to climb.

Recent estimates also show that Louisiana spends about $10 million a year on indigent capital defense — a number that doesn’t cover the total cost of the death penalty. That cost also includes housing inmates on death row, jury costs and prosecutorial fees.

“Now, as Gov. John Bel Edwards attempts to close a nearly $600 million state budget shortfall — a deficit that will result in cuts across numerous state agencies — the price of the death penalty has lawmakers

and taxpayers alike questioning its value in Louisiana.

Among those shaking heads is state Rep. Steve Pylant, a conservative Republican and the retired sheriff of Franklin Parish. Pylant long had supported the death penalty as a moral issue, but in April he said he’s shifting his viewpoint given the fiscal burden the policy puts on the state.

“I think we’ve gotten to a place in a society that we live in that we have regressed,” Pylant said during a House committee meeting. “Maybe it’s time we rethink the situation and look at the death penalty. It may have come to that point.”

MANY IN LOUISIANA STILL PUBLICLY SUPPORT THE DEATH PENALTY, at least in concept,

and experts who oppose it say it’s unlikely the state will abolish the practice any time soon.

But longtime conservatives who conclude it’s too expensive in today’s climate aren’t a political novelty.

According to Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham, it’s a trend.

“If money grows on trees, what it costs to finance the death penalty doesn’t matter,” Dunham said. “But when Louisiana, for example, faces an extreme budget crisis and cannot fund basic services, the question becomes, ‘What is more important for the public good: health care and education, or death sentences?’”

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, a project of the reform group Equal Justice USA founded in 2013, backs up Durnham. The group supports the death penalty’s growing opposition among conservative — and “very conservative” — Americans who believe in fiscal responsibility and are pro-life, yet see those qualities as incompatible with capital punishment.

“People have been against the death penalty for years, but didn’t have an outlet,” Marc Hyden, national coordinator of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, told Red Alert Politics, an online publication for young conservatives, in March.

LIKE OTHER PRO-DEATH PENALTY STATES, Louisiana has faced

scrutiny recently for its death penalty practices.

In March, Michael Wearry became the 58th death row inmate in the state since 2000 to have his conviction overturned. His case is one of 129 reversals (versus 28 executions) since 1977.

Former inmate Glenn Ford was exonerated in 2014, after spending 30 years on death row. After his release, the prosecutor in the case issued a public apology, calling the trial “fundamentally unfair” because of an inexperienced defense and key evidence being withheld.

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NATIONAL DEATH PENALTY FACTS

156 31 DEATH PENALTY

STATES

10

NUMBER OF

EXONERATIONS

I N 40 Y E A R S

PRIMARY

METHOD OF EXECUTION

LETHAL INJECTION

STATES CURRENTLY

CONSIDERING

OTHER METHODS

LENGTH OF A

DEATH

SENTENCE: IN 2010, IT WAS AN AVERAGE OF 14 YEARS AND 10

MONTHS

4

S TATES WITH

NECESSARY

DRUGS FOR LETHAL

INJECTION

(SOURCES: DPIC AND BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS, WWW.BJS.GOV/ CONTENT/PUB/PDF/CP10ST.PDF

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resonates most with legislators across party lines isn’t the risk of wrongful conviction, the question of prosecutorial conduct or argument over cruel and unusual punishment — it’s money.

“We hear about innocence and DNA and all that, but the point at which you to begin to see an emerging drop in support of the death penalty among conservatives was after the recession,” Dunham said. “When you don’t have money to pay for basic functions and you’re watching government collapse, you have to ask questions you would of any other policy: Is it cost-effective?”

No comprehensive study has been completed that determines exactly how much the death penalty costs Louisiana taxpayers. In 2014, the Legislature tasked the Fiscal Impact Commission to study costs associated with capital defense, prosecution and time on death row. It was slated to be finished this year, but now isn’t due until January 2018.

The issue has been researched in other states, how-

ever, and the results are stark.

In Nevada, the public spends an average of $500,000 more on death penalty cases than it does on similar cases that call for lesser sentences, such as life without possibility of parole, according to a 2014 state audit. In Washington, a Seattle University study last year found that each death penalty case cost an average of $1 million more than non-capital cases. A study released in California in January found that the state spends roughly $307.7 million per execution. The number was based solely on incarceration costs and doesn’t take into account the additional costs of the appeals process, capital trials or legal representation for inmates facing the death penalty.

GIVEN THE FISCAL BURDEN OF THE DEATH PENALTY, legisla-

tors now are considering bills to ensure new capital cases don’t drive Louisiana further into debt.

The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed House Bill 1137 by Rep. Sherman Mack, R-Albany,

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which would require the Louisiana Public Defender Board to spend more of its budget on local public defender districts.

Mack chairs the House Criminal Justice Committee.

The bill, which was headed to a Senate judiciary committee in April, calls for 65 percent of the state public defender board’s $33 million in direct state funding to go to local districts — a significant increase over the 50 percent that goes there now.

During an April hearing, local public defenders were divided on the proposed law. Some felt it would secure much-needed funds to critically strapped offices, while others said it wouldn’t solve the bigger problem: that indigent defense as a whole needs more money to work effectively.

Last week, a group of Louisiana district attorneys accused the statewide public defender board of spending too much on private law firms that handle capital cases and not enough on local public defender boards, which are struggling financially.

The Louisiana District Attorneys Association even alleged fiscal mismanagement.

State Public Defender Jay Dixon disputed those claims. He told The Advocate the private law firms are all nonprofits, and when local funds for public defender offices are added in, only about one-sixth of the $66 million total spent statewide on public defenders goes toward capital cases.

Supporters and opponents of the bill agree on one thing: The additional money for local boards likely would come at the expense of statewide indigent capital defense. With the state facing public defender budget crises, the board would have nowhere else to draw money.

Currently about 28 percent of the state public defender board’s budget, or $9.5 million, is spent providing death penalty defense.

It pays for mostly private lawyers in nonprofit agencies to litigate about 40 capital cases.

By comparison, about $15 million of the public defender board’s $33 million budget goes to the local districts.

Two other bills filed in April — HB 1090, authored by state Rep. Cedric Glover, D-Shreveport, and Senate Bill 450, authored by state Sen. Wesley Bishop, D-New Orleans — would establish a Capital Cost Commission to determine

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As of late April, the bills remained in committee. Opponents questioned whether they would be too arbitrary, but supporters called the commission a best-case scenario for limiting death penalty sentences.

Meanwhile, as lawmakers in Louisiana grapple with how to control death penalty costs, a local criminal justice nonprofit has unveiled a new study showing the majority of taxpayers in Louisiana no longer want to put their dollars behind capital punishment.

According to a survey commissioned by the Promise of Justice Initiative, which seeks to reform Louisiana’s criminal justice system, 52 percent of taxpayers throughout the state want to eliminate the death penalty.

The statewide poll of 600 Louisiana voters shows that respondents, by a 2-1 margin, prefer life sentences to the death penalty as a punishment for first-degree murder (the only crime in Louisiana punishable by a death sentence).

The declining support for capital punishment corresponds with a decline in death sentences in Louisiana over the last two decades. During the 1980s and 1990s, Louisiana was sentencing approximately 80 people to death per decade. Since then there’s been a nearly 75 percent decrease in new death sentences in the state. Louisiana has sentenced 54 people to death since 2000, and only one person was sentenced to death last year, according to Beth Compa, a staff attorney for the Promise of Justice Initiative.

“People are coming away from the mid-’90s thought where ‘tough on crime’ was best policy,”

Compa said. “With the number of wrongful executions and wrongful convictions, it’s so basic that people don’t have to get into the weeds of policy to understand it.”

Local death penalty lawyers agree, including local attorney Nick Trenticosta.

Trenticosta, who has worked to abolish the death penalty since 1980, points to his research: data compiled on every death sentence, exoneration and reversal since 1977. It shows an 82 percent reversal rate of death sentences handed down in Louisiana in the past 40 years. That research was reinforced last month in a new study released in the Journal of Race, Gender and Poverty, which also showed Louisiana had double the number of exonerations than the national rate.

Statistically speaking, that means more than 60 percent of inmates currently on death row are likely to have their cases overturned — after the state spends millions fighting their appeals.

“Are we getting our bang for our buck?” Trenticosta asked. “I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me the cost-benefit analysis.”

LOUISIANA LONG HAS BEEN A PRO-DEATH PENALTY STATE ,

and high-profile politicians have echoed that preference.

During his tenure as governor, Bobby Jindal was an outspoken supporter of applying the death penalty for cases of rape as well as first-degree murder. “Child rape is in some ways worse than homicide,” Jindal has said.

Last year, then-Caddo Parish District Attorney Dale Cox gained notoriety for saying Louisiana “should kill more people.”

Hugo Holland, one of the prosecutors involved in the Angola

5 case, is another outspoken supporter of capital punishment.

In April, Holland told legislators that attempts to fund capital defense is the work of “anti-capital punishment zealots” on the Louisiana Public Defender Board, who are “trying to price it out of existence” in the court system.

Holland spoke during a hearing on Mack’s HB 1137, which the House subsequently passed, saying the potential siphoning of funds from capital defense was one reason he supported the bill, citing “the amount of time wasted in capital cases because of the current system, the amount of money that’s thrown at it.”

Most Americans still support the death penalty for serious crimes. Last year, 61 percent of Americans in a Gallup poll said they favor the death penalty; that number represents a decline over previous decades. In 1994, 80 percent supported the death penalty. The Pew Research Center says support for the death penalty is at its lowest since the early 1970s.

In Louisiana’s current legislative session, at least some leading conservatives are seriously reconsidering their support for the death penalty. In an April interview with Gambit, House Criminal Justice Committee Chairman Mack said he, too, might be changing his mind.

“Sometimes, you don’t realize something until it hits you in the face,” Mack said. “While I can’t say I’ve changed my position, I can tell you I’m thinking about it.

And that’s what debate is about … it allows you to consider opinions of people around you that you normally might not have.

“As times change, opinions evolve.”

LOUISIANA DEATH PENALTY FACTS

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The current

DEATH

ROW population.

10

54 NUMBER OF

DEATH SENTENCES

SINCE

2000

2

WOMEN on death row.

TOTAL NUMBER

EXONERATED

FROM DEATH ROW

NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS

SINCE

DEATH PENALTY re-enacted

in 1976.

28

(SOURCES: DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER AND PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE.)

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These vintage brooches likely adorned the lapel of many a fashionista, making Mom the most recent in a stylish lineage. $45 each at Miss Claudia’s Vintage Clothing & Costumes (4204 Magazine St., 504-897-6310; www.facebook.com/missclaudias).

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New spin CHEFS STEPHEN STRYJEWSKI AND RYAN PREWITT OF THE LINK RESTAURANT GROUP have pledged

Bacobar spices up Covington’s dining options

to raise $15,000 during a threeday bike ride for No Kid Hungry, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to feeding homeless children.

The local chefs will join others from across the country for the Chefs Cycle for No Kid Hungry (www. nokidhungry.org) event in California next month.

“When one in five children in America lives in a family that struggles to consistently put enough food on the table, I can’t just sit

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that draws influences from Asian, Latin, Creole and Cajun cuisines.

Commander’s Palace alums Jean Pierre Guidry and Carl Schaubhut opened the restaurant in Covington in February and serve dishes that are creative, colorful and fun.

Asian influences are strongest, with dishes pulling from Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai cuisines. Lime wedges accompany almost everything and there’s plenty of Sriracha, lemon grass, soy and ginger, though never to the point of overkill.

Restaurant concepts such as this often cast too wide a net, emphasizing quantity of ingredients over quality of craft. The kitchen here doesn’t fall into that trap, and dishes are executed with a delicate hand, taking care not to confuse too many flavors, rather layering them carefully, playing textures and ingredients off of each other.

Served in a hot cast-iron skillet, the breakfast bowl is visually akin to a culinary pie chart, sectioned into colorful quarters. There’s coffee-colored roasted pork sidling a section of bright green microgreens, pickled onions and crimson cherry tomatoes. A bright golden section reveals buttery corn kernels and a sunny side up egg. Toffee-hued fried potato hash adds an element of crunch; beneath it is a decadent bed of cheesy stone grits.

Shrimp and bacon pad thai features fat, chewy rice noodles in sweet peanut sauce, sprinkled with lime juice and ribbons of bright red Sriracha. A poached egg sits on top and oozes yolk onto the pasta.

As the restaurant’s name implies,

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70437 Highway 21, Suite 100, Covington, (985) 893-2450; www. bacobarnola.com

bacos, or steamed bao buns configured as tacos, feature strongly on the menu. They arrive piping hot, fluffy and cloudlike, and there’s an option to order the bacos “naked” — wrapped in a lettuce shroud.

Sweet and smoky chipotle and agave brisket-filled bacos present a hybrid of Asian and Southern barbecue flavors, and fatty brisket bits are complemented with crunchy Brussels sprouts slaw and fried shallots.

A light and refreshing Gulf shrimp baco comes with crisp cucumber slices, pickled cabbage and carrots and a drizzle of house Seoul sauce, a slightly sweet and spicy orange elixir. The fried oyster baco is a more indulgent option, featuring plump cornmeal-crusted bivalves topped with thick and creamy kimchi remoulade slaw interlaced with nori. A touch of the restaurant’s hot sauce — a bright and vinegary concoction — helps the flavors pop.

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$

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HOW MUCH

lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun.

moderate

WHAT WORKS

carnitas baco, shrimp and bacon pad thai, frozen drinks

Bacobar specializes in creative bao, or steamed buns with taco-like fillings.

P H OTO B Y C H E R Y L G E R B E R

The bacobarrito leaves something to be desired and seems like more of an oversized sushi roll. Though impressive in size, the filling of black beans, rice and cabbage lacks flavor and overshadows the rest of the ingredients, including kimchi salsa.

The restaurant has excellent bar offerings, including a whimsical frozen drinks list. A lethal lemon grass-infused margarita is served with a spiced-salt rim.

Bacobar’s global influences and explorations are fun and are a welcome addition to Covington’s culinary landscape.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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playful international street food with fine-dining finesse

Chefs Ryan Prewitt (left) and Stephen Stryjewski (right) with members of the Youth Empowerment Project’s Trafigura Work & Learn Center.

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here and do nothing,” Stryjewski said.

“We live in a community that knows suffering, but we somehow always come together when there is a need.

I cannot think of a greater need than to feed a child.”

To meet their fundraising goal, Stryjewski, chef at Cochon and Butcher, and Prewitt, chef at Peche, are teaming up with Central City’s Youth Empowerment Project’s Trafigura Work & Learn Center, where young people sell new, used and refurbished bikes. Youth at the center designed two bikes with special food themes to raffle off June 25. One bike sports a big fish (inspired by Peche) and the other follows a pork theme in homage to Cochon and Butcher.

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“Stephen and I really wanted to build excitement with this event, and we knew bringing in the kids from YEP’s Work & Learn Center would make it fun,” Prewitt said in a statement last week.

Local chefs Kelly Fields and Lisa White of Willa Jean also are participating in the race, joining nearly 200 cooks and other restaurant staff in the cause. The chefs will embark on the three-day ride, which starts in Carmel, California June 27 and ends in Santa Barbara June 29.

To donate or for more information, visit www.chefscycle.org.— HELEN FREUND

2012, Mellow Mushroom allowed MKOB to use the parking lot for the fundraiser. In 2013, Mellow Mushroom cosponsored the event.

Organizers added a BJCP-sanctioned homebrew competition, which drew more entries from other Louisiana homebrew clubs.

Commercial breweries were added to the event in 2014, which increased its notoriety, Mortillaro says. This year, there are 23 commercial breweries and most will bring two or more beers.

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at a whole hog roast at Mid-City restaurant MoPho (524 City Park Ave., 504-482-6845; www.mophonola.com) at 3 p.m. May 22. Fertel’s The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog examines the Southern tradition of whole-hog barbecue. Fertel and photographer Denny Culbert will read from the book and sign copies. Tickets are $49 and include a copy of the book, a plate of barbecue with sides from chef MoPho Michael Gulotta, wine, beer and a raffle entry to win one of two prints from Culbert. — HELEN FREUND

THE FIFTH ANNUAL LARRY FEST TWISTED BEER COMPETITION AND MELLOW FEST will be held at the

Mellow Mushroom in Covington (1645 Highway 190, Suite 100, Covington, 985-327-5407; www. mellowmushroom.com/store/convington) at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 7.

Homebrewers have been preparing for the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP)-sanctioned competition by finding creative ways to work with the “food” theme of the competition. “Any style beer which emulates a food will be acceptable. [Examples include] banana nut bread, pizza, fruit salad, blueberry bread pudding, pretzel beer, etc.,” according to the event Facebook page.

In addition to the adventurous beers served at Larry Fest, there will be a number of Louisiana and national breweries, including New Orleans’ new Urban South Brewery and Flying Heart Brewing from Bossier City.

Larry Fest honors Larry Hartzog, one of the Northshore’s more prolific homebrewers and a longtime member of the area’s homebrew club, Mystic Krewe of Brew (MKOB). After he died in 2012, MKOB founded the event to continue Hartzog’s affinity for brewing unusual or “twisted” beers and raise money for local nonprofits.

This year, proceeds go to the St. Tammany Humane Society.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and include samples of more than 60 homebrews and commercial beers. Christian Serpas & Ghost Town performs at the fest.

Larry Fest always has been held at Mellow Mushroom in Covington, but it has grown, says Larry Fest board member Sal Mortillaro II. In

Whole Hog LOCAL FOOD WRITER RIEN FERTEL HOLDS A BOOK RELEASE PARTY

Derby day THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS MAY 7

and Uptown bourbon and oyster hub Kenton’s (5757 Magazine St., 504-891-1177; www.kentonsrestaurant.com) is throwing a Derby day party with cocktails and barbecue on race day. The restaurant will serve Buffalo Trace mint juleps and Brown Derbies and other drinks from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Specials include barbecued ribs, brisket, pulled pork, deviled eggs, crispy grits with country ham and fried oysters.

— HELEN FREUND

New Guy GUY’S PO-BOYS (5259 Magazine St., 504-891-5025) is open again after suffering heavy damage when a pick-up truck plowed into its building Dec. 21, 2015. Police say a suspected drunk driver ran a stop sign and collided with a truck which careened through the front portion of the restaurant. No one was seriously injured in the accident. — HELEN FREUND

EAT+DRINK Big Freedia BOUNCE ARTIST/ REALITY TV STAR/COOK BOUNCE ARTIST AND REALITY TV STAR BIG FREEDIA held

a soul food pop-up at Cafe Reconcile in Central City on April 27. She cooked some of her favorite New Orleans dishes as a crew from her Fuse TV show filmed an episode of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. Freedia showed students of the job-training program how to prepare stuffed bell peppers, macaroni and cheese, fried catfish, corn bread and bread pudding. Freedia spoke with Gambit about how she got into the kitchen.

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Did you cook as a child?

BIG FREEDIA: Yes. I was like 10 — in the kitchen, always helping my mom. I was really young, maybe even a little earlier than that. (She’d) let me mix the cake mix or whatever, and when I got older I started chopping meat and seasoning meat and just went from there.

My mom is a great cook and so is my aunt. My aunt sold supper plates to the whole neighborhood, and I was always in the kitchen helping them. And I was fat! I was always in the kitchen trying to make something to eat, because I was always experimenting with food. I was always trying to take a little pressure off mom because she would have to work late. She did hair, and sometimes she would get out of the shop really late. So I would be there, ready to assist her and help her out.

you’re laying down beats and you put a beat together, it’s like a big gumbo.

I have a passion for cooking.

Every time I’m off the road, I’m cooking at home. I’m coming out with a cookbook and am just really excited for all the people all over the world to taste a little bit of New Orleans. I do have a vision of putting a restaurant together or maybe even branching out into a food truck. I have tons of ideas.

Doing the pop-up with Cafe Reconcile was very easy. I had a lot of help from them. (I chose them) because I’m from Uptown, a few blocks from there, and it’s my neighborhood. I wanted to do something to help people. I’m always trying to give back at the same time. The (Cafe Reconcile) kids (were) super excited for us to be at their establishment. Who knows? Maybe one of them can come work for me one day in my restaurant when that happens.

What inspired you to do a soul food pop-up?

Do you have a favorite dish?

F: My favorite food is soul food.

It’s a taste of New Orleans — from gumbo to cabbage greens to collard greens and fried chicken.

In New Orleans, that’s all we eat.

There are similarities between music and food culture; it all intertwines together. With music, when

F: My favorite dish is cabbage and cornbread. When I cook it, I put pickled meat and pickled tips in there. It’s just full of meat and smothered and really, really tender. And the cornbread is just like cake. I just love to eat.

— HELEN FREUND

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG IN NEW ORLEANS, and this year that

means the arrival of buckmoth caterpillars — and several new beers.

The NOLA Brewing Company-Oskar Blues collaboration, The Wolf and the Lamb imperial pilsner, celebrates Oskar Blues’ first anniversary in Louisiana and is now available in cans in specialty stores and supermarkets. The can design was created by local artist J. Pierre and depicts local musicians in front of shotgun houses.

Lazy Magnolia, located in Kiln, Mississippi, released a special-edition beer called Fleur de Wheat, an American-style wheat beer brewed with Sorachi Ace hops, chamomile flowers and lemon peel.

Great Raft Brewing released a new beer to add to its stable of seasonal beers available in 22-ounce bombers. The new spring seasonal, Near and Far, was inspired in part by the brewery’s collaboration with chef Brian Landry for the first volume of its Besh Foundation Provisions & Traditions series last year. It’s a Kolsch-style beer with strong hop character courtesy of one pound of Nelson Sauvin and Amarillo hops per barrel.

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Great Raft also released Come What Mayhaw, its first bacteriafermented sour beer aged in pinot noir barrels and the state’s first foudre with mayhaw berries.

Baton Rouge’s Tin Roof Brewing will release a new seasonal called Rusted Rye IPA. It will work with Simcoe, Centennial, Falconer’s Flight and Mosaic hops to create a black pepper, citrus and pine flavor combination.

Brewer Alex Daigrepont said music is an inspiration for many of his beers, and the name Tin Roof Rusted was inspired by a line in The B-52’s song “Love Shack.”

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and this vinho verde wine from Portugal is light, fruity and effervescent. Adega do Salvador, one of the finest producers in the region, makes this classic, slightly fizzy white wine in Costa Verde near the Atlantic coast. Vinho verde wines typically are made from a blend of several indigenous grapes.

The Loureio, Arinto, Azal and Trajadura grape varietals used in this wine were hand-harvested and processed immediately.

The wine underwent temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel vats for about 15 days, then another fermentation, which left the wine with a little spritziness, the hallmark of vinho verde wines. In the glass, this value-priced wine is light, crisp and fresh with a slight tingle of effervescence on the nose and palate. It has floral nuances, citrus, dried pineapple and tropical character, flavors of lime zest, almond notes, melon and vivid acidity with a touch of minerality. Serve chilled. Drink now and over the next one to three years. It is good for casual sipping but versatile enough to drink with spicy dishes, fish, seafood, Asian cuisine, sushi, tapas, salads and fruit plates. Buy it at: Rouses Market on Tchoupitoulas. Drink it at: Bayou Wine Garden on North Rendon in Mid-City.

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Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — The buffet includes a variety of cuisines. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The coffee shop serves pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

BAR & GRILL The American Sector — 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940; www.nationalww2museum.org/american-sector — The menu features American favorites, Gulf fish and more. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.facebook.com/lucysnola — This surf shack serves burgers, tacos and more.

Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www.perryssportsbarandgrill. com — Burgers, hot dogs steaks and bar noshing items are available. 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 changing lunch specials.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www.warehousegrille. com — There’s upscale bar food, steaks, seafood and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily, brunch Fri.-Sun. Credit cards. $

BREAKFAST/BRUNCH Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 5618844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare. Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$

BURGERS

Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — The cafe serves shrimp salad, chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and more. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries, desserts, sandwiches and salads. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — The wine bar offers cheese plates. Lunch and dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $ Liberty’s Kitchen — 300 N. Broad St., (504) 822-4011; www.libertyskitchen.org — Students in the workforce development program prepare local favorites.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAJUN Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 561-5171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 5222233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — The New Orleans sampler features red beans and rice, jambalaya, a cup of gumbo, fried green tomatoes and a biscuit. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mulate’s Cajun Restaurant — 201 Julia St., (504) 522-1492; www.mulates.com — Cajun dishes include Catfish Mulalate’s, fried seafood platters, gumbo and more.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

CHINESE

Dis & Dem — 2600 Banks St., (504) 9090458; Rue St. Louis Bar, 814 St. Louis St., (504) 509-7092; www.disanddem.com — The Hawaii 5-0 burger features a glazed patty, a hot sausage patty, a fried egg, bacon, cheese and grilled pineapple.

Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — Chinese and Vietnamese dishes include sweet and spicy tilapia served with bok choy. Delivery available. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Five Guys Burgers and Fries — 1212 S. Clearview Pkwy., Suite C, Harahan, (504) 733-5100; www.fiveguys.com — The menu features burgers with toppings such as cheese and grilled onions or mushrooms. Lunch and dinner daily.

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Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — There’s a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Ted’s Frostop — 3100 Calhoun St., (504) 861-3615; www.tedsfrostop.com — The menu features burgers with hand-made patties, crinkle-cut fries and more.

Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — The sweet shop

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Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — A specialty is crispy smoked quail salad with pear and bourbon-molasses dressing. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Vinegar-braised grilled beef short ribs are served over stone-ground yellow grits with arugula and boiled peanut salad.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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 — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise.

Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Bistro Orleans — 3216 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 304-1469; www. bistroorleansmetairie.com — Oyster and artichoke soup is popular. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans. com — Eggs Sardou is poached eggs over artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — The menu includes mussels steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf.

Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafegentilly — Breakfast is available all day. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The menu features dishes like pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4675611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes and seafood. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MeMe’s Bar & Grille — 712 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 644-4992; www. memesbarandgrille.com — MeMe’s serves steaks, chops and Louisiana seafood. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Messina’s Runway Cafe — 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www. messinasterminal.com — Jimmy Wedell seafood pasta features shrimp, crabmeat, crawfish, herbs and angel hair pasta.

Breakfast and lunch daily, brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Crabmeat cheesecake is topped with Creole meuniere. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette are served with roasted garlic butter.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its fried chicken.

Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This deli offers corned beef and pastrami from New York. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $

Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — The dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. 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. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — The New Orleans AK sandwich features a choice of four meats plus cheddar, provolone, pepper Jack and Swiss cheeses on a muffuletta bun. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $

FRENCH Cafe Degas — 3127 Esplanade Ave., (504) 945-5635; www.cafedegas.com — French dishes include pate, cheese plates, escargots bourguignons, mussles, hanger steak and more. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $

GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials. Lunch and dinner daily.

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mashed potatoes. Reservations accepted.

Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — The menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and oysters Mosca.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$

Silk Road — 2483 Royal St., (504) 9446666; www.silkroadnola.com — Samosas are potato and pea turnovers made with garlic and coriander and come with tamarind sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Nonna Mia Cafe & Pizzeria — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; www.nonnamia. net — Shrimp Diablo features pan-seared shrimp, fettuccine and spicy arrabbiata sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www. specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu offers Italian favorites and pizza. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes, curries, rice dishes and vegetarian items. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 8913644 — “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Audubon Clubhouse Cafe — 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5282; www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/golf-cafe — Braised short rib comes with roasted mushrooms, Parmesan grits and tomato jam. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner Sun.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Sauteed Gulf fish is served with crawfish risotto and shaved asparagus.

Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$

Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include raw and cooked versions.

Delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Duck and wild mushroom spring rolls come with mirin-soy dipping sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers

Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 5938118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — A skillet-fried filet is served with South-

Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a rouxbased gumbo on top. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, made with shrimp, mussels, oysters, fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Hummus & More — 3363 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 833-9228; www.hummusandmore.com — The menu includes

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Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — A popular starter is turtle soup finished with sherry. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — The Italian menu includes roasted duck glazed with sweet Marsala and served with garlic

Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 5817253; www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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OUT TO EAT hummus, mousaka, halloumi, gyros, kebabs, shawarama and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www.monascafeanddeli.com — Entrees include shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates and more. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www.facebook. com/casaborrega — Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup with pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage, avocado and tostadas on the side. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Casa Garcia — 8814 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 464-0354 — Chiles rellenos include one pepper stuffed with cheese and one with beef. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Casa Tequila — 3229 Williams Blvd., Kenner (504) 443-5423 — The El General combo plate includes a beef burrito, beef chile relleno, chicken enchilada, chicken taco and guacamole. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos and more. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — There are cheese plates and a menu of Creole favorites such as gumbo and crab cakes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo serves Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Live Oak Cafe — 8140 Oak St., (504) 2650050; www.liveoakcafenola.com — The cafe serves huevos rancheros with corn tortillas, black beans, fried eggs, ranchero sauce, salsa and Cotija cheese. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine on seafood in platters, poboys or entrees. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature

dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations. Brunch and lunch daily.

Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — Stuffed gumbo features a hand-battered and fried catfish fillet atop chicken, sausage, shrimp and crabmeat gumbo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ 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. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 887-2010; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — Red beans and rice with fried chicken is a Monday and Wednesday special.

The roast beef po-boy features housecooked roast beef on Gendusa Bakery bread and is dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

PIZZA Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizza.com — Pies feature hand-tossed, house-made dough and locally sourced produce. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.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. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Diners can build their own calzones or pies from a list of toppings. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. 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. 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. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — The

neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS The Big Cheezy — 422 S. Broad St., (504) 302-2598; www.thebigcheezy.com — The menu of gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches includes a namesake triple-decker Big Cheezy with Gouda, Gruyere, pepper Jack, cheddar, mozzarella and Monterey Jack on challah bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Liberty Cheesesteaks — 5031 Freret St., (504) 875-4447; www.libertycheesesteaks.com — The Buffalo chicken steak features chicken breast dressed with wing sauce, American and blue cheese and ranch dressing is optional.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ 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. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. 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 slow cooked in its own jus. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 897-5413; www.traceysnola.com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood po-boys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — The menu includes grilled whole fish, royal red shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade. Reservations accepted.Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola.com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 298-0504; www. halfshellneworleans.com — Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped chargrilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations.

Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, po-boys, salads and daily specials. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Oyster House — 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; www. mredsrestaurants.com — The menu includes raw oysters, seafood, steaks, fried chicken, crawfish etouffee and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ The Stuffed Crab — 3431 Houma Blvd., Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5444 — Crab au gratin features crabmeat in cream sauce topped with cheddar cheese and is served with garlic bread and soup or salad. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. 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.

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TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — Hot and cold tapas dishes range from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — The tapas menu includes barbacoas featuring jumbo Gulf shrimp in chorizo cream over toasted bread medallions. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

VEGETARIAN Good Karma Cafe — Swan River Yoga, 2940 Canal St., (504) 401-4698; www. swanriveryoga.com — The Good Karma plate includes a selection of Asian and Indian vegetables, a cup of soup, salad with almond dressing and brown or basmati rice. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Crab Trap Seafood Restaurant — 105 Peavine Road, LaPlace, (985) 224-2000 — The seafood house serves boiled seafood, barbecue shrimp or crabs, fried seafood platters, stuffed flounder, poboys and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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TUESDAY 3 Bacchanal — Mark Weliky Trio, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Roamin’ Jasmine, 2; Vivaz!, 5:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 9 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 BMC — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 9:30 Cafe Negril — The Four Sides, 6; Marc Stone Band, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — The Lonely Lonely Knights, CC Adcock & the Lafayette Marquis, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; Brian Dolzani, 10 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Gasa Gasa — Bear Mountain, Young Empires, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Grass Mud Horse, 6:30; Nyce!, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Adonis Rose Quintet, 8 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30; Swamp Kitchen, 9:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Siberia — Saboteurs, One Love Brass Band, 10 Snug Harbor — Mitch Woods & the Rocket 88s, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

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Giselle Anguizola, 2; Carl LeBlanc Jazz, 6:30; Mem Shannon Blues Band, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Mark Appleford, 5 Cafe Negril — Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Sunshine Nights, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin, 6; Jimmy Robinson, Kristin Diable, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 6; Shark Attack!!, 10 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Holly Rock, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — George French Trio, 9

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Monster Truck, The Eastwood Smokes, 9 House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11 Irish House — Ruby Ross, 6 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Lady Sings the Blues feat. Dana Abbott, 5; Irvin Mayfield & the NOJO Jam, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Listening Room: Lauren Sturm, Lilli Lewis, Mikayla Braun, 7 The Maison — Nyce!, 4; Jazz Vipers, 6:30 One Eyed Jacks — Old 97s, Heartless Bastards, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Palm Court Jazz Band with Topsy Chapman, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All-Stars with Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rivershack Tavern — Dave Ferrato, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Jerry Embree, 8 Siberia — Noisewater, Pistachio, The Crooked Vines, Joe Weinick & Co., 9 Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Terrance Taplin, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Teddy’s Hole in the Wall — N’awlins Johnnys, 8 Three Keys at the Ace Hotel — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Hot Club of New Orleans, 7

THURSDAY 5 Bacchanal — The Courtyard Kings, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Christopher Johnson Jazz, 6:30 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Bayou International Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, 11 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Duo with Duke Heitger, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — Alexandra Scott & Josh Paxton, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Cafe Istanbul — Thaisa Olivia, 8 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Checkpoint Charlie — Dreaming Dingo, 7; Joey B. Wilson & the Hoplites, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Wreckless Eric, Les Clay, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 6; Song Dogs, The Fortifiers, 9:30 d.b.a. — Alexis & the Samurai, 7 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Outlaw Country Jam with Jason Bishop, 7

FRIDAY 6 Bacchanal — Raphael Bas, 4:30; The Organettes, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Swamp Donkeys, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell Blues Band, 10 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; Marc Stone Band, 4; BB King All-Stars feat. Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 8 Buffa’s Lounge — David & Roselyn, 5; Greg Shatz, 8; Ashley Blume’s Time Machine, 11 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 4; Totally Abandoned, 7; Shamaniacs, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Fracasso Trio, Dave Jordan and NIA, 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; The O-Pines, 9 d.b.a. — Linnzi Zaorski, 6 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Vincent Marini, 7; DJ Fireworks, 1 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Slick Skillet Serenaders, 6; Loose Marbles, 8; Black Laurel, Shop Class, 11 Gasa Gasa — Jordan Prince Band, Hestina, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Valerie Sassyfras, 7; Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10

MUSIC House of Blues — Fonseca, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — The Lilli Lewis Project, Sturmlandia, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Piano Professor Series feat. Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5:30; Detroit Brooks, 8 The Maison — The Roamin’ Jasmine, 1; Broadmoor Jazz Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, The Jesse Smith Project, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, Betsy McGovern, Alex Bosworth, 8 Old Point Bar — Steve Mignano, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Saints Can Lie, Born Under Fire, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — The K Hayes Project Band, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis & Palm Court Jazz Band with Craig Klein, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band with Wendell Brunious, 6; The PresHall Brass with Daniel Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Mo Jelly plus Big Sandy & the Fly-Rite Boys, 8:30 Siberia — U.S. Bastards, Die Rotzz, Cikada, Donkey Puncher, 10 Snug Harbor — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy Forest, 4; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30 Ugly Dog Saloon — Texas Pete, Crossing Canal, 7

SATURDAY 7 Bacchanal — Red Organ Trio, 4; Will Thompson Quartet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Jenavieve & the Royal Street Winding Boys, 1 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; Marc Stone Band, 4; BB King All-Stars feat. Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 8 BMC — The Key Sound, 3 Buffa’s Lounge — Andre Bohren, 5; The Royal Rounders, 8; Michael Liuzza, 11 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7; Higher Heights, 10 Carver Theater — Lyfe Jennings, 7 Checkpoint Charlie — East and Stone, 4; Kenny Triche, 7; Captain Legendary Band, Bob & the Thunder, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Song Dogs, Two-Headed Dog, 8 Circle Bar — No Scruples, 6; DJ Lingerie and DJ Bunny Prince Tribute, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 11 Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Kenny Neal, 6:30 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Chris Zonada, 7; Zac Maras, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Wayne Mareau Quintet, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 7 Gasa Gasa — Jessie Frye, Burris, Jordan Anderson Band, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 PAGE 36

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Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Lou TSB, DJ Toine, Barin the Great, Mike Hazel, Trance Farmers, AF the Naysayer, Sic Hop, 9 Gasa Gasa — Wild Belle, James Supercave, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Stooges, 10 House of Blues — Father, Lui Diamonds, Tommy Genesis, 7 Howlin’ Wolf — Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, The Eastwood Smokes, Animal Years, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Ashlin Parker Trio, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Lynn Drury, 7 The Maison — Jon Roniger, 4; Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Pat Flory, Mark Fernandez, 8 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Amy McCarley, 6 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times ’80s and ’90s Night, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Leroy Jones & Katja Toivola with Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation AllStars with Louis Ford, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Leroy Thomas, 8:30 Snug Harbor — Jason Marsalis & Heirs to the Crescent City, 8 & 10 Spice Bar & Grill — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Ben Polcer, 7:30

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House of Blues — Strangelove Depeche Mode Tribute, 8 Irish House — HanaLena Band, 7 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Ashlin Parker & Trumpet Mafia: Outkast Tribute, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Dr. Michael White, 7 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Leah Rucker, 4; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Barry’s Pocket, Organized Crime, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Igor, Crazy Whiskey, Patsy Grace, Beth Hazel Farris, Keith Anselmo, 7 Old Point Bar — The Liberators, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Palm Court Jazz Band with Ernie Elly, 8 Preservation Hall — The Joint Chiefs of Jazz with Frank Oxley, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars with Mark Braud, 8, 9 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Pantyraid, 11 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Saenger Theatre — Celtic Woman, 7:30 Siberia — The Beaumonts, Pure Luck, Quaalords, 10 Snug Harbor — Astral Project, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Glen David Andrews, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9

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Bacchanal — The Tradsters, 4; The Roamin’ Jasmine, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds Jazz, 1; Kenny Claiborne Blues, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 BB King’s — Marc Stone Band, 7 Blue Nile — Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Snake & the Charmers, 6 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Red Elvises, Debauche, 9 Champions Square — The 1975, The Japanese House, 7:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Pat Flory & Mike Kerwin, 7 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 d.b.a. — Soul Brass Band, 3; Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Billy Iuso & the Restless Natives, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Blues Brunch with Michael Pearce, 11 a.m.; Kathryn Rose, 6; Lauren Sturm, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Carl Leblanc, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 House of Blues — Teyana Taylor, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 1; Melanie Gardner, 4; Too Darn Hot, 7; The Soul Project, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Old Point Bar — Isla Nola, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7

“I’M NOT CRAZY ABOUT SONGS THAT GET SELF-REFERENTIAL / MOST OF THIS STUFF SHOULD BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL,” • May 4 Rhett Miller meta-con• 8 p.m. Wednesday fesses at the beginning • One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., of Most Messed Up (ATO), Old 97’s’ tell-all (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net of an 11th LP. The song is “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive” — how long they’ve been doing this (natch), and also the first signpost of the sneaky snark attack to come, one Miller both sets up and walks into. “Give It Time” is the 97’s’ best country punker in ages, but it’s not the healing salve its title promises; Miller seals the couplet by barking, gloriously, in your face, “It will break you!” His “Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On” volunteers a third leg in the “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”/“Why Don’t We Get Drunk” between-three-sheets relay. And while the token ballad is called “This Is the Ballad,” it’s an off-road, pub-drawling affair loaded with wry/rye personal audits (“My reservations are all I have left”). This gig kicks off a monthlong dance card with she-wolf Erika Wennerstrom and her Heartless Bastards, whose fifth outing Restless Ones (Partisan) somehow found another substratum of deep-seated emotional turmoil to till up and toil in. BJ Barham of American Aquarium opens. Tickets $25. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Old 97’s with Heartless Bastards

OUR TAKE

Self-referential snark aside, the Old 97’s put out another solid country album.

Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — The One Stop Shop Band, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Gerald French with Sunday Night Swingsters and Duke Heitger, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Legacy Band with Gregg Stafford, 6; The Preservation Hall All-Stars with Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Saenger Theatre — K. Michelle, 8 Siberia — Dead Meadow, Sunrise:Sunset, Bottomfeeders, 10 Snug Harbor — NOCCA Jazz Ensemble feat. Michael Pellera, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8

MONDAY 9 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Mark Rubin & Chip Wilson, 2; NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Smoky’s Blues Monday Jam, 9 BB King’s — BB King All-Stars feat. Stevie J. Blues, noon; BB King All-Stars feat.

Larry Johnson & Jonte Mayon, 7 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; Whitney Alouisious & Mutiny Squad, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Alexis & the Samurai, 8 d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Black Wahllets, Chopped Up Tulips, 8 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7; Crooked Vines, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Last Time Only, Amity Rose, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters with Leroy Jones, 8, 9 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Young Thug, 8 Sidney’s Saloon — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy’s Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Jazz Vipers, 10 Teddy’s Hole in the Wall — Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Joe Krown, 8

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Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Boss (R) — Melissa McCarthy plays a mogul who launches a rebrand after doing time for insider trading. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Criminal (R) — The Manchurian Candidate meets Mission: Impossible, with a soupcon of Hackers. What could go wrong? Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal The Divergent Series: Allegiant (PG-13) — Teens battle evil forces in a dystopian future, again. Slidell Elvis & Nixon (R) — Christmas, 1970: the two heartthrobs meet at the White House. Elmwood, Canal Place Everybody Wants Some!! (R) — College bros find their footing in Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused. Elmwood, Prytania, Canal Place Eye in the Sky (R) — Drone warfare has drawbacks in this thriller starring Aaron Paul and the late Alan Rickman. Broad God’s Not Dead 2 (PG) — Disappointingly, a courtroom drama and not a Christian zombie movie. Slidell, Regal Grandma’s House (NR) — A woman learns the requisite lessons about life, love and family when she moves into her grandmother’s house. Elmwood Green Room (R) — Punks go steel-toe to steel-toe with murderous neo-Nazi skinheads led by Patrick Stewart. Elmwood, West Bank, Canal Place

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Captain America: Civil War (PG-13) — Members of Hollywood’s A-list (Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johannson, Elizabeth Olsen) reunite for another round of capes and spandex.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place, Broad The Family Fang (R) — When two performance artists who are known for their practical jokes disappear, their children (Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman) set out to find them. Zeitgeist Louder Than Bombs (R) — A family grieves for its matriarch, a photojournalist who covered war, after her untimely death. Zeitgeist

Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) — Sally Field stars as a Brooklyn grandmother seeking a May-December romance. Broad A Hologram for the King (R) — In this adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel, Tom Hanks plays a businessman with an appointment in Samarra. Er, Saudi Arabia.

Elmwood, Canal Place The Huntsman: Winter’s War (PG-13) — In a frozen wasteland of sequels and reboots, a sequel and reboot about a frozen wasteland. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Hurricane on the Bayou (NR) — Director Greg MacGillivray explores Hurricane Katrina and Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands. Entergy Giant Screen Journey to Space 3D (NR) — Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) narrates a history of human space exploration. Entergy Giant Screen The Jungle Book 3D (PG) — A CGI-intense revival of the children’s story features a wild kingdom voiced by Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley and Scarlett Johansson.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Keanu (R) — Method Man plays a catnapping gangster in a slapstick offering created by comedy duo Key & Peele.

Clearview, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Miles Ahead (R) — Don Cheadle directs and stars in an embellished retelling of the life of Miles Davis. Elmwood, West Bank, Canal Place Miracles From Heaven (PG) — A child’s fatal illness is cured by mysterious means. Clearview Mother’s Day (PG-13) — At about $10 a ticket, it’s cheaper than flowers.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (PG-13) — The Portokalos clan deals with mishaps, marriage and moussaka. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (R) — The writer beloved by college freshmen is profiled through the eyes of a journalist.

Elmwood, Canal Place Ratchet & Clank (PG) — “Based on the Playstation video game franchise...”

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Remember (R) — Elderly concentration camp survivor Zev wants to find his Nazi tormentor before he lapses into dementia. Chalmette Secret Ocean 3D (NR) — Filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau explores the ocean’s food chain from phytoplankton to the largest whales. Entergy Giant Screen Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (PG13) — Their older stuff is better. Entergy Giant Screen

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Term Life (R) — Vince Vaughn tries to beat an insurance policy’s clock in the unlikely premise for this shoot-’em-up action movie. Elmwood Zootopia (PG) — Disney guns for another franchise with an animated feature about adorable talking animals (Happy Meal, anyone)? Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Agent Trouble (NR) — A museum employee uncovers a conspiracy when her animal-rights activist nephew is murdered. In French with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Friday.

Alliance Francaise (1519 Jackson Ave.) Born to Be Blue (NR) — A biopic of jazz musician Chet Baker (Ethan Hawke) deals with his love life and heroin addiction. 9:25 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Broad Come to the Garden: On Stage! (NR) — Angels and the big man upstairs appear to writer Jennifer Wilder Morgan in this mix of animation and (filmed) live action. 7 p.m.

Tuesday. Elmwood Guys and Dolls (NR) — Odd couple Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra star in the 1955 film version of this musical. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania Hello, My Name Is Frank (NR) — A hermit with Tourette’s Syndrome must navigate new surroundings when his caregiver dies. 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Chalmette The Invitation (NR) — Things turn dark when a man attends dinner at the Hollywood Hills home of his ex-wife. 8:45 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Jaws (PG) — The mechanical shark in this quintessential summer film, “Bruce,” was allegedly named for Steven Spielberg’s attorney. 8 p.m. Friday. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art The Metropolitan Opera: Elektra Encore (NR) — Soprano Nina Stemme plays the title role in a screening of this Greek-inspired opera. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Canal Place Purple Rain (R) — Honor the Purple One by catching the 1984 Prince-led dance-pop musical on the big screen.

11:55 a.m., 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday (West Bank), 12:25 p.m. and 6:55 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday (Regal), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday (Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place), 10 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday (Prytania) RiffTrax Live: Time Chasers (NR) — Writers from Mystery Science Theater 3000 snark about Time Chaser, a notoriously bad B-movie. 7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood, Regal Singin’ in the Rain (G) — Don’t worry, that guy from A Clockwork Orange isn’t in this one. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Sold (NR) — Jeffrey D. Brown’s documentary follows a 13-year-old girl’s journey through the dark world of human trafficking. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist The Wave (R) — A geologist sounds the alarm in this Norwegian thriller about a tsunami. Broad

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ALMOST TWO CENTURIES BEFORE GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES, there was a collection of 50 stories called the Pentamerone, or • Opens May 7 Tale of Tales, that first assembled the tales • Showtimes TBA later reimagined by the Brothers Grimm as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and • The Broad Theater Gretel and many others. Written by the • 626 N. Broad St. Italian poet Giambattista Basile and pub• (504) 218-1008 lished posthumously in 1634 and 1636, Tale of Tales has languished in relative obscurity • www.thebroadtheater.com due in part to the little-known Neapolitan dialect in which Basile wrote.

A new English translation of Tale of Tales — the first since 1932 — just hit bookshelves, timed to coincide with the U.S. release of award-winning Italian director Matteo Garrone’s film adaptation of Basile’s work. In the grand tradition of both literary and cinematic fairy tales, Garrone’s Tale of Tales takes many liberties with its source material. The film presents three related stories that retain the kings, queens, spellcasters and fantastic creatures of Basile’s original work yet pulls back on the fantasy.

Aimed squarely at a sophisticated adult audience, the lavish Tale of Tales generates a vibe that’s closer to magical realism than the fairy tales of old.

The film moves among the three stories and avoids the episodic structure of the literary Tale of Tales. Each story focuses on one or two female characters facing difficult circumstances in three neighboring kingdoms. The Queen of Longtrellis (Salma Hayak) is willing to risk her own life and that of her King (John C. Reilly) for the chance to bear a child. The Princess of Highhillis (Bebe Cave) only desires an appropriate husband but suffers at the hands of her negligent, distracted father and King (Toby Jones). Two elderly sisters (Shirley Henderson and Hayley Carmichael) long for lost youth and mount a dangerous deception after the lascivious King of Strongcliff (Vincent Cassel) mistakes one of them for a young maiden.

Leisurely paced and more than two hours long, Tale of Tales invites viewers to savor its lush visual details. A sea monster and a giant pet flea are handmade works of art crafted and shot without benefit of computer graphics. The film’s gorgeous settings consist mostly of real-world locations like Sicily’s stunning Alcantara Gorge and historic palaces chosen for their fairy tale-worthy aesthetics, all shot by legendary cinematographer Peter Suschitzky (Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back). The international cast — working from an English-language screenplay intended to broaden the film’s appeal — appears to relish the chance to romp in Garrone’s organic yet fanciful world.

The visuals also support the stories’ themes, which mostly explore the perils of vanity and self-obsession and repeatedly mix the sublime with the grotesque.

Tale of Tales is bawdy, violent and inappropriate for small children, even though the title of Basile’s original work — when fully translated — includes the phrase “entertainment for the little ones.” But human struggle and adult themes always lie just below the surface of the best literature for children. That’s where Garrone finds the material he needs to make these stories relevant to modern audiences — and why 400-year-old fairy tales continue to resonate even as times change.

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HAPPENINGS Steve Martin Fine Art. 624 Julia St., Julia Street art walk. New Orleans Arts (504) 566-1390; www.stevemartinfineart.

District, Galleries on Julia and Camp com — “Sex Death Unicorns,” anthropostreets and St. Charles Avenue — Galleries morphic art and installations by Midori in the Warehouse District host free openTajiri Byrd, Christa Ougel, Ben Miller, Emings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ily Lovejoy and Dee Robertson curated Tiny Rants. Antenna Gallery, 3718 St.

by Ames Bissell; opening reception with Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www. body painting 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. press-street.com/antenna — One-on-one puppet shows are part of the “I Am an ImGALLERIES portant Giant” installation. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

A Gallery for Fine Photography.

241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Black & White OPENING and Kolor,” new photographs by Elliott Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) Erwitt, ongoing.

524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., New mixed-media work by Erin Lee Gafill, (504) 524-8211; www.angelakingChristophe and Barbar Hentz; opening gallery.com — “Jazz Fest Eve,” new work reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. from Woodrow Nash and Tony Savoie, Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., through Tuesday.

(504) 525-0518; www.callancontemAntenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., porary.com — “A Basque Review,” new (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/anpaintings by Jose-Maria Cundin; opening tenna — “Looking Local: A Library of Place”; reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

“I Am an Important Giant,” through May. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobin304-0849; www.antieaugallery.com songallery.com — “House Ghosts,” new oil — “Night Flying,” new work by Chris paintings by Michael Chambers; opening Roberts-Antieau, ongoing. reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5287375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Town 3722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsuland Country,” new landscapes and New ateofmexico.blogspot.com — “Abrazada Orleans scenes by Carol Hallock; opening a Lo Efimero,” work by Sofia Rodriguez reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Fernandez, through May 14.

Hammond Regional Arts Center. 217 Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., E. Thomas St., Hammond, (985) 542(504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.

7113; www.hammondarts.org — New com — “Momentum and My Muse,” new mixed-media work by Hammond Art paintings by Aimee Farnet Siegel; “Stumps Guild artists; opening reception 5 p.m. to and Twigs,” audio and lighting experiments 8 p.m. Friday.

by Joel Scilley; both through Saturday.

May Gallery and Residency. 750 CaronClaire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., delet St., (504) 316-3474; www.may-ne(843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethworleans.org — “Trail Magique,” new work gallery.com — “Diffusion of Color,” new

by Dave Greber; opening reception 6 p.m. work by Amanda S. Fenlon and Briana to 11 p.m. Saturday, Catarino, through Thursday.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane Coup d’Oeil Art Consortium. 2033 MagaUniversity, Woldenberg Art Center, zine St., (504) 722-0876; www.coupdoeiNewcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. lartconsortium.com — “And the Beat Goes newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “First On,” paintings of musicians and installaFolio: The Book That Gave Us Shaketion by Dona Lief, through June 4. speare,” traveling exhibition of the first foCreative Alliance of New Orleans. 1307 lio; opening reception 6:30 p.m. Monday.

Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 0014 — “Honoring William ‘Willie’ White,” 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com self-taught artist Willie White retrospec— “Horizons in Space,” new paintings by tive, through June 16.

Regina Scully; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Satuday.

The Degas Gallery. 604 Julia St., (504) 826-9744; www.thedegasgallery.com — Rosetree Glass Studio. 446 Vallette St., “Jazz Fest 2016: The New Orleans PaintAlgiers, (888) 767-3873; www.rosetreeings of Isabelle Jacopin,” new work by the glass.com — “Hot Glass, Cool Jewelry,” new painter, through Thursday, and more. blown glass and jewelry by Mark Rosenbaum, Beatrix Bell and Lil McKinnon-Hicks; The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) reception 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “X,” new paintings by Patch Somerville; “PerspecSoren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., tive Perception,” mixed-media sculpture (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com

by Dan Alley; both through Sunday.

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AS WE REFLECT ON ANOTHER NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL, it can seem ironic that such an ecstatic event could have been an indirect result of • Through May 22 one of history’s most horrific episodes: the Atlantic slave trade. Without the forced • Woodrow Nash: Recent figurainteraction of such diverse cultures there tive clay sculptures would be no jazz, blues or rock music as we know it today. In 2014, the newly re• Angela King | Gallery, stored Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Lou241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; isiana opened as the first American house www.angelakinggallery.com museum to reveal what plantation life was really like. Among the historic displays are some startling contemporary clay sculptures by Woodrow Nash. Perhaps the most haunting are some life-size children who turn up in various settings like side characters in Mark Twain stories. Unlike other such museums, the Whitney elucidates the harshness of plantation life, a brutality made all the more unnerving by the vulnerable innocence of Nash’s children.

A more varied array of his works on view at the Angela King Gallery includes some sinuous lifelike figures inspired by 17th-century African styles of dress and adornment. Although rendered with hints of art nouveau and Matisse-like flourishes, their presence is as elemental as Africa itself, and the colorful glazes seen in a view of the artist and his creations (pictured) reinforce that sub-Saharan aesthetic. For instance, a sculpture of a tall, slender woman, Almitra #9, conveys the lithe grace of a Masai princess with large copper disk earrings and vibrant African fabric patterns underscoring her regal aura. A bust of a male warrior, Husani #4, sports a white glaze reminiscent of the pigments used in tribal rituals also, while highlighting the patterns etched into most of the adult figures — incised designs that suggest scarification but also probably help them survive the intense heat of the ceramic kiln. At the entrance to the gallery, a cluster of Nash’s ceramic children recalls old New Orleans’ ever-present street urchins; it doesn’t take much to imagine them as the young Louis Armstrong’s ragtag friends and playmates. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Pedestal Gallery. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 645-3864; www.pamelamarquisstudio. com — New artwork by George Williams and Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

Pelican Bomb Gallery X. 1612 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.pelicanbomb. com — “False Flags,” exhibition of international artists curated by Noah Simblist, through May 29.

Rodrigue Studio. 721 Royal St., (504) 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue.com — “Celebrating Music,” new work by George Rodrigue, through May 15.

Scott Edwards Photography Gallery.

2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Follow the Music,” photographs by Michael P. Smith; “Tuff Enough,” by Meg Turner; both through June 12.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — “Expressions of Place: The Southeastern Louisiana Landscape,” new work by Louisiana artists, through May 21.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Limited Space,” new work by William DePauw, through Sunday.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann. com — “One.Two.,” functional sculpture, jewelry and metalsmithing, through June.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “It’s Always Better With a Good DM,” multimedia work by David Colannino; “Hap-

py Trails,” mixed-media work about hair by Lizzie Agnes Derby; both through Sunday.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Becoming Imperceptible,” new work and found images by Adam Pendleton, through June 16.

The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Awash With Color: Seldom-Seen Watercolor Paintings by Louisiana Artists, 1789–1989,” and more.

Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Historic French Quarter life and 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 — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” exploration of Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy,” Carnival costume designs

by Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler, through Dec. 4, and more.

National Food & Beverage Foundation.

1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.natfab.org — “Dirty Pages: Nashville Women and the Recipes That Tell Their Stories,” ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Bob Dylan: The New Orleans Series,” paintings by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, through July, and more.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Bright Fields: the Mastery of Marie Hull” retrospective, through May 28, and more.

Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum. org/museums/the-old-us-mint — “Time Takes a Toll,” conserved instruments featuring Fats Domino’s piano, through December.

Southeastern Architectural Archive.

Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane. edu — “Medieval Louisiana,” exhibit about the region’s adoption of architectural forms, through May 20.

Williams Research Center. 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/will cent.htm — “At Home and at War: New Orleans, 1914-1919,” exhibition of artifacts relating to WW I, through Saturday.

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Primitivo 1800 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. $5 drink specials/wine special 11:30am-10pm

The Good Shop and Church Alley Coffee Bar 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Sidewalk pop-up shop until 8pm

Brady’s Wine Warehouse 1029 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Friday Night Flights, starting at $5, 5-8pm

Casa Borrega 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Alexi Marti Trio performs at 7pm

Roux Carré 2000 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Music and happy hour drinks until 8pm

Purloo 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Drink specials, 5-10pm

Charlie Boy 2043 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Sidewalk sale and discounts until 7pm

Pelican Bomb Gallery X 1612 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

False Flags Exhibit open until 9pm

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Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Free live music & drink specials Kermit Ruffins Happy Hour, 5-8pm Johnny Vidacovich, 8-11pm

Southern Food & Beverage Museum 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Make your own pasta in the demo kitchen between 5-8pm

M. Francis Gallery 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

“Passion 2 Paint” Sip and Paint Party starts at 7pm, $35 per person

Dryades Public Market 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Drink specials & small plates until 10pm

Zeitgeist Art Center 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Film screenings, Louder than Bombs at 7:30pm, The Family Fang at 9:30pm

New Orleans Tattoo Museum & Studio 1915 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Open house with artists until 9pm

Creative Alliance of New Orleans 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

3rd floor gallery, Willie White exhibit until 8pm

ShiNOLA Art Gallery & Boutique 1813 Martin Luther King Blvd.

Wine, live music & open mic until 9pm

Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Indie Lens Free Movie Pop-Up, ”Peace Officer” screening at 6pm

Blue House 1700 S. Rampart St. Meet photographer Jose Cotto, and see his Colorful Humanity exhibit until 8pm

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Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Conquer the Beauty,” new work from Bosnian and Herzegovinian artists, through Monday.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Friends and Neighbors,” painted and sewn fiber portraits by Gina Phillips; “Between the River and the Lake,” new paintings by Bonnie Maygarden; both through May 28.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988 — “Song Paintings,” new work by musician Jon Langford; “Mama’s Nightingale,” new work by Leslie Straub; both through May 28.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — Exhibition featuring gallery artists, through June 25.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “Duck Sauce,” new work from Dapper Bruce Lafitte, through Sunday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Fabric prints of New Orleans neighborhoods by Greg Giegucz; live glass sculpting demonstrations by Robert Stern; both through May. New Orleans Photo Alliance. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www. neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Mile O’ Mud,” photographs by Malcolm Lightner, through May 29.

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THEATER Don Quixote. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art — The NOLA Project adapts Cervantes’ tale of an idealistic knight and his constant companion. Visit www.nolaproject.com/shows for information. Tickets $24, $18 students and NOMA members.

7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and Sunday.

Finding the Absent Crescent. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www. playmakersinc.com — Ken Richard directs a dramedy about an unfortunate chain of events that occurs before a funeral. Tickets $20, students $10. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters. com — The musical comedy is a sendup of American office life in the 1960s. Tickets $36 and up. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Play/Write Showcase. Dillard University, Cook Theatre, 2601 Gentilly Blvd. — Goat in the Road Productions presents a showcase of student-written plays performed by adult actors from local companies. Visit www. goatintheroadproductions.org for tickets.

Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Monday.

Sea of Common Catastrophe. Catapult, 609 St. Ferdinand St. — This abstract ArtSpot Productions piece, based on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novella, is about a small town that faces a flood. Visit www.artspotproductions.com for tickets.

Tickets $10. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday.

Spamalot. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — This spoof of the Arthurian legend originally was created by the Monty Python comedy troupe. Tickets $26.50 and up. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

CABARET, BURLESQUE & VARIETY The Blue Book Cabaret. Bourbon Pub and Parade, 801 Bourbon St., (504) 529-2107;

www.bourbonpub.com — Bella Blue and a rotating cast including Darling Darla James, Nikki LeVillain, Cherry Brown and Ben Wisdom perform classic and contemporary burlesque and drag. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10.

10 p.m. Saturday.

Honor Thy Mother. Three Keys at the Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet St., (504) 900-1180; www.threekeysnola.com — San Francisco promoters Harlequeen present a collection of drag, performance art and theater acts.

Free with RSVP. 10 p.m. Thursday.

The Spice Girls: 20th Anniversary Burlesque Spectacular. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Ember Blaize, May Hemmer, Reverend Spooky Le Strange and others perform in a burlesque tribute to the Spice Girls. Admission $10, $20 VIP. 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Vice is Right. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546 — The Society of Sin’s game show-themed burlesque performance features contestants from the audience alongside performers.

Visit www.thesocietyofsin.com for details.

Tickets $8 in advance, $10 at the door. 9 p.m.

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Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www. gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Tickets $10. Visit www.thebellalounge.com for details. 9 p.m. Thursday.

DANCE Che Malambo. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St. — The New Orleans Ballet Association presents Che Malambo, an Argentinian men’s dance troupe that puts a modern twist

on traditional gaucho dances. Visit www. nobadance.com for tickets. Tickets $25.50$46.50. 8 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY All Together. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Storytellers and comedians come together for a monthly showcase.

Admission $5. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Close Me Out. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — Local storytellers share inebriated adventures.

Andrew Healan hosts. 8 p.m. Saturday.

ComedySportz. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., (504) 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Dean’s List. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green, Cyrus Cooper and Jonathan Evans perform improv. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Go Ahead. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone and Shawn Dugas host a short lineup of alternative comics. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Hell Yes Next. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Comedians compete for headlining spots at the Hell Yes Fest comedy showcase. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

Hot Sauce. Voodoo Mystere Lounge, 718 N. Rampart St., (504) 304-1568 — Vincent Zambon and Leon Blanda host a comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Thursday.

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Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon.com — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host standup with free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge. net — Andrew Polk hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Paul Rodriguez & Latin Kings of Comedy. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www.orpheumnola.com — The comic troupe’s sketches center on race and family.

Tickets $32.50-$55.50. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Stand Up or Shut Up. Black Label Icehouse, 3000 Dryades St., (504) 875-2876; www.blacklabelbbq.com — Garrett Cousino hosts an open mic. 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Stand-Up NOLA. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www.thejoytheater.com — Matt Owens hosts a rotating group of comics. 8 p.m. Friday.

Think You’re Funny?. Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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A REVOLUTION STIRS AS PEOPLE TIRE of being broke and REVIEW held captive by their government. It’s a faraway place that seems familiar in The Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: The Situation, staged recently by Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater at the Mudlark Public Theatre.

Written and directed by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann, the show features a series of vignettes that come fast and hit like gut punches. Actors play multiple unnamed characters and wear intricately crafted large-scale puppet masks and figures while exploring the decline of Western civilization. Some acts critique capitalism and labor economies. Visually, the piece is stunning — loud, boisterous and overtly political. The combined storytelling and visuals could be described as the inside of a left-leaning sociology professor’s head during an acid trip.

But even with its many set pieces and props, the story is skillfully organized and told.

Theater can raise awareness of issues such as inequality and abuse, and some shows use realism to confront gritty conditions.

But this one employs absurdity to critique institutions. Audience members are told there is a “situation,” which is constantly being defined — it’s everything and nothing — and redefined. This technique disrupts the familiar in order to turn ideas upside down.

Big band numbers help with transitions, and these playful toe-tapping interludes underscore the narrative and help control the show’s energy. There are spirited songs (a polka about banks) and dark ones (bemoaning the death of civilization). Music can PH OTO BY TO M CU N N I N G HAM unite people, and there’s a moment when the audience is asked to serve as a makeshift choir. These scenes come together beautifully, but the show’s strength is the company’s masterful puppetry.

Crafted from papier-mache and cardboard, puppets range in size from small hand-size figures to towering stone monuments. Sometimes company members wear puppet heads that cover their bodies. The puppets often have wild faces, some look like animated tree bark and there’s a giant rhinoceros — all of which is unsettling, funny and thrilling.

The vignettes are organized by an associative quality. Connected threads offer commentary on economics and inequality, but the structured chaos allows the audience to draw its own conclusions. The trajectory takes a turn when the show’s message gets heavy-handed. Characters urge the audience to wake up, see what’s going on and do something about it, but the production stops short of suggesting the next step. There’s a call for change, but no thoughts on how to achieve it.

Although the end is unsatisfying, The Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: The Situation is a mesmerizing production from an exciting and daring theater company. — TYLER GILLESPIE

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TUESDAY 3 Move Ya Brass Exercise Series. Mandeville Wharf at Crescent Park, Elysian Fields at the Mississippi River; www.nola. gov/city/crescent-park — An outdoor fitness series incorporates Zumba and bounce music. Free. 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Valence Cemetery Clean-Up. Valence Street, between Freret and Liberty streets — Save Our Cemeteries sponsors a clean-up outing at and around Valence Cemetery. The group will clip vegetation and clean up trash. Call (504) 525-3377 or email soc@saveourcemeteries.org to register. 9 a.m. to noon.

WEDNESDAY 4 Bow Tie Bash. Il Mercato Restaurant, 1911 Magazine St., (504) 827-2400 — CrescentCare’s gala, which includes music, food, drinks and a creative bowtie contest, benefits the Food for Friends meal program for HIV and cancer patients.

Visit www.crescentcarehealth.org for information. Tickets $75. 6:30 p.m.

Creative Grind. The Rook Cafe, 4516 Freret St., (618) 520-9843 — Designers, artists and writers meet to share work and offer feedback. Visit www.neworleans.aiga.org/event/creative-grind for details. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Free Speech: The Foundation for All Liberty. Metairie Park Country Day, 300 Park Road, Metairie, (504) 837-5204 — Author Greg Lukianoff discusses free speech in contemporary American culture. Free and open to the public. 6 p.m.

Shoeboxus. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8201; www.

4321saintclaude.com — The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus’ “May the Fourth” celebration is a parade of sci-fi themed micro-floats, followed by an after-party.

Visit www.chewbacchus.org for details and information on marching with the parade. 7 p.m.

Soiree d’Or. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www. orpheumnola.com — The Historic New Orleans Collection celebrates its 50th anniversary with a black-tie gala. Visit www.hnoc.org/50thanniversarygala to register. Tickets $175, $275 for patron party. 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday at the Square. Lafayette Square, 601 S. Maestri Place — The Wednesday concert series features New Orleans musicians, food, drinks and arts and crafts.

Proceeds benefit the Young Leadership Council. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 5 Homebrewing 101. Recirculating Farms Coalition, 1750 Carondelet St., (504) 507-0357 — Second Line Brewing staff members teach a short introductory class on homebrewing. Free with RSVP. 6 p.m.

Jazz in the Park. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St. — A weekly concert series features musical performances, craft vendors and concessions from local restaurants. Free admission. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

VSNO Social Run. Varsity Sports, 3450 Magazine St., (504) 899-4144; www. varsityrunning.com — Runners meet for a 3- to 6-mile run, followed by a social hour. 6 p.m.

WACNO Pub Nite. Brady’s Wine Warehouse, 1029 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 622-1488; www.bradyswinewarehouse.com — The World Affairs Council discusses international affairs and foreign policy over wine. RSVP recommended; visit www.wacno.org. Suggested donation $10. 6 p.m.

World War II Discussion Group. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Historian Brian Altobello hosts a monthly group for history buffs. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 6 First Fridays on the Boulevard. Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard — The Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Merchants Association hosts an evening market with music, food, art activities and discounts at neighborhood businesses. 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Suits and Salads Luncheon. Empire Ballroom, Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., (504) 561-1234; www. neworleans.hyatt.com — Lauren LeBlanc, founder of Fleurty Girl, is the keynote speaker at this luncheon and fashion show that benefits Dress for Success New Orleans. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@dressforsuccess.org to purchase tickets. Tickets start at $85. 11 a.m.

Whitney Zoo-To-Do. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629 — The blacktie gala and fundraiser features food and drinks from New Orleans restaurants, live music, a silent auction and a raffle for a luxury car. Visit www.audubonnatureinstitute.org/ztd to purchase tickets. Tickets $175. 7 p.m. to midnight.

SATURDAY 7 All-You-Can-Eat Community Crawfish Boil. Pride of Algiers Masonic Lodge 102, 922 Teche St., (504) 367-8766 — At this fundraiser, a crawfish boil benefits Old Algiers Main Street Corporation and Pride of Algiers Booster Club. Tables provided; bring your own chair. Call Karri Maggio at (504) 908-8476 for tickets. Tickets $25 advance, $30 at the gate, children under 6 free. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. Visit www.sttammanyartassociation.org for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Crawfish Mambo. The University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6000; www.uno.edu — UNO International Alumni Association hosts the crawfish cook-off. There’s live music and all-you-can-eat crawfish. Admission $20 in advance, $25 at the door, kids free.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Critter Cinema. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www. la-spca.org — Kids enjoy movies and pizza in the company of cats and dogs. Call (504) 368-5191, ext. 207 or email erica@ la-spca.org for more information. Pre-registration required. Admission $35. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Derby on Fulton. Fulton Street at Poydras Street — Fulton Street businesses salute the Kentucky Derby with a block party.

Free admission. 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Fleur de Physicals. Yulman Stadium, Ben Weiner Drive, (504) 861-9283; www. yulmanstadium.com — Tulane’s Institute of Sports Medicine offers free sports physicals for students in 6th grade and up. Contact Anne Summer at Amyers6@ tulane.edu or (504) 988-8468 for details.

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Hammond Spring Coin Show. Knights of Columbus Hall, 1700 N. Oak Street, Hammond — Local and regional coin dealers meet to display and sell coins and discuss issues related to coin collecting. Free admission. Visit www.crescentcitycoinclub. org for details. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Jane Jacobs’ Walk. Cafe Luna, 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www. facebook.com/cafeluna504 — Architect Marilyn Feldmeier leads a walk and discussion of urban corridors. Visit www. janejacobswalk.org for information. 9 a.m.

La Brocante de l’Alliance Francaise.

Alliance Francaise, 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org — There are games, face painting, raffles and food trucks at the Alliance Francaise’s rummage and white elephant sale. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Magazine Street Champagne Stroll.

Magazine Street — The Magazine Street Merchants Association presents its annual block party. Local retailers and restaurants host live music, offer complimentary champagne and small plates, and hold trunk shows and sales. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Mellow Brew Fest. Mellow Mushroom, 1645 Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 3275407; www.mellowmushroom.com — A homebrew competition, pop-up beer garden, crawfish boil and concert benefit the St. Tammany Humane Society. Visit www. mellowbrewfest.com for tickets. Tickets $20 advance, $25 at the gate. 4 p.m.

NOLA Veggie Fest. Kingsley House, 1600 Constance St., (504) 523-6221; www. kingsleyhouse.org — The celebration of vegetarian cuisine has musical performances, vendors, product samples, speakers, pet adoptions, cooking demos, a silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit the Humane Society of Louisiana. Visit www.nolaveggiefest.com for details. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

NOVO Garage and Bake Sale. St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church, 7100 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-9514; www.scabc.org — Baked goods and gently used household items are sold at a rummage sale that

benefits the New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Pink Bra 5K Fun Run. Algiers Levee across from Old Point Bar, 545 Patterson St., Algiers Point — Krewe De Pink hosts a 5K race that benefits Tulane Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Pink bras and attire encouraged. Visit www.krewedepink.com for information.

Registration $25 and up. 10 a.m.

Southern Hills AquaFest. Abita Springs Museum & Trailhead, Tammany Trace, Abita Springs, (985) 892-3597 — The inaugural festival celebrating the aquifer that provides water for St. Tammany Parish includes music, arts and crafts, nonprofits, activist groups, food and beverages. Free admission. 4 to 9 p.m.

Tania Bruguera. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu — The activist and artist speaks about being detained in Cuba for a political art installation and about the application of art to everyday life. 11 a.m.

Zumba in the Park. The Peristyle, City Park, 1 Palm Drive — Rain-or-shine Zumba classes are held. Free. 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.

SUNDAY 8 Mother’s Day at the Zoo. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629 — The zoo’s celebration features a performance

by Irma Thomas, food, craft vendors, art, family activities and access to zoo exhibits. Free with zoo admission: $19.95 ages 13-64, $14.95 ages 2-12 and seniors, mothers free. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mother’s Day Brunch. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — The inaugural Mother’s Day brunch features a sit-down meal, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Newcomb pottery collection, a preview of two museum exhibitions and copies of the book The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery. RSVP to museum@ tulane.edu. Tickets $75. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Rooms in a Row: A Shotgun Tour. Jean Baptiste Lang House, 605 Carroll St., Mandeville — Preservationists and volunteer docents lead Mother’s Day tours of six historic homes, including the Lang House and the Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Jazz Hall. Tickets $20, $12 students. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Zulu on the Bayou. Bayou St. John at Orleans Avenue — The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club hosts the inaugural Mother’s Day festival, with music performances, arts and crafts including official Zulu items, food and a closing second line to Zulu headquarters. Free admission.

11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

MONDAY 9 Ashley Kelly Swim Program. Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2011; www.loyno.edu — Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation holds a week of swim classes for children over age 5 and adults. The classes focus on basic techniques and water safety. Bring a towel. Free; registration at www.saveourlake. org required. 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers

Carolyn Hembree. Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www. thecolumns.com — The poet and UNO professor reads from Rigging a Chevy Into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Claudia Gray. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The New Orleans-based author discusses Star Wars: Bloodline. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Craig Bennett Hallenstein. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www. pearlwineco.com — The author reads from and signs The Dolphin. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Emile Henriquez. Swap Boutique, 7716 Maple St., (504) 304-6025; www.swapboutique.com — The author and illustrator signs his children’s book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Free Comic Book Day. Crescent City Comics, 4916 Freret St., (504) 891-3796; www. crescentcitycomics.com — The store gives away special-edition comics from Marvel, DC, Bongo, Boom! and others. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.

Independent Bookstore Day. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The store hosts a daylong celebration of independent bookstores, including a scavenger hunt, book swap and cocktail hour. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Independent Bookstore Day. Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, 631 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 491-9025; www.facebook. com/tubbyandcoos — The store presents book activities, giveaways and special merchandise created by sci-fi and fantasy authors for Independent Bookstore Day. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Julia Reed. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs Julia Reed’s South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All Year Long. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Katarina Bivald. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www. octaviabooks.com — The author discusses and signs The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Reading Between the Wines. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — At this month’s meeting of the informal literary salon, attendees discuss writing about New Orleans and the use of New Orleans as a setting. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Spring Poetry Workshop with Valentine Pierce. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 596-2667 — New Orleans poet and performer Valentine Pierce leads a five-part poetry workshop for adults. Novice and experienced writers are encouraged to attend. 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Vincent LoCoco. American Italian Cultural Center, 537 S. Peters St., (504) 522-7294; www.americanitalianculturalcenter.com — The local author of historical Italian fiction discusses his stories. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Winston Groom. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5281944; www.nationalww2museum.org — The historian and author of Forrest Gump presents The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall and the Winning of World War II. A wine and cheese reception is followed by a talk and book signing. RSVP online or by calling (504) 528-1944, ext. 412. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday.

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local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. See www. marketumbrella.org for times, days and locations.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook. com/crispfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details.

8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, (504) 361-1822 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits and vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.growdatyouthfarm.org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037 — The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market. Old Algiers Harvest Fresh Market, 922 Teche St., Algiers, (504) 362-0708; www.oldalgiersharvestfreshmarket.com — Produce and seafood are available for purchase. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.

Rivertown Farmers Market. Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, preserves and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday.

Sankofa Mobile Market Sunday. New Israel Baptist Church, 6322 St. Claude Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden.

9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego, (504) 341-9083; www.cityofwestwego. com/content/westwego-farmers-market — The monthly Westbank market offers produce, eggs, pickles, baked goods, art, live music and pony rides. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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The Besh Restaurant Group is seeking experienced, talented and enthusiastic front of house and back of house candidates to join their teams at Bayou Bar, The Caribbean Room, Hot Tin and Silver Whistle at the famed Pontchartrain Hotel.

To apply, please visit beshgroup.compeatonboard.com.

The Pontchartrain Hotel is looking for intuitive, passionate associates to work at the soon-to-open Garden District Gem. To apply, please visit http://thepontchartrainhotel.com/careers/

Planned Parenthood is looking for motivated and enthusiastic people to join our healthcare team. Full & Part-time available.

Medical experience a plus, but not required.

Apply at www.ppgulfcoast.org

MUSIC/MUSICIANS LOUISIANA RED HOT RECORDS

$25-$45K PT/FT (a) Bookkeeper/admin asst; (b) Marketing/Graphics/Web. Email resume to: louisianaredhotrecords@gmail.com

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Broussard’s is looking for individuals who want to help create an incredible dining experience.

Successful applicants will be able to learn quickly, have an eye for detail, a great attitude and a smile to match.

Applicants with a proven upscale dining work history should send resume to alicial@creolecuisine.com Integrity - Commitment - Generosity - Fun 819 Rue Conti • New Orleans

IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR A FULL TIME ASSISTANT TO THE FURNITURE BUYER. THE IDEAL CANDIDATE MUST BE A TEAM PLAYER WHO IS PROFESSIONAL, DETAIL AND RESULT ORIENTED, FLEXIBLE AND ORGANIZED. APPLY IN PERSON. HURWITZ MINTZ FURNITURE, 1751 AIRLINE DR, 70001 WWW.HURWITZMINTZ.COM

NAVY EXCHANGE (BELLE CHASSE, LA)

We are always looking for additions to our wonderful team! Hospice volunteers are special people who make a difference in the lives of patients and families affected by terminal illness. Interested in a future medical career? Get on our exciting new track!

Many physicians and nurses receive their first taste of the medical field at Canon.

To become a hospice volunteer, call Paige at 504-818-2723 Ext. 3006

EXPERIENCED CASHIER

Hurwitz Mintz has an immediate opening for a full time cashier with previous retail experience. Candidate must be professional, detail oriented, flexible with good communicative skills. Some nights and weekends are required. Apply in person 1751 Airline Dr, Metairie, LA (504) 378-1000.

RIDING INSTRUCTORS & TRAIL GUIDES

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Picture Perfect Properties 1228 BOURBON UNIT D NEW PRICE! $498,500 This Freestanding condo features Two Bedrooms, One & One Half Baths, a Private Courtyard with Storage, a Roof-Top Deck with views of the French Quarter and CBD, top-of-the-line Appliances, Brick Floors, Surround Sound, and Security System all in a structure less than one decade old. Life in the Big Easy just got even easier.

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The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold public meetings in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. These meetings will provide BOEM an opportunity to solicit comments from Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments, and from interested citizens and organizations. Comments will be used to prepare the Final Multisale Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas Lease Sales 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, and 261 in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

The proposed GOM lease sales are part of the proposed 2017-2022 Five-Year Program.

The public meetings are scheduled as follows: Beaumont, Texas: Monday, May 9, 2016, Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Beaumont-Plaza, 3950 I-10 South at Walden Road, Beaumont, Texas 77705, beginning at 4:30 p.m. CDT; New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, May 12, 2016, Sheraton Metairie – New Orleans Hotel, 4 Galleria Boulevard, Metairie, Louisiana 70001, one meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT;

ANNOUNCEMENTS Adopt: Adopting a newborn baby and becoming a mom is my dream. Loving, safe home awaits. Please call text Maria 516-3161191 exp paid.

ATTENTION Allday Consulting Group Certified Public Accountants & Consultants ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR LAW FIRMS Need help with managing the finances for your law firm?

Mobile, Alabama: Wednesday, May 18, 2016, Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel, 64 South Water Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602, one meeting beginning at 4:30 p.m. CDT; and

We also prepare personal and business tax return.

Gulfport, Mississippi: Thursday, May 19, 2016, Courtyard by Marriott, Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel, 1600 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501, one meeting beginning at 4:30 p.m. CDT.

References available.

Danny Allday, CPA Allday Consulting Group, LLC Law Firm Accounting Specialist QuickBooks & Cosmolex Certified Consultants www.AlldayCPA.com Northshore (985) 871-4963 New Orleans (504) 835-4213

CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS GARAGE/BAKE SALE

7100 St. Charles Ave., Saturday, May 07, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Benefits New Orleans Volunteer Orchestra @ St. Charles Ave. Baptist Church. Donations of lightly used items accepted. Email donate@NOVOrchestra.com

LEGAL NOTICES If you cannot attend the public meetings for the Draft Multisale EIS for proposed GOM Lease Sales 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, and 261, you may submit written comments within 45 days following the publication of the Notice of Availability of the Draft 2017-2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale EIS in the Federal Register in one of the following ways: 1. In an envelope labeled “Comments on the 2017-2022 GOM Multisale EIS” and mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM 623E), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394; 2. Through the regulations.gov web portal: Navigate to http://www.regulations.gov and search for “2017-2022 GOM Multisale EIS”. (Note: It is important to include the quotation marks in your search terms.) Click on the “Comment Now!” button to the right of the document link. Enter your information and comment, then click “Submit”; or 3. BOEM email address: multisaleeis2017-2022@boem.gov.

BOEM does not consider anonymous comments; please include your name and address as part of your submittal. BOEM makes all comments, including the names and addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that BOEM withhold their names and/or addresses from the public record; however, BOEM cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. If you wish your name and/or address to be withheld, you must state your preference prominently at the beginning of your comment. All submissions from organizations or businesses and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses will be made available for public inspection in their entirety.

If you have questions, please call Mr. Gary D. Goeke at 504-736-3233.

Anyone having any information concerning the whereabouts of James A. Hayes or Lynette Benoit Hayes, please contact Lori A. Noto at (504) 512-0611.”

Anyone having the any information concerning the whereabouts of Rachel Watkins and/or Constance Hebert, please contact Lori A. Noto at (504) 512-0611.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., executed

by Rogers Riley and Giselle Holmes, and dated July 26, 2006, in the principal sum of $120,000.00, bearing interest at the rate of 8.375 % percent from the dated until paid, ad providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same. Please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Kenneth J. Triche &/or Joan Farnell Triche a/k/a Joan Earl , please contact Atty Valerie Fontaine, 985-893-3333-Property Rights Involved.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the estate of Joseph C. Faulk contact Attorney Rudy Gorrell at 504-553-9588.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of William Keith Holden, please contact attorney Micahel A. McNulty, Jr. at 504 522-2889.

Carol Jackson Hill, or anyone knowing her whereabouts, contact McBride & Russell Law Firm at 504-233-8112.

If you know the whereabouts of Eric B. Williams, please contact the Law Office of Mark D. Spears, Jr., LLC at 504-347-5056.

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Fort Polk has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Elimination of Trespass Horses at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

The EA and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FNSI) are being made available on May 4, 2016 for a 30-day public review and comment period ending on June 2, 2016. A copy of the EA and Draft FNSI is available on-line at http://www.jrtc-polk.army.mil/ trespass_horses.html or may be requested by contacting the JRTC and Fort Polk Public Affairs Office at the number and address below. Comments must be postmarked or received within the 30-day comment period. Copies of the EA and Draft FNSI are also available at the following libraries: Beauregard Parish Library, 205 South Washington Avenue, DeRidder; Rapides Parish Library, 411 Washington Street, Alexandria; Vernon Parish Library, 1401 Nolan Trace, Leesville; and Sabine Parish Library, 705 W. Main Street, Many.

Please address questions or comments to: Public Affairs Office, 7033 Magnolia Drive, Building 4919, Fort Polk, LA 71459-5342; or email: usarmy.polk.imcom.mbx.pao-public-response@mail.mil.

A copy of the Final EA and Decision will be provided to anyone who requests a copy, either in their comment or thereafter.

SALE BY CONSTABLE JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENT 2007 CHEVROLET At auction by Constable on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 from Rudy Smith Service, Inc., 425 N. Claiborne Ave., this city, in the matter entitled SYSTEMS & SERVICES TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AS AUTHORIZED SERVICING AGENT FOR WHITE COAST TRUST vs CHAKANDRA REESE First City Court for the Parish of Orleans Case No. 2015-03187

By Writ of Fieri Facias: Year: 2007 Make/Model: Chevrolet Impala Serial No.: 2G1WT58N079233819 Seized in the above suite, Terms: CASH ON THE SPOT Atty: Edward F. Bukaty Gambit: May 3, 2016 The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a deposit of 10% of the purchase price and the balance by 4:00 pm same day.

Lambert C. Boissiere, Jr. Constable, Parish of Orleans Gambit: 05/03/16

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Panama City, Florida: Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Bay Point Golf Resort and Spa, 4114 Jan Cooley Drive, Panama City Beach, Florida 32408, one meeting beginning at 4:30 p.m. CDT;

Our bookkeepers can help you with managing your accounts receivable (billings and collections), accounts payable (paying bills), payroll, bank and trust account management and reconciliation, accounting, financial statements.

Anyone knowing the whereabout of TROY SMITH and/or CAROLYN GAUNTT SMITH, please contact Patricia R. Bonneau, Attorney, at 633 N. Lotus Drive, Mandeville, LA 70471, (985) 966-9000.

NOTICES

BOEM Announces Public Meetings for the Draft Multisale Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales for 2017-2022

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HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4 BR, 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.

NOTICE:

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

RIVER FRONT UPSCALE TOWN HOUSE

Spacious 1700 Sqft. 2BR, 2.5 BA. Walk-in closets, balcony, washer/dryer. Secured Parking. Internet, health club, pool! $2,000 monthly. Call 781-608-6115.

ESPLANADE RIDGE 2 BLOCKS TO JAZZ FEST

2 BR / 1 BA, LR, Kit w/ appliances, Off Street Parking, washer/dryer hookups. 1545 Crete St. $825/ mo. Call/Text 504-874-4330.

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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BROADMOOR FRENCH QUARTER LUXURY

Furnished Apts $2,400-$3,200/mo. Washer/Dryer. Off street parking available for $250. 60 days min.

(504) 247-6736 bkdla@aol.com Bryan

4223 EDEN ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125

3 BR/1.5 BA Absolutely adorable, super fresh + clean cottage w excellent floorplan; central air + heat; oak strip hardwood flooring (heart pine in kitchen) throughtout; covered ceilings vintage bathroom in excellent condition; brand new granite kitchen countertops, cabinets + backsplash; long driveway for several cars in tandem; large fenced backyard w cement pad for extra car storage or entertaining; storage shed; termite contract; roof approximately 5 years old. For Sale by Agent/ Broker, $275K, Colette Meister (504) 2201762. therealtormeister@gmail.com

MISSISSIPPI PORT GIBSON, MS 39510

509 Church St. ~ McDougall House 1820’s Historic, Renovated Greek Revival Raised Cottage 5 beds/3 baths, pool. $185,000 1201 Church St. ~ Anderson House 3 beds/3.5 baths, Studio apt + bldg w/4 beds/4 baths. Used as B&B. $195,000 1207 Church St. ~ On National Register Re-creation of Antebellum Mansion 6 beds/4baths + 2 bed Carriage House. $395,000 Call Realtor Brenda Roberts Ledger-Purvis Real Estate 601-529-6710

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT HARAHAN/RIVER RIDGE RIVER RIDGE DUPLEX

3 BR/2 BA 1100 sq ft. Full kitchen with new appliances. $1150 per month. No pets, no smoking. Tenant pays utilities. (225) 572-7459.

HISTORIC MARIGNY RENOVATION CORNER OF FRANKLIN & RAMPART

2BR/1BA Upper Unit. 1380 sqft of open living space. Entertainer’s Dream featuring an additional 900 sqft private rooftop garden w/ wrap-around balcony, stunning city views. Beautiful hdwd floors, New A/C, S/S appliances. Includes W/D water pd. $2200/mo. A must see!

Contact Kelleye Rhein (504) 975-0649, Keller Williams Realty New Orleans.

$1900 / 2BR LARGE ELEGANT CORNER APT. IN MARIGNY

840 Mandeville St. Charming restoration of large two-story, seven-room corner apt in the eclectic Faubourg Marigny. Great location across from Who Dat coffee shop. Walk to night life on Frenchmen, restaurants, Crescent Park, St. Roch Market, easy access to St. Claude corridor. Three mantles, exposed brick, 12-ft ceil’s, tiled bath w sep tub & shower, enclosed lndry closet, W/D. Hdwd flrs, built-in bookcases, dishwasher, new refrig & stove. Alarm syst, cent air/heat, ceil fans. No smokrs, cats OK, dogs negotiable.

Contact Michael at: shadow@well.com

LAKEFRONT

OLD METAIRIE HOUSE TO SHARE

Private home near Metairie Rd. $400/mo inclds util & some use of kit. Refs & dep. Avail now. Call 504-473-3296. Seminary students welcome.

OLD METAIRIE 1&2 BDRM. APTS SPARKLING POOL & BIKE PATH

New granite in kit & bath. 12 x 24ft lr, King Master w/wall of closets. Furn Kit. Laundry on premises. Offst pkg. NO PETS. O/A, $724-$848/mo. 504-236-5776.

LARGE ATTRACTIVE APT

Newly Renovated 2BR, 2BA w/appls.

Beautiful balcony & courtyard setting w/ swimming pool. Quiet neighborhood. $1,000/mo. Call 504-756-7347.

MID CITY 3120 PALMYRA ST,.

Completely renov, 1/2 dbl w/ 1BR, 1BA, hdwd flrs, new appls, ceil fans, water pd. No Pets. $800/mo+dep. Call 504-899-5544.

4228 ORLEANS AVE.

1/2 Two Story Dble 2BR, 1 BA, LR, DR, Renov Kitchen with New appliances, central air/heat, not pets. Off St. Pkg. $2100 mo. + 1 mo dep & 1yr lease. Call (225) 802-6554 or email: rlea18939@gmail.com

UPTOWN/ GARDEN DISTRICT 1026 SONIAT STREET

2 BR/1.5 BA, Camelback Double. Newly renovated; furnished kitchen, washer/dryer.

2 year lease. No pets. $2,250/mo.

(504) 899-2386.

2 BLKS TO AUDUBON PARK

508 Henry Clay, 2BR, 1 BA, LR, DR, Kit with appl, HDWD flrs, High ceilings, Sunroom.

Washer/Dryer Hookups. Off Street Parking, $1200. 504-874-4330.

3219 PRYTANIA STREET A

2 bed/1.5 ba, walk-in closet, liv, din, kit, appls, wood flrs, hi ceils, balcony, cen a/h, security, off-street parking, pool privileges. $1,650.

CALL 504-813-8186 or 504-274-8075

NOLA SHORT TERM FURNISHED

4810 St. Charles Av-Fab renovated upper floor $3750mo. All incl 24-hr security patrols WiFi 2BR/2BA Laundry JEAN HUNN RE/MAX N O Properties 504-232-3570 Ea ofc ind owned & oper 864-2329 www.HunnProperties.com

SPACIOUS UPTOWN UPPER

3 BR/ 1 BA, Newly Renovated, Ctrl A/H, Hi Clgs, Wd Flrs, Porch, Range, MW, DW, Ref, W/D; see more online; $1,750/mo nolapurple@gmail.com

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT/ RENTALS TO SHARE ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. IRISH CHANNEL ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $175/week. 2 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT WAREHOUSE APT / W PARKING

1 BR/ 1 BA, 760 SF 1 designated off-street parking spot. All appliance include w/d.

Water/incl. Dogs welcome. $1,600/mo. (504) 669-4503.

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TRASHING, HAULING & STUMP GRINDING Call (504) 292-0724

PETS BUYING OLD RECORDS

Buying vinyl records. Albums (LP’s), 45’s and 78’s. Contact me at 504-329-5781 or via email at kullconanhunts@gmail.com Antique Chair; Mink Jacket (1/4 length sleeves); Antique Quilts; Beautiful Feminine Dresses ($30 ea.). Call 504-455-9522.

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Vintage, very heavy cast iron. Porcelain in good condition, smooth interior, no rust.

Clean, with fixtures. Price negotiable.

(504) 258-0698.

PET SITTING GOD’S PAWS

I am an animal lover. I look after only a couple animals at a time. I live in Lakeview with plenty of space. Overnight stays also.

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FLOWERS/PLANTS GREENHOUSES!

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ZENA

Kennel #A21354186

Zena is a 8-year-old, spayed, Short Coat Chihuahua mix. At just 7 lbs, this little lady is a wonderful lap warmer but also loves to prance along next to you and help you with whatever task you’re focused on. Zena is very sweet with an average activity level and is great with other dogs. Receive 50% off my adoption fee by mentioning I’m Pet of the Week!

CAT CHAT Trixie Trixie is desperately seeking a new home after her previous owner passed away. Trixie is sad and lonely not getting that one-on-one care she once had. Can you open your heart and home to Trixie? Fill out a pre-adopt form at Spaymart.org or call our Spaymart Thrift Shop & Adoption Center at 504-454-8200 with any questions.

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OZZEY

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Ozzey is a 4-year-old, neutered, Domestic Shorthair mix. After being brought to the shelter by a previous owner, Ozzey was slow to warm up to people, but has since made great progress and now loves to beg for chin scratches. He enjoys a warm spot in the sun and loves to greet people who visit him. Receive 50% off my adoption fee by mentioning I’m Pet of the Week!

To meet these or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun., call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

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