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Outdoor Experience JAZZ VOCALIST NAYO JONES LEADS her band, the Nayo Jones Experience, in an outdoor show at Paradigm Gardens at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 21. The urban garden will offer food by chef Chris Hayes of The Smoking Oyster and beverages including juices and soft drinks. Guests can bring their own alcohol. Concert tickets are $30-$35 (food not included) on eventbrite.com.

forward The 48 Hour Film Project is Oct. 23-25

BY WILL COVIELLO THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT USUALLY

happens amid film and TV production in New Orleans. Last year, actor Jef Figallo went from a major studio’s film set to join his team to make a seven-minute film in less than 48 hours.

“I just shot background in ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music,’ ” Figallo says. “I was in a scene in Vienna — in Mozart’s time — and I was in all this makeup and working on four hours sleep, so I wasn’t there to be hands-on (at the start of the competition). I found out that someone who was supposed to write the script for us wrote herself into the film.”

This year, extra obstacles are coming from the coronavirus shutdown and reopening as major film and TV crews get back to work. Teams have had to reset as the competition, postponed from late July, will run Friday, Oct. 23, to Sunday, Oct. 25.

In the competition, teams have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a film. At the kick-off, teams get a prop, a line of dialogue and a character name which must be included in the movie. Each team also must work in a genre that they draw out of a hat, such as sci-fi, romantic comedy or road film. This year, the drawing is virtual and teams can submit their final work electronically.

The coronavirus has forced teams to adapt, but many participants have already had practice. There have been several short film competitions during the shutdowns.

Figallo and Ashley Landrieu made a short film about stunt people trying to stay in practice during the pandemic.

Their eight-minute film, “Quarantraining,” won Best Comedy at the Blu-Hill Film Festival. In it, a woman who works as a film stunt person challenges her brother to try to keep up with her in a training session, and some stage fighting mishaps spin the rivalry into a comic romp.

Figallo is preparing to shoot his team’s 48 Hour film on an iPhone 11, use improvised dialogue and work with a team of only five people.

Hunter McGregor has competed in many 48 Hour Film Projects and did a pandemic challenge with two others.

“Soulmates” is their “Exorcist”-inspired comedy in which a priest feels convinced a woman is possessed by a demon when she hisses in a distorted

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guttural voice that her go-to karaoke song is Celine Dion’s “All By Myself.”

One actor worked remotely as a second priest who dials into an unsuccessful exorcism attempt via a smartphone app.

Actress Michele Bousquet’s team won the Audience Award and Best Writing in last year’s New Orleans 48 Hour competition for a whimsical Western set in Marigny called “Ride to Destiny.”

Some scenes were shot in bars and had many short cameos on the street. She says she finds it easier to write a script within the competition’s constraints, and adding pandemic limitations just helps focus the project.

The 48 Hour Film Project is global, with more than 120 city competitions.

The winners of overall Best Film from each city go on to the annual Filmapalooza competition.

The New Orleans competition usually features roughly 60 teams of professional and amateur filmmakers. So far, there are 16 teams competing this year.

Locals will be able to view finished films from the New Orleans competition online. Dates have not been finalized, but in early- and mid-November there will be screenings of completed films and then a second presentation of award winners.

Many local participants work in the film industry or with independent production companies, which work on everything from feature films to music videos, training films and commercials.

Sean Gerowin’s Backyard Shed Films productions team competes every year.

Early during the pandemic, it was able

P H OTO P R OV I D E D B Y MICHELE BOUSQUET

Filmmakers shoot a scene of the comic Western ‘Ride to Destiny’ in Marigny’s The Friendly Bar in 2019.

to take advantage of the shutdowns.

On multiple occasions, the team filmed scenes on empty streets, which on its typically low budgets it could not afford to have closed down for a shoot.

It was able to film a sort of idyllic scene of a man all by himself on the downtown Riverfront.

Backyard Shed will compete with close to 20 members like it did last year, but the lineup has changed as some participants who have been out of work during the pandemic had to take gigs as film crews have resumed work. Backyard Shed also is working with New Orleans coronavirus regulations and team members’ concerns.

“We had a Zoom (production) meeting,” Gerowin says. “We sent out questionnaires to see what everyone was comfortable with. Half said they’re comfortable with physical distancing, and about a quarter want to be remote.

One of the actors is only comfortable at their house and said we could film outside or from a distance, and that can work if you weave it into the story.

Another actor may be able do a Zoom call or film something and send it to us.”

Visit 48hourfilm.com/neworleans/48hfp for more information and to view past films.

OUTGAZE FILM FESTIVAL, celebrating films with feminist themes, hosts its first edition virtually, Wednesday, Oct. 21, through Saturday, Oct. 31. Outgaze screens three feature-length films paired with a selection of shorts through the platform Seed & Spark. Features include Iranian director Suzan Iravanian’s “Leakage”; “Scheherazade’s Diary,” director Zeina Daccache’s documentary about female inmates in Lebanon’s Baabda Prison staging a theatrical production; and Louisiana filmmaker Adam Sekuler’s documentary “36 Hours.” Outgaze also hosts online panels and Q&As with participating filmmakers. All films and events are free. Visit outgazefilmfestival.org for information.

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SINGER JOHN BOUTTE was a regular performer at d.b.a. before the pandemic. He returns to the Frenchmen Street venue for a live-streamed show at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23. Find the link on stageit.com/dbalive.

Podcast and crew THE NOLA PROJECT RELEASES THE FIRST in a series of original radio play dramas downloadable as podcasts. James Bartelle’s “Alien Status” turns immigration issues on their head in a comedic drama in which extraterrestrials busk on New Orleans’ streets and government agents are on the lookout for suspicious behavior. It’s available Wednesday, Oct. 21, on nolaproject.com.

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Cantrell last week tweeted that the Saints’ request for a special exception to allow 20,000 people into the stadium was still under consideration, but the city won’t commit to a timeline unless public health data shows New Orleans, an early coronavirus hotspot, is ready.

U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $2.79 million grant to STEM NOLA, a New Orleans program that designs and hosts science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in area schools. STEM NOLA plans to use the grant to extend STEM programs to the families of those serving in the military and to low-income students of color and underrepresented communities in the Gulf South.

Republican state legislators last week used

a budget hearing with Mayor LaToya Cantrell to complain about the city limits on high school sporting events. Cantrell was in Baton Rouge to request financial help. GOP lawmakers used the hearing to argue the city’s restrictions were the source of budget shortfalls and that New Orleans should reopen faster. To which, Cantrell said “With all due respect, we will continue to make progress. ... I hope we’re making you proud and thank you so much.”

The approximate number of Louisiana children without health insurance, according to the Louisiana Budget Project, which provides independent research and analysis of the state’s fiscal issues and their impact on residents.

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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell moved New Orleans into Phase 3.

HERE’S WHAT MOVING INTO PHASE 3.2 MEANS NEW ORLEANS MOVED INTO PHASE 3.2 of its reopening plan on Oct. 17, allowing bars to serve patrons seated outside their establishments and permitting some indoor live entertainment.

The easing of restrictions, announced in a city press release Oct. 15, comes as coronavirus cases have remained low in the city and as part of a slow reopening plan first announced by Mayor LaToya Cantrell at the end of last month. Here’s what will change under Phase 3.2: Bars will be allowed to serve patrons seated in outdoor seating, with a maximum of 25% of their normal capacity or 50 patrons allowed, whichever is fewer. Currently bars are allowed to serve to-go but are not allowed to have anyone drinking on premises.

Indoor live entertainment, which is currently banned, will be allowed with a special event permit at restaurants, indoor venues and concert halls. Singing, karaoke and wind-blown instruments are prohibited.

Breweries with a food permit will be allowed to have indoor seating up to 25% of their capacity and outdoor seating of up to 100% of their capacity.

Houses of worship, movie theaters and conference venues will be allowed to seat up to 50% of their occupancy or 500 individuals.

Outdoor stadiums and other large venues will be allowed to seat up to 25% of their normal occupancy or 500 individuals.

Concert halls will be allowed to open for timed, seated events at 50% of their normal occupancy or 250 people if they get approval from both the State Fire Marshal and the city’s Department of Safety and Permits. Singing, karaoke and wind-blown instruments are prohibited. — JEFF ADELSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

This figure, based on data from 2019, is an increase by 28% from the previous 2018 analysis. It’s also the highest single-year increase since the U.S. Census Bureau began keeping track of children without health insurance in 2008. But what’s most concerning is that these figures were compiled based on research prior to COVID-19. The coverage trend, as noted

by Policy Director Stacey Roussel, will have “long-term consequences” and is likely to have worsened for children in 2020.

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News round-up of the week: HOUSE ADVANCES BILL ALLOWING FAMILY TO VISIT DISABLED RELATIVES The Louisiana House Health and Welfare committee unanimously advanced a bill that would allow close family to visit their family members with disabilities in intermediate care facilities, according to The Louisiana Illuminator’s JC Canicosa. This would prevent the Louisiana Department of Health from making rules that prohibit visitation. The committee also unanimously approved a bill that would expand nursing home visitation rights for residents. Intermediate care facilities are facilities that provide nursing and support care for patients that aren’t

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SIDNEY BEING SHADY Sidney Torres IV is behind another campaign — and not just the effort to turn Mid-City into a hot spot for Jefferson Parish Tinder dates.

Michael Isaac Stein of The Lens reported last week that the campaign for incumbent Judge Chris Bruno of Orleans Parish Civil District Court has accused his opponent, Jennifer Medley, of violating campaign finance disclosure laws. Medley received a $100,000 loan last month from IV Capital, a company owned

by Torres. Stein reported, “The same day she took the loan, Medley issued a $85,000 loan to her own campaign. A week later, she donated another $15,000 to her campaign.

The campaign report says the loans were from Medley herself, and do not mention Torres’ company. Bruno’s campaign is alleging that this was an indirect pass-through loan from IV Capital to the campaign, and that IV Capital should have been limited to $5,000, the campaign contribution limit for the office Medley is seeking.” This is in addition to The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans

Advocate’s Matt Sledge report last month that Torres’ production company had placed an advertisement for Medley, which was supposed to air during a Monday night Saints game, painting him as a “deadbeat dad” who “refused” to pay child support for more than a decade during his lengthy divorce case.

Torres, it should be noted, has personal beef with Bruno, because the judge ruled against him in court over (what else?) a real estate battle last year.

Read more at thelensnola.org.

CRISIS ACTORS? A few NCIS actors were in the middle of filming a fake robbery scene at Sol’s Jewelry store in Chalmette for the show in 2017. That’s when around a dozen cops showed up who were very much real and very much armed.

Luckily, nobody was harmed, but St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann said the situation could have ended badly. Now, the actors involved are suing CBS, claiming producers did not obtain the necessary permits or give nearby businesses or police a head’s up, WWLTV’s Erika Ferrando reported last week.

Read more from our partner TV station: wwltv.com.

EARLY VOTING HAS COMMENCED Early voting started on Friday, Oct. 16, which for some of us is more exciting than being a kid on Christmas morning, or a costumed adult tripping in the Marigny on Fat Tuesday.

Here’s a list of where to vote early for Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes. Vote early and vote often, y’all. Chill out, Jeff Landry and Kyle Ardoin: That last part is a joke.

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EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS ORLEANS PARISH • City Hall, 1300 Perdido St. • The Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan St. • The Smoothie King Center, 1501 Dave Dixon Drive • Voting Machine Warehouse, 8870 Chef Menteur Hwy. • Lake Vista Community Center, 6500 Spanish Fort Blvd.

JEFFERSON PARISH • Joseph S. Yenni Building, 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd.

• Kenner-Rivertown at 408 Minor St. • Charles B. Odom Service Center in Marrero, 5001 West Bank Expressway.

The Grand Isle Multiplex will host one day of early voting on Oct. 20 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and then from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.

ST. BERNARD PARISH • St. Bernard Parish Government Building, 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive, Room 104 NOTE: Polls are closed on Sundays.

Early voting will end Oct. 27. Drop boxes will be set up outside each early voting location for those who have filled out absentee ballots.

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Gambit’s Nov. 3 endorsements: DA and Public Service Commission For New Orleans District Attorney:

Keva Landrum

Starting Oct. 16th, New Orleanians began voting in what many believe is the most important election in memory. The race for president tops the ballot, but New Orleans voters will make an equally important decision: Who should be our city’s next district attorney. The next DA will wield enormous power and influence, possibly for a generation or longer because, unlike mayors and council members, district attorneys are not subject to term limits.

That makes voters’ choice all the more important. After interviewing the candidates and examining their records, Gambit endorses Keva Landrum for district attorney.

Foremost among our reasons for choosing Landrum is the fact that she is the only candidate who has actually done the job already. In 2007, she literally had to clean up a mess left after the sudden resignation of then-DA Eddie Jordan, whose incompetence reduced the office’s staff and functionality to a rubble. In less than 11 months, Landrum stood the office back up and got it working again. That was no small feat for someone who simultaneously smashed Louisiana’s DA glass ceiling.

Now the office needs another reboot. Current DA Leon Cannizzaro is leaving office under the cloud of scandal in the wake of his use of “fake subpoenas,” his policy of arresting some material witnesses to compel their testimony, his over-use of “multi-bill” prosecutions to enhance sentences, and charging juveniles in adult court. These policies have gutted the public’s confidence in the DA’s office. We believe Landrum, who most recently served 11 years as a Criminal Court judge, is the right choice to right the ship.

All four candidates for DA embrace the need for often-difficult reforms, but we believe Landrum is best suited to implement those changes. Landrum’s platform includes real transparency (particularly open discovery

for defendants), overhauling the bail bond system, ending mass incarceration, enhancing diversion programs for nonviolent offenders, improving services for victims of domestic abuse, and expanding specialty courts for addicts, veterans and the mentally ill.

Landrum also pledges to create a new unit of independent investigators to handle complaints against abusive cops, and she is committed to ending the practice of pursuing prosecutions based on questionable police practices.

Although seemingly subtle, this change could significantly improve how NOPD interacts with the public.

We believe Keva Landrum offers the right mix of experience and commitment to reform that the DA’s office — and the entire criminal justice system — sorely needs right now.

For Public Service Commission:

Kevin Pearson

The five members of the Public Service Commission regulate utility companies, telephone companies, trucking companies and more.

Their decisions can cost — or save — ratepayers many millions of dollars a year, collectively. After meeting with the major candidates for the District 1 seat on the PSC and reviewing their records, Gambit endorses former state Rep. Kevin Pearson of Slidell.

Pearson served honorably in the state House of Representatives for 12 years. He supports promoting alternative energy sources, including solar. More importantly, he refuses to take campaign contributions from companies the PSC regulates. We are deeply troubled — and voters should be, too — by incumbent Commissioner Eric Skrmetta’s open embrace of accepting campaign funds from the entities he regulates.

We also find Skrmetta’s decision to participate in PSC decisions benefitting one of his business associates unseemly.

Kevin Pearson represents a welcome, and needed, break from such practices.

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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER Kevin Pearson (Parts of Orleans & Jefferson, Northshore)

NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT ATTORNEY Keva Landrum ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 1

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DISTRICT 2 | Ethan Ashley DISTRICT 3 | Olin Parker DISTRICT 4 | Dr. J.C. Romero DISTRICT 5 | Grisela Jackson DISTRICT 6 | Carlos Zervigon DISTRICT 7 | Nolan Marshall Jr.

JEFFERSON PARISH Office of Inspector General Millage Renewal | YES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AMENDMENT 1 | NO “No Right to Abortion” AMENDMENT 2 | YES “Oil & Gas Well Assessment” AMENDMENT 3 | YES “Rainy Day Fund and Disasters” AMENDMENT 4 | NO “State Spending Limit” AMENDMENT 5 | NO “Payments Instead of Property Taxes” AMENDMENT 6 | NO “Expanded Property Tax Freezes” AMENDMENT 7 | NO “New Fund for Unclaimed Property” Local Option, Sports Wagering | YES Neighborhood Crime Districts | YES (Lake Willow, North Kenilworth, Lakeshore, Broadmoor, Lake Vista)

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Cabrini Park is bounded by Dauphine, Burgundy, Barracks and Gov. Nicholls streets.

Opened in 1940, it is named for St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Roman Catholic nun who lived and worked in New Orleans and the French Quarter at the turn of the 20th century.

According to the Historic New Orleans Collection’s Collin C. Diboll Vieux Carre Digital Survey, the 1.5-acre plot of land originally consisted of 14 separate lots with homes and buildings dating to the 19th century.

One of those buildings was a school, originally called Barracks School, built in 1857, and later renamed McDonogh 15. The school operated there for 75 years and, according to the Vieux Carre Digital Survey, was said to be the first integrated school in New Orleans.

In 1932, a new McDonogh No. 15 school building opened nearby in the 900 block of St. Philip Street. It is now known as the Homer A. Plessy Community School. Once the original school relocated, the old building and others in the block were demolished.

Debate ensued over what would replace the properties. In the end, the city and school board opted to

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keep it as green space featuring a neighborhood park and playground.

According to an article in The New Orleans Item, Cabrini was the third of six playgrounds built by the city’s playground commission at the time.

A dedication ceremony in December 1940 included speeches from city officials and music from a Works Progress Administration (WPA) band. Boy Scouts raised a flag donated by Mrs. Frank Peyton in honor of her son, a Word War I veteran. A delegation of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the religious order founded by Mother Cabrini, also attended.

The park has remained a neighborhood fixture for decades. In recent years, it made headlines amid talk of converting it into an off-leash dog park. Those plans were later scuttled after neighbors raised concerns.

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its background in beer, from the golden age of Jax, Regal and Dixie to contemporary craft breweries. But what about our native soft drink? Big Shot has been a local favorite since 1935.

The company is known for its super sweet soft drinks, in flavors such as pineapple, black cherry, fruit punch, orange, peach, grape and strawberry (true New Orleanians call it “red drink”).

The label features a figure of the “Big Shot” himself, wearing a black bowler hat, a tuxedo and a cigar clamped firmly in his mouth.

Originally offering just a root beer flavor, Big Shot was introduced by the Jefferson Bottling Company, which opened in 1920 as a division of Pailet Industries. The company added more Big Shot flavors as its operation expanded. The drinks were bottled in the company’s plant off Metairie Road.

Since 1992, Big Shot has been owned by the National Beverage Company.

The publicly traded company, which is based in Fort Lauderdale and also produces LaCroix Sparkling Water and other drinks, employs workers at a local distribution plant in Elmwood.

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The Nov. 3 ballot will be crowded across Louisiana, but nowhere more so than in New Orleans. In addition to hotly contested federal and local elections, city voters will choose a new district attorney amid a life-threatening pandemic, longstanding fears of violent crime, and months of protests against police and

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prosecutorial abuses.

Despite the pandemic, voter turnout is expected to be “huge,” says demographer and political consultant Greg Rigamer. “I expect to see 185,000 votes cast in New Orleans in the presidential race, and about 175,000 in the DA’s race. That is a record for elections post-Katrina.”

Next to the mayor, the district attorney is considered the most powerful elected official in town. Four candidates are running to succeed two-term incumbent Leon Cannizzaro, who opted not to seek a third term. They are former Criminal Court judges Arthur Hunter, Keva Landrum and Morris Reed Sr., and at-large City Councilmember Jason Williams.

“A race for district attorney used to be the main event,” says pollster and Xavier University professor Silas Lee. “In this case, you have a series of main events.

Voters are distracted not only by other major elections but also by COVID-19.”

In addition, Lee says, New Orleans

voters have changed their perceptions of what they want in a district attorney.

“In years past, candidates for DA focused on their ability to expeditiously prosecute cases,” Lee says. “Now voters are looking for accountability, transparency, and community relations. Running for district attorney in New Orleans is no longer one-dimensional. It’s a balancing act now.”

The candidates’ messages prove Lee’s point. All four promise to bring fundamental change to an office plagued by complaints of heavy-handed tactics.

They also pledge to keep citizens safe.

Doing either of those is difficult in the best of times. Doing both during a pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge in a city with a long history of violent crime and police abuse.

“The challenge for all of them is trying to distinguish themselves from one another,” says Lee, who notes that the pandemic has changed everything about the way candidates reach voters.

“Candidates previously could rely on political groups and various influencers to carry some of the weight in campaigning. The current environment puts much more responsibility on voters to go find information, whereas before it was brought to them.”

The pandemic also has made it impossible for candidates to interact directly with voters on a large scale.

“Social distancing wasn’t even part of our vocabulary a year ago,” Lee says, adding that many people now have “Zoomitis” as a result of having to work and interact virtually so often — making it even more difficult for candidates to reach voters.

Although he is not on the ballot, Cannizzaro’s policies — particularly his office’s use of “fake subpoenas” and arresting some reluctant material witnesses — are very much on the minds of voters and the candidates seeking to replace him. In alphabetical order, here’s a closer look at all four would-be DA’s and their platforms.

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Hunter The 61-year-old Hunter (hunterforda.com) spent four years

as a police officer in NOPD’s Urban Squad, patrolling housing projects as part of the city’s first “community policing” effort.

He attended law school while on the force, worked as a private attorney and for the civil sheriff’s office for 11 years, then served 23 years as a judge at Criminal District Court. He retired from the bench in January.

Hunter says his priorities will be creating a fairer DA’s office that focuses on violent offenders (particularly domestic abusers) through a Special Crimes Unit while expanding the use of specialty courts such as Veterans Court, Mental Health Court and Drug Court. He also pledges to expand the DA’s diversion program by making it free to offenders aged 18 to 25.

“I will bring the Family Justice Center on board to help with domestic abuse cases,” Hunter says. “I also will empower victims of domestic violence to determine the outcomes of their cases.

Many times the survivors don’t want to press charges — they just want the beatings to stop.”

Hunter also promises to focus on juvenile cases, saying Cannizzaro’s office prosecuted too many juveniles as adults.

“There’s a reason why we have Juvenile Court,” he says. “My goal in Juvenile Court is getting lawyers who want to be social workers. We need to work on three things — supporting the family, putting the child on a positive path and making that first crime the last crime.”

Hunter says his strategies can make the community safer without crowding jails. “We can’t put a cop on every corner, and we can’t arrest or prosecute or jail ourselves out of these problems,” he says. “Everybody wants to be progressive, but I was being progressive 10 years ago. At that time people thought we were being soft on crime. We were being smart on crime.”

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landrum Landrum, 47, is the only candidate to have served as district attorney, and she was the first woman to do so in Orleans Parish. When former DA Eddie Jordan was pushed to resign amid scandals and mismanagement in 2007, Landrum was tapped to rebuild an office left in shambles.

She served almost 11 months as interim DA after working for a decade in the office as a prosecutor. Landrum then served 11 years as a judge at Criminal Court. She resigned her judgeship in July to enter this race.

Landrum (kevalandrum.com) says her priorities as the elected DA will be transparency, delivering “real reform” while protecting public safety, working to end mass incarceration, combating police misconduct and working for bail reform.

“I will expand the diversion program for those with a history of drug abuse and addiction with treatment, mental health care, and job training — as I successfully did while chief judge of Criminal Court with the pre-trial services program,” Landrum says. She adds that she will limit the use of “multiple bills,” which greatly enhance jail time (even for nonviolent offenses), to “exceptional circumstances … and only with supervisory approval.”

In domestic abuse cases, particularly those in which victims may be reluctant to testify, Landrum says the office needs “a more robust victim/witness assistance program.

We cannot wait or delay having a conversation with victims to assess things. We will build trust with victims and witnesses to make sure they know we are not going to incarcerate them.”

Of bail reform, Landrum promises to end the cycle of jailing people just because they are poor. “There are systemic ills that we need to correct,” she says. “I have shown I can stand up in a time of turmoil. It takes someone who knows the job and has the experience and leadership skills to do it.”

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New Orleans, the Nov. 3 ballot features a host of federal, regional and local contests — plus a number of statewide and local ballot propositions.

Here’s a list of what’s on the ballot in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish: On the federal level, the ballot will be topped by the contests for president and U.S. senator. All six of Louisiana’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are likewise up for grabs.

Regionally, the ballot includes a race for one of five seats on the Louisiana Public Service Commission and a seat on the seven-member Louisiana Supreme Court.

In New Orleans, voters will choose five judges at Civil District Court, seven at Criminal District Court, two at Juvenile Court and one at Municipal Court. All seven seats on the Orleans Parish School Board are likewise on the ballot.

The Jefferson Parish ballot includes several judicial contests as well as races for justice of the peace and constable.

Rounding out the ballot are seven proposed amendments to the Louisiana Constitution, a local option referendum to allow sports betting, five neighborhood crime district renewals in various parts of New Orleans, and renewal of a half-mill property tax in Jefferson Parish to fund the parish’s Office of Inspector General.

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Reed, 71, has run for DA before, resigning his seat at Criminal District Court after four years in 1996 to challenge then-DA Harry Connick Sr. He lost that race and several others (including another run for DA) since then. Prior to serving as a judge, Reed worked as the city’s first director of the Office of Municipal Investigations, as an assistant U.S. Attorney (as chief of the Civil Rights Division), as a New Orleans police detective and as a special agent in the Drug Enforcement Administration. He currently has a private law practice.

Reed promises to hold police accountable, to emphasize pre-trial diversion programs for first-time offenders, and to assemble special prosecutorial teams for murder cases and major drug traffickers.

“One of my long-time campaign pledges has been ‘Equal justice for all,’ ” Reed says. “My observations of the administration of justice by past district attorneys is that it has not been

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williams Williams, 47, is an at-large city councilman and council vice president whose law practice focuses on criminal defense cases. He ran for DA against Cannizzaro in 2008, finishing third in his first bid for public office. He won his council seat in 2014 and was re-elected in 2017. Williams (runwithjason.com) has been a vocal critic of Cannizzaro’s policies while on the council but lately made headlines when he was indicted in June (four weeks before qualifying to run for DA) on 11 counts of federal tax fraud and conspiracy.

Williams initially claimed Cannizzaro was behind the indictment. After Cannizzaro opted not to seek reelection, Williams claimed the feds’ investigation is politically motivated because of his advocacy for criminal justice reform. A federal judge recently heard arguments related to that claim but declined to dismiss the charges against Williams. An evidentiary hearing will be held Oct. 22 to give Williams’ lawyer a chance to dig deeper into that aspect of his defense.

Early polls, meanwhile, showed Williams’ battles with Cannizzaro

“One of my long-time campaign pledges has been ‘Equal justice for all.’”

fair across the board … I am committed to radical changes in this facet of the office’s operations.”

Reed says several factors contribute to the city’s crime rate — the ready availability of drugs and guns, and “gang activity with no serious prosecution.”

“This is a perfect storm for Blackon-Black crime,” Reed says. “We need someone who knows what he’s doing in the office and is committed to fighting crime. We also need someone who is committed to working with nonprofits to attack the causes of crime. … I released a plan 20 years ago, when I first ran for DA, about how to retool the office and change the culture — and it’s still applicable today.”

The hallmarks of that plan, he says, are a community relations bureau in the DA’s office, being visible in the community and listening to citizens. “It’s gonna take some extra time, but the dividends will be handsome,” he says.

“Real reform takes courage and it takes the will to see it through. I have both.”

made him the DA’s leading potential challenger. “Real reform takes courage and it takes the will to see it through. I have both,” Williams says. “I challenged the DA when he had a 67% approval rating. It turns out those things needed to be challenged. I will fight for reform based on data, not just for reform’s sake.”

Williams supports bail reform and pledges to provide more assistance to domestic violence victims. “We must never jail rape or domestic abuse survivors,” Williams says, referencing Cannizzaro’s controversial policy of arresting some reluctant material witnesses. “Such actions have a chilling effect on current and future victims and witnesses.”

He also promises to expand diversion programs and to “treat mental illness as a medical problem, not a crime” — and likewise for addiction. Regarding juvenile offenders, Williams says his office will prosecute violent offenders “but we will treat children like children — and make sure they are housed in appropriate and constitutional places for children.”

Early voting continues through Oct. 27.

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Retooled Nathanial Zimet adds outdoor dining at Boucherie

BY B E T H D ’A D D O N O CHANGING DIRECTIONS ON A DIME

is something chef Nathanial Zimet understands from experience. The chef and owner of Boucherie and Bourree in Carrollton started with a food truck in 2006. His purple Que Crawl truck was a barbecue-powered hit that soon earned catering jobs at movie and commercial sets throughout the region.

“We’d drive into some location in the middle of a field and set up an outside kitchen to feed 500 people,” Zimet says. “It was rogue catering where anything could happen.”

When the coronavirus pandemic forced restaurants to close in March, he reverted to an “anything goes” mindset to see where it might lead.

“I saw, as most people saw, this was not a five-minute problem,” Zimet says.

He tried take-away family meals from the more fine-dining oriented Boucherie, known for its progressive Southern cuisine and house-cured, smoked and aged meats. But boxing up the likes of crispy duck skin confit with deviled egg salad on challah Texas toast, or plates of applewood-smoked scallops with roasted beets and charred bok choy topped with miso beurre blanc just didn’t fly.

Bourree, with its casual menu of fresh fruit daiquiris, po-boys, hot boudin links, chicken wings and cured meats, was ideal for takeout, so he swapped out a glass window for a permanent service window.

“We never really closed,” he says.

“The ban on to-go drinks really hurt us. People would just cancel their food order if they couldn’t get daquiris — very glad go cups are back.”

A three-month stint making food for Feed the Front Line NOLA, which provided food to medical workers, was critical to keeping his staff employed and paying the bills.

When that went away, Zimet tried

packaged restaurant-style meals, as well as healthy meal kits. He got involved with the Chef’s Brigade, a group of restaurants funded by an $18 million FEMA and New Orleans city grant to feed and deliver meals to neighbors across Orleans Parish. He signed up as a federal contractor and got a contract to feed residents at the Lambeth House assisted living community. “At this point, I was doing anything to keep working,” he says. “Trying to make the best of the situation.”

Zimet happens to be a handy guy. Between college and Cordon Bleu culinary training, he went to automotive school and knows his way around a toolbelt.

So while running his kitchen’s operations, Zimet and his longtime dishwasher Amilcar Bautista also built a 30-foot-by-15-foot covered outdoor dining space on the lot next to Boucherie that used to house the food truck.

“I knew that a tent wasn’t my style,” Zimet says. “They’re expensive, and I just don’t like the idea of elegant dining in a tent. I knew that even in Phase Three, socially distant dining at 75% wouldn’t work in Boucherie. There’s just not enough space for any more than maybe 24 guests.”

The new space opened Sept.

24 and features picnic tables and benches along with some four-top tables, bracketed by trellises growing evergreen wisteria vines. There’s also a small outdoor kitchen grill for chargrilled oysters and barbecue.

The dinner menu will change monthly, and the current menu features starters like chilled sweet corn soup, local arugula salad and a Caesar with grilled hearts of romaine.

For small plates, blackened shrimp top a grit cake and there are steamed mussels, hamachi ceviche and crispy skin duck confit. Large plates feature smoked wagyu beef brisket, whole hog pulled pork, wagyu skirt steak from W. Black farms and duck breast. For seafood, there is panseared puppy drum and applewood smoked scallops. Creamed corn gnocchi also graces the menu.

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Local traffic BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, visitors flocked to Willie Mae’s Scotch House to try its famous fried chicken, and the Treme restaurant had a regular line for tables.

Since reopening for full service in September, locals long acquainted with that chicken have been able to walk right in and sit down at a table.

For proprietor Kerry SeatonStewart, there’s a mix of gratitude for the local support and anxiety for when more business might return.

“We’ve always catered to locals, that’s what builds your business,” said Seaton-Stewart, who carries on the

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Orleans cocktails and fruity seasonal cocktails.

Zimet moved some of Boucherie’s popular lunch items to Bourree, which is open for lunch and dinner daily, so guests can get favorites like the Buffalo cauliflower po-boy and the wedge salad.

“People are less likely to want to eat inside,” said the chef. “Who knows for how long. So I figured, it makes sense to double down on our concepts and see what’s next.”

Staying flexible is how he’s made it work. Zimet is clearly in this for the long haul. Although the North Carolina native says he didn’t immediately fall in love with New Orleans, his connection grew strong over time.

“I think the ‘where’d you go to high school?’ thing is a little weird, but the community is what’s beautiful — the way people behave to each other,” he says. “It’s part of why I have two different concepts and price points, so the restaurants could serve the neighborhood.”

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“But we are a hospitality town, that’s what New Orleans does and without that, everyone’s feeling it,” she says.

This is normally a time of year when the pace of New Orleans restaurants quickens after a draining summer. Tourism revs up, conventions return and dining rooms fill.

With the coronavirus pandemic, future projections seem dire. Major cruise lines are suspending sailings for months to come and the calendar at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is seeing event cancellations stretch into 2021.

Through it all, more New Orleans restaurants are reopening. About the only steady thing they can count on is local business and the relationships maintained with New Orleanians.

Donald Link has seen some regular jumps in activity at Herbsaint, Cochon, Peche and his other restaurants. When the new semester began at local universities, business rose as parents came to town with their students. Labor Day weekend brought a bump for business too.

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the staff laid off earlier this year, and managers are writing budgets to try to keep them working.

“This is not going to last forever.

We have to hold on to some hope,” Link says. “So, I have to look at the money we’re losing now as an investment in the future.”

To Link, there’s also a calculation of how the money people spend in restaurants now circulates back through the city.

“We decided we’d lose less money by getting back open and at least that way we get to keep everybody working, keep their families fed, keep their house notes and rent paid, keep something going in the economy,” he says.

Most of Link’s restaurants are downtown, where the dearth of travelers and the shift of many professionals to work from home has drastically altered the usual flow of business.

In other areas of the city, neighborhood life still proceeds, including at the eight restaurants Ed McIntyre runs under his Mr. Ed’s brand.

When he reopened his classic Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant in Metairie, regulars filed in for fried chicken, panned veal and stuffed bell peppers. Since reopening a French Quarter location of his Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House, however, it’s felt like a different restaurant.

“This was my top restaurant for sales, now it’s the last,” says McIntyre, citing one recent day when this Bienville Street location rang in just 10% of the business it did the same day a year ago.

Sala, part of a cluster of restaurants near the marinas of West End, has seen its regulars return. But owner Joseph Riccobono points out that social distancing requirements between tables, and rules prohibiting any service at the bar, still limit the business he can do and the staff he can bring back.

“We see customers who are coming back to dine out for the first time through all this, they’re excited to be back out, but then they’re just shocked when we have to turn them away if they don’t have a reservation,” he says. “They see the empty tables, and so do we — we definitely feel it.”

When the Pelican Club reopened this summer, it was losing money just to keep the doors open. But, when the annual Coolinary dining promotion started in August, chef/owner Richard Hughes saw many familiar faces coming through his door, to his immense relief.

“Those are all locals, and there’s nothing else going on down here to bring them in, no shows, no concerts, so they are coming down just to support the restaurant,” Hughes says.

“It’s not easy to make money on menus like this, but people are spending money on alcohol now,

that’s for sure, and they’re tipping really well too,” he said. “Your locals mean everything right now.” — IAN McNULTY/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALMOST TWO DECADES, Commander’s Palace

has a new executive chef. And for the first time in the restaurant’s long history, that chef is a woman.

Tory McPhail, executive chef since 2002, resigned and is moving to Montana. His successor at Commander’s Palace is Meg Bickford, 34, who rose through the ranks since being hired in 2008.

To Bickford, that speaks to a culture of mentoring at Commander’s Palace and to its family leadership.

“I’ve had a lot of opportunities to grow here, and a lot of people who invested the time and effort and who believed in me,” Bickford said.

Commander’s Palace became an emblem of modern New Orleans cuisine in the 1970s after it was acquired by the Brennan family.

It pioneered haute Creole cuisine, which reshaped the national reputation of New Orleans food.

Commander’s Palace has produced some of the world’s most famous chefs, namely Paul Prudhomme and his immediate successor, Emeril Lagasse. At the same time, the restaurant has held a reputation as the “finishing school” for New Orleans culinary talent.

That role is foremost in Bickford’s mind as she steps into the kitchen’s highest position. She acknowledges the issues of equality and inclusion now running through American discourse, and she’s driven by the potential to do more (see 3-Course interview, page 19).

“We need to recognize our responsibilities to our people, in our community and in our workplace,” Bickford said.

McPhail has had the longest tenure of any Commander’s Palace executive chef. He started cooking at Commander’s Palace in 1993, at age 20, and worked for the Brennan family until 1997 before leaving to cook overseas. He rejoined the family in 2000 at a Commander’s Palace offshoot in Las Vegas. He was tapped to lead the Garden District flagship in 2002. A few years later, McPhail was tasked with bringing the restaurant back after Hurricane Katrina.

McPhail also served as an ambassador for New Orleans, traveling the country to cook at events and pitch the city as a travel destination.

In 2013, he won the James Beard Foundation’s award for Best Chef: South.

McPhail is from a small town in Washington state and spent his summers as a kid in western Montana. He is joining a restaurant group there. — IAN McNULTY/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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Meg Bickford Executive Chef MEG BICKFORD GREW UP IN LAROSE, LOUISIANA , and worked

in the restaurant industry before attending the John Folse Culinary Institute. She has risen through the ranks at Commander’s Palace and was tapped to be the executive chef at Cafe Adelaide, which was owned by the same branch of the Brennan family as Commander’s. Last week, Bickford was named the executive chef at Commander’s Palace and is the first woman in the top spot at the Creole dining institution.

How have you developed as a chef at Commander’s Palace?

MEG BICKFORD: I have been a part of this group for a long time. I started at Commander’s Palace in 2008, right out of culinary school.

Early on I was aware of who I was surrounded by, and I was very fortunate to have a lot of mentors. I think that speaks highly of the restaurant group. (Owners) Ti Martin and Lally Brennan are incredibly involved with their people. Growth and finding paths for people is something that we are very much focused on now. I was also fortunate to build a relationship with Ella Brennan.

Chef Tory (McPhail) took me under his wing when I was hired.

My dedication and drive put me in a position for a lot of things I’ve been fortunate to do here. On a day-today level, the chef de cuisine when I was coming up was Chris Barbato.

That man put in a lot of work and effort to grow our staff. The general manager, Don Strunk, constantly strived for perfection and always said, “It’s about what we do today.”

Kenny Meyer, who is at the helm now, just has hospitality in his blood.

He cares so much about taking care of people and making your experience as great as it can be whether you are a guest or work here.

What excites you about the food at Commander’s Palace?

B: I think Commander’s menu is fun and experimental and exciting. One thing we’re doing now is (redfish and shrimp with miso and sugarcane). It’s a play on great

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Creole and Cajun flavors but we’re introducing Vietnamese flavors.

We’ve got these beautiful, huge flavors of lemon grass and ginger that marry so well with Cajun and Creole cuisine. It’s something we’ve done at Commander’s for so long.

We’re mining the depths of what started there. Now it’s exciting to look into the future and see what those influences are today.

The coronavirus and issues of diversity have presented challenges to restaurants in the past year. What are your thoughts about them as you assume a top leadership position?

B: It’s a very important time. COVID was hard on everyone personally and financially. A lot of businesses struggled. We struggled. There was a silver lining for us. We came together as a group and started new businesses and collaborated on ideas to get us through this.

As far as the kitchen goes, diversity in the workplace is important and it’s been a focus of ours for a long time. We need to be intentional about where we’re going and how we’re moving. It’s important to identify pathways for people to grow and make it so people understand the tools we’re providing them to further their careers, whether they stay with us or not. We have a responsibility to help people achieve their goals. We’re not all cut from the same cloth. We don’t have the same backgrounds and education.

We have to do everything we can to help people succeed.

I am very fortunate that I don’t feel that being a woman at Commander’s ever held me back.

There are a lot of women around here in power. It was inspiring for me as a young cook to work for a lot of women. — WILL COVIELLO

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CBD 14 Parishes — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; 14parishes.com — Jamaican-style jerk chicken is served with two sides such as plantains, jasmine rice, cabbage or rice and peas. Delivery available. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $$ Eat Well — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; pythianmarket.com — Phoritto is a spinach tortilla filled with brisket, chicken or tofu, plus bean sprouts, jalapenos, onions and basil and is served with a cup of broth.

Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $ Kais — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (941) 481-9599; pythianmarket.com — A Sunshine bowl includes salmon, corn, mango, green onions, edamame, pickled ginger, ponzu spicy mayonnaise, cilantro, masago and nori strips. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $$ La Cocinita — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 309-5344; lacochinitafoodtruck. com — La Llanera is an arepa stuffed with carne asada, guasacasa, pico de gallo, grilled queso fresco and salsa verde.

Curbside pickup and delivery available. B, L and D daily. $ Meribo Pizza — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 481-9599; meribopizza.com — A Meridionale pie is topped with pulled pork, chilies, ricotta, mozzarella, collard greens and red sauce. Delivery available. L and D daily. $$ Willie Mae’s — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; williemaesnola.com — The Creole soul food restaurant is known for its fried chicken, red beans and more. Takeout available. L and D Mon-Sat. $

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Takeout and delivery available. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as shawarma prepared on a rotisserie. Takeout and delivery available. L, D daily. $$

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CITYWIDE Breaux Mart — Citywide; breauxmart.com — The deli counter’s changing specials include dishes such as baked catfish and red beans and rice. L, D daily. $

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Carnaval — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; carnavallounge.com — The music club’s Cozinha de Carnaval kitchen serves Brazilian street food. Frango is chicken cooked with thyme, rosemary and cumin and served with rosemary-garlic aioli. No reservations. Takeout available. D Sat-Mon. $ Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; kebabnola.com — The sandwich shop offers doner kebabs and Belgian fries.

A falafel sandwich comes with pickled cucumbers, arugula, spinach, red onions, beets, hummus and Spanish garlic sauce.

No reservations. Takeout and delivery available Thu-Mon. $

FRENCH QUARTER Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu features Gulf seafood in traditional and contemporary Creole dishes, po-boys and more. Char-grilled oysters are topped with Parmesan, herbs and butter and served with French bread. Reservations recommended.

Takeout available. B, L and D daily. $$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and toppings to build your own pizza. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D Tue-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001; lakeviewbrew.com — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries and desserts baked in house, sandwiches and salads. An omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. B, L daily. $ Lotus Bistro — 203 W. Harrison Ave., (504) 533-9879; lotusbistronola.com — A Mineko Iwasaki roll includes spicy snow crab, tuna, avocado and cucumber topped with

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce.

Curbside pickup and delivery are available.

L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. Takeout available. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; marktwainpizza.com — Mark Twain’s serves salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. Takeout and curbside pickup are available. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. Window and curbside pickup. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 6093871; brownbutterrestaurant.com — Sample items have included smoked brisket served with smoked apple barbecue sauce, Alabama white barbecue sauce, smoked heirloom beans and vinegar slaw. A Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. Dine-in, takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. L and D Wed-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$ Doson Noodle House — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283; facebook. com/dosonnoodlehouse — Bun thit is Vietnamese-style grilled pork with cucumber, onions, lettuce, mint, cilantro and fish sauce served over rice or vermicelli. The menu includes rice and vermicelli dishes, pho, spring rolls and more. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$ Nonna Mia — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; nonnamianola.com — A Divine Portobello appetizer includes chicken breast, spinach in creamy red pepper sauce and crostini. The menu also includes salads, sandwiches, pasta, pizza and more.

Curbside pickup and delivery are available.

Service daily. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; williemaesnola.com — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. L Mon-Fri. $$

NORTHSHORE Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

UPTOWN Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat and served with vegetables and potatoes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Red Gravy — 4206 Magazine St., (504) 561-8844; redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with a chocolate drizzle. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. Takeout available. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant. com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in a mix of Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes. Fried oysters and skewered bacon are served with meuniere sauce and toasted French bread. Reservations required. D Thu-Sun. $$$ Carmo — 527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132; cafecarmo.com — Carmo salad includes smoked ham, avocado, pineapple, almonds, cashews, raisins, cucumber, green pepper, rice, lettuce, cilantro and citrus mango vinaigrette. The menu includes dishes inspired by many tropical cuisines. Takeout and delivery are available. Mon-Sat. $$ NOLA Caye — 898 Baronne St., (504) 302-1302; nolacaye.com — The menu features Caribbean-inspired dishes and Gulf seafood. Seared ahi tuna is served with mango, avocado, mixed greens, citrus vinaigrette and sesame seeds.

Reservations accepted. Takeout, delivery and outdoor seating available. D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Provisions Grab-n-Go Marketplace — Higgins Hotel, 500 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higgingshotelnola.com — The coffeeshop serves salads, sandwiches, pastries and more. Takeout available.

Service daily. $

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available. D Wed-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza.

Chicken piccata is a paneed chicken breast topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread. Takeout and delivery available. Service daily. $$

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Walker, drummer A.J. Hall, bassist Nathan Lambertson, pianist Oscar Rossignoli and guitarist Brian Seeger recorded the album in early 2017 at Dockside Studios, the scenic studio on Vermillion Bayou south of Lafayette. But as soon as the two days of recordings were in the can, Walker had to catch a flight to Los Angeles to join Sturgill Simpson and his band as they prepped for a performance at the Grammy Awards. Walker led Simpson’s horn section in 2016 and 2017 while on tour for the country musician’s “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth,” which ended up winning Best Country Album at that Grammy ceremony.

Then “coming back home, looking for a new gig and getting back into the New Orleans scene, and it’s just been — I just got so busy,” Walker says. “It’s hard to imagine [playing live now], but I’m just so grateful to have had that experience of just playing all the time and working with all of these people that I love.”

Like a lot of projects that carry deep attachment, the record was hard to finish, Walker says. But if there is a silver lining to the coronavirus-mandated break — which, Walker adds, has also brought massive challenges to the New Orleans music community — it’s that it gave many artists an opportunity to reassess and finish projects left on the backburner.

“The Dockside Sessions” will be released Oct. 30. The eight-track jazz record features exciting original compositions by Walker along with interpretations of works by Keith Jarrett (the song “Spirits 15”) and Theresa Andersson (the swelling, moving “Innan du Gar”).

“It’s a culmination of being in New Orleans as an active musician for 10 years, and then I’ve been working on the music that ended up coming out on this record basically the whole time,” Walker says. “I used to

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have a regular gig on Frenchmen Street at The Maison and I’ve played Snug [Harbor] a few times and some festivals, and [was] always looking for the right people — which are the right people on this record.”

Hall, Lambertson and Rossignoli are steady players in Walker’s quartet and appear on last year’s “Live at Snug Harbor” album, and Walker calls Seeger a mentor. “The Dockside Sessions” includes additional instrumentation from other frequent Walker collaborators Matt Booth, Raja Kassis, Cyrus Nabipoor, Brian Shaw, Michael Skinkus and Andriu Yanovski. New Orleansbased poet Moose Jackson also is featured on the “centerpiece” song “Mahakala,” reading a passage from Carl Jung’s “The Red Book.”

A North Carolina native, Walker moved to Louisiana to attend LSU’s School of Music, where he received degrees in 2006 and 2011. By 2010, though, he was already more or less living and gigging in New Orleans, and has since become an in-demand sax player with groups both in the city and nationally.

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It can be difficult to narrow down the guest list. Focus only on those who are closest to you, most supportive and who you are reasonably certain will be able to attend the ceremony. Also, a smaller ceremony may mean you and your wedding party take on a few extra preparation duties, such as lighting candles or finalizing table arrangements. If you are marrying at a venue, the staff will probably take care of this, but you may have to handle it yourself if you are marrying at a private residence or elsewhere.

Does a micro-wedding include a reception?

Absolutely. While some couples are opting for larger receptions in 2021, there is still a celebration immediately after a micro-wedding. Because there are fewer guests, this might be a sit-down dinner for everyone as opposed to a large buffet. There are still plenty of drinks and dancing to go around!

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Micro-weddings normally cost less than larger events. But keep in mind that some vendors, such as photographers and bakeries, may charge a similar fee even if the wedding is smaller.

In addition, couples can have more flexibility in choosing a wedding venue if they have a smaller guest list. For many couples, a smaller affair can be less overwhelming and allows them to

What are some potential challenges with a micro-wedding?

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An elopement is usually a spontaneous or private decision that includes the couple and very few, if any, guests. These are usually no-frills affairs that take place on a trip or at a local courthouse.

Micro-weddings are more traditional ceremonies that include all the usual wedding elements and take place in front of family and close friends.

spend quality time with their closest relatives and friends on the big day.

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Break out grandmother’s china. Lots of couples are opting to incorporate family heirlooms into their celebrations. Don’t have enough china? Borrow some from a friend who never uses theirs.

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Temperature checks and customized PPE It is normal these days to have your temperature checked in the doctor’s office or the gym, so be prepared to have your temperature checked as you enter the wedding. If you forget your mask, don’t worry. Pretty much every couple is providing guests with masks and hand sanitizer. This is where you see couples embracing the opportunity to customize their masks in many ways. For the budget-conscious bride, making your own customized labels for your hand sanitizer is an affordable way to add a personal touch.

You can also take it to the next level by ordering custom bottles.

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Seated dinners are one way couples are enjoying their receptions.

Guests are seated at smaller tables trying to maintain their pods as much as possible. Forget family style for now; gone are the days of long tables with big plates of shared food. Guests are served several courses, and the sounds of great dinner conversations fill the room.

Dessert is personal sized.

Couples are offering their guests miniature wedding cakes. The wedding cake might be a smaller cake, but instead of slicing and serving, each guest receives a mini version.

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DeBruhl & BRANCH Katie DeBruhl and Christopher Branch met while working together at The National WWII Museum. Ms. DeBruhl, a New Orleans native, is the Director of Development for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, while Mr. Branch, born in Baton Rouge, is the Content Strategist for Geocent.

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Lauren Alexandra Levy and Edward Allen Moran (Allen) met in the most serendipitous of circumstances on a beautiful New Orleans St. Paddy’s Day in 2017. Allen would have been deployed to the Netherlands had he not broken his foot in an unfortunate incident leading him to meet his future wife. Allen is an avionics technician for the United States Air Force in the Louisiana National Guard, born in Pearl River, Louisiana.

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G Despite the threat of the COVID-19, they decided to move forward with the wedding as originally planned. They got married at Cedarmont Farm in Franklin, TN on October 3rd. The masks and hand sanitizing stations did not dampen the romance of the night in the slightest. There was dancing, laughter, and merrymaking as friends and family reunited in the gorgeous open-air venue surrounded by sprawling green lawns and under clear blue Autumn skies.

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Drew Hollis and Brittany Burnham were neighbors when they met in 2012.

Their friendship quickly grew into love. Drew proposed with a green diamond ring at Harry Potter world in January 2019. The couple planned two weddings in 2020 that were cancelled due to covid. So Drew and Brittany decided to elope on 9/16/20 at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, TN with just four of their close friends in attendance. They plan on celebrating their wedding with all of their family and friends next year.

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Maddie Applewhite and Pablo Gambetta met in New Orleans summer of 2014, working together on set of the movie Jurassic World. Pablo lived in Chicago, so the two started dating long distance until Pablo moved to New Orleans to be with Maddie in her hometown. They now live in Chicago together and work in the film industry there. The couple scheduled a Costa Rican wedding for April 2020, but covid-19 changed their plans.

Cancelling their destination wedding, Maddie and Pablo traveled to Las Vegas (the place where Pablo proposed) with their immediate families and tied the knot on July 17th.

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Royal Sonesta New Orleans can design weddings and receptions from intimate occasions to the most lavish affairs in our unique venues fitting 5 to 500 guests all with exceptional style and the highest degree of personal service. From authentic French Quarter courtyard, iconic wrought-iron balconies and outstanding “Food Is Art” philosophy, to private rooms for bridal showers, brunches and teas— our hotel stands out as a perfect spot for New Orleans destination weddings.

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Since 1985, Andrea’s Restaurant has served authentic Northern Italian cuisine and local fresh seafood from around the world. To help celebrate your special day, Chef and owner Andrea Apuzzo and his team can create a personalized gathering with a continental flair.

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BY WILL COVIELLO IT MIGHT BE TIME TO TALK about the “Z word.”

That’s one of the messages of the mockumentary “What Doesn’t Kill Us,” one of several comedy horror films in Screamfest, which runs at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge Oct. 23-25.

Screamfest’s lineup includes two feature movies and a few short films per night. A couple of the short films come from filmmakers with ties to New Orleans: Kenny Lass’ “Klip-Klopping” and Matthew P. Higgins’ “The Sheltered Women.” The festival will have a 40th anniversary showing of “Friday the 13th” and “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.” There are several comedy horror offerings, such as “Re-Animator.”

“What Doesn’t Kill Us” probes the concerns of “necro-sapiens,” or zombies, who have a few complaints about stereotypes and the way they’re treated. They eat other things besides brains, and they can actually jog, not just stagger or walk stiffly. And you shouldn’t assume they like heavy metal, grunge music or the Grateful Dead.

Much of the comedy is shot in the style of TV’s “The Office,” as necro-sapiens talk about microaggressions against the undead. One of the central characters is Kevin, who’s excellent at phone sales, but being passed over for a promotion makes him wonder if he’s trapped in a “dead-end job.” He and his wife are trying to have a child, and he’s starting to feel performance anxiety everywhere. Jeremy is a talented baseball player who’s trying to be the first necro-sapien drafted into major league ball, and he gets a lot of grief from fans (“Look alive out there!”).

The film mimics all sorts of TV genres, including reality TV, sitcoms, cable sports network and radio talk shows, slasher films and more. It also parodies small town life in east Texas, where one fried chicken chain refuses to serve necro-sapiens.

Various story lines converge as a necro politician seeks office, hoping to improve quality of life for everyone, including the undead.

Also in the horror comedy vein is “The Brain that Wouldn’t Die.” It’s a remake of a 1962 sci-fi B-movie and includes scenes from the original flick. It’s deliberately over-acted and retro styled. Bill Cortner is a superstar young doctor working on

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a breakthrough to not just save lives but resuscitate the dead. A tragic opportunity falls into his lap when his fiancée is decapitated in a car crash. He preserves her head in a laboratory in his basement and sets out to find a woman to provide a new body. While he goes to burlesque clubs and solicits sex-workers, she learns more about his past experiments. Police try to figure out whose headless body they’ve discovered in the car.

The film has campy and schlocky bits and it’s an entertaining parody of lurid grindhouse films. It also lampoons the lifestyle of a swinging 1950s bachelor and makes fun of dated ideas about gender roles and social standing.

Screenings are at Zeitgeist. Visit screamfestla.com/nola for details.

There also are a host of other horror films and special screenings in New Orleans leading up to Halloween.

The recently opened Broadside outdoor theater in Mid-City presents “Poltergeist” this week, and George Romero’s zombie classic, “Night of the Living Dead,” next week. Through Thursday, Oct. 22, The Broad Theater is running “Peninsula,” South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho’s follow-up to his post-apocalyptic zombie hit, “Train to Busan.”

The Prytania Theatre hosts a slate of Halloween-friendly movies, including the horror classic “The Exorcist,” the family friendly Pixar animated feature “Monsters, Inc.,” and a run of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Halloween weekend.

The Jefferson Performing Arts Society concludes its drive-in movie series with “Ghostbusters” on Oct. 30. It screens at the Pontchartrain Center.

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