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STAFF Publisher | MARGO DUBOS Associate Publisher | JEANNE EXNICIOS FOSTER Administrative Director | MARK KARCHER
November 4, 2014
EDITORIAL
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Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN
Fork + Center ...........................................................39 All the news that’s fit to eat — and drink 3-Course Interview .............................................43 David Rules 3-Course Interview .............................................44 Carey Bringle, barbecue master Drinks ........................................................................45 Beer Buzz; Wine of the Week Last Bites ................................................................. 47 5 in Five; Plate Dates; Off the Menu Cocktails ...................................................... PULLOUT Winter warmers and recipes from some New Orleans bartenders
Managing Editor | KANDACE POWER GRAVES Political Editor | CLANCY DUBOS Arts & Entertainment Editor | WILL COVIELLO Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Feature Writer | JEANIE RIESS Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | ANNA GACA Contributing Writers SARAH BAIRD, ANNE BERRY, D. ERIC BOOKHARDT, RED COTTON, ALEJANDRO DE LOS RIOS, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, NORA MCGUNNIGLE, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS
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Bouquets & Brickbats .........................................12 This week’s heroes and zeroes Commentary............................................................14 Our recommendations in the Nov. 4 election Blake Pontchartrain.............................................15 Remembering the Allman Brothers and Russell Long
A+E ...............................................................................53 The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller Interview .................................................................54 Cheyenne Jackson comes to NOCCA Music .........................................................................55 PREVIEW: New Pornographers Film.............................................................................58 REVIEW: Listen Up Philip Art ................................................................................61 REVIEW: Space Rites Stage......................................................................... 63 REVIEW: Oxblood REVIEW: Marigny Opera House Dance Company’s Program One Words ........................................................................65 Dominic Massa’s New Orleans Radio Events .......................................................................66 PREVIEW: Treme Creole Gumbo Festival Crossword + Sudoku ...........................................76
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Gambit’s 40 Under 40 ..........................................19 Our 2014 class of the young and accomplished in New Orleans
7 IN SEVEN
Seven Things to Do This Week........................... 5 Cabaret Macabre, Stars of American Dance, Peter and the Starcatcher and more
NEWS + VIEWS
News.............................................................................7 A former jail and police station may become a bed-and-breakfast Y@Speak + N.O. Comment .....................................7 Overheard in New Orleans’ social media world Scuttlebutt................................................................ 9 From their lips to your ears C’est What? ............................................................... 9 Gambit’s Web poll
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What’s in Store ......................................................37 You-Ca-Tan
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Review: Kebab .......................................................39 European street food on St. Claude Avenue
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Market Place ...........................................................69 Employment ...........................................................70 Legal Notices...........................................................71 Picture Perfect Properties................................ 72 Real Estate .............................................................73 Mind + Body + Spirit............................................... 74 Home + Garden .......................................................75 Holiday Helpers .....................................................78 Celebrate the Black & Gold ...............................79
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Angel Olsen | With a lilting country spirit and a voice like a shot-down lonesome dove, St. Louis, Missouri, native Angel Olsen is a surprisingly rightful heir to warbling troubadours from Townes Van Zandt to Roy Orbison. Her smoldering second LP Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar) gets an earned expanded deluxe edition this month. Lionlimb opens at 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.
Pallbearer
Tue. Nov. 4 | Arkansas doomsayer Pallbearer stole the spotlight when it opened for metal crossover du jour Deafheaven at One Eyed Jacks in June. The band has it all to themselves on this tour for sophomore crusher Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore). Tombs and Vattnet Viskar open at 10 p.m. at Siberia.
Cabaret Macabre
Thu.-Sun. Nov. 6-9 | Happenstance Theater presented a shortened version of Cabaret Macabre in the New Orleans Fringe Festival last year. Inspired by Edward Gorey illustrations, the circus arts show is a silent comedy of manners run amok when its stuffy Victorian characters lose their composure. At 8 p.m. at the Marigny Opera House.
Peter and the Starcatcher
Fri.-Sun. Nov. 7-23 | In Rick Elice’s adaptation of Dave Barry’s origin tale for the story of Peter Pan, an orphan boy takes to the high seas where he meets Molly and enters a world of adventure and magic. At 7:30 p.m. (3 p.m. Sundays) at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre.
The Pizza Underground
Fri. Nov. 7 | The Velvet Underground inspired countless bands, including this pizza-focused pseudocover outfit featuring Macauley Culkin. R&B and garage-rocking Ron Jeremy lookalike Har Mar Superstar also performs at 10 p.m. at Freret Street Publiq House.
Purling Hiss
Fri. Nov. 7 | Philadelphia’s Purling Hiss — aka Mike Polizze’s jangly, sloppy riff factory — blasts blown-out grunge worship, garage pop and ramshackle ballads on September’s Weirdon (Drag City), produced by fellow Philly rock ’n’ roller Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs. The band performs with Meatbodies, Giorgio Murderer and Bottomfeeders at 10 p.m. at Siberia. Stars of American Ballet Fri. Nov. 7 | New York City Ballet (NYCB) principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht is joined by longtime NYCB star Wendy Whelan and a crew of dancers from NYCB and Houston Ballet in a program of classic and recent works. At 8 p.m. at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.
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IMAGE Action Figure (Diamond), 1999, David Parrish, oil on canvas; Collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff.
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Iron bar hotel?
A crumbing former police station and jail may become a B&B — but a law change is necessary. By Della Hasselle & Robert Morris, MidCityMessenger.com
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early everyone who spoke before the City Planning Commission this week about the proposal to convert the century-old New Orleans Police station at 2552 St. Philip Street into a bed-and-breakfast was in favor of it — including the neighbors, the commissioners and even the city staffers who said it was impossible. Only the language of the city’s land use bureaucracy stood in the way, an obstacle that proved insurmountable Oct. 28. After the City Planning Commission voted to postpone a decision on
The City Planning Commission is considering changing the law to allow a couple who bought this old police station in Treme at a city auction to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. P H O T O B Y C H ER Y L G ER B ER
the project, District D City Councilman Jared Brossett said he is preparing to amend city law to make it possible. The “Police Jail and Patrol Station,” built in Treme at the turn of the 20th century, recently was purchased by Liz Canache, a former schoolteacher. Canache said the moment she laid eyes on the old jail, she knew she had to buy it. The 6,291-square-foot Queen Anne- and French Renaissance Revival-style building was falling apart. The structure had crumbled around the 112-year-old facade, leaving PAGE 8
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N.O. COMMENT What you had to say on BestofNewOrleans.com this week
I understand the argument being used against increasing the minimum wage but try living on minimum wage as it is now. ... The cost comes out of our pocket either way you look at it. Raising the minimum wage could increase the costs of some goods & services because some businesses will raise their (prices) to offset the cost of the extra wages. Continuing to provide government assistance uses our tax dollars so either way, we pay for it.
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it open to drug dealers and criminals who frequented the area, Canache said. She had a plan to turn the building into the “Inn at the Police Jail and Patrol Station,” a bed-andbreakfast with nine guest rooms and a community meeting space to serve the neighborhood. Common rooms would be designated for after-school homework help for students and Spanish classes for all ages, and Canache said she would instruct some of these classes and hire teachers to do the rest.
changes to the law that would allow the building to be used as a bed-andbreakfast. If they succeed, a zoning change wouldn’t even be needed, as such a business is allowed in residential zones, but it would preclude using part of the building as a community meeting space, which Raul Canache described as essential to helping the business serve the neighborhood. City Planning Commissioner Kyle Wedberg said at the group’s meeting Oct. 28 that a better path back to commercial use is needed for insti-
She had a plan to turn the building into the ‘Inn at the Police Jail and Patrol Station,’ a bed-andbreakfast with nine guest rooms and a community meeting space to serve the neighborhood. “The point is to bring back the neighborhood’s heritage and save something from falling down, which is where the building was headed,” Canache told Mid-City Messenger. In an auction of surplus city-owned property in December, Canache and her husband Raul bought the building for $175,000. At the advice of city officials, they made the purchase under the name of a new hospitality company called Down By Law to protect them in the event someone was hurt due to the decrepit state of the structure. Next, officials told them, they would need a zoning change to allow both the bed-and-breakfast and meeting-room functions. “We were given a road map by the city to follow, and we have followed that road map to the letter,” Raul Canache said last week. When the proposal reached the City Planning Commission, however, it stumbled badly. Staff members said they had no conceptual problem with the project — but that a number of legal issues prevent it. First, a bed-andbreakfast must be a former single- or two-family home — which the old police station never was. Second, it must be occupied by its owner. “The proposed bed-and-breakfast does not meet these requirements because the structure was originally used as an institutional facility, not a single- or two-family residence, and because the structure is owned by a limited liability company, which cannot obtain a homestead exemption,” city planners wrote. City planning officials said they are working with the City Council on
tutional buildings being auctioned by the city. The meeting last week featured an outpouring of support for the project. The Louisiana Landmarks Society noted that the old police station was on their 2010 list of New Orleans’ nine most endangered properties, and that the Canaches would fully restore the building. A number of neighbors and members of St. Luke’s Episcopal, where the Canaches attend church, also showed up to voice their support. “Liz and Raul have become a part of our community,” said church member Linda Hamilton. “It’s just awesome that someone would want to come in and take over this building, rather than have it sitting blighted.” Commissioner Nolan Marshall III expressed dismay that the earliest resolution possible could be months away, but the City Planning Commission decided its only option was to postpone a decision until staffers can provide a status update at the group’s next meeting. Reached later in the week, Brossett (whose district includes the station) said he is aware of the problem and plans to introduce a change in the law to allow former institutional buildings to be used as bed-and-breakfasts. He says the neighborhood supports the inn. “I’ve not heard any opposition to it,” Brossett said. “It’s a positive, putting a historic structure of this kind back into commerce, and I’m happy to assist in the process.” — This story was produced with our partners at Mid-City Messenger. Read more at www.midcitymessenger.com.
NEWS VIEWS SCUTTLEBUTT Quote of the week
“My mama says politicians are like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re gonna git.” — Local actor Vatican Lokey portraying Forrest Gump in a campaign commercial for Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta. The “Forrest” character was a jab at Skrmetta’s opponent, Forest Bradley Wright.
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On the eve of the Nov. 4 election, the University of New Orleans (UNO) Survey Research Center released a poll surveying Louisiana voters on three topics: the state of the state, health care policy and the U.S. Senate race. The biggest takeaway: Likely voters prefer U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in the primary, but if the Senate race goes to a runoff, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy is favored. The survey, which was conducted by telephone Oct. 11-24, sampled 590 registered voters and has a plus-or-minus 4.1 percent margin of error. Among its findings: • Voters across the board are unhappy with the direction they perceive Louisiana is taking — particularly black voters, women voters and registered Democrats. • Asked to name Louisiana’s biggest problem, the overwhelming response was education, cited by 19 percent of respondents. The No. 2 answer, unemployment, came in at 11 percent. • President Barack Obama has a 38 percent job approval rating in Louisiana, with 57 percent of those questioned disapproving of his performance. Disapproval was strongest among Republicans and Independents. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s approval rating wasn’t much better. In fact, it was within the margin of error of Obama’s: 40 percent approve of Jindal’s performance; 53 percent disapprove. • By a two-to-one margin, voters thought Louisiana should have accepted the federal Medicaid dollars that would have come with expanding the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) in the state. Overall, voters don’t like Obamacare, yet large majorities approve of some of the law’s most important provisions — creating a health insurance marketplace, requiring health insurance companies to cover per-
sons with pre-existing conditions, and requiring all Americans to have health insurance (with the government providing financial help to those who can’t afford it). Other surveys also show voters overwhelmingly support requiring health insurance companies to cover insureds’ children to age 26. • While Landrieu topped Cassidy in percentage of primary votes (38 percent to 33 percent), if the race goes to a December runoff between the two, the numbers switch, with Cassidy receiving 51 percent of the vote to Landrieu’s 43 percent. Support for the third major candidate, Col. Rob Maness, a Republican, is only 7 percent in the primary. Download a copy of the poll at www.tinyurl.com/2014unopoll. — KEVIN ALLMAN
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make up the bulk of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposed 2015 budget, Bunton said his office — which is budgeted for $938,623 from the city’s general fund in 2015 — continues to look for funding from grants and other agencies. The state pays 40 percent of its annual budget — more than the statewide average of 34 percent of each district’s public defender’s budget. Bunton said the city pays $364 per person for police protection, while it pays only $3 per person for public defense. The office handled 22,000 cases in 2013 and 18,000 so far in 2014, and Bunton said his office needs 80 attorneys to keep up with the caseload. It’s up to the Louisiana Legislature to approve the state office budget increase. Louisiana State Public Defender James T. Dixon Jr. said the state system is “chronically underfunded,” and he anticipates statewide offices in 2016 will be “all in the red.” Bunton also criticized the city’s “user-pay system,” in which a bulk of the public defender’s office budget relies on fines, fees and court costs rather than a general fund. “Our reliance … of levying on poor people going through the system, is unstable, unreliable and inadequate as a funding source for public defense,” he said, summing it up: “If you got money, you don’t stay in jail. If you don’t, you stay in jail.” — ALEX WOODWARD
‘Media wars’ at Loyola Advocate publisher cracks wise about T-P
Eighteen months after buying The Advocate and expanding the paper’s reach in New Orleans, publisher John Georges addressed a crowd of about 200 people at Loyola University’s School of Mass Communication last week. The talk was titled “Media Wars,” and Georges took a few swipes at his daily news competitor, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, but much of the talk was about how having a newspaper owner with no news experience was not so bad. “It’s good to have outsiders,” Georges said, calling himself a “disruptor” of the traditional newspaper game. Georges pointed out that the people who created the now-defunct Palm Pilot didn’t understand Steve Jobs’ concept for the iPhone, adding quickly, “I’m not saying I’m at his level.”
Georges was dismissive of the T-P’s recently announced plan to print the paper in Mobile, Alabama, and truck it in to the city every day. Asked if he ever saw a future where the two papers might collaborate, he cracked that it already was happening: “They quote us in every one of their stories.” No questions were posed about The New Orleans Advocate’s circulation numbers, nor its initial widely reported problems with home delivery. But Georges got the biggest laugh of the night when asked about his future political plans (he has run for New Orleans mayor and for governor). He said he doesn’t intend to run again for governor. “I’ve enjoyed it,” he said. “I haven’t served in it — but I’ve enjoyed it.” — KEVIN ALLMAN
DA: I need more money 2015 could bring staff cuts
Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro announced last week his office could lose staff as early as January if it doesn’t receive an additional $1.4 million in the 2015 city budget. Cannizzaro said he needs at least $313,000 to cover early 2015, with another $300,000 for pay raises. To make up for that potential loss in funding, Cannizzaro suggested that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) issue traffic tickets under state law, rather than municipal violations, which would send $20 from each ticket to the DA — a method practiced by other parishes, Cannizzaro said, adding his office is “more than willing” to train NOPD officers to start doing that. (Asked by District A City Councilwoman Susan Guidry why New Orleans handles traffic violations that way, Assistant District Attorney Christopher Bowman said, “I’m not in charge of NOPD, so I can’t answer that.”). Cannizzaro also asked the council to move $835,000 budgeted for traffic violations through the city attorney’s office into the DA’s office, which would then hire five prosecutors to handle the caseloads currently handled by 14 city attorneys. The office “is in a worse position than 2014,” Cannizzaro said, adding that without a budget tweak, his office may have to reduce staffing by 10 to 20 percent next year. He also requested 4 percent pay raises for staff, who have not seen a raise in 12 months. (There are 83 assistant district attorneys, with starting salaries PAGE 12
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of $45,000.) Without more money, the office “will make some very difficult choices that will undoubtedly have an effect on public safety,” he said. The DA’s office is allotted $6.5 million in Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposed 2015 budget. Landrieu’s proposed DA budget includes $205,000 dedicated to the Innocence Project, which reviews completed cases to help exonerate people who were found guilty. — ALEX WOODWARD
(Common) Core report
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A new Gallup poll measuring public school parents’ opinion of the Common Core educational standards saw a slip in support for Common Core, particularly among Republicans. According to the phone poll, which was taken in September, 58 percent of GOP parents now feel negatively about Common Core — a 16 percent jump over a similar poll in April. More Democrats are in favor of the standards: 48 percent ranked Common Core positively, while 23 percent ranked it negatively, similar to the April numbers. Timmy Teepell, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s former chief of staff-turned-political adviser, trumpeted the numbers on social media, tweeting, “Toxic numbers heading into an election year.” Teepell didn’t note that Jindal was a major supporter of Common Core just a few years ago — in fact, when Teepell himself was Jindal’s chief of staff. Also, several polls over the past two years show Jindal’s popularity is even lower than that of Common Core. — KEVIN ALLMAN
Weighty reporting
McAllister, Jindal on the scale
It used to be women candidates whose appearance, rather than performance, was scrutinized in the political media. Last week, National Review reported that Gov. Bobby Jindal had gained 13 pounds “over the last few months.” (This wasn’t part of a story; this was the story.) It followed Politico’s profile last month of U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister and his bid for reelection, which included the sentence, “As he gobbles banana cream pudding, McAllister admits he’s gained about 40 pounds.” The story also included House Speaker John Boehner jibing at the candidate about his midsection — and news that a porch swing collapsed under McAllister. — KEVIN ALLMAN
BOUQUETS + brickbats ™ heroes + zeroes Norman C. Francis,
president of Xavier University of New Orleans, received the Wiley A. Branton Award at the National Bar Association’s 25th annual Branton Award and Issues Symposium hosted by Southern University Law Center. The event and award are named after the attorney and civil rights leader. Francis, who was Gambit’s 2007 New Orleanian of the Year,plans to retire at the end of the 2014-2015 school year after 46 years as Xavier’s president.
New Orleans Hash House Harriers
donated $4,500 to WRBH-FM Reading Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped. Hash House Harriers hosts the annual Red Dress Run, which raises funds for local charities through registration fees. WRBH — one of the country’s only radio stations for the blind, which has broadcast the reading of newspapers, magazines and other publications since 1982 — plans to use the money to rebuild its website.
St. Martin’s Episcopal School
was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Benedict Foundation for Independent Schools for the school’s financial aid general fund. It will allow up to five students to complete high school at St. Martin’s. The foundation was founded in 1983 and has awarded nearly $5 million in grants.
Geoff Morrell,
a spokesman for BP, wrote an op-ed for Politico that ran Oct. 21 with the headline, “No, BP Didn’t Ruin the Gulf.” Really? While Morrell acknowledged that the 2010 oil disaster “was a tragedy,” a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct. 27 suggests the disaster left a 1,235-square-mile “footprint” in the Gulf. The outcry among environmentalists and media critics led Politico to run a counterpoint by the Gulf Restoration Program at Ocean Conservancy,
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COMMENTARY
thinking out loud
At stake: Louisiana’s future he hotly contested U.S. Senate race tops the ballot across Louisiana this Tuesday, Nov. 4. Out-of-state interests have dumped millions into TV attack ads, most of which cloud the real issue in this race: Which candidate will best serve Louisiana? We think the answer to that question is obvious: Mary Landrieu. During her three terms in the Senate, Landrieu has proved time and again that she delivers for Louisiana. As chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, she oversees federal policies that are vital to Louisiana’s economic future. She has led all efforts to help Louisianans recover from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Isaac, as well as the BP oil disaster. She has helped local governments (particularly law enforce-
ment) get needed federal funds to better serve their constituents. Equally important, Landrieu led the fight to roll back draconian flood insurance rate increases, keep military bases open and secure billions for coastal restoration and flood protection. Her opponents’ records pale in comparison. The stark reality is that Louisiana will always be one hurricane (or one oil spill) away from total economic ruin. We need someone with Landrieu’s influence to convince Congress that Louisiana’s fortunes are vital to America’s fortunes. Louisiana cannot afford to replace a veteran like Landrieu with a powerless rookie. We strongly urge our readers to re-elect U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu. A vote against her is a vote against Louisiana’s future.
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Public Service Commission, DIstrict 1: Forest Bradley Wright City of Harahan — Mayor: Eric Chatelain
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS #1
— Medical Assistance Trust Fund: YES
#2 — Hospital Stabilization Fund: YES #3 — Tax Sale: NO #4 — Investment of Public Funds: YES #5 — Remove Mandatory Retirement Age of Judges: YES #6 — Fire and Police Protection, Orleans Parish: YES #7 — Disabled Veterans: YES #8 — Artificial Reef Development Fund: YES #9 — Special Assessment Level, Disabled: YES #10 — Redemption Period, Abandoned Property: YES #11 — Executive Branch Departments: NO #12 — Wildlife and Fisheries Commission: NO #13 — Lower 9th Ward Property Sale: NO #14 — Tax Rebates, Incentives, Abatements: YES
LOCAL PROPOSITIONS ORLEANS PARISH ONLY Law Enforcement District – 2.9 mills – Sheriff: YES Home Rule Charter Amendment – Inauguration Date: YES Home Rule Charter Amendment – Contracting: YES
BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN™ Questions for Blake: askblake@gambitweekly.com
Hey Blake,
Now that the Allman Brothers are coming to an end as a band after 45 years, what can you tell me about when they opened the Superdome in 1975? Stanley Taylor
Dear Stanley,
The Allman Brothers Band in the 1970s, a few years before performing at the opening of the Superdome.
over the decades, including at City Park Stadium, Audubon Park, The Warehouse, The Saenger and Jazz Fest. Band members were even busted on drug charges after one local concert. At the time of their 1975 Superdome gig, the band featured Gregg Allman on lead vocals and organ; Dickey Betts on lead and slide guitars; Chuck Leavell on piano; Lamar Williams on bass guitar; Jaimoe on drums and percussion; and Butch Trucks on drums and timpani. Allman, Trucks and Jaimoe remained with the band for the entire 45-year run and Oct. 28 played what they say will be their last concert together.
BLAKEVIEW U.S. Sen. Russell Long
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n honor of this week’s mid-term elections, I’m remembering Russell Long, a Louisiana powerbroker who became the state’s longest-serving senator, spending 39 years in the U.S. Senate. A lifelong Democrat and son of the Kingfish, former Louisiana Governor and U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long, Russell Long was born in Shreveport. He graduated from LSU and was first elected to the Senate in 1948, three years after serving in World War II. He holds the distinction of being the only person in American history to be preceded in the Senate by both his father and mother, Rose, who served after her husband was assassinated. As a rising star in his own right, Sen. Russell Long was elected his party’s majority whip from 1965 to
1969 and chaired the powerful Senate Finance Committee for 15 years as well. Considered an expert in tax law, he drafted several of the nation’s key tax laws. The Who Dat Nation also owes him a debt of gratitude, because New Orleans might never have gotten an NFL franchise without Long and U.S. Rep. Hale Boggs. The pair used their considerable power to push through legislation merging the National Football League and American Football League — and shielding the league from anti-trust laws. In exchange, the NFL gave New Orleans the Saints expansion franchise in 1966. Long left office in 1986 and was succeeded by John Breaux. Long died in 2003 at the age of 84.
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You’d expect a building as big, important and multifaceted as the Superdome to have a diverse lineup for its grand opening. Ah, I remember it well. The Allman Brothers played there on Sunday, Aug. 31, 1975, capping off an opening weekend that included Bob Hope on Friday and a New Orleans Saints-Baltimore Colts game on Saturday night. Yes, young readers, the Colts originally played in Baltimore. Tickets to the “Pride of Dixie” concert were $10 in advance or $12 at the gate. The music started at 4 p.m. and ran well past midnight, with a country, Southern rock and blues lineup that included The Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie and The Charlie Daniels Band. In addition to great music, the concert also generated controversy. The Allman Brothers later sued the concert promoters, the Superdome and the ticket-taking company for $1.3 million, claiming the band did not receive money for more than 25,000 tickets sold. Lawsuits aside, memories of the music remain strong. The Allman Brothers, formed in 1969, played in New Orleans many other times
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CLANCY DUBOS
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POLITICS
Debunking Jindal’s ‘frivolous’ claim ov. Bobby Jindal’s meme that the local levee board’s landmark environmental lawsuit against nearly 90 energy companies is frivolous got shot down last week — not by supporters of the suit but by a pair of Texas oil companies that were named as defendants in the litigation. The two companies settled out of court with the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E) for $50,000. On its face, the dollar amount of the settlement doesn’t sound like much, but several factors make the settlement a really big deal. Consider these: • The settlement marks the first time energy companies have taken responsibility for increased public exposure to hurricane-related flooding due to their operations in coastal wetlands — and agreed to pay money damages as a result. • The settlement comes very early in the litigation process. Both sides are still arguing about whether recent anti-lawsuit legislation even applies to this case (and, if it does, whether the new law is constitutional). Neither side has taken the first deposition. That signals a genuine concern,
if not fear, among some defendants that the lawsuit poses a serious threat to their bottom lines. • The two defendants that settled — White Oak Operating Co. and Chroma Operating Inc., both of Houston — are among the smallest operators of the named defendants. Their operations were limited to less than 100 linear feet of a single spoil bank, among nearly 700 miles of pipeline canals that are the subject of the litigation — and the companies operated there for only two years. The lawsuit alleges environmental damages going back 80 years. Mathematically and legally, the $50,000 paid by White Oak and Chroma actually portend billions in potential damages against larger companies that operated in much larger footprints over much longer periods of time. White Oak and Chroma are privately held companies, in contrast to some publicly traded “majors” that are also defendants in the case. The two Texas companies probably needed to get the potential exposure for damages off their balance sheets in order to look better to potential lenders and/or investors — and
to eliminate any actual exposure. The lawsuit seeks to hold all defendants “jointly” liable, which means any or all of them could be targeted for collection of all potential damage awards. Most of all, the settlement sends a message that energy companies do not all agree with Jindal that the lawsuit is frivolous. As in criminal cases, the first defendants to settle in multi-party civil cases typically get the best deals. Strategically and financially, settling was a smart move for White Oak and Chroma. Others may not be far behind, which will really give the lawsuit some momentum. “Given that [the flood protection authority] named White Oak and Chroma for the same relatively limited footprint, and that at this early point in the litigation the parties had clear and simple positions, we are pleased to have come to what all sides feel are reasonable, responsible terms,” attorneys for both sides said in a prepared statement. SLFPA-E board chair Steve Estopinal promised that “every dollar” of the settlement will be used for coastal restoration and flood protection.
Two decades ago, when a group of big-time plaintiff lawyers sued the major tobacco companies, Big Tobacco initially took a “no prisoners” position — until one of the smaller companies settled. That ultimately brought the rest to the negotiating table. The end result was a multi-billion-dollar settlement. It’s too early to tell if that scenario will play out in the SLFPA-E lawsuit, but other defendants cannot possibly welcome news that two of their number are cutting their losses. Look for more defendants — small and not so small — to settle in the weeks ahead. It also will be interesting to see how this plays out politically. If other defendants start settling, it will not only disprove Jindal’s “frivolous lawsuit” claim but also bolster political opposition to his efforts to replace pro-lawsuit SLFPA-E board members with lackeys who promise to scuttle the suit. Jindal will doubtless mock the small sum paid by White Oak and Chroma, but that will be just one more example of him ignoring reality.
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RUHUL AMIN, 33
Electrical engineer, Stennis Space Center
Electrical engineer Ruhul Amin developed a technique that allows instruments in space to filter out clouds and other atmospheric interference to take pictures of algae blooms in coastal waters.
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BY M A RK A LL A IN FR A NK E THERID GE A NN A GAC A K A NDACE P OW ER GR AV ES DELL A H A S SELLE A PRIL IS A AC S JE A NIE RIES S MIS S Y W ILKINS ON & A LE X WO ODWA RD PHOTOS BY CHERY L GERBER
Writer, instructor, editor www.davidarmandauthor.com, @darmandauthor www.facebook.com/davidarmandauthor
Louisiana native David Armand is the author of two published books, The Pugilist’s Wife, which earned him the George Garrett Fiction Prize, and Harlow, which has earned him comparisons to William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor from reviewers far and wide.
When he was in third grade, Armand started drawing comic strips. Even though they weren’t examples of the kind of literary fiction he’s made a name for Book currently reading: himself creating, they did spark a love for A Miracle of Catfish storytelling. In high school and college by Larry Brown Armand took writing more seriously and submitted stories for publication. Favorite new album/CD: He teaches creative writing at SouthNothing More’s Nothing More eastern University in Hammond and Favorite restaurant: just finished his third novel, The Gorge, which Jazmine Cafe is forthcoming from Southeast Missouri State Dancing or karaoke? Dancing University Press. “I’ve gotten used to the idea of being called a Southern writer, and even more so a Southern gothic writer,” Armand says. “The responsibility of that is to really capture what’s unique about this area, Louisiana, New Orleans and even where I grew up, in Folsom. Place is very important to me.” Armand says his future holds more storytelling. “I’d like to have a book come out every other year, and just kind of slowly build up an audience and readership, and be able to travel a little bit more and read in different places. I don’t want to be overly successful right off the bat, because I think that puts a lot of pressure on you. But it would be nice to be a little more comfortable.” — JEANIE RIESS PAGE 20
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DAVID ARMAND, 34
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He also is working on a process that will allow satellites to track ice from the polar cap as it moves and melts. “Most of the work I do is basically via satellite,” says Amin, who commutes every day from his home Uptown to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where he works. “On the International Space Station there’s an instrument that takes a picture. Book currently reading: I developed an algorithm that extracts only The Future of the Mind useful algae information.” by Dr. Michio Kaku An algae bloom can cause contamination of drinking water. It cuts off oxygen to plants Favorite Twitter account and fish below it and causes them to die, and to follow: @michiokaku toxins from some algae are carried by sea Favorite local band: spray and can cause disease in humans who Rebirth Brass Band inhale it. Amin has applied for a patent for that Favorite restaurant: technique and one for detecting shadows Katie’s Restaurant and is working on another for ice, which from What do you do in your off space looks the same as clouds and shadows. time? Play soccer, volleyball, do “We just want to see where that ice is yoga, bike, cook and volunteer broken in the ocean,” Amin says. “It’s obviously important information for the shipping Dancing or karaoke? Dancing industry, the fishing industry and everyone else, but also it’s important for global warming. … If we can successfully separate (the ice from the clouds in images) … we can see how much ice is moving, how much is melting and all sort of things,” including weather and climate patterns. In New Orleans, Amin serves as secretary for Slow Food NOLA and volunteers with the Rodrigue Foundation and NOLA Trash Mob. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES
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ANDREA ARMSTRONG, 39 Associate Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans
Director, Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans @PREACH504
Andrea Armstrong created a new certificate in Social Justice at Loyola Law that aims to distinguish to potential employers and fellowships, the exceptional students who have focused their training on serving the poor and marginalized.
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Armstrong left the city to enroll at New York University. She later earned a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University and a law degree from Yale. Armstrong, the first African-American woman to serve in the Peace Corps in Turkmenistan, has been an advocate for international human rights, prisoners’ rights and abolition of the death penalty. She has been a member of Loyola University’s law faculty since 2010. “As an academic, I have the freedom to think and write about deeper structural issues that may be politically unpopular but also helpful towards accomplishing change over the long term,” she says. To that end, Armstrong has done extensive research on penal plantation slavery and has published articles calling for prison reform. She currently is working on an article about racial bias and findings from implicit association testing. Armstrong sees the certificate in social justice as just the first step in supporting a new crop of socially conscious attorneys and advocates. “As a Loyola faculty member I can help build the next movement of activists for social justice through teaching, advising, and fostering a space for students to embrace their role as future advocates. In addition to the new certificate, we are building a public service concentration in our skills curriculum, fostering an ongoing community of activism through hosting speakers and events, as well as building a Loyola Social Justice website that will host materials and videos to support social justice advocacy more broadly.” — APRIL ISAACS
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Book currently reading: Punished: Policing Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Victor Rios Favorite new album/CD: Lee Fields and the Expressions’ Emma Jean Favorite Twitter account to follow: @TalibKweli Favorite local bands: John Boutte, Brass-A-Holics, Charmaine Neville and Herlin Riley Favorite restaurants: Cafe Reconcile, Liberty’s Kitchen, Il Posto What do you do in your off time? “Dance and music. I have two small daughters that I adore. I’m with them quite a bit. Then it’s really music.” Dancing or karaoke? “Dancing by far, though I’ve been known to rock ‘Brick House.’ Dance is a really important part of my life.”
Ansel Augustine has spent his career rebuilding the community, advocating for social justice and equality and nurturing a new generation of black Catholics.
Favorite new album/CD: He began working in ministry Anomaly by LeCrae 15 years ago at St. Peter Claver Favorite Twitter account to Catholic Church in his home follow: @KermitRuffins parish. After Hurricane Katrina, Favorite local band: Rebirth he helped rebuild his church Brass Band and the neighborhood that surrounds it, and continues Favorite restaurant: Dooky to be an influential force in Chase’s Restaurant the community, advocating What do you do in your off for equality in education and time? “I like to read and go to the social justice. gym and lift weights.” He is director of the Office of Dancing or karaoke? “Dancing, Black Catholic Ministries for the because I can’t sing worth a lick.” Archdiocese of New Orleans, which identifies and fosters the rich diversity of black Catholics. Previously he served as associate director and coordinator of the Catholic Youth Office’s Black Youth and Young Adult Ministry. Augustine, who also is a member of The Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indian tribe, says one of his favorite things about his job is that it enables him to inspire new generations of New Orleanians. “I do what I do because our youth are our future,” he says. — DELLA HASSELLE
BRIDGEJA’ BAKER, 17
ROBIN BARNES, 27
At age 10, Bridgeja’ Baker launched her own jewelry line, which has won national accolades and is sold on QVC.com.
After a life-threatening health crisis, jazz singer Robin Barnes created fitness apparel with a local spin on wellness.
Owner, Creative Jewelry by Bridgeja’ www.creativejewelrybybridgeja.com, @cjbybridgeja; www.facebook.com/ JewelryByBridgeja
When 10-year-old Baker’s new braces broke after hours, her father drove her to an orthodontist’s office in Mandeville, which was located next to a bead shop. Smitten with the art of creating fashion accessories, Baker took 30 jewelry-making classes at the shop. “I loved the classes, and the owner was really impressed,” Baker says. A friend’s parent threw Currently reading: King Lear a party featuring her jewelry, and Baker sold by William Shakespeare $1,107 worth of items. “I was like, ‘I have to make Favorite musician: this a business.’” Kanye West Now 17, Baker has sold her jewelry at Essence Favorite subject in school: Market Place Arts Expo, the New Orleans Jazz & History Heritage Foundation and www.qvc.com. She has been recognized by first lady Michelle Obama’s Favorite local band: Rebirth chief of staff. She regularly donates jewelry to Brass Band silent auctions for nonprofit organizations, and a percentage of her earnings is donated to the LA/ SCPA, Children’s Hospital and Unity for the Homeless. A senior at Isidore Newman School, Baker hopes to attend Savannah College of Art and Design majoring in fashion. “My ultimate goal is to become a great fashion designer,” Baker says. “As long as you have some drive, pretty much anything is possible.” — MISSY WILKINSON
Singer/songwriter; founder and CEO, Fit By You www.fitbyyou.co, @RobinMBarnes, www.facebook.com/robinbarnesmusic
Robin Barnes is a musician, so she knows New Orleanians like to move. What’s missing, she believes, is awareness of what it means to live healthfully. Her realization came two years ago, when the singer contracted a sudden illness. She thought it was jet lag, but it turned out to be a rare kidney infection. Her doctor was upbeat; it wasn’t until after her recovery that she found out she was lucky to be alive. The close call convinced her that a positive mindset is essential to wellness. It also inspired her to create Fit By You, a line of fitness gear emblazoned with Carnival-themed motivational slogans. These days, she starts her morning with a 5 a.m. workout, spends the day managing her businesses and wraps up the week with regular music gigs. As a mentor to local high school and college students, Barnes is determined to spread a message of achievement through positivity. — ANNA GACA
Book currently reading: The Power by Rhonda Byrne Favorite new album/CD: Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour Favorite Twitter account to follow: @Women_Fit Favorite local band: “I can’t put me, huh?” Favorite restaurant: Mint Modern Vietnamese What do you do in your off time? Play golf
Dancing or karaoke? Dancing!
HARRAH’S THEATER
G. WOGAN BERNARD, 34 Partner, Chaffe McCall LLP
G. Wogan Bernard is helping redevelop New Orleans while also constructing a legal career of rising national prominence.
In both his role as board member of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity and his job fostering commercial developments in new construction as well as rehabilitation projects, Bernard is literally helping rebuild his hometown. A graduate of Jesuit High School, Bernard earned a degree in Book currently reading: economics from Washington & Lee University. He got his law degree from Inferno by Dan Brown Louisiana State University, where Favorite local band: Rebirth he served as a senior editor of the Brass Band Louisiana Law Review. Favorite restaurant: Clancy’s He accepted a position with Chaffe What do you do in your off McCall law firm in May 2006, a time time? “Spend as much time as I when the city was booming with can with my wife and three kids.” commercial projects to meet huge infrastructure and housing needs. It was a daunting task for a recent college graduate, but Bernard brokered complicated deals, often using tax incentives, to help keep the flow of development active to this day. For his accomplishments, Bernard was one of the youngest fellows ever accepted by American College of Mortgage Attorneys. He also is a leader in the American Bar Association’s Real Property Probate & Trust Section and an in-demand speaker at legal conferences across the country. “A lot of my success is based on support and mentorship from Chaffe McCall, as well as my family,” Bernard says. “I take a lot of satisfaction in what I do, in being part of the continued redevelopment of New Orleans, of seeing the results of what we do.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE
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Managing Partner, Besselman & Associates Chairwoman, Young Professionals, Jefferson Chamber www.besselmanandassoc.com
Patricia Besselman has worked to breathe new life into the Jefferson Chamber by pulling in more young professionals.
In 2012, Besselman was in her late 20s when she became managing partner of her father’s firm, Besselman & Associates, and attended her first Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Book currently reading: The meeting. She knew it was important Alchemist by Paulo Coelho to network with other business professionals, but she didn’t feel she Favorite local band: Rebirth got much out it because she was so Brass Band much younger than other members. Favorite restaurant: Galatoire’s Now, Besselman serves as 33 Bar & Steak chairwoman of the Young Professionals, What do you do in your off which focuses on building relationships between business people under the age time? DIY projects of 40. The committee hosts networking Dancing or karaoke? Dancing events, educational programs and facilitates community involvement. “I consider it a landing pad for young people,” Besselman says. Besselman spearheaded an initiative to stage the first Fat City Fest this month in Metairie. The event, which she says is designed to showcase an area in the middle of a renaissance, will feature local bands, food and retail vendors. “My goal is to essentially make people aware of how unique the area is and highlight the resources we have,” she says. — DELLA HASSELLE
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CAITLIN CAIN, 38
R. ERICH CAULFIELD, 39
Regional Advocate, U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy www.sba.gov/advocacy
President, The Caulfield Consulting Group @rerichc
A trained economic developer and urban planner, Caitlin Cain fosters grassroots growth across five states.
If you’re a small business owner, or aspire to be one, Caitlin Cain is your go-to person in Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. As an advocate at the Small Business Administration, Cain represents the interests of entrepreneurs, helping them gain access to resources, navigate regulations and voice their concerns to Washington. The most interesting part of her job, Cain says, is the opportunity to meet working people in every industry: independent fishers, small manufacturers and mom-and-pop hardware store operators. Her home base is New Orleans, where in her former job as director of the Regional Planning Commission, Cain was instrumental in securing development of the new University Medical Center. In May, she hosted a symposium for small business leaders, encouraging them to make connections and share experiences as they build the base of the regional economy. — ANNA GACA
Erich Caulfield helps government function better for the people of New Orleans. Book currently reading: Last Train to Paris by Michele Zackheim Favorite restaurants: Boucherie, Patois, Bouligny Tavern What do you do in your off time? Play tennis, walk my dog, hang out with friends and family Dancing or karaoke? Dancing
ANTHONY CERRATO, 37
Director of fabrication, Solomon Group www.solomongroup.com
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Anthony Cerrato creates environments that can transport audiences to another place and time, and his talents in fabrication and scenic art will be exhibited in a huge way when Campaigns of Courage: The Road to Berlin opens next year at the National World War II Museum.
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The project, the largest to date for the Solomon Group, involves creating immersive scenes in nine galleries, representing a desert in North Africa, the Ardennes Forest where the Battle of the Bulge was fought, and other locations pertinent to the WWII campaign. Cerrato began working for Solomon Group in September 2012 and already has inked his resume with the Emmy-nominated CBS broadcast set for Super Bowl XLVII, The Train Car Experience at the World War II Museum and sets for Essence Music Festival. Before coming to New Orleans, he directed and produced numerous theatrical works, built sets and engineered scenery in New York City, North Carolina, Detroit and Philadelphia and worked with touring productions and performers all over the world, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philip Glass, Richard Foreman and others. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES
The Baton Rouge native has an extensive resume of Book currently reading: The Years leadership positions, of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent including serving as by Robert A. Caro chief policy advisor to Favorite Twitter account to former Newark, New follow: @CoryBooker Jersey, mayor Cory Booker. Soon after Favorite local bands: Brass-APresident Barack Holics, Rebirth Brass Band and Obama appointed Trombone Shorty Caulfield a White Favorite restaurant: House Fellow and Jaqcues-Imo’s Cafe worked at the White What do you do in your off time? House Domestic “I love live music. I love movies. I Policy Council. have TV shows I follow.” When Caulfield had a chance to return Dancing or karaoke? Dancing home to Louisiana, however, he jumped at it. He was selected as White House team leader for the White House Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiative (SC2). Working closely with Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s senior staff, Caulfield helped implement federal programs, and his team ultimately created dozens of new construction jobs, cut the number of patients waiting to get psychiatric care in emergency rooms by 25 percent and helped nearly 70 homeless residents find housing. “In a real way, SC2 represented what government is supposed to be,” Caulfield says. “How can you give people who live in New Orleans, which I love, a shot at a better life? That’s what it’s all about.” After SC2 funding ran out, Caulfield founded The Caulfield Consulting Group in New Orleans and serves as its president. “SC2 didn’t come with any new money,” he says. “It showed me if you’re very thoughtful about using what you already have, you can have a great impact on people’s lives.” — DELLA HASSELLE PAGE 24
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Book currently reading: The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Favorite Twitter account to follow: @Obrett11 (@platinumlifestyleplus on Instagram) Favorite local band: Ballzack What do you do in your off time? “Practice piano, practice guitar — I have to doodle, draw, build a sculpture, paint. I have to do something every day or I think the day’s a waste. I’m also taking voice lessons and improv classes.” Dancing or karaoke? “My back pocket karaoke song is ‘Sixteen Tons’ by Tennessee Ernie Ford. … I love dancing, and I love learning
different styles.”
GREG DIETZ, 38 TED NEIKIRK, 38 JAMES “JAMMER” ORINTAS, 38
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Dave Davis is a New Orleans actor who has been featured in True Detective, The Walking Dead and several leading roles in SyFy network features. He also
co-founded the music and comedy group Bare Handed Bear Handlers, which will debut a webseries next year.
The New Jersey native, who attended Ben Franklin High School and Lusher Charter School, spent five years working with the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival and performed the lead in the 2012 production of Hamlet. Davis has racked up a dozen diverse film credits, including “Toby” on the acclaimed series True Detective. “I auditioned five times, each time drastically different characters — whether it’s a thug, or someone with cerebral palsy,” he says. “It was cool to show the local casting directors what I’m capable of, and I’ve established a relationship with them over the years.” But his passion is Bare Handed Bear Handlers, a music and comedy group he’s in with Owen Legendre. The group produced viral-ready, over-the-top music videos, premiered the short film Guisheppy’s at the New Orleans Film Festival, and plans a webseries (Jingle Boys, about a jingle company), and forthcoming feature film. “We’re working on the script now, and when that’s done, which is the hardest part, we’re getting the money, we’re getting the team and we’re going to take over,” he says. “We plan to make movies the rest of our lives.” — ALEX WOODWARD
JEFFREY DOUSSAN JR., 31 Owner, RoadSNAP www.roadsnap.com, @jdoussan
Owners, Theo’s Pizza www.theospizza.com
In November 2004, three college friends went out on a limb and opened a new pizza restaurant on Magazine Street. Fast-forward 10 years, and the owners of Theo’s Pizza have successfully added two more locations and a food truck, all while managing to consistently give back to the community.
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Jeffrey Doussan, Jr. is the owner of RoadSNAP, a transportation technology and traffic safety company that aims to get people where they need to go safely and efficiently.
GREG DIETZ
Books currently reading: World War Z: An Oral As one of the first History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks and Triumph restaurants to open Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar on Magazine Street after Hurricane Katrina, Favorite new album/CD: From the Hills Below The the trio served up City by Houndmouth pizza, water and beer, Favorite local band: Honey Island Swamp Band working tirelessly to Favorite restaurant: Sylvain keep spirits hopeful and bellies full while people What do you do in your off time? “I love playing with were cleaning up after my kids. I coach my kids’ soccer teams. I love jogging the storm. Since then, at Audubon Park. And playing tennis with my wife.” Theo’s has continued Dancing or karaoke? Karaoke to engage with the community and donate whenever they can. Every month, the three owners personally host a birthday party at the Salvation Army Center of Hope, providing pizza, party favors and laughter for the kids who reside there. The company also supports numerous other organizations, including Boys Hope Girls Hope, Heart Gift, The Pro Bono Project and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. “We are more than excited to do that,” Dietz says. “What we feel is this: we rely on the community to be successful. Therefore, we feel its only fair to give back.” Besides, he says, it always brightens an event when the company donates a couple of pies. After all: “Pizza is an everybody food.” — DELLA HASSELLE
Doussan, a seventh-generation New Orleanian, has always Book currently reading: been an entrepreneur, from The Lean Startup by Eric Ries starting his first business at age and Business Adventures by John Brooks 8 to consulting for businesses around the city. Favorite Twitter account to He started RoadSNAP six years follow: @gselevator ago and has since expanded Favorite local band: the company into six states, Cowboy Mouth with offices in New Orleans Favorite restaurant: Square Root and Raleigh, North Carolina. Doussan says though the highDancing or karaoke? Karaoke tech products are an important part of his company, “where we can make a difference, and affect everyone’s day, is on smaller roads, pedestrian areas, and we have some great things going on in the city of New Orleans, specifically where we’re trying to push New Orleans to be a biking and walking city.” RoadSNAP supports sustainable urban design by providing the devices and the safety countermeasures needed to implement the city’s Complete Streets ordinance, which says that all roads must accommodate all users, including drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and the disabled. “The projects that we’re able to do in New Orleans are the ones really touching the locals,” he says. “The Lafitte Greenway is going to open next year. You’re going to see our products on the Lafitte Greenway.” He plans to build on his company’s core values and provide solutions that have a positive impact. “It’s about solutions that matter and make a difference for the user and do something for our city and for our society. My next big challenge is enlarging the size of my family and staying in New Orleans and making sure that New Orleans is a vibrant place to continue to have family here. And hopefully my kids will stay here.” — JEANIE RIESS
JOLENE FEHLER, 39
Executive director, Funny Bones Improv www.funnybonesimprov.com, @fbimprov
Jolene Fehler’s nonprofit Funny Bones Improv brings laughs to children in hospitals in New Orleans and Chicago, including several monthly performances in the Crescent City since 2009.
“To watch kids’ transformation from sadness and stress to laughing and smiling and just being a kid is incredibly special,” she says. “It gave comedy a purpose to me.” Fehler and a few comedian friends first performed at a children’s hospital in Chicago in April 2008. Funny Bones’ volunteer players now perform four times a month at Tulane Hospital for Children, Ochsner Medical Center and Children’s Hospital (and in Chicago, they perform four times a month at Rush University Medical Center, Advocate Lutheran General and Oaklawn Hospital). Fehler also is a “laughter yoga” teacher, and she does corporate improv training for workplaces. She has performed improv comedy for more than 13 years and studied improv at the Second City Theater in Toronto and Chicago as well as Chicago’s IO Improv and Annoyance. “I want Funny Bones to be in 20 big, or little, or any cities, because there are kids in hospitals in all these places,” she says. “Whether they’re there for a broken arm or something more serious, it’s pretty spectacular to get to laugh with them and share something beautiful.” — ALEX WOODWARD
Book currently reading: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Favorite new album/CD: Ray LaMontagne’s Supernova Favorite local band: Country Fried Favorite restaurant: Bhava What do you do in your off time? “Play with my kids and listen to live music.” Dancing or karaoke? “Really, both. … I’m an Organ Grinder, dancing in a dance krewe. … I sing
very badly Don’t Stop Believing by Journey.”
GABRIELA FIGHETTI, 36
Deputy Executive Director, The Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice
Her experience with OneApp propelled Fighetti into a new job in September working for the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice, where she will try to forge policies in educational districts across the country that will give all children a fair chance at a good education. Fighetti arrived in New Orleans to become executive director for student enrollment at RSD when the city was recovering from Hurricane Katrina and struggling to function without a centralized public school system. Driven by what she describes as the sense from childhood (spent in the good public schools of middle-class suburban New Jersey) of the “fundamentally unfair” reality of children’s ZIP codes determining their school and their school determining their destiny, Fighetti launched OneApp within eight months of coming to the RSD. The app, which is in its fourth year, now has 90 percent participation among schools in the city and places 90 percent of applicants in kindergarten through ninth grade in one of their top three school choices. “I came down to New Orleans with the purpose of creating a more fair and equitable enrollment system, and that idea is very dear to me,” she says. “I’m a real geek for this; I’m a real believer in school choice. In the long term, I’m looking to help districts build one like we have in New Orleans and then ensure that the system is serving families as well as it can. It’s really hard work, but I’m excited to do this.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE
Book currently reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Favorite Twitter account to follow: @peterccook Favorite local band: Hurray for the Riff Raff Favorite restaurant: Peche What do you do in your off time? “Hang out with friends and, now that it’s fall, go eat and drink outside.” Dancing or karaoke? Karaoke
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Gaby Fighetti directed the Recovery School District’s (RSD) successful development and implementation of OneApp, a centralized citywide student enrollment system that gives students choices in schools; she now will establish school choice policies across the country.
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BENJAMIN FOLEY, 37
General manager of offshore renewables, Keystone Engineering Inc.
Thanks to Benjamin Foley, clean energy may soon be a lot more affordable.
Foley is general manager of Keystone Engineering Inc., a local firm with more than 25 years’ experience with oil and gas projects. Recently, however, Foley and his team have been a tour de force in a new sector: offshore renewable wind industry. Keystone Engineering recently designed Book currently reading: Edge of an innovative new structure for wind Eternity by Ken Follett turbines, which will decrease costs associated with the industry. Using Foley’s Favorite new album/CD: Jason “Twisted Jacket” technology, developers Isbell’s Southeastern can construct large-scale wind farms that Favorite Twitter account to produce clean energy. The invention is being follow: @BillSimmons used at two new East Coast wind energy Favorite local band: projects that recently received $47 million in Papa Grows Funk funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. Wind farms are slated to use the design Favorite restaurant: Brigtsen’s in Europe and Asia, and the Keystone team What do you do in your off is working with the National Renewable time? Goes to New Orleans Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, to Saints games and plays with study and build larger turbines. his daughter “To develop offshore wind to power Dancing or karaoke? “It depends major eastern cities is very important to on how many cocktails I’ve had. I’d reduce reliance on foreign industry and to probably do karaoke first.” reduce environmentally deleterious energy practices we use,” Foley said. “Unfortunately, it’s quite expensive to generate wind power. People have a tendency to say they’re all for ecologically sound technology, but not if it costs them more money.” — DELLA HASSELLE
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Founder, Thinkerella www.mythinkerella.com; @MyThinkerella; www.facebook.com/thinkerellanola
“ Loyola plays a critical role in the present and future of New Orleans as so many of our graduates are the backbone of small businesses, major corporations, and service organizations in the city.”
Cherie Melancon Franz found an ingenious way to introduce kids to the fun side of science: make it a party game.
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She founded Thinkerella in March, coming up with the idea after a spa-themed party her daughter attended. Franz thought Book currently reading: Gone parents needed an activity option for Girl by Gillian Flynn parties that was fun and educational. Favorite Twitter account to Thinkerella is a mobile science lab that follow: @FleurtyGirl offers fun, nontoxic activities for kids 3 Favorite local band: Rebirth to 13 years old. By building ball shooters Brass Band out of noodles, or making snow out of polymers, children can develop a love Favorite restaurant: Vincent’s for science while having fun at birthday Italian Cuisine parties, youth group meetings and afterWhat do you do in your off school sessions, Franz says. time? “I play with my kids.” “Each kid gets a lab coat and safety Dancing or karaoke? Karaoke goggles, and they turn into little scientists as soon as they put them on,” Franz says. “I started it because I wished a company like that had existed sooner for my daughter: You plant the seed of science, but it’s all very fun and exciting.” Thinkerella has been a success and has expanded to include ThinkerKids, an after-school program conducted at 10 local elementary schools in the New Orleans area. Franz regularly hires teachers to help with the programs and has taught more than 1,000 children about the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, aerodynamics and more. After all, as Franz says, “You’re never to young to change the world.” — DELLA HASSELLE
CANDACE FRISARD, 35
MICHAEL GIUSTI, 36
Owner, World Martial Arts
Senior media adviser and instructor, Loyola University
This year, Candace Frisard became the first Louisiana woman to be nominated to the Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
“I’m super excited about it,” says Frisard, who adds she’s “tried her hardest” to change the perception that martial arts is just for men. “You don’t see too many martial arts women actresses, just a lot of actors. That needs to change.” For Frisard, practicing martial arts has become a way of life. She began training in 1985 through the Kenner Parks and Recreation Department and became an instructor at World Martial Arts in Kenner in 1994. A year later, she took over the program. She won two gold medals in the Junior Olympics in 1998 and since has attained two national titles, but her focus isn’t only on winning medals and shattering stereotypes. A third of her week is devoted to pro bono service, teaching at-risk youth in the same martial arts program in which she was raised. “I really just want to share the knowledge,” she says. “That’s my goal every day. It helps you be a really disciplined person.” — DELLA HASSELLE
Michael Giusti is Loyola University’s senior media adviser, an awardwinning journalism instructor and a national expert on the business of media and newsroom management.
Favorite local band: Rebirth Brass Band Favorite restaurant: Taqueria Corona What do you do in your off time? CrossFit training and competition Dancing or karaoke? “Definitely dancing. I don’t think anyone wants to hear me sing.”
COLIN GRUSSING, 29
Entrepreneur/Investor 52businesses.com; rootsuit.com; @colingrussing
Ever an entrepreneur, Grussing already had designed a medical device by the time he earned a Book currently reading: mechanical engineering degree from Getting Things Done: The Art Yale University. After watching friends of Stress-Free Productivity by embark on unfulfilling career paths and David Allen having his own bad experience as a production assistant on a New OrleansFavorite new album/CD: shot film, he chose to blaze his own Volcano Choir’s Repave trail. Taking an idea from the sitcom Favorite restaurant: Adolfo’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Grussing ordered 15 green spandex body suits, sold them all online in less than 24 hours and had a waiting list of 2,500 orders. He since has used that early success to promote start-ups in New Orleans through not only 52 Businesses (which helped New Orleans Saints kicker Thomas Morstead launch his What You Give Will Grow nonprofit) but also in his role as general manager of NOLATech Week, which in its fourth year reported an 50 percent increase in attendance and number of events. “For a while, I wanted to retire within five years, because I had enough to live on, but I realized what I enjoy is launching businesses and helping other people do the same. It’s really crazy how difficult people think it is to start a business, so I wanted to show them how to do it without risking their life savings or quitting their day job. It’s something I really get energized by.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE
Book currently reading: Free by Chris Anderson and The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola Favorite Twitter account to follow: @NiemanLab Favorite local band: Kermit Ruffins Favorite restaurant: Katie’s Restaurant What do you do in your off time? Read old detective novels Dancing or karaoke? Dancing
LESLI D. HARRIS, 39 Attorney, Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC www.stonepigman.com; @LeslieHarris
Lesli Harris uses her legal skills to fight for same-sex marriage rights in Louisiana. When she’s not working for LGTBQ rights, she’s helping the growing local entrepreneurial community thrive.
As one of the lead attorneys representing Forum for Equality in Louisiana, Harris filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s ban on recognizing same-sex marriages that are performed legally Book currently reading: Natchez outside of the state. The lawsuit Burning by Greg Iles charges that Louisiana’s refusal to Favorite Twitter account to recognize those marriages denies follow: @nytimes individuals equal protection and due process as guaranteed by the Favorite local band: Trombone U.S. Constitution. Shorty “I think as a lawyer it’s right Favorite restaurant: Marcello’s to fight for people who are Restaurant & Wine Bar discriminated against on a What do you do in your off daily basis,” Harris says. “I have time? Hang out with friends, have a lot of friends who are gay cocktails and decorate my house and lesbian, and they’re being stripped of their rights. Justice Dancing or karaoke? Dancing requires a recognition of samesex marriage.” To help entrepreneurs, Harris recently helped launch Stone Pigman’s CornerStone Program, which provides startups and individuals with lowcost legal services to protect new ventures. She also is lead author of Fashion & Entertainment Law Guide blog and co-chair of the New Orleans Bar Association’s Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Committee. — DELLA HASSELLE PAGE 28
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Colin Grussing’s first business venture, the Root Suit, proved so profitable that it allowed the Lafayette native to invest in New Orleans real estate, establish the motorcycle side-car maker NOLA Sidecars and launch 52 Businesses, which is helping get one business up and running every week for a year.
Since Michael Giusti returned to Loyola University in 2006 to serve as senior media advisor, Loyola’s student newspaper The Maroon has tripled its advertising revenue and risen to national acclaim, winning more than 150 city, state, regional and national awards for journalistic excellence. An expert in the business of media, Giusti serves as the managing editor of the New Yorkbased financial-industry trade magazine The Daily Funder and contributes as a freelance writer to national and international news outlets. “I love my work at Loyola and also the opportunities I have to do consulting for other college papers, to help them avoid common pitfalls and ensure a viable economic future for their publications.” — MARK ALLAIN
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DR. MARA HASELTINE, 37
Dermatologist, Poole Dermatology www.pooledermatology.com, @DrPoole1
Dr. Mara Haseltine helped pass legislation prohibiting minors from using tanning beds, which can cause deadly melanoma.
When she was selected to be president of the Louisiana Dermatological Society, Haseltine wanted to “leave a mark.” “I had no history of political activity, but a good way to leave a mark is make a law,” Haseltine says. Book currently reading: Kitchen Specifically, Haseltine wanted to make Confidential by Anthony Bourdain a law prohibiting minors from using and Americanah by Chimamanda tanning beds. Only six states had passed Ngozi Adichie similar laws, and in some cases it was Favorite new album/CD: The a struggle. But Haseltine’s compelling National’s Trouble Will Find Me testimony and that of her patients, young Favorite local band: the women with melanoma, helped the bill subdudes pass through the Louisiana House with only one vote against it. Favorite restaurant: Cochon “I said, ‘This is not controversial. Tanning Dancing or karaoke? Both causes melanoma,’” Haseltine says. “We have large studies to prove that now. Even [using a tanning bed] once is associated with a 60 percent increase of melanoma.” Louisiana became the ninth state in the nation to pass laws against tanning bed use by minors. “It is a real win for Louisiana,” says Haseltine, who adds she hopes to continue being an advocate for patients and doctors. — MISSY WILKINSON
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Claire Jecklin, co-principal of Sci High, believes in teacher-led schools and sees success every time a graduate walks across the stage.
Jecklin and her husband, both educators, wanted to live in a city where teaching could change lives. They thought New Orleans might be it, so they booked plane Books currently reading: Focus tickets — for Aug. 28, 2005. The trip was by Mike Schmoker and Eleanor & canceled because of Hurricane Katrina, but Park by Rainbow Rowell the couple eventually moved to the Crescent Favorite new album/CD: Sharon City anyway. Jones & the Dap-Kings’ Give the Jecklin began teaching at Sci High, People What They Want a standalone Uptown charter school with an emphasis on STEM subjects Favorite Twitter account to and one of the most demographically follow: @SciHighNOLA representative student bodies in the Favorite restaurant: city. Several years later, she shares the Dick & Jenny’s principal’s office with Chana Benenson, a 40 What do you do in your off Under 40 winner from 2009. time? “Read, take my dog to As Co-principal for academics, Jecklin the levee, go out to eat and oversees the school’s effort to build career see music.” education and college readiness into the curriculum. To do it, she’s expanded internships, advanced placement classes and opportunities for students to earn technical certifications. “The job just keeps changing,” she says. “That’s the goal of a principal: to continue to push the growth of the school, push what we’re offering for our students and our community.” — ANNA GACA
ONASSIS JONES, 39
Mental health specialist, Cafe Reconcile www.cafereconcile.org; @bishop_oj (Instagram)
New Orleans native Onassis Jones provides training and mental health support to at-risk young people at Cafe Reconcile.
Jones is the organization’s mental health specialist, where he has led group and individual counseling sessions. Last year, participants in the program, which mentors and trains at-risk youth for work in the restaurant industry, had a 90 percent reduction in substance abuse and 67 percent reduction in mental health issues. Jones earned a master’s degree in divinity and psychology from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and served an internship and practicum Book currently reading: Five Star at Covenant House. Church: Serving God and His People “My passion just kicked in,” he says. “Even with Excellence by Stan Toler and the people considered ‘rough and tough’ in their Alan Nelson community had a sincere heart, and they were Favorite restaurant: Houston’s crying for help.” Jones then worked as a case manager, counselor and family intervention What do you do in your off time? specialist at Orleans Parish Juvenile Drug Court Listen to music and relax by the lake for seven years before joining Cafe Reconcile in Dancing or karaoke? “Dancing. I January 2012. was a drum major at McDonogh 35. His goal is to see a 100 percent graduation rate. We had to do a lot of dancing.” “We want to identify the barriers so we can empower, educate and equip our young people to be successful — not only to be productive in the workforce but also in family life, which will ultimately impact their peers,” he says. “Eventually, I’d like to do a community resource center with an education component, a counseling component and financial literacy. You can help young people mentally, emotionally and getting a job, but they need to know how to handle their finances.” — ALEX WOODWARD
HIEN NGUYEN, 30 KIM TRAN, 35
Kim Tran and Hien Nguyen’s events company throws lavish parties for individuals, corporate clients and local charities. Wink Design & Events co-owners Kim Tran and Hien Nguyen are known for extravagantly transforming spaces with lighting, drapes and props. They’ve even coined their own catchphase: “Wink it out!” (which they say often, in unison). Tran and Nguyen launched the business from Favorite local band: Groovy 7 their West Bank homes in 2009, doing weddings Favorite restaurants: Square Root for friends and family. Five years later, they have and August a downtown office and clients like the National Baksketball Association, Mercedes-Benz, CocaWhat do you do in your off time? Cola and New Orleans Saint Pierre Thomas. Eat, shop, sleep Thomas hired Wink to throw the inaugural event Dancing or karaoke? Dancing for his ICAN Foundation, an initiative to fight childhood obesity. “We want to do concerts, weddings, festivals — everything,” Tran says. The business partners say the event nearest to their hearts is the Prom of Champions, a yearly bash for children ages 12 to 17 who have cancer and blood disorders. Wink donates its services to throw a red-carpet party featuring limo arrivals, paparazzi and a candy room. “It’s great to have the kids experience something normal, because they’re always in the hospital,” Tran says. “For this prom, our committee Winked it out.” — MISSY WILKINSON
Designer and CEO, Freret & Napoleon Nonprofit development manager, American Diabetes Association www.freretnapoleon.com; @freretnapoleon; www.facebook.com/freretnapoleon
Tiffany Langlinais debuted her fashion and jewelry label at three regional fashion weeks less than a year after teaching herself to sew.
She bought a sewing machine for her birthday, thinking it would be Book currently reading: The World That Made New Orleans: fun to make her own clothes. After From Spanish Silver to Congo a month of practice, the self-taught Square by Ned Sublette seamstress applied to Fashion Week New Orleans at the urging of a friend, Favorite local band: Hot 8 Brass designer Brennan Manuel. She was Band selected as one of 10 finalists in its Favorite restaurant: Peche Top Design Contest. What started as Favorite hotspot: Bacchanal a hobby is now a full-fledged fashion business — a fairly typical dynamic for the ambitious Mississippi native. “I am the kind of person who always has to have something going on,” Langlinais says. “I just don’t sleep a lot, honestly.” Langlinais spends her days coordinating events for the American Diabetes Assocation. She’s currently spearheading three nonprofit community walks. In her off time, she shows her fashion and jewelry collections at events in New Orleans, Austin, Texas and Mobile, Alabama. “I definitely want to create a flagship store on Magazine Street,” Langlinais says. “I have so many grand plans for the year to come.” — MISSY WILKINSON
JESSE REEKS, 27
Pianist, organist, accordionist
Jesse Reeks is the full-time organist at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, but his musical talents extend far beyond the church. Reeks plays piano, organ and accordion with singers and bands around New Orleans — and with his wife Lulu Reeks, a violinist — and he’s completing a master’s degree in organ performance at Book currently reading: A Load of Loyola University. Hooey by Bob Odenkirk He comes from a family of Favorite new album/CD: Thom professional musicians. Reeks’ Yorke’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes mother has been the pianist at Favorite local band: The Kirk Nasty Pat O’Brien’s bar for more than Favorite restaurant: 20 years, and his father teaches The Munch Factory music at Loyola and plays clarinet Dancing or karaoke? Karaoke in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Reeks’ first piano teacher was his mother, before he moved on to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where he focused on learning to play jazz. In addition to providing the sacred music for St. Louis Cathedral, Reeks plays a secular classical performance every year at the Jackson Square landmark. “The cathedral is really the pinnacle of the city. I’m really happy living in New Orleans. I’m just really grateful to be able to make a living as a musician.” — JEANIE RIESS PAGE 31
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MARY KATHRYN RODRIGUE, 31
LEAH SARRIS, 32
Program director, Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University
Founder and Owner, The Wellness Studio, L.L.C. www.surprisinglywell.com
Oncology counselor and fundraiser Mary Kathryn Rodrigue’s latest venture, The Wellness Studio, takes the edge off therapy by providing an aesthetically pleasing, thought-provoking space with nontraditional offerings such as group therapy for parents and teens who need help navigating social media.
Chef Leah Sarris of Tulane University is the program director for the world’s first medical school-based teaching kitchen.
Book currently reading: Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford Favorite new album/CD: Maroon Five’s V Favorite Twitter account to follow: @anthonyryanauld Favorite local band: Stone Rabbits Favorite restaurants: Three Muses and Herbsaint What do you do in your off time? Write and spend time with the family Dancing or karaoke? Dancing
BARRIE SCHWARTZ, 25
Director, My House NOLA www.myhousenola.com, @myhousenola, www.facebook.com/MyHouseNola
Barrie Schwartz is the founder and director of My House NOLA, a creative culinary production company that partners with food trucks and vendors across New Orleans to produce eclectic events centered around food.
Schwartz’s first thought after a trip to Austin, Texas, a city known for its bustling food truck scene, was to start a brunch food truck in New Orleans. Once she started talking to a few existing local truck operators, however, she realized her skills would be more effectively applied to rounding up the trucks. “I realized that there are food truck lots and events in other cities that didn’t exist yet in New Orleans,” she says. “That was sort of the impetus.” In addition to pulling together trucks, lights, picnic tables and live music for events like the St. Claude Food Truck Park, My House NOLA also caters events, from weddings to corporate conferences. “I’ve always been entrepreneurial, and it’s not that I’m extremely organized, I’m sort of extremely good at being holistic and making sure that everyone’s happy,” Schwartz says. “I’m a good stress manager. “I think we’ve done a really awesome job of getting our name out there, and a lot of people know about us, and I think we do a really good job of doing a huge array of events all over the city with nonprofits, for-profits, corporate entities and grassroots companies. I think I’d like to streamline it, so instead of having three to six events every month, we have four big projects that we consistently do every year.” — JEANIE RIESS
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Rodrigue’s life took a new direction when her husband Drew died from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2009. “We often come to a fork in the road where we can become bitter or better,” Rodrigue says. The tragic experience led her to start two cancer-related nonprofits — Y.A.T.S. (Young Adults Take a Stand) Against Cancer and The Drew Rodrigue Foundation — targeting adults aged 21 to 39, an age group she discovered had few resources for financial and psychological support in the wake of terminal illnesses. In its first year, the Drew Rodrigue Foundation raised $50,000 for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma research, and Y.A.T.S. Against Cancer raised $25,000 at its first fundraiser. “It was my way of honoring Drew, then it turned into helping people,” Rodrigue says. Through the years, Rodrigue has helmed many successful fundraisers such as the annual Bugs & Brew for Drew and the recent Kicking Cancer in the Gut for Chef Carl Schaubhut of Cafe Adelaide. Rodrigue’s other passion is counseling. She studied oncology counseling for young adults at a time when few people were doing it, and she considers herself a trailblazer in the specialization. “The visual aesthetics in The Wellness Studio play a vital role in breaking down the stereotypes of mental health in general. ... Each of the elements in the offices has been designed with a specific purpose and is riddled with psychological metaphors. I definitely want the studio to be that go-to (spot) for people who may have been apprehensive of going to therapy.” — APRIL ISAACS
Book currently reading: Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink Favorite new album/CD: Andrew Bird’s Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… Favorite local band: The Deslondes Favorite restaurant: Killer Poboys What do you do in your off time? Bike riding, cooking, exploring southwest Louisiana Dancing or karaoke? Zydeco dancing
After earning her bachelor of science in culinary nutrition from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island and working overseas in a Michelin starred kitchen, Sarris entered the world of culinary research and development. Since moving to New Orleans in March 2012, she has created a culinary medicine program from the ground up, overseeing establishment of a state-of-the-art, 4,600-square-foot teaching kitchen, an elective section of courses for medical students and an ongoing series of community cooking classes with The ReFresh Project that has helped improve health and food access in the Broad Street corridor. “I am so excited about how far we’ve come in the last two years and am working to take what we’ve accomplished in our community to a national level, to show that it works, that what we’re doing in research, by helping people decipher nutrition and build kitchen confidence, is making a real difference in people’s health.” — MARK ALLAIN
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WILLIAM STOUDT, 26 Executive Director, Youth Rebuilding New Orleans www.yrno.com, @wostoudt, www.facebook.com/ youthrebuildingnola
William Stoudt is the executive director of Youth Rebuilding New Orleans (YRNO), a nonprofit he helped start in 2005 as a 17-year-old living in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures.
Right after Katrina, Stoudt and other New Favorite Twitter account to Orleans teenagers were left out of some follow: @beingnola and recovery efforts because many rebuilding @dosomething teams were wary of teenagers wielding Favorite restaurants: sledgehammers and taking part in other Peche and Boucherie activities considered too dangerous for young Dancing or karaoke? Dancing people. Stoudt and a group of his classmates at Jesuit High School didn’t let that stop them, banding together to form the grassroots organization-turned-nonprofit that he now leads. Stoudt manages YRNO’s various programs, from Project Homework, which engages local and out-of-town youth to build and sell homes to local teachers at a discounted price, to employment programs for young people, to the Future Leaders Initiative, which uses Americorps volunteers to introduce new skills in schools. “I realize that I will not always be considered a youth, and so Youth Rebuilding New Orleans will have, I think in the future, someone else come in, get trained underneath me and then have somebody else come up behind me,” he says. “And for me that means different opportunities to make a bigger impact in the city of New Orleans. “I’ve always been very passionate about politics here in New Orleans, as well as helping more people. ... I think eventually I plan on running for some sort of office in New Orleans.” — JEANIE RIESS
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Book currently reading: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Favorite new album/CD: The Revivalists’ Live @ Tipitina’s Favorite Twitter accounts to follow: @healthcare.gov, @504healthnet and @beingnola Favorite local band: Brass-A-Holics Favorite restaurant: Peche What do you do in your off time? Jogging, tango dancing, reading and cooking
As executive director of the nonprofit 504HealthNet, Susan Todd led a successful effort to secure state funding enabling a consortium of organizations to continue providing quality primary care and behavioral health services to 54,000 low-income and uninsured residents in the greater New Orleans area.
Todd worked with the Louisiana Legislature to get $10 million in funding to continue the Greater New Orleans Community Health Connection program, which helps pay medical costs for uninsured and underinsured residents in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. (The program originally was funded through a $100 million federal grant, which ran out last year.) She also works to get people enrolled in the insurance marketplace, improve and expand services at the clinics and educate people about the importance of preventative health care. “The majority of our patients are at or below 100 percent poverty,” Todd says. “[The clinics] exist in various neighborhoods so they can see everyone who walks through the door … and make sure that everyone in our community can have high-quality care.” On her off hours, Todd is an avid scuba diver — she once worked for NASA training astronauts underwater — and she helps with patient intake and serves as a Spanish translator at Luke’s House, one of the few free clinics in the area. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES
ANDREW VAUGHT, 32
SANDY VILLERE, 39
Covington native Andrew Vaught is artistic director and co-founder of Cripple Creek Theatre Company, which has produced more than two dozen plays and original works. He also is a playwright and has directed several performances.
Sandy Villere helped bring the only independent mutual fund in the area to New Orleans and manages the No. 1 performing fund in its category, which has more than $1 billion in assets.
Artistic director and co-founder, Cripple Creek Theatre Company www.cripplecreekplayers.org; @cripple_creek
Vaught, who studied drama at Kenyon College, founded Cripple Creek in 2006 as a voice for “social and political issues we were seeing in the country at the time, and New Orleans was and still is the crucible for all those issues,” he says. “We wanted to start an organization that Book currently reading: The definitely created work, or presented work, that dealt Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre specifically with issues grappled with in the area.” Dumas and You Can’t Go Home In 2013, the company presented Possum Again by Thomas Wolfe Kingdom, a play Vaught wrote around a theme of environmental justice, and Clybourne Park, Bruce Favorite local band: Norris’ decades-spanning drama on race relations — Hurray for the Riff Raff performed on St. Claude Avenue, ground zero for the Favorite restaurant: Cochon city’s gentrification issues. In spring 2015, Cripple Creek What do you do in your off will present Marc Blitzstein’s opera The Cradle Will Rock, time? Play tennis, walk around the and Vaught also is working on The NOLA Project’s Robin French Quarter and go to the zoo Hood at the New Orleans Museum of Art sculpture garden. Dancing or karaoke? “Karaoke. He wants Cripple Creek to expand its role as a civic, or I like singing ‘Mama Tried’ by civilian, theater. Merle Haggard.” “We want to push our work so it’s as accessible as it can be,” he says. “How can we remove all roadblocks to a diverse audience, remove all impediments to that, and ensure theater can serve as a civic function in this city? How do we focus the work we do at Cripple Creek to really address problems in an open way, an inclusive way and an active way? How is it a show, how is it a civic dialogue and how is it a stepping off point for people to make changes in their lives and lives around them?” — ALEX WOODWARD
SCOTT WALKER, 39
News anchor, WDSU-TV www.wdsu.com, @ScottWalker6
After seeing the story of Tripp Roth, a boy suffering from epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a disease with no cure that causes widespread blistering on the skin and mucus membranes, Book currently reading: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Walker decided to use his platform as a recognized news anchor to connect Favorite Twitter account to follow: @westwingreports fundraising with EB awareness. “It was so hard to accept that a kid could Favorite local bands: Jeremy be in so much pain just from a touch,” says Davenport and Rebirth Brass Band Walker, who has won several awards for Favorite restaurant: his work at WDSU, including an Edward R. Mr. John’s Steakhouse Murrow award this year for coverage of a What do you do in your off time? stranded Carnival cruise ship. In 2012 and Play basketball and hang out with 2013, the Press Club of New Orleans named my kids him Best News Anchor in New Orleans. Dancing or karaoke? Karaoke Walker launched a website and WDSU aired a public service announcement to spread the word that he would run a half-marathon to raise funds for EB awareness in memory of Roth, who died of EB in 2011. Walker’s initial goal was $5,000, but he raised 10 times that amount in three months. The half-marathon also forced Walker to get into shape, he says. Now, four half marathons later, he’s committed to staying healthy and helping others. “That was a pivotal change in my life, to be able to be a part of that,” Walker says. — DELLA HASSELLE
Co-founder of the Villere Equity Fund, Villere is co-portfolio manager of the five-star-rated Villere Book currently reading: Balanced Fund, named the No. 1 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson performing fund of its kind three Favorite Twitter account to years in a row. follow: @SeanPayton Under his family’s leadership, the money management firm Favorite local band: Villere & Co. has become nationally The Radiators recognized. But his achievements Favorite restaurant: haven’t been restricted to the La Petite Grocery financial sector — he also has What do you do in your off earned plaudits for his efforts to time? Watches football and improve education in New Orleans. coaches his kids’ baseball and Villere, a father of three, helped football teams found the Choice Foundation, a charter organization that now operates Lafayette Academy, Esperanza Charter School and McDonogh 42 Charter School. “When everybody evacuated from Katrina, there were discussions: Where am I going to move? Those thoughts never crossed my mind,” Villere says. “I knew I had to roll up my sleeves and make the city better. And now it’s such a truly entrepreneurial hub. Anything goes — it’s incredible.” — DELLA HASSELLE
JOHN R. WILLIAMSON JR., 32 Owner, CAD Printing; Founder, Firstwitit.com; President, MSAADA Inc. www.cadprinting.biz
John Williamson has used the valuable life lessons he learned while serving in the U.S. Army in establishing a profitable printing business and launching an online fashion venture while also extending his family’s tradition of community service into the 21st century.
As an 18-year-old and recent graduate of John Ehret High School, the West Bank Book currently reading: The Art of native remembers wanting to get away War by Sun Tzu from home and see the world, so he Favorite new album/CD: enlisted in the U.S. Army and requested T.I.’s Paperwork assignment in Germany. Returning to Favorite local band: post-Katrina New Orleans, Williamson Rebirth Brass Brand sensed that the national and even Dancing or karaoke? The two-step international business and philanthropic entities now had an eye on Louisiana, so he took his knack for logistics and utilized it in establishing CAD Printing, which creates custom banners, menus, promotional materials and other items. This year he launched the fashion-forward, custom-tailored fashion site www.firstwitit.com. Both businesses enable the charitable community outreach of MSAADA (Swahili for “helping people that need help”), a nonprofit founded by Williamson’s late grandfather Arthur Mitchell. The organization currently is raising funds to provide and maintain educational computer tablets for local schoolchildren. “The military made me who I am, but I went into the military with discipline and a strong mind because of my foundation in my father, who’s owned several businesses for over 25 years,” Williamson says. “And I don’t think I’ve peaked. I just acquired a tour bus and we’re gearing up now for a cross-promotional tour with Firstwitit and MSAADA — advancing education through technology — with special events and concerts across the South.” — FRANK ETHERIDGE
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WDSU-TV news anchor Scott Walker is an award-winning veteran journalist, but the proudest moment in his career has nothing to do with accolades. It was raising $50,000 to increase awareness of a deadly skin disease that killed a Northshore toddler.
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havioral therapy, relapse prevention models and mindfulness-based psychotherapy when treating patients. There also is a promising, though still experimental, approach which prescribes patients certain ADHD drugs to lessen binging behaviors. Dr. Howard Wetsman of Townsend Addiction Treatment Center views eating disorders as an addiction. Townsend’s outpatient and inpatient treatment methods have similarities with rehabilitation programs for alcoholism or drug dependency. “For us, addiction is an illness regardless of the drug or behavior the person uses,” Wetsman says. “Compulsive overeating and bulimia derived from compulsive overeating are more easily treated in this way than primary anorexia. We use the same complex medication algorithms for compulsive overeating that we do for addiction patients who are using drugs.” Though Wetsman approaches eating disorders in a more physical way, he understands how gripping the disease can be mentally. To readers who are or
in women — and need attention from a medical professional,” he says. Patients aren’t the only ones who suffer. For people whose loved ones have eating disorders, there are often feelings of confusion, anger and powerlessness. Friends and family may look on helplessly as the physical and mental side effects wreak havoc. Corey Walsh, dietitian and founder of Real Life Nutrition Counseling, has advice for individuals who think their loved one may be at risk: “Seek support as soon as you notice a problem,” Walsh says. “Dieting and experimenting with ED (eating disorder) behaviors in teen years shows a strong relationship to developing EDs as a person gets older.” Unhealthy eating should be nipped in the bud, since eating disorders ravage not only lives but health. When my eating disorder was at its worst, I was emaciated, tired, always cold and had heart palpitations and trouble breathing. My knuckles were constantly cut up from the forced purging. The scariest experience was when I lost consciousness at my parents’ home and hit my head on
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ew Orleans has a reputation for decadence. Whether tailgating at a football game or indulging at a Carnival ball, locals party, drink and eat with abandon. Laissez les bon temps rouler is the unofficial motto for this culture of revelry. It’s easy to forget there is no joie de manger, or “joy of eating,” for New Orleanians struggling with eating disorders. I know that battle personally. A nearly five-year struggle with bulimia left me sick, weak and miserable, with severe dehydration, protruding ribs and swollen salivary glands. Though now fully recovered, I understand advocacy, awareness and support are crucial in a city where eating is a religion in its own right. The American Psychological Association defines eating disorders as “abnormal eating habits that can threaten your health or even your life.” Anorexia nervosa (excessive food restriction and an intense fear of gaining weight) and bulimia nervosa (binging and purging) are just two examples. Other types include binge-eating, restricting food intake and purging disorder. Essentially, eating disorders are mental illnesses that manifest themselves physically. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, they have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Men and women of all ages, races and socioeconomic classes can be affected, but many sufferers don’t seek help due to misinformation and stigmas. J. Casey Martin, a licensed professional counselor in greater New Orleans, is familiar with the misconceptions: “Eating disorders
are a choice,” he says, listing some common false impressions. “They only affect adolescent, white females. They are chronic and untreatable. Eating disorders are about the food.” My own bout of bulimia definitely fit one stereotype — I was white, female and aged 15 to 19 when I battled it — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t sufferers of other genders, races and ages. Debunking the misconceptions around eating disorders is important, because otherwise it’s difficult for people who don’t fit the mold to find help. Just as there are many different types of people with eating disorders, there are many approaches to treatment, including counseling and therapy, nutrition programs, addiction recovery services and support groups. A directive, team-based approach is the heart of Martin’s method. Martin trained in Denver at one of the country’s top eating disorder treatment hospitals, and moved back to New Orleans in 2013. Martin’s private practice, Martin Mental Health, specializes in eating disorders, weight loss, anxiety disorders and stress management. Martin believes New Orleans’ overemphasis on its cuisine needs improvement. “In a city that’s culture and heritage is so synonymous with food, I want to debunk the misconception that living a healthy lifestyle in regards to food and/ or weight has to be restrictive,” he says. “It’s instead more about maintaining consistency and balance.” Mary Munger, a licensed clinical social worker at Maple Street Counseling, uses cognitive-behavioral and dialectical-be-
Avoidant/Restrictive food intake Disorder is a type of eating disorder newly classified in the DSM-V.
who think they may be suffering from an eating disorder, Wetsman says, “You aren’t alone. You’re ill, not broken or bad or weak. Talk to someone. Get help. No one has to do this alone.” Sufferers certainly are not alone. National studies indicate a 13 percent lifetime prevalence in women. Wetsman believes this number could be higher when “atypical” diagnoses are included. With no specific gene or standard medical test to identify eating disorders, diagnostics can be subjective. Wetsman doesn’t believe that should dissuade patients from seeking help: “What’s really important here is that eating disorders are common — and not just
their kitchen counter. The good thing is that many of these health problems are reversible with recovery. Being proactive is key. Because there is little to no data concerning the quantity and demographics of New Orleanians with eating disorders, the city’s influence on eating disorders is up for debate. It’s important to remember the many factors at play when someone has an eating disorder. Things are rarely black and white. While I can attest to my own struggle to be healthy in New Orleans, there is a long list of professionals ready to offer resources and support. No one has to go through an eating disorder alone — and no one should.
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might be a little more impulsive,” Kaliebe says. “And so the parts of the brain they found had changed, or are a little different in the media multitaskers, are parts of the brain that have to do with self-control and emotional regulation.” According to the study, people who are heavier media-multitaskers perform worse on cognitive control tasks and show more social-emotional difficulties. At this time, the cause of the brain change is unknown. Younger brains may be more susceptible, because the brain is not fully developed until the mid-20s. Doctors also say sensory overload of light and noise, regardless of the content, stresses our bodies. Kaliebe suggests spending time in a natural state. “If you ‘re-nature’ your life, you’re probably going to feel less stressed out and probably your brain’s going to work the way it’s supposed to,” he says. Look for Meg Farris’ Medical Watch reports weeknights on WWL-TV Channel 4 and any time on wwltv.com.
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A new study suggests media multitasking may be linked to the brain’s ability to process emotions.
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amed after the Mexican peninsula, You-Ca-Tan (2401 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, Suite 12, 504-464-6888; www.youcatan.com) is more similar to a fullservice beauty parlor than a tanning salon, according to owner Regan Colombatto. In July, Colombatto took a leap of faith and bought the turnkey business, which had been around for about 20 years, hoping she could stop working 12-hour shifts as a registered nurse and spend more time with her two young children. Despite not having experience owning a business, Colombatto’s personal history of tanning (“back in the ’80s”) left her with enough knowledge of the market to maintain an established clientele. You-Ca-Tan offers many tanning options. VersaSpa is an open-air sunless tanning treatment that involves three processes, a prep, a moisturizer and a bronzer, to create the desired look. “[We use] top-of-the-line products that don’t make you orange,” Colombatto says. She took an online course to become certified to apply bronzer to customers. With the airbrush tanning gun under her belt, Colombatto introduced mobile
spray-tan parties. “Instead of You-Ca-Tan coming to a salon when it’s owner Regan not convenient, we come to Colombatto you,” she says. shows off The salon also offers a VersaSpa anti-aging red light therapy, tanning booth. which involves 20-minute PHOTO BY sessions four times a week C H ER Y L G ER B ER for 12 weeks. “It helps with collagen production, and it’s very important for someone my age,” Colombatto says. She recommends “cocktail tanning”: customers tan in a bed for 20 minutes, do the moisturizing Versa Spa and then treat fine lines and wrinkles with red light therapy. Tanning in the UV bed encourages sweating, which opens pores. “When you have open pores like that, when you go into the booth, you’re going to be more receptive to grab that color,” Colombatto says. “It’s just a way to enhance the coloring.” Sweating also helps clients lose water weight, an additional feature of what Colombatto calls “full benefits.” You-Ca-Tan will add an esthetician, nail technician and herbal wrap services in the next few months.
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From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, Heathcock (www.heathcockhouse.com) holds a trunk show showcasing its debut jewelry line at Gallery Orange (819 Royal St., 504-875-4006; www.gallery-orange.com). Customers receive 20 percent off purchases, and there will be complimentary wine and sparkling water. Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Art Center (1618 Oretha C .Haley Blvd., 504-827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net) hosts the annual New Orleans Bookfair (www.neworleansbookfair.com) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9. There will be panels, performances and presentations by authors, publishers and collectives.
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On Wednesday, Nov. 5, Whole Foods Market (300 N. Broad St., Suite 103, 504-434-3364; 3420 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504888-8225; 5600 Magazine St., 504- 899-9119; www.wholefoods.com) donates 5 percent of net sales to nonprofit arts and culture organizations in south Louisiana including the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Press Street. Le Jouet (1700 Airline Drive, Metairie, 504-8370533; www.lejouet.com) celebrates National Toy Store Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. There will be singalongs, book signings, arts and crafts, cake and cookies by Haydel’s Bakery and a contest to win a $100 gift card with purchase.
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Kebab offers inviting street food. By Sarah Baird
picnic. While the restaurant Kebab bakes its own bread and cooks remains BYOB (with a negligible meat on spits. corkage fee), an ever-rotating P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER selection of seasonally appropriate sodas — from the back-of-the throat heat of a lemon grass-ginger concoction to a floral, delicate rose-lemon version — go What well with the menu’s bright flavors. If there Kebab was ever a point of inspiration for chucking the notion of a wine flight and instead where creating a flight of sodas to drink alongside 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383a meal, Kebab is it. 4328; www.kebabnola.com The crunchy snap of the amber-hued Belgian fries reveals a fluffy, delicate interior, when with a variety of sauces available for dip11 a.m.-midnight Friday ping, dunking and sopping up with hunks to Monday of leftover bread. If it’s your first visit, ask for a dollop of each sauce on the side and how much work your way through the complex flavor inexpensive profiles, including a lush, creamy garlic aioli and a house-made ketchup with noticeably what works sweet undertones of curry powder. focused menu of kebabs and A range of specials — usually including a sides with bold flavors supple, earthy lamb sandwich and a plump link of juicy sausage made in-house — is what doesn’t consistently rotating, and leave one hoping rotating specials are the items find a more permanent place strong enough to add to on the menu. Kebab consistently draws in the regular menu diners who leave sated but still hungering for more of this restaurant’s eccentric, check, please creative dishes. street food in a casual eatery is a welcome addition to the Contact Sarah Baird at sarahgambitdining@gmail.com St. Claude dining scene
At the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (www. boudinbourbonandbeer.com) fundraiser, chef Chris Wilson will offer the traditional boudin he made at Emeril’s flagship restaurant. “For me, boudin is a sausage made with pork, pork liver and rice,” Wilson says. “The one we make at Emeril’s is onions, bell pepper and celery cooked down with pork butt and liver, a little bit of bacon and a little bit of rice with hot sauce and Worcestershire.” As culinary director for all of Emeril’s restaurants, Wilson is in charge of two aspects of the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s upcoming fundraisers, the lavish wine dinner at Carnivale du Vin (Nov. 8) and organizing the offerings from 50 participating chefs at Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (BBB). Held at Champions Square Nov. 7, BBB features food, bourbon cocktails from Buffalo Trace distillery, a large selection of beers from Abita Brewing Co. (see “Beer Buzz,” page 43) and music by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and others. BBB co-chairs Emeril Lagasse and Donald Link (www.donaldlink.com) are joined by an array of local chefs plus celebrity chef Hugh Acheson (www. hughacheson.com), Frank Stitt of Birmingham’s Highlands Bar and Grill (www. highlandsbarandgrill.com) and others. The array of sausages goes from traditional boudin to exotic interpretations and other items. Rustic items include hog cracklings and chicken liver mousse from Toups’ Meatery (845 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-252-4999; www.toupsmeatery. com), crawfish and alligator boudin from Emeril’s NOLA (534 St. Louis St., 504-5226652; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/ nola-restaurant) and stuffed boudin balls with cane pepper jelly from Emeril’s Delmonico (1300 St. Charles Ave., 504525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/ emerils-delmonico). John Folse and Rick Tramonto’s Restaurant R’evolution (777 Bienville St., 504-553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com) will serve boudin tamales with red bean chow chow. Chef Jim Richard of Stinky’s Fish Camp (www.stinkysfishcamp.com) in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, will serve lamb and white bean boudin with pickled mirliton. Other boudin interpretations feature seafood and Asian accents. Louisville, Kentucky, chef and BBB veteran Ed Lee (www.chefedwardlee. com) will serve seafood sausage with lime-chile fish sauce. Frank Brigtsen of Brigtsen’s (723 Dante St., 504-861-7610; www.brigtsens.com) is preparing duck boudin egg rolls and Susan Spicer of Bayona (430 Dapuhine St., 504-5254455; www.bayona.com) will serve Thai seafood boudin is dressed with green papaya slaw. The Hyatt Regency New PAGE 42
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he notion of a restaurant offering “homegrown” options almost sounds passe as the farm-to-table movement has permeated the dining landscape, albeit with mixed results when it comes to authenticity and quality. What’s still fresh, though, is when an entire restaurant feels homegrown — with familial atmosphere, community artwork and laidback, locally sourced food that pulses with an inviting, joyful energy. Kebab is a welcome — and welcoming — addition to the growing St. Claude Avenue dining scene, with Turkish-inspired street food fare that impresses from lunchtime until the midnight hour. Often art in restaurants is not for sale, but Kebab divides its space into a dining area and a designated gallery space with works by local artists. The art is eclectic and loosely curated around a monthly theme, with sculpture, painting and sketches all beckoning to diners. Three sandwiches — a doner kebab, gyro and falafel — anchor the menu, and each is flavorful. The restaurant’s namesake kebab is an upgraded version of the kind of late-night street food popular across Western Europe, with spit-roasted chicken thighs stacked with zippy pickles, cabbage, onion and generous dousings of pungent house-made mustard and aioli. The bread itself is a feat, and unlike any other in the city. It’s baked in house and straddles the line between the welcome, toothy bite of pita and yeasty, dense texture of sourdough. Kebab proves that keeping something simple can lead to tremendous success, especially in the preparation of dishes that all too often are phoned in. If your favorite olives are the ones found swirling around the bottom of a martini glass, the restaurant’s spread of marinated green and black olives will redefine your standard for the cocktail sidekicks. Juicy and plump olives with freshly plucked herbs and diced moons of garlic can easily transport a diner out of the Bywater and into a rustic Mediterranean
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FORK + CENTER [CONTINUED] Orleans’ (601 Loyola Ave., 504-561-1234; www.neworleans.hyatt.com) Eric Damidot’s vegan boudin incorporates Daiya cheddar cheese, corn, carrot, beans and brown rice. The music lineup includes Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, The Lone Bellow, Pine Leaf Boys, Sweet Crude and the Saint Claude Serenaders. General admission tickets are $111.65 (including fees). Carnivale du Vin includes a dinner and auction. Guest chefs Michelle Bernstein (www.chefmichellebernstein.com), Roy Choi (www.kogibbq.com), Jimmy Bannos Sr. and Jimmy Bannos Jr. (www.thepurplepigchicago.com) prepare hors d’oeuvres at the reception and Emeril’s team prepares the meal. Tickets start at $1,000. The two events raised $2.25 million last year. The Emeril Lagasse Foundation (www.emerils.org) was created in 2002 and has distributed $5.5 million to charities and nonprofits including Cafe Reconcile, Edible Schoolyard New Orleans, Liberty’s Kitchen, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and St. Michael Special School. — WILL COVIELLO
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Another week, another list. The financial website WalletHub.com put New Orleans 7th on its rankings of “2014’s best and worst foodie cities for your wallet,” sandwiched between Reno, Nevada and Austin, Texas. The site compared the 150 most-populated cities in the U.S. using 18 metrics and Chef Phillip Lopez and his team at last data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor year’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau and P H O T O BY C H ER Y L G ER B ER the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and considered price and culinary diversity and desirability. The metrics included average cost of groceries, number of restaurants per capita, number of ice cream shops and number of craft breweries. Orlando, Florida topped the list, while Henderson, Nevada was last. San Francisco placed 15th (broken down, it was first in diversity/accessibility/quality and 121st in affordability), New York is 143rd. — SARAH BAIRD
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Winter is coming, and what better way to avoid buying a spread of winter weather accessories than packing on a few extra pounds for natural insulation? Here are five local eating challenges to help with the process of warming oneself from the inside out and, if you’re successful, scoring a massive free meal. • Pho challenge, Pho Cam Ly (3814 Magazine St., 504-644-4228; www.phocamly.com). Diners must eat two pounds of noodles and two pounds of meat within one hour to get the meal for free, plus a T-shirt and place on the restaurant’s wall. Failure draws a $40 charge for the meal. • Tchoupitoulas sundae challenge, Creole Creamery (4924 Prytania St., 504894-8680; 6260 Vicksburg St., 504-482-2924; www.creolecreamery.com). The wall of fame includes 598 eaters who have downed eight scoops of ice cream, eight toppings, whipped cream, cherries and wafers. • Bayou Beast challenge, Bayou Hot Wings (6221 S. Claiborne Ave., 504-8659464; www.bayouhotwings.com). Competitors must eat 10 of the restaurant’s spiciest wings in five minutes without the aid of water, napkins or side items. Winners get their photo on the wall and a T-shirt. • Cannon burger challenge, Bobby Hebert’s Cajun Cannon (4101 Veteran’s Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-324-6841; www.bobbyheberts.com). The Cannon burger features seven beef patties topped with three fried shrimp, cheddar cheese, tomatoes, onions and pickles and served with Cajun-spiced fries. A single person who eats it all gets the $50 meal for free. • 15 Dozen club, Acme Oyster House (724 Iberville St., 504-522-5973; 1202 N. Highway 190, Covington, 985-246-6155; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-309-4056; www.acmeoysterhouse.com). Challengers must down 180 oysters in an hour to receive a hat, T-shirt, place on the restaurant’s wall and half off the price of the oysters they’ve eaten. All competitors must pre-pay and there is an 18 percent gratuity.
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David Rule David Rule is the butcher at Blackberry Farm (www.blackberryfarm. com), a pastoral 4,200-acre estate in Walland, Tennessee, featuring a restaurant nominated for a James Beard award, a vineyard, apiary, a dedicated “preservationist” and more. Rule spoke with Gambit about his participation in this week’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer festival (see Fork + Center, p. 39) and his favorite cured meats. How did you get your start at Blackberry Farm? Rule: I’m born and raised around Knoxville (Tennessee), and have traditionally been a chef for about 15 years throughout east Tennessee. Last year, I took a job as executive chef at Dancing Bear Lodge in Townsend, which is the next town up from Walland where Blackberry Farm is located. I was the chef there for about six weeks and it burned down. From there, I had a connection at Blackberry Farm and I landed here that way. The butchering side of my job — the protein side of things — was always huge. I’ve spent 15 years cutting meat for service day in and day out, whereas now it’s just my primary job. On top of that, we do a lot of cured products — salami and other meats. I work with the kitchen on its protein needs — cutting and portioning dry-aged beef, poultry and fish — and any of its sausage needs. For example, I provide the breakfast sausage they use in the main house, and different kinds of bratwurst.
What are you planning for Boudin, Bourbon & Beer? R: I have kind of a play on pork and beans for the event, in the same vein as boudin. Where I’m from here in Tennessee there’s pinto beans and meat and cornbread. It’s cheap, it’s filling and it’s one of those things that has been converted into a luxury because of the familiar flavors that are in there. For my dish, I have some souse meat, which is kind of like head cheese, with cornbread that has black garlic in it made with blue cornmeal so it’s nice and dark-colored. We’re going to do some fried pinto beans as opposed to stewed, and we’re going to use the chow chow that our preservationist makes here on the farm. Finally, we’re going to do some ham hock broth in the bottom. It’s almost a deconstructed pinto beans and cornbread — I know no one likes to use that term anymore because it’s “so five years ago.” — SARAH BAIRD
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What are some of the cured meats you prepare? R: We run a retail business in addition to the day-to-day operations and sell three different kinds of salami and guanciale, a traditional Italian cured pork jowl. We do a soppressata, which is a spicy and sweet sausage, and a finocchiona which is primarily seasoned with fennel seed and fennel pollen and a fennel powder that I make from fennel in the garden here. The last one is a Toscano, which is seasoned with a little bit of fennel but primarily black pepper, coriander and bay leaf. I’m working on some new creations, too, that are close to being out of research and development. A new salami I’m working on is called the “hunter’s salami”; we’re using wild boar for it instead of the Cheshire hogs we normally use. It has a gamier taste and is a little bit leaner. It’s seasoned in the style of cacciatore — caraway, garlic, red wine and paprika. I’ve also been working on a capicola, which is a cured piece of neck meat from a hog. It’s beautifully marbled — no connective tissue to interrupt the curing and drying process. It’s an ideal piece of meat for curing. It’s beautiful just to look at.
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Carey Bringle is the barbecue mastermind behind Peg Leg Porker (www.peglegporker.com), a brand of barbecue products and a Nashville, Tennessee restaurant specializing in dry-rubbed ribs and pulled pork. Bringle spoke with Gambit about his return to this week’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (see Fork + Center, p.39) and how “barbetude” affects the barbecue community.
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This is your third year participating in Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. How did you become involved in the event? Bringle: I’ve been cooking barbecue for about 30 years, and I started the Peg Leg Porker brand about 12 or 13 years ago with sauces and rubs. I met Donald Link through the Southern Foodways Alliance and we became friends. He invited me to come and cook at this event before I even had a restaurant, so the first year I did it, I didn’t even have a space open yet. I’ve been doing Boudin [Bourbon] & Beer ever since. I love the event, and I love to be able to come down and visit with Donald and Steven [Stryjewski] and everyone. I also come down and do Hogs for the Cause, which I’ve been doing for three or four years. I’ve got some guys that I cook with that are on my barbecue team at Memphis in May, but I’m on their team when I cook in New Orleans, including Adam Biderman (of The Company Burger). What are you preparing for the event? B: We do the same dish every year, and it’s called Memphis sushi. It’s a saltine with cheddar cheese and house-made kielbasa with some of the dry seasoning and barbecue sauce on it. We deviate a little from the regular stuff; I figure that they’re getting boudin from 49 other chefs, so we use a different kind of sausage. It’s kind of a one-bite dish, which is nice. It’s been a real hit.
Carmo a tropical restaurant & bar
527 Julia Street, NOLA (504) 875-4132 CafeCarmo.com
traditionally-eclectic tropical cuisine + exotic fruit juices & cocktails + top certified green restaurant vegan/vegetarian-friendly + decadently healthy + unique sustainable shima sashimi menu
How did you learn to barbecue? B: I learned to barbecue from my Uncle Bruce. My whole family is from west Tennessee, but I was born and raised in Nashville. My family is from Covington and Memphis, and [barbecue’s] something that’s always been very revered and important to our family. My granddad was an OB-GYN and he delivered a lot of the children of the west Tennessee barbecue families. My uncle competed in the very first Memphis in May and taught me how to cook real young. If folks are just learning how to barbecue, I’d tell them to go cook with a team to get a good sense of it. Most people in the barbecue community are very open and very willing to share what they do; we don’t have a lot of secrets. We believe if you’re keeping secrets, you’re not teaching the next generation how to barbecue. Some of the people can get too serious about it with the competitions, and they get what we call “barbetude,” which is a bad barbecue attitude. We like to say, “Look, this isn’t rocket science; it’s barbecue.” It’s about friends, family and community, and you need to lighten up about yourself or you don’t need to be doing it. — SARAH BAIRD
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WINE of the week 2013 Chateau de Flaugergues Les Comtes Rose LANGUEDOC, FRANCE RETAIL $14
The best dry roses offer a delicate fragrance, understated flavors, low alcohol and mouthwatering acidity. From their chateau in nearby Montpellier, France, father and son winemakers Henri and Pierre de Colbert produced this bottling. Located on the eastern side of the Languedoc-Roussillon region on the Mediterranean coast, the property has been the site of winemaking since the Romans planted vines more than 2,000 years ago. A blend of 55 percent grenache noir, 40 percent syrah and 5 percent cinsault, this well-structured wine’s enticing aromas of flowers, freshpicked berries, a hint of melon and touch of spice lead into raspberry and strawberry fruit flavors with some herbal touches and excellent minerality on the dry, acid-balanced finish. Drink it with salads, seafood, egg dishes, cheeses, vegetables, game, grilled meats and spicy Asian, Cajun, Indian and Mexican dishes. Buy it at: Sidney’s Wine Cellar. Drink it at: Cafe Minh. — BRENDA MAITLAND Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net
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Abita has cosponsored the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s (www.emeril.org) Boudin, Bourbon & Beer fundraiser since its inception in 2011. Abita Vice President of Sales Leo Basile talked to chef/restaurateur Emeril Lagasse about creating a more casual event to complement the foundation’s lavish wine fundraiser, Carnivale du Vin, which starts at $1,000 a ticket, and they thought a less formal event would be perfect for focusing on beer. At this year’s event, scheduled for Nov. Abita Brewing Company will 7 at Champions Square, Abita will serve serve specially brewed beers all its year-round beers on tap, including at Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. Light, Purple Haze, Amber, Restoration Pale Ale, Jockamo IPA, S.O.S., Andygator P H O T O BY N O R A M C G U N N I G L E and Abbey Ale, as well as the seasonal Christmas Ale. Also on tap is the most recent version of the brewery’s Bourbon Street Imperial Stout. The event’s cask beer garden will feature a wet hop Restoration Pale Ale, which includes freshly harvested Cascade and Chinook hops that were grown on a Northshore farm for Abita and added to the beer after fermentation. Abita President David Blossman says he’s looking forward to sampling this beer in particular, since Restoration Pale Ale is a beer that is well-served by cask conditioning. Also in the cask garden is a new variation of Turbodog called Bourbon Coffee Dog, which is aged in boutique bourbon barrels with coffee. Abita’s Black IPA Imperator also will be available on cask. It’s an 8 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) beer which goes down very smoothly, Blossman says. His strategy for the evening will be to start with one pint of Bourbon Street Imperial Stout, followed by one Imperator. Then he’ll switch to lower ABV and more mellow Wet Hop Restoration cask ale to ensure he’s able to enjoy the entire event. — NORA McGUNNIGLE
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11 a.m-2 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday Corner of Common and Carondelet streets
www.myhousenola.com Every first Tuesday through Thursday of the month from November through April, a rotating group of food trucks will serve food in the CBD. Participating trucks include Burgers Ya Heard, Foodie Call, Frencheeze Food Truck, NOLA Cluck Truck, St. Clair Pizza and others.
A Blind Taste
7 p.m. Tuesday La Petite Grocery, 4238 Magazine St., (504) 891-3377; www.lapetitegrocery.com
www.wrbh.org Blindfolded diners explore food and their sense of taste in a five-course meal prepared by chef Justin Devillier. The dinner raises funds for WRBH-FM, the nation’s only full-time reading radio station. It has provided programming designed for blind and print-handicapped listeners for more than 30 years. Call (504) 899-1144 for reservations. Tickets $200.
Raise the Roof for Roots
7 p.m. Friday NOLA Brewing, 3001 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 301-0117; www.nolabrewing.com
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1 Boswell’s Jamaican Grill
3521 Tulane Ave., (504) 482-6600 Gravy-covered oxtail is served with broad beans, vegetables and plantains.
2 Little Korea
3301 S Claiborne Ave., (504) 821-5006 Spicy ghorijim is a thick oxtail stew.
3 Milkfish
125 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 267-4199
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Filipino favorite kare kare is comprised of bone-in oxtail, spicy peanut sauce and vegetables on a bed of rice.
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Not so hot pocket “You go to New Orleans and you’ll be in a classy restaurant and a rat will run across the ground. You’ll point it out to the waiter and they’re like, ‘Yeah, that happens.’ And you’re like, ‘What?’”
— Comedian Jim Gaffigan quoted in an Eater interview about his favorite foods, restaurants and cities for dining. In his recent book, Food: A Love Story, Gaffigan claims to love to eat but not be a “foodie.” In the interview, he compares a rat in a New Orleans restaurant to Chuck E. Cheese as a restaurant mascot.
514 City Park Ave., (504) 482-6845
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Pho features rich, flavorful broth, and oxtail is an optional addition.
5 Taste of the Caribbean
505 Gretna Blvd., Gretna, (504) 810-0276 Spicy curried oxtails are served with plantains and rice.
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www.therootsofmusic.org The fundraiser for the after-school music education program features NOLA Brewing beers, food by GG’s Dine-O-Rama, cocktails, wine, auctions and music by Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Tickets $85.
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Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.
AMERICAN Colonial Bowling Lanes — 6601 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, (504) 737-2400; www.colonialbowling.net — The kitchen serves breakfast in the morning and a lunch and dinner menu of sandwiches, burgers, chicken wings and tenders, pizza, quesdaillas and more. Daily specials include red beans and rice on Mondays and seafood platters on Friday. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $
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Somethin’ Else Cafe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
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Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — The all-youcan-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
BAR & GRILL Bayou Beer Garden — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., (504) 302-9357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Down the Hatch — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www.downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Perry’s Sports Bar & Grill — 5252 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 456-9234; www.perryssportsbarandgrill. com — The sports bar offers burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, wraps, tacos, salads, steaks and a wide array of bar noshing items. Boiled seafood options include shrimp and crabs. Open 24-hours Thursday through Sunday. No reservations.
Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Warehouse Grille — 869 Magazine St., (504) 322-2188; www.warehousegrille. com — The menu features upscale bar food, burgers, steaks, seafood, salads, sandwiches and noshing items including chicken wings and duck crepes with spiced cherry glaze. For brunch, there’s chicken and waffles with Pabst Blue Ribbon syrup. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily, brunch Fri.-Sun. Credit cards. $
BURGERS Charcoal’s Gourmet Burger Bar — 2200 Magazine St., (504) 644-4311; www.charcoalgourmetburgerbar. com — This burger specialist’s patty options include beef, bison, shrimp and veggie. The House burger is dressed with cheddar, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickles, mayonnaise and mustard and served with house-made chips. The Cobb salad features romaine lettuce, grilled chicken, avocado, tomato, onion, applewood-smoked bacon, blue cheese, croutons and buttermilk ranch or honey-mustard dressing. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Cheeseburger Eddie’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, poboys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $
CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Breads on Oak — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations. Breakfast Wed.-Sun., lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Cafe Freret — 7329 Freret St., (504) 8617890; www.cafefreret.com — Casual dining options include burgers, sandwiches and half and whole muffuletta rounds
and daily lunch specials. Wednesday features steak night. Reservations accepted. Lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.Wed. and Fri.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses and served on a choice of bread. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $
CHINESE Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Rue de la Course — 1140 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-4343; www.facebook. comruedelacourse — The Downtown sandwich includes turkey, bacon, Swiss cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, sprouts and mayonnaise on a choice of bagel and comes with chips, potato salad or coleslaw. The Lakeview features chicken or tuna salad dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a bagel and comes with a side. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Cash only. $
CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave.,
(504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — The bar offers a large selection of wines by the glass and full restaurant menu. Mussels are steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. Chicken mofongo features plantains stuffed with stewed chicken. No reservations. Lunch Fri.Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Fulton Alley — 600 Fulton St., (504) 2085569; www.fultonalley.com — The kitchen at this upscale bowling alley offers Southern-influenced cuisine. The menu includes sandwiches, salads, meat pies, sliders, deviled eggs and smoked and fried chicken wings. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Ivy — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 899-1330 — Chef Sue Zemanick offers a selection of small plates. Grilled lobster is served with arugula, roasted potatoes and corn. Warm snow crab claws come with truffle butter. No reservations. Dinner and latenight Mon.-Sat. Credit Cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu includes vegan dishes and house-made pasta. Sauteed sea scallops are served with fried green tomatoes, snap peas and sweet and spicy mango ginger ambrosia sauce. No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$
CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner MonSat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bar Redux — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The mix of Creole and Caribbean fare includes jerk chicken and crawfish etouffee and cheese steaks are available. The Cuban sandwich features house-made roasted garlic pork loin, Chisesi ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard and garlic mayonnaise on pressed French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe Gentilly — 5325 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.facebook.com/cafegentilly —Crab cake Benedict is French bread topped with poached eggs, a hand-made crawfish sausage patty and hollandaise. Breakfast is available all day, and the creamed spinach, crawfish and Swiss cheese omelet can be served in a po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Ignatius Eatery — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 899-0242; www.ignatiuseatery.com — The menu includes classic Creole dishes such as red beans and rice, speckled trout meuniere and crawfish etouffee as well as sandwiches, salads and pasta. Crawfish Ignatius pasta features crawfish cream sauce with mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and bell peppers topped with grated Parmesan. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. Louisiana crab cakes are popular. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Ma Momma’s House — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 244-0021; www.mamommashouse.
OUT to EAT com — Traditional home-style Creole dishes include red beans and rice, shrimp pasta, fried chicken, cornbread and more. Chicken and waffles includes a Belgian waffle and three or six fried chicken wings. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere. Andouille-crusted fish is served with Crystal buerre blanc. For dessert, there’s white chocolate bread pudding. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$$ Olivier’s Creole Restaurant — 204 Decatur St., (504) 525-7734; www.olivierscreole.com — Eggplant Olivier features flash-fried eggplant medallions served with shrimp, chicken, andouille and crawfish tails in garlic, basil and brandy sauce. Braised Creole rabbit is served with Creole gravy, oyster dressing and rice pilaf. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes including barbecue shrimp, redfish couvillion, gumbo and catfish and shrimp dishes. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter. com — Tableau’s updated Creole cuisine includes bacon-wrapped oysters en brochette served with roasted garlic butter and grilled Two Run Farm lamb chops served with New Orleans-style barbecue sauce. Balcony and courtyard dining available. Reservations resommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
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FRENCH
Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves rustic Italian fare including handmade pastas, ravioli and lasagna and seafood dishes with shrimp, clams and mussels. Reservations accepted. Lunch and brunch Wed.-Mon., dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Pan-seared scallops are served with fennel-grapefruit salad, arugula pesto and jalapeno-infused olive oil. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$
Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — House-made cannelloni is stuffed with ground veal, spinach and Parmesan, baked in Alfredo sauce and topped with house-made tomato sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$
Martinique Bistro — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro. com — Barbecued Chappapeela Farms duck features Louisiana plum glazed duck breast, duck leg confit napa slaw, house-made pickles and a sesame pancake. Reservations recommended. Dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$
GOURMET TO GO Breaux Mart — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$
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Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone. com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Qwik Chek Deli & Catering — 2018 Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, (504) 456-6362 — The menu includes gumbo, po-boys, pasta, salads and hot plate lunches. The hamburger po-boy can be dressed with lettuce, mayo and tomato on French bread. Shrimp Italiano features shrimp tossed with cream sauce and pasta.
Amici Restaurant & Bar — 3218 Magazine St., (504) 300-1250; www.amicinola. com — Amici serves coal-fired pizza and Italian dishes. The broccoli rabe salsica Italiana pie is topped with marinara, mozzarella, sauteed bitter Italian greens and Italian sausage. Pasta carbonara features pancetta and green peas in white sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Cafe Giovanni — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and
Kyoto — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 4109997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rock-N-Sake — 823 Fulton St., (504) 5817253; www.rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cuisine with some creative twists. There’s a wide selection of sushi, sashimi and rolls or spicy gyoza soup, pan-fried soba noodles with chicken or seafood and teriyaki dishes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Yuki Izakaya — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www.facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $
LATIN AMERICAN La Macarena Pupuseria and Latin Cafe — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupusasneworleans.com — The NOLA Special breakfast burrito is stuffed with hot sausage, organic eggs, refried black beans, hash browns and American cheese. Vegetarian and gluten-free dishes are available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Mon. Cash only. $$
LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY 7 On Fulton — 700 Fulton St., (504) 525-7555; www.7onfulton.com — New Orleans barbecue shrimp features a peppery butter sauce made with blonde ale. Oven-roasted lobster tail is topped with Louisiana crawfish and corn cream sauce and comes with fingerling potatoes and asparagus. Reservations
Marti’s — 1041 Dumaine St., (504) 522-5478; www.martisnola.com — The grande plateau fruits de mer features whole Maine lobster, chilled shrimp, marinated snow crab claws, oysters on the half shell and scallop ceviche. Reservations accepted. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tivoli & Lee —The Hotel Modern, 2 Lee Circle, (504) 962-0909; www.tivoliandlee. com — The pied du cochon is served with braised Covey Rise Farms collard greens, bacon and pickled Anaheim peppers. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes such as bouillabaisse New Orleans, filled with saffron shrimp, mussels, oysters, Gulf fish, crawfish and pesto aioli croutons. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN Attiki Bar & Grill — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Mona’s Cafe — 504 Frenchmen St., (504) 949-4115; 1120 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-8175; 3901 Banks St., (504) 482-7743; 4126 Magazine St., (504) 894-9800; www. monascafeanddeli.com — These casual cafes serve entrees including beef or PAGE 50
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Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
Canal Street Bistro — 3903 Canal St., (504) 482-1225; www.canalstreetbistro. com — This Mid-City cafe’s menu draws from an array of global influences. Duck enchiladas feature corn tortillas filled with duck confit topped with red mole or chipotle-tomatillo sauce and served with black beans. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$
JAPANESE
Manning’s — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
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chicken shawarma, kebabs, gyro plates, lamb chops, vegetarian options and more. Patrons may bring their own alcohol. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN Casa Borrega — 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654; www. facebook.com/casaborrega — Chicken enchiladas are served with mole, rice and beans. Pozole de puerco is Mexican hominy soup featuring pork in spicy red broth with radish, cabbage and avocado and tostadas on the side. No reservations. Brunch, lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Coyote Blues — 4860 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 3013848; www.coyotebluesfreshmex. com — Shrimp and crawfish chimichanga is a fried burrito stuffed with shrimp and crawfish in cream sauce, Mexican rice and chili con queso and served with two sides. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
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Del Fuego Taqueria — 4518 Magazine St., (504) 309-5797; www. delfuegotaqueria.com — The taqueria serves an array of house salsas, tacos and burritos with filling choices including carne asada, carnitas, chorizo, shredded chicken and others. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
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Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Lucy’s Retired Surfers’ Bar & Restaurant — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Fiske’s Martini Bar and Restaurant — 301 Dauphine St., (504) 586-0972 — This French Quarter hideaway is is known for its martini menu. Louisiana crab and roasted Creole tomato fondue is finished with manchego cheese, scallions and grilled crostini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo.
No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — The buffet-style gospel brunch features local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Siberia — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $
NEIGHBORHOOD Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb. com — Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant. com — Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$
PIZZA Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza. com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. The Sportsman’s Paradise pie is topped with Gulf shrimp, andouille, corn, diced tomatoes and caramelized onions. Full bar available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www. theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas,
calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $
SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys. com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of poboys. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ Magazine Po-Boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — The Peacemaker layers fried local oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese on Leidenheimer French bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef, featuring beef slow cooked in its own jus. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $ Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar — 2604 Magazine St., (504) 897-5413; www.traceysnola. com — The neighborhood bar’s menu includes roast beef and fried seafood po-boys, seafood platters, fried okra, chicken wings, gumbo, soups, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $
SEAFOOD Blue Crab & Oyster Restaurant — 7900 Lakeshore Drive., (504) 284-2898; www.thebluecrabnola. com — The seafood restaurant serves shrimp and grits, stuffed whole flounder, fried seafood and seasonal boiled seafood. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ 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. $$$ Charles Seafood — 8311 Jefferson Hwy., (504) 405-5263 — Trout is stuffed with crabmeat, topped with crawfish Acadiana sauce and served with vegetables, salad and bread. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Galley Seafood Restaurant — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8320955 — Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Half Shell Oyster Bar and Grill — 3101 Esplanade Ave., (504) 2890504; www.halfshellneworleans.
OUT to EAT com — Voodoo Bleu features bacon-wrapped char-grilled oysters topped with garlic-butter and blue cheese. No reservations. Lunch, brunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Veal Austin features paneed veal topped with Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with masa-fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Popular starters include the jumbo lump crabcake made with aioli. Reservations recommended. Lunch Friday, dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$
TAPAS/SPANISH Mimi’s in the Marigny — 2601 Royal St., (504) 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. 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. $
VEGETARIAN Seed — 1330 Prytania St., (504) 302-2599; www. seedyourhealth.com — Seed uses local, organic ingredients in its eclectic global menu, including soups, salads, nachos, sandwiches and more. Raw pad thai features shredded cucumber, carrots, peppers, jicama, bean sprouts and peanuts in house-made marinade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$
VIETNAMESE Lin’s — 3715 Westbank Expressway, (504) 3400178; www.linsmenu.com —The menu includes Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. Vietnamese “Shakin’” beef features beef tips and onions served with rice. Singapore-style vermicelli is a stir fry of noodles, shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, carrots and bamboo shoots. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Pho Tau Bay Restaurant — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, (504) 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Rolls-N-Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.facebook.com/rolls-nbowlsnola — This casual Vietnamese eatery serves spring rolls, pho, rice and vermicelli bowls, banh mi, stir fry entrees and bubble tea. The vermicelli bowl features noodles over lettuce, cucumber and carrots; shrimp are optional. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $
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Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe. com — Grilled avocado salad is served with crispy onions and Mahon cheese in Portuguese chestnut-vanilla vinaigrette. Wild mushroom ravioli are served with Madeira and goat cheese creme. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat, late night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$
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es I ever had. They’re super good at music and film, which not all musicians are.” Green showed the band some of his past work and they shared ideas for The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. Green visited the band’s rehearsal space in Hoboken and brought rough cuts of the film, including scenes that would be “musical interludes,” and the band wrote a score as Green steered them toward the film’s emotional tone. The collaboration between Green and Yo La Tengo was planned for a single performance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but they continued performing the piece periodically for two years. The more they do it, the better it gets, Green says. Green hasn’t given up on traditional filmmaking, but for now his focus is on combining films with live performance. The format evolved when Green was working on a film that would become Utopia in Four Movements, his first live documentary. Green calls Utopia “an odd poem of a piece,” and he struggled in the editing room to make a coherent film. When he was invited to give a talk about his process as a filmmaker, he decided to show some clips and talk over them while a friend provided live music. The intention, he says, was “a very fancy lecture.” As word of Green’s lecture spread, he was asked to present it again, and finally he developed it into the finished work. The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller is Green’s second live documentary, and earlier this year he
Sam Green performs with Yo La Tengo. P H O TO BY ED D I T T ENH O EFER
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The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller 7:30 p.m. Friday Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp St. (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org Tickets $35 in advance/$25 CAC members; $40 day of show/$35 CAC members
premiered a third, The Measure of All Things, a performance piece loosely inspired by Guinness World Records that features portraits of record-holding people, places and things. Part of the appeal of live documentaries, Green says, is the thrill of the moment and the bond between the performers and the audience, something a filmmaker rarely gets to experience in this way. “If we just took Yo La Tengo’s music, my voiceover and the images and put them all together and gave it to you on a DVD, it wouldn’t add up,” Green says. “Somehow the special sauce with this is that it’s happening live, and it will never happen the same way twice.”
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cademy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) teams up with indie rock icons Yo La Tengo to present The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller Friday at the Contemporary Arts Center. Green’s live documentary details the life of the influential designer by combining film clips with live music and narration to create a unique movielike event. “In a time where the experience of cinema has been so diminished, it’s great to remember that huge images projected on a screen and very big music washing over you can be a sublime experience,” Green says. “Your power to move people and to transport them is much greater than it can be if someone’s just sitting in their living room with their laptop.” The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller premiered in 2012, when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commissioned Green to create a film to accompany an exhibition about Fuller’s ideas and inventions. At the time, Green says, he mostly knew Fuller as “the dome guy from the ’70s,” but as he dug into Fuller’s archives at Stanford University, a portrait emerged of a thinker who was far ahead of his time. Using old photographs, video footage and other ephemera from Fuller’s archives, Green illustrates Fuller’s personal and professional lives. Green says it’s not just Fuller’s ideas, but the lifelong commitment to those ideas that defined him as a person. In the 1930s, Fuller began to formulate his vision of conservation of natural resources, sustainability and using design to address social problems. From energy-efficient cars and homes to his famous geodesic domes, Fuller advocated for responsible stewardship of “Spaceship Earth” until his death in 1983. Fuller spent a lifetime developing his ideas and shared them through dozens of books and countless lectures, including the 42-hour lecture series Everything I Know. “A huge part of what Buckminster Fuller did was talk,” Green says. “You could even call him a performance artist in a way.” Green wanted his film to be a tribute to Fuller in form and function. He decided to make a live documentary, a style he first started experimenting with in 2010. With the help of a mutual friend, Green enlisted Yo La Tengo to provide music for the piece. Over three decades, the trio from Hoboken, New Jersey has garnered critical acclaim and attracted devoted fans, including Green. He recalls seeing Yo La Tengo perform The Sounds of the Sounds of Science in 2001 at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, where the band played a live soundtrack for a collection of silent films by French surrealist filmmaker Jean Painleve as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. “I was just completely knocked out by it,” Green says. “It was one of the greatest cinematic experienc-
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t’s enough of a task to keep up with Cheyenne Jackson’s career on TV (30 Rock, Glee), Broadway (Xanadu, All Shook Up, Finian’s Rainbow, 8), movies (United 93) and singing (recent album I’m Blue, Skies). His personal life also has been busy in recent years. And it’s all fair game for discussion with pianist/producer Seth Rudetsky at the interview/ concert Saturday at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. “I’ve made no bones about the fact that the last couple years have been hard on me,” Jackson says. “I’m divorced and remarried and moved across the country and got sober. A lot of changes — and that’s informed the way I perform and what I perform, and it’s important for me to include that in a show that’s basically autobiographical.” In the type of show (performance and Q&A) the two have performed together periodically in Provincetown, Massachussetts, Rudetsky is just as likely to ask serious questions as dig for dirt. “With this show, people get to meet the artist, and (Rudetsky) always tries to get me to talk shit about co-stars,” Jackson says. “And watching me squirm out of it — or not — is part of the fun. … Seth wants to know stuff about Glee and Jane (Krakowski). He’ll always make me tell a horrible audition story.” Jackson says changes in his personal life also change his cabaret performances. “I have songs that I have sung hundreds of times, and now that I am in a great place in my life and remarried and sober, the words are different,” he says. “The way I sing it is different. There’s a song called ‘Breeze Off the River’ in The Full Monty — the first Broadway show I saw. The song is about a father singing to his son, and there’s the father aspect that I relate to with my dad. But some of the words and the song take on a deeper meaning now.” Jackson always knew he could sing; growing up in Washington state, he was a star in high school choirs and regional choirs, but he didn’t take a serious shot at a career onstage until after 9/11. “It changed everything,” he says. “I didn’t go to college. I worked at a magazine. [Acting] was something I always wanted to do but I was too scared and didn’t have the confidence. 9/11 changed everything for all of us. It gave me the urgency.”
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Cheyenne Jackson with Seth Rudetsky 7:30 p.m. Friday NOCCA, 2800 Chartres St. (504) 940-2787 www.broadwaynola.com
Jackson moved to New York and soon became a Broadway star, gaining understudy roles for the leads in Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Aida (2003) before staring in Altar Boyz (2004), the Elvis Presley tribute All Shook Up (2005), Xanadu (2007) and Finian’s Rainbow (2009-2010). He appeared as a voice coach on Glee in 2010-2011 and starred as Danny Baker for four years on 30 Rock. He’s also embraced a variety of roles, from the lead in the United 93, about the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11, to a part in The Rocky Horror Show. In 2013, he released an album of original songs, I’m Blue, Skies. He’s also been an advocate for samesex marriage. That included a 2011 appearance in Dustin Lance Black’s drama 8, about the court case that overturnedCalifornia’s Proposition 8, which restricted the definition of marriage to heterosexual couples. Much has changed recently. “In the last four weeks, I have been to seven different cities touring — in Arizona, Las Vegas, Florida,” he says. “Things have changed. I was in Phoenix three days ago when they passed it. There are 17 states where gay people can get married. It’s remarkable. Some people are like ‘It’s not moving fast enough.’ But if you step back and see how fast things are happening, it’s a great time to be alive.”
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Little Gem Saloon — Kyle Cripps, 5; Monty Banks, 8 The Maison — Sweet Substitute Jazz Band, 6; One Love Brass Band, 9:30 COMPLETE LISTINGS AT WWW.BESTOFNEWORLEANS.COM
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TUESDAY 4 21st Amendment — Linnzi Zaorski, 7 AllWays Lounge — One Love Brass Band, 9
Snug Harbor — Dwight Fitch Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 10
Maple Leaf Bar — Marc Stone Band, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gold Beneath the Highway, 9; Aaron & Zac Maras, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran, Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Orange Kellin, 8
Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy, 4; Antoine Diel & the New Orleans Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Hot Club of New Orleans, 7 Yuki Izakaya — Kanako Fuwa’s Moshi Moshi feat. Detroit Brooks, 8
THURSDAY 6 21st Amendment — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 8 Bamboula’s — New Orleans Ragweeds, 3; Alabama Slim, 6:30; Big Al & the Heavyweights, 10 Banks Street Bar — Choctaw
Checkpoint Charlie — Domenic, 7; The Budz, 11
— Jonathan Tankel, 8; Mark Fernandez, 9
Chickie Wah Wah — Pat Casey & the New Sound feat. Robin Barnes, 8:30
Oak — Miles Cabecerious, 9
Circle Bar — Rockin’ Robin & the Kentucky Sisters, 6; Big Danko, Dogweed, Dick Deluxe, 10 d.b.a. — Debbie Davis & the Mesmerizers, 7; The Dirty Bourbon River Show, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Stephen Lands, 9 Dragon’s Den — Adventures of the Interstellar B-Boy, DJ Housefly, 10
Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Ogden After Hours: Honey Island Swamp Trio, 6 Old Point Bar — Valerie Sassyfras, 8 One Eyed Jacks — This Will Destroy You, Future Death, Silent Land Time Machine, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Charlie Fardella & Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8 Republic New Orleans — MiMoSA, 10
Tropical Isle Original — Way Too Early, 1
Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Mississippi Hyperfly, 7
Banks Street Bar — NOLA County, 8
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Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7:30
21st Amendment — Marla Dixon, 7
Rivershack Tavern — 2 Piece & a Biscuit, 8
Casa Borrega — Hector Gallardo’s Cuban Jazz Trio, 7
Bamboula’s — John Eubanks, 3; Messy Cookers Jazz Band, 6:30; Big Pearl Band feat. Chief Doucette, 10
Bamboula’s — Vivaz, 4:30; Dana & the Boneshakers, 8
Checkpoint Charlie — Yamomanem, 7; OC45, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Sonic Bloom feat. Eric Bloom, Andrew Block, 9 Circle Bar — Laura Dyer, 6; Single Mothers, Yuppie Teeth, 10 The Civic Theatre — Nick Carter, Jordan Knight, 8 Columns Hotel — John Rankin, 8
d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 Dragon’s Den — Interior Decorating, Mystery Girl, The Noise Complaints, 10 Gasa Gasa — Sons of Bill, Kid Carsons, 8 House of Blues — Matisyahu, Radical Something, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5:30; John Roniger’s Gypsyland, 8 The Maison — Gregory Agid, 6; Bon Bon Vivant, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Mario 4 Mayor, 7; The Bureau, 8; Mike Liuzza, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Angel Olsen, Lionlimb, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 Ralph’s on the Park — Joe Krown, 5 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 7 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse) — Jamison Ross, 8 Siberia — Pallbearer, Tombs, Vattnet Viskar, 9
Siberia — The Salt Wives, 6; Guantanamo Baywatch, Pookie & the Poodlez, Trampoline Team, 9
Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10
Snug Harbor — Peter Bernstein Trio, 8 & 10
The BEATnik — My Body Sings Electric, Consider Me Dead, 8
Southport Hall — JB & the Moonshine Band, Alexes Aiken, 7:30
Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 7
Spice Bar & Grill — Stooges Brass Band, 9
Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Geo Bass, 8
Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6
Buffa’s Lounge — Lauren Sturm, 6 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 8:30
Tipitina’s — The Presets, Antwon, Chela, Franki Chan, 9
Casa Borrega — Sasha Masakowski & Jenna McSwain, 6:30
Vaughan’s — Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet, 9
Checkpoint Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 11
Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Black Pearl, 11
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Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8
21st Amendment — Jack Pritchett, 9:30
Circle Bar — The Sailor Kicks, Jesse Ray & the Carolina Catfish, Speed the Mule, 10
AllWays Lounge — LadyFest: Keiko Komaki, Wanda Joseph, Lady “Yuko” Butterfly, Zena Moses and Dana Abbott, 7
Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 The Cove at University of New Orleans — Peter Bernstein, 7 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Leah Rucker, 9 Dragon’s Den — Dancehall Classics with DJ T-Roy’s Bayou International Sound System, 10 Fountain Lounge at the Roosevelt Hotel — Armand St. Martin, 5:30 Gasa Gasa — Netherfriends, 8
Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & Next Generation, 8
Wildfire, 9
Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Tony Seville, 7
Blue Nile — Micah McKee and Little Maker, 7
The BEATnik — The Rural Alberta Advantage, July Talk, 8
House of Blues — First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain, 5:30; RDGLDGRN, Kaneholler, The Young Wild, 7 Irish House — Patrick Cooper, 6 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11
Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 8
Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Eudora Evans, 8
Rusty Nail — Jenn Howard, 9
Buffa’s Lounge — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8
Little Gem Saloon — Mark Weliky, 5:30; Viper Mad Trio, 8
Bullet’s Sports Bar — Neisha Ruffins, 7:30
The Maison — Jon Roniger, 5; LadyFest: Ingrid Lucia, Janya Morgan, Roselyn Lionhart, Sinead Rudden and Charmaine Neville, 7
Saucy’s — Mark Appleford, 6 Siberia — 7 Seconds, The Interrupters, Ossacrux, Betty White Tit F–k, 9
House of Blues — Jet Lounge, 11
Snug Harbor — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10
House of Blues Voodoo Garden — Domenic, 6
The Spotlight Bar and Grill — Dr. Rock, 9
Cafe Negril — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 6 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — Carl LeBlanc Jazz Quartet, 5; Chance Bushman & Smoking Time Five, 8:30
Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Emma & the Dropes, 2; Swamp Donkeys, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell, 10 Banks Street Bar — Paper Bison, The Butler, 10 The BEATnik — JoyCut, 9; The Green Seed, 11 Blue Nile — The Main Squeeze, 11 BMC — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 6 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Guitar Slim Jr., 7:30 Cafe Negril — El DeOrazio, 7
Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 10:30
Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Waylon Thibodeaux, 10
Neutral Ground Coffeehouse
Checkpoint Charlie — Pastor
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Rock ’n’ Bowl — Chris Ardoin, 8:30
Apple Barrel — Barbarella Blue, 5:30
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The New Pornographers with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
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The New Pornographers with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart 9 p.m. Friday Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865 www.civicnola.com
First The New Pornographers were underrated (or as underrated as a supergroup can be); then maybe overrated (or as overrated as any group boasting the singer/songwriter hydra-head of A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Dan Bejar can be); then, on two personal yet distancing minors (2007’s Challengers and 2010’s Together) whose energies often waned like a fading star, underrated once again. In naming its sixth LP Brill Bruisers (Matador), the unchallenged power-pop champions of the new millennium take ratings out of the equation. What else would they deliver? Leave it to Case, the emotional core behind Newman’s choral rush and Bejar’s carny magic tricks, to sing as much on “Marching Orders”: “They say we can’t make this stuff up/ But what else would we make?” A better understanding of Bruisers’ blueprints lies in the trio’s solo records since Together: Newman and Case, on Shut Down the Streets and The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, each dealt with familial grief in very different ways, while Bejar cut Destroyer’s ripest slice of sax cheese yet, Kaputt, soft-rock caricature by a genuine character. The odds against a forceful New Porno comeback weren’t exactly steep, though an unceremonious breakup seemed just as likely. In that light, this return is equal parts oracle and miracle. Newman’s titular opener and Case’s “Champions of Red Wine” nail the neat trick of sounding at once futuristic and nostalgic; silvery and sparkling, they rival anything in Twin Cinema’s master class of editing. Behar’s harmonica charge “War On the East Coast” is his flashiest track, but “Born With a Sound,” a death-in-the-bread-line duet with Black Mountain’s Amber Webber, burrows deeper. Harmonic understudy (and Newman’s niece) Kathryn Calder even gets a Christine McVie moment with the 90-second interlude “Another Drug Deal of the Heart,” hitting heartstrings with felt hammers. (That’s five lead vocalists, if you’re counting.) Throughout the album, there’s a running lyrical theme of coming back, of reuniting, of finding your way home. “I think we could save lives/ If we don’t spend them,” Case muses on “Champions.” Either way, everyone wins. Slumberland heart-throbber The Pains of Being Pure At Heart opens. Tickets $25. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS Stone & the Prophets of Blue, 4; Texas Pete, 7; Isla Nola, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Chip Wilson’s birthday show feat. Spirit Tonic, 10:30 Circle Bar — Shane, 6; Charlie Megira, Lord High Panther, 10 The Civic Theatre — The New Pornographers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 9 d.b.a. — The Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Debauche, 10 Dew Drop Social and Benev-
olent Hall — Shotgun Jazz Band, 6:30; Debbie Davis & the Mesmerizers, 8 DMac’s — Vincent Marini, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — Sam Cordtz, 3 Freret Street Publiq House — The Pizza Underground, Har Mar Superstar, 9 Gasa Gasa — Red Clay Soul, Miles Tackett Trio, Elio Luv Trio, Jack Freeman Band, Jay Skillz, 9
Golden Lantern — Nighthawk, 7 Hangar 13 — Pulse Friday: Rroid Drazr, Kidd Love, 1:30 a.m. Hi-Ho Lounge — Davis Rogan CD release, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Dave Reis, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Erin Demastes, 5; Nayo Jones, 8 The Maison — Leah Rucker, 4; Bon Bon Vivant, 7; Soul Project, The Business, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — John “Papa”
MUSIC LISTINGS Gros & Friends, 10:30
Los de Esta Noche, 9
Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Agent 86, 8; The Necessary Gentlemen, 9; Marty Christian, 10
The BEATnik — O’Death, Lonesome Leash, Lowland Hum, 9
NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall — Broadway @ NOCCA: Cheyenne Jackson, 7:30 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 9 Old U.S. Mint — UNO Thelonious Monk Ensemble, 2; The Night Janitor, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Andrew Duhon, Brian Wright, Sara Quintana, 9 Pearl Wine Co. — Sarah Gromko Trio, 8 Preservation Hall — The Southern Syncopaters feat. Steve Pistorius, 6; The St. Peter St. All Stars feat. Lars Edegran, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 6; Lynn Drury, 9 Rivershack Tavern — 6 Below, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys, 9:30 Siberia — Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, Giorgio Murderer, Bottomfeeders, 9 Sierra’s Hideaway — The Mad Hatters, 8:30
Spotted Cat — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 St. Roch Tavern — James Jordan & his Beautiful Band, 9:30 Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club — LadyFest: Sharon Martin, Linda Aubert, Jazmine Butler, Jessica Wright and more, 8 Tipitina’s — The Soul Rebels, Corey Henry & Treme Funktet, 10 Treasure Chest Casino — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7 Tulane Ave. Bar — Vanessa Carr, 8
SATURDAY 8 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman, 9:30 8 Block Kitchen & Bar — Anais St. John, 9 Andrea’s Restaurant, Capri Blue Piano Bar — Phil Melancon, 8 Bamboula’s — Abby Diamond, 2; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 10 Banks Street Bar — Shifty,
Buffa’s Lounge — Jerry Jumonville & the Jump City Band, 5; LadyFest: Tank and the Bangas, Original Pinettes, 7 Cafe Istanbul — LadyFest: Vanessa “VeeJay” Joseph, Jazmine Butler, Jessica Wright, Myla Bocage and Erin Demastes, 6 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Mental Health Benefit feat. Daphne MuShatt, Andrea Papa, Erika Schneider and Elizabeth Hunter, 9 Checkpoint Charlie — Good Children, 4; Shotgun House, 7; Jonathan Brown Band, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — John Rankin and Friends, 9 Circle Bar — Jeff Pagano, 6; Laugh in the Dark, 10 d.b.a. — The Lost Bayou Ramblers, 11 DMac’s — Mr. Cool Bad Guy, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Gringo do Choro fest. Rick Trolsen, 10 Dragon’s Den — Loose Marbles, 7 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse — The Olivia DeHavilland Mosquitoes, 7:30 Gasa Gasa — Spider Bags, 9 Golden Lantern — Esplanade Ave. Band, 7:30 Hangar 13 — Flyy-By Nite, 1 a.m. Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Timeflies, Kap Slap, The Heydaze, 8 LA46 — Jimmy Robinson, 8 Le Bon Temps Roule — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 10 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers, 7 & 9 The Maison — Nyce!, 4; The Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7; Kumasi, 10; Street Legends Brass Band, midnight Maple Leaf Bar — 101 Runners, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jim Pharis, 8; Gina Forsyth, 9; The Fens, 10 Oak — Jenn Howard, 9
Old U.S. Mint — Sarah Gromko, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell, Palm Court Jazz Band feat. Wendell Eugene, 8 Preservation Hall — The Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Frank Oxley, 6; The New Orleans Serenaders feat. Clive Wilson, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Lucas Davenport, 6; Sasha Masakowski, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Black Magnolia, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Mingo Fishtrap, Jonathon Boogie Long, 9 Siberia — Nick Jaina, Sarah Quintana, Tyler Lee Holter, 6; Ex-Cult, Golden Pelicans, PLANCHETTES, Dead Marshes, 9 Snug Harbor — Herlin Riley Quintet, 8 & 10 Tipitina’s — Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes, Smoke n’ Bones, 10 Twist of Lime — Eye for an Eye, The Enclave, In Living Agony, 9 Yuki Izakaya — Norbert Slama, 8; Montegut, 11
SUNDAY 9 21st Amendment — Tom McDermott, 4 Bamboula’s — Justin Donovan, 2:30; Bamboula’s Hot 3, 7 Banks Street Bar — Spaghetti Western Sunday feat. Ron Hotstream & the F-Holes, 8 The BEATnik — Tim Easton, Liz Longely, 8 Cafe Istanbul — LadyFest: Mikhala Iverson, Chuck Chaplin, Cori Walters and Cecile Savage, 7; Trade Winds: 21 New Bands, 10 The Chapel of the Holy Comforter — New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra, 4 Chickie Wah Wah — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Stellar’s Jay, 10 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Chris Mule & the Perpetrators, 10 DMac’s — Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Sean Riley Blues Band, 9
Gasa Gasa — Prom Date, Might Mountain, Fancy Pants, 9 Hangar 13 — Bass Massive Mob, 10 House of Blues — Marsha Ambrosius, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Maison — Melanie Gardner, 4; Kristina Morales, 7; The Upstarts, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington & Russell Batiste, 10 Old Point Bar — Jelly Jazz, 3:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Gerald French, Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall All Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Fais Do-Do feat. Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Siberia — Acousta Noir, Dirty Rotten Snake in the Grass, 6; Wedding Dress, Eugene, Hello Nomad, 9 Snug Harbor — Kyle Roussel CD release, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Trinity Episcopal Church — Lionel Ferbos Memorial Concert feat. The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, 5
MONDAY 10 Apple Barrel — Sam Cammarata, 8 Bamboula’s — Brian Simmons, 3; Mem Shannon Band, 7:30 Banks Street Bar — South Jones, 9; High, Dummy Dumpster, 9 BJ’s Lounge — King James & the Special Men, 10 Blue Nile — Higher Heights Reggae Band, 9 BMC — Lil’ Red & Big Bad, 6 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Splendid Pig, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Alexis & the Samurai, 8 Circle Bar — Missy Meatlocker, 6 d.b.a. — Ernie Vincent & the Top Notes, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fol, 9 Gasa Gasa — Panorama
Jazz Band, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hill Country Hounds, 10 House of Blues — MC Chris, MC Lars, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — The Lauren Mitchell Band, 8 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Uke Joint, 7; Sam Cordts, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Mini Mansions, Yuppie Teeth, Teen Hustle, 9 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 8 Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar + Restaurant — Monty Banks, 7 Siberia — Negative Approach, Forward, Long Knife, Fat Stupid Ugly People, 9 Snug Harbor — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 10 Yuki Izakaya — Miki Fujii & Friends, 8
CLASSICAL/ CONCERTS Bulgarika: Maestros of Traditional Bulgarian Music. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The Balkan band includes a vocalist and players of gadulka, bagpipes, drums and keyboard. Tickets $10. 8:30 p.m. Monday. Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson, Margaret McDonald. Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway St., (504) 862-3214; www.tulane. edu — The soprano and pianist perform pieces by Purcell, Debussy, Nicolai, Berg, Bernstein and Gordon. Admission free. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Organ & Labyrinth. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — Albinas Prizgintas performs on the church’s 5,000pipe tracker organ. 6 p.m. Tuesday. Viktor Valkov. Studio Amanda Talley, 1382 Magazine St., (504) 595-3136; www.masno.org — The Bulgarian pianist performs at an event featuring wine and food. Tickets $50. 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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Snug Harbor — A Night of Gershwin: Ellis Marsalis Trio feat. Leah Chase, 8 & 10
Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; The Main Squeeze, 11
Old Point Bar — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30
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Lola (NR)— Unemployed young man Roland Cassard (Marc Michel) reconsiders his life after he encounters his former girlfriend, a cabaret dancer. 7 p.m. Friday. Alliance Francaise The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen (NR) — The opera performs Georges Bizet’s libretto. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal
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FESTIVALS Pontchartrain Film Festival. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.pontchartrainfilmfestival.com — The third annual festival features films including Bayou Maharajah, Dear Governor Cuomo and Home Front. Friday-Sunday.
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Big Hero 6 (PG) — Young prodigy Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) and his robot sidekick Baymax (Scott Adsit) must save San Fransokyo from a dangerous plot in this animated adventure. Clearview, Chalmette, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal
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Eternity: The Movie (NR) — Musicians Todd and B.J. dream of becoming smoothR&B superstars in this queer comedy set in 1985. Zeitgeist Interstellar (PG-13) — A physicist (Michael Caine) and an ex-NASA pilot (Matthew McConaughey) seek a habitable planet where they can send the population of a blighted Earth. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Lookalike (NR) — After an unexpected death, two criminals scramble to find a woman who looks like a drug lord’s love interest. Chalmette Memphis (NR) — Blues musician Willis Earl Beal stars as a talented singer who wanders the titular city in Tim Sutton’s film. Indywood
NOW SHOWING Before I Go to Sleep (R) — Suffering anterograde amnesia, Christine Lucas (Nicole Kidman) cannot form new memories, but by keeping a diary, she discovers the truth of her past. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Dear White People (R) — Four black students at an Ivy League school confront race
and identity in director Justin Simien’s critically-acclaimed satire. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Canal Place Nightcrawler (R) — Lowlife character Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles into a new career videotaping Los Angeles’ most horrifying crimes. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place
SPECIAL SCREENINGS 20,000 Days on Earth (NR) — The film follows a quasi-fictional 24 hours in the life of musician Nick Cave. 9 p.m. Friday-Monday. Indywood Batman (PG-13) — Having witnessed his parents’ murder as a child, millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) fights crime in Gotham City disguised as Batman. 2 p.m. Sunday. Elmwood Big Apple Circus: Metamorphosis (NR) — New York’s onering circus features clowns, jugglers, acrobats and animals galore. 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Slidell Dark Passage (NR) — A man convicted of murder (Humphrey Bogart) attempts to prove his innocence with the help of a young artist (Lauren Bacall) in this 1947 film noir. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Frank (R) — An aspiring musician joins an avant-garde pop band led by the bizarre Frank (Michael Fassbender) and Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal). 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Indywood Happy Feet (PG) — Families enjoy games, hula hooping and the animated film about dancing penguins at the final Movies in the Park. 6 p.m. Friday. Carver Park Listen Up Philip (NR) — Jason Schwartzman stars as an angry, self-absorbed novelist in Alex Ross Perry’s latest film. 9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist
The Muppet Christmas Carol (G) — The Muppets perform the classic Charles Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog in the role of Bob Cratchit. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place National Theater Live: Of Mice and Men (NR) — England’s National Theatre performs the John Steinbeck classic, with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in the starring roles. 7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Navigate Her (NR) — The documentary is subtitled An Intergenerational Conversation Among African-American Women in New Orleans. 6 p.m. Thursday. Dillard RiffTrax Live: Anaconda (NR) — Mystery Science 3000 comedians mock the 1997 film about a giant snake. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal The Room (R) — Director Tommy Wiseau stars as Johnny in the so-bad-it’s-(almost)-good cult film about a melodramatic love triangle. 12:15 a.m. Friday-Saturday. Prytania Run Boy Run (NR) — Pepe Danquart’s 2013 film tells the true story of a Jewish boy in Poland during the Nazi occupation. 7 p.m. Sunday. Jewish Community Center The Shootist (PG) — A dying gunfighter (John Wayne) spends his last days looking for a way to die with a maximum of dignity in this 1976 drama. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania The Skeleton Twins (R) — Estranged twins cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite. 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Indywood Through A Lens Darkly (NR) — Allen Harris’ documentary examines the significance of under-appreciated black photographers. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG) — Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, is bored with frightening people, when he discovers Christmastown. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood The Whole Gritty City (NR) — The documentary follows three New Orleans school marching bands. The filmmakers, The Chosen Ones Brass Band and Mardi Gras Indians appear at the screening. Tickets must be purchased in advance. 7:30 p.m.
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Thursday. Elmwood Alliance Francaise: 1519 Jackson Ave., (504) 568-0770; www.af-neworleans.org AMC Clearview Palace 12: Clearview Mall, 4486 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie., (504) 887-1257; www.amctheatres. com AMC Elmwood Palace 20: 1200 Elmwood Park Blvd., Harahan., (504) 733-2029; www. amctheatres.com AMC West Bank Palace 16: 1151 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey., (504) 263-2298; www.amctheatres.com Carver Park: 7400 Prytania St.; http:// www.nola.gov/nordc Chal-
mette Movies: 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette., (504) 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com Dillard University: Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., 283-8822; www. dillard.edu Entergy IMAX Theatre: 1 Canal St., (504) 5814629; www.auduboninstitute. org The Grand 14 Esplanade: 1401 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner., (504) 229-4259; www.thegrandtheatre.com The Grand 16 Slidell: 1950 Gause Blvd. W., Slidell., (985) 641-1889; www. thegrandtheatre.com Jewish
Community Center: 5342 St. Charles Ave., (504) 388-0511; www.nojcc.org Prytania Theatre: 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com Regal Covington Stadium 14: 69348 Louisiana State Hwy. 121, Covington., (985) 871-7787; www.regmovies.com The Theatres at Canal Place: The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 581-2540; www. thetheatres.com Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center: 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net
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Is it necessary that audiences identify in some way with the main character in a movie? Does a fictional protagonist have to be likable for a film to succeed? These questions are pushed to their limit by uber-indie Brooklyn filmmaker Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip. The title character is a talented and newly successful 32-year-old novelist (Jason Schwartzman) who may be the most narcissistic, self-absorbed and casually cruel leading man ever depicted on film. It’s a small miracle that Listen Up Philip manages to engage us at all. But those with the wherewithal to stick it out may find a perceptive black comedy with many hard truths at its core. Literary success has made Philip bitter. The movie begins with a series of brief encounters in which he savages old friends and lovers for supposedly not believing in him when he needed it most. (Later, an ex-girlfriend literally runs away from him as fast as she can.) Schwartzman is known for his quirky and often endearing turns in five of Wes Anderson’s best-loved films, and he has just enough charisma to make us hope Philip will learn to listen, but not enough to make us like him. Foremost among Ross’ cinematic weapons is the will to leave his protagonist behind for long sequences as the film shifts focus to Philip’s thoughtful girlfriend Ashley (Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men) and his new mentor Ike (Jonathan Pryce), a fading literary star who’s just as horrible as Philip. The fresh perspectives work wonders, especially since Moss and Pryce come through with performances that hold up to the film’s consistent use of extreme close-ups to tell its story. The actors get some breathing room from the film’s heavy reliance on narration delivered with alarming authority by playwright and monologist Eric Bogosian. The voice-overs are packed with detailed information about the characters’ inner lives and give us a lot to think about in a short period of time. They provide a foundation on which the actors can build, but it takes some time to trust their directness. Remove the narration and the movie would become shapeless, and the insights on human nature too hard-won to be enjoyable. In a trend so prevalent it’s starting to characterize the year in film, Ross and cinematographer Sean Price Williams use grainy 16 mm film, shaky handheld camerawork and a pale color palette to specifically recall the work of independent New Hollywood filmmakers from the 1970s, ranging from John Cassavetes to Robert Altman. Listen Up Philip is steeped in relatively recent film history. If only we could watch it on VHS cassette. — KEN KORMAN
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The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Filmmaker Sam Green narrates his documentary on the legendary architect, accompanied by indie band Yo La Tengo. Tickets $35 in advance, $40 day of show. 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Prospect.3: Notes for Now. Citywide; www.prospectneworleans. org — The third edition of New Orleans’ international contemporary art biennial includes official shows at many local museums and institutions.
Mid-City Art Studios Open House. Mid-City Studios, 4436 Toulouse St., (504) 450-1699; www. midcitystudios.org — More than 30 artists display work in many media. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. NOLAbeings: Daily Stories & Portraits of People in New Orleans. New Orleans Public Library, Nix Branch, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630 — Claire Bangser, photographer and creator of www.nolabeings. com, speaks about the project. 6 p.m. Thursday.
St. Claude Second Saturdays. St. Claude Arts District, 2820 St. Claude Ave. — Galleries surrounding St. Claude host coordinating monthly opening receptions. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St.; www.5pressgallery.com — “Saturations,” group show by NOCCA faculty and alumni, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www. noafa.com — Annual Miniature Exhibition, opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www. angelakinggallery.com — New work by Raymond Douillet, opens Saturday. Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Guantanamo Public Memory Project,” a traveling exhibit of stories, photographs and documents about the U.S. naval base, opens Wednesday. Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — New watercolors by Joleen Arthur Schiller, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 to 18.
One of the great things about the Prospect.3 art expositions is the surprising unaffiliated events they inspire (some of which are included as P.3+ satellite program events). New Orleans Airlift always seems to rise to the occasion, and this year its Space Rites: Interactive installation and Space Rites in community performances the Lower 9th Ward explores 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22; 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13; previously un7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015 charted territory. New Orleans Airlift, 605 St. Maurice Ave. In a substantial old baroque www.neworleansairlift.org church on St. Maurice Avenue stands a tall altar stacked with dozens of defunct TV sets transformed by lead Airlift artist Taylor Lee Shepherd into glowing oscilloscopes that respond to sound with gyrating graphical vortexes of light. Dubbed “resurrection technology” by Rev. Charles Duplessis, who incorporates them into his Sunday morning services, their metaphysical aura was evident on the evening of Oct. 26, when the Murmurations alternative folk choir joined the Lower 9th Ward Senior Center Gospel Choir for the first concert of the series (pictured). Old-time religion met avant-garde innovation as the Murmurations’ haunting polyphony interacted with the female gospel group’s spirited singing — they substituted “9th Ward spirit” for “old time religion” in the song of the same name. The church, arranged by Jeanne Nathan’s Creative Alliance of New Orleans, is the perfect venue for such festive down-home otherworldliness. Airlift also staged an elaborate 8th Ward street culture festival coinciding with Prospect.3’s opening on Oct. 25. Organized by Airlift director Delaney Martin and independent curator Claire Tancons, Public Practice promised “queens, rappers, dancers, horses, snakes, doves, cars and bikes” but delivered even more: Imagine a tricked-out St. Roch version of a renaissance faire. It also complemented former St. Roch gallerist Kirsha Kaechele’s adjacent six-figure gun buyback, underwritten by spouse David Walsh’s famously quirky Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania. Here Kaechele’s flair for extravagant surreality created a serene setting for cops to receive Saturday night specials and sawedoff shotguns to the silky sounds of a solo cellist under muted blue and purple lighting — a world apart from the boisterous carnival of rappers, drummers and dancers reverberating outside. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT
The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Andrew Jackson: Hero of New Orleans,” opens Wednesday; opening reception 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 11. Inner Recess. 1068 Magazine St., (504) 298-8863; www. innerrecess.com — “Halo Qualia,” new work by Brent Houzenga, opening reception 8 p.m. to midnight Friday. Loisel Vintage Modern. 2855 Magazine St., (504) 899-2444; www.loiselvintagemodern.com — “NUDES,” photographs by Jonathan Kane, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma. org — “Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection,” group exhibition of paintings, opens Saturday. Rabbit Ears. 8225 Oak St., (985) 212-0274; www.facebook.com/ rabbitearsnola — “five in four: A Family Archive,” photographs by five generations of a family tree, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — “Location, Location, Location,” mixed media by Peggy Bishop, Sean Dixson, Peg Martinez, Chris Menconi and Caren Nowak, opening reception 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www. sttammanyartassociation. org — Members’ exhibition, opens Saturday. Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 9087331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — “Suspension of Disbelief,” new work by Cynthia Scott, opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. PAGE 62
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Photorealism Gallery Talk. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Six photorealist artists join art writer Louis Meisel, the man credited with coining the term. 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
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GALLERIES A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “WHERE: The Exploration of Photographs and Place, 18432014”, through January. AIA New Orleans Center for Design. 1000 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-8320; www.aianeworleans. org — Prospect.3: work by Mary Ellen Carroll, through Jan. 25. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — Work by Matilde Alberny, Chester Allen, Karen Ocker, Pat and Andre Juneau, through November. Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Painting Out Loud,” paintings by Luis Cruz Azaceta; “Unique Observations of the Natural World,” paintings by John Alexander; both through Dec. 20. Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present,” an educational panel display, through Feb. 28; Prospect.3: work by Kerry James Marshall, through Jan. 25.
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Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — “Checking Out,” installation by Nina Schwanse, through Nov. 29.
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Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “on the inbetween,” mixed media and photography by Kate Hanrahan, through Tuesday. Cafe Istanbul. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — “Magical Realism,” an Anba Dlo exhibition in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico, through Nov. 19. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Back to Bogalusa,” painting and sculpture by George Dunbar, through Dec. 26. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery. com — “Transcendence,” pastels by Sandra Burshell, through Nov. 29. Catalyst Gallery of Art. 5207 Magazine St., (504) 220-7756; www.catalystgalleryofart. com — Group exhibition of New Orleans-inspired art, ongoing. Chateau Curioso. 641 Caffin Ave., (718) 757-8119 — “Paper/ Weight,” photo-based work by Stacy Greene, Jill Stoll and Maria Levitsky, through Dec. 15. Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “Everything Emptying Into White,”
paintings by James Beaman, through November. Coup D’oeil Art Consortium. 2033 Magazine St., (504) 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “La Petite Mort,” installation by Blaine Capone, James Taylor Bonds and M. Silver Smith, through Jan. 25. Dillard University. Art Gallery, Cook Communications Center, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 8164853; www.dillard.edu — Prospect.3: work by Terry Adkins and William Cordova, through Jan. 25. Etoile Polaire Lodge #1. 1433 N. Rampart St. — “Cry Me A River,” group show curated by Janet Levy, through Jan. 25. The Exchange Center. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465; www. artscouncilofneworleans.org — Prospect.3: work by Liu Ding, Lisa Sigal and Tavares Strachan, through Jan. 25. The Foundation Gallery. 1109 Royal St., (504) 568-0955; www. foundationgallerynola.com — “Cosmos Transition,” paintings by Jon Coffelt, through Dec. 23. Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres.com — Mixed media by Ally Burguieres, ongoing. Gallery Twenty-One Fourteen. 2114 Decatur St., (504) 875-2110; www.gallerytwentyonefourteen.com — “Things That Go Bump in the Night,” work by Ben Gregory, Margaret Minezer, MRSA, Pauly Lingerfelt, Senan O’Connor, Katy Weidemann and Chez Marie, through Jan. 25. Garden District Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery. com — Degas Pastel Society 15th Biennial, through November. Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Crowning Glory,” new work by Good Children artists, through Jan. 4. Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “Stop Crying,” mixed media by Camille Iemmolo, B. Moody and Marzia Faggin, through Nov. 23. J & S Gallery. 3801 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, (504) 952-9163 — Wood carvings and paintings by local artists, ongoing. Jean Bragg Gallery of Southern Art. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Acadiana Asteur,” paintings by Chuck Broussard, through November. Joan Mitchell Center. 2275 Bayou Road, (504) 940-2500; www.joanmitchellfoundation. org — “Convergence,” group show of resident artists curated by Deborah Willis; Prospect.3: work by McArthur Binion, Los Jaichackers, Akosua Adoma Owusu and Hayal Pozanti; both through Jan. 25.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www. jonathanferraragallery.com — “Guns in the Hands of Artists,” decommissioned guns repurposed as art, through Jan. 24. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery offsite location. 3919 St. Claude Ave. — “Chapel of the Almighty Dollar,” outdoor installation by Dan Tague, through Jan. 25. La Madama Bazarre. 910 Royal St., (504) 236-5076; www. lamadamabazarre.com — Group exhibition celebrating the whimsical and weird sides of Louisiana, ongoing. LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “Art, Environment & Observations,” paintings by Deedra Ludwig, through Nov. 15. M. Francis Gallery. 1938 Burgundy St., (504) 931-1915; www. mfrancisgallery.com — Acrylic on canvas by Myesha, ongoing. Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www. martinechaissongallery.com — “Before the Song, the Enigma: Mathematics, Myth, Sculpture,” mixed media by Alex Mollere, through Nov. 29. May Gallery and Residency. 2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105, (504) 316-3474; www.themayspace.com — Prospect.3: work by Tameka Norris, through Jan. 25.
Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www. sorengallery.com — “Sactum,” work by Libby Johnson, through Nov. 29. Group show of work by William Dunlap, Audra Kohout, Steven Seinberg, Thomas Swanston, Jamali and Ed Smith, ongoing. Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www. stellajonesgallery.com — “Seven African Powers,” mixed media by Anne Bouie, through Nov. 16. Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www. stevemartinfineart.com — “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” oil paintings and sculpture by Steven Soltis, ongoing. Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.facebook. com/nolaartsalon — “b r o k e,” paintings by Matthew Kirscht, Kathy Rodriguez and gallery members; “Where You Stay At?,” group exhibition curated by Jonathan Mayers; both through Nov. 30. Tulane University, Carroll Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.carrollgallery.tulane.edu — “Tulane Contemporary.3,” new work by seven professors in Tulane’s Newcomb Art Department, through Jan. 25.
New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www. neworleansglassworks.com — “Insomnia,” watercolors by Henry Miller, through November.
UNO St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno.edu — Prospect.3: work by Christopher Myers and the Propeller Group: Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, through Jan. 25.
Oak Street Gallery. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0251; www.theoakstreetgallery.com — Work by Thom Barlow, Mark Haller, Pat Macaluso and John Robinson, ongoing.
Upstairs at 3308 Magazine Street. 3308 Magazine St. — “The Nature of Now,” new work by a dozen artists addressing Louisiana ecology, through Jan. 24.
Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “Alluvial Constructs,” mixed-media group exhibition curated by Laura Sandoval, through Nov. 29. Scott Edwards Photography Gallery. 2109 Decatur St., (504) 610-0581; www.scottedwardsgallery.com — “Borrowed Relics: The Last of the Large Polaroid Transfers,” photography by Anna Tomczak, through November. Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.thesecondstorygallery. com — “SUSPECT.7,” new work by Karen Abboud, Ron Bennett, Amy Bryan, Gina Laguna, Rebecca Madura, Cynthia Ramirez and Belinda Tanno, through Nov. 29. Sibley Gallery. 3427 Magazine St., (504) 899-8182; www.sibleygallery.com — New work by Evie Clinton, Alexandra Gjurasic, Eddie Granger, David Rex Joyner, Caroline Sokol, Wanda Sullivan and Jimmy Block, through Tuesday.
Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www. vieuxcarregallery.com — Work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing. Whisnant Galleries. 343 Royal St., (504) 524-9766; www.whisnantgalleries.com — Ethnic, religious and antique art, sculpture, textiles and porcelain, ongoing. Xavier University. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula. edu — Prospect.3: work by Lonnie Holley, through Jan. 25.
MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Prospect.3: the CAC hosts work by more than a dozen Prospect.3 artists through Jan. 25. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — Prospect.3: work by Carrie Mae Weems, through Jan. 25.
The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org — Handcarved decoy ducks, ongoing. Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere,” by Richard Sexton, through Dec. 7. Le Musee de F.P.C.. 2336 Esplanade Ave., (504) 233-0384; www. facebook.com/lemuseedefpc — “Revelations of Goddesses,” paintings by Eleanor Merritt, through Jan. 25. Longue Vue House and Gardens. 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Prospect 3: work by Shigeru Ban, Camille Henrot and Jose Antonio Vega Macotela, through Jan. 25. Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee,” an overview of the Carnival organization, through December. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing. New Orleans African American Museum. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., (504) 566-1136; www.noaam.com — Prospect.3: work by Zarouhie Abdalian, through Jan. 25. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Prospect.3: work by Tarsila do Amaral, Frederick J. Brown, Huguette Caland, Ed Clark, Andrea Fraser, Paul Gauguin, Jeffrey Gibson and Alma Thomas, through Jan. 25. “Sphere of Influence: Pictorialism, Women, and Modernism,” influential turn-of-the-century women’s photography, through Nov. 23. “Orientalism: Taking and Making,” European and American art influenced by Middle Eastern, North African and East Asian cultures, through Feb. 1. “Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer sculpture and related work, through March 1. “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through April 30. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum. org — “Basquiat and the Bayou,” paintings and paper work by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Prospect.3: work by Herbert Singleton, Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick and Benny Andrews; both through Jan. 25. “Self-Pro-
cessing — Instant Photography,” instant film photography group exhibition; “Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from the collection of Richard Gasperi”; both through Jan. 4. “Art of the Cup: Functional Comfort,” ceramic cups and teapots by more than 70 artists, through Dec. 7. Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.crt. state.la.us/museum/properties/ usmint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, ongoing. Southeastern Architectural Archive. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., (504) 865-5699; www.seaa.tulane. edu — “Bungalows,” artifacts of bungalow and cottage architecture, through May 20. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Prospect.3: work by Will Ryman, through Jan. 25. Williams Research Center. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Cameo to Close Up: Louisiana in Film,” the history of moviemaking in New Orleans as seen in posters and photographs, through Nov. 26.
CALL FOR ARTISTS Art of the Book. The Women’s National Book Association seeks submissions that use recycled materials to represent books. Visit www.artofthebooknola.wordpress.com for details. Deadline Friday. ArtFields competition. The competition seeks art for a combined $100,000 in cash prizes. The festival runs from April 24 to May 2, 2015. Visit www. artfieldssc.org for details. French Quarter Festival. The French Quarter Festival seeks submissions for its 2015 poster. Interested artists should send submissions to erin@fqfi.org. Visit www.fqfi.org for details. Deadline Friday. Jazz Fest Crafts Vendors. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival seeks applicants from crafts vendors for its 2015 festival. Visit www.nojazzfest.com/ crafts/apply for details. Application fee $30. Deadline Dec. 2. St. Tammany Art Association. St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The association seeks work by its members that is no more than 144 square inches for its “Put Your Best Ft. Forward” show. Deadline Wednesday.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Mid-City Theatre, 3540 Toulouse St., (504) 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — Local actors join NOCCA musical theater students for the interactive show about an eccentric spelling bee. Tickets $20. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Art. Playhouse Nola, 3214 Burgundy St. — A difference of taste in modern art challenges a friendship in Yasmina Reza’s comedy. Scott Anderson, Michael Martin and Dustan Costine co-star. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Tuesday- Wednesday. The Goodnight Show with John Calhoun. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.thegoodnightshow.us — The live talk show features local notables and live music. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Wednesday. The Graduates. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women Drama Club perform a piece inspired by experiences with the criminal justice system. Admission free. 7 p.m. Saturday. I Hope I Someday Get to Meet You, Nancy Dreaux. Tulane University, McWilliams Lab Theatre, 215 McWilliams Hall, (504) 314-7760; www. tulane.edu/~theatre — Tulane students perform a live radio drama based on the teen detective. 8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 p.m. Sunday. I’d Rather Be Rich. Anthony Bean Community Theater, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-7529; www.anthonybeantheater.com — Money and greed lead to chaos between friends in this original comedy. Adults $20, students and seniors $18. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. The Lion and the Jewel. Dillard University, Samuel
DuBois Cook Theatre, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 816-4857; www.dillard.edu — Dillard theatre students perform Wole Soyinka’s 1959 play about culture clash in West Africa. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. The Mysterious Wisterias. National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5281944; www.stagedoorcanteen. org — The show features local favorite Ricky Graham, a cast of eight and WWII-era songs. Dinner by The American Sector restaurant. Tickets start at $30. 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. Sunday. Numb. The Ether Dome, 3625 St. Claude Ave. — Goat in the Road Productions presents a play about the advances in anesthesiology and pain-free surgery. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday. One Man Two Guvnors. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., (504) 461-9475; www. rivertowntheaters.com — A man is suddenly caught up in the criminal underworld in this comedy. 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Orphans. Marigny Theatre, 1030 Marigny St., (504) 7585590; www.allwaystheatre. com — A pair of troubled brothers find their lives upturned when one of them kidnaps a Chicago mobster. Frederick Mead directs a play by Lyle Kessler. Tickets $15 Thursday, $20 Friday-Saturday. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Peter & the Starcatcher. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — A dozen actors portray over 100 characters in this prequel to Peter Pan. Tickets start at $35. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. The Phantom of the Opera. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www. saengernola.com — Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
musical arrives as part of a new North American tour. Tickets start at $56. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. The Rocky Horror Show. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 758-5590; www. theallwayslounge.com — Dennis Monn directs a stage version of the cult classic about a naive couple that happens upon a mansion of strange characters. Mac Taylor, Ratty Scurvics, GoGo McGregor and Owen Ever perform. Tickets start at $10. Midnight Saturday, 8 p.m. Monday. Sesame Street Live. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www. arena.uno.edu — In “Make a New Friend,” Elmo, Grover and friends welcome a visitor from India. Tickets start at $26. 10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Friday; 10:30 am & 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Waiting Around: The Restaurant Musical. Christ Episcopal Theatre, 80 Christwood Blvd., Covington, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — The musical comedy about restaurant servers features Bob Edes Jr., Darcy Malone, Allee Peck and Chris Wecklein. Adults $30, senior citizens and military $27, students $20 and children 12 and under $15. 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. The World Goes ’Round. Loyola University New Orleans, Marquette Theatre, Marquette Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — Loyola music and theater students perform selections of musicals by legendary composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb. 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySaturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.
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Oxblood Cabaret Macabre. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse. org — Happenstance Theater presents stories about Victorian romance and nightmares. General admission $30, students and seniors $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sunday. Sunday School. The BEATnik, 1638 Clio St. — The burlesque and variety show features the Rev. Spooky LeStrange & Her Billion Dollar Baby Dolls. Cover $5. 9 p.m. Sunday. A Very Gashlycrumb Tinies Birthday Burlesque. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — The Reverend Spooky LeStrange celebrates her birthday with a show inspired by illustrator Edward Gorey. Tickets $10. 10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
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Stars of American Ballet. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 5251052; www.nobadance. com — New York City Ballet principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht directs dancers from the New York City Ballet and the Houston Ballet in a program of new and established work. Tickets start at $44. 8 p.m. Friday.
OPERA Opera on Tap. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., (504) 525-5515; www.therustynail. biz — Young local and regional singers perform opera and Broadway songs. 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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Between trees draped with moss, Jacob holds himself up with a shovel. The field is full of dry grass, and he twists his body as if dancing with the shovel. Jacob eventually falls to his knees, claws at the ground and looks for a semblance of what previous generations left behind in New Noise’s production of Oxblood on Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans City Park. The piece was performed in a large open field at sunset. A house recently burned to the ground, but the blackened fireplace still stands and charred boards are piled nearby. Jacob (Phil Cramer) brings his wife Rose (Bonnie Gabel) to see her childhood home in ruins. Near the rubble, Rose is reunited with her sister Laurel (Kylie Arceneaux), who cared for the house after their parents died. Laurel and Rose argue over what to do with the land. Laurel wants to sell it to developers to pay off debts. Rose sees the land as her connection to her past. The hourlong production was physically demanding and the cast responded with high energy. Choreographer Angelle Hebert’s dance was integrated into the narrative, and in synchronized movements, the performers mimicked working in the field. Rose and Laurel’s fraught relationship was primarily explored through movement, and their spare dialogue mostly used for exposition. The two went from slapping at each other to a deep embrace and back to fighting. Ultimately, it was a beautiful back-and-forth exchange, and Arceneaux was especially strong as the more dominant sister. In the sisters’ relationship, the history of the land and how it affected their family is put into contemporary context. Rose feels guilty for leaving the family and the farm. Through both movement and restraint, Gabel showed Rose’s conflicted emotions and gave a powerful performance. Toward the end, Jacob’s motives were difficult to understand as the show juggled heavy themes. Jacob seemed to mediate between the two sisters, and Cramer’s movements brought out the intensity of the drama. A trio of musicians — Renee Anderson, Daron Douglas and Eli Timm — served as a chorus, and their singing often overlapped with the piece’s dialogue. The script was poetic and the chorus helped maintain the show’s tempo. Oxblood grapples with the ownership of land and history. There are no easy resolutions to the family’s financial or emotional issues. The combination of music, dance, poetic dialogue and the outdoor setting came together in an ambitious and effective production. — TYLER GILLESPIE
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The words “live music” may be expected at most New Orleans entertainment events, but the live accompaniment at the Marigny Opera House Dance Company’s recent premiere was both rare for contemporary dance companies and a lively addition to the performances. P H O T O BY E L S A H A H N E Brazilian native Diogo de Lima’s Blast (pictured) featured the Young Fellaz Brass Band playing contemporary New Orleans-style brass band music for a lively 20 minutes filled with solos by the evening’s five dancers. De Lima served as a sort of conductor for the piece, as it the musicians dipped into “Feet Don’t Fail Me Now” riffs and the dancers kept up with it’s boisterous pace and energy, with arms and legs akimbo. It concluded with rolling-on-the-ground spasms and fits. While some second-line-esque moves seemed familiar, dancers in solos seemed to add endless variations on its gestures and refrains, and there also were duets and group parts. Choreographer Donna Crump’s The Fun Police also had moments of joy, and dancers in abbreviated costumes mimicking formal dress seemed to unwind and let loose in solos, breaking free from a series of interludes of stiffer, almost slow-motion steps taken in unison. It was set to music by Kanye West, Young Jeezy, Outkast and Wiz Khalifa, performed on violin and saxophone. The piece had moments of humor in dialogue, as one female voice loudly declared, “I’ll be a dick if I want to.” But there were more ominous overtones, including the repeated yelling of “Boom” as dancers slowed in unison, hands in the air, perhaps celebrating, perhaps not. Company rehearsal director, dancer and choreographer Maya Taylor’s Selcouth Liaison was accompanied by a chamber ensemble of cellists performing music by contemporary composer Giovanni Sollima. Dancers Anna Iosipiv, Britney Kuehn, Trey Mauldwin and Curtis Thomas danced much of the piece in duets, and the work explored moments of joy, disappointment, longing, awkwardness and other aspects of relationships. It was an impressive debut for the company, featuring three original 20-minute works by each of its choreographers. The pieces showed a range of styles, depth of talent and exciting use of live music and the Marigny Opera House’s modestly-sized stage. — WILL COVIELLO
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Dialing back A TV producer writes a new history of New Orleans radio broadcasting. BY KE VIN ALLMAN
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TIX vs. WNOE. “Daddy-O” Winslow and Poppa Stoppa. The evolution of WBOK from a music station to a talk radio station for the black community. Dominic Massa’s new book, New Orleans Radio, charts the development of radio in New Orleans in the 20th century with text and more than 200 rare images. Massa, the executive producer and special projects director at WWL-TV, is also the author of New Orleans Television, a look at the city’s TV broadcasting history.
don’t judge a book by its cover “Dawnbusters” troupe, featuring the show’s biggest stars at the microphone and a young Al Hirt in the orchestra. I was also pleasantly surprised to find some rare shots of “Nut and Jeff,” stars of WSMB, and a photo of Sid Noel from his WWL radio days, which predated his stint as “Morgus the Magnificent.” I also have a great shot of Dr. John and Poppa Stoppa, a legendary name from 1950s rock ’n’ roll and rhythm and blues radio. That was a great find from the Michael P. Smith Archive at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Another personal favorite is the one of longtime local broadcaster Maury Magill, alongside Al Wester and Joe DiMaggio inside Tulane Stadium during a sports broadcast on WWL. Which former New Orleans radio personalities were you able to track down? What are they doing now?
WBOK signed on the air in 1951. Today, of course, it’s an African-American focused talk radio station, but how did it go from a music station to talk? It switched to a talk format after Hurricane Katrina, which badly damaged the station’s studios, which are located in Gentilly. Prior to that, WBOK played mostly gospel music, which you can still hear some on weekends. It signed on in 1951 with an integrated staff and diverse programming, including country, gospel, and rhythm and blues. It also offered a spotlight to local African-American prep athletes with sports programming. We highlight some of that history with photos of Champ Clark, who hosted sports shows and was a pioneering black sports journalist in New Orleans. Most of the broadcasters in the book are men, but who were the women pioneers in New Orleans radio? Margie O’Dair is one of the stars on the cover, and she and her sisters were early stars of WWL in the 1930s and 1940s, as “girl singers,” to borrow the term of the time, with the “Dawnbusters.” Terry Flettrich, who is best known for her local TV history, started in radio and is featured in the book, along with the wonderful Jan Carr, always alongside her husband Bob. Jill Jackson is also one of my favorites, as one of the country’s first female sportscasters on WWL and WSMB, and also host of celebrity interview shows on WWL. I was proud to track down some great photos of her with some of the celebrities she interviewed, including Bob Hope. What’s the deal with the battle between WNOE and WTIX in the 1960s?
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including Dan Diamond, Jim Stewart, C.C. Courtney, and Hugh Dillard (later “Captain Humble”) were the “Good Guys.” That probably could have been a whole One of my favorite quotes in the book is book in its own right. Those two stations battled it out for New Orleans’ baby boomer from Beatles author and historian Bruce audience, just as they were becoming teen- Spizer: “You listened either to the ’NOE Good Guys or the ’TIX Boss Jocks. You didn’t agers and rock ’n’ roll was coming into its switch the dial or punch the button on your own. WTIX’s personalities, which included car radio. And kids would get into playBob Walker, Bobby Reno, Robert Mitchell, ground fights stemming from arguments as Buzz Bennett and Tommy Cheney, were to which station was the best.” known as the “Boss Jocks.” WNOE’s stars,
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Some of them are still on the air — Tom Fitzmorris, Robert Mitchell and Scoot [Scott Paisant] at WWL and 3WL [1350 AM]; Bobby Reno, “Pal Al” Nassar and “JD the DJ” at WTIX-FM; and Alan Smason and Andres What time period does the book cover, and why did you choose to end it there? Calandria at WYES. Others, like Bob Walker and Keith Rush, have retired, but were a It starts with practically day one of radio great help with their own photo archives or in New Orleans, with WWL signing on in putting me in touch with other contacts for 1922. We travel through the golden age of the book. Some others, like Ed Clancy and radio in the 1930s and 1940s, and then the Dan Milham, have left day-to-day broadcastrock-and-roll era in the 1950s and 1960s. ing but still dabble in it from time to time. There’s not a definite ending point, but we cover through the late 1970s and early There’s a whole chapter about the 1980s, when corporate ownership became history of black radio in New Orleans. the rule and I think most people agree radio Can you talk about some of the black started changing dramatically. Obviously pioneers in New Orleans broadcasting? there’s no way to include everyone. There’s I thought it was important to highlight always a chance for a sequel, though! the pioneers of black radio, since that has There are hundreds of archival photoreally never been done in book form like graphs in the book. Did you find any this, as far as I know. Vernon “Dr. Daddy-O” images or information that surprised Winslow was a key figure. He gained fame you? And which photo struck you as the in his own right, as the city’s first black most rare or remarkable? disc jockey on WWEZ, but has an important story behind the scenes as well, training While the subject of my previous book, white DJs to “sound black” in the days of television, is a visual medium, radio history segregation. Obviously it was a different was much harder to document. But I’m time and some of that history is regrettable, proud of the more than 200 photos I was but the impact that DJs like him had on able to track down. That starts with the local broadcasting and music is undeniimage on the cover, which is a great shot able. Other important figures were Larry from Loyola University’s archives of WWL’s
McKinley, Tex Stephens, “Okey Dokey” Smith and “Ernie the Whip” Bringier.
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TUESDAY California Wine Class. Windsor Court Hotel, 300 Gravier St., (504) 523-6000; www.windsorcourthotel.com — Sommelier John Mitchell talks about new California wine. Fee $40. 7 p.m. Figure Drawing Session. Forstall Art Supplies, 3135 Calhoun St., (504) 866-4278; www. forstallartsupply.com — Artists practice drawing from life at a non-instructional session. Fee $10. Call ahead to reserve space. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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First-Time Homebuyer Training. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 581-7032; www.prcno.org — The four-day course prepares participants for the home purchase process and the demands of homeownership. Fee $75 individual, $90 household. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Historically Underutilized Business Zone Boot Camp. Delgado Community College (Sidney N. Collier Technical Institute), 3727 Louisa St.; www. sba.gov/HUBZone — The U.S. Small Business Administration hosts a HUBZone education event for small businesses. Email jo.lawrence3@sba.gov to register. 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. It’s All About the Music Bike Ride. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.facebook.com/groups/ nolasocialride — The cyclists of NOLA Social Ride cruise around the city, stopping along the way to enjoy live music. 6 p.m. Music Technology Education Session. New Orleans Music Office Co-Op, 4040 Tulane Ave., 483-2880 — Musicians learn to use MailChimp as a marketing tool. 6:30 p.m. Standing in the Shadows (No More). Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney leads a quilting and fiber art workshop. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Taste on Common. 800 Common St., (504) 571-9850; www. myhousenola.com — Food
trucks park in the CBD for lunch the first Tuesday through Thursday of the month. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Toddler Time. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — The museum hosts activities for children ages 3 and under and their parents or caregivers. Non-members $8. 10:30 a.m. Yoga at the Cabildo. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — Yogis of all experience levels practice in the Cabildo gallery. Non-members $12. 7:30 a.m.
WEDNESDAY Barbershop Meetings. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 5699070; www.ashecac.org — Peter Nahkid leads the men’s discussion. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Kitchen Inferno Viewing Party. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www.sobounola.com — Attendees watch Commander’s Palace chef Tory McPhail compete on the Food Network show. 9 p.m. Ladyfest New Orleans. Various locations; www.ladyfestneworleans.org — The festival celebrates and encourages the artistic and activist endeavors of women in New Orleans and features music, art, poetry and theater. Proceeds benefit local organizations supporting the education and advancement of women. Wednesday-Sunday. Lunchbox Lecture. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944, ext. 229; www.nationalww2museum.org — The semi-monthly lecture series features World War II-related topics. Noon. Salvation Army SOUPer Bowl. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5276012; www.salvationarmyalm. org/nola — Guests enjoy music by Kermit Ruffins & the Barbeque Swingers and more at this event benefitting the local Salvation Army. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Treme Creole Gumbo Festival The Treme Creole Gumbo Festival’s cooking competition is for vegan gumbos only. That means no meat in the pot, no animal products in the roux, no butter or dairy. The contest is open to festival vendors only, and it’s a health-conscious highlight of the neighborhood festival (the winner will be announced at 5:30 p.m. Sunday). It’s also the only food with restrictions: items for sale include an array of andouille- and shrimp-laden gumbos and Creole dishes. The festival also features an art market and a lineup of local brass bands. On Saturday, performers include Shamarr Allen & the Underdawgs, Hot 8 Brass Band, The Stooges Brass Band, Brass-A-Holics and others. On Sunday, there’s The Soul Rebels, To Be Continued Brass Band, Pinettes Brass Band, the Louisiana Philharmonic Brass Band, the St. Augustine and Edna Karr high school brass bands and others. The free festival is sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. — WILL COVIELLO “State of the Port” Address. Marriott New Orleans Convention Center Hotel, 859 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 613-2888; www.marriott.com — Gary LeGrange, president of the Port of New Orleans, speaks about trade and the local economy. Tickets $50. 11:30 a.m. Weiss Humanitarian Awards. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., (504) 561-1234; www.neworleans.hyatt.com — The New Orleans Council for Community and Justice hosts its 57th annual award ceremony. 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY Art on the Rocks. W Hotel New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www.wneworleans. com/artontherocks — Artists showcase their work alongside a DJ, drink specials and giveaways from W Hotels. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Baroness Pontalba Birthday Bash. Jackson Square, St. Peter Street Gate — Local shops celebrate Baroness Pontalba’s 219th birthday with performances from The New Orleans Opera Association and Louisiana History Alive. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Bridge lessons. Wes Busby Bridge Center, 2709 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-0869 — Beginners and novices take free bridge lessons. 9 a.m. Cocktails for KID smART. www. kidsmart.org — The fundraiser features a champagne reception and cocktail party.
Proceeds benefit KID smART, a program that engages children’s learning through art. Tickets start at $375. 6:30 p.m. Curtain Up! Light the Lights. New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 529-7323; www.nutrias.org — Attendees learn about the history of classic Broadway musicals and enjoy performances by local musicians. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Gregg Stafford and Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown with Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band. Free and open to the public. 7 p.m. Morning Birding. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expressway, Westwego, (504) 736-7140; www.bayousegnettestatepark.com — A ranger leads birdwatchers of all experience levels. 9 a.m.
EJBA Networking Event. Cars of Yesteryears, 4633 Fairfield St., Metairie, (504) 889-7036; www.ejba.org — The East Jefferson Business Association hosts a networking event and fundraiser at the private vintage car museum. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
NOBTS Holiday Market. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 3939 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 282-4455 — The annual market features handmade products, food and free popcorn. Admission free. Email nobtswomen@nobts.edu for details. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
High School Fair. Benjamin Franklin High School, 2001 Leon C. Simon Drive, (504) 2862600; www.bfhsla.org — The Urban League of Greater New Orleans’ Parent Information Center informs families about public, private and Catholic high school options. Admission free. 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Sistahs Making a Change. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Women of all experience levels are invited to dance, talk and dine together at this health-centered event. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
International Irish Famine Commemoration. Various locations; www.ifnola2014. org — The commemorative celebration features lectures, food, music, dancing and a parade. The weekend includes Irish Fest and a gala party on Saturday. Thursday-Sunday. The Many Faces of Louis Armstrong. Xavier University Center, 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 520-7568 — The event features trumpeters Kermit Ruffins,
St. Claude Food Truck Park. St. Claude Ave. and Feliciana St., 3033 St. Claude Ave.; www. myhousenola.com — A rotating selection of food trucks and live entertainment liven up a vacant lot on St. Claude Avenue. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Supermarket Sweep. Winn-Dixie, 4600 Chef Menteur Hwy., (504) 947-0212 — Local notables race to grab healthy groceries in this competition hosted by Peoples Health and
benefitting Second Harvest. 2 p.m. What’s Cookin’ with CASA. New Orleans Board of Trade, 316 Board of Trade Place — The event features Chef Susan Spicer of Bayona and Mondo. There will be cocktails, a silent auction, a photo booth, dancing, live music and golf-putting competition. 6:30 p.m. to 10 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 The Book of the Wook release party. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8201; www.4321saintclaude.com — The Krewe of Chewbacchus kicks off the season with live music and a new coloring book. 9 p.m. Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. Champions Square, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3822; www.boudinbourbonandbeer. com — The event features boudin and sausages by 50 chefs from across the country, Abita beer, Buffalo Trace bourbon cocktails, wine, cigar tastings and music. Proceeds benefit the Emeril Lagasse Foundation. Tickets $100. 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Carey Street Crawl. Carey Street, between Robert and Cousin streets, Slidell — Local businesses and artists show
EVENT LISTINGS their offerings alongside food, drinks, live music and children’s activities. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. City Stars Soiree. Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans, 5100 Orleans Ave., (504) 569-8650 — The gala and auction features the 610 Stompers and benefits Junior Achievement New Orleans. 7 p.m. Fridays on Fulton. 500 block, Fulton Street — Harrah’s presents live music at the gazebo every Friday. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Gator Fest. Holy Name of Jesus School, 6325 Cromwell Place, (504) 861-1466; www. hnjfair.com — The school fair features carnival rides, food and live music. Friday-Sunday. Let’s Make Waves. Pontchartrain Yacht Club, 1501 Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville — The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation hosts a party benefitting coastal restoration and the New Canal Lighthouse. 7 p.m. The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Accompanied by indie rock band Yo La Tengo, filmmaker Sam Green narrates his documentary on the neo-futuristic architect. Tickets $35 in advance, $40 day of show. NOMA Odyssey 2014. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 6584100; www.noma.org — Guests enjoy live music and auctions at NOMA’s annual black-tie fundraising ball. 8 p.m.
Raise the Roof for Roots. NOLA Brewing Taproom, 3001 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 301-0117; www.nolabrewing.com — The gala benefitting youth music education organization The Roots of Music features music by Big Sam’s Funky Nation, NOLA Brewing beer, food from GG’s Dine-O-Rama and charity auctions. Tickets $85. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY 2014 Neighborhood Summit. Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., 283-8822; www.nola.gov — The daylong professional development conference serves Orleans Parish neighborhood associations and their members. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Brass Menagerie Parade and Brass Ball. Michalopoulos
Carnivale du Vin. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., (504) 561-1234; www. carnivaleduvin.com — The Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s gala features guest chefs and honorary winemakers for a four-course dinner, plus singer Michael Cavanaugh and emcee Ty Pennington. Tickets $1,000. 5:30 p.m. to midnight. Children’s Art Workshop. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, (504) 523-7945; www. rhinocrafts.com — RHINO artists lead kids in art projects such as origami, collages and bookmaking. Email artboxrhino@gmail.com to register. Suggested donation $5. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come Build With Us! Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Kids 5 accompanied by an adult learn about green building practices and tour architect Shigeru Ban’s Prospect.3 exhibit. Non-members $18. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Creating Bonsai. City Park Botanical Garden, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 483-9473; www. neworleanscitypark.com/botanical-garden — Bonsai tree expert Jim Osborne teaches participants to create their own. Fee $35. Call or email scapley@nocp.org to register. 9 a.m. to noon. Homebuyers’ Workshop. East New Orleans Regional Library, 5641 Read Blvd., (888) 302-6222; www.naca.com — The nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America hosts a program for potential homebuyers. Visit website or call to register. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Irish Fest. Kingsley House, 1600 Constance St., (504) 523-6221; www.irishfestneworleans.com — Attendees enjoy Gaelic football, Irish dance, a charity 5K walk, music by The Poor Clares and activities for kids and dogs at this event, part of the International Irish Famine Commemoration. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. JDRF’s Walk for the Cure. Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation hosts a fundraising walk with food and kids’ activities. Reg-
istration begins at 8:30 a.m. Walk starts at 9:30 a.m. Louisiana Renaissance Festival. Louisiana Renaissance Festival, 46468 River Road, Hammond, www.larf. net — The festival includes live jousting and falconry, medieval entertainment, craft demonstrations, music, food and shopping. One-day admission $18 adults, $10 kids ages 6-12. Saturday-Sunday. The Moteaux Show. Candle Factory, 4537 N. Robertson St.; www.bigsleazyinc.com — The show features local motorcycle builds, focusing on garage and small-shop bikes, as well as a motorcycle art show and auction. 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Patio Planters White Elephant Sale and Auction. 1000 Bourbon St., Suite 270 — This garden sale and auction features prizes and gift certificates from businesses in the French Quarter. Proceeds benefit the Caroling in Jackson Square event. Admission free. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Piety Street Market. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.612piety.com — More than 50 vendors offer art, jewelry, crafts, vintage clothes, collectibles, used books and flea market treasures at this monthly market. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Puppies Gone Poker Run. Various locations, Old Mandeville, (985) 892-7387; www.sthumane. org — Dogs and people draw cards and bar-hop at this fundraiser for the St. Tammany Humane Society. Visit website or call to register. 2 p.m. Still I Rise: A Musical Tribute to Maya Angelou. Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, 1901 Bartholomew St., (504) 940-3400; www.sistaworks.org — Education aid organization SISTAWorks hosts a benefit featuring food from Boucherie and more than a dozen musicians, poets and dance groups. Tickets $65. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Treme Gumbo Festival. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.jazzandheritage.org — The festival features food, live music, an art market, kids’ activities and a vegan gumbo competition. Admission free. Saturday-Sunday. Web Weekend 2014. New Orleans BioInnovation Center, 1441 Canal St.; www.webweekend. org — NOVAC hosts screenings and discussions about the emerging technology of web-based video distribution. Tickets $20. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Parents Night Out. Bethel Baptist Church, 201 Filmore Ave., (504) 486-4679 — Parents get some free time while kids enjoy games, crafts, movies and snacks. Call pastor Wayne Adams at (985) 981-1144 or associate pastor Roger Hurd at (985) 400-3149 for details. 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Studio, 527 Elysian Fields Ave., (504) 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — The Jazz & Heritage Foundation hosts a parade featuring 20 local brass bands and marching krewes, departing from Elysian Fields Ave. at 8 p.m. and proceeding through the French Quarter. A ball featuring Big Sam’s Funky Nation follows at the Blue Nile. Ball tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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edu — Environmental reporter Bob Marshall gives a lecture. Free and open to the public. 6:30 p.m.
MONDAY French Ameri-Can Climate Talks. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick University Center, McAlister Drive, (504) 247-1507; www.facts.france-science. org — The Consulate General of France and Tulane University host a climate change conference. 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WORDS Art of the Book Reception. The Art Gallery, 3000 Royal St., (504) 228-7658; www.nolaartgallery. com — The event honors winners of the Art of the Book Competition and includes food and a silent auction. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
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Beyond Hope Against Hope: A Conversation. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu — Mary Laurie, Aidan Kelly and Geraldlynn Stewart, the main characters of Sarah Carr’s
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Hope Against Hope, discuss New Orleans’ public schools. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Big Read Kickoff. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The Southern Food and Beverage Museum sponsors a community reading of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. UNO anthropology professor David Beriss gives a lecture. 6 p.m. Wednesday. Bonnie Warren. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 322-7479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The author discusses and signs New Orleans Homes at Christmas. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Carole Shelby Carnes. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs A Street In A Town Remembered, her memoir of Shelby, MS. 6 p.m. Friday. Catherine Lacey. Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns. com — The author of Nobody Is Ever Missing reads at the 1718
Society. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Dominic Massa. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs New Orleans Radio with guests Bob Walker, Keith Rush, Ed Clancy and “Pal Al” Nassar. 6 p.m. Thursday. Gary Krist. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author discusses and signs Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans. 6 p.m. Tuesday. James Nolan. Maple Street Book Shop, 7529 Maple St., (504) 866-4916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — The author reads and signs You Don’t Know Me, a collection of stories set in New Orleans. 6 p.m. Thursday. John Berendt. New Orleans Athletic Club, 222 N. Rampart St., (504) 525-2375; www. neworleansathleticclub.com — The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil speaks about why he loves New Orleans. 7 p.m. Thursday. Jon and Elizabeth Laiche. — The authors discuss The
Petticoat Rebellion: A Culinary History of French Colonial Louisiana. 6 p.m. Thursday at Madisonville Library, 1123 Main St., Madisonville; 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd. Judy Walker. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — The cookbook author and food editor discusses her work. 7 p.m. Thursday. Kristin Ludwig. Gallery Burguieres, 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres.com — The author signs her children’s book Remy: A Little Bird with a Big Imagination, with rescue parrot Remy as a guest. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. New Orleans Bookfair. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net — The New Orleans Bookfair combines with the New Orleans Anarchist Bookfair to promote independent authors and presses. 10 a.m. Sunday. Paul Oswell. Roux On Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504), 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com
— The author celebrates the launch of New Orleans Historic Hotels. 6 p.m. Thursday.
visit website, call or email conferences@nationalww2museum.org. 5 p.m. Thursday.
Reading Between the Wines Anniversary Party. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6360; www.fleurdelit.com — The event includes participating authors from the past year, wines by the glass and a food truck. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Tom Dent Festival. New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 529-7323; www.nutrias.org — The library’s African-American literary festival includes readings, music and an author panel at Dillard University. Thursday-Friday.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Writers’ Group. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib. la.us — Sci-fi writer James Butler leads a workshop for all levels. 7 p.m. Thursday.
W. Bruce Cameron. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The author signs his novel The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man. 6 p.m. Monday.
Tina Freeman and Morgan Molthrop. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323 — The photographer and writer discuss Artist Spaces, their look inside local artists’ homes and studios. 6 p.m. Wednesday. Tina Santi Flaherty. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944, ext. 412; www.nationalww2museum.org — The author presents What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Reservations required;
SPORTS TUESDAY Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.nba.com/pelicans — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Charlotte Hornets. 7 p.m.
SUNDAY Saints. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleanssaints.com — The New Orleans Saints play the San Francisco 49ers. Noon.
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SUCCESSION OF BOBBY ALLEN GUNTER NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas Debra Ipock duly appointed and qualified Administrator of the Succession of Bobby Allen Gunter of the above estate has made application to the Court for the private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF ground together with all of the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, and identified as a portion of former Lot 3-A, Square A (formerly Lot 2-A-2) and former Lots 3-B and 3-C (formerly Lots 1-A, 2-A, 3-A-1, and 3-A-2), in accordance with the plan of resubdivision by BFM Corporation dated August 31, 1987, approved by Jefferson Parish Council Ordinance No. 17392 on December 2, 1987, and registered in COB 1873, folio 124, which property was further resubdivided into ESPRIT AT STONEBRIDGE, Square 1, Lots 1 through and including 46, and Square 2, Lots 1 through and including 26, in accordance with the plan of resubdivision by Krebs, LaSalle, LeMieux Consultants, Inc., L.S., dated February 7, 1994, revised March 16, 1994, and revised March 30, 1994, approved by Jefferson Parish Council Ordinance
LOT 28, SQUARE 1, which is bounded by Lake Elizabeth Court, 180’ Trapp Canal R.O.W. (Side), and Golf Course, FF-11A-1, and said Lot commences at a distance of 917.55 feet from a point of curvature along Lake Elizabeth Court, and measures a front on Lake Elizabeth Court of 65.04 feet with a width across the rear of 65.00 feet, by a depth of 103.60 feet along the sideline nearest 180’ Trapp Canal R.O.W. (Side), by a depth of 105.40 feet along the sideline opposite sideline. All in accordance with a survey by BFM Corporation dated February 19, 1997, resurveyed March 21, 1997 to locate improvements, and certified correct May 19, 1997. Improvements thereon bear the municipal address 10 Lake Elizabeth Court, Harvey, Louisiana 70058. Upon the following terms and conditions, to-wit: This sale shall be for the price of One Hundred Ninety Four Thousand and NO/100 Dollars ($194,000.00), minus costs as stated in the Purchase Agreement filed in the record. The purchase price shall be paid in cash when the act of sale is passed. NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that Debra Ipock duly appointed and qualified Administrator of the Succession of Bobby Allen Gunter proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within ten (10) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the date of publication of this notice appears. By Order of the Court, Aliesha Buckley Deputy Clerk Attorney: Carl J. Selenberg Address: 3713 Airline Drive, Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 835-1053 Gambit: 10/14/14 & 11/04/14
24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 736-845 DIVISION “C” SUCCESSION OF VINCENT ROBERT MONTEFORTE NOTICE WHEREAS, Carlos J. Monteforte, the duly appointed Administrator of the Succession of Vincent Robert Monteforte, (hereinafter referred to as the “Succession”) has made an application to this Honorable Court for a judgment of authority to sell the following described property, to wit: Carlos J. Monteforte, the duly appointed Administrator of the Succession, has received an offer to purchase the Succession’s undivided interest in said property, at private sale on the terms of $155,000.00 cash, with the Succession’s interest being one-half (1/2) of the purchase price, or $77,500.00 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an order granting authority may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of final publication and that an opposition may be filed at any time prior to the issuance of such order. By order of the Court. Deputy Clerk of Court Parish of Jefferson Attorney: Timothy F. Hand
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DOCKET NO. 2013-4695 DIVISION “I” SUCCESSION OF MICHELE A. JACOB NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Testamentary Executrix of the above estate has made application to the Court for the sale, at private sale, of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in Third District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as VENETIAN ISLES No. 6, SECTION 2, in SQUARE NO. 35, bounded by Trieste Street, San Rocco Street, San Trovaso Street, Old Spanish Trail, Santa Elena Waterway and Grand Bayou, which said lot of ground is designated as LOT NO. 1, commences at a distance of 126.50 feet Santa Elena Waterway and Old Spanish Trail; said lot measures 70 front on Trieste Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 167.5 feet between equal and parallel lines. The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 4281 Trieste Street, New Orleans, LA 70129. UPON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: $166,000.00-CASH TO SELLER, less the usual expenses of sale, with the vendor paying $2,995.00 toward buyer’s closing costs and/or prepaids at act of sale. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make an opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. Dale N. Atkins Clerk of Court, Parish of Orleans Attorney: Robert L. Raymond Address: 14108 River Road, Destrehan, Louisiana 70047 Telephone: (985) 764-8709 Gambit: 11/04/14 & 11/25/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Nicole Fagocki Gautreaux, please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of RASHAAD JOHNSON, please contact attorney Theresa Robertson @ 504.782.8553. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Shareen Smith McCoy, please contact Atty. Naomi Kim at 504-528-9500. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Justin James, last known residential address, somewhere in Jefferson Parish, please call Peter Hamilton, 504-940-1883. PAGE 77
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The top floor (1,700 sq ft upper level w/ 3BR/2BA & office) is a restored 1880s w/a wrap around balcony, 13’ ceilings, 12” base boards, 7.5” crown moulding, 9’ pocket doors, original heart of pine floors & cypress doors/windows. Modern kitchen features a pantry, custom cabinets, ss appl & quartz counters. Gorgeous master w/ 2 closets & balcony access. Master bath suite has a double vanity & marble tile. The fourth rm has a travertine floor, en suite bath & laundry w/a back balcony. This beautiful home offers a new roof, insulated attic, a termite contract & 3,775 total sq. ft!! Keep as a duplex or use as large single family. #931 has a separate entrance plus access by #929 through a side door to a 10x12 storage room for the owners use or use as a 3rd bed for the rental unit. Downstairs has 8.5’ ceilings, travertine floors, central AC, & new appl. Find out more and watch Summit NOLA at https://www.facebook.com/SummitNOLA! Jessi Sanborn 504-453-0003 jessisanborn@yahoo.com https://www.facebook.com/SummitNOLA http://www.sissywood.com/
Fully furnished TNH apt. in center of the Warehouse Dist. 2 blks to the N.O. Convention Ctr. Features: Private street entry, wood flrs, fully equipped kitch, flat screen televisions in both bedrooms & living room, alarm, washer/dryer. alarm system, designer furnishings throughout, loft master-King bed, 2nd bedroom-Queen bed, Queen sleeper sofa. Rent incl. all utilities incl. WIFI. Rent is $2,995 for lease terms exceeding 3 mths. Owner/Agent.
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TROPICAL OASIS IN RIVER RIDGE. Pull into a circular drive to this Lovely, 3 BR 2 BA well maintained Home on a quiet, tree lined street. Recently installed ceramic tile floors, kit counter tops, bathrm vanity, elec panel and ceiling fans. Lots of storage. Den opens up to a Huge Lush Tropical Garden, thoughtfully laid out. Fountain, patio and established plants 2 Live Oaks. Built and owned by same family since 1961. $199,000
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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 739270 DIVISION “F” IN RE: DREW MICHAEL DODD, JR. AND LANDIN MATTHEW DODD NEWSPAPER NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Since Rae Ann Gonzalez Dodd and Drew Michael Dodd, Sr., tutors of the above minors’ estates, have made application to the court for the sale, at private sale, of the following movable or immovable property: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all of the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, ELMWOOD PART SUBDIVISION in Square No. 14, bounded by Alexander Drive, 39th Street, Burke Drive and 37th Street, designated as Lot No. 28 on a survey by Henry C. Eustis, Surveyor, dated May 19, 1973, and said Lot is more fully described as follows: LOT 28, SQUARE 14, measures 60 feet front on Alexander Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 105 feet between equal and parallel lines. Lot 28 commences at a distance of 244.75 feet front the corner of Alexander Drive and 37th Street. The improvements
thereon bear the Municipal No. 4716 Alexander Drive Being the same property acquired by Rose Mary Fleck, wife of/and Savas G. Mallos from James T. Baker by Act of Sale, before Richard S. Derbes dated May 30, 1975, recorded in COB 836, Folio 922, Parish Drive Being the same property acquired by Rose Mary Fleck, wife of/and Savas G. Mallos from James T. Baker by Act of Sale, before Richard S. Derbes dated May 30, 1975, recorded in COB 836, Folio 922, Parish of Jefferson. This act is made executed accepted subject to the following: A five (5) feet servitude across the rear for utility purposes. All as more fully shown in accordance with the survey of Sterling Mandle Land Surveyor dated May 21, 1975, a copy of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof. And this reference to the above restrictions and or conditions is not to be considered as renewing or recreating them in any manner whatsoever. Being the same property acquired by Connie Cook, Wife of/and Richard Barry from Rose Mary Fleck, wife of/ and Savas G. Mallos by act before Roy L. Price dated June 25, 1976, and recorded in C.O.B. 866, folio 462, M.O.B. 681, folio 953 on July 2, 1976, Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana. Upon the following terms and conditions notice is given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the minor, and of the minor’s estate, to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.
By order of the court, Lisa Cheramie Clerk Attorney: John M. McMahon Address: 701 North Causeway Blvd., Metairie, LA 70001 Telephone: (504) 219-1040 Gambit: 11/04/14 & 11/25/14
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO. 742-481 DIVISION “N” SUCCESSION OF LEONARD CHARLES KAUFMAN, SR. NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of this Estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the account and Final Tableau of Distribution presented by the Provisional Administrator of this Estate should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed in accordance herewith. By Order of the Court Masie Comeaux Clerk Attorney: Kevin C. Schoenberger, Esq. Address: 201 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 2422, Place St. Charles, New Orleans, LA 70170 Telephone: (504) 525-1143 Gambit: 11/04/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of J. C. Anderson and Rachel Anderson, please contact atty. Michael Hall at (504) 383-5294.
24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO: 696-468 DIVISION “N” SUCCESSION OF ANN TOMLINSON AUTIN THE WIDOW OF LEONARD JEROME AUTIN SR. NOTICE OF PETITION TO PAY ON-GOING DEBTS Notice is hereby given to the heirs and creditors of this Estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the PETITION TO PAY ON-GOING DEBTS presented by the Executor of this Estate should not be approved and homologated and the payment of recurring on-going debts be made in accordance herewith. By Order of the Court Attorney: Faun Fenderson Address: 700 Camp Street, Suite 318, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: (504) 528-9500 Gambit: 11/04/14
24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
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SUCCESSION OF ANDREW F. MACDONALD NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, rights, ways, and privileges thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, in that subdivision known as CECILE PARK SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE NO. 2 thereof, which said square is bounded by North Labarre Road, Twentieth and Twenty-Second Streets and Tolmas Drive; and, according to a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Surveyors, dated April 2, 1968, copy of which is annexed to act passed before L.T. Kuhner, Notary Public, on May 1, 1968. The said lot is designated by the No. 6, commences at a distanced of one hundred forty-five (145’) feet from the corner of North Labarre Road and Twentieth Street, measures thence sixty (60’) feet front on North Labarre Road, same in width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred (100’) feet between equal and parallel lines. Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 3020 North Labarre Road. Being the same property acquired by Virginia Whitten, wife of/and Andrew F. Macdonald from Central Savings and Loan Assoc. by act dated December 18, 1980, recorded at COB 995 fol. 115, Jefferson Parish. NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with law, notice is hereby given that LINDA S. TARBET, Administratix, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property,
Attorney: Michael J. Power Address: 3445 N. Causeway Blvd. Suite 736 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 833-7325 Gambit: 11/4/14 & 11/25/14
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA
CASE NO. 2014-7393 DIVISION D RE: SUCCESSION OF IRMA JONES DUBUCLET NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administrator of the above estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable herein described property, to wit: Improvements bearing Municipal Nos. 1466-1468 Marais Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, Lot A, Square 382, Third District of City of New Orleans UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS & CONDITIONS, TO WIT: THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($35,000.00) less the usual and customary expenses of the sale, all as per the agreement to buy and sell but subject to tax sale for unpaid 2008 and 2010 taxes. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law.
heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, to file any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homologating the FINAL TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. By Order of the Court Jon Gegenheimer Clerk of Court Parish of Jefferson Attorney: David Greenberg Address: 848 2nd Street, Suite 200 Gretna, Louisiana 70053 Telephone: (504) 366-8118 Gambit: 11/04/14 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Bobby K. Curtis, L/K/A 3329 General Taylor St., New Orleans, La, please call, Peter Hamilton 504-940-1883. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Brenda Edward Mays, Kenneth Edwards, Sharon Edwards Wright, Timothy Edwards please contact J. Benjamin Avin Atty, 2216 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 525-1500. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Cary J. Reese, Sr. and/or Ellen Purvis Reese, please contact attorney John J. Buckman at (504) 837-4950. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of David M. Stiles, Jr., L/K/A 3500 Rue Denise, New Orleans, La, please call R. Hamilton, 504-940-1883. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Earl B. Guyton aka Earl Guyton, please contact atty. Michael Hall at (504) 383-5294. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michael Romero of Westego, please call Attorney, Joan Benge at 504 462-1530. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of YOLANDA DUPATY ZEIGLER, (A/K/A YOLANDA DUPATY, YOLANDA D. ZEIGLER, YOLANDA ZEIGLER, please contact Carlos Ramirez Atty., 2216 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 975-2912.
By Order of this Court, Deputy Clerk Attorney: John A. E. Davidson Address: 2901 Independence Street, Suite 201, Metairie, LA 70006 Telephone: (504) 779-7979 Gambit: 11/04/14
TWENTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO. 683-966 DIVISION “N” SUCCESSION OF DORIS MARIE PLAISANCE GAUTHREAUX ESTE NOTICE OF PUBLICATION HOMOLOGATION OF FINAL TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all creditors, claimants and heirs of the above succession and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication hereof why the “FINAL TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION,” presented by Vernard V. Gauthreaux, Jr., the Administrator of the Succession of Doris Marie Plaisance Gauthreaux Este, should not be approved and homologated and the funds distributed as set forth therein. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the
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NOTICE IS GIVEN that LINDA S. TARBET, Administratix of the SUCCESSION OF ANDREW F. MACDONALD has, pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of One Hundred FortyFive Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($145,000.00), the Succession’s interest in and to the following described property situated in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to-wit:
at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.
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