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WED. MARCH 22 | The second album from the L.A. punk band, helmed by explosive teen visionary Clementine Currie, is 2017’s Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian), opening with the self-assured chorus “I told you I’d be with the guys / But I know better now than to be with the guys” before punching the nuke codes. Ian Sweet, LALA LALA and Fruit Machines open at 10 p.m. at Siberia.

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Sweet Bird of Youth WED.-SUN. MARCH 22-APRIL 16 | Chance Wayne (Martin Bradford) has never realized his dream of becoming a star and serves as an escort to fading starlet Alexandra del Lago (Leslie Castay), who seeks comfort in booze and pills. Southern Rep presents Tennessee Williams’ drama at 8 p.m. (3 p.m. Sundays) at Loyola University’s Marquette Theatre.

The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival features authors, plays and more

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Static Masks album release

ROY BLOUNT JR.’S VOICE MAY BE FAMILIAR to local fans of Wait Wait…

Don’t Tell Me, the current events quiz show on NPR, but they may or may not recognize him walking around the French Quarter or Marigny near his home. Anyone who has read his 2016 book Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations would know he’s got a feel for the city, its culture and, especially, its tastes.

In the collection of essays, Blount spiritedly cuts through the anxiety generated by lovers and haters of kale, irony-steeped biscuit shops in urban environments and the revival of pimiento cheese. He revels in the simple pleasures of food, and a long essay supposedly about music looks at Fats Waller’s recording career by looking at his many songs about food. Along the way he offers lists of food names for bands matching genre and cuisine.

Country goth: Death on a Cracker. New Orleans klezmer: Oyoyoyster. Creole Vietnamese: Pho Ya Ya. The wordplay in Save Room for Pie reflects the advice he offers aspiring writers.

“Use your words,” Blount says, sitting outside Buffa’s Bar and Restaurant (which he praises for its red beans in Save Room). “They’re inherently sort of comical, odd little sounds. The whole enterprise is comical.”

It’s some of the advice he shares in the master class he leads March 23 at the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. The festival includes classes about writing, panel discussions on literary topics, productions of Tennessee Williams dramas, parties and the concluding Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest in Jackson Square.

Blount also sits on a panel about Southern storytellers and hospitality.

Blount grew up in Georgia, and has

lived across the region, including a summer working at The TimesPicayune after college. He’s a current columnist for Garden & Gun magazine and is contributing entries on manatees, hot sauce and Mark Twain to its forthcoming encyclopedia of the South (he’d like to add entries for chicken gizzards and crawfish).

Blount has written more than 20 books and covered subjects ranging from the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers (About Three Bricks Shy of a Load) to the Marx Brothers’ movie Duck Soup to being bitten by a piranha while swimming in the Amazon .

Blount is joined on the panel by fellow writers Rick Bragg (who also teaches a master class), Julia Reed and chef Jennifer Hill Booker. The Times-Picayune reporter John Pope moderates the event at 1 p.m. Friday.

Also appearing at the festival are TV host Dick Cavett, actor Robert Wagner (Hart to Hart), who starred in a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Lawrence Olivier, novelist Wally Lamb (She’s Come Undone), Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), Robert Olen Butler and playwright John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck). Local authors include Richard Campanella on a panel about New Orleans’ Chinatowns, Katy Simpson Smith (Free Men), Michael Tisserand (Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White), Ethan Brown (Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the

Roy Blount Jr. speaks at the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.

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MARCH 22-26 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL VARIOUS LOCATIONS; WWW.TENNESSEEWILLIAMS.NET

FRI. MARCH 24 | Released on new locally based label Strange Daisy, Lame Bloomer is the latest from the dreamy experimental pop quartet, performing some minor guitar somersaults floating through a hazy blend of blissed-out prog rock.

SHAME, The Self-Help Tapes and Raspy open at 10 p.m. at Saturn Bar.

Varla Jean Merman Sings?

FRI.-SAT. MARCH 24-25 | Varla Jean Merman previews songs from her upcoming show Bad Heroine! and sings tunes from A Little White Music, Big Black Hole and Loose Chanteuse.

She’s joined by Gerald Goode on piano. At 8 p.m. at Cafe Istanbul.

Cardinal Sons Jefferson Davis Parish Eight) and historians Kim Vaz-Deville (The Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition) and Alecia Long, who has a forthcoming book about Clay Shaw, whose name was dragged into many John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.

The festival also includes a tribute reading to Williams, a writing marathon and walking tours. In Save Room for Pie, Blount launches several essays with observations from the streets of New Orleans, a neverending inspiration and source of amusement.

“New Orleans is a place unto itself,” he says at Buffa’s (after Jessica Lange rode by on a bicycle and waved).

“I saw a man carrying a tuba and walking a large dog. I gave him an incredulous look. He looked at me and said, ‘You get used to it.’”

SAT. MARCH 25 | The brothers Shirley continue their pop conquest on the New Orleans trio’s 2017 singles “Magnolia” and “New Jack City,” the former a synth-powered slow jam and the latter an anxious blast of propulsive power pop. Alexis & the Samurai also are on the bill at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

Chris Rock SAT.-MON. MARCH 25-27 | Nine years since his last stand-up tour and TV special, Chris Rock is working on both in his Total Blackout tour, offering his cutting takes on politics, relationships and his 2016 divorce. At 7 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Monday at Saenger Theatre.

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SOURCE: PUBLIC POLICY POLLING SURVEY OF 808 REGISTERED VOTERS, MARCH 10-12.

THE ROLLOUT OF THE LONG-AWAITED REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE REFORM wasn’t greeted well last week, according to a survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP). The PPP poll also found the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is approved of by most voters, 47 percent to 39 percent.

Worse for the proposed replacement: only 32 percent thought Obamacare should be repealed entirely, while 63 percent thought it should be tweaked and improved.

Another finding in the poll that would affect Louisiana: President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico and the concept of cutting funds to FEMA, the U.S. Coast Guard and the TSA to pay for it with no guarantee of repayment by Mexico. Respondents opposed the possibility by 69 percent, while only 16 percent thought it a sound idea. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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1. ADDING SAME-SEX COUPLES

TO STATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATUTES

Proposed legislation by state Rep. Pat Connick, R-Marrero, aims to close a longstanding loophole in Louisiana’s domestic violence statutes by including same-sex couples.

Connick has prefiled House Bill 27 for the annual spring session, which begins April 10.

The bill would alter the state’s civil and criminal statutes by increasing potential penalties for abusers in same-sex cohabiting relationships and by providing key public welfare assistance options to same-sex victims.

The bill simply removes the phrase “of opposite sex” from the state’s definition of a household member, a definition that forms a foundation for domestic abuse battery and domestic aggravated assault charges, as well as support services for victims.

Louisiana law defines domestic violence as violence perpetrated against family members, such as spouses or household members. State law identifies a household member as “any person of the opposite sex presently or formerly living in the same residence with the offender as a spouse, whether married or not …” Louisiana and South Carolina are the only states that include “opposite sex” distinctions in their domestic violence statutes.

Connick said he filed the legislation on behalf of the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office, where Assistant District Attorney Sunny Funk is spearheading the change.

Connick said that office handles domestic violence cases daily and understands the community’s needs. Society is evolving, Connick added, and the legal change is necessary to ensure the state is doing its best to protect all of its residents. “Everybody needs to be protected no matter what your sexual orientation,” Connick said. “Everybody needs to be protected from abuse.” — KATIE GAGLIANO | MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

“Today we learned that the President’s FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. … We understand that the President’s budget request is a first step in a very long budget process; as part of that process we are working with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prepare information they have requested. At this time, the NEA continues to operate as usual and will do so until Congress enacts a new budget.

“We expect this news to be an active topic of discussion among individuals and organizations that advocate for the arts. As a federal government agency, the NEA cannot engage in advocacy, either directly or indirectly. We will, however, continue our practice of educating about the NEA’s vital role in serving our nation’s communities.” — Official statement from the National Endowment for the Arts, March 16. Among the other agencies facing total funding elimination are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Washington Post called it “the worst-case scenario for arts groups.”

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LSP Superintendent Edmonson retires amid controversy Col. Mike Edmonson, who’s led the Louisiana State Police (LSP) since being appointed by Gov. Bobby Jindal in 2008, last week announced his retirement as of March 24.

Edmonson had come under scrutiny after a report in The Advocate revealed several high-ranking LSP members had driven to a San Diego conference with taxpayer-paid stops along the way in Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon.

In 2014, Edmonson was embroiled in controversy after a piece of legislation that would have substantially increased his pension was attached to an unrelated bill on the last day of that year’s legislative session (he backtracked quickly and said he would not accept the windfall).

Gov. John Bel Edwards, who

had reappointed Edmonson, said in a statement, “Together, we believe this is the best approach for the department.

Throughout many natural and man-made disasters, Col. Edmonson has been a steady hand and strong leader for the people of Louisiana.” In his own statement, Edmonson said, “The Governor has never asked that I step down. As our discussions continued today, I have come to believe that my moving aside will permit the governor and the state to move forward. ... I’ve known since childhood that God’s Plan runs perfect and that His Will be done. I am excited for what He has in store for me.”

4. New low-barrier homeless shelter

Following debate among city officials and residents over the placement of a proposed low-barrier homeless shelter, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced on March 15 low-barrier homeless services at the former Veterans Affairs Hospital on Gravier Street. The inclusion of 100 new low-barrier beds — at no cost, with no sobriety test, and open 24 hours, in the same building with nearby health and housing services — “can be critical as we seek to connect even more homeless to the necessary services they need to get into stable housing,” Landrieu said.

Landrieu originally pressed for its construction on Erato Street in Central City. District B City Councilmember LaToya Cantrell had pushed the city to look for an alternate site, including the former Temporary Detention Center on Perdido Street, part of the former jail complex, as well as the VA. Cantrell told Gambit she had been “shut out” of discussions about the location.

Later that year, the Landrieu Administration considered Israel Meyer Augustine Middle School and the VA as alternative sites.

Cantrell said her objection to the Erato location “was never about NIMBY,” but about access to health care, case management and other services.

According to a city press release, the VA location ultimately was chosen “due to an improved timeline for transfer of the building back

to city control, proximity to the homeless population and service providers, and with input from partners and stakeholders.”

The city has budgeted $1.5 million in 2017 to help pay for the shelter, and partnering organization the Downtown Development District will pay an additional $1 million and match funding in the future.

Annual costs are expected to be $750,000, paid by the city.

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It’s 3 a.m., and the doors may stay open A controversial anti-crime plan rolled out by Mayor Mitch Landrieu earlier this year met criticism for a rule to force bars citywide to close their doors at 3 a.m. Last week, the city announced it would drop the idea “due to other public safety issues that may have resulted from reduced capacity and fire exits in bars,” according to Ryan Berni, deputy mayor of external affairs.

The plan focuses largely on the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, where street sweepers (with police escort) would hit the streets at 3 a.m. (and two more times before 10 a.m.). The “3 a.m.” rule didn’t plan to “close” bars — just their doors — while the New Orleans Police Department and other agencies “sweep the streets,” according to New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison, speaking at a January press conference.

The $40 million plan also adds 200 cameras to “hot spots” in neighborhoods across the city. Images from the cameras will be streamed to a command center. In a statement, the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans said it fails to see “what much of this plan has to do with crime reduction at all — rather it looks to be a form of ‘disaster capitalism,’ using the fear of crime to force through policies that will be widely unpopular.”

6. Vandalism at Uptown church

A brick was thrown through the window of an Uptown church during its March 12 Sunday service — just two days after it hosted a town

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7. Thank God it’s Friday Former U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite quoted the 1995 stoner comedy Friday the morning after he announced his resignation: “I feel like Craig from Friday. I voluntarily resigned, but then I got fired! #howyougetfiredonyourdayoff” Polite had submitted his resignation that week, to be effective March 24, but President Donald Trump, through the U.S. Department of Justice, had requested the 46 U.S. Attorneys who remained on the job following his inauguration step down immediately. Duane Evans, who previously served as first assistant U.S. Attorney under Polite, is the acting U.S. Attorney. Trump has not named a successor. Polite said in a statement that he will soon announce “his future endeavors, in both the public and private sectors.”

8. Fresher options at corner stores

New Orleans will begin a pilot program adding fresh foods and fruits and vegetables to five corner stores (of more than 150 in the city) in several neighborhoods. As part of the city’s Fresh Food Retailer Initiative, which provides small grants to stores looking to renovate to add fresh foods, the incoming Healthy Corner Store Collaborative will

work with small, minority-owned businesses and aim to erase stereotypes about fresh food. Those stereotypes include: people don’t want it; it costs too much to store and sell; and it can’t compete with other demands.

Each store will have one-on-one “mentorships” with Propeller developers and be connected with a supply chain from Liberty’s Kitchen.

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Facebook’s Sandberg coming to New Orleans Sheryl Sandberg, the high-profile Facebook COO and author of the ostensibly feminist career coaching tract Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, will appear in New Orleans later this spring. She’s in conversation with Mary Matalin at Academy of the Sacred Heart’s Nims Fine Arts Center on May 9.

In Lean In, Sandberg argues there aren’t as many women in the highest levels of business in part because they begin “opting out” of more demanding assignments in anticipation of pregnancy and child care. The book sparked backlash from critics who pointed out that Sandberg has resources like nannies, housekeepers and significant wealth to support an ambitious career — assets which aren’t available to many women.

Sandberg reevaluated some of her Lean In arguments after the sudden death of her husband. Her new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resistance and Finding Joy, details how her family recovered from that loss and how she copes with being a single parent.

A ticket, which includes a copy of the new book, is required to attend the event sponsored by Garden District Book Shop. It’s from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

10. ‘Recall Yenni’ gives up the ghost

Leaders of a petition campaign to recall Jefferson Parish President Mike Yenni announced last week that they were folding after failing to secure 90,000 signatures, which would have forced a vote that could remove Yenni from office. With less than a month to go, the group led

by Jefferson Parish Attorney Robert Evans had just 50,000 signatures.

Last year, Yenni admitted to sending what he called “improper texts” to a then-17-year-old gay teen, but apologized and insisted it had nothing to do with his performance as parish president.

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hall responding to violence against transgender people. The March 10 meeting at Unitarian Universalist Church was among the first citywide meetings organized entirely by transgender women of color to have the attention of several New Orleans City Council members as well as New Orleans Police Department brass. The brick “shattered more than ornamental glass, but the feeling of safety all people should feel in a place of worship,” according to the Rev. Alisan Rowland of Metropolitan Community Church.

At-Large City Councilman Jason Williams — who spoke at the meeting — said “this type of cowardly violence, perpetrated against such a welcoming space, is an incredibly hateful act.”

NOPD has not linked the damage to the town hall. Earlier this year, transgender women Ciara McElveen and Chyna Gibson were killed in New Orleans, and Jaquarrius Holland was killed in Monroe. Violence against transgender people in 2017 follows two of the deadliest years for transgender people in the U.S., including several deaths in Louisiana.

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Sen. John Neely Kennedy last fall, back when he was making folksy commercials to promote his Senate candidacy. Of course, not having health insurance sucks, too. Receiving health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicaid expansion, only to have it snatched away? Sucks. Massive premium hikes for the elderly? Sucks.

Not getting the health care you need, being forced to use emergency rooms for basic treatment, and having to choose bankruptcy if you want to stay alive? Sucks.

Sucks. Sucks.

Another thing that sucks, according to the American Medical Association, AARP, some major conservative groups, almost all congressional Democrats and a growing number of GOP legislators, is the “American Health Care Act,” the GOP’s Obamacare alternative rolled out recently. Among the reasons for such widespread opposition: the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that the act would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million next year alone. That’s three times Louisiana’s population.

It raises the question: What did Republicans run on?

Williams Research Center

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“I DON’T MEAN ANY DISRESPECT, BUT OBAMACARE SUCKS,” said U.S.

Despite President Donald Trump’s promise last November that his health care revamp would result in “better health care, much better, for less money,” the CBO estimates average premiums would go up between 15 and 20 percent in the next two years. And lest we forget, Trump’s told The Washington Post his plan would provide health insurance for all Americans. It doesn’t, not by a long shot. That sucks, too.

Kennedy was lukewarm on the GOP plan in an interview with local radio host Jeff Crouere. “It’s not perfect,” Kennedy said. “It’s got some holes in it” — and that was before the CBO issued its report. The state’s senior senator, Bill Cassidy, a physician, was even more critical of the plan, telling CNN flatly, “That’s not what President Trump proposed.

That’s not what Republicans ran on.”

Kudos to Cassidy for candor, but his comment raises the question: What did Republicans run on?

At a town hall in Metairie last month, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy attempted to explain his proposed alternative to the Affordable Care Act, which he called the “Patient Freedom Act.” This week, he expressed disappointment with the GOP’s proposed American Health Care Act, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated would increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million next year.

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Officially it was “repeal and replace” Obamacare, but only now do we see what “replace” means. Ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed, the GOP has vowed to “rip it out by the roots” (in the words of former House Speaker John Boehner). Judging from the response to the proposed American Health Care Act, it seems that nowhere during that process did Republicans concern themselves with a better replacement. Cassidy — again, to his credit — proposed his own “Patient Freedom Act,” which would have let states keep the ACA if they liked. That’s not in the American Health Care Act. Gov. John Bel Edwards joined other governors in asking Congress to continue Medicaid expansion, which has allowed 405,000 additional Louisianans to receive health coverage — and saved the state millions. The GOP proposal would convert Medicaid dollars to block grants, which would adversely affect America’s poorest and neediest.

For years, Republicans have sworn they could deliver a better health care plan than the ACA. If the American Health Care Act is the best they can do, well, to borrow Kennedy’s phrase, that really sucks.

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Getting smart on crime LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS WILL STRUGGLE TO MAKE SENSE OF OUR STATE’S FISCAL MESS WHEN THEY CONVENE NEXT MONTH, and that struggle will

overshadow all other pressing matters. Yet there’s one overarching issue on which legislators of all stripes ought to agree: the need for meaningful criminal justice reform.

Reforming Louisiana’s criminal justice system is actually a fiscal issue. We spend way too much money incarcerating nonviolent offenders — upwards of $700 million a year on corrections. That cost has gotten so out of hand that sentencing reform has become a rallying point for a growing number of conservative Republicans. More need to get on board.

Locking up nonviolent offenders doesn’t make us tough on crime, it makes us

dumb on crime — because it turns nonviolent people into hardened criminals while they’re behind bars. Most of them get out at some point.

You know what happens next.

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, judges, lawyers, criminal justice experts and community leaders spent the past year forging consensus around a comprehensive overhaul of the state’s incarceration policies. The coalition, known as the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment Task Force, aims to accomplish five main goals: • Bring consistency to sentencing and release practices.

• Focus prison beds on those who pose a serious threat to public safety.

• Strengthen community supervision.

• Remove barriers to success-

ful reentry into the community and the workforce.

• Reinvest a substantial portion of the savings into evidence-backed alternatives to prison, programs that reduce recidivism, and services to support victims of crime.

If adopted by lawmakers, the task force recommendations would reduce the state’s prison population by 13 percent over the next decade, reduce the number of people supervised in the community by 16 percent, and save taxpayers $305 million.

The overhaul was immediately embraced by Gov. John Bel Edwards, House Speaker Taylor Barras and Senate President John Alario. Edwards is a Democrat; Barras and Alario are Republicans. Louisiana Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson, a task force member, likewise praised the recommendations — as did business leaders and conservatives.

“The business community is standing behind lawmakers who support the task force recommendations,” said co-

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alition member Elain Ellerbe, who is the Louisiana director of Right on Crime, a conservative coalition. “Legislators should boldly pursue these reforms and refrain from listening to critics who would use scare tactics to defend the failed policies of the past.” Ellerbe added that the reforms give elected leaders “the opportunity to repair Louisiana’s sad reputation as America’s prison capital.”

Among the early conservative advocates for sentencing reform was the late Kevin Kane, founder of the

Pelican Institute for Public Policy, a Louisiana-based think tank that supports the recommendations. Kane worked tirelessly for years to get conservatives behind prison reform before he died last October. Passage of the reforms would be a fitting tribute to his efforts.

Civil libertarians have their own reasons for backing the reforms, of course. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter why someone supports this effort; it only matters that it gets done. We need to get smart on crime. Now.

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Hey Blake, I noticed that the sculptures of the two women in bathing suits on Poydras Street have been taken down. Is there any reason for this?

MITCHEL

Dear Mitchel, Those amazingly lifelike sculptures of two female swimmers, perched on Poydras Street in just their swimsuits and caps, have caused many a downtown passerby to do a double take since they were installed in April 2015. They are the work of New York artist Carole A. Feuerman and were installed there as part of the outdoor art project Sculpture for New Orleans.

That project is the brainchild of artists Michael Manjarris and Peter Lundberg. Created to help brighten the local landscape post-Hurricane Katrina, it has placed 77 sculptures throughout the city since 2007. The art is the work of local, regional and international artists. Since they are not permanent installations, some sculptures, like the swimmers, disappear when others are introduced.

The sculptures have been located all over town, from Audubon Park and New Orleans City Park to Lafayette Square, Convention Center Boulevard and Poydras Street. Donors help underwrite the project and the Poydras installations are underwritten by The Helis Foundation.

Ray Smith’s “El Pajaro y la Nina” recently was installed on Poydras Street between Magazine and Camp Streets.

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According to organizers, Feuerman’s 2014 oil-painted resin sculptures, which are titled Kendall Island and Yaima and the Ball, were removed a few weeks ago. Those two sculptures are headed to Venice, Italy for a show during the Venice Biennale in May. Feuerman’s sculptures have been replaced on Poydras Street by the work of Ray Smith, who has studios in Cuernavaca, Texas and New York. His sculpture is called El Pajaro y la Nina.

BLAKEVIEW FOR MUCH OF POYDRAS STREET’S HISTORY, a two-block area of the thoroughfare was home to an outdoor market. The Poydras Market existed from 1838 until 1932 and was one of many outdoor markets operating in the city during that time. It was situated on Poydras between Penn and South Rampart streets, on land acquired by the city from the Carrollton Railroad Company. According to geographer and historian Richard Campanella, who described the market in an article for Preservation in Print, the market featured hundreds of open stalls located “under a pavilion-like roof with a picturesque wooden cupola. The gables of the structure were finished in ornate detailing, and a passageway beneath the cupola allowed muledrawn drayage and (later) streetcars to move beneath the structure.” By 1911, Campanella says, the city boasted the highest per capita number of public markets in the nation. Over the years, shopping patterns changed and corner stores and supermarkets became popular. The Poydras Market closed in the 1930s. The Poydras Street and Central Business District we know today would develop in the 1960s and 1970s, with the construction of the Superdome and other downtown office buildings.

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BIG EASY AWARD

B I G E A SY FO U N DATI O N AN N O U N C ES 2 017 TH E ATE R AWAR D N O M I N E E S

Lifetime Achievement in Theater

BY WI LL COV I ELLO

ANTHONY BEAN

THE GAMBIT-AFFILIATED FOUNDATION FOR ENTERTAINMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION (FEDE) announced nominees for

top performances in 2016. Winners and special award recipients will be announced at the Big Easy Awards April 24 at The Orpheum Theater.

Christopher Bentivegna, founder of See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company and director of Lizzie, will receive the Theater Person of the Year Award. Bentivegna has carved out a niche for off-kilter musicals, such as The Toxic Avenger and the blood-splashing Musical of the Living Dead and Evil Dead: The Musical.

Anthony Bean will receive a lifetime achievement award. Bean established Anthony Bean Community Theater in 2000, and last year moved to his own campus in Gentilly. He has starred in and directed numerous works, including all 10 plays in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle, a decade-by-decade chronicle of African-American experiences in the 20th century.

Nominations for performances in 2016 were led

by Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, which drew nods for seven productions, including two original pantos for family audiences. The NOLA Project,

Nominees: 2017 Theater

BEST MUSICAL 1776, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Pippin, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company

BEST PLAY 4000 Miles, The NOLA Project Colossal, Southern Rep Grounded, Southern Rep The Lion in Winter, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL A.J. Allegra 1776, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Southern Rep and Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts all have four nominated productions.

Lizzie collected the most nominations with seven, including Best Musical, Best Director of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. Cripple Creek Theatre Company’s Ragtime drew six nominations, including Best Musical, Best Director of a Musical and Best Actor in a Musical.

The Big Easy Awards gala will include theater and music awards. Music nominations will be announced in the April 4 issue of Gambit. Not all awards will be presented at the event. Some categories will be announced April 24 on www. bestofneworleans.com.

Proceeds from the Big Easy Awards support FEDE, which provides annual grants to area artists and educators.

The gala is Monday, April 24 at The Orpheum Theater. It is sponsored by Gambit, The Orpheum Theater, Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts, Flor de Cana Rum, Sazerac Rye, Plymouth Gin, Stoli Vodka and Abita Brewing Company. General admission tickets are $45, floor seating is $100, and VIP tickets are $150. Call Veronica Bird at (504) 483-3130 for tickets.

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Theater Person of the Year CHRISTOPHER BENTIVEGNA

Christopher Bentivegna Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

Abbey P. Murrell Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

Tom Cianfichi Pippin, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Emilie Whelan Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company

Keith Claverie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST DIRECTOR OF A PLAY Beau Bratcher 4000 Miles, The NOLA Project Stephen M. Eckert The Flick, Promethean Theatre Co. Aimee Hayes Colossal, Southern Rep Jessica Podewell Don Quixote, The NOLA Project

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL AshleyRose Bailey Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company Janie Heck The Toxic Avenger, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Idella Johnson Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

founder and director of See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

Clint Johnson Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company Preston Meche II How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Bob Murrell The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Caleigh Alessi Funny Girl, Jefferson Performing Arts Society Leslie L. Claverie Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Shelbie Mac Sweet Charity, Rivertown

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Theaters for the Performing Arts Jessica Mixon Pippin, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Patrick Thomas Cragin Pippin, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre John Michael Haas West Side Story, Jefferson Performing Arts Society Bobby Kelly How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Cameron-Mitchell Ware Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Amy Alvarez Flood City, The NOLA Project AshleyRose Bailey Don Quixote, The NOLA Project Lucy Faust The Glass Menagerie, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

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2. Nicoye Banks and Zeb Hollins III are both nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for The High Priestess of Dark Alley.

John Grimsley Sive, The NOLA Project

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Zeb Hollins III The High Priestess of Dark Alley, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

3. AshleyRose Bailey is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for Don Quixote (pictured) and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Ragtime.

Mike Spara Don Quixote, The NOLA Project

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4. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts’ production of 1776 is nominated for Best Musical.

Irene Glezos Orpheus Descending, Southern Rep Ashley Ricord Santos Flood City, The NOLA Project

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Carol Sutton 4000 Miles, The NOLA Project

5. Bobby Kelly is nominated for Best Actor in a Musical for How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY James Bartelle 4000 Miles, The NOLA Project Martin Bradford Jungle Kings, Anthony Bean Community Theater

Theater Nominees

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Nicoye Banks The High Priestess of Dark Alley, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Kerry Cahill Grounded, Southern Rep

2017 BIG EASY

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Ross Britz Colossal, Southern Rep Ian Hoch Don Quixote, The NOLA Project

BEST ENSEMBLE Airline Highway, Southern Rep The Flick, Promethean Theatre Co. The House of Bernarda Alba, In Good Company Let the Good Times Roll, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

BEST ORIGINAL WORK OF THEATER Don Quixote Pete McElligott, The NOLA Project Killing of a Lesbian Bookie James Fitzmorris, Broken Habit Productions Sea of Common Catastrophe Jeff Becker, ArtSpot Productions Sleeping Beauty: An American Panto Jon Greene, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Kenneth Beck West Side Story, Jefferson Performing Arts Society

6. Airline Highway is nominated for Best Ensemble, and Eric Porter’s set is nominated for Best Set Design. PHOTO BY JOHN B. BARROIS

7. Leslie L. Claverie is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for Lizzie.

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Sweet Charity, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Joan Long Grounded, Southern Rep

Mike Harkins Grounded, Southern Rep

Natalie True A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Evan Spigelman Flood City, The NOLA Project

Jo Nazro Sea of Common Catastrophe, ArtSpot Productions

Jefferson Turner Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company

BEST SET DESIGN

Mandi Wood Orpheus Descending, Southern Rep

BEST COSTUME DESIGN Sara Bandurian Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

Caroline Cuseo Sweet Charity, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts

Jeff Becker Sea of Common Catastrophe, ArtSpot Productions

Jeffrey Gunshol Colossal, Southern Rep

Lex Gernon The Flick, Promethean Theatre Co.

Heidi Malnar Pippin, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Michael Kramer Orpheus Descending, Southern Rep

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR

Eric Porter Airline Highway, Southern Rep

Kathleen Van Horn Sleeping Beauty: An American Panto, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Diane Baas Colossal, Southern Rep

Brendan Connelly Airline Highway, Southern Rep

Ainsley Matich Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Alan Payne

8. Patrick Thomas Cragin and Jessica Mixon are nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical for Pippin. PHOTO BY JOHN B. BARROIS

Lindy Bruns Sive, The NOLA Project Cecile Casey Covert Steel Poinsettias, Ricky Graham and Jeffery Roberson

Kevin O’Donnell Freud’s Last Session, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

BEST UNIVERSITY PRODUCTION The Aliens Kristin Shoffner, director University of New Orleans Hands Up: Seven Playwrights, Seven Testaments Ray Vrazel, director Dillard University The House That Will Not Stand Laura Hope, director Loyola University Julius Caesar Mel Cook, director Tulane University

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Andrea Watson Becoming Number Six, Second Star Performance Collective

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A new boo k goes dee p into New O rleans snow ball culture | @HELENFREUND

BY HELEN FREUND GERBER PHOTOS BY CHERYL

IT’S A MUGGY SPRING AFTERNOON IN EARLY MARCH, and the temperature

gauge on my dashboard is inching toward 90 degrees. Even with the windows rolled down, the broken air conditioner in my rickety Subaru seems to be quietly laughing at me, while the sweat trickling down my forehead is a palpable reminder that a New Orleans summer is near.

Thankfully, I’m not far from my destination, a multicolored raised shack on St. Bernard Avenue in Gentilly, a place that beckons with the promise of a syrupy sweet and icy cold refuge: the New Orleans snowball. I’m here to meet local author, mother, student, social media provocateur (and former Gambit

writer) Megan Braden-Perry, who’s added a new moniker to her list: snowball expert.

Braden-Perry signs her emails with snowball emojis. She shopped the city’s jewelry boutiques until she found the perfect pair of snowball earrings and a snowball necklace to match. She believes snowballs make for better tokens of affection than birthday cards, and she’d rather get a snowball than first-date flowers. Over the past couple of years, Braden-Perry combed the city for variations on the frosty New Orleans treat, eating at more than 50 snowball stands along the way. Her new book, Crescent City Snow: The Ultimate Guide to New Orleans Snowball

Stands, was published this month from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press.

Hawaii has its shaved ice. In Philadelphia there’s multi-hued “water ice” and everywhere else, it seems, has snow cones. But the snowball, whether stuffed with ice cream or drenched in condensed milk, is a uniquely New Orleans phenomenon. And — like Carnival king cakes, springtime crawfish boils and trips to Casamento’s when oysters are at their peak — snowballs are a seasonal tradition.

THOUGH SHE GREW UP IN THE 7TH WARD, Braden-Perry spent a lot of

her childhood in New Orleans East,

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and her snowball memories are from spots all over the city. Her all-time favorite is the Melipone Mexican vanilla snowball from Magazine Street’s SnoWizard Snoball Shoppe, which she says has a “creamy and divine” kick, but she loves trying out other flavors when she can.

One of her earliest memories involves an afternoon at the snowball stand outside Brother Martin High School, when her older cousin took her to get a cotton candy snowball, and her first thought was that it tasted like a drink her uncle liked — a drink that happened to involve a lot of Jack Daniel’s.

“I just remember thinking, it tastes just like his drink, even though I had no idea what that was. It really did taste like Jack,” she says with a laugh.

Now her palate has matured a bit and she enjoys what she calls “grown-up” flavors, such as pralines and cream, nectar cream and sour apple. “I think that’s how we all started,” Braden-Perry says, “with bubble gum and cotton candy [flavors].

But as people get older, that changes.”

Though most New Orleanians have at least visited Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, Pandora’s Snowballs or Plum Street Snoballs, Braden-Perry’s book points to the wealth of far-flung and off-the-beatenpath snowball stands. While working on the book, Braden-Perry discovered a plethora of wild cards. At Scuba Steve’s in Marrero, a lime green pickle snowball arrived speared with a giant dill pickle. At Abracadabra Snowballs in Westwego, slices of red velvet or cherry cheesecake topped some of the most decadent snowballs.

It’s not just about the snowballs, though. Her love for the brightly colored shaved ice extends to whatever other snacks might be found at a stand.

That could mean anything from jalapeno-topped nachos, dripping with Velveeta cheese and chili at Rodney’s Snowball Stand in New Orleans East to the yakamein (called yet-ca-mein) and fish platters at Red Rooster in Central City to the fresh oysters at the newly opened L&G Snowballs & Oysters stand on St. Bernard Avenue and Frey Place.

This is where we’re meeting, a dollhouse-sized stand in the shadow of the I-610 highway overpass, in the middle of an auto repair and tire shop parking lot off St. Bernard Avenue. It’s a place where one can just as easily grab a fried oyster po-boy as a blackberry snowball dripping with blood-red syrup. Braden-Perry picks the blackberry, a deep burgundy treat, and I order a coconut, sweet and light, with a sugary Almond Joy aftertaste.

After that, we head out to New Orleans East to Rodney’s, a place Braden-Perry remembers visiting frequently as a child. Many of her family members and friends lived nearby, and she recalls fondly the trips her family would take to the little white and blue stand on Lake Forest Boulevard.

One of the oldest snowball stands in

the area, Rodney’s opened in the 1980s and sells a wide selection of both sweet and savory options, from ice creamstuffed snowballs and sundaes to floats and malts, tamales and chili cheesetopped hot dogs. For Braden-Perry, it’s all about the nachos: Like a movie theater version, the ones here are served piled high with dark red chili gravy, a tiny mountain of jalapenos and a blanket of melted American cheese. To balance the heft, Braden-Perry orders a bright green sour apple snowball while I succumb to the butterscotch cream, a golden treat that tastes like an icy version of the popular hard candy.

The ice at Rodney’s is fluffy and soft, and Braden-Perry considers it one of the city’s best. When perfected, the snowball’s consistency is a lighter-thanair shave that tastes, quite literally, like fresh snow.

“It’s got to be really, really soft,” Braden-Perry says. “And moldable, so when it forms you can see peaks and ridges, almost as you would with whipped cream.”

LAST ON OUR LIST IS RIVER BREEZ SNO BALLS IN MERAUX, so we head out to St.

Bernard Parish, getting lost a couple of times along the way. If not for the giant neon snowball on the side of the road, one could easily miss the nondescript tan building on St. Bernard Highway. Debbie Tassin opened River Breez four years ago, selling a mix of original syrup flavors and over-the-top combinations.

“I won’t tell anyone what I put in my flavors,” Tassin says with a smile. “It’s my secret recipe.”

The Hello Kitty looks exactly as it sounds: hot pink cotton candy ice with toasted marshmallow, stuffed with whipped cream and decorated with sprinkles and multicolored gummy bears.

A berry Chantilly cake version includes wedding cake-flavored ice stuffed with vanilla ice cream and topped with fresh strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and whipped cream. Irish mint — a seasonal flavor — comes stuffed with mint chocolate chip ice cream, drenched in a deep emerald mint syrup topped with whipped cream, chocolate nibs and sprinkles.

While we chat with Tassin, she brings her small dog to the sliding glass window, and her grandson stops in briefly to say hi. She proudly pulls up photos of her daughter’s recent trip to Iceland on her phone, and the three of us stand there chatting lazily, slurping on our icy sugar bombs until the sun starts to slip behind the clouds and a cool dusk breeze settles in. Braden-Perry signs a copy of her book for Tassin, and they reminisce about the last time they saw each other.

“This is what I love most about snowballs,” Braden-Perry says. “It’s been a long time since I’ve been here, but it’s like nothing’s changed. It’s just something that helps us connect, and something that brings everyone together.”

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Rodney’s Snowball Stand 9231 Lake Forest Blvd., (504) 241-2035 What to get: Creamy but terscotch snowball, cotton candy cream snowball, chili che ese nachos topped with jala penos

Just Chillin 3799 Highway 22, Mandeville, 985-778-0373 What to get: Homemade ice cream, the Hummingbird (nectar snowball stuffed with honeycomb ice cream)

SnoWizard Snoball Shoppe 4001 Magazine St., (504) 899-8758 What to get: Melipone Mexican vanilla snowball with condensed milk

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More Seoul food GOGI KOREAN RESTAURANT (4620

Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-872-9992; www.gogirestaurantnola.com) opened earlier this month. It serves a short menu of Korean dishes. Owner Jae Kim runs the restaurant with his mother, who worked at Korean restaurants in California and Las Vegas before moving to New Orleans.

New chef updates Annunciation’s menu

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund IT’S INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS when a new chef takes over a

kitchen. A restaurant’s former reputation can linger even when there are changes or new direction.

In 2012, Annunciation openedto critical acclaim for chef Steve Manning’s innovative takes on French-Creole cuisine. Manning departed in 2015 and was replaced last year by Jacob Cureton, but Annunciation doesn’t quite feel like a new restaurant. There’s a strong contemporary push on the menu, but parts of it straddle a line between the past and present.

The dining room still has a distinctly New Orleans charm with exposed brick and white linens creating an atmosphere that feels unassuming and timeless.

Cureton’s menu features Creole and Southern influences, and a few dishes have Manning’s fingerprints.

Fried oysters top spinach under a blanket of melted brie — a holdover from Manning’s era and a classic rendition of the decadent dish, but it needs a hint of acid or salt to make the flavors pop.

Roasted beet salad takes a more modern approach, with a third of the plate decorated with tiny dollops of beet puree. That beets and goat cheese make good bedfellows isn’t news, but here a citrus segment adds a kick of acid, pecans add crunch and mint sprigs breathe a burst of freshness into the dish. The flavors are bright and lively, and the roasted beets are as sweet as candy.

Tiny, melon ball-sized orbs of avocado were underripe on a recent visit, and also seemed unnecessary.

The dishes where Cureton’s touch

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1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; www. annunciationrestaurant.com

is felt most strongly are outstanding.

Seared yellowfin tuna is the focus of a beautiful dish — inspired in part by the chef’s travels in Asia — full of bright flavors and contrasting textures. It has become common to see tuna dishes featuring fat, steak-size planks crusted with black pepper, as if to say, “Hey, fish can be just as satisfying as a rib-eye!” Here, Cureton treats the fish more delicately. The flavor of thin sashimi-like strips of tuna is contrasted by sweet potato habanero sauce and a “steel” sauce, a mix of eel sauce and Steen’s cane gastrique. The fish sits on a bed of Creole fried rice, which has the sweet, sticky feel of glutinous rice but is both savory and crispy, with an addictive umami kick.

A generously portioned chicken bonne femme arrives with the crispy skinned bird plated atop fat squares of brabant potatoes and mushrooms in an earthy pan sauce, which renders the potatoes soft and gives the dish a warming, comfort food feel.

Brussels sprouts are buttery with crispy, almost caramelized edges.

For dessert, Cureton takes the classics and dial them up a notch.

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seared yellowfin tuna, Brussels sprouts, banana pudding creme brulee

Chef Jacob Cureton has updated the menu at Annunciation.

Butterscotch pudding is re-imagined as a velvety budino. Lemon icebox pie tastes like a chilled lemon meringue hybrid, and an excellent banana pudding gets the creme brulee treatment, with a singed caramel shell and sugary bananas that taste like toffee.

With nods to both Creole and Southern cuisine, Annunciation is a restaurant that feels connected to the past but is inching toward contemporary cooking, exploring a New American cooking sensibility with a modern approach. It’s moving in a good direction, and that may be what some restaurants need every now and then: a bit of fresh air and new life.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

WHAT DOESN’T avocado in beet salad

CHECK, PLEASE new chef updates dishes while holding on to the past at Warehouse District restaurant

The opening menu includes appetizers such as the glass noodle dish japchae, pajeon, a type of scallion pancake, and rice cakes with spicy gochujang sauce. There also is the kimchi stew, kimchi jigae, and soon dubu, a milder tofu stew with vegetables and beef or pork. Entrees include the stone pot dish bibimbap, bulgogi (thinly sliced marinated ribeye), breaded chicken or pork katsu and Korean-style short ribs.

Gogi Korean Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Wednesday through Monday. — HELEN FREUND

Now brewing LOUISIANA NOW HAS 31 BREWERIES. Parleaux Beer Lab (634 Lesseps St.; www.parleauxbeerlab.com) received necessary permits and began brewing beer March 16 in anticipation of a soft opening by May 1.

Co-founder and brewer Eric Jensen and assistant brewer Chuck Smock are brewing a mixed-fermentation farmhouse saison made with standard farmhouse yeast and Brettanomyces. It’s dryhopped with Wakatu and Motueka hops. After that, they’ll make an easy-drinking German Alt bier brewed with rooibos tea, a Kolsch and a hazy, juicy IPA. The taproom has 12 taps.

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— NORA McGUNNIGLE

Beard finalists THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION

(www.jamesbeard.org) announced finalists for its prestigious annual culinary awards. There are many local nominees for national awards.

They include: • Donald Link for Outstanding Chef • Kelly Fields of Willa Jean for Outstanding Pastry Chef • JoAnn Clevinger of Upperline

in as general manager. Detrich says he plans on traveling in Mexico and London before returning to New Orleans this summer.

— HELEN FREUND

Bibim-zapped LITTLE KOREA BBQ (2240 Magazine St., 504-821-5006), which opened last year in the Garden District, has changed its menu and lowered prices. Owner Joyce Park said the changes are in response to comments on websites such as Yelp that complained prices were too steep. Almost everything on the menu is now $20 or less, Park says. The restaurant’s signature oxtail stew is $22. Customers who wish to cook their own meats at the tabletop grills can now order them by the half-pound and can order just one type. Previously, there was a two-meat minimum.

Smaller plates are now called “bibim bites” and cost $6 to $10.

They include rice cake skewers, Korean-style chicken wings, ramen, crispy fish poppers, baked corn cheese and Korean-style nachos.

—HELEN FREUND

Rind and shine THE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT LOCATION of cheese shop St. James

for Outstanding Restaurateur • Zachary Engel of Shaya for Rising Star Chef of the Year • Nina Compton of Compere Lapin, Slade Rushing of Brennan’s New Orleans and Rebecca Wilcomb of Herbsaint for Best Chef: South • Galatoire’s for Outstanding Service • Emeril’s New Orleans for Outstanding Wine Service • French 75 at Arnaud’s Restaurant and Cure for Outstanding Bar Program In the broadcast section of the awards, Emeril Lagasse’s Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse is nominated for Outstanding Personality/ Host and TV Program, on Location.

The winners will be announced May 1 in Chicago. — WILL COVIELLO

Tabled NICK DETRICH IS LEAVING HIS SPOT BEHIND THE BAR AT CANE & TABLE

(1113 Decatur St., 504-581-1112; www. caneandtablenola.com), his proto-tiki brainchild. He remains a managing partner, and Matt Ray will step

Cheese Company (641 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-304-1485; www.stjamescheese.com) now serves breakfast on Saturdays beginning at 9 a.m.

The Saturday-only menu features a breakfast raclette topped with eggs and bacon, a croque madame and “croque monster,” topped with an egg. Several sandwiches on the restaurant’s regular menu also will be available, including the Spanish-inspired lomo bocadillo, an open-faced sandwich topped with La Quercia lomo, manchego, arugula and pimiento aioli. There also are changing quiche specials, and boozy breakfast drinks include bloody marys, white sangria and mimosas made with fresh-squeezed orange juice. — HELEN FREUND

Chopped UPTOWN BUTCHER SHOP CLEAVER & CO. (3917 Baronne St.) has closed.

Seth Hamstead and Simone Reggie opened the shop in 2012. Reggie eventually departed to work at the food delivery service Good Eggs, and she now owns the grocery Simone’s Market (8207 Oak St., 504-273-7706; www.simonesmarket.com). In 2015, Hamstead sold Cleaver & Co. to Nathaniel Wallace and his uncle Daniel Sinclair, who raise Wagyu cattle on the Northshore. — HELEN FREUND

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CHEF/AUTHOR

SENEGALESE CHEF, RESTAURATEUR AND COOKBOOK AUTHOR PIERRE THIAM (www.pierrethiam.com) has been touted as a

West African culinary icon. He is the executive chef at acclaimed restaurant NOK by Alara in Lagos, Nigeria, and runs the catering company Pierre Thiam Catering in New York City.

On March 25, Thiam hosts the dinner Jolof to Jambalaya: An Evening with Chef Pierre Thiam at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum (www.natfab.org). (He also signs books at Community Book Store March 24 and does a cooking demonstration at Dillard University March 27.) Thiam spoke with Gambit about Senegalese cooking.

What are the characteristics of traditional Senegalese food?

THIAM: Senegalese food is special because of the environment. It’s a coastal region so there is a lot of seafood and different types of fish. There have been many influences in the cuisine because (Dakar) was a natural port of entry to Africa. For hundreds of years this meant traffic — from the Portuguese, French and British.

To the north is the Sahara Desert, and the south is lush. The south is more of a rice-growing culture while the north is more of a millet culture. French colonizers wanted our farmers to focus on growing peanuts — peanut oil was pretty high in demand. The French also imported broken rice from Vietnam. The Senegalese embraced it even though it was substandard rice compared to the rice that they were growing. ... It’s even a part of our national dish called thiebou jen. It’s almost like couscous and the dish looks like a paella. It’s rice cooked in a rich broth with fish and vegetables like yuca, carrots and eggplant. The fish is stuffed with a spice mixture made with parsley, Scotch bonnet peppers and garlic. Also, in the broth we have what you would call umami, the fermented aspect of the cuisine. We ferment conch and we use that as a flavor agent when we cook. It adds another dimension to the dish. We also cook a lot with peanuts and make a peanut sauce called maafe that is not like the Asian peanut sauce but is thick and cooked either with rice or millet or couscous, and the protein can vary from fish or lamb.

Are there similarities between Senegalese and Creole cuisines?

T: There is a dish is called soupoukanja that is the ancestor of what you in New Orleans call gumbo.

It’s an okra dish that has seafood and meat and is served over rice.

The difference between our gumbo and yours is that we use palm oil, which is extracted from the palm tree. It has its own special flavor. Gumbo actually means okra in a lot of different languages in Africa, and jambalaya is an evolution of the dish I mentioned earlier, thiebou jen. A lot of this has to do with slavery, which is the time (period) where a lot of these ingredients traveled from West Africa to the Americas.

You’d be surprised to hear that this included ingredients like rice.

There are two main families of rice in the world. One is called oryza sativa, which is an Asian rice, and oryza glaberrima, which is African rice. The African rice grows in certain pockets of Africa, including what we call Senegambia, the region south of Gambia but in Senegal. This is actually the region where my family is from.

The Jollof people are rice growers, and we are known as a rice-growing culture. The rice that was brought to the Americas during slavery is from the exact same family of African rice. The reason why we have regions with a strong rice-growing culture — in South Carolina and North Carolina — is because the slaves were targeted from the Senegambia region and taken directly to this part of America. This is because of the similarities in the environment and because those guys knew how to grow rice. It was a very sophisticated technique — growing rice isn’t easy. Rice is just a very symbolic example, but there are other ingredients, such as black-eyed peas. There’s a dish called hoppin’ John that you see in southern America. We have the exact same dish in Senegal of rice and black-

eyed peas, with a few different variations. Okra, watermelon, you name it — there were quite a few ingredients that arrived from Africa because of slavery.

We were colonized by the French, but there was also a small community of Vietnamese that came to Senegal. In Dakar, you have street corners and kiosks where they’re selling Vietnamese spring rolls. We call them nem, and that word became part of the Senegalese language. Many Senegalese don’t even connect them to the Vietnamese anymore. They’re almost considered Senegalese.

But that’s how it happens — that’s how food evolves. We also have a Lebanese community, and they have a dish called fatayer. Now, if you ask the younger generation, they think it’s a Senegalese dish, but it just became part of our culinary environment.

You will roast a whole lamb for the dinner.

How is that prepared in Senegal?

T: We love lamb. This is a dish that we do on a yearly basis in Senegal.

It’s a majority Muslim country, and there is a holiday called Eid, where we slaughter a whole lamb.

It’s interesting, because it’s a country where religious tolerance is a big part of our values, and this is very much seen through the culture of our food. When the Muslims slaughter a lamb, there’s a part that is served to the Christian families and the Christians have the same ritual. On Good Friday, they have a dish called ngalax that is prepared, and all the Muslim neighbors receive a serving of this dish. It’s interesting, because Good Friday arrives, and the Muslims are very excited in Senegal, because they know they’re going to receive this dish.

— HELEN FREUND

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Broad Street Cider & Ale will open at 2723 S. Broad Ave. as early as this summer. Jon Moore and Diana Powell have spent the past year researching cider-making processes and techniques.

The couple plans to make ciders using a variety of yeasts used in such brews as saison, hefeweizen and West Coast IPAs to influence the flavor of the base apple juice.

The result will taste less sweet than typical fermented ciders. They also plan to dry hop and use other flavors, such as gin botanicals, in late stages of the process. They expect to make ciders with an alcohol by volume content of 6.5 to 7.5 percent. Ciders are good for a growing segment of the population that avoids gluten or wheat.

The company will have a British-themed taproom and offer up to eight house-made ciders. There will be eight to 12 taps for beers.

Broad Street Cider & Ale has already received federal approval from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax

Broad Street Cider & Ale will open at 2723 S. Broad Ave. P H OTO B Y N O R A M C G U N N I G L E

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Top Taco 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Thursday Spanish Plaza, Poydras Street at the Mississippi River www.toptaconola.com The event features tequila and mezcal tastings and creative tacos from Blue Oak BBQ, Bourbon House, Cochon Butcher, Drago’s Seafood Restaurant, Johnny Sanchez, Juan’s Flying Burrito, Nacho Mama’s, Patois, Pirogues, Taqueria Chilangos and others. There’s music by OTRA, Los Po-Boy-Citos and Mariachi Jalisco. Proceeds benefit One Heart NOLA. Admission $65, early admission $85, VIP admission $125.

MARCH 23-26

Louisiana Crawfish Festival 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Thursday; 5 p.m.-midnight Friday; 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center, 8245 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 271-0537 www.louisianacrawfishfestival.com The festival features live music, amusement rides, craft vendors and boiled crawfish as well as dishes including crawfish bread, crawfish pasta, burgers, hot dogs, kebabs and funnel cakes. There’s music by The Molly Ringwalds, The Wiseguys, Groovy 7, Category 6, Voodoo Gumbo and others. Admission $5.

MARCH 24-26

New Orleans Bourbon Festival Various locations www.neworleansbourbonfestival.com There are bourbon tastings, speakers, dinners and more. Speakers include distillers Pat Heist (Wilderness Trail Distillery), Fred Booker Noe III (Jim Beam), Eddie Russell (Wild Turkey) and Greg Davis (Maker’s Mark), as well as brand ambassadors and whiskey writers. Tastings include bourbon and food from local restaurants, and there are dinners March 23 at Bourbon House, Kenton’s, Cochon, House of Blues, Salon Restaurant by Sucre and Morton’s The Steakhouse. Ticket prices vary.

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1506 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 862-5514 www.boucherie-nola.com A weekly crawfish boil on the patio begins at 11 a.m. Sundays and features fresh fruit daiquiris, beer and boudin from neighboring Bourree.

1201 S. Rampart St., (504) 558-4276 www.centralcitybbq.com Crawfish Friday events run from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and feature boiled crawfish and crawfish with smoky compound butter.

2828 Canal St., (504) 304-4714 www.chickiewahwah.com NOLA Crawfish King and NOLA Cochon King host a boil and barbecue event with live music from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

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630 Carondelet St., (504) 930-3071 www.seaworthynola.com The Warehouse District oyster hub hosts a crawfish boil from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

1645 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 267-4852 www.urbansouthbrewery.com The brewery teams up with Gulf Coast Crawfish Co. to host a boil at 4 p.m.

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S .C O M 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 Bayou Burger & Sports Company — 503 Bourbon St., (504) 529-4256; www.bayouburger.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ASIAN August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ New Feelings Cafe, Bar & Courtyard Lounge — 535 Franklin Ave., (504) 446-0040; www.feelingscafebar.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE

Little Korea BBQ — 2240 Magazine St., (504) 821-5006; www.littlekoreabbq. flavorplate.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon. & Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$

Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Delivery available. Credit cards. $$

Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — No reservations. Breakfast Fri.-Mon., lunch and dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Reservations recommended.

Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

CAJUN

Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tsunami — 601 Poydras St., Suite B., (504) 608-3474; www.servingsushi.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 5615171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 522-2233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — No reservations. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tres Bon Cajun Meats — 10316 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, (504) 405-5355; www.tresbonmeats.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

COFFEE/DESSERT

Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Cafe Maspero — 601 Decatur St., (504) 523-6520; www.cafemaspero. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe — 3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Willie Mae’s Grocery & Deli — 7457 St. Charles Ave., (504) 417-5424; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 30

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DELI Bagels & Bytes — 1001 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 831-7968; www.bagelsandbytes.com — No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $ Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www. creolehouserestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended.

Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $

Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 598-5005; www.kingfishneworleans.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

INDIAN

Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Audubon Clubhouse Cafe — 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5282; www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/golf-cafe — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner Sun.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredmaple.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — No reservations.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MIDDLE EASTERN Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN 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 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ La Casita — 634 Julia St., (504) 2188043; 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD

Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www.bombayclubneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com —

House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Res-

OUT TO EAT The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations.

Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

SEAFOOD

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse. com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $

PIZZA G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — 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 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $

Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House — 301 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 872-9975; 512 Bienville St., (504) 309-4848; 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; 3117 21st Street, Metairie (504) 833-6310; www. mredsrestaurants.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Pier 424 Seafood Market — 424 Bourbon St., (504) 309-1574; www.pier424seafoodmarket.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar — 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www.steakkniferestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Reservations accepted.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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MUSIC Contact Kat Stromquist listingsedit@gambitweekly.com 504.483.3110 | FAX: 866.473.7199

C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S TO F N E W O R L E A N S . C O M = OUR PICKS

TUESDAY 21 21st Amendment — 30 x 90 Blues Women, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Chip & Friend, noon; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30; Magnolia Dreams, 10 Banks Street Bar — Simple Sound Retreat, 9 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Heidi Jo, 8; The Budz, 11 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9:30 Carver Theater — David L. Harris, 7 Castillo Blanco — King Woman, Hand Grenade Job, Thou, Kalvin, 7 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Western Star, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Jon Cleary, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Gasa Gasa — Dave Cappello, Jeff Albert, Outercore, Extended Trio, 9 House of Blues — The Lox, 8 The Jazz Playhouse — Nayo Jones, 8 Joy Theater — William Singe, Alex Aiono, 7 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Alex Bosworth, 8; Dorian Greys, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Saenger Theatre — Chicago, JD & the Straight Shot, 7 Siberia — No Joy, Heat, Druidian Pink, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Three Muses — Sam Friend, 5; Messy Cookers, 8 Three Muses Maple — Gypsyland Jazz, 7 Washington Square Park — Washington Square Park Music Festival feat. Ole Man River Band, Treme Brass Band, NOLA Big Band, Davell Crawford, Sleeping Giant, DJ Slick Leo (Ray Charles tribute), 3

WEDNESDAY 22 21st Amendment — Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 8 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — The Shape of Jazz

to Come, 9 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Mem Shannon, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8:30; New Breed Brass Band, 10 BMC — Set Up Kings, 5; Sierra Leone, 8; B. Miller Band, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 6 Cafe Negril — WilFunk, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Important Gravy, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Rubin/Wilson Folk-Blues Explosion, 6; Tom McDermott & Meschiya Lake, 8; The Mike Doussan Band feat. Sam Price, Erik Bolivar, Rurik Nuran, 10 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — All People, Dikeme, Expert Timing, Hestina, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — Glen David Andrews, 8 Lafayette Square — Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys, Daria & the Hip Drops, 5 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Blue Eyed Soul Review feat. Derrick Smoker, Terrence Houston, Danny Abel, Drew Meez, John Paul Carmody, Devin Kerrigan, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Claude Hitt, 9 NOCCA Riverfront Ellis Marsalis Jazz Studio — NOCCA Jazz Composition Recital, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Joe Pollock & Beardsly, 5; Matt Galloway, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole Stringbeans, 8 The Sandbar at UNO — Johnny Vidacovich, 7 Siberia — Cherry Glazerr, Ian Sweet, Lala Lala, Fruit Machines, 7 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Anvil, 7 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Russell Welch, 8 Three Muses Maple — Lynn Drury, 7

THURSDAY 23 21st Amendment — G & the Swinging Three, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Chip & Friend, noon; Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 2; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 Banks Street Bar — Bantam Foxes, North

by North, 10 Bar Redux — JD Hill & the Jammers, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Bayou International Reggae Night feat. Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Claire & Company, 5; Maid of Orleans, 8; Claude Bryant & the AllStars, 11 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Gumbo Cabaret, 5; Tom McDermott & Friends, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6 Carver Theater — TBC Brass Band, 9 Casa Borrega — Descarga Latina feat.

Alexey Marti & Fredy Omar, 7 Check Point Charlie — Swamp Motel, 7; Royal Hounds, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & the Naughty Sweethearts, 7 City Park Botanical Garden — Leroy Jones, 6 d.b.a. — Jon Cleary, 7; MainLine, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Sam Winterheimer Quartet, 6 Gasa Gasa — Noruz, Neospectric, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Julie Odell, Luminais, Elizabeth McBride, 8 House of Blues — Mayday Parade (10th anniversary), 7:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Ashlin Parker Trio, 5; The James Rivers Movement, 8 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Bob Malone, 6 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin & Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Louis Ford, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Khari Allen Lee Quintet, 8 & 10 Rare Form — Voodoo Wagon, 2 Republic New Orleans — Katatonia, Caspian, Uncured, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Wayne Singleton & Same Ol’ 2 Step, 8:30 Siberia — Laelume, Evan Oberla & Friends, Lungi & the Fungi, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Meschiya Lake, 8

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IN SEPTEMBER, SPIN CALLED IT “THE WILDEST VENUE IN NEW ORLEANS.” Given the relative tameness of the rest of the U.S., that • March 24-25 provinciality is probably selling it short. What New • 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday Orleans Airlift cofounders • The Music Box Village, 4557 N. Rampart Delaney Martin and Jay Pennington — the wily Wonkas of • St.; www.musicboxvillage.com this living, breathing, singing PHOTO BY MATT SWEENEY Chocolate Factory — have done with The Music Box Village is create a category of one. First they raised it, then they razed it, then they toured it, then they raised it again. And sure enough, people have come: A motley crew including Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone and Gogol Bordello joined local conformity killers Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Big Freedia, Lost Bayou Ramblers and Tank and the Bangas — all flocking to what Martin aptly calls a “collaborative juggernaut.” This booking is the kind that the facility seemingly was built for: former Palace royalty Will Oldham, aka Bonnie “Prince” Billy, whose tender, cracking hymnals have defined both the gorgeous film version of Pete’s Dragon (“The Dragon Song”) and the egregious letdown of True Detective season two (“Intentional Injury”). Joining him are Chicago droners Bitchin Bajas, with whom he recorded last year’s soothing, raga-esque Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties (another literalized title), as well as Cairo Gang leader/Ty Segall accomplice Emmett Kelly and Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr. Sometimes life throws us all a pleasant curve. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 door. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Three Muses Maple — Albanie Falletta, 7 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

FRIDAY 24

Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Warren Battiste, 6; Margie Perez, 9

21st Amendment — Shake It Break It Band, 2:30; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 11 a.m.; Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30 Banks Street Bar — Joystick, Keep Flying, Bombflower, The NoShows, Name Calling, 9 Bar Redux — Anglo A Go-Go British Dance Party with DJ Sexx Ed, 10 BJ’s Lounge — Bug Lord, Birch Boys, Hound, Gools, 9 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Gravy, 10; DJ

BMC — Holly Rock, 3; MoJo Shakers, 3; Dapper Dandies, 5; Hyperphlyy, 8; All 4 One Brass Band, 11; LC Smoove, 1 a.m.

Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Jamey St. Pierre, 4; Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Carver Theater — Bobby Rush, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 9 Casa Borrega — The Co & Co Traveling Show, 7 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Lips & the Trips, 7; The Green Mantles, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Peja Zabaduo, Charlie Wooten, Rafael Pereira, 9 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6

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MUSIC Contemporary Arts Center — Kermit Ruffins, 7:45 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 6; Marc Stone Band feat. Bonerama, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Haruka Kikuchi & the Big 4Tune Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Gasa Gasa — Gravity A (acoustic), 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — Matisyahu, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — White Animals, Dash Rip Rock, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Eleanor Tallie, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Joe Krown, 4; Shannon Powell, 7 Joy Theater — Flogging Molly, 7:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Chapter Soul Kanye’s Universe, 11 Music Box Village — Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bitchin’ Bajas, 6:30 & 8:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Daniel Thompson’s Songs of Resistance, 8 Oak — Burke Ingraffia, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Benn Clatworthy Quartet, John Donaldson, 7; Clive Wilson & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 2; Justin Donovan, 6; Native Swing, 10 Rivershack Tavern — Big Daddy O, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Karma, 9:30 Saturn Bar — Static Masks, Shame, Self-Help Tapes, Raspy, 9 Siberia — Mountain of Wizard, Egg Yolk Jubilee, The Detail, Evil Rats, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Shawn Williams, Jaryd Lane, Todd O’Neill, 6:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Three Muses Maple — Linnzi Zaorski, 6; Monty Banks, 9 Tipitina’s — Tank & the Bangas, Smoke ’n’ Bones, 10 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3

SATURDAY 25 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — HouxNola feat. CoolNasty, Jack Freeman, Brandon Terrell, 10 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Uncle Wayne, 8 Annunciation Hall — Dancing Room Only with DJs RQ Away and Jacksom Power, 9 Bamboula’s — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 11 a.m.; G & the Swinging Three, 1; Johnny Mastro, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 11:30 Banks Street Bar — Retrofit, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30

Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Soul Rebels, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Ambush Reggae Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; John Lisi & Delta Funk, 8; Les Fanflures Brass Band, 11; Category 3, 1 a.m.

Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Red Hot Jazz Band, 11 a.m.; Syncopating Seamonkeys, 5; Steve DeTroy, 6; Doyle Cooper, 8 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Debauche, 10 Carver Theater — Stooges Brass Band (20th anniversary), 10 Casa Borrega — Javier Gutierrez & Josh Reppel, 7 Check Point Charlie — Seguenon, 4; Woodenhead, 7; The Pallbearers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — The Blue Runners, 9 d.b.a. — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 4; John Boutte, 8; Little Freddie King, 11 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Pajama Jam Session, 1 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Vincent Marini, 5 Gasa Gasa — Cardinal Sons, Alexis & the Samurai, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Hustle with DJ Soul Sister, 11 House of Blues — Biz Markie, Right Lane Bandits, 8; The Rabbithole with DJs Otto and Matt Scott, midnight The Jazz Playhouse — Michael Watson, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Irish Music with Annette & Mark, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9 Louisiana Music Factory — Extended Trio, Black Laurel, Alfred Banks, 1 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes (album release), 11 Music Box Village — Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bitchin’ Bajas, 6:30 & 8:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gigi, 7; T.J. Sutton, 9 Oak — Dapper Dandies, 9 Old Point Bar — Marshland, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Mark Hummel, Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 Rivershack Tavern — The Rain, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Crescent City Soul, 9:30 Saturn Bar — Pope, Keeping, The Spirit of the Beehive, 9 Siberia — Robert Allen Randow, Willy Gantrum, Sam Doores, 6; Minor Mishap Marching Band, Slow Danger Brass Band, 10 Smoothie King Center — Charlie Wilson, Fantasia, Johnny Gill The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Three Muses Maple — Davy Mooney, 6; Russell Welch, 9

SUNDAY 26 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Saints & Sinners Sunday Swing feat. Bon Vivant & Friends, noon Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 11 a.m.; NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Alexandra Scott, Natalie Mae, Alex Bosworth, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Bayou Wind, 3; Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band, 7; Mignano, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Some Like It Hot, 10:30 a.m.; Steve Pistorius, Orange Kellin, James Evans, Benny Amon, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Teresa B, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Papa Mali, 3 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 d.b.a. — Eight Dice Cloth, 3; Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Michael Liuzza & Co., 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Anuraag Pendyal, Dignity Reve, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge — Kermit Ruffins, Paris Harris, DJ Sugar Ray, 4 Kerry Irish Pub — Will Dickerson, 8 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; Frank Oxley, 4; Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Joe Krown Trio, 10 Mudlark Public Theatre — Daiquiri Rene Jones, Karen Kunkel, Painted Honey, 8 Old Point Bar — Amanda Walker, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Drummer & Smoke, 11 a.m.; Gerald French & Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Heather Holloway & the Heebie Jeebies, 1; St. Roch Syncopators, 5 Republic New Orleans — Kyle, Cousin Stizz, SUPERDUPERBRICK, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Siberia — Push Push, Pious, Romasa, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Three Muses Maple — Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, 11 a.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church — McGehee Choirs, 5; Jazz Vespers feat. David Batiste, The Young Voices of New Orleans, 8

MONDAY 27 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30

MUSIC Bamboula’s — Mark & Friend, 2; NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Sunshine Brass Band, 9 Banks Street Bar — Lilli Lewis, 9 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Yeah You Rite, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 6; Keith Stone, 10 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Alex McMurray, 8 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7 d.b.a. — Alexis & the Samurai, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — New Orleans Jazz Manouche, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Funk You, 8 Irish House — Traditional Irish music session, 7 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Band, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Ed Mosley, 7; Genial Orleanians, 10 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Keith Burnstein, 5; Steve DeTroy, 10 Saturn Bar — King James & the Special Men, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10 Three Muses — Monty Banks, 5; Joe Cabral, 8

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Bach around the Clock. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The marathon festival celebrating Bach’s birthday runs for 36 hours and has classical music, dance, silent movies and more.

7 p.m. Friday-midnight Saturday.

Hungarian Melodies. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — Louis Moreau Institute presents the concert of music by Ligeti and Bartok. Free. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www.orpheumnola.com — The “Classical Mystery Tour” program includes music by The Beatles. Tickets $20-$140. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

Musica da Camera. Ursuline Chapel, 2701 State St. — The chamber music group and Vox Feminae present their “Geaux Saints!!!” program of music inspired by medieval saints. Free. 4 p.m. Sunday.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND CHiPs (R) — Leave no cop drama unturned. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell Life (R) — The latest in the fine tradition of spaceship-set creature features, plus Jake Gyllenhaal. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell The Last Word — Aging grande dame Shirley MacLaine sets out to rewrite her biography. Broad Lovesong — A relationship develops between two friends on a road trip.

Zeitgeist Saban’s Power Rangers (PG-13) — The Polyphonic Spree’s martial arts division battles aliens. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal

NOW SHOWING Beauty and the Beast (PG) — Hermione, I mean Emma Watson, falls in love with a furry Frankenstein. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place Before I Fall (PG-13) — Groundhog Day with teenagers. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Belko Experiment (R) — For those of you who felt blood spatter was woefully absent from Office Space.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal A Dog’s Purpose (PG) — An animal-cruelty PR dustup dogged the release of this canine-centric film. Regal Fifty Shades Darker (R) — The midpoint in E.L. James’ grocery-store-rack BDSM trilogy. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Canal Place Fist Fight (R) — Two high school teachers go bro with their plans for an after-school brawl. Kenner Get Out (R) — In this race-relations horror movie, it’s what’s inside that counts. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Great Wall (PG-13) — Monsters, mercenaries and Matt Damon are in this action movie set in ancient China.

Elmwood, West Bank Hidden Figures (PG) — Three African-American women contribute to NASA breakthroughs in this drama based on a true story. Elmwood John Wick: Chapter 2 (R) — A hitman (Keanu Reeves, in classic gun-wielding, stunt-tumbling form) emerges from retirement. Elmwood, Slidell, Canal Place Kedi — Istanbul is seen through the eyes of several iconoclastic (iconocatstic?) cats. Broad Kong: Skull Island (PG-13) — Cinema’s greatest ape gets a new

origin story. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place La La Land (PG-13) — Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling pay tribute to Golden Age musicals. Canal Place The LEGO Batman Movie (PG) — Two powerful franchises join forces to fight crime. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Lion (PG-13) — A young man (Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire) returns to India to search for his biological parents. Elmwood Logan (R) — The last of the Wolverine films (starring Hugh Jackman, anyway). Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Lure — Carnivorous mermaid sisters (!) wash up on land in ’80s Poland. Broad Moonlight (R) — A young African-American man comes of age in the Oscar winner for Best Picture. Canal Place, Zeitgeist Rock Dog (PG) — A dog yearns to become a rock star, even though he has no hands. Regal The Salesman (PG-13) — An Iranian couple gets mixed up in violence when they move into a new apartment. Broad The Sense of an Ending (PG-13) — The drama is based on Julian Barnes’ Booker prize-winning novel. Elmwood, Canal Place The Shack (PG-13) — God sends an invitation to a grieving man. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Split (PG-13) — Return to M. Night Shyamaland with this glorified B-movie. West Bank, Slidell Tiny Giants 3-D — Cute things fend for themselves in the wild. Entergy Giant Screen

SPECIAL SCREENINGS American Fable — The mysterious fairy tale is set in the 1980s Midwest. 9:15 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Arsenic and Old Lace — A newlywed couple has a few questions about their in-laws. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania The Baby Dolls: Preserving the Culture — Researchers and Baby Doll maskers screen the documentary. 4 p.m. Saturday. The Historic New Orleans Collection DumbSmart Industries Showcase — Three original shorts by Nicholas Manuel Pino and erstwhile Gambit contributor Alejandro de los Rios are screened. 7 p.m. Friday. Broad Finding Dory — The family-friendly fish film recently was screened for our Dear Leader. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

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THERE’S NO MEDIUM LIKE DOCUMENTARY • 7:30 p.m. daily FILM for bringing little-known subcultures (except Tuesday) out of the shadows and into the light of an unsuspecting world. More than 25 years ago, • Zeitgeist Multi-DisciJennie Livingston’s landmark Paris Is Burning plinary Arts Center, fulfilled that promise with a poignant portrait of New York City’s ball culture, in which gay and 1618 Oretha Castle Haley transgender people of color stage elaborate Blvd., (504) 352-1150; competitions featuring their own style of www.zeitgeistnola.org dance-and-modeling performance. Soon after the release of that film, the style was further PHOTO COURTESY popularized (or appropriated, depending on IFC FILMS your point of view) by Madonna with her smash hit “Vogue.”

Though not an official sequel, director Sara Jordeno’s Kiki returns to the still-thriving ball community of New York City. The kiki scene is a subset of the ball scene, and one inhabited by kids as young as 12 up to adults in their early 20s. Like the mostly older denizens of the ball scene depicted in Paris Is Burning, kiki participants affiliate themselves with “houses” that provide mentorship, team training for the competitions and a support network intended to mitigate the racism and homophobia they live with daily — even in a city as relatively open-minded and tolerant as New York.

Those stakes are raised higher by the age of the kids in Kiki. The kiki houses — with names like House of Pink Lady and House of Unbothered Cartier — are run by “mothers” and “fathers” who lead substitute families of teens severely at risk for homelessness, violence, disease and death. In many cases, these kids have been disowned by their birth parents and put out on the street to fend for themselves.

Where Paris Is Burning revels in the joy and exuberance of runway walks and stylized dance, Kiki focuses on the intimate stories of several troubled-but-resilient teens.

Jordeno was invited to make the film by two house mothers, including the unforgettably named Twiggy Pucci Garcon — founder of the Opulent Haus of Pucci — who became Jordeno’s collaborator and co-writer of Kiki. That collaboration ensured not only unprecedented access to the scene but also a certain authenticity that proves vital to the film’s success. Kiki never appears exploitive of its subjects in any way — a charge that bedevils Paris Is Burning to this day.

Kiki necessarily makes use of some of the same locations as the earlier film. The Christopher Street Pier in the West Village has remained a gathering place for gay and transgender youth for more than 30 years. But the world has changed dramatically around them. For starters, the pop, soul and house music of the 1980s ball scene has been usurped by the clangy, punchy sounds of the Qween Beat producer collective, which provides music for the kiki scene and for a film soundtrack that mixes classic kiki beats with fresh material.

More importantly, Kiki makes clear that for all the social gains made by the LGBTQ community in recent years, the challenges faced by young people of color in that community haven’t changed much at all. Many will be surprised to hear a black transgender teen discount gay marriage as something demanded and received by well-heeled “gay white men … in Chelsea.” In a strange era where transgender youth routinely are defined by their access to public bathrooms, progress surely remains in the eye of the beholder. — KEN KORMAN Indians a’ Comin’ — Two short documentaries about Mardi Gras Indians are screened. 8 p.m. Wednesday. Bar Redux Kiki — The documentary revisits house ball culture 25 years after Paris Is Burning. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

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HAPPENINGS 10th Anniversary Celebration. Angela King Gallery, 241 Royal St., (504) 5248211; www.angelakinggallery.com — International artists make guest appearances at an exhibit celebrating the gallery’s anniversary. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Get Your Art On. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Military service members, veterans and their families enjoy art activities and refreshments at the free event. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Jer Thorp. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www. tulane.edu — The artist’s “The Meaning of Data” talk is about his data-visualization projects. A reception follows. Free admission. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

The Pancakes & Booze Art Show. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The traveling pop-up art show features works by 55 emerging artists, body painting, audio performances and a pancake bar. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday.

Spring Fine Art Auction. Westin New Orleans Canal Place, 100 Iberville St., (504) 566-7006; www.starwoodhotels. com — Martin Lawrence Gallery hosts the auction of work by 20th- and 21st-century artists. RSVP to 433royal@martinlawrence.com. 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

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New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 5297277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Reticello glass sculptures by Jason Christian; sugar blowing demonstrations

by Sidney Galpern; opening reception 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Xavier University Library Resource Center. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 520-7305; www. xula.edu/library — “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington,” traveling Smithsonian exhibit about the civil rights movement; opening reception 6 p.m. Wednesday.

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Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “National Art Show 2017,” juried painting exhibition from artists nationwide, through March.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Reverse Recuperation & the Agency of Form,” group exhibition about bodily autonomy, performance and radical gift giving; “Cover the Earth IV,” site-specific sculpture; both through Sunday. “American Twist,” traveling exhibition of work by 37 Sculptor’s Guild artists, through April 2.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 891-9080; www.antonart. com — Selected folk art by Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary T. Smith, Sybil Gibson and Michael Banks, ongoing.

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — “Expressions of Place,” new work by Tanya Dischler, through March.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5283722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “Ixtz’unun: Making Stories from Maya History,” new works by Melanie Forne, through May 5.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “On the Brink,” paintings

by Luis Cruz Azaceta, through April 22.

Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “L’eparpillage,” new work by Jonathan “Feral Opossum” Mayers, through April 22.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — “State of Fear,” group show curated by Dan Tague and featuring a protest wall benefiting NORD, through April 1.

Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (504) 322-5055; www.beatasasik.com — New work by Beata Sasik, ongoing.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery. com — “VVAVES,” new work by Wendo, through March 28.

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “New Orleans Ladies,” portraits of women by Bob Graham, ongoing.

Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “The Sentient Animal,” mixed-media sculptures by Ramiro Diaz, through April 5.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Palladium,” mixed-media and sculpture incorporating palladium by George Dunbar, through April 28.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Artists of Faith,” show by gallery artists, through March 28.

Carroll Gallery. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2228; www.tulane.edu/carrollgallery — “Awkward Angles,” glass and mixed-media sculpture by Christopher Gray; “Through a Glass Darkly,” paintings by Kaori Maeyama; both through April 5.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Masked/unMasked,” paintings, photographs and works on paper of masked and costumed figures, through Sunday.

Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery. Loyola University, Monroe Library, fourth floor,

6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5456; www.loyno.edu/dibollgallery — “Marais Press: 20 Years of Collaborations and Migrations,” works made using new and alternative printmaking techniques

by Brian Kelly and others, through April 16.

Ellen Macomber Fine Art & Textiles. 1720 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-9414; www.ellenmacomber.com — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Frank Relle Photography. 910 Royal St., (504) 388-7601 — New selections from “Until the Water,” “Nightscapes” and “Nightshade,” night photographs of Louisiana by Frank Relle, ongoing.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “The Cloud,” exploration of cloud computing by Patrick Coll; “Blotto in the Grotto,” paintings on silk and copy paper by Valerie Veator; “Feed Me Your Tears as Long as Your Tears Cry Money,” mixed-media work

by Thomas Friel; all through April 2.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — New oil paintings by David Lloyd, through March.

Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres. com — Mixed-media work by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Terrarium,” new paintings

by Peter Hoffman, through April 2.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett com — “Getting in Formation,” new works by Ed Williford and Ember Soberman, through May 8.

Jazz & Heritage Gallery. 1205 N. Rampart St., (504) 558-6100; www.jazzandheritage. org — “Femme Fest,” exhibition of work by Louisiana women artists, through April 7.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 JuliaSt., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Watercolor + Collage,” work

by Amy Park; “Color Correction,” work by Marna Shopoff; both through Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Recent Works,” paintings and sculpture by New Orleans artist Alan Gerson, through April 15.

Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart. com — Paintings and mixed-media work

by Martin Welch, ongoing.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Prix West,” new work by Christa Blackwood, through Saturday.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “Linked,” new work

by Jose Torres-Tama, “Cely” Pedescleaux, Nurhan Gokturk, MaPo Kinnord and Mario Padillo, through April 2.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Vantage,” paintings, hybrid works and animation by Naomie Kremer, through Saturday.

Pelican Bomb Gallery X. 1612 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.pelicanbomb.com — “Mutual Support,” work engaging with mental health, wellness and collectivity

by Evan Faulbaum & Nick Cave, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Saul Robbins and Rachel Wallis, through April 23.

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG, AND POLLEN, HORMONES AND MAYHEM are in the air. Birds, bees and even beetles are doing their thing as flowers blossom everywhere. All that and more appear in some new exhibits on Julia Street. Deft Kafka-esque surrealist Alan Gerson long has painted cautionary canvases depicting the more unsettling aspects of earthly life. Here, nature’s flair for deadly beauty appears in vivid canvases such as Ancient Sea IV, where moray eels, crabs, starfish and carnivorous worms seem to casually devour each other. Similarly, his lushly painted Vietnam depicts a densely impenetrable bamboo thicket suffocating all life except for a few decorous bugs. But bugs rule in A Fondness for Beetles, where they gather like dense encrustations of shimmering, bejeweled predators • Through April 15 massing for the territorial expansion promised by climate change. An • Recent Works: Paintings accompanying wall text quotes the immortal words of geneticist J.B.S. and sculpture by Alan Gerson Haldane: “The Creator, if He exists, has • LeMieux Galleries, an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

Pop art was refreshing when it first 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; appeared in the 1960s, but more www.lemieuxgalleries.com recent postmodern pop caused rigor mortis to set in with a vengeance.

• Through March 28 Enter the emerging New Orleans artist Wendo, who fuses traditional • Vvaves: New mixed-media comic book figuration with the digital paintings and prints by Wendo ambiguities of modern life. Vvaves (pictured) features figures with his• Boyd Satellite Gallery, trionic, Mad Men-era EC comics-style 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; flourishes set in swirls of paint that meld the frenetic electricity of Jackson www.boydsatellitegallery.com Pollock with a graffitilike insouciance.

Maybe He’ll Find Her features a Marvel comics-style superhero carrying off a modern tattooed maiden, but in You’re No Longer the Man I Met Online, a retro late 1950s-style couple experiences a desultory moment as the guy morphs into a nattily attired police dog. Not everything works quite so well, but Wendo’s best pictures return us to timeless mythic narratives that are hardwired into the human psyche and “pop” out at us with a disarming candor that makes for an impressive first Julia Street solo show. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

Vvaves and Recent Work by Alan Gerson

RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing.

Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center. 2525 Burgundy St., (504) 920-7355; www. sanctuarynola.org — Selected works from John Isiah Walton’s “Zulu” series, through April 11.

Scene by Rhys Art Gallery. 708 Toulouse St., (504) 258-5842; www.scenebyrhys. com — Pen and ink drawings by Emilie Rhys, ongoing.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — “Figures in Steel,” work by Gina Laguna; “The Year of the Rooster,” work

by Cynthia Ramirez; both through April 1.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.

com — New installation and paintings on canvas and panel by Daniel Minter; new work by gallery artists, ongoing.

The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Travel, Hurricane Katrina and Gulf South black-and-white photographs

by David Spielman, ongoing.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “Conversations with Abstraction,” abstract works by Molly Howell, Elliot Stokes, Ralph Townsend and Hasmig Vartanian, through April 1.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Love Thy Neighbor,” work exploring political tensions and unity by Jessica Wohl, through April 2.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite

132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — New work by Elizabeth Catlett and Joseph Lofton, black contemporary artists living in Mexico, through March.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Nature of Daylight,” mixed-media paintings

by Peter Barnitz, through Sunday.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Awkward Silence,” sculptures and drawings by Paul Richey; “Beginner’s Mind,” paintings, drawings and sculpture

by Martin Benson; both through April 2.

Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — New work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

Vincent Mann Gallery. 305 Royal St., (504) 523-2342; www.vincentmanngallery.com — “Les Femmes,” work by French painter Francoise Gilot, through April.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistnola.org — “Super Saturated,” photography by Heather Weathers, through April 26.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen,” work by about discarded things in the era of climate change; “Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures,” sculpture retrospective; both through June 18.

The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Clarence John Laughlin and his Contemporaries: A Picture and a Thousand Words,” photographs and writings by the photographer, through Saturday.

“Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825-1925,” period merchandise, ceramics, silver and clothing sold in the French Quarter, through April 9.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s,” Carnival, fashion and street life scenes, through May 21. “African Art: The Bequest from the Francoise Billion Richardson Charitable Trust,” more than 100 African scuptures, through June.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Waiting on a Prime-Time Star,” mixed-media portraiture by Mickalene Thomas, through April 9.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Metalwork by Ben Caldwell, through March 28. “A Place and Time Part II,” photographs of the South from the permanent collection, through May 15.

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The 39 Steps. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Ricky Graham directs the spoof of Hitchcock’s 1935 thriller.

Tickets $36-$40. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Brain Candy Live. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The show adapts the popular YouTube science program. Tickets $35$125. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Creep Cuts. Mudlark Public Theatre, 1200 Port St. — Dylan Hunter and Evan Spigelman present the arthouse drag cabaret. There also is a karaoke hour.

Sliding scale tickets $10-$20. 9:30 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

Dividing the Estate. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Three children plot to convince their mother to sell the family property in the aftermath of the 1980s oil bust. Tickets $35-$50. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www. cuttingedgetheater.com — A stripper, an agoraphobe and a tollbooth collector are enmeshed in a love triangle. Tickets $22.50-$32. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, 2525 Burgundy St., (504) 920-7355; www.sanctuarynola.org — Tennessee Williams Theatre Company presents the play about an aging diva. Visit www. twtheatrenola.com or call (504) 2642580 for details. Tickets $20-$25. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

Oskar and the Countless Costume Changes. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The NOLA Project presents the family-friendly play about a 10-year-old playwright exploring gender identity issues. Visit www. nolaproject.com for details. Tickets $10, kids $5. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Red. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc.com — Anysia M. Geare directs the drama about the life of Mark Rothko. Tickets $10-$15. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Sweet Bird of Youth. Loyola University New Orleans, Marquette Theatre, Marquette Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — Southern Rep presents the Tennessee Williams drama about a fading actress and her gigolo lover. Visit www.southernrep. com for details. Tickets start at $40. 8 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Tarzan: The Musical. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive,

Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — A boy raised by gorillas encounters humans for the first time. Tickets $40-$75.

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Two for Tennessee. NOCCA Riverfront, Nims Blackbox Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2875; www.nocca.com — Second Star Performance Collective presents one-acts by New Orleans writers inspired by Tennessee Williams.

Visit www.facebook.com/secondstarperformancecollective for details. Tickets $10-$25. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday.

Varla Jean Merman Sings? Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The drag artist sings selections from her shows A Little White Music, Big Black Hole and Loose Chanteuse. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

BURLESQUE & VARIETY Bayou Blues Burlesque. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — There are burlesque performances at the weekly show. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Friday.

Bella Blue’s Dirty Dime Peepshow. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Bella Blue produces the burlesque show with performances by local and visiting dancers. Tickets $15.

11 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Boozy Brunch. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www. sobounola.com — A burlesque performance by Bella Blue and friends accompanies brunch service. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.

Burlesque Imitates Art. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The burlesque show features collaborations with local artists. Tickets $15. 9 p.m. Saturday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the evening of burlesque and comedy performances.

9:30 p.m. Monday.

Fleur de Tease. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www. oneeyedjacks.net — The burlesque show has an “Alice in Wonderland” theme. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday.

Jock Strap Cabaret. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Neon Burgundy hosts the drag and variety show with a “lube wrestling” contest.

Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Saturday.

Nicole Lynn Foxx Variety Hour. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — The drag performer hosts a weekly variety show. 9 p.m. Thursday.

Stripped into Submission. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — The burlesque

and circus arts show is influenced by BDSM. Admission $10. 11 p.m. Sunday.

Super Smash Bras. The Willow, 8200 Willow St., (504) 656-6563; www.thewillowuptown.com — The Society of Sin presents the Nintendo-themed burlesque show. Tickets $10-$25. 8 p.m. and midnight Friday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

DANCE Last Stop: Desire. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www. louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/theold-us-mint — Nicole Colbert presents the dance adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tickets $15-$20. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelvemilelimit — Julie Mitchell and Laura Sanders host. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 834-6474; www.facebook.com/pages/thenewwaloos — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Chris Champagne. Cello’s, 3401 N. Hullen St., Metairie, (504) 456-5596; www. cellosrestaurant.com — The comedian’s politics-themed show is “The Beasts of Southern Denial.” Admission $15.

8 p.m. Thursday.

Chris Rock. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola. com — The comedian performs. Tickets $49.50-$125. 7 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, 8 p.m. Monday.

Chris Trew’s French Quarter Comedy Night. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net — Chris Trew hosts local comedians.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9405546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Ben Kronberg is the guest at Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy’s stand-up show.

8:30 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues, Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Franchise. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The New Movement’s improv troupes perform. 9 p.m. Friday.

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

H. Jon Benjamin. Tulane University, McAlister Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-5196; www.tulane.edu — The Bob’s Burgers and Archer voice actor and comedy writer speaks. Free admission. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

STAGE THE 39 STEPS GIVES MEANING to the term “wearing many hats,” since a cast of four assumes dozens of roles, including traveling corset salesmen, spies, police, alluring women and railroad conductors. Playwright Patrick Barlow’s revisionist adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller is based on a novel by Scotsman John Buchan, penned during World War I, when German spies could have been hiding anywhere. Audiences won’t find deep, philosophical meaning in this Tony award-winning play, directed by Ricky Graham at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, just a rollicking good time, as falsely accused murderer Richard Hannay (Marc Fouchi) gets into misadventures while being pursued by detectives in the Scottish highlands.

The production combines high-spirited comedic acting, minimal staging and • March 17-26 clever props and sight gags to elicit howls of laughter. Window and door frames • 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; are moved around the stage to provide 2 p.m. Sunday convenient entrances and exits. Each time the door is opened, there’s a swoosh • Rivertown Theaters for the of wind and skirts and jackets flap. HanPerforming Arts, 325 Minor St., nay is silhouetted in a shadow-puppet Kenner, (504) 461-9475; sequence, running full tilt, overcoat flying.

To escape lawmen, Fouchi mimes hangwww.rivertowntheaters.com ing to the outside of a moving train and dangling from a trestle. Amazing quick PHOTO BY JOHN BARROIS costume changes by Gary Rucker and Mason Wood add to the hilarity.

Old movie fans will quickly recognize typical Hitchcock characters, including innocent men on the run, mysterious foreign agents and icy, high-class blonde women. The filmmaker began his career during the silent movie era and the shtick is reminiscent of that period, with exaggerated movements and speech. Barlow peppered the script with references to other Hitchcock films and characters, including Psycho, which was filmed decades later.

There’s plenty in Hitchcock’s original melodrama that can be amplified to the point of absurdity. Hannay keeps the show running as a dashing bachelor with “piercing eyes and pencil mustache.” He meets the glamorous Annabella Schmidt (Jessie Terrebonne Thompson) at a theater and invites her to his London flat, where he offers her a snack of haddock. Despite the necessity for remaining incognito, Annabella reveals she is a spy followed by men who “will stop at nothing.” Hanney dismisses her fears as “persecution mania,” but before morning she is dead. Rather than call the police, he flees, borrowing a white coat from the milkman to get out the front door. Of course, the secret the men are after is the 39 Steps.

In our 21st century world, the story’s contrivances are antiquated. With GPS and Google at our fingertips, pulling out a map of Scotland to locate a villain is absurdly quaint. Hannay is so notorious, his manhunt photo appears on the front pages of regional newspapers, which everyone reads. Dressed in a tweed suit and smoking a pipe, he seeks work as a mechanic in the Scottish countryside. Women fall madly for Hannay, though that may not be strange, considering the woman is always the same actress in different disguises.

The 39 Steps is silly fun that still stands the test of time. — MARY RICKARD

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Impractical Jokers. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The comedy group appears on their “Santiago Sent Us” tour. Tickets $39.50-$49.50. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

Permanent Damage. Bullet’s Sports Bar, 2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., (504) 669-4464 — Tony Frederick, Corey Mack and B-Dub host the stand-up show. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Randy and Mr. Lahey. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www. thejoytheater.com — The Trailer Park Boys comedy duo performs. Tickets $29.50$34.50. 8 p.m. Thursday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Young Funny comedians host the comedy show and open mic. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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

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TUESDAY 21 Heels for Hope. Audubon Tea Room, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5301; www. auduboninstitute.org — Salvation Army of Greater New Orleans holds its annual fundraising luncheon, fashion show and jewelry sale. Visit www.givearmy.us for details. Tickets $60. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Irish in New Orleans. Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 322-7479; www. neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The Irish Cultural Museum presents a talk about Irish immigration to New Orleans and its influence on culture. 6:30 p.m.

Louisiana Derby Golf Tournament.

Lakewood Golf Club, 4801 Gen. DeGaulle Drive, (504) 373-5926 — The golf tournament benefits the Fair Grounds Race Course and Slot’s backstretch community. Visit www.fgno.com for details.

Registration $150 per person, $600 per four-person team.

New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.

Citywide — The Idea Village presents its annual festival celebrating business, innovation and new thinking. Visit www.noew. org for details. Tuesday-Friday.

New Orleans Fashion Week. The Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 2720865; www.civicnola.com — There are runway shows, parties, workshops and more at the celebration of fashion in New Orleans. Visit www.neworleansfashionweek.com for details. Admission varies. Tuesday-Friday.

Reaching Students with Autism through the Arts. Arts Estuary 1024, 1024 Elysian Fields Ave. — Ryan Hourigan leads the workshop for educators. Refreshments are served. Email cheryl@kidsmart.org for details. Registration $7. 4:30 p.m.

Robert Morris. Loyola University, Thomas Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 8653240; www.loyno.edu — The Center for the Study of the New Orleans’ interview series presents the Uptown Messenger founding editor. Visit www.loyno.edu/ csno for details. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 22 Fifth District Police Community Advisory Board Meeting. Stallings St. Claude Rec Center, 4300 St. Claude Ave., (504) 658-3053; www.nordc.org — The advisory board’s open forum for citizens compiles recommendations and complaints for NOPD officers working in the city’s Fifth District. Email pcab05@gmail.com for details. 6 p.m.

Mad Hatters Luncheon. Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras St., (504) 561-0500; www.hilton.com — The New Orleans Opera Association Women’s Guild’s luncheon has “A Day at the Races” as its theme and features a hat contest, auction and fashion show. Visit www. neworleansopera.org for details. Tickets start at $75. 11 a.m.

The Moth GrandSLAM Championship.

Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 5289569; www.thejoytheater.com — Previous storytelling winners at The Moth’s events compete for the title of champion.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. French Quarter — The annual literary festival takes place at various locations and includes parties, panel discussions, writing workshops, theater, a day of music and the Stanley and Stella shouting contest. Visit www. tennesseewilliams.net for details. Ticket prices vary. Tuesday-Sunday.

THURSDAY 23 Benjamin Franklin High School Falcon Feast. The University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6000; www.uno.edu — The fundraiser features Italian cuisine, music and a silent auction.

Visit www.bfhsla.org/falcon-feast for details. Tickets $40-$50. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Books and Beer with Friends. Courtyard Brewery, 1020 Erato St.; www.courtyardbrewing.com — A fundraiser benefits New Orleans Public Library’s summer reading program. There are raffles and a food truck. 6 p.m.

Celebrity Chef Dinner. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www. natfab.org — The three-course demonstration-style dinner with chef Chris Montero of Napoleon House benefits SoFAB. Tickets $85, includes wine pairings and gifts. 6:30 p.m.

Golf Tournament. Timberlane Country Club, 1 Timberlane Drive, Gretna, (504) 367-5010; www.timberlanecc.com — Cathedral Montessori School holds a golf tournament fundraiser. Four-member team entry includes green fees, cart fees, range balls, food, beverages, tee gifts and a 19th hole party. Visit www.cathedralmontessori.com for details. Noon.

Top Taco New Orleans. Spanish Plaza, 1 Poydras St. — The event features tacos by local chefs and mixologists, live music and tequila lounges. Festival attendees vote for favorites to crown four categories of awards. Visit www. toptaconola. com for details. Tickets vary.

6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

WYES’ 60th Anniversary Gala. Private residence — WYES’ gala at the home of Dana and Steve Hansel features food, drinks and entertainment by Escalade.

Visit www.wyes.org for details. Tickets $250-$500. 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 24 Fish Fry. All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 100 Rex Drive, River Ridge — Fish dinners with potato and coleslaw, gumbo, desserts are sold. 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Friday Night Fights. Friday Night Fights Gym, 1632 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

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SATURDAY 25 Abbey Youth Fest. St. Joseph Abbey Church, 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, (985) 892-1800; www.sjasc.edu — The Archdiocese of New Orleans’ youth festival celebrates the feast day of the Annunciation. Open to teens and young adults ages 13 or older. Visit www.abbeyyouthfest.com for details. 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Arts Market of New Orleans. Palmer Park, S. Claiborne and Carrollton avenues — The Arts Council of New Orleans’ market features handmade goods, food, kids’ activities and live music. Visit www.artsneworleans.org for details. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Generations Celebration: Women’s History Month. NORDC Treme Center, 900 N. Villere St., (504) 658-3160; www.nordc. org — NORDC celebrates Women’s History Month with an evening of performances and food. 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Jefferson Chamber Gala. New Orleans Saints Training Facility, 5800 Airline Drive, Metairie — The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce’s 20th anniversary Prohibition era-themed gala features drinks, food, casino games, a silent auction and a performance by The Phunky Monkeys. Visit www.jeffersonchamber.org for details.

Tickets start at $100. 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Julia Jump. The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351; www.cannerynola. com — Preservation Resource Center’s Julia Jump fundraiser features a silent auction, cuisine from 25 restaurants, cocktails and entertainment by The Essentials.

Visit www.prcno.org for details. Tickets start at $75. 7 p.m.

Keeping Our Promises Gala. Messina’s at the Terminal, 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; messinasterminal. com — Daughters of Charity Foundation of New Orleans’ fundraiser and awards gala honors Governor John Bel Edwards.

Visit www.lpca.net for details. Gala tickets $100-$150. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

New Orleans Bourbon Festival. Sugar Mill, 1021 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5860004 — The inaugural festival includes tastings, dinner pairings, panel discussions and a bourbon jazz brunch. Visit www.neworleansbourbon2017.sched.com for details. Tickets vary. Friday-Sunday.

NOLA Pyrate Week. Citywide — The 9th annual NOLA Pyrate Week includes arts and crafts, food and drinks, live entertainment and more; there’s also an event at Old Point Bar (545 Patterson St., Algiers) for families. Visit www. nolapyrateweek. com for details. Friday-Monday.

Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.

Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 523-3341; www.hotelmonteleone.com — The three-day LGBT literary festival features panel discussions, readings, parties and more. Visit www.sasfest.org for details. Friday-Sunday.

Starry Night. Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 371-5849; www.phjmno.org — Panorama Jazz Band and Teri Desario perform at the fundraiser for Waldorf School of New Orleans. There’s food and drinks. Tickets $45-$55. 7 p.m.

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Blue Jay Bazaar. Jesuit High School, 4133 Banks St., (504) 486-6631; www.jesuitnola.org — Jesuit High School’s fundraiser features live bands, food and drinks, a cash raffle, vendors and silent auction.

Free admission. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Bounce Brunch. Tekrema Center for Art and Culture, 5640 Burgundy St., (504) 943-9779; www.tekremacenter. wordpress.com — Greer presents a dance class featuring bounce and twerk styles followed by brunch. Contact tekremacenter@gmail.com to RSVP (required). Free admission. Noon.

Brunch Fest NOLA. Mandeville Wharf at Crescent Park, 1008 N. Peters St. — The LA/SPCA presents its dog-friendly brunch benefit featuring live music and entertainment, food, drinks and more.

Visit www.la-spca.org/brunchfest for details. Tickets $5-$25. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Charter School Teacher Fair. Hynes Charter School, 990 Harrison Ave., (504) 3247160 — Certified teachers are invited to the New Orleans Charter School Teacher Fair. Full- and part-time positions available. Visit www.gnocollaborative.com for details. Free admission. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Children’s World’s Fair. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — The fair for kids and families explores other cultures and places through games, music, stories, crafts and more. Admission $20.

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Cruisin’ for the Mission. New Orleans Mission Giving Hope Retreat, 31294 Highway 190, Lacombe, (985) 218-9485 — The New Orleans Mission’s classic car and motorcycle show fundraiser includes food, drinks and music by the Eli Seals Band. Free admission. Noon to 5 p.m.

Dance for Social Change. Music Box Village, 4557 N. Rampart St. — The New Orleans youth arts and leadership summit showcases youth-created performances about women’s rights and gender equity, followed by audience conversations. Free admission. Noon to 5 p.m.

Drafts for Crafts. Lakeshore Landing, 6701 Stars and Stripes Blvd. — The National WWII Museum presents its annual nautical-themed party featuring drinks, music and launching of the PT-305. Visit www.draftsforcrafts.org for details. Tickets $100. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Fete Francaise. Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans, 821 Gen. Pershing St., (504) 896-4500; www.ebnola.com — The festival celebrates French heritage in Louisiana with French food, art, music and kids’ activities. 11 a.m.

Gretna Jubilee. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 361-1822; www.gretnafarmersmarket.org — The annual fundraiser benefits West Bank schools and includes food from 30 restaurants, an open bar, a silent auction and live music. Visit www.gretnajubilee. org for details. Tickets $60. 7 p.m.

New Orleans Edwardian Ball. Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702 — The inaugural ball features New Orleans-based performers, musical acts and entertainment and vendors, a portrait booth, absinthe cocktails, parlour games and sideshows. Visit www. edwardianball.com for details. Tickets start at $40. 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.

New Orleans Spring Fiesta. New Orleans Spring Fiesta Association, 826 St. Ann St., (504) 581-1367 — The festival includes a horse-drawn carriage parade, guided history and architecture walking tours each day at 9 a.m. and tours of private homes and their courtyards. This year includes an Uptown house tour. Ticket prices vary.

9 a.m. Saturday-Sunday.

NOLA Disability Pride Festival. Advocacy Center of Louisiana, 8325 Oak St., (800) 960-7705; www.advocacyla. org — The festival celebrates disability pride with a community resource fair, live entertainment and a silent auction. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Open Studio. Mini Art Center, 341 Seguin St., Algiers, (504) 510-4747; www.miniartcenter.com — Kids learn to make rainbow papier mache from tissue paper. Admission $5. Noon to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Overcoming Racism: The Color of Mass Incarceration. Propeller Incubator, 4035 Washington Ave., (504) 564-7816; www. gopropeller.org — A discussion covers mass incarceration in New Orleans and its impact on education. 3 p.m.

Pearl’s Rose Release Party. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314 — The event includes rose wine tastings, a crawfish boil and a DJ. Tickets $15.

2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Princesses, Ponies and Superheroes Family Day. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515; www.fairgroundsracecourse.com — The family day includes thoroughbred racing, the Equestrian Angels petting ponies, inflatables and princess and superhero characters. Admission $5, kids free.

Noon to 4 p.m.

Spring Fling Festival. Concordia Lutheran School, 6700 Westbank Expressway, (504) 347-4155; www.clsmarrero.com — The school festival features carnival foods, games, inflatables, crawfish and raffles. Kids’ zone wrist bands are $20 each. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

St. Baldrick’s. Finn McCool’s Irish Pub, 3701 Banks St., (504) 486-9080; www. finnmccools.com — Fundraiser participants shave their heads to support cancer patients. 11 a.m. There also is a St. Baldrick’s shaving party at Deutsches Haus (1023 Ridgewood Drive, Metairie) at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Touch a Truck. Lakefront Airport, 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 243-4010 — At the Junior League of New Orleans’ interactive fundraiser, families view and touch construction equipment, emergency responder vehicles, tractors and utility trucks. There are food trucks. Tickets $10, families $40. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Urban Composting. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037; www.hollygrovemarket.com — Southbound Gardens presents a workshop on composting at home. Suggested admission $10, Hollygrove residents free. 1 p.m.

SUNDAY 26 The Bloody Mary Festival. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Local restaurants offer samples of takes on the classic brunch cocktail. There’s live music. Noon.

Crawfish Extravaganza Fundraiser. 45 Tchoup, 4529 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 891-9066; www.45tchoup.com — The crawfish boil fundraiser benefits the Gleason Initiative Foundation. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Pedal With Purpose. Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard — The Youth Empowerment Project benefit and community street fair features a series of pedicab races, music and food. Free admission. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

MONDAY 27 College Admissions Process Seminar.

Isidore Newman School, 1903 Jefferson Ave., (504) 896-6323; www.newmanschool.org — New Orleans College Case Study’s seminar on the college application process includes admission counselors representing colleges around the U.S. The program is designed for first-generation students but all high school students may attend. Free admission.

6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

French Story Time & Craft. Children’s Resource Center, 913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 596-2628; www.nolalibrary. org — Children listen to stories in English and French. 4:30 p.m.

Pierre Tham. Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard. edu — The chef and world hunger advocate speaks. 11 a.m. to noon Saturday.

SPORTS New Orleans Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The New Orleans Pelicans play the Memphis Grizzlies. 7 p.m.

WORDS Amy Dickinson. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author reads from and signs Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Craig A. Bauer. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses his book An Untractable Country: The History of Kenner, Louisiana. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Jeremy Alford & Tyler Bridges. Louisiana Humanities Center, 938 Lafayette St., Suite 300, (504) 523-4352; www.leh.org — The reporters discuss their book Long Shot. 6 p.m. Monday. p.m.

Keith Knight. Xavier University Center Ballroom, 4980 Dixon St., (504) 486-7411; www.xula.edu — The cartoonist discusses his work. Free admission. 7 p.m. Wednesday. He also appears at New Orleans Public Library’s main branch (219 Loyola Ave.) 6 p.m. Thursday.

Troy Ball. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author reads from and signs Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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