Gambit New Orleans, May 2, 2017

May 2 2017 Volume 38 Number 19

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TUE.-WED. MAY 2-3 | Serendipity or completely intentional? The Chicago rock band, still fresh from 2016’s excellent LP Down in Heaven, headlines two nights in New Orleans the same week as the release of its live double album Urbs in Horto.

Chrome Pony and Post Animal open at 10 p.m. both nights at Gasa Gasa.

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Kamasi Washington THU.-SAT. MAY 4-6 | When you add the six shows Kamasi Washington is playing this week to the four he performed during the same stretch last year, it makes 10 sets culled from one album — barely enough to cover the depth and breadth of 2015 tripleLP The Epic, a bottomless font of cinematic jazz creativity. The doublefeatures run at 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Bye Bye Birdie

Baked goods New Orleans record label United Bakery Records hosts a two-day revue

BY ALEX WOODWARD @ALEXWOODWARD KEEPING THE NAME OF THE BUILDING

that housed the longtime local bakery that closed following Hurricane Katrina, the United Bakery Gallery carved out an intimate space for art shows, theater and live music during its brief run on St. Bernard Avenue. Founded in 2015 by a group of friends — photographers Liam Conway and Daniel Grey, painter Lauren Miller, and musicians Galen Cassidy Peria and Shane Sayers — the gallery also was the starting point for its next iteration as a locally based record label, United Bakery Records.

The label hosts an inaugural twoday revue — featuring artists who performed at the label’s namesake venue — at Marigny Recording Studios May 2-3. The performances will be recorded and released on a compilation later this year.

The gallery became “somewhere we could just say ‘yes’ to anything and hook up all of our friends and people we knew,” Miller says from

inside the WHIV-FM studios on Orleans Avenue, where the crew hosts a radio show at 11 p.m. Fridays.

“You didn’t have to apply to get your art on the wall or send us your music to be played.”

“The gallery went from a place to show our artwork and a place to have a collective in many different forms to being this great space for the art community, the music community — this huge range of art in the city,” Grey says. “It was pretty magical how that happened.”

Though music wasn’t the initial draw, Conway says, “it very quickly developed into what got people out there and getting people excited about our events. I remember seeing Shane perform there and talking to him afterwards about how unique of a space it was to play as a musician, and how incredible it was to have an entire audience engaged and listening to every one of his lyrics.”

“When I met these guys, it was this perfect key,” Sayers says. “They’re coming from a place — and I found it pretty quickly after meeting them, and playing there — with a very similar vision for this city and really caring about this city and caring with sincerity for creative integrity, and providing a platform for that.”

Following the label’s launch in 2015, United Bakery released Play the No Counts from folk-country outfit The Tumbling Wheels and Higher Ground from Peria’s Duke Aeroplane & the Wrong Numbers. The group channeled the gallery’s mission into the label, joining a small but growing number of locally based independent record labels aiming to publish uncompromised artistic expression from people who believe in the same.

Galen Cassidy Peria (left), Liam Conway, Lauryn Miller, Daniel Grey and Shane Sayers founded United Bakery Records.

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The label formally introduces itself with a two-day revue beginning May 2 with Julie Odell, Anna Pardenik, Maggie Belle Band, The Salt Wives, Up Up We Go and Toonces. On May 3, the lineup includes Sayers, Keisha Slaughter, Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, Duke Aeroplane and the Wrong Numbers (as Duke Aeroplane & the Filthy Trumps), Garden Marbles and The Tumbling Wheels. There’s beer from Urban South Brewery, and recordings of the performances will ultimately appear on the label’s inaugural compilation due later this year.

Conway hopes the showcase offers a “window into the diversity of new music coming out of New Orleans.”

The shows “pay homage to the bands that supported the spirit of camaraderie of music and community while operating out of United Bakery Gallery,” Grey says.

“This is a big hat toss to them.”

FRI.-SUN. MAY 5-20 | Talent agent Albert and his secretary Rosie cook up a big publicity stunt when their singer, teen idol Conrad Birdie, is drafted into the Army, but their plans go awry in the comedic musical, featuring the tunes “Put on a Happy Face” and “Telephone Hour.” At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday at Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts.

Hurray For the Riff Raff FRI. MAY 5 | Alynda Lee Segarra has had so many moments over the past five years that the word “breakthrough” loses all meaning: signing to ATO Records in 2013, issuing Small Town Heroes in 2014 and capturing national attention with the murder-ballad-inverting single “The Body Electric.” Her new release The Navigator adds concept album and grand venues to the list of accomplishments. Leyla McCalla and Ron Gallo open at 9 p.m. at The Civic Theatre.

True Jazzfest FRI.-SAT. MAY 5-6 | Returning to the Metal Tent at this year’s much louder “jazz festival”: punk rock, noise and lo-fi garage courtesy of Heavy Lids, NAG, Rubber Mate, Rim Job and Enoch Ramone on Friday, and Trampoline Team (celebrating the release of its latest album), UV TV, Brothers, Giorgio Murderer Group on Saturday. At 9:30 p.m. both nights at Poor Boys.

Azzfest SUN. MAY 7 | The fourth annual rump-centric post-Fest festival includes “live booty painting” and music from the Mike Dillon Band, international hipshakers BateBunda, Hyperphlyy and Rusty Lazer. At 10 p.m. at Hi-Ho Lounge.

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@CoreyStewartVA Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter.

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@panarmstrong Tourists on streecar are taking pictures of Confederate encampment in #MidCity #NOLA. Wonder if that makes it in next Vogue travelogue.

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Drew Brees on Adrian Peterson: “I think he’s got a lot left in him... I think we’re getting a guy who’s hungry with a chip on his shoulder.”

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When we get around to renaming NOLA streets, they should have realistic names like Screw Your Suspension Dr. & You Don’t Need an Oil Pan St.

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First Law of JazzFest Ticket Prices: no matter where, when or how you purchase them, you’ll end up paying 6-7% more than you expected.

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IF YOU FREQUENTLY CROSS LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BY WAY OF THE CAUSEWAY and keep putting off purchasing a toll tag, now’s the time. Starting May 6, tolls at the north end of the Causeway at Mandeville will jump from $3 to $5 per crossing, while toll tag prices will have a more modest hike — from $2 to $3 per crossing. (Accessing the Causeway on the south shore, in Metairie, will continue to be free.)

The increase will pay for new safety features, according to Causeway officials — including higher rails and six shoulders on each side of the bridge. A bill by state Rep. Paul Hollis, R-Covington, could stall things if it passes; Hollis is calling for “an objective analysis,” saying the Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission hasn’t proved the new features will improve safety. — KEVIN ALLMAN

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Newcomb Art Museum was

Corey Stewart,

a Republican candidate for named Louisiana’s governor of Virginia, 2017 Best Gallery caught national or Museum by flak for a series of the American tweets in which he Art Awards. The said “Nothing is award recognized worse than a Yankee Newcomb for its telling a Southerner “interdisciplinary that his monuments collaborations, innovative programs don’t matter” and compared New that engage Orleans removing communities both statues honoring on and off campus, white supremacists and shows that to ISIS. (Stewart is pay tribute to their from Minnesota.) historical legacy.”

Orleans DA Leon Cannizzaro’s and Jefferson DA Paul Connick’s offices have

been sending fake subpoenas to potential witnesses in an attempt to convince them to talk to prosecutors and investigators. Orleans DA subpoenas threatened penalties for noncompliance; Jefferson’s did not. Several legal experts said the practice is unethical, if not illegal.

A spokesman for Cannizzaro initially defended the practice, but the office later said it would stop. Connick’s office also said it would quit using fake subpoenas, which are not signed by a judge and are not enforceable.

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Regarding ‘What people are saying about the overnight Confederateera monument removal in New Orleans’: “Now that the Liberty Place monument is gone, we can safely say it didn’t happen. When the Confederate statues go, we can rest easy that the civil war never happened and 600,000 people didn’t die.” — History ain’t pretty

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the product in the first place.

But Richardson said he hopes to have a product on pharmacy shelves before the end of 2018.

— SARAH GAMARD | MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

4. Reaction as

city takes down first of four monuments

1. ZYDECO HALL OF FAME

P H O T O B Y R O B I N M AY

BURNS DOWN

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The world of zydeco music lost one of its seminal clubs to a mysterious fire the night of April 25 in Lawtell, a small town near Opelousas, the self-described zydeco capital of the world. Current owner Dustin Miller called the club “Miller’s Zydeco Hall of Fame,” but acolytes knew the dance hall, once called Richard’s, as zydeco’s version of the Grand Ol’ Opry. Opened in 1947, Richard’s occupied a must-stop address on the famed “chitlin circuit.” Both B.B. King and John Lee Hooker played there, expanding the club’s legacy beyond zydeco.

Dance hall researcher John Sharp says perhaps only a few other clubs claim the singularly cathedral air boasted by Richard’s: The Offshore Lounge (nee the Gin Side Inn) in Lawtell, Dauphine’s in Parks, Slim’s Yi-Ki-Ki in Opelousas and Hamilton’s Place in Lafayette. All of those are closed. Richard’s was the last of that vintage of country Creole dance halls.

The building is said to be a “total loss” either from direct char or heat damage. Miller says he is mulling whether to rebuild.

St. Landry Parish fire officials say the blaze began sometime around 11 p.m., not long after a local band finished a rehearsal. Firefighters returned Wednesday to tackle a fire that resparked in the attic.

“If there was one place that was the history of zydeco in a handful,” Sharp says, “it was that place.” — CHRISTIAAN MADER

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“The truth is, the fate of that bill was decided long before it became available.” — Gov. John Bel Edwards, at a press conference after state Rep. Sam Jones, D-Franklin, pulled the governor’s commercial activity tax (CAT) bill from consideration last week. Edwards had proposed the CAT as a way to stanch the state’s longstanding budget woes, but pushback from business interests and many Republicans in the House Ways & Means Committee effectively killed its prospects. Edwards has challenged GOP leaders in the Legislature — particularly the House — to put forth their own proposals.

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Medical marijuana available in La. next year?

The lucrative nature of marijuana sales was at the center of a House Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture and Rural Develop-

ment discussion April 27 about a law that puts the state into the marijuana distribution business.

Louisiana State University and Southern University are the two schools allowed to grow and distribute medical marijuana under legislation approved last spring.

LSU’s operation alone is estimated to cost between $10 million and $15 million, and lawmakers were warned it will take seven to eight years for the operation to become profitable.

That poses a problem for potential contractors, because the contract as currently discussed would terminate in less than five years.

The law requires the product, which cannot be shipped outside Louisiana, to be grown indoors and away from LSU’s campus in an undisclosed, non-LSU operated building, a facility that Richardson predicted will be “one of the most secure facilities, probably, in the state of Louisiana.”

Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, creating obstacles for acquiring the materials to grow

As the city took down the first of four Confederate-era monuments last week — a move that sparked national headlines — reaction on both sides of the issue was furious.

Leaders of Take ’Em Down NOLA, a group advocating for removal, decried the timing of the removal of a monument commemorating the Battle of Liberty Place, which was done in the wee hours of April 24 (the city cited threats for not doing it during daylight).

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, a monument proponent, announced his support of several bills in the state Legislature that would “preserve these symbols of our state’s history and prevent this from happening again.” Scott McKay, publisher of the Baton Rouge website The Hayride, wrote in The American Spectator that the removal was “destructively stupid” and that Mayor Mitch Landrieu had entered into league with a “gaggle of race-hustlers, wannabe intellectuals, beatnik neo-Communists, and dashikiwearing blowhards” supporting monument removal. Meanwhile, a few people on Twitter attempted to launch a #BoycottNOLA hashtag, vowing never to visit the city again, but as of press time it had received only a few dozen tweets.

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‘Sanctuary cities’ bill back in Legislature A bill targeting “sanctuary” cities in Louisiana — a measure supported by Republican state Attorney General Jeff Landry — won narrow approval from the state House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice April 26. House Bill 135 by Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, defines “sanctuary” policies as laws or local law enforcement guidelines that prohibit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Hodges authored a similar measure last year but failed to get enough votes in the Senate.

Committee Chairman and state Rep. Sherman Mack, R-Albany, cast the tie-breaking vote, sending Hodges’ latest measure to the full House for debate.

Under Hodges’ bill, “sanctuary” cities could lose state funding.

New Orleans’ Director of Federal Relations Zach Butterworth echoed Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s repeated argument that New Orleans is not a sanctuary city, quoting Landry’s

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Short-term rental enforcement gets Jazz Fest grace period Airbnb announced last month that more than 20,000 people booked rooms and houses in New Orleans in time for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The website advertised “Going to New Orleans Jazz Fest in New Orleans? Book unique and authentic rentals for Jazz Fest in New Orleans” and listed more than 1,000 properties and rooms for rent.

By April 27, the city had only issued about 700 licenses under a new municipal ordinance governing short-term rentals. The city will begin enforcing the new law May 15 — days after Jazz Fest concludes.

Data-scraping platforms estimate there are some 5,000 short-term rentals in the New Orleans area. After June 1, Airbnb says listings that don’t have a license number will be removed from the site.

7. Let our balconies go: ‘Air rights tax’ dead

The city will no longer charge an “air” tax. After the Landrieu administration’s controversial push to charge residents for the use of balconies and porches that allegedly encroached on sidewalks and public rights of way, city Chief Administrative Officer Jeff Hebert explained to the New Orleans City Council’s Governmental Affairs Committee April 27 that it will end the practice of collecting “air rights taxes,” a policy that has been on the books for years but only recently enforced.

Under a new policy, the city will review building features on a caseby-case basis unless they’re historic structures in a historic district.

Owners and developers of new construction will have to enter lease agreements with the city.

8. Domestic violence protection moves forward in House

The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice passed without objection two bills extending domestic violence protection to same-sex couples and to dating partners. The bills now move to the full House, where debate is expected next week.

House Bill 27 by state Rep. Pat Connick, R-Marrero, would amend the definition of household member to include all couples, and the phrase “opposite sex”

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The proposed legislation covering dating partners, House Bill 223 by Rep. Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans, saw no resistance. “It closes a big loophole we have within our domestic violence laws,” Moreno said. — WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER | MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

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2016 Congressional testimony that Louisiana “no longer [has] any jurisdictions [prohibited] from communicating with federal authorities.”

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Senate bills would exempt some products from state sales tax The Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs sent two bills to the full Senate April 24 that would exempt diapers and feminine hygiene products from state sales tax. Both bills are by Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans. Senate Bill 24 would grant the exemption by statute, and Senate Bill 27 would do so by constitutional amendment.

The latter would require a statewide referendum after a two-thirds favorable vote among lawmakers.

Under state law, diapers and feminine hygiene products are subject to the current 5 percent sales tax rate until June 30, 2018, and a 4 percent tax rate thereafter. — ROSE VELAZQUEZ | MANSHIP SCHOOL NEWS SERVICE

10. Political consultant Luntz speaks at Loyola

Frank Luntz, pollster and political consultant, was the guest at the annual Loyola University Institute of Politics Ed Renwick Lecture last week, and he had no reassuring words for a country divided on many levels. “I’m afraid that this is the election cycle that kills our democracy,” the nationally known pollster and commentator told the crowd, which included Gov. John Bel Edwards. “The level of anger, the level of instability in this country right now, is so out of control. It is so frightening,” Luntz said, adding later, “This is not how democracy is supposed to work, because the reaction to [President Donald] Trump will be something even more extreme.”

Gov. John Bel Edwards, who was in the audience, agreed, but had a more nuanced view. “Like Frank, I’m concerned about our country, but I’m not as pessimistic,” Edwards said. “We’re going to have a generation of politicians who are going to try to run for office emulating what we saw last year, and that’s not good for our country.”

“You will do more good on the local level than any Washington politician will ever do,” Luntz said, gesturing to Edwards while closing his speech.

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COMMENTARY

Abolish Louisiana’s death penalty

NINETEEN STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HAVE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY. If some state

lawmakers have their way, Louisiana will become the 20th state — but they face strong opposition. Some district attorneys and sheriffs say the death penalty is a deterrent as well as leverage to convince those accused of capital crimes to plead to lesser but still severe charges.

Senate Bill 142 would abolish the death penalty effective Aug. 1, but it would not apply to the more than 70 people currently on death row in Louisiana. House Bill 10 would mandate life in prison without parole for people convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree rape or treason.

Last week, a Senate committee approved SB 142 by a 6-1 vote, sending it to the full Senate.

SB 142 is authored by state Sen. Dan Claitor — a Republican and former prosecutor — who says the death penalty has failed as a deterrent. The House bill is by state Rep. Terry Landry, a Democrat from Acadiana who is a retired Louisiana State Police officer. “Having both served in the criminal justice system,” Claitor said in a statement, “we understand the practical aspects of this issue and, both being Catholics, share the same moral impetus.”

Death penalty opponents raise moral as well as fiscal arguments, and convincingly so. During last week’s Senate committee hearing, Louisiana Public Defender James Dixon told lawmakers that since 2008, the state has spent more than $91 million defending capital cases. In that time, he said, only one man has been executed — and he volunteered for lethal injection after waiving his right to appeal.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), 158 people sentenced to death in the U.S. have

been exonerated by evidence of innocence since 1973 — 11 of them in Louisiana. During the committee hearing, former Caddo Parish prosecutor Marty Stroud told of a man he convicted of murder who spent 30 years on death row before being exonerated.

When the man finally was released, he died of cancer a short time later.

Stroud, once a death penalty advocate, now supports Claitor’s bill.

The death penalty already is in decline in Louisiana, as it is across the rest of the country, according to DPIC statistics. The state has executed 28 convicts since 1976, but only one in the last nine years.

Death penalty opponents raise moral as well as fiscal arguments, and convincingly so.

The lone dissenting vote in the Senate committee was that of state Sen. Mack “Bodi” White, R-Central, who said, “It’s not my job to forgive people who commit murders.” True, but that sentiment ignores the 11 Louisianans who have been exonerated after being wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to die.

Moreover, if the death penalty were a deterrent, Louisiana wouldn’t have America’s highest murder rate.

Claitor’s bill is sure to face opposition going forward, but the facts and testimonies presented last week make a strong case — morally, fiscally and spiritually — for taking a long look at our state’s checkered history with the death penalty and joining the growing list of states that have abolished it.

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Getting smart on crime THE YEARLONG PUSH FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IN LOUISIANA WILL REACH A CRITICAL POINT THIS WEEK when a state

Senate committee considers a handful of bills that reverse decades of overreaction to nonviolent crimes. It’s a small but vitally important step, and it’s encouraging that opposing sides are finding common ground.

Crime and justice are always hot-button issues, but effectively dealing with incarceration and rehabilitation requires a clear head — and politicians with the guts to stand up for what’s right in the face of demagogues who will assail them for being “soft on crime.”

Several lawmakers stand out as examples of that kind of courage: Sens. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner, and Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge; Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego; Reps. Walt Leger and Helena Moreno, D-New Orleans; Rep. Joe Marino, I-Gretna; Rep. Tanner Magee, R-Houma; Rep. Stephen Dwight, R-Lake Charles; and Rep. Julie Emerson, R-Carencro. They are sponsoring the reform bills this year.

It’s significant that leading members of the state’s business and religious communities support the reform bills, as do some of the state’s most prominent conservative voices. Credit should also go to Louisiana’s sheriffs and DAs, who previously opposed virtually every effort at sentencing reform, for agreeing to back sensible changes to the handling of nonviolent criminals. The bills up for consideration this week will not free violent criminals, but they will save taxpayers money.

As for the “soft on crime” meme, a mountain of evidence proves that the bills taking center stage this week are “smart on crime,” not soft on crime.

“We don’t have twice as many criminals as everybody else,” says Martiny, who’s running for the Jefferson Parish Council with the support of many in law enforcement.

“We just have twice as many people in jail as everybody else. The easiest thing for me to do politically is punt on this, but we have to admit that one of the main reasons we’re in

trouble fiscally is because we keep looking to higher ed and health care when it’s time to cut. We never consider cutting corrections, where we spend $700 million a year. It’s time to look at how we handle nonviolent offenders.”

Marino, a brand-new lawmaker, is a criminal defense attorney who already stands out as a expert — and a voice of reason — on criminal justice reform. “If you don’t think that spending $700 million a year on incarceration is a problem, then be OK with us not having money for schools, TOPS and public hospitals,” Marino says. “Tough on crime is, unfortunately, tough on education, tough on health care, and tough on the citizens of the state of Louisiana.”

The bills under consideration this week likely will be amended to focus on how we prosecute and incarcerate for nonviolent crimes. There now appears to be consensus that such reforms would free up money for programs like drug courts, which have turned nonviolent offenders into law-abiding taxpayers.

Sentencing reforms also will save taxpayers money — hopefully enough to fund TOPS, health care and rehabilitation programs that work.

That’s smart on crime, not soft on crime.

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Hey Blake, In the recent PBS series The Great War, considerable time was given to the heroic and tragic story of Henry Johnson, a black soldier during World War I. It made me think of Leroy Johnson and the Army camp on Lake Pontchartrain named after him. What can you tell me about him?

KATHY

Dear Kathy, There is no connection between these two military heroes, but both are remembered for their records of service.

Henry Johnson was a member of the “Harlem Hellfighters” based in Harlem, New York, the first African-American unit of the U.S. Army to engage in combat during World War I. Reflecting racial discrimination of the time, Johnson’s unit initially was assigned menial tasks like unloading cargo and cleaning latrines. The unit later brigaded with a French army colonial unit, which put them in front-line combat. Johnson, who died in 1929, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor.

Leroy Johnson was born in 1919, a year after World War I ended.

A native of Caney Creek in north Louisiana, he entered the U.S. Army at Oakdale in 1943. He was killed in combat during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on Dec. 15, 1944. According to his citation for the Medal of Honor, which was awarded in 1945, Johnson was killed when he threw himself on two unexploded grenades he spotted as members of his unit were fighting

A brick smokestack from Camp Leroy Johnson was incorporated into the design of the Homer L. Hitt Alumni and Visitors Center at the University of New Orleans.

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back an assault by enemy soldiers.

The New Orleans Army Air Base, which opened on the New Orleans lakefront in 1942, was renamed Camp Leroy Johnson in 1947. The 150-acre camp remained open until October 1964. That year, then-Gov. John McKeithen signed a 99-year lease turning over the land from the Orleans Parish Levee Board to LSUNO, which had opened in 1958 and is now the University of New Orleans. The site now is home to the Senator Nat G. Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena and Maestri Field.

BLAKEVIEW This week marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of New Orleans’ “new” City Hall and the accompanying 11-acre Civic Center. The complex was dedicated on May 6, 1957. The four other buildings in the Civic Center complex (all of which opened later) were: the Civil Court and state Supreme Court buildings, a state office building and the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library. City Hall, built at a cost of $8 million, replaced Gallier Hall as the center of city government. The 1957 dedication ceremonies were held in nearby Duncan Plaza, which is named for Brooke Duncan Sr., the city planning director who first conceived the Civic Center. According to newspaper accounts, rather than cutting a ribbon, Mayor deLesseps Morrison used a sword that once belonged to Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard to tear open a plastic curtain and lead guests into the new City Hall. The state Supreme Court and state office building were demolished in 2009, but the other buildings remain.

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DEACON JOHN MOORE RECEIVES THE BIG EASY AWARDS’ LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC AWARD

BY ALEX WOODWARD | @ALEXWOODWARD P H OTO BY J O S E L . G A R C I A

THE ENTERTAINER IN THE MIDDLE OF A SET AT THE DEW DROP INN, Deacon John Moore felt a tug on his arm and looked down to see Allen Toussaint, who Moore says had likely double-parked a tomato-red Cadillac outside the club. That was the night Moore jokes he was “discovered.”

“He just walks in the joint one night while I was playing and came right up to the stage,” Moore says. “‘Hey, man, I really like the way you play that guitar. You want to play some sessions with me?’ Of course I said yeah.”

The next day, Moore entered Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studios for his first of many sessions lending his guitar to the canon of New Orleans rhythm and blues, from work with Toussaint and Dave Bartholomew to Wardell Quezergue and Harold Batiste, among others. Moore jokes he can’t brag about having a hit record of his own, but his guitar electrifies hits like Ernie K-Doe’s “Mother-in-Law,” Irma Thomas’ “Ruler of My Heart,” Aaron Neville’s “Tell It Like It Is,” Robert Parker’s “Barefootin’” and Lee Dorsey’s “Working in the Coal Mine.”

He waxed his versatile session work into his enduring role as a chameleon-like performer, from a baby-faced R&B bandleader beginning in the late 1950s to a bearded soul man and psychedelic rock star in the late 1960s and ’70s. These days, he’s likely to pull from his expansive repertoire while wearing a suit, a bow tie, a straw fedora and his mischievous grin.

Celebrating 60 years as a professional musician who has never held a day job, Moore last week was awarded 2017’s Big Easy PAGE 16

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award for lifetime achievement in music (see story, p. 19).

“Sixty years later, and I’m still here,” Moore says. “It couldn’t come at a better point in my life, to be out here, celebrating longevity.”

MOORE GREW UP IN NEW ORLEANS’ 8TH WARD as one of 13

children (Moore says he was the loudest). He sang in A church choir, and his mother listened to classical music and country, but his ear turned to the rock ’n’ roll discreetly blasting from headphones plugged into a radio broadcasting Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry. He borrowed guitars until he could afford one from a pawn shop on Canal Street.

Nicknamed for his clean-cut look — or his church background and possible gospel aspirations, depending on the version of the story he tells — “Deacon” Moore played alongside several groups at ballrooms, school dances, picnics and block parties before he joined the Ivories, whose alums include Roger Lewis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, James Booker, several Nevilles, James Rivers, Smokey Johnson and Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste.

The band gigged around New Orleans clubs, including the Robin Hood, The Hurricane, The Chateau and social aid and pleasure clubs, as well as on the chitlin circuit on an old school bus. Early shows took the band to a country club off a dirt road in Mississippi for a high school dance, where the band were the first black musicians to play for the school. As the band loaded up after the gig, Moore discovered his car’s tires were slashed. On the windshield was a business card with two pink eyes

and the inscription “the eyes of the Klan are on you.”

Moore and his Ivories secured a slot as a house band for the Dew Drop in the late ’50s, when the club’s legendary floor show formulas mixed vocal groups, comedians, ventriloquists, exotic dancers and “a cat who would tap dance dressed up as a cowboy on the sidewalk,” Moore says.

“It was a cultural mecca of New Orleans. Everybody hung out there because they couldn’t go to the white joints,” he says, laughing. “It was a catalyst for indigenous culture. All kinds of people hanging out. Everybody went — a one-stop place.”

Toussaint’s invitation introduced Moore to the inner circle of New Orleans hit makers. Moore recorded “I Can’t Wait” and “When I’m With You” for Rip Records in 1962, and Toussaint arranged a few singles Moore cut in 1967, including “Haven’t I Been Good To You” and “A Dollar Ninety Eight.”

Moore performed a raw, moving rendition of “Any Day Now” at Toussaint’s memorial after the artist’s abrupt death in 2015.

“I thanked him all the time,” Moore said. “‘Allen, you’ve done something for me I could never thank you enough for. You made me a part of New Orleans rhythm and blues history. Something they can’t take away from me.’”

Though his singles failed to chart, Moore pushed himself to reinvent his sound and look, fitting his spin on Beatles and British Invasion pop into his band’s constant gigs. In 1970, he released his cover of “Many Rivers to Cross.”

“You’re only as hot as your last record,” says Moore, who often turns a maudlin moment into a

self-deprecating joke and fit of giggles. “In order to keep your career sustained you gotta keep putting out hit records, or fade into obscurity. I never had that problem because I never was faced with putting out hit records after hit records.”

Moore frequently rented out an organ to the Allman Brothers during their many visits to A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas, where Moore also performed with his Jimi Hendrix-inspired rock band Electric Soul Train. “Once I heard him, I thought, man, I’ve been wanting to do that shit all my life,” Moore says. “I was scared to turn up the amplifier. He was playing electric blues. He turned up the volume and started improvising and taking it to a whole other level.”

In 1970, Moore also was the first rock ’n’ roll musician to perform with the New Orleans Symphony.

He also squeezed in some acting gigs and political ones — he was voted president of the New Orleans Musicians Union in 2007.

“All my life I’ve been hard to put a label on,” Moore says. “Maybe it’s best they don’t have a label on me … I was blessed with talent. I can sing my ass off, I can play guitar, I play the banjo. I’m an entertainer, and I’ve been able to sustain myself being an entertainer.”

AMONG THE HANDFUL OF MOORE’S RECORDINGS are his 1990 album

Singer of Song, a live album from 1994, and his 2003 revue Deacon John’s Jump Blues, arranged by Wardell Quezergue and featuring an all-star lineup of New Orleans artists revisiting the heyday of R&B.

Moore says he hopes to release more albums to showcase his versatility and a “legacy to leave behind so future generations can come along and know I wasn’t just a one-trick pony.” But rather than studio time and album sales, Moore relies on bookings. And they don’t stop coming.

“If it wasn’t for the people who have demonstrated unwavering support for my talent over the years, there wouldn’t be no Deacon John,” he says. “For me to make a success of myself, it took a lot of hard work and dedication and a lot of gigs — all kinds of gigs.

But the people kept calling me back. I never really had a booking agent and managers and all that.

I depended on my reputation to sustain me.”

His gigs are largely “single, miscellaneous engagements,” he says, with the exception of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, at which he has performed every year since it started in 1970. “Black, white, social aid and pleasure clubs, debutante balls, weddings — all kinds of stuff,” Moore says. “I must be doing something right. All these people keep calling me back … The ones I played the proms and high schools, they call me back to play for their children’s weddings.”

Moore boasts he can lead a band through Tchaikovsky at a Russian-themed Carnival ball, Earth, Wind and Fire at a birthday party or “Hava Nagila” at a Jewish wedding reception.

“I dunno what it is,” he says. “I hate to say it, but I guess it’s just the fact that I’m good, and that’s all there is to it.”

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Leyla McCalla won Best Country/Folk and Best Album for A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey.

Kali Russell, Abbey P. Murrell (front left), Leslie Claverie and Idella Johnson starred in Lizzie, which won Best Musical.

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ANDLEADER AND GUITARIST DEACON JOHN MOORE thanked a who’s

Maggie Koerner (third from left) and PJ Morton (right) presented The Revivalists with the Entertainer of the Year Award.

who list of New Orleans musicians, producers and friends from his six-decade career — including Allen Toussaint, Dave Bartholomew, Benny Spellman, Earl Palmer and many others — while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Big Easy Award at the

Orpheum Theater April 24.

Moore and award winners in a host of music and theater categories thanked the communities of local artists that support and encourage one another in their work.

The Lifetime Achievement award for theater was presented to Anthony Bean, actor, director and founder of Anthony Bean

Community Theater. Other special awards went to entertainers of the year The Revivalists and Christopher Bentivegna of See ’Em on Stage: A Production Company, which won five awards for its rock musical Lizzie.

The Big Easy Awards are presented by the Gambit-affiliated Foundation for Entertainment, Devel-

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Mike Dillon was named Best Male Performer for the second consecutive year.

Best Heavy Metal/Punk Gland Best Rock The Revivalists Best Country/Folk Band Leyla McCalla Best Zydeco/Cajun Lost Bayou Ramblers Best Latin/World Kumasi Best Emerging Artist Sexy Dex & the Fresh Best DJ/Electronica DJ Soul Sister

Big Easy Theater Awards 2016 Theater Person of the Year Christopher Bentivegna Lifetime Achievement in Theater Anthony Bean

Best Rhythm and Blues Tank & the Bangas

Best Musical Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company

Best Blues Bobby Rush

Best Play Colossal, Southern Rep

Irma Thomas presented the Lifetime Achievement in Music Award to Deacon John Moore.

Anthony Bean (center) was presented a Lifetime Achievement in Theater Award by his high school teacher, Pat Hill (left), and 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Carol Sutton.

Best Director of a Musical Christopher Bentivegna Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Best Director of a Play Beau Bratcher 4000 Miles, The NOLA Project Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Idella Johnson Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Preston Meche How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Best Actress in a Musical Leslie L. Claverie Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Best Actor in a Musical Cameron-Mitchell Ware Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company Best Supporting Actress in a Play Lucy Faust The Glass Menagerie, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Big Easy Awards emcee Cecile Monteyne with Christopher Bentivegna, who was named Theater Person of the Year and won Best Director of a Musical for Lizzie.

Best Supporting Actor in a Play Mike Spara Don Quixote, The NOLA Project Best Actress in a Play Kerry Cahill Grounded, Southern Rep

Best Actor in a Play Ross Britz Colossal, Southern Rep Best Ensemble The Flick, Promethean Theatre Co. Best Original Work of Theater Don Quixote Pete McElligott, The NOLA Project Best Choreography Kenneth Beck West Side Story, Jefferson Performing Arts Society Best Music Director Jefferson Turner Ragtime, Cripple Creek Theatre Company Best Set Design Eric Porter Airline Highway, Southern Rep Best Lighting Design Evan Spigelman Flood City, The NOLA Project Best Costume Design Sara Bandurian Lizzie, See ’Em On Stage: A Production Company Best Sound Design Mike Harkins Grounded, Southern Rep Best University Production The House That Will Not Stand Laura Hope, director Loyola University

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BY COUNT BASIN™ WITH HELP FROM WILL COVIELLO, FRANK ETHERIDGE, HOLLY HOBBS, NATHAN MATTISE, JENNIFER ODELL & ALEX WOODWARD

S a year after their respective sets were pre-empted by heavy rains. This year, they’re joined by headliners including TEVIE WONDER AND SNOOP DOGG RETURN TO THE 2017 NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL

Wilco, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chucho Valdes, The Meters, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, Irma Thomas, Rhiannon Giddens, Widespread Panic and many others. The Cultural Exchange Pavilion features a full slate of Cuban bands and Los Van Van performs on the Congo Square Stage. There’s a full spectrum of traditional and contemporary jazz, rock, blues, gospel, Cajun and zydeco music. Social aid and pleasure clubs and Mardi Gras Indians parade at the Fair Grounds, and there’s crafts and cultural programming in the folklife area and Grandstand.

The following pages include music picks from Gambit’s Jazz Fest aficionado Count Basin™, musician interviews, a map, daily schedules and more.

Look for daily recaps on www.bestofneworleans.com.

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12:10 P.M.-1:10 P.M. The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project featuring Roman Diaz CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Pedrito Martinez is a percussion master who bounces between bata, conga, cajon, timbale and drums. He also is an accomplished singer. Since leaving Cuba for Manhattan in the late 1990s, he’s worked with musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Wynton Marsalis.

Roman Diaz is Martinez’s godfather and mentor in the folkloric music of their Cuban homeland. Diaz is skilled with West African Yoruban drumming and rumba, a dance-oriented genre with roots in Cuba.

Martinez’s Rumba Project focuses on Afro-Cuban musical traditions.

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4:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M. 12:20 P.M.-1:20 P.M. Yvette Landry FAIS DO-DO STAGE A native of Breaux Bridge, Yvette Landry pursued a teaching career before she started writing songs and moonlighting as a musician.

The multi-instrumentalist blends roots, country and Cajun sounds in her own music and released her debut album, Should Have Known,

12:25 P.M.-1:15 P.M. Quiana Lynell and the Lush Life band WWOZ JAZZ TENT Quiana Lynell is a crooner who’s as comfortable belting out a tune as gently breezing through an uptempo verse. Lynell just as deftly jumps from pop to an R&B ballad to traditional jazz tunes. She’s performed with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and onstage in musicals.

She’s also happy to engage her audience with some quick stories. Last year, she penned the musical love letter “Baton Rouge” to raise funds for flood relief in the city where she lived while studying at LSU.

1:30 P.M.-2:30 P.M. Changui Guantanamo CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Changui Guantanamo focuses on changui, a type of party music meant to release tensions after long days at work. It’s a musical tradition that originated in rural communities of former slaves in Cuba’s Guantanamo Province in the early 19th century. It combines West African rhythms and percussion instruments and elements of the Spanish guitar-based canción tradition. Changui generally does not use the hallmark Cuban clave pattern and pre-dates the dance music son. The original Changui de Guantanamo group was formed in 1945, and over the decades the lineup has changed.

In 1989, Changui de Guantanamo was invited to the Smithsonian Institution, where it recorded five songs for the Center for Folklife.

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fined by The Meters, whose work frequently is sampled by hiphop artists (Google used its tune “Hand Clapping Song” in a recent ad campaign for its Pixel phone).

Accordingly, artists across decades and genres — including Patti LaBelle, Tori Amos and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth — have sought him out. Porter calls his longtime band, Runnin’ Pardners, “the ultimate jam band.”

1:45 P.M.-2:40 P.M. & 3:10 P.M.-4:05 P.M. Adonis y Osain del Monte CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Virtuosic drumming, rhythmic patterns that swoop into unexpected twists and turns and extreme riffs on rumba and Cuban pop all play into the crew of dancers and musicians Adonis Panter Calderon formed as Adonis y Osain del Monte in 2013. An expert in his country’s rich cultural history, Calderon’s credits include assistant directing the recent documentary, The Black Roots of Salsa: The Emancipation of Cuban Rumba and leading the group Yoruba Andabo, which focuses on the early Cuban interpretation of West African music slaves brought to Havana 500 years ago. The group recently performed for the Rolling Stones at a private concert.

2:55 P.M.-3:35 P.M. Lee Konitz Quartet WWOZ JAZZ TENT Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz has performed in various jazz styles since he began playing in the 1940s, but he has a quickly identifiable sound.

Konitz has stayed true to his own style, which involves lengthy melodic lines that feature unexpected accents or rhythms that seemingly eschew the time signature in progress.

Konitz’s unique improvisational approach earned him many accolades and opportunities over time. He played with Miles Davis during the Birth of Cool era and is said to have influenced saxophone greats such as Paul Desmond of the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Konitz has performed with jazz legends including Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus.

QUIANA LYNELL | 12:25 P.M. WWOZ JAZZ TENT defining voice in modern soul.

The singer-songwriter has since worked with artists including Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones, Paul McCartney and RZA while recording new music, most recently 2016’s The Heart Speaks in Whispers. Rae effortlessly jumps between musical styles and can dance up and down her vocal register within a single phrase. While she has not duplicated the Top 40 success of her debut single, newer songs like “The Skies Will Break” show Rae’s continued growth with diverse musical ideas and increasingly emotional and thoughtful lyrics.

4:20 P.M.-5:10 P.M. Carsie Blanton LAGNIAPPE STAGE Singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton says she writes songs in the style that most clearly gets her point across, whether that’s pop, soul, jazz, rock or folk. Often, she fuses several sounds together, as in “Backbone,” which features a pop-radio chorus and Blanton’s airy and soulful vocals throughout. Her latest album, 2016’s So Ferocious, is full of playful songwriting and her signature blend of styles.

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todays pre-imminent jam bands.

Just like the Grateful Dead before them (or their contemporaries, Phish), Widespread Panic has roots in psychedelia, but this band fuses it with danceable Southern rock — which has earned it a devoted following and a tape scene over its 30 years together. The years have prompted the band to adjust its approach, scaling back heavy touring to fewer dates, but most of them are at larger events. “We ain’t spring chickens,” guitarist and vocalist John Bell told JamBands.com earlier this year. “This is the way to have the best of both worlds: quality time with the families and also get your yah-yahs out on the road.”

5:30 P.M.-7 P.M. Darius Rucker GENTILLY STAGE Given Darius Rucker’s longevity and remarkable career reinvention, it’s possible some of his current fans know nothing of the word “Hootie” or the Blowfish. But it’s a testament to Rucker’s abilities as a songwriter and performer that he could separately rise to the top first in mainstream pop and now in mainstream country. Festival attendees can expect Rucker to blend some of his Hootie & the Blowfish catalogue alongside the singer-songwriter materials that have earned him Country Music Association acclaim.

He also throws in songs from contemporaries including Garth Brooks (“Friends in Low Places”) and Blackstreet (“No Diggity”).

5:45 P.M.-6:55 P.M. Herb Alpert & Lani Hall WWOZ JAZZ TENT Legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert led the Tijuana Brass band and collected a staggering array of trophies, including five No. 1 records, nine Grammy Awards, 14 platinum-selling albums and 15 gold. Whether it’s a massive solo hit like “Rise” or one of the Brass’ hit records, Alpert has always played with classical precision and jazz warmth on irresistible pop arrangements. He also found a partner who proved to be more than his equal. Singer Lani Hall and Alpert have been married for more than 40 years, and she boasts her own music lineage as a vocalist for Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66. Close your eyes and imagine the sound of ’60s Bossa Nova, and it’s Hall you’ll hear on a track like “Mas Que Nada.” The duo performs songs from both of their repertoires.

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record his 1976 hit “Tryin’ to Love Two,” he called his army buddy Allen Toussaint, who had recently opened a studio with Marshall Sehorn. Bell — among the founding stars of the Stax Records sound — was stationed at Louisiana’s Fort Polk with Toussaint in the ’60s.

“I called Allen and Marshall up and said, ‘Hey man, you guys got any openings in the studio?’”

Bell remembers. “Allen said, ‘Man, come on down here. You got carte blanche.’ I came down, he put me a rhythm section together, and we got a million seller out of it.”

Bell recorded at Sea-Saint Studios with members of Chocolate Milk on the rhythm track and Toussaint at the helm.

The single eventually hit No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B chart and cracked the Hot 100, kicking off 1977’s Coming Back for More, which produced his hits “You Don’t Miss Your Water” and “Born Under a Bad Sign.”

Last year, Bell returned to the recently resurrected Memphis label for his Grammy Award-winning This is Where I Live, a showcase for the legacy of soul and rhythm and blues he helped design.

“I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel,” Bell says. “I write about life, and it tells a story, something people can relate to and sink their teeth into, and think about it 10 years later and think about where they were the first time they heard that song. We wanted to write some clever lyrical things and tell a complete story in song, not like a lot of modern stuff with just a beat, a groove and a chant. We wanted to make a good melody with it. We

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really took our time. We wanted to retain some of that essence.”

Bell stepped out as lead voice of his church choir at age 7, but at home, he studied his heroes. “I had a strong voice and I had a good sense of melody,” he says. “I was a Sam Cooke fan — even at that age I’d listen to the Soul Stirrers records — and being a loner by myself, listening to music was my company those days.”

At age 14, Bell was working at Memphis’ Flamingo Room, where he picked up the turns of phrase that influenced his signature writing style — honest, hopelessly romantic and studded with self-deprecating humor. “I’d keep my ears and eyes open and hear all these different sayings,” he says. “I was like a sponge. I just soaked up everything back then and want-

ed to know all about [the] music business … Writing to me was a cleansing experience. I’d write to get my feelings out.”

Stax producer Chips Moman discovered Bell at the Flamingo and asked him to sing backup on “Gee Whiz,” the 1961 hit for early Stax star Carla Thomas. Moman then asked Bell to cut a solo record. The unlikely B-side, “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” which Bell assumed was a rough cut, became one of his most enduring songs, covered by dozens of artists from Otis Redding to Brian Eno. “There was definitely an energy about the entire place, from the clerical workers to the musicians,” he says. “There was a friendly atmosphere. We knew we were having fun, we knew we were doing something we enjoyed and creating songs people loved, but we didn’t know we’d have the longevity we had.”

“You Don’t Miss Your Water” first went No. 1 in New Orleans, where promoter Percy Stovall booked Bell on a tour through Mississippi and Louisiana. He played gigs alongside Chris Kenner, Robert Parker and Ernie K-Doe, among others.

“We were always up and down the highway — even before I-55 came along,” Bell says. “But there’s a common denominator in that Delta area for all of us, from the cotton fields, to the churches, the blues from Memphis, the jazz from New Orleans. It all blended together … We go way back down there. That’s like a second home to me … Any time I get hungry I go to New Orleans. They always want to feed you.”

Bell returns to New Orleans for his first appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with a 10-piece band, horn section, backup singers, and “the whole enchilada,” he says, performing a repertoire of hits and songs from his acclaimed recent album.

“With writing, I’ve gotten much, much older,” Bell says, laughing.

“I always write about love situations. I was thinking, ‘Well, when you get older it’s not that hot and heavy passionate thing. But it’s still a solid love thing. You’ve got more experience.’”

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WHILE IN NEW ORLEANS filming the horror-comedy The Final Girls, Alia Shawkat stumbled into a band she later would join onstage.

“I was sitting in bed, then I was like, ‘No, I’m gonna keep going out,’” she says. “I got dressed and went out by myself to Frenchmen Street.”

After meeting drummer Josh Marotta at d.b.a., Shawkat met the rest of the Swamp Donkeys — Frenchmen Street staples who perform a traditional New Orleans jazz repertoire — at Buffa’s. Shawkat mentioned she could sing, and the band asked her to join.

“They were like, ‘If you can sing, sing!’” she says. “They asked me to go on tour with them, we recorded a record, and then we were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could perform at Jazz Fest?’”

The band released a five-song EP, A Fine Romance, highlighting the breezy, natural chemistry between Shawkat and vocalist and trumpeter James Williams, summoning Louis Armstrong with a tender, full-throated voice.

“We have a good repartee — zingers, if you will,” she says. “His voice is so strong, obviously. He’s so confident. My style and my voice just work nicely with it. …

I’ve learned so much from playing with them that it feels like a conversation more than singing, which is the best sort of duo. You feel like they’re really talking. He’s really funny, too, so our jokes and the way we talk back and forth through songs becomes a bit.

They’re like characters, and we play different characters onstage — which I’m more comfortable with as an actor. It kind of helps to feel like I’m slipping into it — slip into the dress, have a whiskey, and I’m ready.”

Shawkat stars as Maeby Funke in Arrested Development and Dory Sief in the acclaimed dark comedy series Search Party, which begin filming new seasons this year. This

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“I had this family history that really called back to me when I got here,” Shawkat says. “At a young age I understood the concept of the handful of (music) standards, and everyone has their own versions of them. Then start breaking it down — it’s always the same thing, just with a different rhythm or different interpretation. It’s not that tricky once you know it.”

Shawkat joins the band — Williams, Marotta, Joseph Faison, Jonathan Gross, Miles Lyons and Ricardo Pascal — for one of its biggest gigs yet at this year’s Jazz Fest. “We’re technically rehearsing right now,” she says.

“We got mimosas and we’re sitting on a porch, but we’re rehearsing.”

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following her decade-long run with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, started 2017 with two Grammy nominations. She wasn’t expecting them.

Giddens’ Factory Girl received a nomination for best folk album and one for best Americana roots performance for the EP’s title song.

A fiddler, banjo player and vocalist, Giddens recorded Factory Girl with producer T Bone Burnett during the same sessions that yielded her solo album debut, 2015’s Tomorrow Is My Turn.

“It’s an EP, so I wasn’t paying any attention to the Grammys,” Giddens recalls. “It was a lovely surprise.”

Audiences who’ve seen Giddens in concert probably weren’t surprised. When she applies her operatic alto and dramatic presence to folk songs, blues, country classics and the traditional black string-band repertoire in which the Carolina Chocolate Drops specialized, Giddens electrifies.

In addition to touring with the Chocolate Drops and her own band, Giddens’ career is marked by appearances at high-profile special events. In 2015, she performed for the nationally televised The Gospel Tradition: In Performance at the White House and Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America. In September 2013, her knockout turn at the Another Place, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall led to her first solo album.

Giddens impressed producer Burnett, curator for Another Place, Another Time, a concert celebrating music from Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers film set during the early 1960s folk music scene.

“It was clear the first time I heard her at rehearsal that Rhiannon is next in a long line of singers that includes Marian Anderson, Ethel Waters, Rosetta Tharpe, Odetta, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone,” Burnett said later. “We need that

person in our culture.

She is, in fact, that person in our culture.”

Burnett is a 13-time Grammy winner who has produced projects for Elton John, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, the duo Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.

“T Bone brought so much,” Gidden says of her sessions with him. “His encyclopedic Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell co-proknowledge of American duced her new album Freedom Highway. roots music, his energy, his team of crack musicians and engineers — the list goes on. I chose dio, which has seen so much unfathmost of the songs, but from there it omable history, I thought, ‘We’ve was T Bone’s show.”

Giddens’ collaboration with Burgot to do this,’ ” she says. “The place nett informed her new solo album, is a part of the recording.”

Freedom Highway.

History and the ongoing tension “T Bone showed me a lovely way surrounding race in America inof working with people, of creating spired much of Freedom Highway. the atmosphere, choosing the right “The more I learn about this people and letting the magic hapbeautiful, complex, tragic country, pen,” she says. the more I want to say about it,” Giddens chose Breaux Bridge Giddens says. “I want to be a conmulti-instrumentalist Dirk Powell duit for voices that have not gotten as a co-producer for Freedom enough ‘airplay’ in the first 500 Highway. Giddens and Powell peryears of the Americas.” form together as a duo, and Yet Freedom Highway has lighter he’s a member of her touring band moments, too. A riff by the virtuoso this summer.

Creole accordionist and zydeco “Dirk and I go toe-to-toe in a pioneer Amede Ardoin inspired the fearless way,” Giddens says. “It’s happy dance number, “Hey Bebe.” not competitive. Both of us want “I am a beginner in it,” Giddens the song to win, no matter what. says.

“But I love, love, love Creole And the songs at the heart of this and Cajun music.” album, the slave narrative songs, are close to me. I wanted to work on them with someone who was right there with me in the thinking of them, who I could trust them with 100 percent.”

They recorded Freedom Highway at Powell’s studio in Breaux Bridge, in cypress-walled rooms built before the Civil War. “When Dirk told me about his stu-

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is similarly economical. Still, when she strums her cello on original songs such as “Heart of Gold,” her hands have a way of quietly weaving around the strings as if she’s conjuring musical ghosts from an unidentifiable time and place.

She emerges from a busy year of touring in support of her second critically acclaimed album, A Day for the Hunter, A Day For the Prey.

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2:05 P.M.-3:10 P.M. Lake Street Dive GENTILLY STAGE On 2016’s sunny, retro pop-fueled Side Pony, Lake Street Dive returned to the same strong formula it used on 2014’s Bad Self Portraits. Both albums feature playful, hooky melodies. Both showcase the conservatory-trained band’s skill at delivering casually complex arrangements where a sly use of a processor or a knotty harmony deepens rather than distracts from the overall sound. Vocalist Rachael Price takes center stage with her deep, round and almost unnervingly athletic alto and evocative phrasing.

The lineup includes bassist Bridget Kearney, drummer Mike Calabrese and Mike Olson on trumpet and guitar, and all members share writing and arranging duties. In April, Kearney released her debut solo album, Won’t Let You Down.

2:20 P.M.-3:20 P.M. Leyla McCalla LAGNIAPPE STAGE If it’s possible for a region to be someone’s soul mate, there’s a good chance that’s what Louisiana has become for Leyla McCalla. The self-described “singing cello lady from NOLA via Haiti and Brooklyn” shares a symbiotic relationship with her adopted home, where French Quarter buskers, traditional jazz bands and Cajun string players have embraced her connections to Caribbean Francophone culture.

A veteran of the Grammy Awardwinning Caroline Chocolate Drops, McCalla sings and plays cello in a spare, undecorated fashion that fits seamlessly into Cajun country’s string tradition. Her voice, whether singing in English, French or Creole,

Jason Marsalis WWOZ JAZZ TENT Though he started his career as a drummer, Marsalis has used some of his seemingly boundless energy to focus on vibes and a wide array of mallet instruments. His recent 21st Century Trad Band album includes a return to the “Discipline” theme he’s recorded in the past. Different versions have featured Marsalis solo on marimba, glock, tubular bells, xylophone and vibes, although you get the sense he would play drums simultaneously, if he had a few more arms. Other tunes on the album position Marsalis, along with bassist Jasen Weaver and guitarist Cliff Hines, as modern pioneers of ideas drawn from the foundations of traditional New Orleans jazz. His 2016 album Heirs of the Crescent City casts a wider net on New Orleans music history as a source of inspiration.

3 P.M.-4 P.M. Tim Laughlin ECONOMY HALL TENT On his 17th birthday, Tim Laughlin sneaked into Pete Fountain’s club in the Hilton New Orleans Riverside and asked if he could meet the clarinetist. They chatted after the show.

The still-underage Laughlin returned regularly to sit in a chair on the landing outside the club and listen.

Eventually, Fountain and Laughlin graduated from mentor and student to collaborators to friends. In 2016, Laughlin and his dulcet clarinet led mourners out of Fountain’s funeral service playing “A Closer Walk With Thee.” Though he’s become one of the city’s most respected interpreters of traditional New Orleans jazz clarinet, Laughlin’s tone still bears the marks of his early mentor.

“Every note (Fountain) played had a smile on it,” Laughlin said in an interview last year. “When he played, you felt good inside.” Laughlin’s music swings whether he’s playing New Orleans standards or original compositions, making him a standout on the city’s traditional jazz scene.

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LAGNIAPPE STAGE Flexibility and an appreciation for communal life are required for those who wish to see America via hitchhiked rides and hopped trains. That explains a lot about the music The Deslondes have made since the group recorded with its former traveling buddy, Alynda Lee Segarra, aka Hurray for the Riff Raff.

In the course of one performance, the 9th Ward-based five-piece band is likely to shift from countrified honkey-tonk to an ageless and heart-rending folk spiritual with lilting fiddles, to something like the small-town image-stuffed “Muddy Water” off its forthcoming album, Hurry Home. The band’s range can be credited to the group’s opensource teamwork. Lead voices shift, as do songwriting approaches, between Sam Doores, Riley Downing and Cameron Snyder.

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fan favorite “Impossible Germany.”

The band returned later that year to christen the newly reopened Orpheum Theater as the first rock band to hit its stage after the theater’s extensive renovations. It was an appropriate rebirth for Jeff Tweedy and his slippery shapeshifters, who had returned that year with the wildly irreverent Star Wars, followed by 2016’s Schmilco, the band’s 10th album and one of its most straightforward releases yet. Back at Jazz Fest for a re-do, the band has plenty of time to mine its extensive alt-country and rock ’n’ roll catalog and dig into its latest wave of eccentric pop.

5:55 P.M.-6:45 P.M. Seguenon Kone and Ivoire Spectacle JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE For the past decade, drummer, dancer and percussionist Seguenon Kone has provided New Orleans’ music and dance scenes with a contemporary link to the city’s West African cultural heritage.

During Kone’s high-energy performances, he usually leads a large drum-and-dance band, whose members merge their roles as musicians and movement-based artists. He’s also well-versed in New Orleans jazz, modern Afrobeat and more traditional music from his first home on the Ivory Coast.

6 P.M.-7 P.M. Nathan and the Zydeco ChaChas FAIS DO-DO STAGE This elder statesman of zydeco accordion has said he got his start at his brother’s legendary dance hall, El Sid O’s Zydeco and Blues Club in Lafayette. A Clifton Chenier devotee, Nathan Williams’ rubboard, drums, keys, guitar and bass-stocked band gets shot through with jolts of Texas blues and Western swing without compromising a lick of soul. While Williams’ son, Nathan Williams Jr., has gradually worked his way to the forefront of a younger, more hip-hop-driven style of R&B with his band, the Zydeco Big Timers, the senior Williams keeps his feet planted firmly in the traditional style.

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song “Quick.” A Tiny Desk concert followed, giving a national audience a taste of the group’s mix of new R&B, Southern-style storytelling, poetry and performance art.

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Though the band did not tour outside the country for years, it became post-revolutionary Cuba’s best-known band. Formell died in 2014 and his son, drummer and composer Samuel Formell, now leads the band. Over the years, the group incorporated a number of nontraditional elements including synthesizers and electric pianos, blending the traditional with the contemporary, including pop, rock and jazz, to create its “songo” rhythm, though the band is known as a timba or salsa group. The lineup has featured several female lead vocalists over time, including Yeni Valdes and Juan Formell’s daughter, Vanessa.

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In 1989, Changui de Guantanamo was invited to the Smithsonian Institution, where it recorded five songs for the Center for Folklife.

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Tank & the Bangas | 2:15 p.m., Gentilly Stage conga, cajon, timbale and drums. He also is an accomplished singer, and since leaving Cuba for Manhattan in the late 1990s, he’s worked with musicians from Bruce Springsteen to Wynton Marsalis. Roman Diaz is Martinez’s godfather and mentor in the folkloric music of their Cuban homeland. Diaz is skilled with West African Yoruban drumming and rumba, a dance-oriented genre with roots in Cuba. This group focuses on Afro-Cuban musical traditions.

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1:45 P.M.-2:40 P.M. & 3:10 P.M.-4:05 P.M. Adonis y Osain del Monte CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION Virtuosic drumming, rhythmic patterns that swoop into unexpected twists and turns and extreme riffs on rumba and Cuban pop all play into the crew of dancers and musicians Adonis Panter Calderon formed as Adonis y Osain del Monte in 2013. An expert in his country’s rich cultural history, Calderon’s credits include assistant directing the recent documentary, The Black Roots of Salsa: The

Emancipation of Cuban Rumba and leading the group Yoruba Andabo, which focuses on the early Cuban interpretation of the West African music slaves brought to Havana.

2:05 P.M.-3:10 P.M. Big Freedia CONGO SQUARE STAGE With the publication of a memoir and the sixth season of her reality TV show airing in September on FUSE TV, Big Freedia is a nationally recognized name. Last year, she contributed to Beyonce’s “Formation” on the album Lemonade.

But at her core, Freedia remains an ambassador for bounce, the New Orleans musical tradition characterized by fast-paced call and response, repetition and hardcore dance. Freedia’s second full-length album is slated for release in 2017.

2:15 P.M.-3:15 P.M. Tank & the Bangas GENTILLY STAGE Neo-R&B band Tank & the Bangas solidified as a group in 2011, formed organically around lead singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball. In February 2017, the group won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest with a video for the

4:15 P.M.-5:20 P.M. Original Pinettes Brass Band JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE Snare drummer Christie Jourdain leads this all-female brass band, which infuses the traditional New Orleans brass band style with elements from rhythm ’n’ blues, funk, gospel and rap. The band won a Red Bull contest in 2013, which enabled it to work with a host of new artists, including producer Mannie Fresh.

In 2016, the Pinettes headlined a sold-out show alongside No Limit star Mia X at Preservation Hall.

4:50 P.M.-7 P.M. Stevie Wonder ACURA STAGE In a legendary career, Stevie Wonder has sold more than 100 million records, produced dozens of top hits, collected 25 Grammy Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fames. President Barack Obama presented him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. The longtime Motown artist’s hits include “Superstition,” “Sir Duke,” “My Cherie Amour,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” and “Uptight.” He returns to Jazz Fest after his 2016 appearance was canceled due to heavy rain.

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5:45 P.M.-6:55 P.M. Meghan Trainor GENTILLY STAGE Nantucket, Massachusetts-born singer Meghan Trainor began recording, producing and putting out her own albums as a teenager.

She was recognized with a number of songwriting awards at an early age, including Best Female Artist at the 2009 International Acoustic Music Awards and the Grand Prize at the 2010 New Orleans Songwriting Festival. In 2014 Trainor signed with Epic and soon become a pop star while incorporating 1950s and ’60s pop sounds.

Her 2015 album, Title, featured the hits “All About That Bass” and “Lips Are Movin.” Her 2016 album Thank You featured the hit “No.”

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Payton

AT THE END OF THE LINER NOTES

for his new album, Afro-Caribbean Mixtape, Nicholas Payton writes, “In Black culture, there is no beginning or ending, so feel free to let the tape run again, and again, and again.”

That view of time is one of the ideas he explores on the album, examining how songs and rhythms traveled from Africa to the Caribbean to New Orleans, where they were disseminated — largely by Louis Armstrong — to the world.

It’s a narrative that highlights “the strong will of the African peoples,” Payton writes. It also represents a circular, rather than linear movement, through time and space.

Payton debuted his group, Afro-Caribbean Mixtape, at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, one day after recording the foundation for the album at a rehearsal with drummer Joe Dyson, bassist Vicente Archer, keyboardist Kevin Hays and percussionist Daniel Sadownick. In the months that followed, Payton reorganized the best parts, added samples (mostly by DJ Lady Fin-

gaz) and added music, including strings and vocals. He also wrote an explanation of what he placed on the album and why.

“It’s a true mixtape in that I’m making a pastiche of unrelated materials and bringing to light their connections,” he says.

“An album is just a snapshot in time. (As it evolves) things open up because there’s already a reference. You can let go more. There’s trust in what you’re doing.”

Afro-Caribbean Mixtape ties together various directions Payton has gone recently as an artist and critical thinker. He’s best known as a trumpeter, but he’s played multiple instruments since childhood, when his father, bassist Walter Payton, brought the youngster to his shows at New Orleans clubs.

These days, Nicholas usually sets up at the keyboard, which he often plays simultaneously with the trumpet.

Payton’s writing has become increasingly central to his music, particularly in elucidating issues about the effects systemic racism and colonization have on music

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and culture. These issues surface in the new recording, which samples the voices of musicians and intellectuals Payton says “corroborate and confirm the narrative I wanted to showcase.”

The album opens with the hiss and click of a tape machine.

“When I mixed and sequenced and assembled the album, I had it recorded to tape then bounced back to digital [to get] that real tape hiss,” he says.

From there, a drum pattern kicks off the title track, followed by a bass motif and the sound of splashing water. The splashes give way to muffled waves, created by the panned combination of Payton’s Rhodes keyboard in one channel and keyboardist Kevin Hays’ Rhodes keyboard in the other. The wave effect ties the music to movement and is repeated throughout the album.

New Orleans surfaces in the title track, too, in the form of a vocal refrain Payton’s father taught him.

The voice of Greg Kimathi Carr, chairman of Howard University’s Department of Afro American Studies, appears for the first of many times.

As Payton traces the music’s journey across continents and time, Carr’s voice addresses the systemic racism that developed alongside that music’s voyage and the resilience of African and black people in the face of that oppression.

In America, we’re taught black people began their history here as slaves, Payton says. “No. We were enslaved. How we got through that was by looking beyond the physical world to ancestors and the spiritual world. Music is our ability to connect with these things. It touches us in intangible, spiritual ways that cannot be explained.”

Payton says music has been central to movements for racial justice and equality throughout history.

“These things I’m highlighting on the album have been the case forever,” he says. “The fact that they still resonate speaks to how present the history still is.”

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11:20 A.M.-12:20 P.M. New Orleans Classic R&B Revue GENTILLY STAGE This revue features some enduring icons of New Orleans’s golden era of R&B. In 1956, when Chicago’s Chess Records ushered Clarence “Frogman” Henry into Cosimo Matassa’s studio to record what would become his smash debut, “Ain’t Got No Home” — highlighted by his voice ranging from falsetto to the frog ribbits that inspired his nickname. Al “Carnival Time” Johnson is forever linked to his Carnival anthem, which he recorded in 1960 at Matassa’s studio.

Robert Parker joins them, and his performance is likely to include his

BLUES TENT At 28 years old, Baton Rouge-born Jonathan “Boogie” Long is a blues legend in the making. Long picked up the guitar at age 6 and left home at age 14 to tour in local legend Henry Turner Jr.’s band. He’s since shared the stage with everyone from B.B. King to Warren Haynes, and the Allman Brothers/Gov’t Mule guitar-shredder is clearly a big influence on him. Long has powerhouse vocals and draws sinister licks and wails from his custom Gibson ES355 guitar. A Jazz Fest favorite since his 2013 debut, Long arrives with his Blues Revolution trio (featuring bassist Chris Roberts and drummer Jay Carnegie) on the heels of signing a national distribution deal with Louisiana Red Hot Records for his self-titled debut album and 2016’s Trying to Get There. His original songs, such as “Call the Preacher,” pack all the old-school blues power of his deft cover choices, such as Robert Johnson’s “32 20 Blues.”

12:50 P.M.-1:55 P.M. Luke Winslow-King LAGNIAPPE STAGE The 34-year-old Luke Winslow-King is known for his intricate guitar play (on electric and acoustic slide), smooth vocal delivery and compelling lyricism. The Michigan native cut his first record in his adopted hometown of New Orleans in 2008 (Old/New Baby, mostly cut live at Preservation Hall) but his breakout arrived in 2013 with The

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2:20 P.M.-3:20 P.M. Adonis y Osain del Monte BLUES TENT Virtuosic drumming, rhythmic patterns that swoop into unexpected twists and turns and extreme riffs on rumba and Cuban pop all play into the crew of dancers and musicians Adonis Panter Calderon formed as Adonis y Osain del Monte in 2013. An expert in his country’s rich cultural history, Calderon’s credits include assistant directing the recent documentary, The Black Roots of Salsa: The Emancipation of Cuban Rumba and leading the group Yoruba Andabo, which focuses on the early Cuban interpretation of the West African music slaves brought to Havana 500 years ago.

The group recently performed for the Rolling Stones at a private concert.

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LAGNIAPPE STAGE New Orleans native Sarah Quintana is an accomplished visual artist and yogi who cut her teeth musically in Frenchmen Street nightclubs with The Moonshiners before venturing into a solo career focusing on her jazzy brand of folk music. Inspired by the wonders she finds in the physical and spiritual world around her, Quintana’s praised second album, 2015’s Miss River, found her along South Louisiana bayous using fishing poles and hydro-mics to record with noted producer Mark Bingham. Her exploration of water as kinetic sound produced tracks such as “New Life” and “In the Devil’s Country,” which showcase Quintana’s delicate acoustic guitar and angelic upper-octave vocals along with Rex Gregory’s haunting saxophone and bass clarinet. Last year, Quintana and Keith Porteous cut an album of religious music, Sound Refuge.

2:40 P.M.-3:40 P.M. Jamison Ross ZATARAIN’S / WWOZ JAZZ TENT Here’s a chance to see a heavy-hitting hired gun lead his own band.

Drummer Jamison Ross was born in Jacksonville, Florida and came to the Crescent City to earn a Master of Music degree from the University of New Orleans. In 2012, he won the prestigious Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition and since has established himself as a hot commodity in both local nightclubs and nationally in collaboration with some of the genre’s greats. Ross is currently working on a follow-up to his Grammy-nominated 2015 debut album, Jamison.

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3:35 P.M.-5:05 P.M. Kings of Leon ACURA STAGE The Kings of Leon became rock stars not long after the Followill brothers — Jared, Nathan and Matthew — started the band with cousin Caleb Followill in 1999. The band emerged out of Nashville, far removed from the brothers’ rigid Pentecostal upbringing in rural Oklahoma and Tennessee. The group’s infectious punk edge meshed with Southern soul — plus Caleb’s good looks and come-hither crooning — made them critics’ darlings and teen heartthrobs. The band has managed to avoid success’ pitfalls and has produced a succession of successful albums, and 2016’s WALLS features the band firing on all cylinders of high-octane, unabashed rock and roll.

3:55 P.M.-4:55 P.M. The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas GOSPEL TENT Irma Thomas is best known for hits including “It’s Raining,” “Ruler of My Heart” and “Time is on My Side,” and in recent years, the “Soul Queen of New Orleans” has devoted her rich, soothing voice to the gospel canon in tributes to Mahalia Jackson and featured performances in the Gospel Tent.

4:15 P.M.-5:35 P.M. Dawes FAIS DO-DO STAGE Dawes is a Los Angeles-based Americana folk/rock hybrid that shreds hard while thinking deep.

Dawes has been a draw on the summer-festival circuit since its 2009 debut, and audiences seem to appreciate its deliberate, expert compositions. The band’s latest album is last fall’s We’re All Gonna Die, a sprawling, multi-textured sonic landscape that represents its most ambitious work to date.

5:30 P.M.-7 P.M. The Meters GENTILLY STAGE Meters reunions are becoming an almost annual event. This fearsome foursome — Art Neville (keys), George Porter Jr. (bass), Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (drums) and Leo Nocentelli (guitar) — pioneered New Orleans funk music in the 1960s and served as backing band for city’s R&B greats (Lee Dorsey, Dr. John) in the studio.

The Meters unleashed a string of anthemic deep grooves on songs from “Cissy Strut” to “Just Kissed My Baby.”

5:35 P.M.-6:55 P.M. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue ACURA STAGE Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is the product of a distinguished 6th Ward musical lineage, who at just over 30 years old has stayed true to his roots while pushing the city’s musical mix of jazz, funk and rock forward to global acclaim.

Andrews also established a nonprofit music academy at Tulane University and penned a children’s book.

He signed to Blue Note Records and on April 28 released Parking Lot Symphony, which includes an infectious mix of originals and a remixed take “Here Come the Girls,” written by Allen Toussaint and originally recorded by Ernie K-Doe.

5:45 P.M.-7 P.M. Chucho Valdes Quintet WWOZ JAZZ TENT Will Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdes play “Border Free” as his native country’s music and culture is highlighted at Jazz Fest’s Cultural Exchange Pavilion? Valdes recorded the tune in 2013, yet another milestone in a legendary career that positions him as one of the most influential figures in contemporary Afro-Cuban music. For four decades, the pianist, composer and arranger has led the iconic Irakere ensemble, renowned for its high-energy, dance-friendly blend of jazz, rock, classical and Latin styles. Valdes marked 40 years of Irakere with his Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac, which won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album of 2016.

6 P.M.-7 P.M. New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars 25th Anniversary SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE The assembled players of a joyous, raucous blend of klezmer, the traditional music of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe, have lived up to their all-star name. Featuring Ben Ellman (sax, Galactic), Jonathan Freilich (guitar, Tin Men), Glenn Hartman (accordion, organ), Joe Cabral (bass, Iguanas) and Stanton Moore (drums, Galactic), the band is the soundtrack to the peak of Carnival frivolity with annual afternoon shows at d.b.a. on Fat Tuesday. To mark the group’s silver anniversary, the Klezmers are releasing a new album (under the name The Meyers) and will welcome a slew of special guests for this show, including Henry Butler, Skerik, “Mean” Willie Green and others.

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Changüí Guantánamo

1:30-2:30

Roman Diaz

featuring

The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project

12:10-1:10

Conga Los Hoyos

11:30-11:55

CULTURAL EXCHANGE PAVILION CELEBRATES CUBA

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Egg Yolk Jubilee

5:30-6:30

Carsie Blanton

4:20-5:10

Tom McDermott & Friends

3:05-4:00

Margie Perez

featuring

Muévelo

1:50-2:45

Dukes of Dixieland

12:40-1:30

COOT

11:30-12:20

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11:30

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds

5:25-6:55

The Revivalists

3:30-4:40

Sonny Landreth

1:55-3:05

Bonerama

Earth, Wind & Fire

5:25-6:55

PJ Morton

3:30-4:40

Adonis y Osain del Monte

2:05-3:05

Jason Marsalis

Boney James

5:40-6:55

The E-Collective

featuring

Terence Blanchard

Rhiannon Giddens

5:40-7:00

William Bell

4:10-5:10

Davell Crawford & One Foot in the Blues

featuring The Dixie Cups and Wanda Rouzan

New Orleans R&B Divas

1:20-2:25

2:45-3:45

4:10-5:15

Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs

11:20-12:10

PEOPLES HEALTH ECONOMY HALL TENT

Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans

5:55-6:45

Alia Shawkat and James Williams with the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys

4:25-5:35

Tim Laughlin

3:00-4:00

Wendell Brunious & the New Orleans Allstars

1:45-2:40

Ragtime Orchestra

Alvin 12:30-1:25 Youngblood Hart’s Lars Edegran Muscle & the New Theory Orleans

12:10-1:00

11:10-11:55 Major Handy and the Louisiana Blues Band

BLUES TENT

2:45-3:45

Germaine Bazzle

1:35-2:25

The Ron Holloway Band

12:25-1:15

University of New Orleans Jazz All Stars

11:20-12:05

ZATARAIN’S/ WWOZ JAZZ TENT

Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas

6:00-7:00

Margo Price

4:15-5:35

Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

2:50-3:45

G.G. Shinn, T.K. Hulin & Tommy McLain

featuring

Gregg Martinz & the Delta Kings’ Swamp Pop Revue

1:20-2:30

Feufollet

12:10-12:55

Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole

11:10-11:55

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Seguenon Kone

featuring

Ivoire Spectacle

5:55-6:45

Changüí Guantánamo

4:45-5:35

Herbert McCarver & The Pin Stripe Brass Band

3:25-4:25

Mardi Gras Indians

79rs Gang

2:20-3:05

Mariachi Jalisco US

1:15-2:00

Mardi Gras Indians

White Cloud Hunters

12:15-12:55

High Steppers Brass Band

11:15-noon

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Dillard University’s VisionQuest Gospel Choir

6:05-6:45

Pastor Jai Reed

5:10-5:55

Paul Porter

3:55-4:55

Tonia Scott & The Annointed Voices

2:50-3:35

Mount Hermon Baptist Church Praise Delegation Choir

1:55-2:40

The Bester Gospel Singers and The Dynamic Smooth Family Gospel Singers

1:00-1:45

12:05-12:50 Shades of Praise: New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir

Zulu Ensemble

11:15-11:55

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Wilco

5:20-7:00

Anders Osborne

3:35-4:35

Lake Street Dive

2:05-3:10

Tyler Kinchen & The Right Pieces

Sweet Crude

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12:35-1:35

Motel Radio

Naughty Professor

11:25-12:15 CoolNasty

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11:20-12:10

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Adonis y Osain del Monte

4:30-5:30

Conga Los Hoyos

4:00-4:20

Roman Diaz

featuring

The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Progect

2:55-3:50

Changüí Guantánamo

1:35-2:35

Roman Diaz

featuring

The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Progect

12:15-1:15

Conga Los Hoyos

11:30-11:55

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King James & The Special Men

5:20-6:30

The Deslondes

3:45-4:55

Leyla McCalla

2:20-3:20

The New Orleans Guitar Masters with Cranston Clements, John Rankin & Jimmy Robinson

12:55-1:55

Sweet Cecilia

11:30-12:30

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Stevie Wonder

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Dumpstaphunk

Ivan Neville’s

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12:15-1:15

Tonya BoydCannon

11:15-11:55

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11:30

Snoop Dogg

5:50-6:50

DJ Raj Smoove

5:15-5:35

Los Van Van

3:45-5:05

Big Freedia

2:05-3:10

The Soul Rebels

12:30-1:40

Lisa Amos

11:15-12:05

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

SF JAZZ Collective Plays the Music of Miles Davis feat. David Sánchez, Miguel Zenón, Sean Jones, Robin Eubanks, Warren Wolf, Edward SImon, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire

5:40-7:00

Kenny Barron Trio

4:05-5:10

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The New Orleans Groove Masters

2:45-3:40

Leah Chase

1:30-2:20

Jeremy Davenport

12:20-1:10

Gregory Agid Quartet

11:10-11:55

11:15-noon

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

5:40-7:00

Henry Butler’s Jambalaya Band

4:00-5:00

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Tribute to Buckwheat Zydeco

2:35-3:35

John Mooney & Bluesiana

1:20-2:10

Glen David Andrews Band

12:15-1:00

J. Monque’D Blues Band with Lil’ Creole Wild West

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Debbie Davis & the Mesmerizers

5:35-6:30

Cynthia Sayer & Her Joyride Quartet

4:05-5:15

Thais Clark

Dr. Michael White & The Original Liberty Jazz Band

2:45-3:45

Andrew Hall’s Society Brass Band

1:35-2:25

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

12:25-1:15

Topsy Chapman & Solid Harmony

11:15-12:05

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Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters

5:55-7:00

The Lone Bellow

4:15-5:30

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

2:45-3:45

El Septeto Santiaguero with Jose Alberto

1:35-2:25

Savoy Family Cajun Band

12:25-1:15

Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys

11:15-12:05

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Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. & The Wild Magnolias

5:45-6:45

Original Pinettes Brass Band

4:15-5:20

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The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project

3:00-3:55

Kinfolk Brass Band

1:40-2:35

Panorama Jazz Band

12:20-1:20

Fi Yi Yi & the Mandingo Warriors

11:20-noon

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

First Emanuel Baptist Church Mass Choir

6:05-6:45

New Orleans Gospel Soul Children

5:10-5:55

Richard Smallwood & Vision

3:55-4:55

Jermaine Landrum & The Abundant Praise Revival

2:50-3:35

Archdiocese of New Orleans Gospel Choir

1:55-2:40

Kim Che’re

1:00-1:45

Arthur and Friends Community Choir

12:05-12:50

The Wimberly Family Gospel Singers

11:15-11:55

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Meghan Trainor

5:45-6:55

Royal Teeth

3:45-5:00

Tank & the Bangas

2:15-3:15

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys

12:45-1:50

Maggie Koerner

11:20-12:20

GENTILLY STAGE

El Septeto Santiaguero

4:30-5:30

Adonis y Osain del Monte

3:10-4:05

Conga Los Hoyos

2:45-3:05

Adonis y Osain del Monte

1:45-2:40

The Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project featuring Roman Diaz

12:30-1:25

Changüí Guantánamo

11:20-12:10

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Judith Owen and Krewe de Jude

5:15-6:30

The Batture Boys

3:40-4:50

Willie Sugarcapps

2:20-3:20

Miss Sophie Lee & the Parish Suites

12:55-1:55

Grupo Sensación NOLA

11:30-12:30

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Stooges Brass Band

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5:35-6:55

Kings of Leon

3:35-5:05

Galactic

1:45-2:50

Cowboy Mouth

12:30-1:20

11:20-12:20

11:20-12:05

Frankie Beverly

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Maze

5:30-7:00

DJ Captain Charles

5:00-5:20

Patti LaBelle

3:40-4:55

Tucka

2:00-3:00

Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters

12:35-1:35

Erica Falls

11:20-12:10

CONGO SQUARE STAGE

Chucho Valdés Quintet

5:45-7:00

Nicholas Payton & AfroCaribbean Mixtape

4:05-5:15

Jamison Ross

2:40-3:40

Ellis Marsalis

1:30-2:20

Khari Allen Lee & the New Creative Collective

12:20-1:10

Blues Traveler

5:35-7:00

Tab Benoit

3:45-4:55

Adonis y Osain del Monte

2:20-3:20

Deak Harp

1:10-1:55

Jonathon “Boogie” Long

12:05-12:50

Daymé Arocena

11:15-11:45

11:15-noon Robin Barnes New Orleans’ Songbird

BLUES TENT

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George French & the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band

5:40-6:35

Kermit Ruffins’ Tribute to Louis Armstrong

4:20-5:20

Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders

3:00-4:00

Gregg Stafford & His Young Tuxedo Brass Band

1:45-2:40

Orange Kellin’s New Orleans DeLuxe Orchestra

12:30-1:25

Seva Venet’s New Orleans Banjo

11:15-12:05

PEOPLES HEALTH ECONOMY HALL TENT

Henry Butler, Frank London, and more

with special guests

25th Anniversary

6:00-7:00 The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars

Dawes

4:15-5:35

Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars

2:40-3:45

Creole String Beans

1:25-2:20

Corey Ledet & His Zydeco Band

12:15-1:00

D.L. Menard

with special guest

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11:10-11:55

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Dr. Brice Miller & Mahogany Brass Band

5:45-6:45

AsheSon

4:25-5:25

Mardi Gras Indians

Hardhead Hunters

3:15-4:05

Bill Summers & Jazalsa

1:50-2:50

TBC Brass Band

12:30-1:30

Big Chief Juan & Jockimo’s Groove

11:20-12:10

JAZZ & HERITAGE STAGE

Franklin Avenue Music Ministry

6:05-6:45

Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers

5:10-5:55

The Gospel Soul of Irma Thomas

3:55-4:55

The Zion Harmonizers

2:50-3:35

Jonté Landrum and the Gentlemen

1:55-2:40

St. Joseph the Worker Music Ministry

1:00-1:45

The Electrifying Crown Seekers

12:05-12:50

The Rocks of Harmony

11:15-11:55

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The Meters

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Buddy Guy

3:30-4:45

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

1:55-3:00

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El Speteto Santiaguero

12:45-1:35

Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and Robert Parker with the Bobby Cure Band

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Adonis y Osain del Monte

4:30-5:30

El Septeto Santiaguero

3:10-4:10

Daymé Arocena

1:50-2:50

Changüí Guantánamo

12:40-1:30

Changüí Guantánamo

11:30-12:20

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3:50-4:55

Sarah Quintana & the Miss River Band

2:20-3:25

Luke WinslowKing

12:50-1:55

The Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music Band

11:30-12:25

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Stall tactics THE FOLKS BEHIND ST. ROCH MARKET (2381 St. Claude Ave., 504-

Sala serves seafood and Creole-Italian dishes in Lakeview

609-3813; www.strochmarket.com) will open Auction House Market (www.auctionhousemarket.com) at 801 Magazine St. in the Warehouse District by the end of the year. It will feature 10 food stalls and an event space.

The market will occupy the bottom floor of the warehouse building that previously housed New Orleans Auction Galleries. The building opened in 1895 and housed the Tinker Copper and Iron Works, and the owners say plans for the market’s design will honor the original concept.

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund SALA, A NEW RESTAURANT NEAR THE NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT, is

the latest venture from members of the Riccobono family, owners of the long-running Riccobono’s Peppermill, Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe and Cafe Navarre. Siblings Heather and Joe Riccobono opened Sala in December.

Located steps from the West End marinas, Sala seems designed with a younger generation in mind, and the restaurant’s decor has a modern, lounge-y feel. A long bar that snakes through the restaurant serves as the focal point.

Some appetizers fit an upscale-casual approach, but entrees seem to follow the family’s established Creole-Italian roots, and in the end, the most successful dishes are the ones carrying the Riccobono torch.

Fish and seafood figure prominently on the menu, including an Asian-style seared tuna dish, ceviche, fried calamari and oysters.

Soy- and sesame-seared ahi tuna showcases the pink, firm fish and has a salty, sweet glaze. The fish is fanned out in thin planks, topped with black sesame seeds and served alongside pickled carrots and crispy wonton chips. Plump fried oysters are covered with golden breadcrumbs and served atop a creamy sauce with a zesty kick of horseradish. It is topped with thin strips of pickled shallots and its bright flavors breathe life into a New Orleans standard.

Some of the appetizers’ portion sizes are puny for their price tag, as is the case with braised short ribs, where three small pieces run $14.

Though seasoned well, the ribs were tough on one visit, and an accompanying bright orange streak of

WHERE

124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 5132670; www. salanola.com

sugary sweet potato puree was an odd pairing.

The entree selection has a strong Creole-Italian undercurrent, which includes seafood-packed pasta fra diavola and chicken caprese with mozzarella and tomatoes over angel hair pasta. Two large, golden-fried drum fillets are served atop mashed potatoes with lemon butter sauce and toasted almonds.

Pane chicken linguine is straightforward comfort food perfect for Sunday supper. Thick noodles cooled al dente are draped in tomato cream sauce and topped with a breaded and fried chicken breast cutlet that has a crunchy exterior.

For dessert, fried zeppole arrive with a burned caramel-like exterior that gives way to a deliciously doughy interior. The doughnuts sit

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WHEN

HOW MUCH

dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun.

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expensive

WHAT WORKS

panne chicken linguine, fried drum amandine

Sala serves broiled redfish with asparagus, potatoes and beurre blanc.

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

in a slick of sugary, creamy frosting that’s as sweet as the glaze on a cinnamon roll but somehow more decadent.

The restaurant can get loud very fast and the acoustics often render the space more like an animated family dinner than a spot appropriate for a quiet rendezvous. Service is welcoming, casual and friendly. With a family with such a long track record in the restaurant business, this shouldn’t come as any surprise.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

WHAT DOESN’T

some appetizer portions are small

CHECK, PLEASE

the Riccobono family’s younger generation takes a modern approach with seafood and Creole-Italian fare

The market is a joint venture between the St. Roch Market owners and Felicity Property Co., which is redeveloping the building, said St. Roch Market owner Will Donaldson.

“Our customers have been asking us for a long time to expand into other areas of the city, and the timing felt right,” Donaldson said.

The project features roughly 8,500 square feet of space for the food hall and a 1,600 square-foot event space.

Donaldson says the market floor plan is similar to St. Roch’s size but includes additional kitchen space for back-of-house operations.

Like St. Roch Market, the concept will welcome up-and-coming food businesses to lease space and share a communal kitchen. Donaldson says the list of vendors is in the early stages, and those interested in applying can to do so on the company’s

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Diners can expect a coffee and pastry vendor, a salad bar and an oyster counter with a bar, among other vendors.

Donaldson says the separate event space might host art or produce markets and will be available for private events.

The market will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and until 11 p.m. on weekends.

— HELEN FREUND

Posh NOSH NOSH (752 Tchoupitoulas St., 504581-1103; www.noshneworleans. com), a restaurant and lounge from Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts (www.creolecuisine.com), opened April 27 in the Warehouse District.

NOSH, which stands for New Orleans Social House, replaces Tommy’s Wine Bar at the corner of

Julia and Tchoupitoulas streets. The restaurant and lounge will host live music every night.

Chef Michael Farrell, who helmed the kitchen at the now-shuttered Le Meritage, created the menu of small plates and snacks. It includes fingerling potato chips with shallot cream dip, charcuterie plates, shrimp spring rolls with charred tomato chili dip, bison sliders with cheddar and caramelized onions on brioche rolls and lobster tacos with avocado and corn salsa. A selection of flatbreads features a wild mushroom version topped with bacon, onions and Gorgonzola and one topped with pesto, marinated tomatoes, arugula and Parmesan. The raw seafood bar has Gulf oysters, salmon carpaccio, hamachi tiradito, ahi poke, ceviche and grilled octopus carpaccio.

The bar offers creative and classic cocktails, including a pecan Old Fashioned made with Buffalo Trace bourbon, bitters and cherry, and the Warehouse Cooler, combining Grey Goose Citron, sour mix, agave and berries.

NOSH is open from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 4 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. — HELEN FREUND

EAT+DRINK 3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Tunde Wey CHEF DILLARD UNIVERSITY’S RAY CHARLES PROGRAM IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE

hosts “Invisible Chefs,” a free panel discussion at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 3 at Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market about why New Orleans has relatively few prominent black chefs. The panel features several local chefs including Nigerian chef Tunde Wey, who helped organize the event. Wey spoke with Gambit about the event.

You led a similar event in Detroit earlier this year.

Why New Orleans?

WEY: The idea of doing something that looks at black chefs in New Orleans is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while. … I think the idea of invisibility is not a reflection of the presence and the contributions of black chefs, but rather, it’s the lack of recognition for the work that these black folks and black chefs do. It’s simple: It’s a product of structural racism. It’s the same reason women aren’t represented in politics or executive boardrooms. In that, it’s a gender bias, and here it’s a racial bias. It’s especially egregious in New Orleans because of the centrality of the contributions of black folks and African influences in the cooking.

It’s not just the human (element) in the restaurant business but the actual cuisine that is celebrated that is heavily influenced by black folks and black cooking traditions. New Orleans is arguably the greatest food city in America.

New Orleans is probably one of the only food cities that has an entire cuisine unique to itself.

What factors contribute to structural racism in restaurant culture?

W: There are a couple different things. The media is one. The media tends to follow stories that it knows. If you’re a reporter and you want to write a story, you do the story about people and things that you feel familiar and comfortable with. The media machine — with the publicity folks — is all about access. A lot of black folks don’t have access to publicists.

The second thing is obviously access to capital. Every single opportunity where access could be made is thwarted. You can’t get a loan if you don’t have col-

lateral. You don’t have collateral if you don’t have access to wealth.

Black folks in New Orleans and throughout the country have been systematically denied wealth and the opportunity to build wealth.

And restaurants are notoriously difficult businesses. So the challenge of trying to start a business is compounded by being discriminated against or by being overlooked for loans. There are also non-traditional sources of capital.

The individual or the personal network that other folks have access to in regards to raising money and financing — the safety net — that allows them to open a restaurant.

A lot of black folks don’t have that.

The third thing is the customer perception. There are black restaurateurs and chefs operating across the spectrum, but it’s bottom heavy. So the less formal institutional food establishments feature a lot of black cooks. As you move along the spectrum and there is more access to higher revenue (and) more opportunities to be recognized nationally … black folks are few and far between.

Customers have a role to play too. They can decide to frequent businesses that are black-owned and black-run and not as a form of charity, as a recognition that the food that is served in New Orleans is inherently black, it’s African.

How can black chefs become more visible and less marginalized?

W: The industry needs to acknowledge the work that black people and cooks are already doing and acknowledge the history that they bring. Opening up access to capital, reducing the barriers to entry … having (media) coverage that is diverse, that is inclusive and that is representative of the people that have influence in New Orleans cuisine. — HELEN FREUND

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Tchoupitoulas St.; www. portorleansbrewingco.com) has filled all of the brewery’s fermenters, and the taproom’s soft opening is May 9. The taproom kitchen also opens May 9 and features a beer-focused menu created by chef Phillip Mariano (formerly of Domenica and Josephine Estelle) and Jeremy Wolgamott (formerly of High Hat Cafe). There will be a grand opening event later in May. Head brewer Brian Allen will offer three beers to start: Riverfront Lager, Storyville IPA and Slackwater Brown Ale. • The Freret Beer Room (5018 Freret St., 504-298-7468; www. freretbeerroom.com) has added lunch and brunch service. Brunch is served Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the menu will change seasonally.

The first brunch menu includes a chicken biscuit, boudin Benedict, and grillades and grits. During brunch, select beers are half price, and bloody marys, mimosas and screwdrivers cost $5.

Freret Beer Room’s lunch menu is the same as the dinner menu, and service is offered beginning at 11:30 a.m. through dinner on Mondays and Wednesdays through

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Fridays. The restaurant serves French Truck coffee and offers free Wi-Fi. • Two upcoming beer and home-brew festivals have been announced. The sixth annual Larry Hartzog’s Twisted Beer Fest (www.mellowbrewfest.com/registration) is June 24 and has moved indoors at the Castine Center in Mandeville’s Pelican Park. Tickets are $30 and all proceeds support the St. Tammany Humane Society.

The second Nottoway Beer Fest: Toast Under the Oaks (www. nottowaybeerfest.com) beer festival and home-brewing competition is July 8. The event is on the grounds of Nottoway Plantation and Resort in White Castle. Festival proceeds benefit the Gateway Transition Center, which supports people with autism.

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2014 Finca La Florencia Malbec Mendoza, Argentina Retail $18

In the late 1800s, Celestino Cassone and his family migrated from Italy’s Piedmont region to Argentina’s Mendoza region, where they built a small winery. The Cassones built a modern winery in the 1950s in Mendoza’s Lujan de Cuyo subregion. Most of the family’s vineyards are 90 years old and sit more than 3,100 feet above sea level. Cold, westerly winds from the Andes Mountains tame the sunny, hot days, and the cooling effect slows ripening and extends the growing season.

Mendoza’s rocky, sandy, free-draining soils help produce small, concentrated fruit. For this wine, hand-harvested malbec grapes were vinified in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks for 25 days. The wine aged six months in used French and American oak barrels. In the glass, the wine offers aromas of ripe plum, spice and oak.

On the palate, taste ripe red berry fruit, currants, some black cherry and a hint of tobacco. Open the wine 20 minutes before serving. Drink it with steak, burgers, osso buco, stews, grilled sausages and hearty dishes. Buy it at: Second Vine Wine. Drink it at: DTB, Mr. John’s Steakhouse and Dick & Jenny’s.

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Eatmoor in Broadmoor 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660 www.myhousenola.com The food truck roundup features Old School Eats, Diva Dawg, Burgers Ya Heard, Petite Rouge and Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls.

MAY 5

Cinco de Mayo 4 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 427-0654 www.casaborrega.com Casa Borrega holds a block party with music by DJ Sin Promesas and Fredy Omar con su Banda. There are food and drink specials. Free admission.

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Cinco de Mayo 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday El Paso Mexican Grill, 601 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 218-4590; 1100 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 445-1450 www.elpasomex.com The Cinco de Mayo celebrations include pinatas, face painting, live music, DJs and more. The Metairie location offers tastings of Patron, Sauza, Corona and Modelo beginning at 4 p.m.

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DTB 8201 Oak St., (504) 518-6889 www.dtbnola.com Crawfish fry bread features crawfish tails and green chili fonduta and is served with pickled okra chow-chow.

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Katie’s 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582 www.katiesinmidcity.com A calzonelike bread dome is filled with crawfish tails, jalapenos, onions and cheddar and mozzarella cheeses and topped with jalapeno aioli.

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 St., Metairie, (504) 833-6310 www.mredsrestaurants.com French bread is topped with thick crawfish gravy, melted cheese and green onions.

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NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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

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.

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. $$

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. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Little Korea BBQ — 2240 Magazine St., (504) 821-5006; www.littlekoreabbq. flavorplate.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon. & Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Mon. 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. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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. $ Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-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. $ 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. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Green to Go — 400 Poydras St., Suite 130; 2633 Napoleon Ave.; (504) 460-3160; www.greentogonola.com — No reservationas. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. 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. $

Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

CAJUN 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

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

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. $$$

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. $$

CONTEMPORARY 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

Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; 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.williemaesPAGE 57

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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. $$

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Bagels & Bytes — 1001 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 831-7968; www.bagelsandbytes.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.-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. $$

Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — No reservations.

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. $$$

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

INDIAN 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. $$$ Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www.bombayclubneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com —

Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended.

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

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Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 5985005; www.kingfishneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ 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 Jerusalem Cafe — 2132 Tulane Ave., (504) 509-7729; www.facebook.com/ cafehei — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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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 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. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 59

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

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. 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. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. 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) 484-0841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

PIZZA G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — No reservations.

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

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

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

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. $

Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. 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. $

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

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS

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

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Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reserva-

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TUESDAY 2 Blue Nile — DRKWAV, 10:30; Bitches Bloom, midnight Blue Nile Balcony Room — Too Many Zooz, 10:30 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Will Dickerson Band, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Naomi Louise Warne (Johnny Mandel tribute), 8 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Ruby & the Rogues, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — John Fohl, Johnny Sansone, Anders Osborne, Cris Jacobs, 8 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 2; The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 5; Treme Brass Band, 10; Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 11; Will Bernard’s Blue Plate feat. John Medeski, Eric Kalb, Victor Little, 2 a.m.

Gasa Gasa — Twin Peaks, Chrome Pony, Post Animal, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Iceman Special, 7:30 House of Blues — Gojira, Kyng, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — Earth, Wind & Power feat. The Nth Power, The All Brothers Band, Oteil & Kofi Burbridge, Neil & Alan Evans, 10 Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre — Marcia Ball, 9 Lee Circle — GiveNOLA Fest feat. Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Irma Thomas, Rebirth Brass Band, 4:30 Louisiana Music Factory — Sam Price & the True Believers, noon; Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 1; Mia Borders, 2; Lynn Drury, 3; Erica Falls, 4; Ken Swartz & the Palace of Sin, 5; Anders Osborne, 6 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Marigny Studios — Bakery Records Revue feat. Julie Odell, Toonces, Anna Pardenik, The Salt Wives, Up Up We Go, Maggie Belle Band, 4 Mudlark Public Theatre — Isenordal, Barghest, Witch Burial, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Overlake, Rudy Stoney, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Dragon Smoke feat.

Stanton Moore, Ivan Neville, Eric Lindell, Robert Mercurio, 8:30; The Whip! feat.

Brian J, Mike Dillon, Eric Bolivar, Corey Henry, 1 a.m.

Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Siberia — Mike Dillon Band, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, Lyrical Cock, 9 SideBar — James Singleton’s Strings of Pink Orpheus, 8:30 Smoothie King Center — Neil Diamond, 8 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Donald Harrison & Congo Nation, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, noon; Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya

Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

WEDNESDAY 3 21st Amendment — Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 8 Bamboula’s — Dave Hammer Trio, noon; Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat. Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Bar Redux — Matt Babineaux & the TBDs, 9 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8:30; Ivan Neville’s Piano Session, 9; New Breed Brass Band, 10; The Main Squeeze, midnight Blue Nile Balcony Room — New Breed Brass Band, 10 BMC — Set Up Kings, 5; Sierra Leone, 8; Jazmarae, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Charles Neville Quintet feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, The New England Nevilles, 8 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Voodoo Wagon, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Roosevelt Collier & Friends, 11 Circle Bar — Plantain, 9:30 d.b.a. — Soul Brass Band, 4; The Iguanas, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10; Bayou Gypsys, 2 a.m.

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 — Twin Peaks, Chrome Pony, Post Animal, 9 House of Blues — Loyola Music Industry Showcase, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf — Megalomaniacs Ball feat. The Mike Dillon Band, Dean Ween, JP Gaster, Norwood Fisher, Robert Walter, The Stanton Moore Trio, 8 Joy Theater — New Orleans Heavyhitters Drum Championship feat. Zigaboo Modaliste, 4 Lafayette Square — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, Marcia Ball, 5 Louisiana Music Factory — Harmonouche, noon; Jon Cleary, 1; Rayo Brothers, 2; Ernie Vincent, 3; Tom McDermott & Chloe Feoranzo, 4; Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 5; Little Freddie King, 6 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Noah Young Band, 10; Johnny Vidacovich, George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, June Yamagishi, 11 Marigny Studios — Bakery Records Revue feat. Keisha Slaughter, Shane Sayers, Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, Duke Aeroplane & the Filthy Trumps, Gar-

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The New Pornographers with Waxahatchee

SEVERAL BRAVE SOULS have dared to share microphones with Neko Case over her storied career, but none so often — and with so much fanfare — as Allan Carl “A.C.” Newman. (We’ll • May 3 give k.d. lang time.) The primary New • 8 p.m. Wednesday Pornographer has held his own, too, despite being the third most distinc• Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., tive voice in his own band. (Dan Bejar, (504) 895-8477; whose rationed cuts are really just Destroyer songs that wandered onstage, www.tipitinas.com is on hiatus due to scheduling conflicts PHOTO

BY JENNY JIMENEZ with that band.) The first three New Porno LPs redefined power pop for the 21st century, culminating in the sweeping assault of 2005’s Twin Cinema, on which Newman and Case volley melodies like Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. After two humdrum releases, the group regained super status on 2014’s Brill Bruisers, showing off a new-wave drive and an electronic sheen that owes a spiritual debt to “Your Control,” a 2008 Case-backed powerhouse by Eric Bachmann’s Crooked Fingers — likely her finest duet outside Newman’s familial circle. (Again, give k.d. lang time.) Without Bejar’s scenery chewing, the new Whiteout Conditions (self-released on their own Collected Works imprint) confirms the pair’s limelight return, most tracks fusing their voices into one harmonic roundhouse kick: “Play Money” allows Case 90 spotlit seconds to herself before Newman joins in the swooning, synth-frosted fun. The title track flips the script with equal success, Newman’s buoyant verses leading into Case’s anchoring chorus. Advance single “High Ticket Attractions,” meanwhile, is a most-welcome Mass Romantic flashback, another love-love staredown between two of the best in the game. Waxahatchee (aka Alabamian outsider Katie Crutchfield), whose forthcoming July album Out in the Storm (Merge) looms like a cracked cocoon, opens.

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den Marbles, The Tumbling Wheels, 4

Tipitina’s — The New Pornographers, Waxahatchee, 8

One Eyed Jacks — Daze Between Band feat. Eric Krasno, Oteil Burbridge, Danny Louis, Scott Metzger, Duane Trucks, 11

THURSDAY 4

Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10

21st Amendment — G & the Swinging Three, 5:30

Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole String Beans, Amanda Shaw, 8

Ashe Cultural Arts Center — Cuba to Congo Square Throwdown feat. David D Omni ZF, Bamboula 2000, Alexey Marti, 6

Saenger Theatre — The Pixies, 8 The Sandbar at UNO — Donald Harrison, 7 Siberia — Chelsea Lovitt & the Boys, Carmen’s Electra, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Piano a Trois feat. Marcia Ball, Tom McDermott, Joe Krown, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

Bamboula’s — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, noon; Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 2; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 Banks Street Bar — Dave Jordan & the NIA, 9 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJs Mange and Sea Wolff, 9 Bar Redux — Dreaming Dingo, 8 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8

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the Zydeco Cha-Chas, 8 Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center — Tank & the Bangas, Mia Borders, 10 Siberia — Bo Dollis Jr. & the Wild Magnolias, Mikey B3 Band, 9 SideBar — Simon Berz & Dave Easley, 8:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Davell Crawford Organ Combo, 9 & 11 The Spotted Cat Music Club — David Rogan, noon; Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — JJ Grey & Mofro, Lawrence, 9 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 5 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 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl, 8:30 Bar Redux — YOGOMAN, Bongo Jac, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Kermit Ruffins, 10:30; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 1 a.m.

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Ike Stubblefield Trio feat. Grant Green Jr., Alvin Ford Jr., 10:30; Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, midnight BMC — Phyr Phly, 3; HollyRock, 5; Mignano, 8; One Mind Brass Band, 11; Soul Project, 1 a.m.

Cafe Istanbul — Axial Tilt (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Mia Borders Band, 10 Carver Theater — Mystikal, PartnersN-Crime, DJ Jubilee, TBC Brass Band, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Kenny Claiborne, 7; Dirty Mouth, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show, 8; Eric “Benny” Bloom & the Melodies, Brian Thomas & Alex Lee Clark’s Funk Big Band, 11 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; The Iguanas, 10 The Civic Theatre — Hurray for the Riff Raff, Layla McCalla, Ron Gallo, 8 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 6; Soul Rebels, 10; Naughty Professor & Friends feat. Chali 2na, Nate Werth, 2 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 5; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Gasa Gasa — San Fermin, Andy Shauf, Julia Jacklin, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, 9 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — The Funky Knuckles, 6 House of Blues (The Parish) — The Nth Power, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Bayou Rendezvous, 9 Joy Theater — Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 10; The New Mastersounds, 2 a.m.

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MUSIC Greenberg, 7 Mahogany Jazz Hall — Spider Murphy, 6 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7; Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 10; Worship My Organ feat. Marco Benevento, John Medeski, Robert Walter, Skerik, Daru Jones, DJ Logic, 2 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — James Brown Birthday Tribute, 11; Lil Baby Jesus Peasant Party, 3 a.m.

Marigny Opera House — Nolatet, 8:30 One Eyed Jacks — Kamasi Wasington, 8 & 1 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Kevin Louis, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Poor Boys — Heavy Lids, Nag, Rubber Mate, Rim Job, Enoch Marone, 8 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 7, 8 & 9; Midnight Preserves feat. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, midnight Prime Example Jazz Club — Joe Krown Trio feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Russell Batiste Jr., 10 & midnight Rock ’n’ Bowl — John “Papa” Gros Band, Eric Lindell, Honey Island Swamp Band Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center — The Main Squeeze, Too Many Zooz, 10 Siberia — Givers, Feufollet, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 9 & 11 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, noon; Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — The Funky Meters, 7 Come 11, 9; DJs Quickie Mart and J Boogie, midnight Twist of Lime — The Reality, Them Old Ghosts, The Wicked Son, 10

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SATURDAY 6 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 11 a.m.; G & the Swinging Three, 1; Johnny Mastro, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 11:30 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Bureau of Sabotage feat. Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Franca, John Kadlecik, Aron Magner, 10:30; Marco Benevento, 1 a.m.

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, 10:30; Pedrito Martinez’s Rumba Project, Weedie Braimah & the Hands of Time, midnight BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Maid of Orleans, 11; Groovement, 1 a.m.

Cafe Istanbul — Axial Tilt (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Cafe Negril — Carolyn Broussard, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7; Higher Heights, 10 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — Debauche, 10 Champions Square — Future, 7 Check Point Charlie — Blue Garon, 4; Woodenhead, 7; The Ubaka Brothers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Willie Sugarcapps, 8; Jimbo Mathus’ Southern Soul Revue feat.

Robert Finley, The Overstuffed Po-Boys, 11 Circle Bar — Dash Rip Rock, 10 The Civic Theatre — Lake Street Dive, Sweet Crude, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Dirty Dozen Brass Band, 10; New Orleans Klezmer

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Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Toubab Krewe, 10:30; Bayou International Reggae Night feat. Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11; Sputacular’s Funk Party, 1 a.m.

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Stooges Brass Band, 1 a.m.

BMC — Mike Darby & House of Sheiks, 5; Groovement, 8; Hyperphlyy, 11; Claude Bryant & the All-Stars, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Istanbul — Gatorators, 10 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — John Mooney & the Bluesiana Band, 10 Check Point Charlie — Keith Stone Band, 7; J Monque’D Blues Band, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun, 8; South Memphis String Band feat. Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, Louis Michot, Corey Ledet, 11; Louis Michot & Corey Ledet’s Triangle Club, 12:30 a.m.

Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & the Naughty Sweethearts, 7; Helen Gillet, 10 The Civic Theatre — Medeski Martin & Wood, Nels Cline, 9 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 4; Jon Cleary, 8; Sweet Crude, 11; Cedric Burnside Project, 2 a.m.

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Geovane Santos Quartet, 6; Loose Willis, Trevarri, Noruz, 9 Gasa Gasa — Stoop Kids, Stoplight Observations, Organized Crime, 10 Hey! Cafe — Behavior, The World Is a Vampire, 8 Hi-Ho Lounge — Rosalia, McKenna Alicia, Long Neck Culture, 9 House of Blues — Shorty Fest feat. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, The Seratones, New Breed Brass Band, 8 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Buku Broux, 6 Howlin’ Wolf — Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — The Joe Marcinek Band feat. Jason Hann, Terrence Higgins, Shaun Martin, Noah Young, 9 Joy Theater — Ragefest feat. Marco Benevento, DJ Soul Sister, Rashawn Ross, 10 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Fiyapowa 2017 feat. Leo Nocentelli, Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore Trio, Tony Hall, Big Sam, Skerik, Roosevelt Collier, Maurice Brown, 2 a.m.

Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Vidacovich, Marco Benevento, Oteil Burbridge, 8; Johnny Vidacovich, Sonny Landreth, Oteil Burbridge, 11; Nthfectious, 3 a.m.

Music Box Village — Mike Dillon’s New Orleans Punk Rock Percussion Consortium, 7 Old Point Bar — Extended Recess Band, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Kamasi Wasington, 8 & 1 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Butch Thompson & Clive Wilson, New Orleans Serenaders, 8 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — John Michael Quintet (album release), 8 & 10 Rare Form — Vic Shepherd, 6; Junko Beat, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Gena Delafose, Nathan &

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SUNDAY 7 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Bar Mon Cher — Fools Gold String Band, 6 Bar Redux — +Aziz, Ryan Gregory Floyd, T’Lark, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Funky but Better feat. Big Sam, Doug Wimbish, Roosevelt Collier, Maurice Brown, Ike Stubblefield, 10 BMC — Bayou Wind, 3; Ruth Marie’s Jazz After Dark, 7; The Reality, 10 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Shinyribs, 9; MidCity Midnight Matinee feat. James Singleton, Annie Ellicott, Brian Haas, Mike Dillon, Aurora Nealand, midnight Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; The Skyliners feat. Eric

MUSIC Lindell, Anson Funderbergh, 10 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Ike Stubblefield Organ Trio feat. Nicholas Cassarino, Alvin Ford Jr., 7; Stanton Moore Trio, 10; Stanton Moore & Friends feat.

Donald Harrison Jr., Robert Walter, Robert Mercurio, Will Bernard, 1 a.m.

Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Anuraag Pendyal, Dignity Reve, 7 Gasa Gasa — Soul Brass Band, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — AZZFEST, 10 House of Blues (The Parish) — HeartByrne (Talking Heads tribute), 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Michael Jackson vs. Stevie Wonder feat. Eric “Benny” Bloom, DJ Williams, Adam Deitch, Will Blades, Nigel Hall, MonoNeon, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Zigaboo Modaliste & the Funk Revue, Organ Freeman, 9; Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Joy Theater — Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 10 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Green Is Beautiful feat.

Eddie Roberts, Skerik, Alan Evans (Grant Green tribute), 11; Marco Benevento, 3 a.m.

Old Point Bar — Jean Marie Harris, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Khruangbin, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Mark Braud, Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Jonathan “Boogie” Long, 8 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Henry Butler Quartet, 9 & 11 Southport Hall — It Lies Within, 7 Tipitina’s — Dumpstaphunk, Naughty Professor, DJ Soul Sister, 9

MONDAY 8 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10; Nth Power, 10:30 Check Point Charlie — Chris Monteverde, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — JAWG feat. Joe Cabral, Alex McMurray, Wally Ingram, Glenn Hartman, Frank London, 7; Ed Volker’s Quintet Narcosis, 9 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7; The Geraniums, 9 d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 10 Louisiana Music Factory — Paul Sanchez & the Rolling Road Show feat. Royal Fingerbowl, noon; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 1:30; John “Papa” Gros, 3; Eric Lindell, 4:30; Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 6 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Saturn Bar — King James & the Special Men, 10 Siberia — The Obsessed, Karma to Burn, Lo-Pan, Mountain of Wizard, 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street AllStars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10

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Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Mighty Brother, Katie Kuffel, 5; McKenna Alicia, 7; Kompression feat. Christian Martin, Jason Greer, 10 Gasa Gasa — Motel Radio, The Artisanals, 10 House of Blues — Greensky Bluegrass, 9; Soulive, The Shady Horns, 2 a.m.

House of Blues (The Parish) — Cowboy Mouth, Airpack, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Anders Osborne & Friends, The Pimps of Joytime, New Orleans Suspects, 9:30 Joy Theater — Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 10; The New Mastersounds, 2 a.m.

The Maison — Rebirth Brass Band, 10 a.m.; Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, 11 Music Box Village — Dub Down Babylon feat. Dustan Louque, Nels Cline, 7 Old Point Bar — Texas Pete, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Kamasi Wasington, 8 & 1 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Poor Boys — Trampoline Team, UV TV, Brothers, Giorgio Murderer Group, 8 Prime Example Jazz Club — The Nicholas Payton Trio, 8 & 10 Republic New Orleans — Big Freedia, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Eric Lindell, Dave Watson, Flow Tribe, 8 Saenger Theatre — New Orleans Is Waiting for Columbus feat. Warren Haynes, Don Was, Jamey Johnson, Dave Malone, John Medeski, Terence Higgins (Little Feat tribute), 9 Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center — Colin Lake Band, 10 Siberia — Kyle Huval & the Dixie Club Ramblers, Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rodailleurs, DJ Lord Indulgence, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — The Bad Plus feat. Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson, Dave King, 9 & 11 Southport Hall — Eve to Adam, Blacklight District, 8; Marc Stone (Layla tribute), 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, noon; Antoine Diel & Arsene Delay (A2D2), 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; David Rogan, 10 Tipitina’s — North Mississippi AllStars, The Deslondes, 9; The Greyboy All-Stars, 2 a.m.

Twist of Lime — American Vyral, The Bald Dog Project, 9 Slug, One Last Chance, 10

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Loyola Student Film Festival — Student films are screened at the free festival. 1 p.m. Thursday. Loyola University New Orleans, Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium Sync Up Cinema — NOVAC and the Jazz & Heritage host the annual contemporary film festival, which includes panel discussions with filmmakers. Visit www. novacvideo.org for details. Tuesday.

George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center (1225 N. Rampart St.)

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Graduation

WHAT CONSTITUTES “REALISTIC” • Opens May 5 IN THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF TODAY? Gritty crime stories often • Chalmette Movies, 8700 Judge are described as realistic, but so Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 304are indie dramas that capture the 9992; www.chalmettemovies.com rhythms of speech and the subtleties of behavior. Realism always has PHOTO COURTESY IFC been a moving target. What passed muster in the early days of Hollywood looks utterly artificial today.

Celebrated Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) has developed his own narrowly focused ideas about bringing realism to the big screen. The writer-director’s current methods include using a stationary camera to film long scenes as a single shot without edits or soundtrack music, two elements that typically serve as cornerstones for filmmakers building traditional cinematic experiences.

But Mungiu’s Graduation (for which he won a Best Director award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival) is anything but traditional. The story of a well-intentioned doctor who suddenly finds himself willing to do anything to help his daughter earn a scholarship and escape the entrenched corruption of modern-day Romania, Graduation explores the traumatic effects of compromising deeply held beliefs and the dangers of becoming what you have always opposed.

Mungiu’s spare methods can be exhausting over the film’s two-hour-plus running time but are ideally suited to building the anxiety and dread at the core of this story. In a clear mark of success, you’ll be too immersed in the characters’ harrowing predicaments to think much about the film’s underlying techniques.

Estranged from his wife and currently stringing along a younger mistress, 49-year-old physician Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) has managed to raise high-achieving daughter Eliza (Maria-Victoria Dragus), who has been offered a scholarship to Cambridge University — the only possible escape from the limited opportunities, poverty and crime of her native land. Eliza is assaulted in daylight on the eve of an exam on which her scholarship depends, leaving her too traumatized to perform up to her full potential. But Romeo may have the connections to leave nothing to chance as regards Eliza’s life-altering test scores.

Graduation builds slowly as it accumulates the details of daily life needed to illuminate the community’s tightly woven web of deceit. Favors are exchanged and rules quietly broken in a place where nothing is sacred and everything is for sale. “This is the world we live in,” Romeo tells his daughter. “And sometimes we have to fight using their weapons.” But there’s no way out of that world once one makes that choice — there are too many people empowered by their knowledge of others’ complicity.

A strange immediacy results from scenes carefully choreographed to work when shot mostly from an unchanging perspective. The technique necessarily recalls documentary films, along with the experience of seeing a play, but it generates its own vibe. Natural performances are especially crucial in this setting, if only because there are fewer outside elements available to tell the story. Mungiu encourages his talented cast to speak in unusually soft voices that are more expressive and less stagy than the alternative, which further heightens the intimacy of his film.

Though specific to Romania, the small-scale corruption portrayed in Mungiu’s film is meant to reflect the harsh realities of daily life all over the world. It’s easy to think of corruption as the province of the wealthy and powerful, but the truth is more complicated and troubling. Graduation aims to show how any remedy has to start at home — though being among the first to change surely carries a heavy price. — KEN KORMAN

All These Sleepless Nights — Two art school classmates explore Warsaw’s techno scene. Zeitgeist Frantz — After World War I, a grieving German woman meets a mysterious Frenchman. In French with English subtitles. Broad Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (PG-13) — Tribune Media Company’s fatigued synopsis: “Based on the comic book.”

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place God Knows Where I Am — The documentary uses an unsettling death as an entry point to a discussion of mental illness. Zeitgeist Graduation — In the Romanian film, a doctor tampers with the system to ensure his daughter’s success. Chalmette The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki — The offbeat biopic shot in 16mm black-and-white profiles Finnish boxer Olli Maki. Broad

NOW SHOWING Baahubali 2: The Conclusion — A warrior’s son learns the truth about his heritage. In Telugu with English subtitles.

Elmwood Beauty and the Beast (PG) — Hermione, I mean Emma Watson, falls in love with a furry Frankenstein. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Belko Experiment (R) — For those who felt blood spatter was missing from Office Space. Chalmette Born in China (G) — The nature documentary features pandas and the ever-endangered snow leopard. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Boss Baby (PG) — If you’ve ever wanted to see Alec Baldwin play a talking baby with a dark secret, this is your chance. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Case for Christ (PG) — A wayward journalist tries to disprove the existence of the Heavenly Father. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary — With thoughts from Cornel West, Denzel Washington, Bill Clinton and others. Broad The Circle (PG-13) — Based on Dave Eggers’ 2013 tech-dystopia thriller. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Colossal (R) — A woman adrift (Anne Hathaway) discovers her connection to a rampaging monster. Elmwood, West Bank, Broad PAGE 68

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The Fate of the Furious (PG-13) — The narratively Sisyphean Fast and Furious franchise rolls on. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Free Fire (R) — Two guys try to buy guns from a gang in a deserted warehouse. What could go wrong? Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Canal Place Get Out (R) — In this race-relations horror movie, it’s what’s inside that counts. Elmwood, West Bank, Prytania, Canal Place Gifted (PG-13) — A child-prodigy tearjerker with beefcake-come-lately Chris Evans.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Going in Style (PG-13) — Grandpas (Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin) try to pull the heist of a lifetime — in time to catch the early-bird special. Clearview, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place How to Be a Latin Lover (PG-13) — A man plots the seduction of a widowed billionaire. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner Kong: Skull Island (PG-13) — Cinema’s greatest ape gets a new origin story. Elmwood, Slidell, Regal Life (R) — The latest in the fine tradition of spaceship-set creature features, plus Jake Gyllenhaal. West Bank Logan (R) — The last of the Wolverine films (starring Hugh Jackman, anyway).

West Bank The Lost City of Z (PG-13) — In the Amazon, a turn-of-the-20th-century explorer becomes obsessed with a secretive society. Elmwood, West Bank, Broad Personal Shopper (R) — Following the death of her twin brother, a woman tries to reconnect with him in Paris.

Broad, Prytania Phoenix Forgotten (PG-13) — The Blair Witch Project with aliens, apparently.

Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Promise (PG-13) — A love triangle unfolds as the Ottoman Empire crumbles.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Saban’s Power Rangers (PG-13) — The Polyphonic Spree of the martial arts world battles aliens. West Bank, Kenner Sleight (R) — Probably the only movie about a drug-dealing street magician.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG) — Smurfette finally gets some girlfriends in this franchise reboot. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell

T2 Trainspotting (R) — The sequel to the ’90s classic, when heroin was still chic. Broad Their Finest (R) — An attraction grows between two people working on a World War II-era propaganda film. Elmwood, Canal Place Tiny Giants 3-D — Cute things fend for themselves in the wild. Entergy Giant Screen Unforgettable (R) — Katherine Heigl plays against type as a jilted, obsessive ex-wife.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Zookeeper’s Wife (PG-13) — Zookeepers learn to #resist in World War II-era Poland. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal

SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Amazing Nina Simone — Jeff L. Lieberman profiles the legendary singer and activist. 9 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Canal Place I Am Heath Ledger — A documentary profiles the actor’s abbreviated life.

7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Regal I Called Him Morgan — The movie details the aftermath of jazz musician Lee Morgan’s murder. 9 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Zeitgeist The Invisible Man — Not a film based on the early-woke novel, but a 1933 movie about an invisibility potion. 10 a.m.

Wednesday. Prytania Jazz Fest Legends: From Fess to Fats — Archival footage from the first Jazz Fest is presented in a new documentary

by Joe Lauro. 2 p.m. Wednesday. Ace Hotel, 3 Keys JONAH: ON STAGE! — Man meets leviathan in this staged Biblical retelling. 7 p.m.

Tuesday. Elmwood, Regal Saturday Night Fever (R) — From the days when even the Travoltiest men wore heels. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal Shadow of a Doubt (PG) — Many call this noir thriller Hitchcock’s best. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania The Transfiguration — Emo teens explore vampirism. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist

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HAPPENINGS Art Brunch. Hall-Barnett Gallery, 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — The gallery offers muffins and mimosas. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.

Jammin’ on Julia. New Orleans Arts District, Galleries on Julia and Camp streets and St. Charles Avenue — Julia Street art galleries host an annual summer art walk with live music, openings and food and drinks for purchase. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Arrow Cafe. 628 N. Rampart St., (504) 410-5647; www.facebook.com/arrowcafenola — “1000 Words,” new work by Jason Kerzinski; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Neapolitan: Comic Book Diplomacy, Go Cups and Water Bottle Buoys,” new work by Christopher Saucedo; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Intentional Landscapes,” new work by Edward Burtynsky; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Arts Council of New Orleans. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465 — “Deep South by Suroeste: Better Must Come,” group exhibition curated by Fari Nzinga; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “It Was Such a Beautiful Promise,” new work by Sibylle Peretti; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Weathered Walls,” new work by Jean Geraci; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Creason’s Fine Art. 831 Chartres St., (504) 304-4392; www.creasonsfineart. com — “Figures II: Jazz Portraits on Strings,” marionettes by Harry Mayronne; opening reception 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.

George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “Zulu Series,” paintings by John Isiah Walton; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Assembling Thomas Mann,” new works by the metal artist and jewelry designer; “Ghosts of Good Times,” new work by Philip Gould; opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 5297277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Exhibition of irises, lilies and flower gardens sculpted in glass; opening reception 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “At the Threshold,” works on paper

by Regina Scully and Iva Gueorguieva; opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

GALLERIES A Gallery for Fine Photography.

241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Richard Sexton: Louisiana,” photography retrospective, through July 1.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — New work by New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts faculty, through Saturday.

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Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape — Inner Journeys

WHERE DOES ART ORIGINATE? Art schools teach techniques, theories, trends and history, but most of the artworks that survive the test of time have something mysterious or • Through Oct. 8 ineffable about them that can’t be taught in school. Such art transcends • New Orleans Museum of Art, time and space — where did the Mona Lisa’s elusively beatific smirk I Collins C. Diboll Circle, come from and why does it affect City Park, (504) 658-4100; us? Closer to home, there always has been something inexplicably Japawww.noma.org nese about Regina Scully’s complexly lyrical abstract paintings, yet the University of New Orleans graduate never studied Japanese art and has no explanation for their Asian tone. The recent acquisition of several of her canvases by the New Orleans Museum of Art inspired further interest in the parallels between her work and the museum’s stellar collection of 18th- and 19th-century Japanese paintings and drawings, and the result is this unusual side-by-side expo.

Traditional Western art tried to be descriptive and was only incidentally inexpressible. Japanese artists traditionally tried to convey forces of nature that transcend the written word, but many ended up being merely descriptive. Scully only began studying Japanese art last year, but the dreamy, calligraphic, floating qualities that even her older canvases share with these Edo-period works are seen in paintings like Passage, 2012 (detail, pictured) with its floating, rhapsodic hints of aerial views of cities at the mercy of elemental forces. In Cosmographia, 2015, hints of forests, mountains, water spouts, flowers and clouds seem to dance across the canvas, in contrast to the dense clustering seen in Navigation 7, 2010, where crowded city streets seem to have become animated as if by an earthquake, or something supernatural. In Mindscape 5, 2017, colorful natural and man-made forms appear to levitate and spin in a swirling vortex, yet as violent as a verbal description of that composition might sound, its visual effect is quite buoyant, almost as lyrical as Takaku Agai’s serene, Edo-period Summer Landscape, 1836. Both artists’ works evoke the indescribable, but Scully’s composition resonates a more jazzy backbeat. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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com — Mixed-media work by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Toxicite Radieuse,” liquid ink on glass slides and canvas by Manon Bellet, through Sunday.

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

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Ex Libris,” mixed-media collage with hand drawing by Michael Pajon; “Consequences of Being,” woodcut prints about stereotypes and exoticism by Katrina Andry; both through May 27.

M. Francis Gallery. 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans.

433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www.martinlawrence.com — “Kostabi: Contemporary Master,” Mark Kostabi retrospective, through May. 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 — “According to the Sky,” paintings by Sharon Lee Hart, ongoing.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

M.S. Rau Antiques. 630 Royal St., (504) 523-5660; www.rauantiques.com — “The Georgian Collection,” British works from the era of King George, through Oct. 16.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “In Quest,” paintings by Kim Zabbia, mixed-media works by MaPo Kinnord, sculpture by Babette Beaulieu, through Sunday.

Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery. 535 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-5271; www.old77hotel.com — “(Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Set One,” group show about music and culture curated

by DJ Soul Sister; “The Gospel According to New Orleans,” series by Cheryl Anne Grace; both through May 20. Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

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

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

ShiNola Gallery. 1813 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 223-5732; www.facebook. com/shinolagallery — Exhibition 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) 892-

8650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “I Should Have Called Her Virga,” atmospheric paintings by Inga Clough Falterman, through May 20.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “One of One,” monoprints by Bingham Barnes, through Sunday.

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

Where Y’Art Gallery. 1901 Royal St., (504) 325-5672; www.whereyart.net — “(Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Set Two,” group exhibition about music and culture curated by DJ Soul Sister, through May 20.

SPARE SPACES The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283; www.building1427.com — Work by New Orleans artists Daniel Jupiter, Mark Lacabe and Martin Payton, ongoing.

Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City).

3133 Ponce de Leon St., (504) 913-9073; www.fairgrinds.com — “Fair Grounds at Fair Grinds,” horse racing photographs by Olivia Greene, through June 18.

German-American Cultural Center. 519 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna, (504) 3634202; www.gacc-nola.com — “Wynhoven: A Dutch Legacy Remembered,” photos

by Catholic priest Peter Wynhoven, through May. Tulane University. 6823 St Charles Ave., (504) 865-5000; www.tulane.edu — “The Personal Is Political: Portraits of Louisiana Second Wave Feminists,” photographs of people working for women’s rights since the 1970s, through May, and more.

Xavier University Library Resource Center. 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 520-7305; www. xula.edu/library — “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington,” traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit about the civil rights movement, through Friday.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen,” work by the Chilean artist about discarded things in the time 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 — “Storyville: Madams and Music,” photographs, maps, cards and objects from New Orleans’ one-time redlight district, through Dec. 2. “Giants of Jazz: Art Posters and Lithographs

by Waldemar Swierzy from the Daguillard Collection,” jazz portraits by the Polish poster artist, through Dec. 17. “The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter,” model of a 200-year-old French Quarter building and historic site, ongoing.

Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and display exploring

ART Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere.

751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts; “It’s Carnival Time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

Louisiana Supreme Court Museum.

Louisiana Supreme Court, 400 Royal St., (504) 310-2149; www.lasc.org — “Lawyers Without Rights: Jewish Lawyers in Germany Under the Third Reich,” traveling World War II exhibit, through May. New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Japanese Painting: Inner Journeys,” exhibition comparing contemporary artist Regina Scully’s work to Edo-period paintings, through Oct. 9. “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s,” Carnival, fashion and street life scenes from 18th-century Venice, through May 21, and more.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico,” work of five Puerto Rican artists, through July 9.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “A Place and Time Part II,” photographs of the American South from the permanent collection, through May 15. “Waltzing the Muse,” James Michalopoulos retrospective, through July 16. “Profligate Beauty,” work inspired by the American South from the museum’s permanent collection, through September.

CALL FOR ARTISTS Art Melt. Louisiana artists in all mediums may submit to the large juried art exhibition. Visit www.artmelt.org for details.

Court 13 Arts Residency Program.

On-site fall residencies for emerging or mid-career artists are available at the new Court 13 Arts facility. Visit www. court13arts.org for details.

Louisiana Contemporary. The Ogden Museum for Southern Art seeks work in all mediums from artists living and working in Louisiana for its annual “Louisiana Contemporary” exhibition. Visit www. ogdenmuseum.org for details.

No Dead Artists. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery seeks submissions for its annual contemporary art exhibition. Visit www. jonathanferraragallery.com for details.

Summer Break. NOCCA seeks submissions from its alumni and affiliates for a summer gallery show. Visit www.nocca. com for details.

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fiberglass and resin works by Tony Savoie, through May 26. Group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Flora, Fauna and Entrails,” group exhibition of works using fiber to explore nature themes, through Sunday. “Afro Brother Spaceman,” work and prints by New Orleans comic artists inspired by cartoonist John Slade, through May 28.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery. com — New work by Chris RobertsAntieau, ongoing.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 891-9080; www.antonart.com — Selected folk art by Mose Tolliver, Jim Sudduth, Howard Finster and more, ongoing.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “Ixtz’unun: Making Stories from Maya History,” new works by Melanie Forne, through Friday.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Conspiracies,” paintings, mixed-media and installation by Ruth Owens; “Surrounding Circumstances,” drawings, acrylic and latex works by Max Seckel; both through Saturday.

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

BEE Galleries. 319 Chartres St., (504) 587-7117; www.beegalleries.com — “HOMAGE,” new works by Mark Bercier, Joe Derr, Robin Daning and Martin LaBorde, through May. Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery.

4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing.

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “BXNY x NOLA,” street art by New Orleans and New York artists, through May. CANO Creative Space at Myrtle Banks Building. 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — New works by Keith Duncan, through July.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “From Light to Shadow,” works by Amanda S. Fenlon, Kristin Eckstein and Marcy Palmer, through May 27.

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

Flux. 2124 Magazine St. — “NolaFLUX,” new work by Olesya, photographs by Tommy Crow and sculpture by Garrett Haab, through May. 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 — “Material Witness,” group exhibition, through Sunday.

Gallery B. Fos. 3956 Magazine St., (504) 444-2967; www.beckyfos.com — Paintings by Becky Fos, ongoing.

Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres.

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Gutenberg!

The Musical

“WRITING A MUSICAL IS NOT EASY,” says Doug Simon (Gary Rucker), to which Bud Davenport (Sean Patterson) quips, “Hats off to you, Elton John!”

Gutenberg! The Musical!, produced by The Storyville Collective at The Theatre at St. Claude, is a play-within-a-play in which a couple of aspiring show creators present a sliver of an idea to would-be producers. The two engaging characters — Bud, who is writing the score, and Doug, who is developing the script — hope to convince investors to back their idea so they can produce it on Broadway. There are just a few problems with their plan. Their nonaction hero, Johannes Gutenberg, invented movable type, which does not lend itself to quick-witted dialogue and dramatic action.

Doug and Bud search the internet for information about him but find that details of his life are “scant.” So they make up a story, classifying it as “historical fiction” and set it to music performed by the amiable pianist, James Kelly.

“Gutenberg!” is a reading of a musical, with “no set, no costumes, only a few props, and no cast,” the two tell the audience. They are “singing all the songs, performing all the roles and giving you some help to understand the potential for what we’ve written.”

Undeterred by facts, Bud and Doug seize the concept of the 15th-century German inventor, whose printing press enabled mass production of the Bible and other books, which kicked off the Renaissance, Reformation and Age of Enlightenment.

Unencumbered by chronology or common sense, Bud and Doug employ every imaginable Middle Ages cliche to spin their yarn, including an evil monk, a zaftig blonde, butchers, short pants, dirty thatch roofs, haunted woods, rats, feces and a dead baby. To give the show some weight, they include mention of the Holocaust, despite the fact it occurred 500 years later.

Doug wears a preppy argyle sweater and Bud a plaid shirt as they present the premise for the play. A dozen caps with characters’ names emblazoned on the fronts are used to indicate the many characters. For a crowd scene, they stack up a pile of hats. The rotund Bud delights in mimicking the wiles of shapely women. In keeping with the improvisational method, there is no scenery or props, and the set is from a different production.

Gutenberg! originally was conceived at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, an improvisational comedy venue. Under Michael McKelvey’s direction, the show is paced at lightning speed, and nonsensical repartee reflects a spontaneous thought process, giving the impression the actors are making it all up as they go along. Bud speaks in a modern English accent, and not one song is written with German inflection, but the actors’ irrepressible enthusiasm and boundless energy keep the audience appreciating the goofy gags.

The obliviousness to world history may underscore the severe inadequacies of our educational system but provides a golden opportunity for zany humor.

— MARY RICKARD

Bye Bye Birdie. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Gary Rucker directs the 1950s-set rock ’n’ roll musical. Tickets $36-$40. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m.

Sunday.

Practice. Playmakers Theater, 1916 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 893-1671; www.playmakersinc. com — Anne Porciau directs Garek K. “Nikki” Barranger’s dark comedy.

Tickets $20, students $10. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Re-Release Party (The Golden Record). Catapult, 609 St. Ferdinand St. — Visiting company A Host of People presents the show about the creators of the space-bound Golden Record.

Visit www.mondobizarro.org for details.

Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Tartuffe. Valiant Theatre & Lounge, 6621 St. Claude Ave, (504) 298-8676; www.valianttheatre.com — Clove Productions presents Moliere’s play, translated by Richard Wilbur and set at Fire Island, New York in the 1970s. Visit www.fireislandtartuffe.brownpapertickets.com for details. Tickets $15-$20. 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

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Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www. cuttingedgetheater.com — The jukebox musical about a mysterious woman uses the music of Patsy Cline. Tickets $22.50-$30. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Young Frankenstein. Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell, (985) 641-0324; www.slidelllittletheatre.org — The musical adapts the cult Mel Brooks film. Tickets $15.45-$25.75. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

BURLESQUE & VARIETY American Mess. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans.com — Katie East hosts local and touring comedians alongside burlesque performances. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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.

Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 5225400; www.thesainthotelneworleans. com — Trixie Minx leads a weekly burlesque performance featuring live jazz.

Free admission; reserved table $10. 9 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Ballroom. The Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www.sonesta.com/jazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx and guests star in the late-night burlesque performance.

11 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Bingo. Bar Mon Cher, 817 St. Louis St., (504) 644-4278; www. barmoncher.com — There are weekly burlesque performances and a bingo game. 7 p.m. Monday.

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Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the evening of burlesque and stand-up. 9:30 p.m.

Monday.

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.

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.

Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10. 9 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 an open-mic comedy show. 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 & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform improv weekly. 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Close Me Out. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Local storytellers recount inebriated adventures. Andrew Healan hosts. 8 p.m. Saturday.

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 Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www.lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m.

Friday.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues, Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 3104999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m.

Wednesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts a stand-up show.

8 p.m. Thursday.

Dean’s List. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.

newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green and Cyrus Cooper perform improv.

8 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 stand-up comics.

7:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

Knockout. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Two comedy acts compete to win an audience vote. 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story.

10:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

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

Permanent Damage. Bullet’s Sports Bar, 2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., (504) 6694464 — Tony Frederick, Corey Mack and B-Dub host the weekly stand-up show. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Sense of Humor. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Local celebrity guests host the comedy dating show. 9 p.m. Saturday.

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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Drinks are served. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Gretna Professional Boxing. Mel Ott Park, 2310 Belle Chasse Highway, Gretna — Male and female boxers compete in several divisions. Tickets start at $20. 7 p.m.

Story Time and Crafts. Nix Library, 1401 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 596-2630; www. nolalibrary.org — Children ages 7 and younger and their caregivers are invited to hear stories, sing songs and work on crafts. 5:30 p.m.

THURSDAY 4 Andrea’s Wine and Food Tasting. Andrea’s Restaurant, 3100 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant. com — The four-course dinner features wine pairings. Tickets $45. 6:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY 5 Cinco de Mayo Festival. El Paso, 601 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 218-4590; www.elpasomex.com — The two-day festival celebrates Cinco de Mayo with pinatas, T-shirt giveaways, kids’ activities, tequila and beer tastings and DJ performances. 11 a.m.

Shed Your City. Marigny Studios, 535 Marigny St. — The drumming and percussion Jazz Fest after-party is for drum enthusiasts and music lovers. Cinco de Mayothemed cocktails are served. 8:30 p.m.

Zoo-To-Do. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — The annual black-tie gala includes cuisine and drinks from local restaurants and live entertainment.

Tickets $175. 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 6 Covington Art Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The market features a variety of work from local and regional artists, including jewelry, crafts, photography, paintings and more. Visit www.sttammanyartasso-

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Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

I Just Want to Be Me Again: A New Outlook on Menopause. St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany.lib.la.us/covington.html — Jeanne Andrus, the “menopause guru,” discusses ways to moderate menopause symptoms.

Registration recommended. 6 p.m.

Maple Leaf Bar Interviews. Frenchy Gallery, 8319 Oak St., (504) 861-7677 — Fred Kasten interviews local musicians, including George Porter Jr., Johnny Vidacovich and Ellis Marsalis. Free admission. 3 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday.

Mother’s and Father’s Day Card Programs. St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 893-6280; www.stpl.us — Kaki DiCarlo leads a class in making Mother’s Day cards.

Bring scrapbooking supplies. 10 a.m.

NOLA Crawfish Festival. Central City BBQ, 1201 S. Rampart St. — Tickets to this event include crawfish and beer; there’s a crawfish cookoff and a slate of jazz and funk artists perform. Tickets start at $45. Visit www.nolacrawfishfest.com for details. 3 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday.

Retirement Investment Workshop. New Orleans Public Library, Mid-City branch, 4140 Canal St., (504) 596-2654; www.nolalibrary.org — The retirement investment workshop addresses bonds, stocks and mutual funds, insurance protection and estate planning basics. 5 p.m.

Immigration Records Workshop. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Librarian Gwen Kelley leads a genealogy seminar on immigration records. 1:30 p.m.

Let the Wookiee Win: A Star Wars Quiz.

Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www.facebook.com/ twelvemilelimit — Geeks Who Drink hosts the Star Wars trivia night with cash prizes.

Admission $5. 8 p.m.

Monthly Game Night. Behrman Center, 2529 Gen. Meyer Ave. — NORDC hosts the free family-friendly game night. 5 p.m.

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515 — The festival draws visitors from all over the world to hear music including jazz, zydeco, rap, gospel, Cajun and pop. There also are arts and crafts, kids’ activities, food and more. Visit www.nojazzfest.com for details. $70 advance, $80 at the gate, kids ages 2-10 $5 (at gate only). 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday-Sunday.

Penny Pushers Financial Education.

St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany.lib. la.us/covington.html — Benjamin Patterson delivers the lecture on “Wall Street knowledge for Main Street.” 6 p.m.

World War II Discussion Group. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www. jefferson.lib.la.us — Historian Brian Altobello leads a seminar featuring questions raised by the library’s World War II discussion group. 7 p.m.

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Derby on Fulton. Fulton Street — There are games, a hat contest and live music at the Kentucky Derby-themed block party. Proceeds benefit NOPD’s mounted division. 1 p.m.

Drawing New Orleans. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Jose Torres-Tama leads a tour of the museum’s James Michalopoulos retrospective, followed by a pastel workshop. Tickets $25. 10 a.m.

ACT Practice Tests. Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 596-3100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary. org — The library offers teens free ACT practice tests. 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Free Comic Book Day. Crescent City Comics, 3135 Calhoun St., (504) 3092223; www.crescentcitycomics.com — Patrons of all ages may choose from dozens of special giveaway titles for Free Comic Book Day. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Hattitude Program. St. Mark Fourth Baptist Church, 626 S. Galvez St. — The fundraiser for Union Baptist College and Theological Program features a hat show, auctions, gospel singing and refreshments. Admission $10. 2 p.m.

Hawk Band Car Show. Archbishop Hannan High School, 71324 Highway 1077, Covington, (985) 249-6363; www. hannanhigh.org — The high school band’s benefit features a car show, crafts, music and a jambalaya cook-off. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Jazz Cup. The Drifter Hotel, 3522 Tulane Ave., (504) 605-4644; www.thedrifterhotel.com — Virtual Krewe of Vaporwave’s “augmented reality pool party” features DJ and drag performances and art installations paying tribute to the Solo “jazz” cup. Tickets $15, $10 for those in costume. 8 p.m.

Jefferson Parish Resource Fair. Clearview Mall, 4436 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 885-0202; www.clearviewmall.com — Families Helping Families of Jefferson hosts a resource fair for people with disabilities and their families.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Kentucky Derby Viewing Party. Pat O’Brien’s, 718 St. Peter St., (504) 5254823; www.patobriens.com — The annual party runs all day and features mint julep specials. 10 a.m.

MAC Open Studio. Mini Art Center, 341 Seguin St., Algiers, (504) 510-4747; www. miniartcenter.com — Weekend children’s art workshops focus on recycled wearable art. Registration $5. Noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

STEM Saturday. Joe W. Brown Park, 5601 Read Blvd., (504) 355-7175; www. friendsofjoewbrownpark.org — STEM NOLA leads community activities related to science, technology, engineering and math. Free admission. 9 a.m.

Stolen Bikes NOLA Anniversary Party.

Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon. com — The party features a community discussion about cyclist’s issues, raffles and DJ performances. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY 7 Adult Coloring. New Orleans Public Library, Robert E. Smith branch, 6301 Canal

Blvd., (504) 596-2638; www.nolalibrary. org — Adults gather to color, decorate frames and enjoy wine. Bring art supplies and a beverage. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

MONDAY 8 Bulent Alizira. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar discusses “Crisis in Turkey: Internal Strife and External Difficulties.” 7 p.m.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. Citywide, New Orleans — The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane University Square (200 Broadway St.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; French Market 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (at 750 Carondelet St.) 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

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

French Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

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

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

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

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

ReFresh Project Community Garden Farmers Market. ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St.; www.broadcommunityconnections.org — The weekly Monday market offers local produce, homemade kimchi, cocoa-fruit leather, pesto and salad dressing. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.

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

Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday. The truck also stops at 6322 St. Claude Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market. Vietnamese Farmers Market, 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd.

— Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early morning market. 5 a.m. Saturday.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market.

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

SPORTS New Orleans Baby Cakes. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.cakesbaseball.com — The New Orleans Baby Cakes play the Iowa Cubs. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

WORDS Joanne O’Sullivan. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author reads from and signs Between Two Skies. 3 p.m. Saturday.

Josh Funk. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author reads from and signs The Case of the Stinky Stench.

4:30 p.m. Friday.

Karissa Haugeberg. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author discusses Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Michael Fry. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks. com — The author reads from and signs How to Be a Supervillain. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Pamela Arceneaux. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The author discusses her books Guidebooks to Sin and The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans.

10 a.m. Wednesday.

Raymond Arroyo. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 455-5135; www.barnesandnoble.com — The young adult author presents The Lost Staff of Wonders.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

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1331 ST. PHILIP ST

212 ORCHARD RD

GARDEN DISTRICT • 6,374 SQFT

RIVER RIDGE • 5,000 SQFT

Fabulous Center Hall Italiante Cottage in Garden District Circa 1870. Main House - 5 BR/4 Full BA, 2 Half BA. Sauna. Each floor has a Master BR Suite and office. 2 Story Guest House with Master Suite. Huge lot (90x134) with magnificent grounds, Majestic Oak Tree, beautiful brick patio, pool, 4 car driveway w/electric gate.

Spectacular Brand New Construction on corner lot in the heart of River Ridge. Open floor plan w/huge island in Kit. Dry bar, walk-in pantry, 2 Master Suites, 1 up 1 down, 2 ensuites, office, huge playroom, 3rd floor playroom/office, 2 car carport, 2 car driveway, courtyard w/fountain. Room for a pool!

$2,475,000

$1,050,000

WHEN DEMANDING EXCELLENCE, CHOOSE THE SPECIALIST! Charlotte Hailey-Dorion Realtor

504-861-7575

Cell 237-8615 Cdorion@gardnerrealtors.com

Christopher W. Dorion Realtor

Cell: 504-451-4274 cwdorion@gardnerrealtors.com

Ruby Awards, President’s circle 1995-2016

7934 MAPLE STREET / NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118

$12,000,000.00 in Sales 2016

TOP AGENT FRENCH QUARTER Michael Wilkinson 1041 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans LA 70116 504-491-0484 (c) • 504-949-5400 (o)

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Keller Williams Realty N.O. 8601 Leake Ave. New Orleans, La. 70118 Each Office Independently Owned and Operated

RARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME IN PRESTIGIOUS & HISTORIC METAIRIE CLUB GARDENS OVERSIZED LOT - 201/265 X 150 MATURE OAK TREES OVERLOOKS THE 5TH HOLE OF METAIRIE COUNTRY CLUB GOLF COURSE

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OFFICE IN CLOSED VOLUME FOR 2013

504-460-3516 lupecreech@kw.com Licensed in the State of Louisiana

The Witry Collective announces our newest member: Brett Rector, Historic Home Specialist 504-453-2277 • bar70117@gmail.com Your Dream. Our Drive. Collective Results.

WitryCollective.com Voted by Gambit Readers as one of the Best Realtors 5 years in a row - 2011-2016

Gardner Realtors • Garden District Branch 1820 St. Charles Ave. #110 • (o) 504-891-6400 Licensed in Louisiana, USA

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822 TOURO ST. #2 • $224,000

For Sale

514 DUMAINE ST #7 • $279,000

Todd Babin, REALTOR®

Certified Residential Appraiser cell: 504-487-7602 email: toddlbabin@gmail.com

9531 Jefferson Hwy. • River Ridge, LA 70123 office: 504-737-8454

Condominium - Lovely GROUND FLOOR unit in the Marigny Triangle! 1 Lg BR w/ room for king size bed! Open living & kit areas. Pretty cabinets.

All appliances, including washer/dryer. Adorable gated French Quarter style courtyard. Well managed & involved association. Easy access to everything New Orleans has to offer! Priced to sell.

Get your offer in fast. Won’t last long!

Tammy Randles President/Broker (504) 237-4404 (cell) (504) 883-5252 (office) www.C21Sela.com

Enjoy the breeze and the RIVERVIEW from the 3rd fl balcony. Fun and Fabulous condo has everything you are looking for with the charm and character of exposed brick walls in the heart of the FQ. Hi ceils, cute efficiency kit & heart pine firs. Overall size is 9.9 x 36. Walk to everything. Parking avail 1/2 block away on Riverfront.

No short term rentals or pets allowed.

3540 S. I-10 Service Road. W., Suite 300 • Metairie, LA 70001

Each office independently owned & operated. Licensed by Louisiana Real Estate Commission

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

If you LOVE NEW ORLEANS and are interested in buying, selling or investing here - want a Realtor who also LOVES NEW ORLEANS and her profession - one who has knowledge, experience and integrity and puts your needs first to guide you through the process - call ...

OLD METAIRIE BEST VALUE IN OLD MET

Sparkling Pool & Bike Path. 1 BR apt w/ granite & furn Kit & BA. King Master w/ wall of closets. Lndry on prem. OffStPkg. NO PETS. O/A $788/mo. Call 504-236-5776.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

Clara Paletou, ABR, GRI

WALK TO TULANE/LOYOLA

And XAVIER! Furn 2BR/1BA HOUSE, Furn Kit, security doors, Cent A&H, shared off st pkg. Alarm ready. On St car & Busline. Quiet n’bhood. $1,200/mo+ dep. No pets/smokers. Avail Now. Call (504) 866-2250.

HISTORIC HOME SPECIALIST

1820 St Charles Ave, #110 New Orleans, LA 70130 504-891-6400 Licensed in State of Louisiana

504-858-5837 cducp@aol.com www.HistoricNOLAHomes.com

WATERFRONT LUXURY HOME

WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS!

6400 SF • 6BR/5BA w/Guest House & Apt.

59167 Lacombe Harbor Ln, Lacombe

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

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

All offices independently owned and operated.

Licensed by the LA Real Estate Commission

MANFRE & RINGEN HOME TEAM • RE/MAX Alliance 985-674-5609 (o) • 504-452-0058 (c) ManfreRingenHomeTeam.com MLS# 2095625 • Vail@ManfreRingenHomeTeam.com

To become a hospice volunteer, call Paige at 504-818-2723 Ext. 3006 GORDON BIERSCH Is seeking Professional and Experienced Servers, Hosts and Culinary Team Members to join our fast paced, high volume team.

Job Fair April 18th 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Please apply online at: Craftcareers.net On spot Interviews Mon-Fri. 1:30 - 3:30

NAVY EXCHANGE (BELLE CHASSE, LA)

Has the following open positions:

• Fabric (Tailor) Worker • Barber • Sales Clerk (Soft lines and Consumables) Rotating shift

Please apply online at mynavyexchange.com/work for us

LEGAL NOTICES

EMPLOYMENT

NOTICE OF JUVENILE ACTION

Temporary Farm Labor: Addison Farms, Plains, TX, has 2 positions, 3 mo. experience operating large farm equipment with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, digging, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting hay from field to storage, operating cotton harvester, module builders, boll buggies, irrigation maintenance & repair, vaccinating, ear tagging, supplements & feeding of livestock; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 6/10/17/17 – 1/25/18. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX5220321 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR Miyako Sushi & Hibachi

Now Hiring: Servers & Host/Hostess. Apply in person from 11:00 am - 2:30 pm or 5-9 pm at 1403 St. Charles Ave. PAGE 87

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4 DR, 37.200 MILES, GRAY EXT/BLACK INT, ONE OWNER, CLEAR TITLE. $4200 CALL OR TEXT : 5044072567

SANDY STEIN: 504.483.3150 SANDYS@GAMBITWEEKLY.COM

Magaria Bobo Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County 6001 12th Avenue East Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35405 Leon Storie P.O. Box 20029 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35402 Attorney for the Petitioners Gambit: 4/11/17, 4/18/17, 4/25/17, 5/2/17

SALE BY CONSTABLE JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENT

THAT PORTION OF GROUND, BEARING MUNICIPAL NO. 4827 Gabriel Dr., this city, in the matter entitled JAMES SCOTT RUEL VS. KENNETH LANDRY First City Court for The City of New Orleans By virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias to me directed by the Honorable The First City Court for the City of New Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will proceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First District of the City on June 6, 2017, at 12:00 o’clock noon, the following described property to wit: 827 Gabriel St., New Orleans, LA Third District, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA SQUARE 15, SECTION B, Evangeline Oaks Subdivision, LOT No. 354 Municipal No. 4827 Gabriel Dr. Acquired: Instrument No. 2014-40805, recordings 10/14/2014, by Judgment of Possession, Conveyance Instrument No. 563438 Seized in the above suit, at the moment of adjudication to make a deposit of ten percent of the purchase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

WRIT AMOUNT: $5,446.50

Lambert C. Boissiere, Jr Constable, Parish of Orleans Atty: Hugh Aldige (504) 837-8555 Gambit Dates: May 2, 2017 & May 30, 2017

SERVICES ••• C H E A P TRASH HAULING (504) 292-0724 •••

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TRASH HAULING & STUMP GRINDING. FREE ESTIMATES. Call (504) 292-0724.

DWI - Traffic Tickets?

Don’t go to court without an attorney!

You can afford an attorney.

Call Attorney Gene Redmann, 504-834-6430.

WEEK

Done the 11th day of April, 2017.

Note: All deposits must be Cash, Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or Money Order: No Personal Checks.

AUTOMOTIVE

CALL OR EMAIL AD DIRECTOR

This notice will be published once a week for four consecutive weeks beginning 4/11/17 and ending 5/2/17.

YOUR AD HERE! CALL 483-3100

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Temporary Farm Labor: Hamza Farm, Rosharon, TX, has 3 positions, 3 mo. experience watering, feeding, sorting livestock (cattle, sheep, lamb, chickens), clean & sanitize pens, maintenance & repair to barns, feeders, waterers, feed & water livestock, monitor animal health conditions, operate equipment to clean, process & finish livestock for sale; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 6/15/17/17 – 4/15/18. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX7189161 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

COURTNEY WELLS, whose whereabouts are unknown, a Petition for the Termination of Parental Rights with regard to minor child KNM (born 8/22/11) has been filed in the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama in case number JU-2014-759.03.

You must answer said petition within fourteen days of the date of final publication or a default judgment may be entered against you. Your answer is to be filed in the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

EMPLOYMENT / NOTICES / PETS

FARM LABOR

ISSUE DATE: MAY 9 AD SPACE: APRIL 28

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PIZZA MAKER

EMPLOYMENT

Experienced

WIT’S INN Bar & Pizza Kitchen Apply in person Mon-Fri, 1-4:30 pm 141 N. Carrollton Ave.

Kingfish is seeking experienced, service oriented professionals who enjoy extending gracious hospitality to others in a fine dining atmosphere.

Apply in person at 337 Chartres St. between 11AM - 5PM daily or send resume to: jobs@creolecuisine.com

Kingfish is seeking experienced, service oriented professionals who enjoy extending gracious hospitality to others in a fine dining atmosphere.

Servers & Hosts/Hostesses with experience should apply in person at 337 Chartres St. 11AM - 5PM daily.

Please send your resume to: jobs@creolecuisine.com

Kingfish is seeking experienced, service oriented professionals who enjoy extending gracious hospitality to others in a fine dining atmosphere.

LINE COOKS with experience should apply in person in person at 337 Chartres St. 11AM - 5PM daily.

Please send your resume to: jobs@creolecuisine.com

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