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Alicia Keys | The last time R&B star Alicia Keys was in New Orleans, it was to sing the national anthem at Super Bowl XLVII. She returns on a leg of her Set the World on Fire tour, featuring work from her 2012 release Girl on Fire. At the New Orleans Arena. Interview with Keys on PAGE 47.

Hogs for the Cause Fri.-Sat. March 22-23 | The barbecue competition on Saturday features nearly 80 teams, and patrons can enjoy their dishes, special cocktails and live music by Robert Randolph and the Family Band with Anders Osborne, Rebirth Brass Band, Eric Lindell and others. There’s a Friday evening preview event. At New Orleans City Park. PAGE 33. Martha Graham Dance Company Sat. March 23 | The program features several of Graham’s iconic pieces, including Appalachian Spring. The piece Panorama is performed with a cast of 33 local youth dancers on the 20th anniversary of the partnership between the New Orleans Ballet Association and the New Orleans Recreation Department. At Mahalia Jackson Theater. PAGE 62.

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The Revival Tour feat. Chuck Ragan Wed. March 20 | Along with issuing Joe Cocker-esque, workingman’s-blues solo albums and getting his punk growlers Hot Water Music cooking again, Chuck Ragan spearheads the Revival Tour, a yearly acoustic music showcase with invited guests. Rocky Votolato and Jenny Owen Youngs join Ragan at Tipitina’s. PAGE 49.

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hile conflicts between Democrats and Republicans will figure prominently during the legislative session that convenes April 8, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s politics also have created a turbulent political climate, one in which some of his traditional enemies will embrace him while some old friends will stab him in the back. As regards the latter, it was only appropriate that the release of Jindal’s tax-swap plan last week coincided with the Ides of March, known best on the Roman calendar for the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Senate in 44 B.C. Leading up to March 15, Jindal unveiled his $24.7 billion annual budget. These days, the governor fares much better in Louisiana’s Senate than Caesar did in Rome’s, but he may be saying “Et tu?” to some conservative House Republicans. The mostly GOP “fiscal hawks” in the House once were among the governor’s stalwart supporters, but they began turning on him last year over budget policies. They sought deeper cuts — and no one-time revenues spent on recurring expenses — in a budget that was already lean and hungry. Among those digging in this year is Rep. Christopher J.

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Leopold, R-Belle Chasse. Leopold says he will not support the governor’s proposal to use millions in one-time revenue for annual, or recurring, expenses. “I am not a fan of one-time money in the budget,” Leopold says, siding with the hawks, who now are organized under the banner of the Budget Reform Coalition. Democrats, on the other hand, generally are more amenable to that notion, especially when the alternative is cutting critical services. That’s how it worked in prior years. This year, with the help of the Jindal-friendly Senate and anticipated support from committee chairs and vice chairs, it probably will be the Dems once again who help the governor pass his budget. At least that’s the conventional wisdom. The 11 Democrats who represent Orleans Parish, however, are beginning to resemble a composite of Brutus and Cassius; they are as wary of the governor’s ambitions as they are of his policies. Many are page 8

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As the legislative session approaches, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s budget proposal has Republican lawmakers rankled and Democrats seeing it as a way to avoid cutting services.

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considering opposing the one-time money in Jindal’s budget. The governor’s budget is built upon several contingencies, ranging from land sales and refinancing debt to legal settlements and fund raids. That last part has sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, worried. The administration wants to redirect $100 million from a fund holding hotel-motel taxes earned by the ernest N. Morial Convention Center to plug holes in next year’s higher education budget. The administration vows to pay back the money through the capital outlay program for construction bonding, even though the state’s borrowing capacity is running low. That scheme amounts to onetime money for recurring expenses, Morrell says. “Democrats from New Orleans are strongly considering a position that agrees more with the tea party and fiscal hawks,” adds Morrell, who chairs one of the senate’s judiciary committees. “it all makes for strange bedfellows.” Linking the convention center issue with the one-time money debate could garner the undivided attention of the administration, he says. if Jindal’s poll numbers remain in free fall and his keystone legislative victories, such as education and retirement reforms, continue being opposed by Democrats and overturned by Republican judges, it may become even tougher for the governor to distinguish his allies from his adversaries. The opposition already senses an opportunity to draw blood as Jindal’s national ambitions come out of the shadows fully and he reaches further stateside with an controversial tax-swap plan. As is the case with the budget, senate education Chairman Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, says the tax plan is far from finished, leaving enough time for many lawmakers to pick sides. “They’re going to be torn to pieces and put back together,” he says of the governor’s major policy packages for 2013. A growing number of lawmakers say privately that Jindal plays the part of the Roman general a little too well, treating lawmakers as plebeians while seeking greater glory for himself. even with an odd coalition of Democrats and Republican committee chairs protecting his flank, the governor would be welladvised to learn from Caesar — and watch his back. — Jeremy Alford is a freelance journalist in Baton Rouge. Contact him at Jeremy@jeremyalford.com. Follow him on Twitter: @alfordwrites.

scuttlebutt Quotes of the week Jindal budget edition “we now know what Gov. (Bobby) Jindal has been hiding about his tax proposal for all those months — it is the largest middle class tax increase in state history.” — Rep. John Bel Edwards, DAmite, chairman of the Louisiana House Democratic caucus. Bel Edwards already has announced his intention to seek the governorship in 2015. “we are not presenting to you today a plan etched in stone.” — Gov. Bobby Jindal. “in stone? The plan is not even on an etch-A-sketch.” — Frequent Jindal critic C.B. Forgotston.

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But seven of those nine states do collect corporate or individual income

taxes, or both, in some form. Only two states, Nevada and wyoming, are as taxpure as Jindal hopes to make Louisiana. And Nevada benefits from gambling taxes — to the tune of $800 million to $900 million annually. — CHARLes MALDONADO

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Jindal gets laughs … on purpose governor addresses d.c. press dinner Fresh off criticizing U.s. sen. Mary Landrieu for “spending too much time in washington D.C.” (where she works), Gov. Bobby Jindal last week made the trek to the nation’s capitol (where he doesn’t work) to deliver a speech at the Gridiron Club Dinner, a chummy annual affair at which members of the D.C. press corps and the politicos they cover make fun of each other. By all accounts, it was far better received than Jindal’s notorious 2009 response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress, and Jindal led off by acknowledging that disaster, saying, “i appreciate this opportunity to try to be funny on purpose. “some people have asked me if i intend to run for president in 2016,” Jindal told the Beltway crowd. “And the answer is that i have no plans to run. i’ve made that clear, over and over again … in iowa … in New Hampshire … and in south Carolina.” From there, Jindal launched into a set of jokes poking fun at his indian-American heritage and race in general: “when i first went to Congress, i would always get asked by friends: ‘Hey, have you met my friend, Congressman so-and-so?’ so i of course responded: ‘i don’t know, all white people look alike to me.’ “i ran into [vice President] Joe Biden earlier today. i don’t think he recognized me, though. He asked me to go get him a slurpee.” The speech had one high-profile fan: Obama, who told the crowd, “i thought Bobby was incredibly funny this evening. i thought he was terrific.” Though the evening was closed to press coverage, Jindal aides shared copies of the speech on social media. — KeviN ALLMAN

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governor proposes to swap income taxes for sales taxes Gov. Bobby Jindal presented additional details of his 2013 tax plan last week — but not the full plan itself. instead, Team Jindal offered a few more specifics, but not an actual bill that lawmakers (and the public) can analyze. Jindal proposes to eliminate individual and corporate income taxes, plus the corporate franchise fee, and replace them with higher and broader sales taxes. income taxes account for about $3 billion per year in state revenue. To replace that lost revenue, Jindal wants to raise the state sales tax to 5.88 percent from the current 4 percent. Under Jindal’s plan, Louisiana would see average combined state and local sales taxes rise from less than 9 percent to 10.75 percent, the highest in the country. “we are going to protect food, prescription drugs and utilities from increased sales taxes,” Jindal told a joint meeting of the House ways and Means and senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs committees. Higher tax rates on those items already are outlawed in the state Constitution — and hardly need Jindal’s “protection.” Raising them (or amending the Constitution) would require voters to approve higher tax rates on their own food, prescription drugs and utility costs. in his speech, Jindal pointed to employment gains in states with models similar to the one he’s proposing. “Over the last 10 years, more than 60 percent of the 3 million new jobs in American were created by the nine states without an income tax,” Jindal said. That’s true — but it’s not the whole picture. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, the country added about 3.7 million jobs between January 2003 and December 2012. Of those, 60 percent, or 2.2 million, were added in nine states that don’t have a traditional individual income tax. Roughly 1.5 million were created in Texas alone.

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Political footballs lawmakErs hit thE gridiron for charity state lawmakers will square off in a game of flag football on April 21, to raise money for Operation Homefront Louisiana, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors. Billed as “The Truce for Troops Bowl,” the game will pit GOP and democratic lawmakers on opposing teams in LsU’s Tiger stadium. Kickoff is at 4 p.m., with gates opening at 2 p.m. The game is the first of what sponsors hope will be an annual event. it will be hosted by the House special Committee on Military and veteran Affairs.

scuttlebits all thE nEws that doEsn’t fit • Gov. Bobby Jindal will kick off the fifth annual Redstate Gather ing in New Orleans. The gathering for grassroots conservatives will be held Aug. 2-3 at the westin New Orleans at Canal Place. Jindal spoke at last year’s Redstate Gathering, which was held at the height of the 2012 presidential campaign. At the time, Redstate editor Erick Erickson called Jindal “one of the most effective surrogates on the campaign trail in the primary for Rick Perry and now in the general for Mitt Romney.” • Flip-flop on smokes: in announcing Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax plan, which would make Louisiana’s sales tax rates the highest in the nation, his office sent out a notice saying, “As part of achieving simplification of Louisiana’s tax structure on a revenue-neutral basis, Louisiana’s excise tax rate on cigarettes ($0.36) would rise to match the Texas rate ($1.41). … Additionally, the current variable rate for other tobacco products would rise to match the Arkansas rate of 68 percent of manufacturer’s price.” Tax watchers will remember Jindal’s June 2011 veto of the renewal of an expiring 4-cent-per-pack cigarette tax, which he presented as a matter of tax-purity principle, saying, “i have made a commitment to the taxpayers of Louisiana to oppose all attempts to raise taxes.” But that was then … • Jefferson Parish Council Chairman Chris Roberts and Councilman-atlarge Elton Lagasse sent an open letter to state representatives last week, asking them to call off the special election in May that would have voters (again) determine the fate of the nowsuspended tolls on the Crescent City Connection. Roberts and Lagasse also announced the council would act on a formal resolution requesting the state Legislature to “save the cost of the election which would be incurred by the state of Louisiana.” it was a major throwing-in-of-the-towel for some area politicos who had argued that tolls were vital to keeping services on the bridge. — KeviN ALLMAN

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Meals on wheels fter months of debate, the New Orleans City Council is set to vote early next week on a new set of ordinances regulating food trucks. The exhaustive effort has been a pet project of Council President Stacy Head, who has spearheaded the move to update food truck legislation in the city. At the outset, we note that the rules governing food trucks have remained largely unchanged since the 1950s, even though the trucks’ popularity has grown exponentially in recent years. Head suggests a one-year pilot program. Her proposed ordinances have seen plenty of tweaks already after input by brickand-mortar restaurateurs, the Louisiana Restaurant Association (LRA), city Health Department Director Dr. Karen DeSalvo and others. The latest versions address most but not all of the concerns raised by critics of expanding food trucks’ presence in New Orleans. Current law requires food trucks to park no closer than 600 feet to existing restaurants — the equivalent of two football fields. Head had sought to shorten that to 50 feet, but later changed it to 100 feet after restaurateurs objected, saying trucks that close to their front doors could lure away business.

The law today also prohibits trucks in the French Quarter and much of the CBD. The proposed regulations would expand the “no food truck” footprint to include all of the French Quarter and CBD up to Howard Avenue, as well as the main strip of the Frenchmen Street club corridor. Banning food trucks from a wide swath of downtown seems fair to the hundreds of existing restaurants in the city’s core. For their part, local food truck operators have chafed under a law that limits them to no more than 45 minutes in any one location. Many cities with a bustling food truck industry have established “pods” — semidedicated lots where groups of trucks set up for days or weeks, often in close proximity to restaurants. Head’s proposal seeks to meet the concerns of both groups; it would allow food trucks four hours to set up and serve food in any one location before having to move on. LRA members have noted that food trucks typically don’t pay exorbitant property taxes and — because they are mobile — are not easily subjected to legally permitted spot inspections by the state Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). Food truck operators reply that they park and set up in

many of the same places week after week — they want the public to find them and use social media to broadcast their locations. While it’s true that food trucks have an advantage over full-service restaurants in that they require much lower overheads and initial investments, the same is true of other food-related businesses, including sandwich, takeout and hot lunch counters in neighborhood stores. Others have raised concerns that food trucks don’t provide bathroom access and aren’t required to have exterior sinks for customer hand-washing. On that score, the assistant secretary of DHH wrote to the council last month, saying, “Our office will continue to inspect all food establishments and enforce the state’s sanitary code, regardless of business model.” The debate has seen its share of misinformation. For example, it was wrongly reported that food trucks are not required to carry insurance; they are so required. They also must remit the same sales taxes charged by restaurants. New Orleans is unlike any other American city. That’s true of its food truck culture as well. Lacking semi-permanent “pods,” trucks have organized “roundups” in various

neighborhoods, including the Oretha Castle Haley corridor and along St. Claude Avenue, where food options are limited. Some bars have enthusiastically partnered with food trucks; the Taceaux Loceaux truck is a fixture outside Dos Jefes Cigar Bar many evenings, and the new Publiq House on Freret Street has an adjacent parking area specifically to welcome food trucks. New Orleans has always prided itself on its culinary ingenuity, and New Orleanians on their insatiable appetite for good food, be it haute cuisine or a drippy po-boy, white beans and rice or white-tablecloth fare. “We’ve learned in post-Katrina New Orleans that restaurants do well when other restaurants do well,” Head told Gambit last year. Her proposed food truck regulations strike us as a fair compromise, and they deserve to be given a chance as a pilot program. Correction: In last week’s Gambit, we incorrectly stated that a lawsuit brought by the so-called fiscal hawks against Gov. Bobby Jindal’s current-year budget had been dismissed. That lawsuit is still pending in the pretrial phase. We apologize for the error.

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The Desire streetcar was replaced with a bus in 1948, but for some special occasions the famous trolley still takes to the rails. operated the transit system back then) would put a “streetcar named Desire” back on its lines for special occasions. in 1960, a group of republican women rode a Desire streetcar down St. charles avenue and threw out campaign buttons for the richard nixon/henry cabot Lodge Jr. ticket; a Dixieland band aboard played tunes to which Gop-styled lyrics had been added. the slogan was “Desire for nixon.” When Williams lived in the French Quarter, he said the streetcars with their clanging bells often were intrusive, but also inspiring. “their indiscourageable progress up and down royal Street struck me as having some symbolic bearing of a broad nature on the life in the Vieux carre,” he once said. Williams originally was going to call his play Poker Night, but was charmed by the name of the streetcar and chose that instead. “they told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at — Elysian Fields!” these allegorical directions given to Blanche DuBois in the famous play are perhaps some of the most romantic ever written.

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It’s hard to imagine retailers and the hospitality industry backing a plan to hike sales taxes by 47 percent. leased figures purportedly showing that virtually all individual taxpayers would come out ahead under the governor’s plan. If that’s true, and if the plan really is “revenue-neutral” as Jindal has promised, then the plan must shift more of the tax burden to businesses. But wait … Jindal says this plan is designed to make Louisiana more attractive to businesses. It’s a zero-sum game, folks. If the plan is revenue-neutral, and if individuals will pay less under its provisions, then there’s only one place to make up the difference: businesses. Either that, or the governor’s lying about who’s going to pay what. Finally, as John Maginnis astutely noted in his column last week, how can Jindal say on one hand that we need to “fix” our tax code because it makes us so unattractive to business — and then brag about all the business and industry he has attracted to Louisiana as governor? Either the system is broken or it’s not. Truth is, parts of Louisiana’s tax code are quite broken. Unfortunately, those are not the parts that Bobby Jindal is trying to “fix” with his 47 percent solution.

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ov. Bobby Jindal finally unveiled his tax-swap plan last week — almost. After promising to produce a bill by March 15, he instead gave lawmakers a two-page summary of highminded but vague talking points, which at least was more than the one-page summary he previously used. For example, he acknowledged that he wants to raise the state sales tax from 4 percent to 5.88 percent — a hike of 47 percent. That will give most parts of Louisiana the highest combined state and local sales tax rates in the country. (Jindal ignores that aspect of the plan.) At the same time, his handout alluded to eliminating “unnecessary” state sales tax exemptions, but didn’t specifically cite any of them. It was more than a tad ironic — metaphoric might be more like it — that the live online video stream of Jindal’s address last Thursday to the joint meeting of the House Ways & Means Committee and the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee had no audio. Not long after he left the witness table, the audio came back on. The next day, the archived version of the video still had no audio for Jindal’s presentation. Given the governor’s penchant for keeping his most controversial initiatives under tight wraps until the last possible minute, one can’t help wondering if audio blackout was a technical glitch or a Machiavellian ploy straight out of Richard Nixon’s playbook. In any event, Jindal won’t be able to play hide-the-ball much longer. That strategy worked fine last year with his education reform package, but things are different now. For starters, it was relatively easy then to sell the idea that teachers are responsible for Louisiana’s poor educational outcomes. This year, it won’t be so easy to convince people that paying the highest sales taxes in the country will be good for business. The political landscape shifted, too. Jindal’s popularity is falling like a rock. Voters, as well as a growing number of lawmakers, no longer seem willing to follow him blindly. Moreover, the governor faces much higher procedural hurdles with this tax-swap plan. He needed only a simple majority in each legislative chamber to pass his education plan last year; he’ll need two-thirds to raise the sales tax this session. He has been told by more than one lawmaker that any plan to hike sales taxes is DOA in the House. It’s not just lawmakers who are upset with Jindal’s plan — and his failure to deliver a bill with specifics, as promised,

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hen playwright John Biguenet first returned to his flooded Lake Vista home five weeks after Hurricane Katrina, he was struck by a strange sight. “When I opened the front door of my house, immediately in front of me it looked like filaments of cotton candy in red and gold and yellow and green,” he says. “It was really gorgeous — and then I realized it was mold.” Different types of mold covered every surface — slimy molds, grey cotton ball-like clusters, black mold — and filled the air. As Biguenet wrote in a series of blog posts as a guest columnist for The New York Times, the mold filled every fold of clothing on the second floor, which had not been touched by water. For months, when the wind blew in his neighborhood, he would wheeze as more mold wafted over from houses not gutted or sealed. Mold wasn’t new to New Orleans, but post-Katrina it was everywhere, even burrowing into the interior wooden skeletons of homes. Mold also is the title and central metaphor for the third play in Biguenet’s trilogy about New Orleans after the levee failures in 2005. In the drama, Trey and Marie Guidry return to Trey’s parents’ floodwrecked home a year after the storm to meet with an insurance adjuster.

Abandoned homes and 4-foot-tall grass fill the hard-hit neighborhood. As they assess the damage, the adjuster warns them about mold: “It’s alive, but it don’t ever move. Just sends out spores all the time, infecting everything else.” They have to decide what to do — rebuilding the house or walking away from the loss are equally impossible choices. Neither erases what happened, but the decision could tear them apart. Biguenet is known for plays, short stories (The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories), novels (Oyster) and translation work, and he was named 2012’s Louisiana Writer of the Year by the Louisiana Library Association. After the levee failures, however, he became a reporter and columnist for the Times. He wrote about shuttered institutions, discarded furniture and debris, being a New Orleanian in exile, displacement and the daunting task of cleaning a flooded home — subjects that have resurfaced in the plays he’s written about the experience. In 2007, Rising Water, the first play in his Katrina trilogy, premiered at Southern Rep and became the theater’s longest-running, most successful production ever. In it, a couple, Camille and Sugar, wake in

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the middle of the night as floodwater tops their mattress. They flee into the attic, where they are surrounded by artifacts of their life together, and struggle to break through to the roof, hoping to be rescued. Shotgun followed in 2009, and it explored how New Orleanians lived together in the months after the flood. In it, Beau and Eugene Harlan, a white father and son from Gentilly, move into half of a shotgun double in Algiers, owned by Mattie Godchaux, a black woman who has her displaced father living with her on the other side. An unexpected romance is born out of the unlikely circumstances. The plays all are shaped by the city’s architecture, from attics full of memories to shared walls to the unremediated home in Mold. And all focus on a relationship. “I realized love stories allow you to expose a lot about a catastrophe,” Biguenet says. While writers inevitably address subjects that are familiar, Biguenet’s trilogy focuses on a tragedy shared by a city and watched around

the globe. Presenting the plays in New Orleans has ensured an audience intimately familiar with the setting and sensitive about its veracity. During the premiere run of Rising Water, some people clapped and others stood stunned at the end of the show. Many immediately sat back down in silence. “Everyone stayed for the talk back,” says Southern Rep artistic director Aimee Hayes. “The show ran for two-and-a- half months. It was tough outside. If you left, you had to go face your own losses and your own grief. We had to watch this couple on the roof. It ends in this strange triumphant way with the sirens. It was one of those magic moments in the theater when it was so silent you could hear a pin drop.” During the talk back after the show, people shared their own Katrina stories. “It redefined what theater is about,” Biguenet says. “In theater, you see people who are your neighbors — you recognize as your own, talking about what’s going on.

“It made me rethink Euripides and Shakespeare writing for their communities.” Biguenet’s plays have been well-received outside New Orleans as well. Rising Water received a commission from the National New Play Network in fall 2006, months before its New Orleans opening. There have been 25 staged readings and full productions of the three works around the country. Mold opens in New Orleans just as a production of Rising Water closes at the Swine Palace in Baton Rouge and Shotgun closes at Theater 810 in Lafayette. In the interim since Shotgun, Biguenet spent time at Britain’s National Theatre in London developing Night Train, a play about a con man traveling by train in Europe, which premiered at New Jersey Repertory Theater. Broomstick is a one-person play in iambic pentameter that will premiere at New Jersey Rep in September. Blending humor and horror, a witch reveals how she discovered her powers PAGE 20

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and explains how she enacts her own judgments of good and evil. In addition to teaching at Loyola University New Orleans, Biguenet also has returned to short-story writing and has another novel in the works. But recently, he’s been working on Mold. He introduced a draft at a workshop at Southern Rep in December 2012. Some of the actors have parallels with the characters they play. Like her character Amelia, Carol Sutton’s home had its first floor flooded. Kerry Cahill plays Marie, and like the character, she’s the only cast member not originally from New Orleans. She’s lived here most of the time since graduating from Loyola University, and as Marie, she’s amazed at how satisfied New Orleanians can be with a city plagued with problems like poor schools and crime. Trey, meanwhile, is fiercely proud of his roots and being the third generation in his family to bear the name Emile Guidry. Trey Burvant, who plays Trey Guidry, grew up in Covington and had been living in the Northeast, but the day after Hurricane Katrina, he convinced his wife to move their family of five from Boston to New Orleans. “On Aug. 28, we were looking at buying tickets to look at places in [Los Angeles],” Burvant says. “On Aug. 30, I told her we’re moving to New Orleans. “She thought I was crazy. There’s the line Marie says about lead and stuff in the soil. My wife said those exact words to me. I had that actual same conversation.” Since the first reading of Rising Water for an audience of theater professionals in the National New Play Network, Biguenet has been adamant that New Orleanians be able to recognize these local characters. In Act 2 of Rising Water, the hole Sugar punches in the roof is only big enough for Camille to escape. Sugar spends the act with just his head popping out through the hole. “Some people said if I made it absurd, I’d have a play that was timeless,” Biguenet says. “It already looked like (Samuel) Beckett’s Happy Days with just the head above the roof. The next morning, I woke up and said, ‘No. This play is for New Orleans.’” The current cast shares that sense of dedication both to the story’s characters and the audience. “We feel an extreme responsibility to tell this story correctly and right and well,” Cahill says. “We know what it means.” One suggestion Biguenet incorporated into all three plays was to make it possible for audiences

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to laugh. Sugar and Camille are New Orleanians who have plenty of charm and natural humor. Over time, some lines developed humor in unexpected ways. While stuck in the attic, Camille wonders if the water is rising so quickly because the levees have collapsed. Sugar laughs it off: “Oh, don’t talk crazy, woman. The Army built those levees — the Army Corps of Engineers.” “Now whenever people hear that line, they burst into laughter,” Biguenet says with a grin. “In 2006, that line wasn’t funny. Now it’s funny.” In a workshop and in rehearsal, Mold also has gone through revisions and Carol Sutton plays clarifications of characters and their motivations. Amelia in Mold. Biguenet first heard the piece PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER read aloud at the December workshop and rearranged Edgar (Randy Maggiore) isn’t written parts of the play. In the weeks before as a villain — he’s doing what he can opening, he, director Mark Routhier for the Guidrys using the rules he is and the cast have explored the provided by the insurance company. characters to make more of the story But he and the Guidrys get riled have action. up over what those rules are, and “What’s been amazing is the way that conflict was sharpened during we’ve gotten our fingers dirty with experimentation with the scene. the script,” Routhier says. They’ve “There’s an honesty (about the streamlined dialogue, fine-tuned characters) we’re trying to get to,” humorous moments and dug into its Routhier says. “I think there’s a emotional depths. beautiful balance between what was “Directorially, what’s interesting (post-Katrina) reality and the theatrical is to find intensity without turning it license we’re giving it.” into a yell fest,” Routhier says. “You They also used improvisation to delve into these deep emotions and explore how Trey and Marie relate in it’s scary. We’re trying to find that. the play. We’re trying to find those moments “(Biguenet) had planted all these born out of necessity. It’s a balance — beautiful seeds,” Burvant says. “And something deeply seeded inside that we wanted to make sure each one needs to get worked out.” In rehearsals, the cast has of them blossomed. It’s been an improved some scenes by engaging extraordinarily open process. And he’s their conflicts. The insurance adjuster been very willing to take questions and

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The Big Easy Foundation announces its music award nominees. BY W ILL COVIELLO

he Big Easy Foundation has announced special recognition honorees and nominees for its 25th Annual Big Easy Music Awards. The seminal New Orleans funk band The Meters will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and singer/songwriter Anders Osborne will be honored as Entertainer of the Year. Special recognition also goes to Threadhead Records for its mission to help local musicians release their own recordings and to the Lousiana Music Factory for its dedication to Louisiana artists. There also are awards in 24 categories, including traditional jazz, rock, blues, Cajun, Latin music, top male and female performers and Best Album of 2012. Winners will be announced at the Big Easy Music Awards on Monday, April 22, at a ceremony at Harrah’s New Orleans, and there will be performances by nominated artists. The event is sponsored by Gambit, Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Casino, Coleman E. Adler & Sons, Ketel One, Crown Royal and Abita Brewing Co. For ticket information and reservations, call (504) 483-3129.

2013 Big Easy Music Awards Special Recognition Awards

The Meters will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Singer/songwriter Anders Osborne is Entertainer of the Year. PHOTO BY – JAYNE TANSEY-PATRON

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Lifetime Achievement Award The Meters Entertainer of the Year Anders Osborne

Music Heritage Award Peter “Chuck” Badie Ambassador of Entertainment Dumpstaphunk Business Recognition Award Louisiana Music Factory Special Recognition Threadhead Records Honorary Music Chair David Torkanowsky

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Hurray for the Riff Raff is nominated for Best Country/Folk Band.

Bassist Peter “Chuck” Badie will receive the Music Heritage Award.

PHOTO BY SARA DANZINGER

Music Nominees

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Best Male Performer John Boutte Anders Osborne Dr. John Luke Winslow-King

Best Female Performer Alexis Marceaux Alynda Lee Segarra Meschiya Lake Sasha Masakowski

The funk band Dumpstaphunk will be honored as New Orleans Ambassador of Entertainment. PHOTO BY MICHAEL WEINROB

Best Album of 2012 Alex McMurray, I Will Never Be Alone In This Land Dr. John, Locked Down The Soul Rebels Brass Band, Unlock Your Mind The Revivalists, City Of Sound Best Traditional Jazz Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns Dr. Michael White Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Singer/songwriter Luke Winslow-King is nominated for Best Male Performer and Best Country/Folk Band. PHOTO BY JASON KRUPPA

Mike Dillon is nominated in the Best Mixed Bag category. PHOTO BY ZACK SMITH

Little Freddie King is nominated for Best Blues. PHOTO COURTESY OF MADE WRIGHT RECORDS

Best Gospel Choir Betty Winn & One A-Chord Electrifying Crown Seekers City Of Love Music & Worship Arts Choir

Best Gospel Group/Individual Minister Jo “Cool” Davis & Cordell Chambliss Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds Minister Jai Reed Best Funk Band Galactic Dumpstaphunk Khris Royal & Dark Matter Best Rhythm & Blues Band Dr. John Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters King James & The Special Men Best Rap/Hip Hop Artist Curren$y Dee-1 Big Freedia

Best Contemporary Jazz Herlin Riley David Torkanowsky Donald Harrison

Best Blues Little Freddie King Johnny Sansone Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & His Thunder Band

Best Traditional Brass Band New Birth Brass Band Treme Brass Band Young Pinstripe Brass Band

Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Thou Mountain Of Wizard Down

Best Contemporary Brass Band Hot 8 Brass Band The Soul Rebels Stooges Brass Band

Best Rock Band Anders Osborne GIVERS Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Christian Serpas and Ghost Town is nominated for Best Country/Folk Band.

Bruce Daigrepont is nominated for Best Cajun Band

Galactic is nominated for Best Funk.

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Best Roots Rock Alex McMurray Honey Island Swamp Band Creole String Beans Best Country/Folk Band Luke Winslow-King Hurray for the Riff Raff Christian Serpas & Ghost Town

Best Cajun Band Lost Bayou Ramblers Feufollet Bruce Daigrepont Best Latin Band OTRA Mas Mamones Rumba Buena

The Hot 8 Brass Band is nominated for Best Contemporary Brass Band. Alexis and the Samurai is nominated for Best Emerging Artist.

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Best World Music Chegadao Debauche Casa Samba Best Mixed Bag Mike Dillon Helen Gillet Whom Do You Work For? Best Emerging Artist Vox & the Hound Alexis & The Samurai Naughty Professor Best DJ/Electronica DJ Quickie Mart Quintron Gypsyphonic Disko

Young Pinstripe Brass Band is nominated for Best Traditional Brass Band.

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue is nominated for Best Rock Band. PHOTO BY KIRK EDWARDS

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Best Zydeco Band Lil Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band Cory Ledet & His Zydeco Band

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hunter pieces are A Sabai “lace” bezels employee peeks of Balinese in at a glittering granulated display of silver. Now located amethyst jewelry. PhOTO By on Magazine ChERyL GERBER Street, Sabai features Day’s designs plus one-of-a-kind handcrafted work by artists from Asia and New Orleans. “Gem hunting is my favorite thing to do,” Day says, taking out a bag filled with uncut Ethiopian fire opals. “I buy them already cut, but this is my passion: raw stones.” Green amethyst, Peruvian opal, watermelon tourmaline — if it catches Day’s interest, you’ll see it shimmering in a display case. Day shows off one hand-hammered silver cuff, pointing out its intricate details. “This is the work of an old master craftsman in Nepal,” she says, indicating the differences between his bracelet, and that of his apprentice. “This is the old beautiful stuff you can’t get anymore.” Though most pieces are inspired by Asian art and culture, Day carries contemporary jewelry by artists such as Clyde Casey and Michael Michaud. Also scattered around are sculptures, paintings and stones. The shop’s imaginative vibe inspires one customer to tell Day the Greek legend of how the amethyst got its color (wine from the god Bacchus). “There are a million stories in this place,” Day replies with a smile. “That’s another good one.”

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Tickets are available for the Nationwide Tour of Gowns BrideS AgAinSt BreASt CAnCer charity wedding gown sale April 5-6. hundreds of new and secondhand gowns and bridal accessories will be priced from $75-$4,000. Admission is free, but tickets are required and are available online at www.bridesabc.org or by calling (877) 721-4673.

leanshomeshows.com/homeandgardenshow) March 22-24. There will be home vendors, presentations by experts, cooking demonstrations and celebrity appearances. Tickets are available at the Superdome box office and cost $9 for adults, $5 for military with ID, free for children under 12. Visit the website for more info and to get a coupon for $2 off admission.

The Superdome (1500 Poydras St., 504587-3663; www.superdome.com) hosts the 58th AnnuAl neW OrleAnS hOme & gArden ShOW (www.newor-

nOlA COuture (542 St. Peter St., 504875-3522; 2928 Magazine St., 504-3195959; www.nolacouture.com) moved its Uptown location to 2928 Magazine St.

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errie Day laughs as she describes her childhood: “I was that weird kid sitting on the driveway, picking through all the different stones.” A lifelong fascination with gems, minerals and fossils, plus a love of world travel, all converged to bring Day to where she’s standing today — in Sabai Jewelry (3115 Magazine St., 504-899-9555; www.sabaijewelry.com), her graceful jewelry showroom. Globetrotting with a backpack as a young woman made Day decide to incorporate world travel into her livelihood. She enrolled at Louisiana State University to get a teaching degree. “I was going to teach at international schools in Asia — that was the original plan,” she says. To pay the bills, she sold jewelry at the French Market, where she discovered her knack for sales. “I made three times as much selling jewelry in the market as I did student teaching,” Day says. “I thought, ‘OK, I’ll just travel back and forth and buy jewelry.’” With $1,000 in savings and a bank loan for another $5,000, Day started her business, trekking to and from Asia for handcrafted jewelry. It sold fast in the French Market. After a few years, when store space opened on Royal Street, Day jumped at it. The name Sabai is a Thai word referring to a state of deep contentment and well-being; the “S” on the store logo represents a road winding up a mountain. Day began indulging her other passion: stones. She designed pieces featuring fossils and gems found at rock and mineral shows. Today, Day works with artisans in Bali and Nepal who turn her designs into chunky, colorful jewelry pieces with artful details. One of the signature looks for Day’s

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Fun events have a way of snowballing in New Orleans, and the local penchant for participatory partying helps many grow each year. Still, Hogs for the Cause skyrocketed from a charitable cook-off among friends in 2009 to a veritable kickoff to the spring festival season today. The cause is to support families coping with a child’s pediatric brain cancer. To raise funds, Hogs for the Cause organizers tapped into the potent draw of outdoor pig cookery, the stuff of grand tailgates, regional pride and a little gonzo gastronomic gusto as teams of friends try to outdo one another. The result is one of the great eating events in New Orleans, which this year is Saturday at New Orleans City Park’s new festival grounds. Nearly 80 teams will be spread across its acreage at small encampments, and throughout the day they page 35

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a contemporary Colombian cafe specializing in arepas

Traditional food and contemporary decor mark a new cafe. By Ian McNulty

trictly speaking, the arepa is not necessary to sustain life, but after visiting Colombia you might think otherwise. In their native land, these cornmeal cakes turn up everywhere, from breakfast tables to street food stalls to breadbaskets at upscale steakhouses. They’re also all over the menu at Mais Arepas, a new outpost for casual Colombian cooking, where arepas are turned into unique South American sandwiches. Thick, moist and crisped and glistening from the griddle, these arepas taste like a cross between cornbread and a tortilla, and on the plate they resemble pita sandwiches with their components bursting forth. A combination of mashed avocado and fat hunks of sweet, sticky fried plantain top a number of these sandwich varieties. For one called carnicera, the kitchen adds appropriately chewy skirt steak and a mild puree of cranberry beans (named for their color, not their flavor, which is similar to red beans). Plump shrimp and citrusy slaw fill the marinera arepa, and eggs, ham and salsa turn the huevona into a breakfast-for-lunch (or dinner) option. The Argentine-influenced chori arepa features chunks of red, righteously greasy chorizo and wads of mozzarella, and an arepa with fried oysters, romaine and remoulade is a frequent special. Mais Arepas was opened late last year by David Mantilla, a former partner in the Uptown Colombian restaurant Baru Bistro & Tapas. This new place has the scale and warmth of a family-

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Mais Arepas specializes in Colombian arepas with fillings including shrimp and skirt steak. PHOTO By CHEryL GErBEr

run restaurant, though the look is more stylish than many casual Latin American eateries. The decor includes earthy patterns and Andean folk art, tropical colors and fresh flowers. There’s beer and a short list of moderately priced wines features mostly South American bottles. The arepas fixation limits the menu to a certain sameness, though it is possible to build a meal without them. The yellow cornmeal empanadas are excellent with beef and even better with mushrooms and peppers. Steak skewers bring the smokiness of the grill to the table, and an array of garlicky salsas add zest without much heat. Colombian food isn’t a cuisine known for tremendous spice or zest, but I wanted more citrus kick from the ceviche, which resembled a tropical shrimp salad. But the beautifully presented ajiaco, an entree-size chicken soup, proved surprisingly flavorful, with its briny zap of capers and dollops of cream in its thick potato broth. To go for it all, order the bandeja paisa. It’s like a single-serving buffet of chorizo, skirt steak, plantains, cranberry beans, a fried egg and a mini arepa all vying for room on a carved wooden platter, while a thick chicharron arches above like a rainbow of fried pork fat. It’s decadent but also appropriate for this place. Arepas may be the stuff of life in Colombian cuisine, but meat brings the sizzle.

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For more than 12 years, Cafe Reconcile (1631 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-568-1157; www.reconcileneworleans.org) has offered young people a chance to transform their lives through its job skills training and mentoring programs. More recently, the Central City nonprofit restaurant has undergone its own transformation. Following a major expansion and renovation, the cafe part of the operation has resumed its weekday lunch service. The new design includes a courtyard and much more room, though the menu of hearty and inexpensive New Orleans classics has stayed largely the same —surely a relief to fans of Thursday’s shrimp and white beans special. By summer, cafe hours will expand to include breakfast, and by the end of the year weekend din-

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njay Keswani’s late father Har was a naval architect before he opened the area’s first Indian restaurant, Taj Mahal (923 Metairie Road, 504-8366859), in 1982. Anjay grew up in the family business, which later expanded to include the restaurants Keswani’s and Shalimar (both since closed) and Nirvana Indian Cuisine (4308 Magazine St., 504-894-9797; www.insidenirvana.com), which they opened in 1999. Anjay and his mother Anila Keswani operate Nirvana today, where they are overhauling the menu to focus more on southern Indian cuisine.

Cafe Minh 4139 Canal St., (504) 482-6266 www.cafeminh.com The “seafood delight” features lobster, shrimp and scallops grilled with lemon grass.

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Let’s start with a question people always ask me: Why are there so few Indian restaurants in New Orleans? Keswani: People ask me that too, but I say it’s true and it’s not true. We’ve seen Indian restaurants come and go through the years. Some of our staff left to open places, but they’ve closed. I think it’s a question of staying power, and for us that is mom, number one, and then dad’s recipes. My father was a trailblazer. New Orleans people barely ate Chinese food back when he first started this, never mind Indian food. You’ve been traveling to India more frequently now. Do those experiences shape what you do at Nirvana? K: Absolutely, we’re going more into south Indian food now and opening the menu up. The problem is we already have 75 or 80 dishes on the menu. You can’t do 200 (dishes), but how do you take something off you know people still order? Some people will not be happy, I know. We also want to make the restaurant more vegan friendly, not just vegetarian friendly, but that’s hard because milk is integral to a lot of our cooking. Why do many Indian restaurants offer a lunch buffet? K: In India, you have a wedding and it’s always a buffet. And at most of the midrange restaurants, even when you order a la carte, they’re serving from a big hot table set up in the kitchen. The chef cooks earlier and he’s gone. That’s not how we do it, but it’s common back home. So, the concept for a buffet was already there. The people who opened the first Indian restaurants in America had buffets and it just stuck. — IAN MCNULTY

ners and Sunday gospel brunch should be added. The cafe is just one part of a top-to-bottom redevelopment of Cafe Reconcile’s five-story building, which includes a new event space called the Emeril Lagasse Foundation Hospitality Center.

More March food events

Hogs for the Cause is the biggest food event this weekend, but it’s not the only one. The long weekend starts Thursday with the Edible Evening, a foodiefocused garden party at the Samuel J. Green Charter School (2319 Valence St.) hosted by the Edible Schoolyard program, which incorporates gardening and healthy cooking into schools. About 30 restaurants, including many of the school’s neighbors from the nearby Freret Street restaurant row, will serve dishes amid the garden beds. The Edible Evening begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $45 in advance, $50 at the door. See details at www.esynola.org.

FoodFest: America’s Hometown Eats is the new name for the annual event previously called the New Orleans Roadfood Festival. Like its predecessor, FoodFest gathers a diverse array of food purveyors to offer samples of their signature dishes, this time at the French Market on Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m. each day. Vendors include familiar New Orleans names — from Acme Oyster House to Plum Street Snoball — and there’s barbecue from Memphis, tamales from Tucson, Ariz., and mini calzones called panzarotti from New Jersey. Admission is free. On Sunday, there’s a beigneteating contest at 1 p.m. FoodFest begins Friday with a dessert-themed opening night event at Cafe Reconcile (8 p.m., tickets $50) and on Saturday there’s a field trip for a crawfish boil and cochon de lait in Crown Point, a bayou town about 20 minutes from downtown New Orleans (beginning at 6:30 p.m., tickets are $99). Visit www.nolafoodfest.com or call (504) 888-7608 for details.

8311 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan, (504) 737-3700 www.charliesseafoodrestaurant.com Try a downscale version of chef Frank Brigtsen’s “un-fried” platter.

Harbor Seafood & Oyster Bar 3203 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-6454 Crab claws, shrimp cocktail, crawfish tails and calamari join forces.

Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914 www.jackdempseysllc.com With crawfish pies and gumbo, it’s a two-person heavyweight platter for the ages.

Two Tony’s 8536 Pontchartrain Blvd., (504) 282-0801 www.two-tonys.com Get a mix of local seafood fried, grilled, sauteed or blackened.

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serve their contest entries to judges and sell their creations to festival goers, while bands perform on two stages and drinks flow, including NOLA Brewing beers and a special vodka “hogtail” devised by Neal Bodenheimer of the cocktail lounge Cure. Last year’s event drew about 12,000 people. “The bigger it gets, the more money we can generate and the more we can give,” says Rene Louapre, the New Orleans attorney and food blogger at BlackenedOut.com, who founded Hogs for the Cause with his friend Becker Hall. One major addition to the program this year is the Southern Asado Dinner, a local rendition of a traditional Argentine barbecue prepared outdoors and served family-style at the Festival Grounds on Friday beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Link Restaurant Group, including Herbsaint, Cochon and Butcher, is coordinating the dinner, which is the laidback equivalent of a benefit gala with music, a silent auction and wine and drinks included in the $300 ticket. The competition at Saturday’s main event pits accomplished restaurant chefs from around the region against each other and against backyard barbecue fanatics, with obvious payoffs for attendees who arrive hungry and ready to sample. “The teams are highly secretive,” Louapre says. “But once you’re out there, it’s amazing how fast word spreads about what someone’s serving. My advice is to come in and start talking with people on the grounds about what they’ve had.” Patrons can get an informal preview of what’s to come at the Friday Night Tailgate Experience, another new addition to the schedule. From 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, $5 admission gets access to the grounds to mingle with teams as they prepare for a night of cooking, and drinks, including more “hogtails,” will be for sale. Gates open at 11 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at the gate, and there’s a “boss hog” ticket for $250, $300 at the gate, which includes food, drinks and other perks. Children 12 and under are admitted free. For details and tickets, visit www.hogsforthecause.org.

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aMeRICaN Indulge Island grIll — 845 Carondalet St., (504) 609-2240; www.indulgeislandgrill.com — This Caribbean- and pirate-themed restaurant offers everything from seafood and salads to burgers, sandwiches and ribs. Pirate’s Kiss seafood pasta combines sauteed shrimp, crawfish and catfish in lemon-vodka cream over linguine and is topped with pepper bacon. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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KnuCKleHeads eaTerY — 3535 Severn Ave., Suite 10, Metairie, (504) 888-5858; www.knuckleheadsnola. com — This casual eatery serves burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads and bar noshes. Mulligan Mike’s all-Angus chuck burger is topped with grilled ham and Swiss or cheddar cheese and comes with fries and a pickle. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ O’HenrY’s FOOd & sPIrITs — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 866-9741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, (504) 461-9840; www.ohenrys.com — Complimentary peanuts are the calling card of these casual, family friendly restaurants. The menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ sOMeTHIn’ else CaFe — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Treasure Island BuFFeT — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino. com — The all-you-can-eat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ dOWn THe HaTCH — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, (504) 522-0909; www. downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sundried tomato pesto. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ rendOn Inn’s dugOuT sPOrTs Bar — 4501 Eve St., (504) 826-5605; www.therendoninn. com — The Boudreaux burger combines lean ground beef, hot sausage and applewood-smoked bacon on a ciabatta bun with cheese, onions and remoulade. Fresh cut fries are served with Parmesan cheese and a drizzle of truffle oil. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ THe rIVersHaCK TaVern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ sHaMrOCK Bar & grIll — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 301-0938 — Shamrock serves an Angus rib-eye steak with a side item, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more. No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $

BaRBeCUe BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., (504) 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ HICKOrY PrIMe BBQ — 6001 France Road, (757) 277-8507; www. hickoryprimebbq.com — Proprietors Billy Rhodes and Karen Martin have won several barbecue competitions. They serve Texas-style brisket, smoked chicken, ribs and more. The pulled pork platter features pork cooked for 12 hours over hickory and white oak and it comes with two sides. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ sauCY’s — 4200 Magazine St., (504) 301-2755; www.saucysnola. com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken. The cochon blue is a

sandwich of pulled pork, blue cheese and melted mozzerella on a bun. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

BURGeRS CHeeseBurger eddIe’s — 4517 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-5511; www.mredsno.com — This eatery serves a variety of specialty burgers, Mr. Ed’s fried chicken, sandwiches, po-boys, salads, tacos, wings and shakes. Besides patty melts and chili-cheeseburgers, there also are seafood burgers featuring tuna, salmon or crabmeat. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

FIVe HaPPIness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Jung’s gOlden dragOn — 3009 Magazine St., (504) 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

COFFee/DeSSeRt PInKBerrY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Magazine St., (504) 899-4260; www. pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CaFe anTOIne’s anneX — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines. com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honey-Dijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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Breads On OaK — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 324-8271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available. The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations. Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $

OaK — 8118 Oak St., (504) 302-1485; www.oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. The hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

BaYOna — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CaFe FrereT — 7329 Freret St., (504) 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

One resTauranT & lOunge — 8132 Hampson St., (504) 301-9061; www.one-sl.com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

CaFe nOMa — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www. cafenoma.com — The cafe serves roasted Gulf shrimp and vegetable salad dressed with Parmesan-white balsamic vinaigrette. Other options include chipotle-marinated portobello sliders and flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $

CReOLe anTOIne’s resTauranT — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., (504) 309-3570; www. redemption-nola.com — Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade. Roasted duck breast is served with red onion and yam hash, andouille, sauteed spinach and grilled Kadota fig jus. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ SAINTS & SINNERS — 627 Bourbon St., (504) 528-9307; www.saintsandsinnersnola. com — Styled to reflect era of Storyville, the restaurant serves Creole and Cajun dishes, raw oysters, seafood, steaks, poboys, burgers and more. The Politician’s Special features a trio of jambalaya, crawfish pie and a cup of gumbo. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$$ STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, (504) 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ WILLIE MAE’S SCOTCH HOUSE — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503 — This popular neighborhood restaurant is know for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI JIMS — 3000 Royal St., (504) 304-8224 — The Reuben is fill seeded rye bread with corned beef, pastrami, provolone and Swiss cheeses, German sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing. The Bywater cheese steak sandwich combines marinated steak, grilled onions, green pepper and Havarti cheese on a rustic roll. No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun. com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ MARDI GRAS ZONE — 2706 Royal St., (504) 947-8787; www.mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. The Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. The Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ QUARTER MASTER DELI — 1100 Bourbon St., (504) 529-1416; www.quartermasterdeli.com — Slow-cooked pork ribs are coated in house barbecue sauce and served with two sides. Slow-roasted beef is sliced thin, doused in gravy and served on 10-inch French loaves. No reservations. 24 hours daily. Cash only. $

FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., (504) 895-0900; www.flamingtorchnola.com — The menu includes pan-seared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash. Coffeeand coriander-spiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., (504) 8918495; www.martiniquebistro. com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, (504) 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, (504) 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., (504) 944-6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Serving

mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8366859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemoncream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., (504) 529-2154; www.cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tassomushroom sauce. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ MAXIMO’S ITALIAN GRILL — 1117 Decatur St., (504) 586-8883; www.maximosgrill. com — Sit at the bar overlooking the open grill and watch chefs prepare dishes like the fish of the day pan-sauteed in habanero-infused olive oil and served with seasonal vegetables. Osso buco is a braised veal shank served with garlic, thyme and white wine demiglace, herb-roasted Parmesan potatoes and grilled asparagus. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, lunch Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 4368950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www. redgravycafe.com — The cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try handmade meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Thu.-Fri., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant

JAPANESE Chiba — 8312 Oak St., (504) 826-9119; www.chiba-nola. com — Chiba puts creative local touches on Japanese cuisine. The satsuma strawberry roll bundles scallop, yellowtail, strawberry, mango, jalapeno, wasabi tobiko and tempura flakes and is topped with spicy sauce and satsuma ponzu. Pork belly steamed buns are served with Japanese slaw and pickled onions. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $$$ KaKKOii JaPaNESE biSTREaUX — 7537 Maple St., (504) 570-6440; www. kakkoii-nola.com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., (504) 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

MiYaKO JaPaNESE SEaFOOD & STEaKhOUSE — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro. com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ORiGaMi — 5130 Freret St., (504) 899-6532 — Nabeyaki udon is a soup brimming with thick noodles, chicken and vegetables. The long list of special rolls includes the Big Easy, which combines tuna, salmon, white fish, snow crab, asparagus and crunchy bits in soy paper with eel sauce on top. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ROCK-N-SaKE — 823 Fulton St., (504) 581-7253; www. rocknsake.com — Rock-n-Sake serves traditional Japanese cui-

YUKi iZaKaYa — 525 Frenchmen St., (504) 943-1122; www. facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

LATIN AMERICAN La MaCaRENa PUPSERia aND LaTiN CaFE — 8120 Hampson St., (504) 862-5252; www.pupsasneworleans.com — This cafe serves Latin and Caribbean dishes, tapas and appetizers like guacamole and chips. Spanish garlic shrimp is served with refried black beans, saffron rice and tropical salad. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.Mon. Checks. $$

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MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN aTTiKi baR & GRiLL — 230 Decatur St., (504) 587-3756 — This restaurant and hookah bar serves an array of Mediterranean dishes. Tomato Buffala features baked tomatoes and mozzarella topped with basil and olive oil. Grilled filet mignon is topped with creamy mushroom sauce and served with two sides. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$

MaNNiNG’S — 519 Fulton St., (504) 593-8118; www. harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

babYLON CaFE — 7724 Maple St., (504) 314-0010; www.babyloncafe.biz —The Babylon platter includes stuffed grape leaves, hummus, kibbeh, rice and one choice of meat: lamb, chicken or beef kebabs, chicken or beef shawarma, gyro or kufta. Chicken shawarma salad is a salad topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

RESTaURaNT R’EvOLUTiON — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, housemade salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death by Gumbo”

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TOMMY’S WiNE baR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

hERiTaGE GRiLL — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce and pan-fried crab cakes with corn maque choux and sugar snap peas. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

RaLPh’S ON ThE PaRK — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Tuna two ways includes tuna tartare, seared pepper tuna, avocado and wasabi cream. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-0077 — This casual cafe serves creative takes on Southwestern cuisine. Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg and served with smoked paprika aioli. Outdoor seating is available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.Sun. Credit cards. $$

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BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., (504) 586-0972; www. thebombayclub.com — Mull the menu at this French Quarter hideaway while sipping a well made martini. The duck duet pairs confit leg with pepperseared breast with black currant reduction. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ ThE COLUMNS — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 8999308; www.thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood po-boys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ hOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www. hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. The buffet-style gospel brunch fea-

tures local and regional groups. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ ThE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola.com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. Sandwich options include muffulettas, Philly steaks on po-boy bread and gyros in pita bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www. siberianola.com — The Russki Reuben features corned beef, Swiss cheese, kapusta (spicy cabbage) and Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. Potato and cheese pierogies are served with fried onions and sour cream. No reservations. Dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $. $

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., (504) 309-7557; www. artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. Get one with a schmear or as a sandwich. Salads also are available. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ CAFE B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 9344700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Grilled redfish is served with confit of wild mushrooms, spaghetti squash, charred Vidalia onion and aged balsamic vinegar. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

PIZZA DON FORTUNATO’S PIZZERIA — 3517 20th St., Metairie, (504) 302-2674 — The Sicilian pizza is topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella, prosciutto, roasted red peppers and kalamata olives. The chicken portobello calzone is filled with grilled chicken breast, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, portobello mushrooms and sun-dried tomato mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie

Road, Metairie, (504) 8328032; www.marktwainspizza. com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., (504) 891-2376; www.newyorkpizzanola.com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. The Big Apple pie is loaded with pepperoni, Canadian bacon, onions, mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, Italian sausage and minced garlic and anchovies and jalapenos are optional. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ ThEO’S NEIGhBORhOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www. theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., (504) 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. Original topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ JUGhEAD’S ChEESESTEAKS — 801 Poland Ave., (504) 304-5411; www.jugheadsneworleans.com — Jughead’s specializes in cheese steaks on toasted Dong Phuong bread. The regular cheese steak features thin-sliced rib-eye, sauteed mushrooms, onions, peppers and garlic and melted provolone and mozzarella. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ KILLER POBOYS — 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ MAGAZINE PO-BOY ShOP — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of po-boys filled with everything from fried seafood

OUT to EAT to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original po-boys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. There are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 885-3416; www.parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. The veal supreme po-boy features a cutlet topped with Swiss cheese and brown gravy. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice is known for pizza on thin crusts made from 100 percent wheat flour. Other options include the barbecue shrimp po-boy made with Abita Amber and the shrimp Portofino, a pasta dish with white garlic cream sauce, shrimp and broccoli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SEAFOOD ACME OYSTER HOUSE — 724 Iberville St., (504) 522-5973; 1202 N. Hwy. 190, Covington, (985) 246-6155; 3000 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 309-4056; www.acmeoyster.com — The original Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter has served raw oysters for more than a century. The full menu includes char-grilled oysters, many cooked seafood dishes and New Orleans staples. The Peace Maker po-boy combines fried shrimp and oysters and is dressed with Tabascoinfused mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 8320955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular soft-shell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Reserva-

GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5208530; www.grandislerestaurant. com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. The baked Gulf fish is topped with compound chili butter and served with local seasonal vegetables and herbroasted potatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MR. ED’S SEAFOOD & ITALIAN RESTAURANT. — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — The menu includes seafood, Italian dishes, fried chicken, poboys, salads and daily specials. Eggplant casserole is stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat and served with potatoes and salad. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ NEW ORLEANS HAMBURGER & SEAFOOD CO. — citywide; www.nohsc. com — Menus vary by location but generally include burgers, salads, po-boys, fried seafood and New Orleans favorites. The thin fried catfish platter comes with wedge-cut garlic-herb fries, hush puppies and Mardi Gras coleslaw. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

SOUL FOOD BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd., (504) 2412548; www.bigmommaschickenandwaffles.com — Big Momma’s serves hearty combinations like the six-piece which includes a waffle and six fried wings served crispy or dipped in sauce. Breakfast is served all day. All items are cooked to order. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

STEAKHOUSE AUSTIN’S SEAFOOD AND STEAKHOUSE — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno. com — Austin’s serves prime steaks, chops and seafood. Veal Austin features paneed veal topped wwith Swiss chard, bacon, mushrooms, asparagus, crabmeat and brabant potatoes on the side. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — 322 Magazine St., (504) 522-7902; www. chophousenola.com — This traditional steakhouse serves USDA prime beef, and a selection of super-sized cuts includes a 40-oz. Porterhouse for two. The menu also features seafood options and a la carte side items. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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Songbird The Tennesee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival stages the playwright’s work and much more. By Brad Rhines

that goes through a lot of Tennessee Williams’ plays — the lonely woman and the disappointing man.” Williams was very particular when writing stage directions, and he often included specific songs. The show’s title comes from a scene in Streetcar in which Blanche soaks in the tub and sings “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” a jaunty tune that includes the lyric “It’s only a paper moon hanging over a cardboard sea/ But it wouldn’t be make-believe if you believed in me.” The song encapsulates Blanche’s dilemma, and Kaplan says Williams often called for upbeat music when characters were in unhappy situations. “Any music in a play by Tennessee Williams is always the paradise heard across the street, the happiness and grace that others enjoy, overheard by those in very different circumstances than grace,” he says. “But if music sometimes mocks in a Williams play, at the same time music inspires those who hear it, moving us to believe that just out the window, or just around the corner, paradise can be found.” Songbook covers a wide range of styles — from early jazz and blues to country-Western ballads and Latin love songs — and most of them are songs Williams would have known from his youth. The songs are arranged by Allison Leyton Brown, a New York City pianist who’ll be joined on stage by a cast of local jazz musicians. Also sitting in with the band is trombonist and ukulele virtuoso J. Walter

Hawkes, an Emmy-winning comAlison Fraser performs in A poser originally from Mississippi. The show includes “Sophisticated Tennessee Williams Songbook: Lady,” a Duke Ellington song cited Only a Paper Moon. in Williams’ Clothes for a Summer Hotel, but it took time for Fraser, Tennessee Williams MAR who is known for her work on New Orleans Broadway, to find her voice on the Literary Festival jazz standard. THRU various locations “I wanted to look at it from the MAR perspective of someone who is www.tennesseeliving a life of emotional pain,” williams.net Fraser says. “And then I realized she’s drunk. She’s not sophisticated at all. This woman is on a downward spiral. It’s drunkenness brilliantly evoked by Duke Ellington, because she’s trying to keep steady and not quite doing it.” Fraser and actor Bryan Batt (Mad Men) are staging a reading of Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen at the festival under Kaplan’s direction. The reading highlights the intensity of Williams’ writing, which Kaplan says is as integral to Songbook as the music. “The words themselves are not only powerful, but evocative,” he says. “The words to me are an incantation. If you say them out loud, something happens in the room. There is a magic that happens.”

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t the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, director David Kaplan presents a collage of some of Williams’ famous and not-so-famous plays, monologues and music to create a new narrative in A Tennessee Williams Songbook: Only a Paper Moon, a one-woman show starring Tonynominated actress Alison Fraser. “Like any Brooklyn Jew, I have a fascination with Mississippi, that exotic world of fried okra and Moon Pies,” Kaplan says. The festival features productions of other works by Williams, including Auto-Da-Fe and The Gnadiges Fraulein, scholarly discussions of Williams’ work, readings and talks by columnist and author Leonard Pitts Jr., fiction writer Moira Crone, historian Douglas Brinkley, playwright John Patrick Shanley, novelists Christine Wiltz and Nevada Barr and others, plus seminars on how to get published and the annual Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest. Kaplan discovered the colorful world of Williams as an undergraduate at Clark University in Western Massachusetts, where he directed a production of Suddenly Last Summer. He helped start the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival and authored Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, which documents the summers Williams spent at the beach resort and artists’ retreat on Cape Cod. Kaplan has taken Williams’ work around the globe, directing a Russian-language production of Suddenly Last Summer in Samara, Russia, and a Cantonese production of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale in Hong Kong. He found that these stories reverberate with audiences worldwide. “I saw the universality of what he was writing about,” Kaplan says. “Like any great writer — like Shakespeare, like Ibsen, like Chekhov — Williams had a vision of how people related to each other, and that was a vision that held true no matter the culture.” Kaplan draws on Williams’ vision of hope and despair as Songbook’s nameless character pines for a better life. Incorporating lines and images from A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie and the one-act play Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, the show depicts a woman very much like Blanche DuBois, who steadfastly refuses to accept hard truths even as her imaginary world crumbles. “It’s basically the story of a woman waiting for a man that doesn’t come,” Fraser says. “That’s a theme

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3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top — the littlest Viking, religious girls, astronomical, mada, 7 AllWays Lounge — wasted lives, truckstop Honeymoon, Crybabies, 9 Banks Street Bar — Chrisina larocca, 7; Hessler, 10 Blue Nile — plaid on plaid, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — tommy malone band, 8 Circle Bar — Harlequins, Her band of gold, natalie mae, 10 d.b.a. — the treme brass band, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — tom Hook & wendell brunious, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — the giving tree band, Desert noises, Hollis brown, 9

House of Blues (Parish) — the Dear Hunter, naive thieves, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — ed petersen, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason bishop, 9 The Maison — gregory agid, 6; magnitude, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — rebirth brass band, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — michael liuzza, 8; tom Henehan, 9; Har-di-Har, 10 Old U.S. Mint — matt Hampsey & bruce barnes, 3 One Eyed Jacks — gram rabbit, spindrift, Jesse tripp & the nightbreed, 9 Preservation Hall — preservation Hall-stars feat. shannon powell, 8

Banks Street Bar — major bacon, 10 Blue Nile — new orleans rhythm Devils, 8; gravity a, 10 Breezy’s Spot — Young buffalo, Hey marseilles Buffa’s Lounge — gardenia moon, 7 Cafe Negril — sam Cammarata & Dominick grillo, 7:30; another Day in paradise, 9:30 Carousel Piano Bar & Lounge — michael & ashley lemmler, 5; smoking time Jazz Club feat. Chance bushman, 8:30 Checkpoint Charlie — pallbearers, Vampirates, indian givers, 10:30 Chickie Wah Wah — meschiya lake & tom mcDermott, 7 Circle Bar — Chris lee, 6 The Cove at University of New Orleans — Joanne brackeen, 7 d.b.a. — walter “wolfman” washington & the roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — leah rucker, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — HrVrD, Junior astronomer, luxley, 9 House of Blues — Domenic, ruby, 6 House of Blues (Parish) — Jet lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hey marseilles, Young buffalo, Kid Carsons, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Kipori woods, 5; irvin mayfield’s noJo Jam, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — patrick Cooper, 9

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You entered through a grassy rabbit hole into the evocative Wonderland inside the Marigny Opera House. the folding chairs on either side of the nave of this deconsecrated church soon filled. On the floor between the rows of chairs were 10 sleepers (all New Orleans Center for Creative Arts dance students) under blankets. Off to one side, Shane Courville played original music on a baby grand piano. After going down a rabbit hole, you would expect some of Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense. In this case, it was a phantasmagoric avant-garde ballet based on the 1865 children’s classic. Chard Gonzalez Dance theatre took a humorous and ramshackle approach to the piece it created and performed. Once things got underway, the piano dropped out and the music was a recorded version of David del tredici’s An Alice Symphony. there was considerable percussion, along with woodwinds, horns and soprano voices in a sort of wordless melisma. the dancing tended to go counter to the rhythms, rather than in sync. the work featured many of the Wonderland characters but hardly attempted to construct a narrative. the young sleepers served as a corps de ballet and tied things together by their presence, eventually metamorphosing into butterflies and playing cards. Cards are, after all, crucial in Wonderland, which is ruled by the Queen of Hearts (Chard Gonzalez), King of Hearts (Paul Aguiar) and the Jack of Hearts (William Byram). there was considerable knockabout amid the royals, and the ineffectual king usually got the worst of it. the White Rabbit (Kabrena Robinson) helped the episodes segue from one to another. Among the popular characters, we got to see the Mad Hatter (Christopher Forsyth) and his tea party guests, the March Hare (Madison Alford) and the Dormouse (Reese Johanson). A woman from the audience was pressed into service as a guest, and audience members were occasionally used as stooges. In the flamingo/croquet match, flimsy plastic flamingo lawn ornaments served as mallets, occasionally coming apart and sending parts skittering into the crowd. Caterpillar (Mary Carol Chenet) and Cheshire Cat (Meliah Henry) rounded out the cast. this entertaining show was not about polish so much as inventiveness. Working without much in the way of equipment, Justin Bourgeois managed to create evocative lighting. A tip of the hat goes to Chard Gonzalez Dance theatre and the Marigny Opera House, the font of a Bywater bohemian renaissance. — DALt WONK

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IN THE MATTER OF ALEXIS KOYAMA, Petitioner AND JERRY WOLFE, Respondent SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: JERRY ALLAN WOLFE, In the name of the State of Oregon: You are hereby required to appear and respond to the Petition for Custody and Parenting Time filed in the above-entitled proceeding within thirty (30) days from the date of first publication of this Summons upon you. If you fail to appear and respond in this matter within thirty (30) days of the date of first publication specified herein along with the required filing fee, ALEXIS KOYAMA will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition. The first date of publication is March 5, 2013. NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY! You must “appear” in this case or the other side will win automatically. To “appear,” you must file with the Court a legal paper called a “Response” or “Motion.” The “Response” or “Motion” must be given to the court clerk or administrator within 30 days of the date of first publication specified herein along with the required filing fee. It must be in proper form and have proof of service on the plaintiff’s attorney or, if the plaintiff does not have an attorney, proof of service on the plaintiff. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU SHOULD SEE AN ATTORNEY IMMEDIATELY. If you need help in finding an attorney, you may contact the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service online at www. oregonstatebar.org or by calling (503) 684-3763 (in the Portland metropolitan area) or toll-free elsewhere in Oregon at (800) 452-7636. The object of said action and the relief sought is fully set forth in said Petition, and is briefly stated as follows: for custody of Violet Harper Koyama-Wolfe, a determination of parenting time, child support, medical support, and insurance coverage. ADDRESS WHERE PAPERS MAY BE SERVED BY MAIL IN THIS ACTION: Morinaka Schworm, LLC, 2580 NW Upshur St., Portland, OR 97210. Chase Morinaka, OSB#092628, Attorney for Petitioner.

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 12-9765 DIV. A SEC. 15 DOCKET NO. 1

SUCCESSION OF CRAIG MICHAEL KRONLAGE

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2011-12494 DIV M SECTION 13

SUCCESSION OF DR. EVERETT L. DREWES WHEREAS the Testamentary Co-Executors of the above Estate have made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: 489 Amethyst Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124 UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO WIT: For the price and sum of $245,500.00, all cash to seller, as set forth in the Agreement to Buy or Sell, dated March 5, 2013, dated February 6, 2013, filed in these proceedings. Property is sold “as is” without warranties. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this Estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgement authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of 7 days from the date of the last publication of this notice, all in accordance with law. CLERK OF COURT, DALE N. ATKINS Attorney: Robert P. Blackburn DeSalvo, Blackburn & Kitchens Address: 45 Lakewood Place New Orleans, LA 70131-8359 Telephone: 504-913-8783 Gambit: 3/19/13 & 4/9/13

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2012-3238 DIV. M SUCCESSION OF ULYSSES MORGAN NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administrator of the above estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable herein described to-wit: 5323 FOREST PARK LANE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Legal Description Tall Timbers Sq.3, Lot 58 UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO WIT: FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS and no cents ($15,000.00) less the usual and customary expenses of the sale, all as per the agreement to purchase and sell.

NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of this estate and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within seven (7) days from this notification (if any they have or can) why the First Tableau of Distribution presented by the Administrator of this Succession should not be ratified, approved and homologated and the proposed disbursements be made in accordance therewith.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publication of this notice, all in accordance with law.

DALE N. ATKINS, CLERK

BY ORDER OF THIS COURT

Attorney: Charles N. Miller, Jr. Address: 839 St. Charles Ave., Ste. 311, NOLA 70130 Telephone: (504) 529-4641

Attorney: Elaine Appleberry Address: 405 Gretna Blvd., Ste. 107 Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 362-7800

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Gambit: 3/19/13 & 4/9/13 & The Louisiana Weekly

CLASSIFIEDS CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 11-7186 DIV D SECTION 16 DOCKET NO. 1 SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER NOTICE IS GIVEN that MARY CLARE HARTMAN, in her capacity as duly qualified and acting Dative Testamentary Executrix, had on behalf of the SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER, and pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY -FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($425,000.00) DOLLARS, cash, the Succession’s interest in and to the following described property: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, situated in the THIRD DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN SQUARE NO. 149, bounded by SPAIN, ROYAL and CHARTRES STREETS, and ST. ROCH (late Washington) AVENUE, which lot is designated by the NO. 5 on a plan by A. D’Hemecourt, Surveyor, dated January 27, 1835, deposited in the office of L.T. Caire, late Notary, which said lot measures 30 feet front on Spain Street, by a depth between parallel lines of 127 feet, 10 inches and 6 lines. The improvements thereon bear Municipal Numbers 625-27 Spain Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117.

Attorney: Eric M. Schorr Address: 201 St. Charles Ave., Ste. 3815 New Orleans, LA 70170 Telephone: 504-582-1500 Gambit: 2/26/13 & 3/19/13 & The Louisiana Weekly

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 2012-8138 DIV. J-5 SUCCESSION OF ADRIAN V. MOFFETT NOTICE OF FILING FINAL ACCOUNT & TABLEAU OF DISTRIBUTION NOTICE is hereby given to all creditors of this succession and all other interested persons to show cause within seven days from the publication of this notice, if any they have, why the Final Account and Tableau of Distribution of the succession of ADRIAN MOFFETT filed by CHRIS A. MOFFETT, Executor, in the above titled succession, filed in Orleans Parish, LA should not be approved and homologated and the assets be distributed in accordance with it. Attorney: Louis A. Heyd, Jr. Address: 1100 Poydras St., Ste. 3150 New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: 504-525-1508 Gambit: 3/19/13

235th DISTRICT COURT

CITATION BY PUBLICATION CV13-00087 To: R.J. HORSTMEIER NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. YOU MAY EMPLOY AN ATTORNEY. IF YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY DO NOT FILE A WRITTEN ANSWER WITH THE CLERK WHO ISSUED THIS CITATION BY 10:00 A.M. ON THE MONDAY NEXT FOLLOWING THE EXPIRATION OF FORTY-TWO DAYS AFTER YOU WERE SERVED THIS CITATION AND PETITION, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU. You are hereby commanded to appear by filing a written answer to the PLAINTIFF’S ORIGINAL PETITION of plaintiff at or before 10 o’clock a.m. of the Monday next after the expiration of forty-two days after the date of service of this citation before the Honorable 235th JUDICIAL DISTRICT, Cooke County, Texas, at the courthouse in the city of Gainesville, Texas. Said petition was filed in said court, on the 14th day of February, 2013 in cause number CV13-00087 on the docket of said court and styled: ATOKA OPERATING, INC. vs. ROY L. MCDANIEL, C.R. MCDANIEL, R.J. HORSTMEIER, & THE JOHN M. MOUSER COMPANY The nature of this cause is: Plaintiff request the Court to appoint a receiver over the property described below with such powers as are requested in the petition: All that certain 356.65 acres, more or less, out of the Gideon Rose Survey, A-882, Cooke County, Texas, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of a 160 acre tract conveyed by J.R. Thompson, et al to G.W. Lile by Deed recorded in Volume 81, Page 362 of the Deed Records of Cooke County, Texas, at a fenced corner; Thence North 398-1/2 varas to Rock Creek; Thence Northerly with the meanders of Rock Creek to the Northeast corner of the 178 acre tract in said Survey described as the Second Tract in said Deed from J.R. Thompson, et al to G.W. Lile; Thence South 88 degrees 47 minutes West with center of road 1567.8 varas to corner in road leading South; Thence South 33 minutes East with road 1164.2 varas to a large corner post; Thence East with fence crossing West fork of Rock Creek, 1802 varas to the Place of Beginning. The officer executing this citation shall promptly serve the same according to requirements of law, and mandates thereof, and make due return as the law directs. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said court at Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas this the 19th day of February, 2013. ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF: JONATHAN W. HENLEY 100 E. BROADWAY GAINESVILLE, TEXAS 76240 SUSAN HUGHES, DISTRICT CLERK COOKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE 101 SOUTH DIXON GAINESVILLE, TEXAS 76240 Melissa Gann, Deputy Gambit: 2/26/13, 3/5/13, 3/12/13 & 3/19/13

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 11-7186 DIV. D SEC 16 DOCKET NO. 1

SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER NOTICE IS GIVEN that MARY CLARE HARTMAN, in her capacity as duly qualified and acting Dative Testamentary Executrix, had on behalf of the SUCCESSION OF EDWARD WRIGHT KLEPPINGER, and pursuant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, Article 3281, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the price of FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND AND N0/100 ($460,000.00) DOLLARS, cash, the Succession’s interest in and to the following described property: ONE CERTAIN LOT OR PORTION OF GROUND, with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the THIRD DISTRICT of the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, in SQUARE NO. 149, bounded by ROYAL, CHARTRES, SPAIN STREETS and ST. ROCH AVENUE, designated as LOT “R” on the survey by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated August 22, 1957, a copy of which is annexed to a previous act before John H. Hammel, Jr., N.P. and according to said survey, said LOT “R” commences at a distance of 147 feet from the corner of Royal and St. Roch Avenue and measures thence 35 feet, 2 inches and 4 lines front on Royal Street, a width in the rear of 62 feet, 2 inches and 4 lines by a depth on the side line nearest to Spain Street of 127 feet, 10 inches and 6 lines and first depth on the opposite side line nearest to St. Roch Avenue of 105 feet, thence widening at right angles 27 feet, with a second depth of 22 feet, 10 inches and 6 lines. Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 2462 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117. NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with the law made and provided in such cases, notice is hereby given that MARY CLARE HARTMAN, in her capacity as duly qualified and acting Dative Testamentary Executrix, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such course, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears. Attorney: Eric M. Schorr Address: 201 St. Charles Avenue, Ste. 3815 NOLA 70170 Telephone: 504-582-1500 Gambit: 2/26/13 & 3/19/13 & The Louisiana Weekly

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 13-2382 DIV. J SECTION 5

SUCCESSION OF JOHN J. THERENCE, SR. WHEREAS the administratrix has made application to the Court for the sale of property of John J. Therence, Sr., as follows: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, Second District of the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, Square 319, bounded by Gov. Nicholls (formerly

Hospital), N. Rocheblave, Barracks and N. Dorgenois Streets, designated by the Letter “A”, commences at a distance of twenty-two feet, four inches, seven lines (22’4’7’”), from the corner of Gov. Nicholls and N. Rocheblave Streets, and measures forty-one feet, no inches, no lines (41’0”0’”), front on Gov. Nicholls Street, same width in the rear, by a depth on the side line nearest to N. Rocheblave Street of one hundred four feet, one inch, seven lines (104’1”7’”), and a depth on the opposite side line of one hundred five feet, no inches, four lines (105’0”4’”), composed of the whole of original Lot 6, and a portion of original Lot 42, all according to sketch of survey by Errol E. Kelly, Surveyor, dated December 22, 1966. Improvements bear Municipal Numbers 2505-07 Gov. Nicholls Street. Upon the terms and conditions set forth in the petition and the agreement to purchase filed in the record of this matter. Any heir or creditor who opposes the proposed sale must file their opposition within ten (10) days from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears. By Order of the Court, Dale N. Atkins, Clerk of Court Attorney: Jason P. Hernandez Address: 7037 Canal Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-484-0700 Gambit: 3/19/13 & The Louisiana Weekly Tanya Baker Doucette, 2700 West Catawba Drive Harvey LA 70058, her heirs, or anyone knowing her whereabouts please contact Geralyn Garvey (504) 838-0191.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH ORLEANS

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2011-12494 DIV. M SEC. 13

STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2009-10500 DIV. B DOCKET NO. 1

SUCCESSION OF DR. EVERETT L. DREWES WHEREAS the Testamentary CoExecutors of the above Estate have made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: 489 Amethyst Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: For the price and sum of $260,000.00, all cash to seller, as set forth in the Agreement to Buy or Sell, dated February 6, 2013, filed in these proceedings. Property is sold “as is” without warranties. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this Estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of 7 days from the date of the last publication of this notice, all in accordance with law.

SUCCESSION OF JUDY MARY COROY NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of this succession and to all other interested persons that an amended tableau of distribution has been filed by the administrator of this succession, with his petition praying for homologation of the tableau and for authority to pay the debts and charges of the succession listed thereon; and that the tableau of distribution can be homologated after the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the petition and tableau of distribution must be filed prior to homologation. By Order of the Civil District Court, Dale Atkins, Clerk Attorney: Irving B. Schnaider, APLC, LA Bar No. 18539 Address: 120 N. Telemachus St. New Orleans, LA 70119 Telephone: (504) 484-6416 Gambit: 3/19/13

Attorney: Robert P. Blackburn DeSALVO, BLACKBURN & KITCHENS Address: 45 Lakewood Place New Orleans, LA 70131-8359 Telephone No. (504) 913-8783 Gambit: 2/26/13 & 3/19/13 & The Louisiana Weekly

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NOW THEREFORE, in accordance with the law made and provided in such cases, notice is hereby given that MARY CLARE HARTMAN, in her capacity as duly qualified and acting Dative Testamentary Executrix, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable property, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make opposition, if any they have or can, to such course, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

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CLASSIFIEDS CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO: 2009-00167 DIV. D DOCKET # 1 SECTION 16 SUCCESSION OF MARGUERITE JOHNSTON, WIFE OF/AND WALLACE J. VIGEE NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administrator of the above estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: Lot 1, Square No. 266, Second District of the City of New Orleans, Municipal Number 1812 St. Phillip Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, previous acquisition: COB 690, folio 130. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: $20,000.00 cash, balance of $15,000.00 to be financed by seller over sixty months at an interest rate of 5%. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk Atty: James G. Maguire

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 09-978 DIV. J

ANXILLARY SUCCESSION OF CORNELIA DOYLE SEABERRY NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE THE ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATOR JAMES E. SEABERRY OF THE ABOVE ESTATE HAS MADE APPLICATION TO THE COURT FOR THE SALE, AT PRIVATE SALE, OF THE IMMOVABLE PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, sertitudes, appertenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the Third District of the City of New Orleans, in Square No. One, Plot A, Plum Orchard Subdivision, bounded by Warfield Street, Plum Orchard Avenue, New Orleans, Chef Menteur Highway and property of Norbert Francis. Said lot is designated by the letter “Y” on survey made by Guy J. Seghers, Surveyor, dated March 8, 1947, according to which said lot measures 50 feet front on Warfield Street, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of two hundred fifty-one and one and fifty-four one hundredths feet (251 54/100ths) and is composed of the greater portion of original Lot 2 and a small part of the adjoining original Lot 3. Lot Y commences at a distance of 55 feet title (50 feet actual ) measurements from the corner of Warfield and the property of Norbert Francis.

REAL ESTATE Under the terms and conditions provided in the agreement to purchase filed in these proceedings and in the amount of $74,910.70. Notice is now given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of decedent, and of this estate, that they be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homologating that application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance with law. By Order of the Court, This 13th day of March, 2013. Dale N. Atkins, Clerk Attorney: Warren P. McKenna, III Address: 829 Baronne St. New Orleans, LA 70113 Telephone: 504-581-9322 Gambit: 3/19/13

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Beautiful Lower Garden District renov’d condo w/ 13’ ceilings, large 25’ combination living & dining room, recessed lighting, ceiling fans, hdwd flrs, 2 bedrooms wi private baths, ss appli & inground pool. Lots of in-unit storage including a walkin closet & pantry. 1 blk from restaurants, streetcar & parade route. Call Sandy Ward, REMAX, at (504) 259-2616 or sandyward@remax.net

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Beautiful 2br/2.5 ba in the heart of Magazine shopping district. 1450 sf living, hdwd flrs, Corian countertops, lots of closets, wd burning frplc, DSL cable, 1 prkg spot/unit in a secure lot. Pool. Pets allowed. $269,000. Call Gilyard & Assoc Realty 504/460-9852.

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4700 JEAN LAFITTE W/EXQUISITE POOL!

This is an amazing waterfront property with a main house, private guest site that sleeps 4-6, 3 boat slips, salt water pool, hot tub and a deck with a gazebo overlooking the water; truly a dream come true. $549,000. Carolyn Talbert, Keller Williams, 504-330-0901 or 504455-0100. www.CarolynTalbert.com Top Producer since 1985. Each office Independently Owned & Operated

1466 Magazine St., $539,900

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5 suites currently used as a Bed and Breakfast with large yard and off street Parking. Real Estate Only $539,900. Owner/Broker

Move in cond, lots of architectural details, 1st block off Canal, off street pkng for several cars, garage. 2 br, 2 dens, encl porch/sun rm & wood flrs. Must see to appreciate.

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REAL ESTATE FOR RENT BAY ST. LOUIS BEACH COTTAGE FOR SALE 317 BALLENTINE ST. $89,500

Artist’s Atelier Cottage Just 2 1/2 blks from White Sandy Beaches of the Gulf, Featuring Screened Porch, 2 BR, Spacious Eat In Kit, Living Rm, Study. Lg rear Den and Deck. Located in the Depot District walk to Old Towne. Great Location for the Right Price. Call Susan at Property Bay Coast 504 231-2445.

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Perfect Investment or 2nd Home! Located across from the Beach on Hwy 90. 3BR/3BA $159,900. Call Beth at 228-348-2114. Beth Blanchard Realty, LLC. Lic in MS & La (228) 348-2114 (MS Cell) or (504) 913-5220(LA Cell) Oaks of Long Beach Luxury Townhomes www.oaksoflongbeach.com 91 Oak Alley Place, Long Beach, MS 39560 Sales & Resort or Corporate Rentals

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One BR Luxury Condo. Avail 3 nights (Fri.-Sun.). Closing weekend of Jazz Fest, May 3rd thru 5th. Sleeps 4 people. BR and Queensize pull out sofa. Located at Wyndam Avenue Plaza (St. Charles Ave.) $350 per night. Deposit required. (504) 394-4492

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Upper Duplex 2BR/1BA,, Kit, Living/ Dining combo. Front screened porch, hdwd floors, ceiling fans, offstreet pkng. $875/mo. Call (504) 554-3844

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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 307 Royal - 1 bd/ 1 ba ...................... $1750 812 Esplanade - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................ $1400 4763 Demontluzin - 3 bd/ 2 ba ............ $1275 2626 Acacia - 1 bd/ 1 ba ................... $975 CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

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3k sqft whse&3k sqft office space $6,500/mo 3,760sq/ft. Blue chip loc HMC-2 Zone $4k/mo comm condo on quaint FQ street $445,000 HMC-2 zoned comm/res w/ pkng $209,000

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Studio apt, furn kichen, bath, hardwood flrs, secure bldg, gated parking, laundry room, fitness center, pool, on-site Mgr. $875. 504-430-5719.

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Beautiful Garden District flat on St. Charles Ave. Top floor with balconies. Lovely Greek Revival duplex. Large, sunny, charming. Approx 3000 sq ft on two levels. 3+ BR/2BA. spacious, flexible floor plan with master suite. For more info and price call (415) 359-6445. Owner is a licensed Real Estate Broker.

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Clean & bright unfurnished condo for rent. 1 Bed / 1.5 Bath, 804 sf. Renovated in 2010 with new Paint, new Carpet, and new appliances — A/C, stove, fridge, & dishwasher. Walk-in closet in bedroom, lots of storage, and bathrooms have been updated. Includes ceiling fan in living room, and faux-wood blinds on all windows. $1095/Month. CALL (504) 275-5700.

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401 METAIRIE RD CONDO NEWLY RENOVATED

In Met Towers. New carpet, New a/c, New paint. Spac 1BR, 1.5BA, Lg lr/dr, kit appls, 24/hr sec., Pool, $1,000/mo. Utils included. Call 504-832-7913.

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High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

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