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Many exhibits and workshops are available online, but live events include a projection show of work by many participating artists at The Broadside with live music on Wednesday, Dec. 9. There’s also an outdoor expo called “The FENCE” along the Lafitte Greenway bike path. Visit photonola.org for a full list of shows and events.

On its 40th anniversary, WWOZ is more connected than ever

BY WILL COVIELLO ON SATURDAYS, Melissa Weber sifts through her collection of more than 10,000 records for roughly 50 discs to bring to the studio at WWOZ. At 10 p.m., she signs on as DJ Soul Sister for her “Soul Power” show, spinning rare groove soul and funk, mostly from the late 1960s and 1970s.

She’s been an on-air host since the mid 1990s, shortly after she started volunteering at the community station while attending Loyola University New Orleans. But looking back, she notes that it was more than finding a slot in the program schedule, she joined a community.

“I started listing to the station when I was a junior in high school,” Weber says. “What I remember about listening and being a volunteer and seeing all the programmers and all of the people that used to come by, the old studio in Armstrong Park was like a community center. Anybody could come in — musicians, community people. It was a hang.”

That hub for the local music community has been a beacon of New Orleans music for four decades, and one that has reached across the globe since it began broadcasting online on wwoz.org. WWOZ is marking its 40th anniversary during the extraordinary times of the coronavirus pandemic.

The station lost longtime host Jesse “The Midnight Creeper” Hathorne Sr., who died of COVID-19 in May. But the station has renewed its mission with new initiatives during the pandemic and strengthened its relationship with listeners who want to stay in tune with New Orleans music and culture.

WWOZ hit the airwaves from a transmitter in Bridge City on Dec. 4, 1980, shortly before it began broadcasting from its original studio at Tipitina’s. In the mid 1990s, the station moved to a studio in Louis Armstrong Park, and since Hurricane Katrina, it has been housed near the French Market in the French Quarter. As a community radio station, it’s focused primarily on local music, in genres including traditional and contemporary jazz, blues, R&B, Cajun, zydeco, country, Latin music and more. Programming has been built in two- and three-hour blocks by local musicians and music lovers, including a volunteer staff of hosts who curate their shows, often from their own collections.

Weber’s record collection is dwarfed by one of the station’s senior hosts,

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Bob Murret, who draws from his archive of 50,000 plus records for his Rare on the Air show. While that’s a staggering number, it doesn’t include the records he lost to Hurricane Katrina flooding — or the entire first collection he lost to Hurricane Betsy.

(He also collects all sorts of local memorabilia and is a source for documentaries produced by WYES-TV.) In that station’s early years, Murret used to bring a record platter case to the original studio in a beer room on the second floor of Tipitina’s. Like Weber, he digs into his collection on the day of his show to pick songs — though he digitizes his selections and brings CDs to the studio — and pulls together a few hours’ worth of popular and obscure swamp pop, 1960s soul and R&B and Doo-wop, and on holidays, he likes to throw in novelty tunes.

“I never play the same song twice unless it’s a request,” Murret says.

During the pandemic, WWOZ has also broadcast full sets recorded at local festivals and clubs. When the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was pre-empted in spring, WWOZ, whose license is held by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, broadcast past sets during what would have been eight days of festival hours. “Festing in Place” was born, but it also happened during a time when the station quietly launched Groovapedia, a searchable online archive of videos, interviews, music recordings, photos and more.

Festing in Place became a concept of its own, and there were subsequent installments for other festival weekends, including Labor Day weekend. General Manager Beth Arroyo Utterback says the next installment of archived sets will be New Year’s weekend.

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Melissa Weber, aka DJ Soul Sister, plays a record doing her “Soul Power” WWOZ radio show.

WWOZ counted down 40 days to its birthday with daily broadcasts of past festival or archived sets, including a 1982 recording of Professor Longhair songs and interview clips.

Listeners have appreciated the station’s efforts during the pandemic, Utterback says.

“More people are working from home and have been able to listen to OZ in a more consistent manner,” she says. “They really are having a deeper connection with OZ and enjoying these blasts from the past that we’re replaying. And they’re sending us long, thoughtful, heartfelt letters.”

The Labor Day weekend Festing in Place programming also included nods to the station’s connection to second line culture and social aid and pleasure clubs. Since 2012, host Action Jackson has been in charge of the station’s Takin’ it to the Streets programming, with on-air and online previews and coverage of parades.

WWOZ’s website has an archive of his interviews with leaders and members of social aid and pleasure clubs, Black Masking Indians and other parading traditions.

Staying in touch while the listeners can’t parade has been another important link.

“The pandemic is taking away our therapy,” Action Jackson says about the suspension of second-line parades. “You survive off of dance and laughter. You need to set things aside for four hours.”

LUNA FETE, the Arts Council New Orleans’ annual December festival of visual and interactive light and art installations, is spread around the city this year. Opening weekend (Dec. 11-13) features exhibits in the Warehouse District and CBD, plus ongoing exhibits at the Lafitte Greenway’s Supernova and other locations. Visit lunafete2020. squarespace.com for locations and details.

Holiday horrors SANTA CLAUS’ LIST OF NAUGHTY FOLKS DOESN’T COMPARE TO THE ROSTER OF EVIL that fills the New Orleans Nightmare’s holiday iteration, “Krampus: A Christmas Haunted House.” The house of horrors decorates for the holidays and unleashes evil elves, Jack Frost, Krampus, who comes at Christmas to punish the wicked, and more. The Jefferson attraction holds Krampus Friday, Dec. 11, and Saturday, Dec. 12. Find tickets and COVID-19 guidelines at neworleansnightmare.com.

Petit Noel LE PETIT THEATRE PREMIERES “A NOLA NOEL,” an original musical holiday tale set against the diverse cultural influences and traditions of New Orleans. The outdoor show opens at the Abita Springs Trailhead on Dec. 10-13, moves to the Bucktown Marina on Dec. 17-20 and plays at The Broadside Dec. 23-26. Tickets are available on lepetittheatre.com.

Beanorama THE PANORAMA BRASS BAND RECORDS A LIVE SHOW as part of the Krewe of Red Beans’ Lundi Gras album project. Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses also performs.

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BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN™ @GambitBlake | askblake@gambitweekly.com

Blast from the past BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN IS A WISE AND KNOWLEDGEABLE FELLA’ (they

don’t call me the New Orleans knowit-all for nothing), but not nearly old enough to have joined Gambit at its start 40 years ago.

Well, that’s only half right! My column premiered on Jan. 12, 1988, but in the throwback spirit of this 40th anniversary issue, we are reprinting it here. In the editor’s note introducing the idea, we wrote that “readers are encouraged to participate” and submit questions. That’s still true today, since my answers are only as good as your questions.

Here’s to 40 more years of exploring and learning about our great city and state!

Dear Blake, I know New Orleans has had many streetcar routes, but what was the route of the very first streetcar system in New Orleans?

Glad you asked. It was the route from Triton Walk to Tivoli Place then along Naiades Street. Huh? All of those places have had name changes since.

Actually the route (which, according to James Jansen in his book “Building New Orleans: The Engineer’s Role,” was chartered by the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company in 1833) went from Canal Street to Baronne to Howard Avenue (Triton Walk) to Lee Circle (Tivoli Place) and up St. Charles Avenue (Naiades) to what was then the town of Carrollton. All of which is more or less the route of the present St. Charles Streetcar line.

Dear Blake, Who was the last manager of the old New Orleans Pelicans baseball team?

It depends on which New Orleans Pelicans you’re talking about. In 1977 there was an American Association minor league team that played in the Superdome for one year and that borrowed the Pelicans name. The manager was Lance Nicholls. More importantly, the first base coach was young Tony LaRussa, who went on to manage the Chicago White Sox. As for the descendants of the original Pelicans that played in the Southern Association, the team’s last year was 1959. After Pelican Stadium was torn down, the team played its last two seasons in City Park Stadium. The manager that year was New Orleanian Mel Parnell, who as a player had pitched for the Boston Red Sox. He is the only New Orleani-

an we can think of to have thrown a big league no-hitter, having done it to the Chicago White Sox.

Dear Blake, What’s the story with wards?

And what’s the big deal about the Ninth Ward?

Well put. Wards are actually useless political boundaries. They did have their day, back when public offices were elected using wards as boundaries, but since the wards are not necessarily even in population, the courts have demanded that most political boundaries must now cross ward lines. Wards are useful today mostly as historic geographic names. If someone’s from the 14th Ward, that means he lives in the uptown so-called “silk stocking” area. The Sixth and Seventh wards are noted as the historic areas of concentration for New Orleans’ Black Creole population. There are 17 wards in all, all of which run in the direction from the river to the lake.

As for the Ninth, it is notable for two things. One, it is so big, encompassing roughly everything east of Peoples Avenue, which means all of Eastern New Orleans as well as some great old riverfront neighborhoods such as Bywater. The Inner Harbor Canal runs parallel (from the river to the lake) across the canal. The area east of the canal towards the river end is what

is known as the “Lower Ninth,” an historic mixed neighborhood with a German heritage (the original Schwegmann’s was there) that developed a speech pattern of its own. It is that accent and phraseology that gave birth to the image of the stereotypical New Orleans “Yat.” Think of the diversity: external fuel tanks for NASA’s booster rockets and the original Yats all came from “da Ninth.”

Dear Blake, I know there was once a French language newspaper in New Orleans. Where was it published?

Its office was at 73 Chartres Street, between Bienville and Conti Streets.

The newspaper L’Abeille or “The Bee” (to you Americans out there) was established in 1827 by Francois Delaup. According to John Wilds in his book “Afternoon Story: The History of the New Orleans States-Item,” the first editor, Baron Rene de Perdreauville, had served as a page to Queen Marie Antoinette and as a governor of pages under Napoleon Bonaparte.

L’Abeille’s trouble began in 1914 when the legislature repealed a law which had required that the publication of paid legal notices (a scam back then as it is today) be published in French as well as English. In other words: The Bee got stung.

BLAKEVIEW ANOTHER NEW ORLEANS MEDIA INSTITUTION, WWOZ, also marks its 40th anniversary this month. The listener-supported community radio station signed on the air Dec. 4, 1980.

It was the brainchild of brothers Jerry and Walter Brock, who discovered community radio in Texas and brought the idea to New Orleans. In 1976, they secured the 90.7 FM frequency and license by forming the Nora Blatch Foundation (named for a female radio pioneer). It took the Brocks and a group of volunteers four years to get on the air with WWOZ. It was named for the “wonderful Wizard of Oz” and the line from the movie, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” In their minds, the content would be the focus of the station.

As the station’s website explains, WWOZ’s first studio was in an upstairs room at Tipitina’s, where a disc jockey could drop a microphone through a hole in the floor to send the live music straight to the airwaves. New Orleans artists whose music was rarely played on local radio stations at the time soon flocked to the new station, contributing music and support. Two of them, Ernie K-Doe and Bobby Mitchell, hosted their own shows.

WWOZ moved its operation to Armstrong Park in 1984. Three years later, the station’s license was turned over to the nonprofit Friends of WWOZ Inc. and overseen by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation. In the 1990s the station was one of the first to offer its programming online. Its app and wwoz.org website now reach people around the world. The program schedule includes a wide range of music, from jazz and blues to funk, gospel, Cajun, Latin and more.

Since 2005, the station has broadcast from studios near the French Market, while also broadcasting live from many music festivals and events, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. This past year’s “Festing in Place” eight-day broadcast of archived Jazz Fest performances (in place of the actual event) was a huge success.

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IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAMBIT also marks

my 39th anniversary as Gambit’s political columnist. What a ride it has been — six mayors, seven governors, and a mixed bag of legacies. Every mayor and governor I’ve written about in this space left his or her mark on the city and state political landscape. Here’s a trip down Memory Lane.

DUTCH MORIAL, New Orleans’ first Black mayor (1978-86), was well into his first term when Gambit published its inaugural issue. A civil rights lawyer, Morial had to break down barriers throughout his career; the door was never opened for him.

Brilliant yet intense, he faced down striking cops and endured too many unfair attacks. The convention center that bears his name is just part of his enduring legacy.

DAVE TREEN, Louisiana’s first Republican governor (1980-84) since Reconstruction, earned the moniker “clean Treen,” but he did not earn a second term. He was the first governor to recognize the threat posed by coastal erosion. He proposed making the energy industry bear some of the costs of fixing the coast via his Coastal Wetlands Environmental Levy, but lawmakers and Big Oil foiled his plan.

EDWIN EDWARDS, our only fourterm governor (1972-80, 1984-88, 1992-96), dominated state politics in the last three decades of the 20th century. His free-wheeling style, quick wit and keen political instincts endeared him to his fellow Cajuns and to Black voters, whose interests he championed. He secured adoption of our current state constitution and changed the way Louisiana taxes oil and gas to fatten state coffers.

But controversy (and the feds) hounded him. He stood trial three times on federal charges, the last round of which landed him a 10-year stretch in the penitentiary.

SIDNEY BARTHELEMY‘s laid-back style made him perhaps the most affable mayor (1986-94) in modern times. Barthelemy led the drive to open the riverfront via construction of the Aquarium of the Americas and Woldenberg Park. He also conceived the arena that became the Smoothie King Center, home to our city’s NBA Pelicans.

BUDDY ROEMER promised a “revolution” when he served as governor (1988-92) in the form of wholesale fiscal reform. Voters rejected his ambitious proposal to rewrite the

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revenue section of the state constitution all at once, but he secured adoption of step-by-step reforms that endure to this day.

MARC MORIAL followed in his father’s footsteps when he became one of our youngest — and most energetic — mayors (1994-2002). New Orleans’ murder rate was the highest in the nation when he took office, but his hiring of reform police chief Richard Pennington led to a drastic reduction in homicides as well as a needed housecleaning at NOPD. MIKE FOSTER proved that a businessman can cross over into politics.

While governor (1996-2004), he learned to fly a helicopter and enrolled in law school at Southern University.

He also poured money into higher education, birthed the state’s teacher accountability program and created the state’s Community and Technical College System.

RAY NAGIN ran for mayor (2002-2010) as a businessman and reformer, but he was neither. More interested in the title than the job, Nagin was notoriously disengaged, failed miserably during and after Hurricane Katrina, and ultimately went to federal prison on corruption charges. His legacy is one of profound disappointment.

KATHLEEN BLANCO‘s tenure as governor (2004-08) will forever be marked by the devastation of Katrina and the difficulties many homeowners had with her Road Home Program, but in the wake of the storm she provided game-changing support for reforms to local levee boards and the consolidation of New Orleans’ seven assessors’ offices into one.

She also paved the way for charter schools to operate on a wide scale in New Orleans.

BOBBY JINDAL campaigned for governor (2008-16) on a promise of ethics reform, but his idea of reform was imposing tougher standards on everyone else. Worse, his obsession with his “tax virginity” and his laughable presidential ambitions led him to run the state into a fiscal ditch — particularly at the expense of education and health care. Another profound disappointment.

MITCH LANDRIEU all but had to start from scratch in the wake of Ray Nagin’s disastrous tenure. As mayor (2010-18), he solved some of the city’s toughest fiscal challenges, leveraged his sister Mary’s U.S. Senate seniority to bring billions in federal aid for a massive post-Katrina rebuild, and pushed to take down Confederate-era statues. His legacy will be tarnished, however, for failing to timely address longstanding problems at the Sewerage & Water Board.

JOHN BEL EDWARDS‘ long-shot bid for governor (2016-) upended the Louisiana political landscape when he became the South’s only Democratic governor — and then won re-election despite vocal opposition from President Donald Trump. Edwards’ legacy is still being written; at a minimum, he has corrected some of the most egregiously destructive fiscal policies of Bobby Jindal.

LATOYA CANTRELL‘s place in history is already secure, having become the city’s first female mayor (2018-). She’s also New Orleans’ first truly post-Katrina mayor, rising from neighborhood leader to City Council member to mayor. She campaigned on fixing the S&WB and improving infrastructure; that’s how she’ll be measured.

Here’s looking forward to the road ahead.

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lished the first issue of Gambit. In the 40 years since, the paper — and our city — have seen a lot. There have been lots of high points, like being the first major outlet to write about Big Freedia and other queer bounce artists, and a few lows **cough cough Bobby Jindal cough cough**. But through it all, there have been two constants: our tireless staff and you, our readers.

Over the years, hundreds of New Orleanians have had a hand in getting Gambit out of our brains and onto the streets. Writers, editors, graphic design staff, sales reps, delivery people … they’ve all worked incredibly hard — and often under enormously difficult circumstances — to bring Gambit to our readers. They are literally the heart and soul of this paper, and we are eternally grateful to them for lending us their talents.

And then there is you, kind and gentle reader. You’ve learned with us, laughed with us, yelled at us, and given us invaluable tips and scoops.

You’ve supported our work through advertising — even when you barely had enough money to keep your own lights on, bought us drinks, and helped make us better at what we do. Without you, there would be no reason for us to do this. Thank you for making this journey possible.

Over the coming year we’ll be making some changes to the paper, a time-honored tradition since Gambit’s first year — and first three face lifts! Some small, some preposterous. Hopefully, a few will stick.

But even as Gambit moves into its next decade, we promise to stay true to our mission of celebrating the best of our community, casting a spotlight on injustice and wrongdoing, yelling about the potholes and chronicling life in the best city on earth.

— JEANNE EXNICIOS FOSTER AND JOHN STANTON Gambit has changed hands a number of times over its 40-year history, both in terms of its editorial direction and its actual ownership. In separate interviews, Gambit staff sat down with current owners John and Dathel Georges, former owners Margo and Clancy DuBos and current Publisher Jeanne Exnicios Foster and Editor John Stanton to discuss the paper’s history, where it stands today, and their hopes for the future.

John and Dathel Georges with Margo and Clancy DuBos on the day of the purchase announcement.

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GAMBIT OWNERS DATHEL AND JOHN GEORGES John and Dathel Georges are well-known in the Louisiana business and philanthrophy communities for their ownership of Imperial Foods and newspapers including The Times-Picayune / The Advocate and Gambit. John Georges is the chairman of Georges Enterprises.

Thinking back to when you first picked up a Gambit, what are some of the things that struck you about it then, as well as over the years?

Dathel Georges: I was probably just out of college, and I loved the Blake Pontchartrain section.

I would also look through it for advertising and stores. Then I really dove in when John was running for office, in 2007 [for governor of Louisiana] and in 2010 [for mayor of New Orleans.] [Gambit] is where you could get the real nitty-gritty. I was drawn into the political conversations and Clancy [DuBos]’s articles. And I’ve always loved the design sections and restaurant guides... There’s always some section that people go to.

You are pleasing a lot of people; I know young people love it for art and music, and where it’s all

Baby Boomers did to [Generation Z] now … It always stood out on its own ... I think Clancy is an expert.

As someone who ran for office, I didn’t always enjoy the political section the most. But it was always one of those traditions — at coffee shops, you look forward to watching the Gambit delivery guy walk in; it’s like a Sunday ritual.

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happening. As things change, Gambit’s always been the go-to for learning what’s hot and what’s not. And that’s the fun about it, it keeps it fresh, and it’s different from the daily newspaper.

John Georges: I never dreamed that we would be the owners …

The paper has spanned from what

What are some of your favorite issues?

JG: The Big Easy Awards. We have a cultural community, and this is the one outlet that can honor that group in the way that they need to be honored.

DG: The Best of New Orleans issue. I think people respect the audience that Gambit has. The winners are a community decision. [Ed. Note: The Best of New

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Orleans issue presents the results of the annual readers’ survey]… I also love all the competitions with the giveaways. We also have a lot of leeway that you don’t have in the [daily] paper. You can reach out to a broader crowd.

What is your role behind the scenes? Do you have much oversight over editorial?

JG: We’ve hired professionals that are journalists that have a lot more experience than us in journalism.

We read it and see things that we want to be better, but we’re not directing. [Editor John Stanton] is a teacher, and he doesn’t mind sharing his ideas … I know a lot about politics, but we put together an endorsement group [publisher Jeanne Exnicios Foster, editor John Stanton and politics editor Clancy DuBos and former publisher Margo DuBos]; we didn’t get involved. We are honored to be the people who have made sure that it’s survived through all the consolidations of newspapers across the country. The transition [of ownership] was pretty good; Clancy and Margo stayed around but allowed new ideas and new people in to make decisions.

What do you hope to see in the next 40 years and in the near future?

JG: I hope to see the city open up. I think everyone will benefit; everyone will appreciate life a lot more. More people will support it, and they’ll be able to go pick it up. We had to reduce some of the distribution, so we’ll have more distribution, more coverage, and I think it’ll be bigger and better than when we bought it. Right now, we are just thankful that we found a way to survive. We understand what’s happening with weeklies around the country, a lot of them have had to close, and a lot of cities are losing these niche media outlets. We are thankful that we were able to survive, and we are committed to print. The survivability is also in creating unique content... Gambit connects

DG: I’d love to still see print media in 40 years. It keeps everyone in touch ... A goal for Gambit, forever, would be for people to ask, “What’s going on this weekend?”

And the common response would be, “Let’s check with Gambit.”

— INTERVIEW BY SARAH RAVITS

FORMER OWNERS MARGO AND CLANCY DUBOS Clancy DuBos joined Gambit in December 1981 as a freelance political columnist and held the editor’s position on several occasions over the years. In October 1982, Margo DuBos (then Margo Jackson) joined the staff as an account executive and became Gambit’s publisher in 1986 at the age of 30. The DuBoses became the sole owners of Gambit in 1996 and owned the paper until 2018.

flexible and ready to change how we did things on a dime. And we did that a lot. If something didn’t work, we were like, “OK, well, let’s wrap that, and let’s put something else in place.”

I think the other really important thing was the staff that we had.

I thought it was really important for us to hire people that got the culture of who we were. And that culture kept people working for us for a really long time, which is a significant reason why we were successful.

Clancy DuBos: Margo made it fun and that was the real secret to it.

She was really good at hiring people. She had a knack. And Margo, especially on the ad revenue side, but otherwise, she hired just the right person for each job, down to the receptionist. Everybody who got hired, had to get interviewed

by Margo.

MD: I would start off the interview — just to relax people, my first question was, “Do you have a costume closet?” People would be like, “Um, where is she going with that?” I would say, “I’m just kidding. We like to dress up a lot.” We actually had a motto, I think was back in the ’90s or something, it was, “Work hard, have fun, and publish smart media.” And, you know, that actually meant something. That summed it up.

What are instances you felt Gambit was firing on all levels?

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Forty years is a major milestone for any publication but especially in the alternative weekly industry. What helped the publication’s longevity?

Margo DuBos: As a publisher, and also having the background of news and advertising, it was really important for us to pay attention to what works and what didn’t work. And we were really

CD: I think for months after [Hurricane] Katrina, we were definitely firing on all cylinders.

We did a three-part series that I conceived called “The Road Back,” asking what does it take.

It was about faith and hope and neighborhoods.

MD: I think our coverage of the World’s Fair was very important in the early ’80s. The World’s Fair was covered by the newspaper of record as a failure before it even opened. And we felt like it was a magnificent way to celebrate New Orleans and show New Orleans to the world. Our coverage wasn’t Pollyannish, but it was just like, “Oh my God, look, what the development the Fair has done.”

CD: [The Times-Picayune] covered it as a financial flop, and we covered it as an artistic success.

MD: And I think Ron Ridenhour’s nuclear power plant coverage [was important].

What have been maybe some of our biggest missteps?

CD: Endorsing Ray Nagin and Bobby Jindal.

Could you elaborate on the decision to sell the paper to Dathel and John Georges?

CD: I had been ready to sell the paper maybe a few years before we did, but I wasn’t actively trying to, and Margo said, “I’m not quite ready yet.”

MD: We were still really chugging along well. So, it just wasn’t on my radar at that point. But ... If we [were] going to sell it, who’s going to be the custodian of the paper and everything we’ve done and take it forward and make it thrive?

And for us, it was Dathel and John simply because they had already invested in The Advocate, and we felt that their commitment to local journalism was really important — and important to us.

The other thing, too, is that they really wanted us to stay on and help through the transition. And, you know, Clancy is still writing his column and they wanted us to still be part of it, and I appreciated that.

CD: They came along at the right time, and we felt that they were the right people.

What are your thoughts for Gambit’s future as we continue to cover New Orleans?

CD: I think maintaining the trust and respect of the readers is paramount. Because we’ve had to work a long time to get that.

MD: I think the challenge is the new readers, the young readers — how do we develop that same kind of relationship? And obviously, it’s through different means, you know, not always just in print. But it’s a little harder to reach into the brains of a lot of the younger generation to develop that relationship that we had with our readers for so many years. I would say that’s a challenge, and one that I think Jeanne [Exnicios Foster] is up to the task with.

CD: Look at the staff. We have a much younger staff than we had even two years ago. It’s part of a natural order of things that our younger staff knows how to reach

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Why do you think Gambit has lasted 40 years when many other alt-weeklies have folded?

their peers, just like we spoke to our peers when we were in our 20s and 30s.

— INTERVIEW BY JAKE CLAPP

PUBLISHER JEANNE EXNICIOS FOSTER AND EDITOR JOHN STANTON

Publisher Jeanne Exnicios Foster has been with Gambit for nearly two decades, working her way up from an advertising assistant fresh out of college to become publisher. Editor John Stanton, a veteran journalist who covered D.C. politics, joined Gambit in July.

What was your introduction to Gambit?

John Stanton: The first time I really ever learned about what Gambit was right after Katrina, because of a friend of mine, who was down here covering the aftermath of the storm. They came back up right after the first issue of Gambit was published after the storm and they had it, and we were talking about how important it was to the community to have the alt-weekly be able to publish so quickly after the storm had happened and what it meant.

When I first started coming down to visit a few years later, I really liked reading Gambit, because it reminded me of the (Washington) City Paper in D.C. in that it was very much designed for locals, but it was also very heavily invested in kind of the arts and entertainment, particularly music. And it was a great way to figure out what was going on in town — and not just on Frenchmen Street but other places.

Jeanne Exnicios Foster: When I started working as a restaurant hostess in high school, Gambit was distributed at [Semolina’s] … Gambit would be delivered on Sunday nights during my shift.

People, if they were eating at the restaurant or not, would flood in to grab their copy of Gambit.

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When I had downtime, I would read the paper. One of my favorite parts has always been the music listings.

How do you define Gambit’s role in the community?

JS: Gambit has never been that like, hard, punk rock, fuck everybody kind of attitude alt-weekly.

Because New Orleans ... has never really been that. There is a part of everybody here that is also like, “Where’s the party at?” … There’s the shared sort of sense of like, “OK, well, we’re gonna do all the stuff, and all this very serious stuff, but we’re also going to party. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re not going to just be bitter and angry, and grind like people do in other cities constantly.” We are able to provide people with very serious news ... but we also are writing about the things that are still happening within our community that give sustenance to our community, whether it’s music, or art, or food, or people helping each other.

JF: I think Gambit’s done a really good job of getting important conversations started. One of my favorite cover stories was the “New Orleans, is it worth it?” story, by [former staff writer] Kat Stromquist. New Orleans was becoming increasingly expensive and people were getting priced out of it … It was one of the times I can remember everybody talking about (it) ... I would go

JS: I really do think it is on the strength of the staff and on the commitment to the kind of journalism that we do. We are very much a community newspaper. We really are very based in the place, and I think that that is reflected in the content that we produce. I think we’re lucky that we are a privately owned outfit … but beyond that, and I really do believe that if you look at the sales side of the shop, those folks have built relationships with advertisers over years, and a lot of these advertisers are spending money that they don’t necessarily have because they think it’s important to invest in the newspaper.

That was part of the story of post-Katrina Gambit, that people felt a responsibility to help preserve the newspaper. I think that’s something you’re seeing, and that’s because of the people that make up the newspaper, and because we may fail at it sometimes but at the end of the day every day, we will go to work with the idea that we are trying to accurately reflect our community, and to uplift our community, and to better our community, to make it a better place to live, and to celebrate the things that are good here, and to call out the problems and help get them fixed. That is something that people recognize and why people continue to read us.

JF: We are fortunate to be in a community of locally owned businesses. New York City, for instance, lost the Village Voice, a founding alternative weekly and that’s because it has fewer small shops and restaurants than it once did. The West Village has become Duane Reades and Gaps and Starbucks, and those companies generally do not support small businesses. Gambit is really lucky we’re in a city with multiple unique commercial corridors filled with small businesses, and we’re free so we need them to

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support us to continue doing what we’re doing.

We’ve also always had a group of writers that have an unconventional perspective, and they are creative in their storytelling, and their stories always mean so much to them, which I love.

What’s in store for the future of Gambit?

JS: I want, as much as we can, to not retrench and to do simply what we do best. I want to use whatever amount of time is left in the pandemic as an opportunity to try some new things out in terms of how we write, in terms of stuff we do online, and to figure out what works, what doesn’t work, so that when we emerge from this moment … we’ve got a foundation for things.

The couple of things that I’m looking most forward to are … continuing to expand our coverage of Black New Orleans and of [St. Bernard and Jefferson] parishes.

JF: Probably the most important thing to me is that the restaurant industry, the bar industry, music clubs and small retail businesses are able to return and thrive and our community is able to heal and rebuild, post-vaccine… Serving as a support engine for all these industries that have been so badly hurt would be my goal.

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Because New Orleans Needs a Gambit Reflections by our founder and first publisher/editor on the 25th birthday of his brainchild

BY GARY ESOLEN

Founder, Publisher and Editor, 1980 — 87 IT HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE that it was 25 years ago

when a small group of us, mostly veterans of local journalism in one form or another, got together and created Gambit. A quarter of a century. A generation, as things are often measured. It’s both a long time and the blink of an eye. And from the first day we intended to make a difference in New Orleans, and to be around for the long haul.

When I reminisce about starting Gambit, I often remember the day we named the paper. Bart Loomis and Rosie Wilson had put some resources behind us. Philip Carter, who would be the chief investor, was not yet involved. We had typesetting equipment on the way, and a space to work in provided on spec by Joe Bernstein, upstairs at his old Spaghetti Factory Restaurant. I was living in a loft in the quarter, and one Saturday we assembled there, knowing it was time to name the baby.

Julia Nead, our first art director, had been playing with logo designs, and since we did not have a name for our newspaper yet, she used different words to illustrate the style she had in mind, which was a convergence of classical and modern typography. One of the words she used to illustrate her idea was “gambit,” picked up from the title of a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout. When I asked her why she chose Gambit, she said “Look at it.

A big round letter, the G. A peaked letter, the A. A wide letter, the M. A thin letter, the I. And the T with its hat on.

It has everything.”

Julia was there, and Newt Renfro. Kathleen Bishop, our first advertising director. Tom Hasselle, our first business manager, who went on to manage weekly papers in New York City. There were probably a few others, but I just can’t reconstruct the scene completely. We started out with fifty or so possible names, everything any of us had thought of and taken seriously enough to record. We did round after round of eliminations, and Gambit kept surviving. Was it because Julia had made it real to us with her logo design? Partly, no doubt, but whatever the reason, it had staying power for us.

In the end we decided it was a great choice. The word is most often used for a chess move in which a player gives up a piece, usually a pawn, for favorable position.

But it has come to mean a provocative remark intended to start a conversation, and it has the general sense of a stratagem, both of which seemed right to us. More important, it was not an everyday word, so it was an empty vessel that we could fill with meaning. What was a Gambit? Whatever we made it.

We did intend to make something of it. We knew it would be focused partly on entertainment, on what to do tonight or tomorrow night or next weekend. In fact, that calendar of activities was the engine that would drive

Gambit staff poses with new swag at Arnaud’s in 1996 SEATED FRONT ROW: Greta Berger, Terry Jackson, JoAnn Rutherford, ClancyDuBos, Ann Miller; SECOND ROW: Margo DuBos, Bryan Lyons; 3RD ROW: Erica DiFranco, Kandace Power Graves, Marlande Mauberret, Becky Hutchinson, Dora Sison, Rich Collins; BACK ROW: Sonja Metz,

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everything. But because we were in New Orleans, entertainment was not what it is in other places — it was, and is, the deep culture of the city, its music and its food and its arts and its spirit. We intended to mirror that culture to itself. And finally, we intended to be a positive voice in the public conversation about our city, to help shape the future.

I leave it to others to remember how we tried to do those things, as many talented people (including Clancy and Margo DuBos, David Richmond, Errol Laborde, Ron Ridenhour, Liz Galtney, Dana Standish, and others) joined with us over the years. And I leave it to them to judge when we succeeded, and when we failed, both of which we certainly did.

Instead, I am moved to reflect on New Orleans today, in the chaos and rubble left by Katrina, a city deeply wounded, its culture and very soul at risk, facing impossible obstacles and confronted, as the great cartoonist Walt Kelly had his character Pogo observe, “with insurmountable opportunities.” There could not be a time when the mission we imagined 25 years ago could be more relevant, or more urgent.

We liked to tweak at the big daily paper in those days, and we had a slogan, “Gambit, because New Orleans needs a newspaper.” The Times-Picayune is a better paper today than it was then, and is doing much that is important in the post-Katrina confusion. But I think it is fair to say that New Orleans needs a Gambit at this moment as well, and is lucky to have one.

Editor’s note: Gary Esolen was the Founder and original Editor of Gambit, launching the paper on Dec. 8, 1980.

Gary passed in September 2016. This piece was originally published on Gambit’s 25th anniversary.

SUZANNE HOLLAND Advertising Director 1980 — 1983 I was hired by Gary Esolen and Phillip Carter to be the Advertising Director of Gambit. I was an account executive at the time for Figaro where Gary and I both worked.

I recall being flattered and also so excited to be part of creating an alternative paper with quality journalism/ reporting along with an entertainment source. My first hire was Amie Nissenbaum and we knocked on so many doors to tell our exciting new story. Gratefully so many local businesses bought small ads to support us and we collected all the money by hand.

Another account rep I hired was Margo (DuBos) who later became the publisher. It is so exciting to see you celebrate 40 years and to have been part of creating this amazing paper. Keep up the good work.

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As the staff grew, so did Gary and Phillip’s vision. They started a tourist newspaper and I became Editor. I went to every hotel in the surrounding area with a cardboard mock up of “The City New Orleans for Visitors.” I met with all the GM’s, and in the end, there was only one hotel who wouldn’t take the chance.

After about a month, they called me back asking to distribute the paper in their hotel. That was truly satisfying!

A weekly, a tourist paper and next came Real Estate Marketplace. It lasted less than a year but Gary tried all markets.

I was the first official Managing Editor of Gambit. I still had a few accounts and I still did the ad layout weekly. We didn’t have computers. We did all the layouts on boards. If we needed to change an ad position, we literally peeled it off the boards and manually moved it. I was responsible for all the special sections...Restaurants, Home, Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, etc. For the

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Jazz Fest edition, I met with the editorial department and together we came up with the name Count Basin, which still exists today. We were a group of people who would divide and conquer. I reviewed some of the food, the music, and the crafts at Jazz Fest, along with the other staff writers. We came back together at the end of each weekend and shared our best of list, thus Count Basin was born.

We had the best trade in the world with Arnaud’s. We ate there for group events and we took clients to the famous restaurant, several times a week, and became self-declared food snobs.

The sales staff delivered wine to our top advertisers every year at Christmas. Wearing Santa hats and singing Christmas carols, we showed up to spread a little good cheer and frankly embarrass ourselves. One bottle for them, two for us … and so on. I wish we had Uber back then.

We had the best Christmas parties. People would clammer to get an invite. We were colleagues, we became close friends, with a shared vision that actually took off.

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ALEX WOODWARD Reporter 2008 — 2019 I somehow squeezed into Gambit at the peak of the financial crisis and decline of alt-weekies across the country. Over the next 10 years, we covered a critical period in the city, encompassing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a growing gentrification crisis, the BP oil disaster, a regressive state legislature, the collapse of Jim Crow monuments, and the dawn of the Trump era and surveillance state. I drank roughly 8,500 cups of not-good coffee.

But I had a loose leash and the immense privilege to write about the city’s musically diverse DIY scenes and talk to the people who have shaped the culture of the city and world — probably the best and most important role for any kind of “alternative” publication, to step outside the echo chamber and preserve through some words and photographs the things that matter most.

It’s essential to have some kind of regularly printed, widely available space to document things as they are, with voices from the people living them, without powerful people determining how and what to say, especially now.

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If you worked at Gambit back then, the politics was fascinating and raw, fun, and controversial.

You would have seen Lindy Boggs graciously bow out of her family’s 44-year hold on New Orleans’ congressional seat, while Dollar Bill Jefferson edged Marc Morial in a battle royale to replace her. You would have seen the New Orleans-area delegation, full of outsized personalities led by the inimitable John Hainkel, all but dominate the state legislature. You would have lived through the rise and flameout of neo-Nazi David Duke, culminating in the internationally covered circus of his loss for governor when electing the crook was more important.

You might have heard Duke admit that not a single word you published about him was factually inaccurate, but that “I guess I just don’t like what you make those facts say about me.” You might have endured anonymous day-before-election phone calls threatening that today you would suffer “what happens to n---- lovers.” You might have watched one night as Twice-and-Future-Governor Edwin Edwards tried assiduously (and failed utterly) to put the moves on an attractive Gambit ad rep. With such constant fodder as entertainment, you might think – wrongly – that you wouldn’t be so nonplussed when first-time candidate David Vitter bizarrely hurled at you a string of F-bombs for describing his campaign flyers as “glossy” (obviously, a mere type of paper), because he thought you

were insinuating he was “slick and insubstantial.”

If you worked at Gambit then, the quintessential New Orleanian Ronnie Virgets would have ambled into the newspaper offices weekly with his enrapturing, oft-handwritten (and thus barely decipherable) vignettes for publication. You might have seen comedienne Ellen DeGeneres chatting up publisher Margo DuBos in Margo’s office.

And you certainly would have seen a great admixture of good-natured hilarity, insightful wisdom, earnest striving and abiding love of south Louisiana that marked Margo and Clancy DuBos’ successful attempts to bring ownership of Gambit back to the New Orleans (from a Virginia-based outfit) and make it even more an expression of the city’s very soul.

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2. Somehow, at 40 Under 40, Clancy and I started talking about Mike Persia Chevrolet, a looong gone dealership. He starts making the Mike Persia Chevrolet beat on the table, and singing the jingle! At this semi-fancy affair!

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Editor, 1998 — 2005 Looking back over my seven-year stint as editor of Gambit Weekly, one thing I remember most fondly is the laughter.

There were plenty of stresses in putting out a paper each week — even in those halcyon days before those gentle weekly rhythms were supplanted by a ravenous 24-hour online news cycle — but I recall many times when those stresses dissolved in the kind of teary-eyed laughter that I’ve never experienced at work before or since.

Part of this was the environment that Margo and Clancy DuBos fostered, one of cutthroat Halloween costume contests and Secret Santas whose gifts often outdid anything received in the stockings back home. More often it was just the surprise dissolution of seriousness into something like mad hysteria. One example:

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stupid, I don’t trust doctors at all), and I was still loopy when I came back a few days later.

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One time in a meeting to choose a cover headline, we started talking about how the biggest cop-out headline is the one phrased as a question: “Are Our Wetlands Vanishing?” instead of “Our Wetlands Are Vanishing.”

In every meeting after that, Mark started flapping his hand over his head in imitation of a question mark, spinning around a little, begging, “Pick me! Pick me!” I learned a lot from working with great writers and editors at Gambit, and I’m proud of the work we did — but Mark Karcher as a walking question mark might be what I miss the most.

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Creative Services Director, Head Gambiteer 1991 — Present When I was in high school, I remember reading a Mark Twain quote, “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” That always stuck with me.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the arts, but I didn’t know how I was going to make a living from it. “Starving artist” was not an option for a career choice, especially for my hard-working Guatemalan mother who wanted me to be the first college graduate in the family. Thankfully, I discovered Graphic Design in my Sophomore year at UNO and graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts in May of 1991.

In the fall of 1991, after a summer course of Computer Graphic Design, I was ready to enter the workforce but didn’t know where to begin. I asked my Graphic Design professor for suggestions and she told

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What’s Gambit?”

I thought this would be a great opportunity to gain some experience until I could find my “real job”. I never imagined I would still be working for Gambit 29 years later. But once I learned what Gambit was all about, I knew this was the place for me.

In 2000, as the new Production Art Director, I began designing the covers and inside pages of Gambit.

I always felt it was a big responsibility to design what would be the first impression readers would have, but I welcomed the challenge. The process was usually a fun, collaborative effort involving the publisher, editor and myself.

Sometimes we reached out to other staff members to help with the brainstorming process because great concepts and headlines could come from anyone.

We were, and are, a scrappy little think tank.

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but also to create an experience that matched the content, fresh and fun. I wanted to make sure the design allowed a comfortable flow for the reader while still providing some eye candy.

Having the longest tenure at Gambit, I have worked with many people and a wide range of talent inside and outside my department. Our writers and designers have won many awards locally and nationally.

I’m grateful to have won some of those awards myself. I’ve made many friends with the people who have come and gone. And it’s always a welcomed surprise when they stop by the Gambit office for a visit to reminisce and catch up.

One of my proudest skills has been having a knack for recognizing raw talent in young designers and providing them with an opportunity to learn and grow. Mentoring young designers into polished professionals has been one of the biggest joys of my job. But the students have also been teach-

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During the week, we scrambled for content and built pages under pressure while wondering how will the city receive us?

The Nov. 1 issue went to press on a Friday and began distribution that Sunday morning.

A Gambit writer was sitting in the Bluebird Cafe when the first bundles of Gambit were delivered. When the patrons realized it was Gambit, they all let out a surprising loud cheer!

There was so much joy in the cafe that morning. I guess it was that unexpected sense of normalcy, a sign of the beginning of a recovery and a welcomed return of an old friend.

I have witnessed the successes of Gambit as well as the challenges. 2020 has been more of the latter. But much like the people of this city, Gambit is a survivor, because of the company who supports it, a staff who believes in it and a community who continues to love it.

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I’ve loved being a part of a publication that is recognized and loved by the community.

I never realized how much our publication mattered to the city until I heard one of my favorite Gambit stories.

It was at the time the city was trying to recover from Katrina.

We had never missed an issue hitting the streets until the Aug. 30 issue in 2005. And, for about 2 months, Gambit was absent from its racks.

In mid-October 2005, the owners of Gambit decided to restart publishing Gambit, but could only gather a skeleton crew. Only a few of us were able or willing to come back to live in the midst of the devastation. Working on the first issue of Gambit post-Katrina was a welcomed distraction

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A TIMELINE Dec. 8, 1980

Gambit debuts, with Gary Esolen as Editor. The paper costs 25 cents

April 25, 1981

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Sending all your ponies to the glue factory

*followed by a GIF of a crab wielding a knife*

I’m taking Friday off, but I’ll be around, so if anything pops up and needs editing or you need bail money or whatever, call me.

— COMPILED BY JAKE CLAPP, KAYLEE POCHE AND SARAH RAVITS

Clancy DuBos named Executive Editor, Allen Johnson Jr., Editor

April 2, 1996

Clancy DuBos named Editor, Allen Johnson Jr., special projects

Aug. 1, 1981

Aug. 27, 1996

Gambit adds a food section “The Urbane Gourmet”

March 13, 1982

Gambit publishes 1st Commentary, which addresses problems in the police department

June 26, 1982 Aug. 28, 1982

1st Bar Guide, or “Guide to Nightlife”

Oct. 5, 1985

City leads nation in syphilis cases, Gambit premiers 1st health column

Nov. 9, 1985

Gambit is sold to Landmark Communications of Virginia

Best of New Orleans issue features 1st nude cover

Aug. 11, 1998

Michael Tisserand is named Editor

Feb. 24, 1999

Juvenile releases “Back That Azz Up” featuring 16-year-old Lil Wayne

Jan. 22, 2002

Gambit Weekly endorses Ray Nagin for mayor

Aug. 27, 2005

Gambit goes to press and evacuates the office for Hurricane Katrina. The issue would be stranded at the printer in Lafayette.

Nov. 1, 2005

June 23, 1987

1st post-Katrina issue of Gambit published, Clancy DuBos returns as Editor

Jan. 12, 1988

Blake Pontchartrain joins the Gambit staff

News breaks linking Sen. David Vitter to a woman accused of running a prostitution ring

April 12, 1988

Aug. 11, 2008

Margo DuBos becomes publisher, Errol Laborde becomes Editor

Gambit announces its 1st Big Easy Entertainment Awards

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July 3, 1990

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July 9, 2007

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Oct. 7, 2008

Kevin Allman named Editor

July 9, 2014

March 5, 1991

A judge sentences former Mayor Ray Nagin to 10 years in federal prison

April 23, 1991

Jeanne Exnicios Foster named Publisher

Firstar Communications buys Gambit, returning local ownership

Clancy DuBos becomes Editor

Sept. 21, 1993

Allen Johnson Jr. named Editor; Clancy DuBos moves to editorial advisory

Feb. 15, 1994

Gambit debuts the New York Times crossword puzzle

Dec. 23, 2015 April 9, 2018

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t PJ’s Coffee, no detail is too small. During bean A selection, PJ’s considers

In celebration of Gambit’s 40th anniversary, we gathered memories of our readers’ favorite Gambit moments.

Here are some of their stories.

everything from farming methods to climate and cloud coverage. Only a small percentage of the world’s coffee bean crop, yielded by the tropical Rubiaceae tree, has the right qualities for use by PJ’s. The roasting process still takes place in small batches, the same way founder Phyllis Jordan did it beginning in 1978.

“PJ’s was created based on just simple, gourmet hot coffee. Because that is our primary focus, it’s a craft we have perfected and it’s the basis of everything else we do,” said Roastmaster Felton Jones.

With such a strong foundation in place, the team at PJ’s is not afraid to branch out and try new flavors.

Jones said some of PJ’s most popular offerings are its seasonal coffees with flavors like bananas foster, wedding cake and king cake.

“It’s intriguing to the mind. When people get an opportunity to experience a new flavor like that, it’s a wow factor,” Jones said. “We definitely like to try new things and be creative, and the customers really seem to enjoy it as well.”

In recent years, Jones noted that cold brew coffee has become increasingly popular across the country. But that isn’t new territory for PJs, which has been creating cold brew since the early 1980s. With customers becoming more knowledgeable about cold brew, Jones said there have been more opportunities for those customers and

the PJ’s team to have fun while talking about methods and flavors.

“The customers are really flocking to the cold brew more than ever,” he said. “Sometimes people think it is just iced coffee, but there is a huge difference between iced coffee and cold brew. We really enjoy using that method to introduce new flavors.

We’ve found tremendous success with it and the people have really responded well.”

That kind of relationship with customers is a key part of the PJ’s atmosphere. Today, there are more than 100 PJ’s Coffee shops across the country, all with an iconic New Orleans style, modern design, robust lighting and varied seating. While the shops are all designed for maximum comfort and convenience, Jones said the PJ’s team works hard to ensure that the passion they have for their work comes through as well.

For Jones and two others who started with the company under Jordan’s direct leadership, it’s also about carrying on her legacy.

“We consider ourselves as having the torch passed on to us,” he said. “We tell everybody that it’s about being family-oriented in our facility, in our relationships with our franchise and at the store level.

There are so many people who met at PJ’s, either customers or employees, who are now married.

There is a second generation of people working at the cafes now because

We tell everybody that it’s about being family-oriented in our facility, in our relationships with our franchise and at t he store level. their parents did it. There are a lot of great stories.

When you have a good vibe among the people, everything seems to fall into place.”

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, foot traffic has been much slower at PJ’s cafes this year. However, Jones said the company has been buoyed by a dramatic increase in its e-commerce business as people buy PJ’s products to use at home. Company leaders are hopeful that, in time, the cafes will be able to return to their relaxed

and vibrant atmospheres – with plenty of issues of Gambit to go along with their famous coffees.

“I can remember being a delivery driver and how convenient it was to go to PJs, make a delivery and grab a Gambit on the way out,” Jones recalled.

“The availability of Gambit has become this very traditional, anticipated, expected part of the PJ’s experience in New Orleans. I don’t think it was necessarily planned, but those two really do go together.”

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GAMBIT’S SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CITIZENS FOR 1 GREATER NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA

itizens for 1 Greater New Orleans is grateful C to Gambit for the vital role and significant impact their numerous articles made

in our efforts to reform and consolidate the southeast Louisiana levee boards and Orleans assessors’ offices in 2006. Gambit enhanced our visibility and credibility immeasurably.

“Enraged and Engaged” by Gambit ’s Clancy DuBos in early 2006, spread the story of our reform efforts to citizens from across the city. DuBos states,“One of the bright spots since Hurricane Katrina is the awaking of civic responsibility by ordinary citizens,” DuBos wrote. “People are enraged and engaged and the politicians had better take note. The best example to date is a coalition founded by women demanding the region’s levee boards be consolidated.” In the first special session of the state legislature in November of 2005, a House Committee killed the reform measure that had been supported by the New Orleans Business Council. Citizens for 1 took up the gauntlet through a petition drive, causing Governor Blanco to call another special session focused on levee board reform and consolidation. “The petition drive appears to be more popular than blue roofs,” DuBos wrote.

In his “Da Winnas and Da Loozas” column, DuBos ranked Citizen Activists as the number one Winna. “Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans proved that a handful of committed people can still make a difference in a democracy,” he wrote. “The group, which formed around a kitchen table in Uptown New Orleans and quickly grew into a metro-wide, diverse, and irresistible force for change, lobbied to get levee board and assessor amendments on the September 30th and November 7th ballots, respectively, and passed.”

In DuBos’ “Top 10 Political Stories of 2006,” the No. 1 story was on the consolidations. “For all that went wrong in 2006, reforming the levee boards and merging the assessors into one office will have a lasting positive effect on government and politics,” he wrote.

Again, congratulations on the 40th anniversary of Gambit Weekly. I have been a reader all 40 years. You have guided readers through research and observation that has helped in making New Orleans a better city, and our citizens are more involved and engaged.

— R U T HIE F R I E R S O N . F O U ND E R C I T I Z E N S F O R 1 G R E AT E R N E W O R L E A N S

ver two decades ago, Gambit writer Julia O Kamysz Lane covered the 1999 remarriage of my biological parents Chuck and

Linda Pendergast. They had originally married in December 1969 (13 months following their relinquishment of me to the old Protestant Home For Babies on Eighth Street). After raising three daughters and divorcing in 1994 after 25 years of marriage, I found them in ‘97 with the assistance of the former Adoptees’ Birthrights Committee (ABC) search/support group for now-adult adoptees. Chuck and Linda (and my younger, full-blooded sisters) were ecstatic to see me for the first time in 28 years and get to know me and love me as their adult son and brother, and after a couple of years of post-divorce couple’s counseling, Linda and Chuck rekindled their love for one another and decided to remarry. Julia was at the May 1999 wedding and wrote a beautiful story chronicling our journey to that moment.

Gambit decided to put it on its cover in (I think) September 1999 with amazing cover graphics that told the whole complicated story in one creative photo collage. I even remember Julia nabbing a couple of deserving award mentions for the piece. Though Chuck and Linda’s remarriage was short-lived (Chuck passed away suddenly in 2003), the Gambit cover and feature story captured an amazing, crazy moment in my family’s life, and I will be forever grateful for Gambit ’s interest in that slice-of-human-life story, and the wonderful memories it recalls for me and the surviving members of my family, both adoptive and biological. Happy 40th B-day, Gambit !

— KENNY TUCKER

ambit is New Orleans. I was 6 years old G when Gambit premiered, and in the ‘80s my parents always grabbed an issue because it was the best local paper with news, local businesses, and entertainment for everyone in the family. As I got older, I appreciated it even more as my go-to source for movie and food reviews, the art scene, festivals, classifieds, even the personals back in the day! I would send copies to my cousin after she moved to New York because she loves it too and she can get her NOLA fix! I also save past issues for packing up breakables which is awesome! Funny also because on more than one occasion, I’ve stopped unpacking to reread some articles and remember that time. Even at crawfish boils, we love using old issues to toss the crawfish on! To say it is in all aspects of my life would be an understatement. Wouldn’t have it any other way!

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y wife and I met in New Orleans back in M September 1994 thanks to ads that we had both placed in Gambit ’s singles’ column.

Since we both lived in the Uptown area, we had our first date at Vaqueros on Prytania Street (which, unfortunately, is no longer there), and we’ve been together ever since!

We actually celebrate two anniversaries: our wedding on July 6, 1996, and the anniversary of our first date on Sept. 28, 1994.

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ust one year ago I was notified that Jselected through an online voting process I was as a Women in Small Business hon-

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

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No reservations. Takeout available. D Sat-Mon. $ Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; kebabnola.com — The sandwich shop offers doner kebabs and Belgian fries. A falafel sandwich comes with pickled cucumbers, arugula, spinach, red onions, beets, hummus and Spanish garlic sauce. No reservations. Takeout and delivery available Thu-Mon. $

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

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

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A Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. Dine-in, takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Wed-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$ Doson Noodle House — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283; facebook.com/ dosonnoodlehouse — Bun thit is Vietnamese-style grilled pork with cucumber, onions, lettuce, mint, cilantro and fish sauce served over rice or vermicelli. The menu includes pho, spring rolls and more.

Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; fivehappiness.com — The large menu of Chinese dishes includes wonton soup, sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate, sizzling Go-Ba and lo mein dishes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic and scallions. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$ Nonna Mia — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; nonnamianola.com — A Divine Portobello appetizer features chicken breast, spinach in red pepper sauce and crostini.

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OUT TO EAT This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. No reservations. L Mon-Fri. $$

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

UPTOWN Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; joeyksrestaurant.com ­— The menu includes fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and red beans and rice. Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat and served with vegetables and potatoes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Red Gravy — 4206 Magazine St., (504) 561-8844; redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with chocolate. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. Takeout available. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco.com — The Peruvian menu includes a version of the traditional dish lomo saltado, featuring beef tenderloin tips sauteed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, soy sauce and pisco, and served with fried potatoes and rice.

Dine-in, outdoor seating and delivery available. L and D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant. com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes. Fried oysters and skewered bacon are served with meuniere sauce and toasted French bread.

Reservations required. D Thu-Sun. $$$ Carmo — 527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132; cafecarmo.com — Carmo salad includes smoked ham, avocado, pineapple, almonds, cashews, raisins, cucumber, green pepper, rice, lettuce, cilantro and citrus mango vinaigrette. The menu includes dishes inspired by tropical cuisines. Takeout and delivery are available. Mon-Sat. $$ NOLA Caye — 898 Baronne St., (504) 302-1302; nolacaye.com — The menu features Caribbean-inspired dishes and Gulf seafood. Seared ahi tuna is served with mango, avocado, mixed greens, citrus vinaigrette and sesame seeds. Takeout, delivery and outdoor seating available. D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Provisions Grab-n-Go Marketplace — Higgins Hotel, 500 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higgingshotelnola.com — The coffeeshop serves salads, sandwiches, pastries and more. Takeout available.

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WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available. D Wed-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza. Paneed chicken piccata is topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread. Takeout and delivery available. Service daily. $$

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TWENTY FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 772-264

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SUCCESSION OF: ANTHONY MICHEL, SR. a/k/a TONY MICHEL, SR. and NOELIE MARIE MICHEL a/k/a NOELIE VICKNAIR MICHEL FILED: _____________________________ ______________________________ DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ANTOINETTE ROSALIE MICHEL PENNINO, the duly appointed Administrator of the above entitled successions has applied for an order granting her the authority to sell at private sale the following property, to-wit: ALL THE RIGHTS, TITLE AND INTEREST IN AND TO: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Village of Marrero, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in what is known as MICHEL SUBDIVISION, and according to a plan of said subdivision made

by F.G. Stewart, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, dated December 10, 1947, a copy of which is on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana, said piece or portion of ground is designated as lot 7 and one-half of lot 6 nearest lot 7, of Square W15A of said Subdivision; which said square is bounded by Fourth Street Highway of Jefferson Highway, Carmadelle Street, Lot 1 of Square A of Michel Subdivision and the line of Nicholson Place; said Lot 7 Measures 50 feet front on Carmadelle Street by a depth of 79.16,feet between equal and parallel lines; said one-half of lot 6 adjoins lot 7 and measures 25 feet front on Carmadelle Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 79.16 feet, between equal and parallel lines.

This total sales price is for ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100 ($185,000.00) DOLLARS all cash to the selling estates, payable at the Act of Sale less sellers’ expenses pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure, Art. 3282 and the Agreement to Purchase dated October 4, 2020, accepted October 6, 2020 as extended by Extension dated November 19, 2020, of record herein; notice of this application of a succession representative to Sell Succession Property from a Successions needs to be published TWICE in the parish where the property and proceeding is pending and shall state that any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within SEVEN (7) days of the date of the last publication.

By order of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson.

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