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CONTENTS

JULY 17-23, 2018 VOLUME 39 || NUMBER 29 NEWS

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The Ride Stuff

your questions about the RTA answered — and what the transit agency has coming

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FRI. JULY 20 | The heavyweight champs reunite. The Body’s 2018 double album I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer pushes the boundaries of extreme music with its sample-based compositions, and louisiana’s Thou is in the middle of releasing three albums this summer, culminating with August’s full-length Magus, its first release for Sacred Bones Records. lingua Ignota and Jasper Den Hartigh open at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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Branden Lewis Quintet FRI. JULY 20 | A veteran of Preservation Hall and Delfeayo Marsalis’ uptown Jazz Orchestra and co-founder of TrumpetMafia, Branden lewis releases his debut album, BLQ. He’s joined by Shannon Powell, Shea Pierre, Grayson Breauxcamp and others at midnight at Preservation Hall.

Egyptian Lover FRI. JULY 21 | Greg Broussard’s influential ’80s electronic dance productions — breakneck Roland TR-808 snaps, thick bass and slippery vocoder vocals — propelled his Egyptian lover into the 21st century, where he continues to tour and release albums (most recently with 2016’s appropriately titled 1984).

At 9 p.m. at Southport Hall.

Refreshing drinks Bartenders conference Tales of the Cocktail gets a fresh start

By WIll COVIEllO TALES OF THE COCKTAIL ISN’T JUST ABOUT BUILDING A HAPPIER BAR INDUSTRY, says Neal Bodenheimer,

owner of Cure and Cane & Table and a co-owner of Tales of the Cocktail.

It’s about making it healthier, too.

“Wellness is a huge issue in the industry, particularly after the death of (TV host and author) Anthony Bourdain,” Bodenheimer says.

Tales of the Cocktail’s 16th annual conference is July 17-22 at the Hotel Monteleone and venues across town.

Programs include dozens of seminars on spirits and bar business topics, professional development opportunities such as the Cocktail Apprentice Program, tasting rooms and extravagant themed parties thrown by

sponsoring liquor brands. But after a change of ownership in February and reorganization, Tales also has new programming aimed at bartenders’ health and wellbeing.

“If people look at this (field for) a career, then your investment goes a lot longer,” Bodenheimer says. “you’re talking about highly skilled professionals. you’re talking about people like me who start off as a bartender and then open a bar — and then another bar or a restaurant. And have kids and families. If that’s not sustainable then the industry can’t be as mature as it would like to be.”

Tales of the Cocktail is primarily for bartenders. The backbone is programming aimed at spirits knowledge and liquor companies seeking exposure for their products. This year’s seminars cover a range of subject matter from business focuses on building a brand to spirits trends and all manner of liquor-related esoterica.

A few seminars focus on how technology and apps that are changing the way restaurants serve their customers are beginning to affect bars.

There are introductions to spirits from Peruvian pisco to Japanese shochu (a distilled spirit stronger than sake, which is fermented). “In Depth” presentations feature trendsetting bars from around the globe including Singapore’s Operation Dagger, El Co-

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A bartender pours drinks at Tales of the Cocktail.

pitas in St. Petersburg, Russia, and New york’s Dante, a historic Greenwich Village bar recently overhauled to offer small plates and fine drinks.

More rarified topics include a seminar called The Art of the Tasting Menu (3 p.m. Saturday), which explores cocktail tasting menus in which patrons sample a progression of drinks akin to chefs serving tasting menus of many small dishes.

A session called Singles Bars (10 a.m. Saturday) explores the viability of bars built around one spirt, and another seminar rejects cocktails in favor of drinking spirits neat.

Tales also expanded educational programming aimed at industry newcomers. Its 101 series offers introductions to common spirits.

Other seminars go into greater depth, such as Ian Burrell’s two-part program on the history of rum (see 3-Course Interview, page 21).

The change in ownership of Tales followed fallout over issues involving diversity and sensitivity last year.

This year’s schedule includes several panels addressing those issues.

Dollars of Diversity (12:30 p.m.

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JULY 22-29 | The annual competition is preceded by a concert featuring former competition gold medalist Alexandre Moutouzkine and French violinist Chloe Kiffer performing works by Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky. The final round of the competition is July 29. The opening concert is at 4 p.m. at loyola university’s Roussel Hall.

The Blind Boys of Alabama SUN. JULY 22 | Gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama lost founder Clarence Fountain in June, but Jimmy Carter, an original member with seven decades with the group, now leads the Blind Boys. Irma Thomas, Cyril Neville, Terence Higgins and others also perform at the benefit for Educare. At 7:30 p.m. at Orpheum Theater.

MOURN MON. JULY 23 | The young Barcelona post-punk band’s third full-length album, June’s Sorpresa Familia (Captured Tracks), tangles up wiry guitar and bass riffs with rages against scene politics and corporate greed, the international calling cards for a Spanish Sleater-Kinney in the making. Chastity opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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ed a check for $16,000 to New Orleans Saints punter Thomas Morstead for his “What you Give Will Grow” foundation, which supports local charities that benefit children. Morstead’s foundation is the chosen charity of the Old Metairie donut and kolache shop, which opened in April.

Louisiana’s ranking on CNBC’s 2018 list of ‘Top States for Business.’

HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR SHORT-TERM RENTALS GETS NEW LIFE Islamic Relief USA

donated $10,000 to the D&R Community and youth Institute in Westwego to supplant its summer feeding program, which supports youth in the community who may not have enough to eat during the months when school isn’t in session. It was one of seven grants given by the organization to nonprofits around the country to help feed kids from low-income families during the summer months.

Wayne Soniat was sen-

tenced to 15 months in federal prison and ordered to pay back more than $480,000 he admitted embezzling from Baumer Foods, maker of Crystal Hot Sauce and other louisiana condiments. Soniat pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of falsifying income tax returns in federal court in February.

The thefts occurred during five years while Soniat worked for Baumer Foods.

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local short-term rental (STR) operators have joined calls from frustrated residents, tourism and hotel officials and housing advocacy groups for the city’s STR laws to include a homestead exemption requirement, which stipulates the operator also would have to live in New Orleans or on the property itself.

The previous New Orleans City Council considered adding that requirement to the STR rules implemented in 2016, but the amendment failed in a 3-4 vote. A year after the rules took effect, the council tasked the New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC) with studying its effects. The current council, which took office in May, quickly adopted a temporary moratorium on most whole-home rentals to “pause” new and renewed permits and licenses.

At the CPC’s July 10 hearing on the study and moratorium, operators argued that their STR income is what helps them afford to stay in New Orleans, while renters said they fear their own displacement as they begin to feel the squeeze from STRs. The homestead requirement could invalidate hundreds of listings from companies that run more than one STR. A 2018 report from Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative found that nearly 20 percent of all operators control roughly half of all STRs in New Orleans. In March, Gambit’s review of licenses issued by the city found the top 10 operators — including Sonder, Hosteeva and Stay Alfred — held more than 400 licenses with more than 500 listings.

STR developers said the City Council’s new moratorium puts them in a bind after they’ve pumped money into projects priced for tourist housing (often at hundreds of dollars a night), which outpace the kinds of rents many residents can afford, particularly in neighborhoods that suddenly saw bumps in property values and taxes after STR investment began. Ben Harwood — a developer with more than a dozen STRs in Treme — said he now has vacant properties and suggested he might sell them. A group in the crowd yelled, “Please do!”

The City Council appears to be leaning toward implementing a homestead exemption requirement, following several campaigns with a critical eye toward STR rules and enforcement.

The CPC staff is accepting public comments on its report through 5 p.m. Aug. 20. The report is due Aug. 21, and the CPC will consider the study at its Aug. 28 meeting. It also can defer that action to Sept. 11, but the deadline to send it to the City Council is Sept. 21.

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The Pelican State rated high (No. 7) when it came to the cost of doing business, but came in near the bottom when it came to the economy and quality of life, accounting for its overall low score.

Its western neighbor Texas came in at No. 1; Mississippi was No. 49.

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Quote of the week “We didn’t call each other an ‘ignorant slut’ or anything, but we exchanged words.” — u.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy, on his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey lavrov. Kennedy was one of eight GOP senators who spent July 4 in Moscow meeting with Russian officials. u.S. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama said the purpose of the meeting was to “strive for a better relationship,” rather than “accuse Russia of this or that or so forth.”

Kennedy was back on American soil when he said dealing with Russia was like “dealing with the Mafia.”

He seemed to concede Russian interference in the 2016 election when he said, “I thought it was important for us to look them in the eye and say, ‘Hey, we know what you’re doing.’”

Protests against Trump Supreme Court pick set for Aug. 26

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led by abortion rights group NARAl Pro-Choice America, a coalition of national progressive organizations (including Indivisible, MoveOn, Color of Change, American Federation of Teachers, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and others) has promised demonstrations in all 50 states in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of u.S. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The “Stand for Justice” action is scheduled for Aug. 26.

NARAl has said it opposes Kavanaugh’s nomination based on fears that he opposes abortion access and could be the deciding vote in any case that overturns Roe v. Wade, as well as his position and writings on several other important issues. “People know what is at stake in this fight. Kavanaugh would decimate reproductive rights, voting rights, workers’ rights, lGBTQ rights and immigrant rights for generations,” NARAl President Ilyse Hogue said in a statement.

Details about louisiana’s demonstration have not been announced, but local chapters of some progressive and reproductive rights advocacy organizations have indicated they will participate.

District E residents speak out on development The owners of a 47-acre lot in New Orleans East are seeking a zoning change 13 years after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. Before he sells the property, attorney Joseph Bruno is working with District E Councilwoman Cyndi Nguyen to change the site of the

former Frenchman’s Wharf apartments from a single-family zoning to multi-family, on the condition that New Orleans East residents support the plans attached to it. Bruno’s listing price is $3.5 million.

Nguyen, who took office in May, held her first community-wide public meeting as a council member July 11 inside KIPP Morial Primary school, only a few blocks from Frenchman’s Wharf. “We need to find a way to make this a community-friendly development,” Bruno said at the meeting. “The bottom line is there’s a set of plans that will be approved, and you can’t deviate from that set of plans. … There is a process by which there are protections in place.

The question is: What do you want?”

Residents pitched ideas like affordable housing rental and rentto-own units, some retail, recreation and more upscale amenities to help raise the profile of New Orleans East and benefit nearby property values and quality of life. But the meeting gave residents frustrated with the slow and rarely seen progress on redevelopment in the area a sounding board for their exhaustion with poorly built housing and property managers’ high turnovers, the persistence of crime, the lack of retail, being overlooked in the city’s post-Katrina construction boom and being seen as a dumping ground for dead-end projects without the city’s longer-term stake in a neighborhood that’s as much a part of the city as its neighbors down I-10.

Nguyen told Gambit she plans more meetings around larger developments in District E but declined to name what’s on her wish list. “I’m listening,” Nguyen told the crowd.

“I’m not rushing to do anything. I know we’re 13 years behind but I’m not rushing. let’s think of solutions.”

Clerk of Court Ray implements $15/hour minimum wage After campaigning for the District B New Orleans City Council seat, Timothy David Ray was appointed to serve as clerk of First City Court.

Ray’s campaign for the council had endorsements from the labor advocacy group Step up louisiana, and he pledged support for a $15 minimum wage — which he implemented at the clerk’s office last month.

Previous Clerk of Court Ellen Hazeur, who recently won a judicial election, had fought for office pay raises until her office was issued a hiring freeze. Ray said he was able to raise wages by not filling an open position for a chief deputy clerk executive assistant. The raises immediately impact seven staff members, some of whom were working other jobs while employed at the clerk’s office. (Ray isn’t able to raise wages outside the department’s budget

without first getting approval from judges at First City and Civil District Court, who preside over the Judicial Expense Fund.) Ray adds that he wants to attach the wage increase to an annual raise adjusted for the cost of living and inflation.

The raises granted by Ray are New Orleans’ first municipal minimum wage increase to $15, following a failed attempt at the recent louisiana legislature by state Rep. Joseph Bouie to raise louisiana’s minimum wage from the federally set $7.25 an hour to $15. The legislature also failed to pass a more modest increase to $8.50.

“Other public officials in similar positions with their budgets, by their own volition could raise [wages],” Ray told Gambit. “I think it’s important to have that, and to have a vision for the office of what it can be, and be willing to do the work to make it happen.”

Ray plans to use the remainder from the wages set aside from the unfilled executive assistant job to update technology at the office and eventually go paperless, allowing people to file online and judges to sign e-documents.

Loews State Palace hotel project hits a snag Developers planning to turn the long-vacant loews State Palace Theater on Canal Street into a hotel are appealing the Central Business District Historic District landmarks Commission’s (HDlC) denial of two critical proposals that call for a partial demolition of the theater and construction of a multi-story hotel tower.

The 3,000-seat theater — first constructed in 1926 with a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival-inspired facade — had an ornate opera houselike interior that in the 1990s became a renowned, though infamous, ground zero for a burgeoning rave and dance music culture. It didn’t reopen following Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, though it was used for a few special events.

Trapolin-Peer Architects first designed a 15-story, 248-room hotel, turning the theater space into a “silent movie theater” for the lobby and using the theater and its lobby as the hotel’s entrance. There also would be a retail space on the bottom floor, and meeting and ballroom space would occupy the balcony areas.

The HDlC denied the project’s latest drafts at its June 13 meeting, and developers submitted their appeal to the New Orleans City Council July 12, hoping to find ways to maintain the historic facade and put the building back into commerce.

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THE NEW ORLEANS REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY (RTA) IS AT A TIPPING POINT. It struggled to bring

back adequate bus and streetcar service after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, and adjustments to new living patterns have come slowly.

Riders have many complaints — most notably, buses not showing up on time (or at all).

In recent years, RTA has expanded service, but not enough to keep up with housing patterns. A recent report by the National low Income Housing Coalition and the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center found renters now need to earn more than $19 an hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in the city. Even a one-bedroom apartment isn’t affordable to many making minimum wage.

Small wonder, then, that so many in the service industry who once lived in Faubourg Marigny, Treme or the 7th Ward are moving to neighboring parishes. This outmigration is old news in expensive cities like New york and Chicago, but those cities have reliable — and affordable — public transportation systems. In those cities and others, employers often subsidize workers with monthly transit passes.

Even without that benefit, a pre-tax transit scheme in Chicago allows workers to save up to $1,000 a year on getting to work.

To get things back on track here, the RTA, city officials and private employers need to implement creative solutions. We’re finally catching up to other cities with the RTA’s new smartphone app, which allows people to buy tickets on their phones and track buses and streetcars in real time. Some new RTA board members are transit advocates rather than functionaries. The new chair of the City Council’s committee on transportation, District C Council-

woman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, wants to tackle systemic problems at the RTA. In this week’s cover story by Kat Stromquist, Palmer is blunt, saying: “I don’t think they’ve been responsive to communities.”

Palmer should know. She represents Algiers Point, where riders often complain about limited bus service, as well as some of the most tourist-heavy parts of downtown, a daily destination for thousands of service industry workers.

Those who have to drive to downtown jobs are squeezed on all sides these days. Higher public parking rates went into effect under Mayor Mitch landrieu, while private lots in the CBD and Warehouse District are being gobbled up by new condominium and mixeduse developments.

Palmer’s ideas include a complete redesign of the bus network. Houston did

The RTA needs to respond to a changing New Orleans. that in 2015 and saw a 6.8 percent increase in ridership in one year. Palmer also suggests more efficient bus routes to places with many employees and a park-and-ride center for workers headed downtown. A twohour bus ride with transfers could be replaced by a commute to a central lot with buses ferrying employees the last mile or two — perhaps for free.

Such a system could benefit everyone, including employers.

The RTA contract, currently held by the company Transdev, is up for bid next year. All bidders should present innovative ideas to improve New Orleans’ transit system, and the RTA should establish firm deadlines to implement those ideas. Public transit needs to tip back toward better serving those who need it most.

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A landmark year for anti-domestic abuse legislation FOR ALL THEIR PARTISAN BATTLES IN RECENT YEARS, louisiana law-

makers passed significant anti-domestic violence laws in 2018, and they did so in bipartisan fashion.

In fact, this year’s regular session produced some of the strongest protections for victims — and some of the toughest penalties for abusers — in the country.

Perhaps the most far-reaching victory for victims’ advocates was passage of Senate Bill 231 by state Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans. Morrell’s bill puts teeth into previously passed measures aimed at disarming abusers.

Among its provisions, the new law: > Requires judges and sheriffs to take proactive steps to disarm abusers. Judges must suspend concealed carry permits and order the transfer of all firearms to a sheriff within 48 hours of issuing a protective order against or convicting a person of domestic abuse battery or battery of a dating partner. > Requires defendants to disclose the number and location of all firearms. The local sheriff then must prepare a “proof of transfer” form to be filed in court records.

Sheriffs have several options for effecting the transfers, but they must disarm abusers. > Requires gun dealers to report failed attempts by abusers to purchase firearms (particularly when they fail background checks) — and it requires the abusers’ victims to be notified of the “lie and try” attempt.

Dealers who fail to notify authorities will be reported to the feds. > Raises penalties for abusers who attempt to possess firearms or who actually possess guns from five years to up to 20 years, with a minimum sentence of one year in jail. > Provides up to a year in jail for anyone who fraudulently obtains a firearm for an abuser or who transfers a gun to an abuser.

Kim Sport, an attorney who has logged countless hours advocating for victims and tougher domestic violence laws, credited sheriffs and district attorneys as well as victims’ advocates for helping pass Morrell’s bill. “It’s one of the strongest laws in the nation to keep guns out of the

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A woman holds up a sign and chants during a march against domestic violence in Baton Rouge in 2017.

hands of domestic abusers,” says Sport, whose advocacy earned her Gambit’s “New Orleanian of the year” recognition for 2017.

Other key measures passed this year include two bills by state Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, to protect victims and their families.

Her House Bill 776 requires protective orders to be issued by judges against convicted stalkers — and the protective orders must include firearms prohibitions.

Smith’s House Bill 896 requires a protective order with a firearms prohibition to be issued during prosecution of any crime of violence or any felony perpetrated against an intimate partner.

It also prohibits direct or indirect communication, or attempted communication, by abusers with their victims (or victims’ families) during prosecution.

“This will go a long way towards encouraging victims to cooperate in prosecutions without fear of coercion, retaliation and intimidation,” Sport says.

Smith’s measures passed both the House and Senate unanimously and had considerable support from law enforcement, prosecutors and judges. Even the National Rifle Association got on board this time, for a change.

Our lawmakers have taken a lot of heat — deservedly so — for their partisan budget battles, but on this important issue they deserve praise for finding common ground.

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Hey Blake,

I know about the Jazz and of course the Pelicans, but someone told me New Orleans once had a professional women’s basketball team. What can you tell me about it?

Dear reader,

The New Orleans Pride women’s basketball team was formed soon after the city’s professional NBA franchise, the New Orleans Jazz, left the city for Salt lake City in 1979. The Pride was part of the Women’s Professional Basketball league (WBl).

The local team was the brainchild of basketball fan Steve Brown, a stockbroker who also won a contest to name the Jazz in 1974. When the Jazz left, Brown convinced one of his clients, Dr. John Simpson, to invest in a women’s franchise for the city. Simpson and his wife Claudette became the majority owners of the New Orleans Pride, with Brown as general manager. The team’s name was chosen from among nearly 700 entries in a contest.

The Pride’s first head coach was Butch van Breda Kolff, the

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often-bombastic but popular figure known for coaching the first two seasons of the New Orleans Jazz. The Pride played its home opener in the Superdome Nov. 15, 1979. Despite a record crowd for a WBl game (8,452 fans), the Pride lost to the New york Stars. Other Pride games were played at Tulane university and, in later seasons, at the university of New Orleans.

After a 22-13 record that inaugural season, van Breda Kolff led the Pride to the WBl playoffs in the team’s first year. He led the team to the playoffs in its second season but was dismissed by the team in March 1981. Both the team and the league dissolved later that year.

BLAKEVIEW It says in big, bold letters on the front page of the website for Rebirth Brass Band: “A New Orleans institution since 1983,” which reminds us the band is marking its 35th anniversary this year. The band’s original members — including tuba player Phil Frazier, his brother Keith (on drums) and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins — were classmates at Joseph S. Clark Senior High School when they founded the band. Rebirth cut its first album, Here to Stay, just a year later in 1984, bringing the brass band sounds of the streets where they grew up to a wider audience.

The band’s agent, the late Allison Miner, encouraged Rebirth to get experience on the road by touring Europe, which it did for much of its first decade, in addition to performing locally. In 1990, the group began a regular gig at Maple leaf Bar, which continues on Tuesday nights when the band isn’t on the road. It also plays every Thursday at The Willow. This summer alone, Rebirth will perform in the united Kingdom and Canada as well as Seattle, Phoenix, los Angeles, Minneapolis and other u.S. cities.

Over the years, many band members have launched successful solo careers.

Two of the band’s signature songs, “Do Whatcha Wanna” and “Feel like Funkin’ It up,” have become local standards. The group’s album Rebirth of New Orleans on the Basin Street Records label won a Grammy for best regional roots music P H OTO B y I A N F R A N K / album in 2012.

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o take an RTA bus from Hollygrove to her old restaurant job in the Warehouse District, Amanda Soprano used to leave home an hour and a half before the start of her shift.

Between a Tulane Avenue bus she says is chronically late in the afternoons and a streetcar transfer, Soprano often encountered delays that would make her late for work; a fact that grated on her knowing she could have driven to Biloxi, Mississippi in the same amount of time it took to go downtown on public transit. leaving work, she’d face a long bus ride home or an expensive uber trip.

She’s known dishwashers and cooks who spent the night on Canal Street after working late and missing their buses home.

“Taking RTA is like a second job,” she says. “I get off my job, and then I have the second job of trying to get home.”

As a hospitality worker, Soprano is a member of one of a few constituencies — which also include New Orleans East and West Bank residents and elderly New Orleanians — who have criticized RTA in recent years. At public meetings they voice their complaints about tardy buses, infrequent service, breakdowns and distrust of city transit planners’ priorities.

“The system is not horrible, but it drastically needs improvement, and if you’re a rider you recognize that on a daily basis,” says Alex Posorske, executive director of transit advocacy group RIDE New Orleans. “If you’re not hearing that amplified, it’s hard to have a lot of confidence.”

Recently, Gambit spoke with RTA’s interim executive director, its new board chairman, officials of its management group Transdev, New Orleans City Council members and transit advocates to get a picture of the state of public transportation in New Orleans. We’ve condensed those conversations into a layperson’s guide outlining how the basics: how the system works, officials’ responses to common rider concerns and what the people in charge are planning to make it better.

What most described is a transit system that is improving — but incrementally, and project by project. This continues to frustrate riders, who experience transit on a day-to-day basis (Was my bus late this morning?

Did it take me an hour to get home today?) rather than the month-tomonth or year-over-year perspective of transit planners.

“Certainly if you look at the numbers … you see that the buses don’t break down all the time, but for the one person that the bus does break

down on, it’s a huge inconvenience,” acknowledges RTA Interim Executive Director Jared Munster. “People need to believe that RTA can get them to school and to work on time and on schedule.”

But there is one sign of hope: So much of what’s going on related to city transit right now is brand-new.

Munster’s appointment fills a role that had been vacant for months.

There are new members on the organization’s board, including a founding member of RIDE New Orleans. Rollouts are scheduled for an interparish pass and the full launch of an app with real-time arrival information, which now is available for download. There also are upcoming bids for a new contract to operate New Orleans public transit beginning next year.

Here’s what you need to know about the organization now.

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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell gets some last-minute driving tips from Regional Transit Authority (RTA) instructor Kory Dupree, left, during a publicity event in June to highlight the RTA’s unveiling of its new GoMobile app, which allows riders to pay for fares using their smartphones. The mayor briefly drove around the RTA parking lot but did not enter street traffic.

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Who is in charge at RTA? What’s the difference between RTA and Transdev?

I keep hearing about the “strategic mobility plan” or “20-year plan.” What is that?

like las Vegas and many other cities, a private company — Transdev, once known as Veolia Transdev — runs the day-to-day operations of public transportation in New Orleans. That company reports to an eight-member volunteer board of commissioners (appointed by Mayor laToya Cantrell and Jefferson Parish President Mike yenni, though there currently are some holdovers from previous administrations), which is responsible for decision-making about RTA’s activities and finances. RTA’s director (Munster, appointed in an interim capacity) works for the city and oversees the public agency.

As described in national transit advocacy group TransitCenter’s “A Bid for Better Transit” report, this setup has advantages and disadvantages. Private operating companies have efficiencies they’ve developed from work in other cities; unlike city governments, however, they have a profit motive that needs to be aligned (via regulations and contract terms) with public goals.

There’s also a disincentive for private companies to be open about problems with performance when new contracts — like the agreement to begin operating New Orleans transit in late 2019 — are at stake.

“It’s not in [Transdev’s] best interest to say the system needs improvement, especially when they’ve been here for 10 years,” Posorske says.

The strategic mobility plan (SMP) is a 20year, high-level plan developed with the input of riders, advocacy groups and other stakeholders. It includes more than 100 action items related to RTA’s long-term goals and shows the specific (“ticket vending machines at 25 high-traffic stops”) and the abstract (“encourage affordable housing in new developments with good transit”).

The SMP doesn’t include detailed explanations of how each goal will be accomplished.

To contribute to those plans, RTA will partner with the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) on a comprehensive operations analysis (COA) beginning later this year. This analysis studies how people are using the system (for example, where people get on and off) to identify lowcost, high-return areas for improvement.

RPC Deputy Director Jason Sappington says one of the hopes is to identify “latent demand” — gaps in existing coverage and areas where people would ride the system if it were available.

The last COA was performed in 2011.

“Where people live is different than they used to live,” Sappington says. “A lot of people that have been priced out of New Orleans now live way down in Jefferson Parish but they still [need to] get to work. The system as it exists now … cannot keep up with that.”

Where does RTA’s money come from? How can it pay for new big projects (like new streetcars) when it feels like the system isn’t working that well?

The majority of RTA’s revenue comes from taxes. RTA says just 18 percent of its 2017 revenue came from fares.

Although financial reports this year have looked good, Transdev Chief Strategy Officer Adelee le Grand says there is an overall “constrained financial situation” RTA faces, especially when compared to the years before Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures.

Before the storm, fares were higher relative to inflation, ridership was much higher (in part thanks to a larger fleet of vehicles) and RTA benefited from a contract to provide bus tokens for schoolchildren in the area.

The big projects, such as the loyola Street streetcar buildout, frequently get an assist from grants, which often are earmarked for specific types of work.

RTA Board of Commissioners Chairman Flozell Daniels Jr. says RTA needs to be “transparent” with the public about the complexity of its funding model — and frank about why money is being used for a specific purpose. “The question I have for folks is: Are we going to turn away federal money that’s been designed to support [a] particular activity?” he says.

But even the use of grants can inspire criticism. Transit advocates argue it’s misleading to call them “free money,” because even grant-funded projects that don’t require a local match absorb the time and attention of a small staff.

My bus is always late. What is the RTA doing to make the buses run on time? “[Timeliness] is one area that is obvious for improvement,” says Munster, adding that bus on-time reliability ratings have hovered around 75 percent since last fall. (RTA says the same metric is slightly lower for streetcars.)

Munster and other officials say two key things currently are causing delays in the system — a heavy amount of road construction in the city and a lack of accurate information about arrival times. Munster says there are plans for RTA to work more closely with city departments to adjust routes based on current road conditions. Transdev Vice President Justin Augustine III wants to work with the Department of Transportation and city engineers to identify workarounds, such as dedicated lanes, for buses delayed by traffic bottlenecks.

There also are hopes for the “clever device” system that provides real-time arrival information to RTA’s app — information that public transit agencies in other cities have had in place for years. In addition to offering riders a better picture of where buses and streetcars are, real-time arrival information helps buses run on schedule by locating choke points, although gathering this information will take several months. Munster thinks improving timeliness will go a long way toward restoring rider confidence in RTA. Transit advocates stress the urgency of solving this problem, saying late arrivals create problems for riders that go beyond inconvenience. One RIDE New Orleans survey of transit riders working at Harrah’s New Orleans Hotel and Casino found 29 percent of respondents had been late to work three or more times in the past month. HousingNOlA Executive Director Andreanecia Morris, who

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offered her thoughts to RTA on its SMP, says late arrivals can cause people to lose jobs or can hold them back professionally.

Is RTA going to build more shelters?

Will there be one at my stop?

“This is a city where we have inclement weather routinely,” Morris says. “There needs to be shade and protection from the sun and there needs to be protection from rain, period.” Her concerns are echoed by District D Councilman Jared Brossett, who recently pushed for zoning rule changes to expedite the shelter-building process.

Munster says RTA has budgeted $250,000 to install 21 additional shelters this year, but the board and Transdev have been working to secure grant funds that would allow for 33 additional shelters.

RTA will use ridership numbers to determine where those shelters go, Munster says.

So are they really going to extend the Rampart streetcar down St. Claude Avenue?

It’s not clear yet. The project is still being studied, and officials have been careful to say it’s “not a priority” for New Orleans public transit.

Public opinion is divided on this issue. It pops up at almost every RTA board meeting, with comments ranging from Faubourg Marigny business owners cheerleading the expansion to riders saying there’s no need for more streetcars.

Some transit advocates also are critical of the idea. “If they are dedicating staff to this, their staff is not focused on how you move forward with the rest of it,” Posorske says. ultimately any expansion may fan the flames of a long-running conflict in which riders accuse RTA of supporting streetcar service — which some view as a gift to

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Transdev Director of Marketing Candice Marti shows a bus equipped with the Regional Transit Authority’s (RTA) new GoMobile app, which allows riders to pay for fares using their smartphones, and also has monitors that give updates on bus routes and transfers.

developers and tourism boosters — over bus service, which connects to more residential neighborhoods.

Transdev staff remain adamant they do not prioritize streetcars over buses or ferries, and that the extension will proceed only if it makes sense for riders. “We’re not putting one mode over another,” le Grand says. “It’s about the best solution for our customers and how we can most efficiently move folks.”

Why hasn’t RTA sent more buses to New Orleans East and Algiers?

One of the more general challenges RTA faces is the varied character of New Orleans neighborhoods — the nature of service shifts as one moves beyond the urban center, Munster says. As Transdev officials describe it, however, the underlying issue is the expense of running high-frequency buses to areas that may not be able to fill the seats. “I’ve heard some people say, well, I want bus service every three minutes, I want every five minutes. Well, is that really practical in certain areas?” Augustine says. “Supply and demand and demographics come into play.” le Grand says what the organization can do is explore solutions beyond RTA’s standard 40-foot buses. This might include using smaller vehicles or implementing on-demand or “circulator” services to bring riders from geographically farther neighborhoods to transfer points or the city center. The COA also will provide more information

about where demand for service is greatest and will drive decision-making about frequency on routes.

Augustine recognizes this as another high-priority problem to solve, given the cost-of-living challenges roiling the city.

“The extremities or the farther reaches of our community seem to be more affordable than the internal urban core … which means more frequent service has to be delivered from us [to those areas],” he says. “So that means we have to think differently how we deliver those core services.”

the organization, including a route redesign similar to one implemented in Houston, as well as bus routes to job centers such as the main Ochsner campus on Jefferson Highway. She also has floated ideas targeted to specific constituencies, such as a free municipal transit pass for kids ages 13-18 and a park-and-ride center for downtown hospitality workers.

Cantrell also seems to be taking a stronger role on transit than her predecessor, creating an Office of Transportation and installing its head on the RTA’s board.

What are our elected officials doing about RTA?

What’s the deal with the contract?

Will Transdev stay on as operator?

“[Transportation] doesn’t matter until the politicians say it matters, and they’re starting to say that,” Sappington says. As Cantrell and the new City Council have taken office, transit has been a frequent point of reference in officials’ public remarks. One of its most outspoken proponents is District C Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who represents parts of the West Bank as well as the French Quarter, and who chairs the council’s transportation committee.

Palmer sees transit and housing policy as part of the puzzle of holding down the cost of living in the city and says she is “not pleased [with RTA]. I don’t think they’ve been responsive to communities.”

There are a number of improvements Palmer would like to see from

“I feel like Transdev has been doing a fairly good job,” Munster says. “Are they the absolute best we could ever hope for? Maybe, maybe not.” As far as next year’s new operating contract, Palmer says she hopes to see at least three or four bidders. (Transdev “absolutely” will bid on the contract, Augustine says.)

David Bragdon, executive director at TransitCenter, says even if Transdev wins the contract, a bidding process will keep the company on its toes. He calls New Orleans a “marquee city” that’s been “underperforming,” and thinks many companies will see the contract as an opportunity.

There also are benefits to starting over with a fresh agreement — the current contract is not very specific in terms of performance measures (like breakdowns), Bragdon says, which can

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Is the service really getting better at all? Is it ever going to be like it was before Hurricane Katrina?

“I’ve been riding the bus since I was 7 [years old], and now I’m 62,” rider Wanda Davis told the RTA board at a recent meeting. “The bus service is not good right now, compared to what it used to be.” For people who still remember the system before the storm, there remains a nagging gap between the kind of public transportation the city offers now and the way it was before 2005.

But “the city before Katrina and the city after Katrina are two different landscapes,” le Grand says. As Transdev officials tell it, basically, no — it’s never going to be the same. (Augustine thinks people underestimate how much it took to bring service even to its current level.) But they also argue that it’s a mistake to compare the time before the storm to the time after; as the city undergoes major demographic shifts, they say, the financial environment changes and new transit technologies develop.

By some measures, there are signs that service is getting better — slowly.

Munster points to ridership growth attributed to service expansions from 2016; according to RTA, by count of vehicle revenue hours (the number of hours buses are available to pick up passengers), bus service increased by

29 percent since 2012. Munster thinks it will help if the agency can do a better job communicating this kind of data. “In truth, the system as a whole is performing a lot better than people perceive,” he says.

Both RTA and Transdev say they are attuned to the underlying problem — riders don’t feel recognized or that they’re being heard. le Grand says officials are trying to create more opportunities for riders to say where the system isn’t working for them, such as changing public meetings to evening hours so more people can attend.

She encourages riders to keep asking questions, even — or especially — when they don’t like the answers they’ve received thus far.

“We have to hear what people have to say,” le Grand says. “We have thick skin, and we understand that the services that we provide … they are life services. We welcome the feedback, the good and the bad, because that’s what helps us be more responsive.”

Munster is sympathetic to rider impatience, but urges the public to hang on and stay in the conversation while RTA implements its long-term plans.

“While we are asking for patience, we’re asking for, in practical terms, slightly less patience than we asked for a year ago [during the SMP planning process],” he says. “It’s all of these pieces that need to be put together to make sure the system is where it needs to go.”

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THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL APPROVED PLANS for Eli Gay to

open a package liquor store, Freret Beer Annex, in the building next to his restaurant Freret Beer Room (5018 Freret St., 504-298-7468; www.freretbeerroom.com).

The liquor store will occupy half of a former double shotgun home at 5014 Freret St. and will sell beer, wine, liquor and some grocery items, according to the proposal. Gay told the City Planning Commission in May that he expected to offer 250 craft beers at the store.

Freret Beer Room opened in November 2016. It offers 15 craft beers and ciders on tap and serves a menu of causal dishes and snacks.

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By H E l E N F R E u N D @helenfreund THOUGH FRENCH IN ORIGIN, THE MILLE CREPE CAKE has become

popular with bakers and dessert lovers everywhere. The delicate, multi-layered confection is found in the display cases of many Asian bakeries from Japan to Singapore.

It also is the driving force for a new Chinese bakery in Metairie, where myriad versions of the creamy, spongy treat highlight a selection of pastries and Chinese baked goods difficult to find in the area.

Wenjian Zheng and his wife opened Wishing Town Bakery Cafe earlier this year in a narrow strip mall on David Drive. Zheng moved to the New Orleans area from Guangzhou, China, six years ago and the couple also run the CBD food truck yami Foods. At their cafe, which sits next to a full-service Chinese restaurant not associated with the bakery, the emphasis is on Chinese buns, cakes and pastries.

There are many sweet breads, but the few savory pastries are very good.

A buttery roll is topped with pork floss — an umami-rich, dry, shredded pork mix. A shiny and subtly sweet briochelike dough surrounds chunks of a hot dog link in the sausage roll, which makes for a filling, slightly crunchy snack. A similar dough serves as the base for coconut bread, which is showered in finely shredded coconut and isn’t overly sweet. Somewhere between them in sweetness lies a flaky croissant filled with a brickred bean paste with an earthy tang.

Barbecued pork-filled buns are nearly ubiquitous at Asian bakeries but are conspicuously absent here, and the bakery selection would benefit from

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Fluffy milk bread tastes like angel food cake and begs for an accompanying cup of espresso. Egg tarts, a hallmark of Chinese bakeries, are a custardy treat with a texture akin to lemon curd, a thick, English-style pastry crust and a bruleed top. A selection of cheesecakes includes a blueberry version with a very fine graham cracker crust and a dense, creamy filling with violet-colored blueberry swirls, which add a touch of tartness.

The heart of the bakery is the impressive selection of cakes, available in a variety of colors and flavors. An indulgent chocolate mousse cake has layers of gooey chocolate and a thick cocoa topping. Soft, spongy mille crepe cakes feature paper-thin layers of cake and pastry creams. The word mille refers to the cake’s appearance of having a thousand layers, though there actually are 15 to 20 layers. A coconut version has only a touch of

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Wishing Town Bakery Cafe serves a strawberry shortcake and a rainbowcolored mille crepe cake.

sweetness — a nice surprise for an ingredient often overburdened by artificial sweeteners — and is topped with a thin veil of shredded, dried coconut flakes.

There are two versions of the layered green tea cake — one filled with a lightly-flavored pastry cream and the other with pandan, which exudes floral and vanilla scents. The latter worked well with the matcha-topped cake, which delivers the characteristic bitterness of the tea balanced by sweet layers of cake and cream.

The Chinese influence at Wishing Town Cafe Bakery is what makes it unique in the area, and it’s a creative addition to the bakeries and confectioners in the metro area.

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Cafe b opened in 2011. Several restaurants have opened nearby this year, including Shipley’s DoNuts and Zocalo Cocina Mexicana & Cantina.

The Ralph Brennan group closed Heritage Grill in Metairie late last year. It still operates Brennan’s on Royal Street, Napoleon House, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill and others. — WIll COVIEllO

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TOUPS SOUTH (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-304-2147; www. toupssouth.com) has announced themes for its next two Counter Club dinners. A Hawaiian Nights dinner Aug. 16 features dishes such as Hawaiian-style smoked pork belly with pineapple and crispy rice cakes.

The Spice Trade dinner Sept. 20 will feature lamb neck vindaloo.

The restaurant also is offering prix fixe menu specials for lunch, dinner and brunch through July. Dishes include country-style pate with beer mustard and garlic-dill pickles, curried yogurt chicken salad with grapes, local greens and walnut vinaigrette, oyster-stuffed eggplant with sherry tomato vinaigrette and Alabama peach ice cream with cane syrup caramel. Special menus cost $20 at lunch, $35 at dinner and $30 at brunch. — WIll COVIEllO

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RUM AMBASSADOR

LONDON-BASED IAN BURRELL (@RUM_AMBASSADOR) launched u.K.

RumFest in 2007 and london Rum Week earlier this year. He worked as a bartender before he was hired to represent a rum brand and has become an authority on the spirit. Burrell is a frequent speaker and panelist at Tales of the Cocktail (see Tales of the Cocktail preview, page 5). He leads a two-part seminar on the history and future of rum at the cocktail conference this year. Burrell spoke to Gambit about rum.

How did you get interested in rum?

Burrell: My family is from Jamaica, so I had very early experiences with rum. It was literally in my blood. As a bartender, I loved making cocktails with rums as they were far more versatile than other spirit categories. In the late 1990s, J. Wray & Nephew (ltd.) appointed me as the first rum brand ambassador in the u.K. Six years later, after helping to launch Jamaican rums in New Zealand and Australia, I decided I needed to learn more about the category, so I gave up my job to travel and learn about rum.

The message I’m spreading is that rum is more than a spirit, it’s a way of life. There are many styles and interpretations of what rum is. In many countries, rum has been and still is an important part of the social and economic makeup of the country. As I have told this message in all seven continents, I have called myself the “global rum ambassador.”

What will your rum seminars at Tales of the Cocktail cover?

B: The seminar looks back at the history of rum-making in the Caribbean and why production and styles changed or developed.

There are many reasons why the English, Spanish and French make their rums differently. I will

explore some of these stories with the aid of some amazing rum producers from the Caribbean and South America and, of course, some amazing tasting rums.

Some of the most interesting rums come from places that are still young in the international market, such as rums from Mauritius, Madeira, Phuket in Thailand and molasses rums from Brazil, as opposed to the fresh cane juice spirit from that country called cachaca. From the Caribbean, the Foursquare Rum Distillery in Barbados keeps making exceptional rums, while there are some amazing rums finished in wine casks from Antigua, St. lucia and Martinique.

Tiki drinks have been one focus for rum in the craft cocktail movement. What are your favorite cocktails?

B: Rums get attention in all types of cocktails. Tiki is just another classic medium that helps to drive volume. Over 90 percent of all tiki drinks contain rum, and with the genre ever growing, sales of rums are growing too.

(My favorite cocktails) depend on my moods. I love a good fresh daiquiri. A sweet rum Manhattan with chocolate bitters and a rum old fashioned. But a good pina colada or mai tai will always bring a smile to my face.

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BYWATER Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; www. jackdempseys.net — for large parties. l Tue-Fri, D Wed-Sat. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — D Wed-Sun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — B & D daily, l Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — l Sat-Sun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Delivery available. l Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — l, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe — 7801 Panola St., (504) 314-1810; www.panolastreetcafe.com — B and l daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — l Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

CITYWIDE Breaux Mart — Citywide; www.breauxmart.com — l, D daily. $ La Carreta — Citywide; www.carretarestaurant.com — lunch and dinner daily. $$

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; www.kebabnola.com — Delivery available. l and D Wed-Mon, late Fri-Sat. $

B — breakfast L — lunch D — dinner late — late 24H — 24 hours

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11 to $20 $$$ — $21 or more

ans.com — Reservations recommended.

B, l Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$

Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — B, l, D daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — D daily. $$$ El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — l, D daily. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola. com — l, early dinner daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — l, D Wed-Sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — l, D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 2526745; www.killerpoboys.com — Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www. lpkfrenchquarter.com — l, D daily. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — B, l, D daily. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. l Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, l, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — l, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$

Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — Open 24 hours daily. $

Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon. com — brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$

FRENCH QUARTER

Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — B, l, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — B, l, D daily. $ Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — l, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — B, l.

D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworle-

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — l, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — l, D daily. $

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; www.theospizza.com — l, D daily. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4675611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — B, l, D daily. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — l, D daily. $$

LAKEVIEW El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola.com — See l, D daily. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — B, l daily, D MonSat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — B, l, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com — l and D Tue-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun, late Thu-Sat. $$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. l, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www.bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. l and D Mon-Sat. $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. l Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — l Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www. gumbostop.com — l, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — l Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — l Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — B, l daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — l, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www. riccobonospeppermill.com — B and l daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — l, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — l Mon-Sat, D daily. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www. shortstoppoboysno.com — B, l, D Mon-Sat. $ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. l, D Tue-Sun. $$ PAGE 24

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Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — l, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — l, D daily. $

HAPPY HOUR

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — l Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — l, D Tue-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 6093871; www.brownbutterrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. l Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — l Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — B, l and D Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — B and l Tue-Sat. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — Delivery available. l, D daily. $$ Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — Brunch Thu-Mon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 483-6464; www.gspizzas.com — l, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — l daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — l Fri-Sun, D, late daily. $ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — l, D Mon-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — l, D daily. $ Le’s Baguette Banh Mi Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www.facebook. com/lesbaguettenola — B Sat-Sun, l and D daily. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — B, l daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — l Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — l, D Tue-Sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria.com — l, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — l, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www. theospizza.com — l, D daily. $

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — l, D daily. $

Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — D Mon-Sat. $$

Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — l, D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — Reservations recommended. l Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. D Tue-Sat. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — l, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — l Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — l, D, late daily. $

NORTHSHORE Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — B, l daily, early dinner MonSat, brunch Sun. $$

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$

El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — l, D daily. $$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — l MonFri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — l, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — l, D daily. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — l Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — D Tue-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www.desfamilles.com — l, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$

The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — B daily, l Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$

Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — l, D daily. $$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — l Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$

Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook.com/ tavolinolounge — D daily, brunch Sun.

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Rock ‘n’ Bowl — lil’ Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers, 8 Santos Bar — Amarok, 9 SideBar — Contra-Contrabass feat. Jeb Stuart, Bill Hunsinger, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Tribute to Don Suhor (album release), 8 & 10 The Starlight — Alicia Blue Eyes Renee, 9 Three Muses — Paul Kemnitz, 5; Joe Cabral, 7 The Willow — Rebirth Brass Band, 9

FRIDAY 20 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Maria lamarque, 8 Bar Redux — Cumbia Calling with DJ Malaria Sound Machine, 10 Bombay Club — Bombay All-Stars feat.

Clint Baker, Tim laughlin, Hal Smith, Kris Tokarski, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Jerry Jumonville & the Jump City Jammers, 6; Marina Orchestra, 9 Casa Borrega — Ralph Gipson Trio, 7 Check Point Charlie — The Compliments, 4; lips & the Trips, 8; AR-15, Engage the Threat, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Paul Sanchez, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 7 d.b.a. — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 6; Cyril Neville & Swamp Funk, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10

Gasa Gasa — The Body, Thou, lingua Ignota, Jasper Den Hartigh, 10 House of Blues — Welcome to New Orleans feat. Mannie Fresh, 9 Howlin’ Wolf (Den) — War Twins, The Breton Sound, Soft Animal, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Michael Watson Band, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Tim Robertson, 5; Bob & Dave Acoustic, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Piano Bob, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Troi Atkinson, 10 Oak — Tom leggett, 9 Old Point Bar — Anais St. John, 3; Rebel Roadside, 9 Preservation Hall — The Moon looks Down and laughs: A Midnight Soiree feat. Branden lewis Quintet, 11 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Ryan Foret & Foret Tradition, 9 SideBar — Maxwell Boecker & Nick Benoit, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Afrodiziac’s Jazz, 9 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5; Doro Wat Jazz, 9 Tipitina’s — Foundation Free Fridays feat.

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SATURDAY 21 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Margherita, 8 Bombay Club — On The levee, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene Delay & Charlie Wooten, 6; Asylum Chorus, 9

Casa Borrega — Bob Folse & Friends, 7 Check Point Charlie — Ron Hotstream & the Mid-City Drifters, 8; Aiden Paul, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Seth Walker & Dylan leblanc, 8

The Starlight — Shawan Rice, 7; Brad Webb Making Faces, 10 Three Muses — leo Forde, 9; Esther Rose, 6 Tipitina’s — Deacon John & the Ivories, 10

Circle Bar — Cryptic Void, Apocalyptic Noise Syndicate, Pussyrot, Sounding, 7

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d.b.a. — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 7; Hot 8 Brass Band, 11

Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio feat. Tim laughlin, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Steve Pistorius Quartet, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Big Frank & little Frank, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Circle Bar — Micah & Marlin, 7 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 4; Michot’s Melody Makers (d.b.a. 18th anniversary party), 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Piano Bob, 9 Gasa Gasa — My Epic, 7 The Gladstone — The Great Twenty-Eights, 5 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Tom Witek Jazz Trio, 6 Santos Bar — unsane, Wrong, Zig Zags, Sweet Boy, 8 Sidebar — Jamison Williams Group feat. Jim Ivy, Thomas Milovac, Charles Pagano, 7

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Antonio!, 10 The Frenchmen Hotel — Valerie Sassyfras, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Rememberables, Blackstage, Trashlight, Sharks’ Teeth, 10 Howlin’ Wolf — uncle luke, Trina, Cupid, DJ Jubilee, Choppa, Partners N Crime, Joe Blakk, Pinc Gator, Moe B. Dick, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Professor Craig Adams Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Paul Tobin, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Clint Kaufmann, Dr. lo & loyola’s Finest, 7 Oak — Burris, 9 Old Point Bar — Dana Abbott, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Kirasu, A living Soundtrack, 9 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Mojeaux, 9 Saenger Theatre — Cheap Trick, 7 Siberia Lounge — Julie Odell, People Museum, Matron, 9 SideBar — lynn Drury, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — lynne Arriale Trio, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Egyptian lover, 9

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Victor Goines Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — The Anchor, Black Kreole, Brief History, 6 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; linnzi Zaorski, 8 Trinity Episcopal Church — Hometown Harmony Show feat. Mardi Gras Chorus, Crescent

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WHAT COMES NEXT? That “what’s it all about”-ism propels the art collective Kirasu, a meditative pop project embracing the mystery. “We ended up coming to the idea of wanting to explore the afterlife, in a positive sense — an attempt to answer the unanswerable, narratively and thematically and sonically,” says bassist Alex Smith, formerly of World leader Pretend and Rotary Downs, and who founded the collective with Sarah Fontenelle and the late Dave Rosser, whose prolific work spanned Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers, among others, and whose work lives on through Kirasu’s collective.

Their shared interests turned into a book club of sorts, studying everything from lucid dreaming, quantum physics, black holes and the fourth dimension to whales and the unexplored depths of our planet. “One thing we didn’t want this to be was a band, in a typical sense of the word — what we wanted was a vehicle that allowed us to collaborate,” Smith says.

Following Rosser’s cancer diagnosis in 2016, the group “decided through Dave’s incredible strength to keep going, so that’s what we did,” Smith says. Rosser died in 2017.

The group continued to write, and worked alongside artists Rebecca Rebouche and Jenna deBoisblanc, among others, building a group mythology and what would become Kirasu’s debut, the music- and projection-mapped installation “Constellations” at luna Fete in 2017.

The collective’s concert debut July 21 incorporates elements of “Constellations” with musicians performing in and around large

Bombay Club — David Doucet, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — A2D2 feat.

Arsene Delay & Antoine Diel, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Charlie Dennard Organ Trio feat. Doug Belote, Todd Duke, 8 Circle Bar — Gene Black & Friends, 9 d.b.a. — Glen David Andrews, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Mourn, Chastity, 9

cubes used as canvases for projection-mapped geometric shapes, a stage-picture contortion with moving images inspired by Galileo’s star maps. Its live lineup features Smith on bass, vocalist Fontanelle, Eric Bolivar on drums, Rick Nielson on guitar and violin, and King Rey brothers Trey and Matt Cloutier animating big-question concepts with the group’s immersive pop.

The collective hopes to merge the public art experience with residencies and collaborations with artists in other cities, evolving Kirasu from its intimate circle into a living document for their infinite vision. “Why not explore something we can’t really answer?”

Smith says. “We can take a stab at thinking about it.”

A living Soundtrack opens at 10 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks. net. Tickets $15.

The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Will Dickerson, 8 SideBar — Instant Opus Improvised Series feat. And Then Came Humans, Matt Booth, Alex Canales, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Joshua Benitez Band, 8 Three Muses — Bart Ramsey, 5; Washboard Rodeo, 7

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Thursday) looks at improving profits by embracing diverse workplaces and customer bases. Inclusion in Hospitality: Why and How to Build a longer Table (10 a.m. Friday) covers racial insensitivity and sexual harassment. Harassment and Hospitality Don’t Mix (12:30 p.m. Thursday) is a free workshop addressing sexual harassment and assault.

The reorganization of the event’s nonprofit organization into the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation is putting emphasis on giving back to the industry, according to Bodenheimer and Tales co-owner Gary Solomon of The Solomon Group. Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Director Caroline Rosen added a range of programming aimed at improving personal wellbeing. Seminars address mental health, sleep and violence and conflict prevention in the workplace. Tales attendees can try acupuncture, take yoga classes and learn about healthy eating. There also are Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

On the opening night of Tales, the foundation will announce recipients of $250,000 in grants. The foundation received roughly 150 applications for everything from documentary films to projects on health and well-being in the hospitality industry.

“Our goal is that this organization support and advance the hospitality industry,” Solomon says. “Money spent at Tales is going back into the industry and funding programs.”

By acquiring Tales, Bodenheimer and Solomon also are keeping the event in New Orleans. The 2017 festival drew 16,000 attendees and had an economic impact on the city of more than $18 million, Bodenheimer says. Tales also holds annual events in other cities, including one in Edinburgh, Scotland earlier this year.

Bodenheimer worked as a bartender in New york before he moved home to New Orleans to open the craft cocktail lounge Cure and then self-described proto-tiki drink lounge and restaurant Cane & Table.

Solomon’s company has produced events for Tales of the Cocktail for several years, including its Spirited Awards gala and parties, and it has handled event ticketing for the conference. Solomon Group produced the recent Essence Festival and the annual college football national championship halftime show.

Tickets to seminars and events and wristbands for access to tasting rooms are available on the Tales website. Some events are free with registration, and a barware pop-up shop at Hotel Monteleone is open to the public. Reservations for Spirited Dinners, pairing cocktails and multicourse menus, can be made with the restaurants. Visit www.talesofthecocktail.org for a list of restaurants and other events.

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Tuesday, July 17.................... 28 Wednesday, July 18 ............. 28 Thursday, July 19.................. 28 Friday, July 20 ...................... 28 Saturday, July 21 .................. 29 Sunday, July 22..................... 29 Monday, July 23.................... 29

BOOKS .................................. 29 SPORTS ................................ 29 FILM

Critic’s Picks.......................... 29 Wide Release ........................ 29 Film Festivals/Special Screenings .............................. 31

STAGE .................................... 32 COMEDY............................... 32 ART

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EVENTS TUESDAY 17 Tales of the Cocktail. Citywide — The annual event for the cocktail community and spirits professionals includes seminars, workshops, tastings, internships, a cocktail apprentice program, tours and more. Times and admissions vary. Visit www.talesofthecocktail.org for details.

Tuesday-Sunday.

WEDNESDAY 18 Sustainable Seafood Dinner Series.

Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — Notable chefs prepare meals that are served in the aquarium to benefit Gulf united for lasting Fisheries. Tickets $150. 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 19 B.Y.O.V. Night. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — New Orleans Public library co-hosts the party, where participants can play their own vinyl records. Free admission. 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 20 The Louisiana Sportsman Deer, Duck and Fishing Show. Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Poydras St. — At the show, exhibitors present the latest hunting and fishing gear, watercraft and tractors. Visit www.louisianasportsmanshow.com for details. Tickets $12, kids $6. 3 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Sunday.

Splash Bash. Ochsner Fitness Center, 1200 S. Clearview Parkway, Harahan — The

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PREVIEW Boom for Real and Filmtopia

By WIll COVIEllO The Prytania Theatre’s Filmtopia features a week (July 20-26) of classic films

by Stanley Kubrick, recent documentaries and French films, and screenings of The Wizard of Oz and Scarface on the 35th anniversary of its release.

Celebrating Kubrick’s 90th birthday (July 26), the Prytania screens films spanning his career, beginning with A Clockwork Orange, his adaptation of P H OTO C O u R T E S y M AG N O l I A P I C T u R E S Anthony Burgess’ dystopic novel (9:15 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years p.m. Saturday, July 21). This week also of Jean-Michel Basquiat chronicles the brings Kubrick’s 1956 noirish heist film The Killing (10 a.m. Sunday, July 22; 9:30 artist’s early career. p.m. Monday, July 23) and Barry Lyndon (12:15 p.m. Sunday, July 22), a period piece about a crass Irishman who insinuates himself into British nobility. Screening next week are 1980 horror film The Shining (9:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 25) starring Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall, Vietnam War saga Full Metal Jacket (9:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 24) and Eyes Wide Shut (9:15 p.m. Thursday, July 26), Kubrick’s 1999 film starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a New york couple drawn into sexual adventuring in a secret society.

Recent French films (in French with English subtitles) include Edouard Deluc’s 2017 drama about painter Paul Gauguin finding his muse in Tahiti, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (7 p.m. Saturday, July 21; noon Tuesday July 24). The writer/director of The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, released Godard, Mon Amour (noon Friday, July 20; 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 23), a 1960s period piece about actress Anne Wiazemsky, the wife of filmmaker Jean-luc Godard. The Guardians (7 p.m. Tuesday, July 24) is director Xavier Beauvois’s 2017 film about French women who take over their family farm while their husbands and sons go fight in World War I. Among the recent documentaries is Sara Driver’s 2017 film Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (showtimes vary July 20, 22, 24 and 26). It’s an enthralling dive into New york City’s downtown scene in the late 1970s, when the city was on the verge of bankruptcy, neighborhoods including the Bowery and parts of Greenwich Village and the East Village were wastelands, and a thriving art, music and cultural scene emerged. Though he arrived on the scene as a nearly homeless teenager, Basquiat was an alluring figure who was quickly recognized for his talents. The documentary relies on interviews with a longtime girlfriend, friends and colleagues, and yet Basquiat remains elusive, abundantly celebrated as an artistic prodigy but with limited insight into his interior life.

The son of a Haitian father and mother with family in Puerto Rico, Basquiat grew up mostly in New york City. The film picks up his life at about age 16, when he was living in cheap dives in lower Manhattan and crashing in the apartments of friends.

Basquiat embodied the extremes of genius, self-confidence and self-destruction in the scene — he died of a drug overdose at age 27.

Though downtown Manhattan in the late 1970s was marked by urban collapse via rampant arson, drug use and other dysfunction, it was a hub for musicians, artists, filmmakers and eccentrics. Graffiti blossomed throughout the city, and it was part of a scene incorporating early hip-hop and rap, breakdancing and African influences on New york artists. Early rapper Fab 5 Freddy talks at length about the coalescing aesthetics and figures who embraced them, including Basquiat. Punk and new wave music also became part of the downtown mix, and artists and musicans converged at venues including the Mudd Club and Club 57.

Basquiat gained attention for his graffiti as “SAMO,” and throughout his short career used text written with a loose hand on his canvases and in graffiti. Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf also emerged as graffiti-influenced artists, and Scharf is interviewed about Basquiat in the film.

Individual Basquiat canvases eventually would sell for more than $100 million, but the film ends when he sells his first one for $500. Though many of the subjects in the film say they recognized his talent, there are relatively few photos and video clips featuring Basquiat in the film, and their repetitive use is a deficiency. Boom for Real seems more about the scene and the impressive array of artists and musicians who inhabited it before they became well-known. Despite Basquiat’s later notoriety, the film captures his remarkable spontaneous inspirations, when he painted his friends’ clothes and salvaged junk on the street to turn it into memorable but vanishing art and performance pieces.

Filmtopia runs July 20-26 at Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com.

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SATURDAY 21 Pirogue Races. Jean Lafitte — There’s food and arts and crafts at a day of racing on Bayou Barataria. Email jeanlafitteraces@gmail.com for details. 10 a.m.

League of Women Voters of New Orleans Brunch. Ralph’s on the Park, 900 City Park Ave. — Marcia Kavanaugh is the guest speaker at the meeting and brunch for the nonpartisan voting rights organization.

Visit www.lwvno.org for details. Tickets $45. 11 a.m.

Art Market. Cafe Luna, 802 1/2 Nashville Ave. — Artists and artisans sell their wares, and there are tarot card readers. 11 a.m.

Ending the Incarceration of Women and Girls: How We Get There. First Grace United Methodist Church, 3401 Canal St. — The conversation co-hosted by Women With a Vision, Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition and Families and Friends of louisiana’s Incarcerated Children discusses how women are impacted by the criminal justice system, and light refreshments are served. Free admission, RSVP requested.

Free admission. 1 p.m.

Family Overnight. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St. — The family-friendly campout at the museum features activities, movies and popcorn. Registration $215 per family. 5 p.m. Saturday.

Wanted Dead or Alive. Hilton Garden Inn New Orleans Convention Center, 1001 S. Peters St. — The Murder Mystery Company in New Orleans presents a mystery-themed dinner theater show. Visit www.grimprov.com for details. Tickets $90. 7 p.m.

The Mattie Jones-Hill Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inaugural Gala. Xavier University Center, 1 Drexel Drive — The scholarship foundation hosts a benefit gala. Visit www.mattiehill.org for details.

Tickets $100. 7 p.m.

Krampus in July. Bratz Y’all, 617 Piety St. — The Hawaiian-themed celebration features German food, beer and hula dancing. German and Hawaiian costumes encouraged. Tickets $25, includes two beers and food. 8 p.m.

SUNDAY 22 Dog Wag and Walk. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville — Bring water, a bowl and a leash for this group dog walk through the nature preserve. Tickets $5. 8 a.m.

History on the Lake. The Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar, 7900 Lakeshore Drive — Participants can walk the top deck of the National World War II Museum’s PT305 boat at this event. Tickets $15, includes lighthouse Museum admission. 8 a.m.

MONDAY 23 Whispers From Heaven: A Mediumship Gallery. Unity Church of Metairie, 3303 Richland Ave. Suite 2A, Metairie — Mediums discuss their work and try to commune with the spirit world. Tickets $20. 7 p.m.

BOOKS Judith and Thomas Bonner. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The authors present their new edition of William Faulkner’s Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Dogfish Reading Series. Private residence, 2448 N. Villere St. — Jerika Marchan and Nathaniel Rich are the guests at the reading series, and refreshments are served. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans. Xavier University, 1 Drexel Drive — The book launch celebrates a new book about Baby Doll culture edited by Kim Vaz-Deville, and some proceeds benefit One Book One New Orleans. Arsene Delay and Margie Perez perform and there are raffles of Baby Doll memorabilia. 2 p.m. Sunday.

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SPORTS Big Easy Rollergirls. UNO Lakefront Arena — The roller derby team plays Montgomery Roller Derby. 5 p.m. Saturday.

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CRITIC’S PICKS The Cakemaker — A provocative, unexpected and very moving German/Israeli co-production that is as unusual a love story as you are likely to find. (K.Tu.) NR Hearts Beat Loud — A musical in everything but name, this joining of stars Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons features some terrific songs and proof that sometimes wearing your heart on your sleeve is the only way to go. (K.Tu.) PG-13 Incredibles 2 — There is good news in the world tonight: Writer-director Brad Bird has brought everyone’s favorite superhero family back to the big screen, and we are all better off for it. (K.Tu.) PG Hereditary — Anchored by a bravura performance from Toni Collette, writer-director Ari Aster’s devastating, implacably terrifying film depicts an American family coming apart in the wake of tragedy. (J.C.) R RBG — One of the great services that this clear-eyed and admiring documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides is to emphasize not just her work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there. (K.Tu.) NR. Three Identical Strangers — A scientific and philosophical inquiry by way of a detective story, Tim Wardle’s intensely compelling documentary tells the twistier-by-the-minute story of identical triplet boys who discovered one another 19 years after having been separated at birth. (J.C.) PG-13 Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — The goal of this exemplary documentary is not to tell the story of TV host Fred Rogers’ life, but to show the way someone whose formidable task was, in his own words, “to make goodness attractive,” and made it happen. (K.Tu.) PG-13

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Poor Boy — Brothers concoct a scheme to save their houseboat and escape their desert town. With Michael Shannon, Amanda Crew, Justin Chatwin, Andy Bean, Dale Dickey, lou Taylor Pucci. Written by Robert Scott Wildes and logan Antill.

Directed by Wildes. (1:44) NR. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — Documentary on the noted Japanese composer, musician and environmental activist. Directed

by Stephen Nomura Schible. (1:42) NR. 7 Splinters in Time — The discovery of identical, alternative versions of himself leads a detective on a frightening journey.

With Edoardo Ballerini, Greg Bennick, Austin Pendleton, Al Sapienza, lynn Cohen, Sean Gaffney, Giuliana Carullo, Emmanuelle Chriqui. Written and directed

by Gabriel Judet-Weinshel. (1:15) NR. Shock and Awe — The story of the Knight Ridder journalists who questioned the Bush White House’s rationale leading to the 2003 Iraq War. With Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Milla Jovovich, Jessica Biel, Tommy lee Jones, Rob Reiner, luke Tennie and Richard Schiff. Written by Joey Hartstone. Directed by Reiner. (1:30) NR. Siberia — An American gem dealer and his lover are trapped between a buyer and Russian law enforcement when a business deal falls apart. With Keanu Reeves, Molly Ringwald, Ana ularu, Aleks Paunovic, Pasha D. lynchikoff, Veronica Ferres. Written by Scott B. Smith; story by Stephen Hamel & Smith. Directed by Matthew Ross.

(1:44) NR. Skyscraper — Wrongly held responsible for a fire in the world’s tallest building, a former FBI agent and security expert played by Dwayne Johnson must bring the guilty parties to justice and rescue his family. With Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, Hannah Quinlivan.

Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. (1:42) PG-13.

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FILM FESTIVALS/ SPECIAL SCREENINGS Unarmed Verses — In this documentary, a 12-year-old Toronto girl and her family face eviction. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda — The documentary follows the composer at work after he’s diagnosed with cancer. 8 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2 — The Tarantino movies are screened. 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Bar Redux.

Filmtopia — Prytania hosts the inaugural festival, which includes documentaries, foreign films, dramas and a Stanley Kubrick retrospective. Friday-Monday.

Prytania Theatre.

The Swan — A young girl in the Icelandic countryside becomes enmeshed in a family drama. 5 p.m. Friday-Monday. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.~ Path of Blood — The haunting documentary deals with Al Queda. 7 p.m.

Friday-Monday. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

The Night Eats the World — Paris is overrun by zombies in this film. 8 p.m. Fri

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by Burt Prelutsky. Directed by Trudy Sargent. (1:15) NR. Custody — An embittered, divorced couple are awarded joint custody of their son leading to an ugly, intensifying struggle.

With Denis Menochet, lea Drucker, Thomas Gioria. Written and directed by Xavier legrand. In French with English subtitles (1:33) NR. The Devil’s Doorway — Priests are sent by the Vatican to investigate unholy happenings at a convent for “fallen” women in Northern Ireland, 1960. With lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, lauren Coe. Written by Martin Brennan, Michael B. Jackson, Aislinn Clarke. Directed by Clarke. (1:17) NR. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot — Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who discovers a talent for cartooning after a devastating drunken driving accident.

With Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black.

Written and directed by Gus Van Sant; based on John Callahan’s memoir. (1:53) R. Eighth Grade — The endless final week of middle school stands between a young teen and her future. With Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan. Written and directed by Bo Burnham. (1:34) R. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti — The 19th century French artist leaves his family behind to seek inspiration in the South Pacific. With Vincent Cassel, Tuhei Adams.

Written by Edouard Deluc, Etienne Comar, Thomas lilti, Sarah Kaminsky. Directed

by Edouard Deluc. In French with English subtitles. (1:42) NR. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation — The extended family of monsters heads out on a luxury cruise ship. Voices include Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Mel Brooks. Written by Genndy Tartakovsky, Michael McCullers. Directed

by Tartakovsky. (1:37) PG. Les Parents Terrible — New restoration of Jean Cocteau’s 1948 comedic drama about a young man who upends his parents’ lives when he unwittingly falls in love with his father’s mistress. With Jean Marais, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel Andre, Gabrielle Dorziat, Josette Day. Written and directed by Cocteau. In French with English subtitles. (1:45) NR. Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity — Documentary on the centenarian actress and activist, from her days at MGM, through the blacklist and the many social causes she has championed. Featuring Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Anne Meara, Margaret O’Brien, Valerie Harper. Written by Richard Adkins, Joan Cohen, Roger C. Memos.

Directed by Memos. (1:41) NR. A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Shakespeare’s classic fantasy reset in modern Hollywood. With Rachel leigh Cook, Finn Wittrock, Hamish linklater, lily Rabe, Paz De la Huerta, Avan Jogia, Fran Kranz, Ted levine, Mia Doi, Charity Wakefield, and Saul Williams. Adapted and directed by Casey Wilder Mott. (1:45) NR. The Night Eats the World — A man awakens to discover he May be the lone survivor as zombies overrun Paris. With Anders Danielsen lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis lavant. Written by Jeremie Guez, Guillaume lemans, Dominique Rocher, based on a novel by Pit Agarmen. Directed

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STAGE Bad Girls of Burlesque. House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street — Gogo McGregor hosts the burlesque show. Tickets $21.

9 p.m. Friday.

Beauty and the Beast. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner — In Disney’s musical adaptation of the fairy tale, a cruel prince is turned into a frightening beast for his inability to see inner beauty, and he courts Belle to break the curse. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

By Any Scenes Necessary. Tulane University, Lupin Theatre, 16 Newcomb Place — New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane and The NOlA Project collaborate on an attempt to recreate Julius Caesar without a script. Tickets $15.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

Dream a Little Dream. Castle Theatre, 501 Williams Blvd., Kenner — linda Wright and Jordan Kelly perform hits by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and others. Tickets $10-$25. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Every Day Is Halloween. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Society of Sin presents the burlesque tribute to Tim Burton. Tickets $12-$20. 10 p.m. Sunday.

Joe Presto. Brennan’s New Orleans, 417 Royal St. — The magician performs at a dinner featuring “magical appetizers.”

Tickets $100, includes dinner, tax and tip.

6 p.m. Monday.

Macbeth. Tulane University, Lupin Theatre, 16 Newcomb Place — New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane presents the tale of ruthless ambition and tyranny. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Stage Door Idol. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — Finalists compete for a headlining performance spot at the venue.

6 p.m.Tuesday.

The Best of Sinatra. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — Spencer Racca portrays Frank Sinatra in this performance. Tickets $39.99. 11 a.m. Wednesday.

War on Christmas. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — Picolla Tushy and the Bluestockings perform in the burlesque show.

Tickets $7. 9 p.m. Saturday.

Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues (Big Mama’s Lounge), 229 Decatur St. — leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Frederick RedBean Plunkett hosts an open-mic stand-up show. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comic Strip. Siberia Lounge, 2227 St. Claude Ave. — Chris lane hosts the standup comedy open mic with burlesque interludes. 9 p.m. Monday.

Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Lights Up. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — The veteran improv group performs. 8 p.m. Friday.

Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. New Orleans, LA 70117 — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up comedy showcase with free food and ice cream.

8 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave. — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave. — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Stoked. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Mary-Devon Dupuy and lane lonion host the stand-up comedy show.

9 p.m. Saturday.

TNM Mainstage. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — Improv comedians, including school faculty and alumni, perform. 8 p.m. Saturday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — young Funny comedians present the stand-up comedy show and open mic. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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

Trew Stories. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave. — The storytelling game show debuts. 9 p.m. Friday.

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COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St. — laura Sanders and Kate Mason host an open-mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs.

8 p.m. Tuesday.

Chris & Tami. — The New Movement founders perform. 9 p.m. Saturday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf (Den), 901 S. Peters St. — Vincent Zambon and Cyrus Cooper host a stand-up comedy show.

8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St. — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave. — Vincent

HAPPENINGS Open Studio. Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road — Artists-in-residence at the center appear at a reception.

7:00 p.m. Tuesday.

OPENING Marion Cage. 3719 Magazine St. — “Rodger Stevens: Sculptural Jewelry,” new work by the New york artist; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

Picayune Social House. 326 Camp St. — “Times of the Cocktail: Stories of Smugglers, Bootleggers and Rum Runners,” artworks inspired by vintage liquor and beverage ads and displays of Prohibition-era headlines; artist’s reception 5 p.m. Saturday.

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PREVIEW Glass artist Mitchell Gaudet takes aim at gun culture D. ERIC BOOKHARDT Mitchell Gaudet’s sprawling Shooting Gallery show at Studio Inferno can be disorienting. Part penny arcade, part armory and part alchemy, its mix of pop nostalgia and vintage esoterica ultimately takes aim at our current gun culture. It’s a journey that veers from oblique elegance to in-your-face shock and awe in a vertiginous array Target by Mitchell Gaudet. of works that packs a hefty punch. It also may surprise art buffs more familiar with Gaudet as a glass and mixed-media artist known for his reliquary sculptures involving antique plaster saints festooned with symbolic cast-glass mementos. A related flair for visual time travel turns up in his large, vintage-looking Apothecary Jars. Recalling the pharmacy vessels once used to hold “cures” such as leeches and mercury tinctures, these are filled with AR15 bullet casings and topped with statuettes of figures firing pistols.

Pistols also set the tone in more pop-influenced works such as Target (pictured), a traditional bull’s-eye studded with cast-glass handguns surrounding a pair of hands pointing fingers in opposite directions. More pistols abound in wall panels that suggest police department forensic evidence but actually are arrays of vintage cap pistols, nostalgic icons of baby-boomer childhood, when affable Westerns like Zorro or Bonanza were the most violent TV shows. Fast forward to our now frequent mass shootings and we find ourselves in a nation nobody in 1950s America would recognize. That leap from nostalgia to carnage is epitomized in Little Red Schoolhouse Shooting Gallery, a primitive penny arcade-style shooting range adorned with the National Rifle Association logo and slogans for arming school staff to shoot intruders. Featuring vintage toy rifles and animated silhouettes of school kids instead of ducks or wildlife, it’s a new kind of gun range with “rules” like “Shoot the Shooters” and the warning “Deductions for Hitting School Kids.” It’s gut-wrenching stuff, but Gaudet, a 9th Ward native, Holy Cross School graduate and former captain in the u.S. Army Reserve, understands that something is wrong. Shooting Gallery reflects the perspective only a sensitive artist who also is a veteran military officer could bring to one of the most chilling social issues of our time.

Through August. Studio Inferno, 6601 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-1878; www.facebook.com/infernonola.

MUSEUMS American Italian Cultural Center. 537 S. Peters St. — “The luke Fontana Collection,” works by the artist, ongoing.

The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St. — “New Orleans: Between Heaven and Hell,” history-based installation by Robin Reynolds, through Oct. 1.

Louisiana Childrens Museum. 420 Julia St. — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing.

National World War II Museum. 945 Magazine St. — “So Ready for laughter: The legacy of Bob Hope,” film, photographs and more exploring Bob Hope’s career, through Feb. 10, 2019.

New Orleans Museum of Art. 1 Collins Diboll Circle — “lee Friedlander in louisiana,” works demonstrating the photographer’s connection to louisiana and the local music industry, through Aug. 12. “Carlos Rolon: Outside/In,” works connecting New Orleans, latin America and the Caribbean by the artist, through Aug. 26. “Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored,” two paintings by Paolo Veronese, through

Sept. 3. “Changing Course: Reflecting on New Orleans’ Histories,” contemporary art projects focusing on forgotten or marginalized New Orleans stories, through Sept. 16.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St. — “The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction,” works by female abstract artists, through Sunday. “A Precise Vision: The Architectural Archival Watercolors of Jim Blanchard,” watercolor works by the artist, through Aug. 19. “Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 17851802,” works telling the story of Josef Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza, through Sept. 2.

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