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WED. OCT. 3 | celebrating the 20th anniversary of her landmark debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the hip-hop and r&B artist returns to New Orleans to perform it in its entirety. Nas, Patoranking and Shabazz Palaces also will play the show, which is among a handful of dates she didn’t cancel or postpone, at 8 p.m. at the UNO Lakefront Arena.

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Lydia Lunch Retrovirus THU. OCT. 4 | Iconoclastic noiserocker Lydia Lunch was, as the frontwoman of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, a leader of New York’s No Wave movement in the 1970s. With her current outfit retrovirus, she performs work stretching back to the late ’70s. Split Lips, chicken Snake and Psychic Hotline open at 9 p.m. at Santos Bar.

Hinds FRI. OCT. 5 | The Spanish garage rock band made waves across the pond in 2016 with its debut album Leave Me Alone, followed by 2018’s I Don’t Run, the quartet’s breezy return with playful harmonies between Ana Perrote and carlotta cosials, surfing on shimmering riffs. Lawn and Mustard Service open at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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Melt Test highlights south Louisiana’s psychedelic scene

MELT TEST

BY ALeX WOODWArD @ALeXWOODWArD AFTER FIVE YEARS WORKING FOR LEVITATION, the preeminent

psychedelic music festival in Austin, Texas, Dan Brinner got homesick. “I wanted to come home and establish something here in a similar vein,” he says.

Brinner returned to New Orleans with caitlin richard in 2016 and formed Melt House Productions with Jacob cabrera, booking psychedelic, garage rock and complementary far-out artists, promoted with colorful, hand-drawn posters and carving out a home for a burgeoning New Orleans scene of similarly mind-expanding sounds.

On Oct. 4, Melt House debuts its inaugural Melt Test festival at Gasa Gasa, a daylong showcase featuring 15 bands, with headliner Frankie and the Witch Fingers and a sampling of south Louisiana’s psych and garage scenes, including BeNNI, Bipolaroid, Xander Harris, Loudness War, Melting coffin and The Painted Hands.

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There also are video artists and sitespecific installations and live projections throughout the venue — from analog liquid light displays to distorted VHS manipulations from video artist Breathing Waters. “We want people to be disoriented enough that they’re not in the Gasa Gasa they know,” richard says.

There also is an art market, a pop-up record shop from Skully’z recordz, food from Tacocat and more.

Melt Test will expand to a three-day event in 2019, and the production group plans to release records by local artists (“We want people to stop running away to california labels,” Brinner says).

The trio was inspired to start a production group after throwing an impromptu house show for a friend’s touring band that needed to find a venue at the last minute. “After the sixth time” helping book shows for bands looking for a place to play in New Orleans, richard says, Melt House made it official.

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Its shows pull from across a contemporary psychedelic spectrum, from Bitchin Bajas’ mantra-driven drone at a floor-seated show at Mudlark Public Theatre to Adan Jodorowsky (son of filmmaker Alejandro) and emerging sounds from new New Orleans artists.

“It will never be genre specific. It will always be vibe specific,” Brinner says. “It’s not about any sort of style or genre. Psychedelic is a descriptor … Melt Test is to melt the preconceptions about what psychedelia is, what it is to free yourself or free your mind, to experience something new without any sort of social constructs or rules, to engage with different people and different sounds.”

FRI.-SAT. OCT. 5-6, 12-13, 19-20 | Deutsches Haus celebrates the harvest festival at its new home at 1700 Moss St. in Midcity. There’s German beer and food, oompah music, chicken dancing, dachshund races, beer stein-holding contests and more.

At 4 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday at Deutsches Haus.

Japan Fest SAT. OCT. 6 | The celebration of Japanese culture and traditions includes taiko drumming, martial arts, kimono-dressing demonstrations, dance, costumes, tours of Japanese art galleries, Japanese cuisine and more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Treme Fall Festival SAT.-SUN. OCT. 6-7 | John Boutte, Hot 8 Brass Band, the Kenny Neal Band and Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers perform at a street festival from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday outside the St. Augustine catholic church. There’s a gospel Mass and spiritual music at the church at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

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Thursday, October 18 6 to 9 p.m.

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Local Allstate Agency owners held an online food

drive to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana and nine other Feeding America food banks. They effort resulted in a $10,000 grant. Allstate agency owners also volunteered to help pack food boxes for south Louisiana families in need of disaster relief.

Overall resident satisfaction with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) The New Orleans crime coalition last week released its annual survey of citizen satisfaction with the NOPD. Overall satisfaction was up 4 percent over last year, while dissatisfaction fell 5 points to 41 percent.

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Historian Erin M. Greenwald and Mayor LaToya Cantrell display an app-based walking tour of New Orleans’ role in the slave trade.

Edward R. Tarpley,

the former District Attorney of Grant Parish, was honored last week by the Louisiana Family Forum for his work in helping to pass Senate Bill 243, a proposed constitutional amendment which, if approved by voters in November, would require unanimous juries in felony trials in Louisiana. The measure has wide bipartisan support at the state and local levels.

Louisiana has the highest rate

of congenital syphilis cases in infants among the 50 states, according to statistics released last week by the centers for Disease control and Prevention (cDc). More than 900 babies in the U.S. were born with syphilis in 2017, according to the cDc, and five states accounted for 70 percent of all cases: california, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Syphilis numbers in infants have doubled since 2013, the cDc reported.

NEW APP PROVIDES WALKING TOUR OF NEW ORLEANS SLAVE TRADE LOCATIONS An app-based walking tour of the French Quarter aims to shed light on New Orleans’ role in the slave trade.

On Sept. 27, Mayor LaToya cantrell and tourism officials unveiled historic markers and a preview of a mobile, app-based walking tour at the Historic New Orleans collection on royal Street — site of the Merieult House, home of Jean-Francois Merieult, who financed the trade of more than 750 enslaved people into North America from Africa over the course of three voyages. The building now is recognized with a bronze-and-brown marker by its front doors, facing royal Street’s busy foot traffic.

“It’s more fitting now than ever that we uphold and acknowledge the history of our 300-year-old city,” cantrell said in a statement.

“This initiative will allow us to honor the lives and dignity of those ancestors who were undoubtedly bought and sold here in New Orleans.”

The New Orleans Slave Trade Marker Tour app was created by New York-based software company Oncell. each site has a chapter highlighting the stories, families and figures for each marker site; there also are chapters on the sugar and cotton trades, the takeover of Native American land and the impact of the Louisiana Purchase. each chapter also features at least one first-person testimony.

There are five marker sites: the Historic New Orleans collection, The cabildo, St. Louis Hotel (now the Omni royal New Orleans Hotel), Franklin and Armfield compound (esplanade Avenue and royal Street), and the New Orleans Slave Depot (now the Four Winds Apartments on Baronne Street). A sixth marker is planned for the former Banks’ Arcade, now the St. James Hotel.

Historian erin M. Greenwald said the tour “takes steps to recognize the difficult history of the slave trade and recover the stories of some of the more than 130,000 men, women, and children who were carried to New Orleans against their wills to be sold in the city’s slave markets.”

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Mark romig, President and ceO of the 2018 NOLA Foundation President, said in a statement that the app’s objective is to “tell the complete history of our city and to use this history to teach and provide a roadmap for the future.”

‘Sobering center’ may be part of 2019 municipal budget Instead of spending the night passed out in public or locked in jail, intoxicated people at risk of endangering themselves or others could sober up inside a short-term “sobering center,” which some city officials hope to support in the city’s 2019 budget.

The center would provide nonviolent intoxicated people a bed to spend four to eight hours sobering up under the care of a team from Odyssey House, the community health organization focused on detox services and behavioral and medical health care.

When it comes to treating addiction and mental health care, “we know jail is not the right place,” New Orleans city council Vice President Helena Moreno said at the council’s criminal Justice committee meeting Sept. 24. Intoxicated people occupying emergency room beds to sober up is “completely unacceptable,” Moreno said. “We can do so much better.”

The center would hold 20 beds and could serve up to 80 people a day. Police or eMS would deliver an intoxicated person to the center, where staff would perform a triage to determine their care.

People would be eligible for the treatment only if they had no warrants and if they were not facing other charges related to being taken into custody. Odyssey House ceO ed carlson expects the annual cost of operation of a sobering center to be roughly $700,000, and city Hall officials are likely to find money for it in the forthcoming 2019 budget.

“I’ll put it down every time,” said Moreno, adding that the city’s tourism board and other agencies also should support the program.

“It’s important for tourism to have some skin in the game in this” and to “find a way for them to invest so the city doesn’t get hit with the entire burden,” she said.

Advocates argue a sobriety center also could have a significant cost savings benefit, with potentially fewer people entering the criminal justice system and local hospitals and emergency rooms.

It’s unclear whether the program would be subject to the city opening up a request for proposals

or be set up through a cooperative endeavor agreement between the city and Odyssey House.

Odyssey House also is renovating the former Bohn Ford building on South Broad Street, which is expected to open in February. That facility will expand its bed capacity to more than 180 beds.

CPC’s short-term rental decision delayed; will be taken up Oct. 3 After delaying a decision to send its recommendations for the future of short-term rentals to the New Orleans city council, the city Planning commission (cPc) will hold a special meeting at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 3 inside the city council chamber. The cPc voted to defer a decision on the plans at its hours-long meeting on Sept. 25, and a decision on its recommendations are due to the council by Oct. 5. The full council ultimately will decide what the new rules will be.

In the cPc staff’s latest report issued last month, it suggests that buildings with commercial STrs — which currently are available yearround in commercially zoned areas — should be capped at 25 percent of the building, or one unit, whichever is greater. It also recommends getting rid of the current “temporary” STr license type, which allowed whole homes to be rented up to 90 days a year. The cPc staff recommends replacing that with two rental types that mandate the operator live on-site.

The “temporary” license type was “intended to be a minimally impactful short term rental type that is only utilized during major events,” the report says. Instead, “the lack of a permanent resident requirement, the generous 90-day limit, and the absence of density restrictions has led to a proliferation of temporary STr licenses.”

According to the report, temporary rentals enabled “de-facto whole-home [rentals], with no permanent resident or owner present. This can lead to quality of life issues, such as noise, loss of neighborhood character, and other impacts ... These negative impacts are exacerbated in residential areas, where most of the temporary licenses are located.”

Housing advocates also proposed that officials add an affordable housing component to STr development to offset what they say — and what the cPc’s latest staff report seems to confirm — has been the removal of potential homes from housing stock. The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing

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Childish Gambino may have postponed some of his tour schedule, but still will headline this year’s Voodoo Music + Arts Festival.

Action center and Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance suggested commercial STr development in certain areas of town should include a requirement that creates affordable housing on a one-toone match.

Some commissioners were open to the idea. commissioner Kyle Wedberg said he likes the idea of “the conversion of some of these existing units into affordable housing” to “[balance] out a building with affordable units and STr units.”

Aziz Ansari to ‘work out new material’ Oct. 26 at Mahalia Jackson Theater Aziz Ansari, the standup comedian and star of TV’s Parks & Recreation and Master of None, has launched what he calls a “popup tour” to try out new material, and he’s coming to the Mahalia Jackson Theater Oct. 26.

Ansari has kept a low profile during most of 2018 since a woman, using a pseudonym, published an article accusing him of sexual misconduct on a date. Ansari acknowledged the date occurred, but said he considered their sexual relations consensual.

A review of his show “Working Out New Material,” published last week in Greenwich Time, said Ansari’s sold-out show found a receptive audience. Though Ansari didn’t address the controversy, the website said, he did discuss “sex, relationships, internet outrage, news coverage, racism and ‘self-righteous wokeness.’”

Tickets to Ansari’s Mahalia Jackson show are $35-$65 and on sale now.

Childish Gambino postpones tour, but still will headline Voodoo Things looked dicey for Donald Glover’s tour schedule following a foot injury at a recent show in his current “This Is America” tour — what he says may be his last, in conjunction with a forthcoming album that also may be the final one for his versatile childish Gambino alter ego.

A recent show in Dallas was cut short, and venue organizers for last week’s show in Los Angeles announced that the show would be postponed. A statement from creative agency Wolf + rothstein said the remainder of the tour also is postponed — but there were few details, including which dates would be affected and if new dates had been scheduled.

It’s one thing to move bookings for arena tours — but childish Gambino also was scheduled to headline both Austin city Limits and the Voodoo Music + Arts experience in October, two festival gigs at which childish Gambino was expected to be a big draw.

In a Sept. 26 statement from Wolf + rothstein, Glover will move most of the remaining tour dates to December, but his appearance at this year’s Austin city Limits is canceled. He’s still scheduled to appear at Voodoo on Oct. 27, which “is moving forward as planned.”

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Jindal’s hypocritical U-turn on Medicaid $240,000. That’s what

it costs to buy former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s principles, it seems.

Last week, Jindal joined the board of directors of Wellcare Health Plans Inc., a Florida-based company that describes itself as focusing “exclusively on providing government-sponsored managed care services, primarily through Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans.”

Wait a minute, you say: Is this the same Bobby Jindal who made his opposition to Medicaid expansion in Louisiana a cornerstone of his gubernatorial platform and a talking point in his quixotic (and very brief) 2016 campaign for president?

The Bobby Jindal who said during a presidential debate, “Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. ... I don’t think anybody should be expanding Medicaid.

It’s a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can’t afford the ones we’ve got today”?

Just last year Jindal wrote in POLITIcO, “Whether through a massive expansion of Medicaid beyond its original target populations of poor children, disabled and the elderly, or through exchange subsidies for the vast majority of participants, Obamacare masked the true cost of health care, rather than truly ‘bending the cost curve down.’ Pretending that subsidized health care is affordable without considering the true cost to taxpayers is disingenuous at best.”

Who’s being disingenuous?

According to a filing with the U.S. Securities & exchange commission (Sec), Jindal will serve on Wellcare’s Audit, Finance and regulatory compliance and Information Technology Oversight committees. Wellcare board members receive $90,000 per year, the filing says, with additional annual retainers of $12,000 and $8,000 for the two committee positions. Jindal also will receive 405 shares of Wellcare common stock, which was trading at $307.48 on the New York Stock exchange the day the announcement was made — making Jindal’s compensation package worth more than $240,000.

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Not a bad payday for making a U-turn on his oft-stated position that Medicaid shouldn’t be expanded.

Jindal’s hypocrisy would be comical if it weren’t for the real-world implications of his dogged refusal, as governor, to expand Medicaid in Louisiana — when he was aiming for higher office. His successor, Gov. John Bel edwards, ran on a platform that included expanding Medicaid and won handily. Since edwards took office, 483,045 Louisianans now have health insurance because of Medicaid expansion, according to figures compiled by the Louisiana Department of Health (which Jindal once ran). Of those, 54,188 are in Orleans Parish.

Since the expansion, tens of thousands of Louisianans have received screenings and treatments for cancer, diabetes and hypertension.

For a state with some of the worst health outcomes in the nation, this has been a life-saving change. How many more would have had access to such life-saving procedures had Jindal accepted the federal Medicaid expansion during his tenure?

In making the announcement, Wellcare chairman chris Michalik called Jindal “a leader who has dedicated his career to public service and advancing innovative healthcare policies.”

One has to wonder how closely, if at all, Wellcare looked at Jindal’s record as governor. He left Louisiana in a fiscal ditch and her citizens grossly underinsured.

If he does to Wellcare what he did to Louisiana, the company’s stockholders should beware.

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Ten-year milestone for 504ward TRAGEDY OFTEN BRINGS OPPORTUNITY along with loss.

Hurricane Katrina brought unprecedented devastation to New Orleans, but in the storm’s aftermath natives and newcomers banded together to rebuild the city in ways great and small. It changed our landscape, our politics, and our culture — just as past tragedies have done.

One post-Katrina success story that continues to leave its mark is 504ward (www.

504ward.com), a nonprofit created to keep talented young professionals in the city. Founder Leslie Jacobs recalls seeing an inundated New Orleans on network TV while evacuated in Lafayette and saying to her husband, “It’s our kids’ generation that’s going to rebuild the city.” That observation led Jacobs to create 504ward.

“I watched this wave of highly motivated, smart young people who were returning and new to the city come to help, and I thought, ‘We need to keep this talent,’” Jacobs says. “I thought it was important to welcome anyone who wanted to be part of rebuilding the city. We did that by connecting the newcomers with people who know the city.”

An example of that connectivity is 504ward’s popular Dine Around series, which brings young professionals into the homes of, um, older locals for a dinner of networking, advice and conversation. My wife Margo and I have hosted several dinners; we always felt we got more out of it than our guests did.

The connections extend far beyond dinner and conversation.

504ward has engaged more than 22,000 young professionals. As a result, many who arrived in their 20s and 30s are now leading new businesses and mentoring the next generation of business and civic leaders.

“That strategy has created an incredible economic asset for New Orleans,” says Jacobs, whose efforts with the organization (and other civic endeavors) earned her Gambit‘s “New Orleanian of the Year” honor in 2011. Jacobs notes that 504ward’s network has proved so important to the city’s economic development success that it recently integrated into the

New Orleans Business Alliance, a public-private initiative that serves as the city’s official economic development organization.

“The work of 504ward is essential to the upward trajectory that the New Orleans economy is experiencing,” says Quentin L. Messer Jr., ceO of the Business Alliance. “Our young professionals represent our community’s next business leaders, entrepreneurs, government and not-for-profit leaders. Participants in 504ward have made a tremendous impact on our city and are poised to continue transforming our city for the better.”

504ward is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in a number of ways, including a “Young Professional Day of Service” held Sept. 29. Several hundred young professionals volunteered to work with a variety of nonprofits at sites across the city.

Looking ahead, Jacobs says the challenges that greeted new arrivals a decade ago have evolved. “New Orleans is not a city of large corporate home offices,” she notes. “The challenge is not helping young people with their first or second jobs, but helping them move up into higher levels of responsibility at their jobs.

New Orleans is becoming a more expensive city as well. While we still face challenges, people no longer feel you have to have grown up here to be successful or plugged in here.”

That’s something to celebrate, for sure.

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Hey Blake,

While walking through the French Quarter on Ursulines Avenue, I saw street tiles marked “Angelo Brocato Ladies Entrance.” I’ve only known Brocato’s ice cream shop to be in Mid-City. Is this the same business?

Dear reader,

Angelo Brocato and three generations of his family have been known for creating and selling authentic Italian gelato, ice cream, cookies and cannoli in the city since 1905, though the spot most New Orleanians know at 214 N. carrollton Ave. actually is their third location.

Author Justin Nystrom chronicles the Brocato story in his new book, Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture. Angelo Brocato was born in cefalu, Italy in 1875. He and his brother apprenticed in the pastry and gelato trade in Palermo. After emigrating to the United States they opened a small ice cream parlor near Decatur Street and Ursulines Avenue in 1905. About 10 years later, the business moved to 623 Ursulines Ave. Nystrom writes that in 1924 Brocato hired Italian craftsmen to decorate the interior of the tiled parlor with archways and place a mosaic with the family name on the threshold.

The gelateria became a popular gathering spot for the many Italians who lived in the French Quarter at that time.

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The “ladies entrance” to Angelo Brocato’s second location in the French Quarter.

Nystrom says the “ladies entrance” mentioned in the mosaic tile was a common custom of the time, “an artifact of the 19th-century tradition of separate dining spaces for ladies and families.” Brocato’s grandson Arthur, who now runs the family business, says “old Italians did not believe in young ladies venturing off by themselves. … They always had to have a chaperone if they were going someplace.”

The Brocato family moved the business to its current carrollton Avenue location in 1981. It was heavily damaged during Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures in 2005 but reopened to great fanfare in September 2006. The former location on Ursulines Avenue now houses the French patisserie and coffee shop croissant D’Or.

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tectural highlight in downtown New Orleans. Located between Poydras and Lafayette streets, the outdoor plaza was conceived by leaders of New Orleans’ Italian-American community as a public tribute to the contributions of Italians to the city. The $1.65 million piazza was designed by noted postmodern architect charles Moore and August Perez and Associates (now Perez APc), who combined elements of classical and renaissance architecture in the brightly colored public plaza, which includes a fountain, columns, a clock and bell tower. The property was acquired in a land swap between the city and canal Place developer Joseph canizaro. The piazza was dedicated on March 19, 1978 — the feast day of St. Joseph, patron saint of Sicily. Not all reviews were kind, however. States-Item columnist charles “Pie” Dufour called it a “monstrosity.” New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger called it a “wild, mad vision, as if the roman Forum were re-erected in Las Vegas,” but also said it was “boundlessly good natured” and a “joyous embrace of the classical tradition.” After several years of decline, the piazza was restored in 2004 by developers Darryl Berger and roger Ogden during their conversion of the nearby Lykes center into Loews New Orleans Hotel. The piazza recently underwent another facelift and is expected to reopen soon.

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Southern rep Theatre’s new home is the former St. rose de Lima church on Bayou road. it lost its space in canal Place in 2012, after a 19-year tenure.

Aimee Hayes, Southern rep’s artistic director and the director of A Doll’s House, Part 2, laughs at the unintended significance of opening the season with this show. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House famously ends with Nora walking away from her marriage and slamming the door on the way out. Hnath’s sequel opens with her knocking on that door and a new beginning.

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UNLIGHT STREAMS IN FROM THE FORMER ST. ROSE DE LIMA CHURCH’S GOLDEN-HUED STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS. The vaulted ceiling is painted sky blue, and white plaster walls surround tall arches trimmed in crimson and gold. coffee-colored wooden floors show some wear, but the craftsmanship is sturdy.

Just weeks before Southern rep Theatre opens its new home and 2018-2019 season, there’s clutter: a stack of old church pews, a vintage light-up bingo board, tables, chairs and a shopping cart fill the space as construction is being finished.

In the midst of the mess, beneath the halo of golden light, Trey Burvant and Jessica Podewell are rehearsing an emotional final scene from A Doll’s House, Part 2. Lucas Hnath’s play is a modern sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s Victorian-era drama about Torvald and Nora Helmer, a couple whose marriage is undone by the social and gender norms of the period.

Opening A Doll’s House, Part 2 in the converted space at 2541 Bayou road is a milestone for the company, which has been without a home of its own since

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The cast of A Doll’s House, Part 2 rehearses in Southern rep Theatre’s new home.

“It sort of fortuitously happened that the play was about a woman coming home,” Hayes says. “It’s kind of funny that the first play we did out of canal Place was Streetcar (Named Desire), about a woman who has no home.”

Southern rep announced plans to move into the Bayou road space in 2016. The church was constructed in 1915, but it has been vacant since Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures.

The renovation is part of a larger development initiative by the rose community Development corporation and Alembic community Development. Southern rep will occupy the 13,400-square-foot church, and the project includes restoration of two former school

buildings on church grounds.

One building will house the Waldorf School of New Orleans, a lower school, and the other will be a shared workspace occupied by local organizations KID smArT and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jonathan Leit, director of Alembic, believes the $11.8 million development, which includes $4.7 million toward the renovation of the theater space, is an important investment in the Bayou road neighborhood.

“We’ve built long-term partnerships with organizations like Southern rep Theatre, which will offer not only artistic and educational opportunities, but also will be an economic driver creating

OPEN HOUSE bar, which shuttered in 2011.

“I really miss Le chat Noir, because that was a place you could go to any night of the week,” Hayes says. “You could see the show or not see the show, but you knew that there would be people there, and it felt like a place to be.

I want to create a place that’s a home for all sorts of performances and people.”

Besides its 125-seat main theater, Southern rep’s new space will include a Lagniappe Stage and Sanctuary Bar and the Hal Brown Outdoor community Stage. In addition to the mainstage productions, the theater will host staged readings, drag and comedy performances, new play development programs, afterschool programs, and a weekly “care for creatives” workshop to promote self-care for local artists and performers.

GoodWood NOLA is using wood salvaged from the church’s interior to make a bar for the Lagniappe Stage and Sanctuary Bar. Hayes envisions a lounge environment with comfy furniture.

The mainstage will be set up proscenium-style for A Doll’s House, Part 2, 2 but the flexible space allows for numerous stage and seating configurations. A row

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job opportunities and bringing people to Bayou road to shop at the street’s businesses and enjoy its food and culture,” Leit said in an email.

Southern rep’s partnership with the developers includes a long-term lease agreement with an option to purchase the building. The company currently is engaged in a $1.5 million capital campaign to outfit the interior of the former church, and a planned second phase of the campaign will raise money to purchase the building. Design for the space was devised in consultation with London-based theater design group charcoalblue.

The development project sits among a cluster of businesses just off North Broad Street, including community Book Store, Domino Sound record Shack, coco Hut caribbean restaurant and one of the neighborhood’s few night spots, club caribbean. It’s several blocks from both the Joan Mitchell center, an artists-in-residence campus that’s grown since its inception in 2013, and the Fair Grounds race course & Slots.

Describing her vision for the building, Hayes recalls the scene at the former Warehouse District’s Le chat Noir cabaret theater and

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of catwalks provides access to a grid of rails and beams for hanging lights, mounting chain motors to move big set pieces and rigging harnesses to fly actors across the room.

The space also has dressing rooms, offices and a choir loft, where an enormous pipe organ was relocated to make room for a rehearsal space underneath an elaborate stained glass window.

Hayes acknowledges it has been daunting to get the building in “ship shape.” In her pre-Southern rep days, she lived on a 19-foot boat and still adheres to the notion that “everything needs to have a home.”

“I have such a long to-do list, and so does everybody on the staff,” Hayes says. “But I have to admit, sometimes being in here, or closing up at night, being the last one here and standing in the middle of it, looking at this beauty that we’re surrounded by, I’m so grateful.”

Playwright and former Loyola University professor rosary O’Neill opened Southern rep in 1986 to present plays by Southern playwrights and plays about the South. That mission refocused on producing new plays and regional and sometimes world premieres.

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Southern rep Theatre Artistic Director Aimee Hayes is directing A Doll’s House, Part 2.

Hayes was hired as artistic director in 2007.

Southern rep left its longtime home on the third floor of The Shops at canal Place in 2012, and it has had residencies at both the contemporary Arts center and, for the past two years, at Loyola University of New Orleans. It has produced works around the city.

Hayes starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire staged in a former funeral home on elysian Fields Avenue, near the address where Tennessee Williams set the play. Southern rep presented Andrew Hinderaker’s football drama Colossal at UNO’s Performing Arts center and the prison redemption drama Song of a Man Coming Through at First Grace United Methodist church.

With A Doll’s House, Part 2, Southern rep enters a housewarming period in advance of its official grand opening in January.

In late November, the theater will open an original holiday show written by and starring Leslie castay called Mandatory Merriment. In January, it presents the regional premiere of Sarah DeLappe’s Wolves, a play about a girls’ soccer team that presents technical challenges in portraying the on-field action.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 comes well-recommended by its success on Broadway, where it received eight Tony Award nominations and Laurie Metcalf won for Actress in a Leading role in a Play.

Audiences don’t need to know the Ibsen play to appreciate Hnath’s. “No homework assign-

ments when you come to Southern rep,” Hayes says. But audiences familiar with the original work might recognize a few allusions.

Hnath keeps the Victorian-era setting, but he gives the characters modern sensibi- lities as they navigate the balance between independence and obligation in romantic relationships.

“I really like the idea of a cheeky, smart and sometimes irreverent sequel,” Hayes says. “I’m also really fascinated by families that are broken. How do you find forgiveness? How do you come back together as a family?”

Between getting the play stage ready, getting the building finished for its first audiences and planning activities and events, Hayes is careful not to lose sight of the big picture.

“I love that this is happening in New Orleans,” she says. “A New Orleans church that (was shuttered after) a long history is being repurposed into something that is welcoming to the community. I love that Southern rep is contributing something to the city’s heritage and cultural history.”

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announced the chef and music ineups for its Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (www.boudinbourbonandbeer.com) fundraiser Nov. 9 in Champions Square.

At the event, more than 70 chefs serve different variations on boudin.

This year’s co-chairs are chef and TV personality Guy Fieri, Lagasse, Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski. Partici-

Manolito serves Cuban-inspired food and drinks

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund

CUBAN HISTORY IS RIFE with romance and mystery. The allure of Cuba’s cocktail culture can be traced to bars such as El Floridita, where Ernest Hemingway spent sweltering afternoons while a cantinero, or bartender, poured daiquiris.

Manolito, a petite cocktail bar and restaurant tucked into a stretch of Dumaine Street in the French Quarter, pays homage to bars like El Floridita and its cantineros such as Manuel Carbajo Aguiar, a beloved figure at the establishment, who died last year.

Key to a cantinero‘s job are hospitality and the ability to make a blended drink with calculated precision to ensure the slushy and refreshing cocktail is not too icy or overly sweet.

Veteran bartenders Nick Detrich, Chris Hannah and Konrad Kantor have perfected the craft at Manolito, and their well-coiffed cocktails are tributes to their inspiration. The Papa Doble is inspired by one of Hemingway’s favorite drinks, a powerful blend of rum, maraschino liqueur and grapefruit. The excellent El Floridita daiquiri is a slushy mix of rum, lime juice and maraschino liqueur.

Though cocktails are the bar’s raison d’etre, a carefully curated short menu complements the boozy offerings, many of which beg for something salty and substantive.

One easily could spend an evening here enjoying a couple of daiquiris and marinated olives or the fried chickpeas, which are salty and crunchy with a mellow, smoky spice and hints of lemon and lime.

Golden-fried croquetas are filled with ham and cheese and served with an herb sauce that falls somewhere

WHERE

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Email dining@gambitweekly.com

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Boudin, Bourbon & Beer, the annual fundraiser for the Emeril Lagasse Foundation, is Nov. 9 at Champions Square.

between a salsa verde and an Italian salmoriglio, pungent with garlic and bursting with citrus.

Larger appetites might look to the country’s most widely emulated sandwich, the Cubano. The classic version here has thick slices of ham, plenty of cheese, tangy yellow mustard and mojo-roasted pork with notes of cumin and citrus.

Ropa vieja is a highlight, and as the only sizable entree, it’s served family style. The slow-cooked shredded beef is impossibly tender, juicy and full of warm spice. That stew also can be ordered as an appetizer atop arepas, griddled pale golden corn cakes that ooze with melted cheese.

Pickled vegetables including carrots, bell peppers and cauliflower deliver a punch of brine and acidity, which balances the earthy and rich dish.

For dessert, a coconut flan has an amber caramel top that imbues sweet, almost burnt toffee notes. It’s

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Josephine Romo serves a frozen drink at Manolito.

good for a cooling and sweet cap to a meal or as a midday pick-me-up with a cup of strong cafe Cubano.

Though part of restaurant’s appeal is derived from its cozy and charming atmosphere, the space is small and the buzzy ground-floor bar area gets packed easily. It’s not a conducive spot for larger groups to gather for a sit-down meal.

Manolito is a tribute to Cuba’s cocktail culture, as a romantic snapshot of a specific time and place and with a spirit that is very much of the here and now.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

pating local chefs include Alon Shaya, Nina Compton, Tory McPhail, Frank Brigtsen, Michael Gulotta, John Folse, Alex Harrell, Kelly Fields, Isaac Toups and others. Visiting chefs include Sarah Grueneberg of Monteverde Restaurant & Pastaficio in Chicago, Kevin Fink of Emmer & Rye in Austin, Texas, Carey Bringle of Peg Leg Porker in Nashville, and Jimmy Bannos Sr. of Heaven on Seven in Chicago.

Folk and Americana group Railroad Earth and surf rock singer-songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter top the night’s musical lineup. Other musical acts include country and folk singer Lillie Mae and Honey Island Swamp Band.

The event drew 5,000 attendees last year. Along with the foundation’s wine auction and gala dinner Carnivale du Vin, the events raised $3.5 million in 2017 for children’s charities along the Gulf Coast.

Tickets for Boudin, Bourbon & Beer include food, drinks and entertainment. They cost $135 in advance and $150 on the day of the event.

— HELEN FREUND

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crispy chickpeas, ropa vieja

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French Quarter bar serves cocktails and a short menu inspired by Cuba

WITH SUMMER HEAT LINGERING, there’s a new rooftop pool pop-up series launching this week. The Roosevelt New Orleans (130 Roosevelt Way, 504-648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com) is running a Thursday night food and cocktail series on the hotel’s rooftop deck Oct.

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EAT+DRINK 4 to Nov. 8. The food lineup ranges from Burmese pickled tealeaf salad from Lahpet to vegan ceviche from rolls & rock to colombian-style pork arepas from La Monita. Dishes range from $5 to $15.

The pool deck usually is restricted to hotel guests, but the series is

Nik Sharma Food photographer and writer

BY H e L e N F r e U N D SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA food

The Roosevelt New Orleans is kicking off a new Thursday evening pop-up food and cocktail series on the hotel’s rooftop deck on Oct. 4.

open to the public and diners are welcome to use the pool.

First up is chef erica Buher of ice cream pop-up Just Delights (www. justdelightsnola.com). rolls & rock (www.rollsandrock.com) serves food Oct. 11 and Nov. 1. Burmese pop-up Lahpet (www.facebook.com/lahpetkitchen) visits on Oct. 18. The hotel’s Sazerac Bar serves tartines and cocktails Oct. 25. colombian pop-up La Monita (www.facebook.com/ lamonitapopup) is scheduled Nov. 8.

— HeLeN FreUND

Kitchen confidentials LOCAL CHEFS SERVE SMALL BITES

and drinks in the kitchens of historic French Quarter homes in cirque de cuisine Oct. 7.

The fourth annual culinary walking tour, which is put on by the Southern Food & Beverage Museum (SoFAB), is 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7. During the event, participants can stroll the neighborhood at their own pace and visit 10 homes, where they can tour the luxury kitchens and enjoy refreshments served by the chefs. Participants also can visit the courtyard at Brennan’s for a glass of sparkling wine.

The event begins at the Bourbon O Jazz Bar (730 Bourbon St.) at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, where participants get a wristband and a map. chefs at each home serve tasting-size dishes and beer, wine, cocktails or soft drinks. Participating restaurants include Toups South, eAT, Wayne Jacob’s Smokehouse, The Delachaise, chais Delachaise, copper Vine, HAPPYJAXX and Francesca, among others.

Tickets are $55 in advance, $65 on the day of the event and $45 for SoFAB members. Tickets are available on the SoFAB website (www.natfab. org). — HeLeN FreUND

photographer and writer Nik Sharma recently released his first cookbook, Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food, which showcases the Indian home cooking featured on his award-winning blog A Brown Table (www.abrowntable.com). The Southern Food & Beverage Museum hosts a discussion and book signing with Sharma 2 p.m.-3 p.m.

Oct. 6. Sharma also will participate in a collaborative dinner inspired by his book at Saffron NOLA at 7 p.m.

Oct. 7. Sharma spoke to Gambit about his book and cooking.

Tell me a little bit of your background in cooking.

SHARMA: When I lived in India, I wanted to go to cooking school. My mom was in hospitality management. She said, “I don’t think that’s for you because it’s hard work and I don’t see you being the type of person that can stand in a cold room peeling onions all day long.” coming from an Indian family, it’s also not considered the most stable career — you’re always told to find something like engineering, medicine or law. I wanted to cook, so I would sift through my mother’s cookbooks and magazines, and when I moved to America for graduate school, I started to cook because I was living on my own for the first time.

(At the time) I had just come out (as gay) and my best friend from grad school is from New Orleans.

When I came out, I was still trying to find acceptance within myself and her family was really supportive. I would come (to New Orleans) and it was a non-issue, which is exactly what you want when you come out. I would literally spend any vacation I could with her family in New Orleans. It is such a rich city when it comes to food and culture and it made me really appreciate how many similar influences from Africa and India were found in the food. The spices and the ingredients were similar, so I started paying attention to a lot of these things, and when I moved to Washington D.c., I started writing the blog.

(Later) I got a job working at a startup taking pictures of food. … While looking for jobs, I ap-

proached my (now) editor at the (San Francisco) Chronicle, and they ended up asking me to write a recipe-based column for them.

How do you teach home cooks how to tackle Indian cuisine?

S: I wanted (the book) to be part memoir but also a cookbook and something that’s useful to people. I wanted to tell my story: Why I moved to America; what it means to be gay; what it means to be an immigrant; and why I moved here, which was just to be myself and to be free. All those things have influenced and shaped the way I feel about food and the way I cook. I didn’t want it to be a bunch of recipes thrown at people with no context. I wanted it to be useful for a person who may cook something from the book and who might walk away having learned something. We did a visual spice glossary so people can identify ingredients and feel confident when they walk into a store.

I also wanted to showcase my Indian heritage and culture. I’m mixed in terms of heritage and faith because my mother is from Goa, which used to be a Portuguese colony, and my dad is from the north. I wanted to draw in those influences as well as the influences from my husband’s family and the stuff that I’ve been exposed to here. You’ll see Goan recipes and you’ll have a little bit of North Indian (cooking). I don’t delve into the things that people are already very familiar with. I intentionally left out curries.

Start simple. This is how I learned to cook. Start with something you like and move on. If you’re a person who likes hot food, look to chili peppers you’re not familiar with and start there. Kashmiri chili powder is probably the mildest. It’s got a sweet, smoky flavor and it’s mildly hot, but it’s also used in Indian cooking to give color. So build on

that, and if you want something hotter you can go for hotter chili peppers. For that, I usually use Thai chili peppers or serranos to add heat. If you want to start using whole-seed spices, start with cumin and coriander. Once you feel comfortable with that, move into nigella, which traditionally is used to create a nutty, aromatic flavor. Just play and have fun. I say it’s OK to make a mistake. If the recipe doesn’t work, or the flavor combination is not what you like, do it again and make it better. Make it your own.

What tips can you offer novice food photographers?

S: Do and focus on what you really want to do, or what you want to convey. Don’t follow anyone — these days, everything is so social media based, determined by how many likes you get. That’s instant gratification, and that’s fine, but your work can be great, or good, even if you don’t get a single like.

I think some of the people I admire most in the business in food writing and photography don’t have large followings. Those are the people that inspire me the most and probably because they don’t fall into the cookie cutter mold.

— HeLeN FreUND

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Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans. com — reservations recommended. B, L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Copper Monkey Bar & Grill — 725 Conti St., (504) 527-0869; www.coppermonkeygrill.com — No reservations. L, D and late daily. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — reservations recommended.

B, L, D daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola. com — No reservations. L, early dinner daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Wed-Sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations.

Hours vary by location. cash only at conti Street location. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www. lpkfrenchquarter.com — reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — reservations recommended.

D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www.bourbonorleans.com — reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.

com — reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — No reservations.

L, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4675611; www.neworleansairporthotel.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

LAKEVIEW El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola.com — See No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com — reservations accepted. 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.

No reservations. 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. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola. com — reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations.

L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www.

OUT TO EAT

A server delivers breakfast dishes at Russell’s Marina Grill (8555 Pontchartrain Blvd., 504-282-9980; www.russellsmarinagrill.net).

riccobonospeppermill.com — reservations accepted. B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www. shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. 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 — reservations accepted for large parties.

L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — No reservations. 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. reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$

Fullblast Brunch — 139 S. Cortez St., (504) 302-2800 — No reservations.

Brunch Thu-Mon. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — No reservations. L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark. com — reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

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 — No reservations.

L Fri-Sun, D, late daily. $ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Le’s Baguette Banh Mi Cafe — 4607 Dryades St., (504) 895-2620; www.facebook. com/lesbaguettenola — No reservations.

B Sat-Sun, L and D daily. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — reservations accepted for five or more. L, D TueSun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria. com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — reservations accepted. D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

UPTOWN

WEST BANK

Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$

Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — reservations accepted. D Tue-Sat. cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook.com/ tavolinolounge — reservations accepted for large parties. D daily, brunch Sun. $$

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TUESDAY 2 BMC — Sweet Magnolia, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 11 Bamboula’s — christopher John Jazz, 12; Damn Gina, 3; St. Louis Slim Blues Band, 6:30 Bombay Club — Matt Lemmler, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Tacos Tequila and Tiaras with Vanessa carr, 8 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — chip Wilson, 5:30; Justin Molaison, 6; Sarah Quintana, 8 Circle Bar — Brett Weller, 7 Columns Hotel — John rankin, 8 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark coleman & Todd Duke, 9 Gasa Gasa — Wind Hand, Satan’s Satyrs, 9

House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Shawn Williams, Matt Bartels, Kei Slaughter, 7 The Jazz Playhouse — The James rivers Movement, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Old Arabi Bar — The Dirty rain revelers, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Prime Example — The Spectrum 6; Quintet, 8 & 10 Ralph’s on the Park — Tom Worrell, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Latin Night, 7 Santos Bar — The Sheepdogs, calvin Love, 9 Siberia Lounge — Anuraag Pendyal, 9 SideBar — Skin & Bone with Mark Magrain & Simon Lott Duo, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 The Starlight — ryan Hanseler, 7; Asher Danziger, 10

Upcoming concerts » JESSIE REYEZ, Oct. 31, Gasa Gasa » INGESTED, ENTERPRISE EARTH, BODYSNATCHER AND I AM, Nov. 19, GASA GASA » LA DISPUTE AND QUEEN OF JEANS, Nov. 23, House of Blues » HARRY CONNICK JR., Dec. 15, UNO Lakefront Arena » AVERY*SUNSHINE, Dec. 20, House of Blues » GEORGE CLINTON AND PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC, Dec. 27, House of Blues » AND ONE, March 20, 2019, House of Blues

Harry Connick Jr. performs at the UNO Lakefront Arena Dec. 15.

WEDNESDAY 3 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — charles Lumar, Kei Slaughter, 8 BMC — Lc Smoove, 8; Sandra Love and the reason, 11; The Tempted, 12 Bamboula’s — eight Dice cloth Jazz Trio, 12; Mem Shannon Blues, 6:30; Los Po-Boy-citos, 10 Bombay Club — John royen, 8 Checkpoint Charlie’s — T Bone Stone and Happy Monsters, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Mark carroll & Friends, 6 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7; Scarves, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy rogers, 8 The Cove at University of New Orleans — ellis Marsalis, Jazz at the Sandbar Series, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — carl Leblanc, 9:30 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Lyrica Baroque, 7 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — The Nayo Jones experience, 8 Lafreniere Park — Patrick cooper, 4 Lakefront Arena — The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour, 7 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans Wildlife Band, 7 PAGe 25

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Three Muses — Sabine Mccalla, 5; Mia Borders, 8

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PREVIEW Father John Misty

BY ALeX WOODWArD WITH 2018’S GOD’S FAVORITE CUSTOMER, Josh Tillman’s Father John Misty follows 2015’s acclaimed love letter I Love You, Honeybear and 2017’s double LP Pure Comedy, his evisceration of pop cultural homogeneity and hypernormalized absurdity, written before the ascendance of Donald Trump -era politics but arriving as an answer to it.

But Customer is not a concept album — he’s endured the naked discomfort when faced with the selfishness of love, learned to live (or be happy to not) in bleaker times, then survived it all only to wrestle with the mental instability, debauched celebrity, egos and pursuit of vanity that made Father John Misty the exorcist for Josh Tillman in the first place.

Tillman wrote the bulk of the album while living in a hotel for two months, his own Lost Weekend of unglamorous self-assessments and self-deprecation. It’s a slimmer volume compared to his previous diary entries, with Tillman’s pounding piano punching through a playful 40 minutes alongside bare-bones late-period Beatles-esque band arrangements. His voice and lyrics cut through the mix with more clarity and vulnerability — brutal honesty threaded with half-truths, fabrications and truths wrapped in air quotes.

That honesty often arrives secondhand; first single “Mr. Tillman” is from the perspective of a hotel concierge politely listing why he’s the worst hotel guest, as Tillman complains about a film shoot on the hotel grounds that’s not happening; he thinks the guests are extras, revealing his paranoid delusions as antisocial tendencies in his hotel-dwelling crisis.

He also returns to the tedium and imposterdom of being a “performer” (“Last night I wrote a poem. Man, I must’ve been in the poem zone,” he blithely sings on “The Palace”) and satirizes his own breakthrough — the album closes with “We’re Only People (And There’s Not Much Anyone can Do About That).”

One of Tillman’s gifts as a songwriter for our increasingly dumb timeline is his deft ability to wrap that kind of cynicism and total sincerity into the same line. On Pure Comedy closer “In Twenty Years or So,” he acknowledges “this human experiment will reach its violent end” in his lifetime, “But I look at you / As our second drinks arrive / The piano player’s playing ‘This Must Be the Place’ / And it’s a miracle to be alive,” but it closes with a “There’s nothing to fear” coda, arriving more as a question each time. With “We’re Only People,” he closes saying that “the end of it all may look a lot like the beginning.”

“So why not me? Why not you? Why not now?” The answers were in his head all along.

Tickets $40. King Tuff opens at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Civic Theatre, 501 O’Keefe Ave.; www.civicnola.com.

New Orleans Botanical Garden — Manuel Arteaga Duo, evenings With enrique concert Series, 5 One Eyed Jacks — Vixens & Vinyl, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars edegran, Topsy chapman, Palm court Jazz Band, 7 Prime Example — Jesse McBride presents The Next Generation, 7 & 9 Ralph’s on the Park — Jeff Pounds, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — G & The New Orleans Swingin’ Gypsies, 7:45 Santos Bar — The Slackers, Joystick, 8 SideBar — Susanne Ortner, James

Singleton, Nahum Zdybel, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 The Starlight — Tom McDermott, 5; Tuba Skinny, 8 Three Muses — Andre Bohren, 5; Hot club of New Orleans, 8

THURSDAY 4 BMC — Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, 5; circular Time, 8; Andre Lovett Band, 11 Bamboula’s — Marty Peters & the Party

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MUSIC Meters Jazz, 6:30; Smoky Greenwell Blues, 10 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski with Oliver Bonnie, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Darcy Malone and Amasa Miller, 5; Tom McDermott and chloe Feoranzo, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit ruffins, 6 Checkpoint Charlie’s — Kenny claiborne, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with rik Slave, 7 Covington Trailhead — New Orleans Mystics, 5 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Melt House Productions presents Melt Test, 2 House of Blues — Hobo Jonson & The Lovemakers, 6:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Brass-AHolics, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — The Soul rebels, 11 Live Oak Cafe — Patrick cooper, 10:30 New Orleans Botanical Garden — James rivers Movement, 6 Old Point Bar — Tombstone Troubadours, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger with crescent city Joymakers, 7 Ralph’s on the Park — Sandy Hinderlie, 5 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — Nathan & The Zydeo cha chas, 8:30 Santos Bar — Lydia Lunch retrovirus, Split Lips, chicken Snake, Psychic Hotline, 8 Saturn Bar — Alex McMurray and His Band, 8 Siberia Lounge — eastern Bloc Party feat. Backyard Balkan Brass Band, 9 SideBar — Mikayla Braun, Mario Palmisano, Keith Burnstein, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Phil deGruy album-release party, 8 & 10 The Starlight — Oscar rosignolli, 5; Sam Price, 8 Three Muses — Tom Mcdermott, 5; Debbie Davis, 8 Tulane University — ellis Marsalis, 7 The Willow — rebirth Brass Band, 9

FRIDAY 5 Armstrong Park — Mike Soulman Baptiste at Jazz in the Park, 4 BMC — Lifesavers, 3; Simple Sound retreat, 6; Jason Neville Band, 9; La Tran-K Latin Band, 12 Bamboula’s — eh Las Bas ensemble, 11; chance Bushman’s rhythm Stompers, 1; Les Getrez N creole cooking, 5:30; Ms. Silky Sol, 10 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio with evan Arntzen, 8:30 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Davis rogan, 5; New Blue Devils, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 9 Casa Borrega — Javels Jazz Band, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — LA Hellbenders, 8; Nate Hancock and the Declarah, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6;

Johnny Sansone Band, 9 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 7; The OPines, 9:30 Civic Theatre — eric Johnson, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Panorama Jazz Band, 10 Gasa Gasa — Hinds, Lawn, 10 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Jake Landry & the right Lane Bandits, 7; Fayard Lindsey, 10 House of Blues (The Parish) — Bad Girls of Burlesque, 8 House of Blues — Mayday Parade, 6 Jazz National Historical Park — Johnette Downing, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — cyril Neville and Swamp Funk, 7:30 Joy Theater — Anderson east, Black Pumas, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Steve DeTroy, 7 Mahalia Jackson Theater — Sweet Soul Music Tour, 9 Mandeville Trailhead — Funkin Truth feat. Leo Nocentelli, 6:30 Old Point Bar — rick Trolsen, 5; Truman Holland, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — BIrDcLOUD, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis, Palm court Jazz Band, 7 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — D Play Band, 8:30 Santos Bar — Something’s Burning, Pallbearers, Big Fu*king Gun, 8 Siberia Lounge — Drift Mouth, Luke Spurr Allen, Natalie Mae, Mishka Shubaly, 10 SideBar — Banjovi with Marin Krushe, David Bandrowski, Doug Garrison, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 The Standard — Philip Melancon, 8 The Starlight — Jack Sledge, 8:30; Lost then Found Our House, 12 Three Muses — royal roses, 5:30; russell Welch, 9 Tipitina’s — Kudzu Kings, Young Valley, 10 Twist of Lime — 9 Slug album-release with Trick Bag, Wicked river rising, 9

SATURDAY 6 BMC — Abe Thompson & Drs. of Funk, 3; circular Time, 6; crooked Vines, 9; DK &The Jakes, 12 Bamboula’s — crawdaddy T’s cajun Zydeco review, 11:30; G & The Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7 Blue Nile — Washboard chaz Blues Trio, 7 Bombay Club — Don Vappie, 8:30 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Ukelele School of New Orleans, 4 Casa Borrega — Trio Borocato, 7 Checkpoint Charlie’s — HG Breland, 4; Kenny Tricke Band, 8; Hillbilly Quixotes, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — creole String Beans with Thousand Dollar car, 8 Circle Bar — Gar Gar, 9:30 Civic Theatre — Father John Misty, 8 Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie &

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SUNDAY 7 BMC — Brooks Hubbard Band, 3; Jazmarae, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Bamboula’s — Gina & Lindsay, 11; NOLA ragweeds, 2; carl LeBlanc, 6:30; ed Wills Blues 4 Sale, 10 Bar Redux — Fantasy Non Fiction feat.

Tony O’Brien, 9 Bombay Club — Kris Tokarski Trio with Duke Heitger, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Some Like It Hot, 11; Pfister Sisters, 4; Steve Pistorius Quartet, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — James Singleton Trio, 8 Circle Bar — Micah & Marlin, 7; Gen Z, 9:30 d.b.a. — The Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Armand St. Martin, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick cooper, 8 The Maison — Nickel A Dance feat.

Gregg Stafford, 4 Old Point Bar — Tres Bien, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Gerald French and Sunday Night Swingsters, 7 Ralph’s on the Park — Tom Worrell, 11 Siberia Lounge — Marty Wilson-Piper (The church), Brian Belknap, Alex McMurray, Anna Pardernik, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jason Marsali and The 21st century Trad Band, 8 & 10 Southport Hall (Deck Room) — War of Ages, capsize, Ghost Key, event Horizon, Brief History, 6 The Starlight — Dile Que Nola (Latin night), 7; Gabrielle cavassa Jazz Jam, 10

Three Muses — raphael et Pascal, 5; clementines, 8

MONDAY 8 BMC — Bianca Love, 5; Lil red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bamboula’s — St. Louis Slim Blues Band, 12; Bann-Bua’s Hot Jazz 4, 3; G & The Swinging Gypsies, 6:30 Bombay Club — David Doucet, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — A2D2 feat.

Arsene DeLay & Antoine Diel, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Jamey St. Pierre, 6; Papa Mali, 8 Circle Bar — Dem roach Boyz, 7; circle Bar — Gene Black and Friends, 9:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Gasa Gasa — Molly Burch, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — The Dirty rain revelers, 10 House of Blues — escape the Fate, Slaves, Stepping Sideways, Famous Last Words, Picturesque, Set to Stun, 6 The Jazz Playhouse — Shannon Powell, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — West coast Swing Party, 7 Santos Bar — Tribulation, Benni, 8 SideBar — Instant Opus Improvised Music, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — charmaine Neville Band, 8 The Starlight — Brad Webb’s Modern Jazz Mondays, 5; Free Jambalaya Jam feat. Joshua Benitez Band, 8 Three Muses — Danny Burns, 8; Monthy Banks, 5

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas and Guitar Quartet. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. — An Organ & Labyrinth performance includes the costa rican Guitar Quartet playing Latin American and costa rican music by candlelight.

6 p.m. Tuesday. Free admission.

Courtney Bryan. New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, 401 Barracks St. — Musical Arts Society of New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Museum present the pianist and composer. www.masno.org. $20 7 p.m. Friday.

Music Under The Oaks. Newman Bandstand, Audubon Park, 6500 Magazine St. — The LPO Brass Quintet kicks off this month-long series of outdoor concerts. Free admission. 5 p.m. Sunday.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Tulane University, Dixon Hall — The chamber musical group opens the Friends of Music season with a program of Glazunov, Francaix and Schubert. www.friendsofmusic. org. $18-$35. 7:30 p.m. Monday.

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The Louisiana Sunspots, 10 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Vivaz! Trio, 7 The Jazz Playhouse — Michael Watson, 8 Joy Theater — Dirty Heads, 8 Mandeville Trailhead — On the rise, 6:30 Old Point Bar — Dana Abbott, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Will Smith, Palm court Jazz Band, 7 Rock ‘n’ Bowl — After Party Band, 8:30 Santos Bar — The Wild reeds, 8 Siberia Lounge — Kuwaisiana, Klezmer Allstars, George elizondo, 10 SideBar — cosmic String Duo feat.

Martin Masakowski & Ira echo, 7; Alex McMurray and Friends, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — evan christopher & evan Arntizen Quintet, 8 & 10 Spirits Food & Friends — Funktoberfest, 2 The Standard — Philip Melancon, 8 The Starlight — Ven Pa cA Flenco, 5; Shawan rice, 7; Sam Friend Band, 10 Three Muses — chris christy, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 6; Shotgun Jazz, 9 Tipitina’s — Kris royal’s Birthday Bash feat. erica Falls, 10 Twist of Lime — Munki Bday Bash with event Horizon, Daemon Grimm, Brief History, Arabesque, 9

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BOOKS .................................. 29 FILM Now showing ........................ 30 Sepcial showings.................. 30

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EVENTS TUESDAY 2 An Evening with Hershel “Woody” Williams. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — The World War II Medal of Honor recipient celebrates his 95th birthday with presentations about his Iwo Jima service, his work with the museum and his foundation. Visit www.nationalww2museum.org for details.

Free admission. 5 p.m.

Paradigm Gardens Concerts. Paradigm Gardens, 1131 S. Rampart St. — The event at the central city garden sanctuary includes music and food and specialty drinks from local restaurants. Visit www.paradigmgardensnola.com for details. Tickets $80. 6:30 p.m.

Wings & Watts. Free Church of the Annunciation, 4505 S. Claiborne Ave. — The picnic fundraiser for energy Wise Alliance features unlimited chicken wings, a raffle, drinks, music by the red Hot Jazz Band and a performance by crescent Lotus Dance Studio belly dancers. Visit www. energyla.org/wings-and-watts for more information. Tickets $30. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 3 Game Night. St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell — Participants play a rotating selection of board games. Free. 6 p.m.

Paradigm Gardens Pizza & Pies. Paradigm Gardens, 1131 S. Rampart St. — The event features pizza, pupusas, pies and specialty drinks from local restaurants and DJ Doug Funnie spins music. Visit www.paradigmgardensnola.com. Tickets $45. 6:30 p.m.

Staying Alive. Southport Hall, 200 Monticel-

lo Ave. — Women’s council of realtors New Orleans Metropolitan Network’s ’70s-themed disco dance party benefits NAMI New Orleans, with contests, a dance off, a Soul Train line, games, food and more. Visit www.wcr. org for details. Tickets $75. 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 4 Cocktails in the Courtyard. Degas House, 2401 Esplanade Ave. — The fall fundraiser for the edgar Degas Foundation includes music, food and a specialty cocktail. Visit www.degashouse.eventbrite.com for tickets. $10. 5:30 p.m.

Loup Garou Film Fest. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave. — The three-day horror film festival focuses on New Orleans and Louisiana movies and includes Q&As with directors and an art show. $5 nightly. 9 p.m., through Saturday.

Merci for the Magic Halloween Kick Off Parade. — The Halloween Kick Off Parade includes carts, marching clubs, walking krewes and a headless horseman leading the way through the French Quarter. The parade starts at Decatur and Barracks streets. Free. 7 p.m.

Wings and Wine. Wild Bird Center, 2033 N. Highway 190, Covington — The benefit for the Northlake Nature center includes tastings, contests, a silent auction and a slideshow of local birds. Visit www.northlakenature.org/wings-and-wine-2018 for details. Tickets $25-$30. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 5 An Evening in Senegal. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — This installment of Ashe’s exploring the Diaspora series includes food, dance, artifacts and more from Senegal. Visit www.ashecac.org for details. Admission $10. 6 p.m.

Children’s Hero Awards. Le Musee de F.P.C., 2336 Esplanade Ave. — The children’s Bureau of New Orleans honors community members who have worked to improve children’s lives. Visit www. childrensbureaunola. org for more information. Tickets $125. 6 p.m.

Friday Nights at NOMA. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — The weekly after-hours series at the museum features lectures, music performances, film screenings and more.

Free with museum admission. 5 p.m.

Grand Isle Ladies Fishing Rodeo. Bridge Side Marina, 1618 Highway 1, Grand Isle — The rodeo is a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness and treatment programs in the state. There are adult and girls’ divisions, and activities include a live auction, dinner and dance on Saturday, door prizes and more. Times to be determined. $20 entry fee.

Greenway Soiree. The Cellar on St. Louis, 2500 St. Louis St. — The benefit for Friends of Lafitte Greenway includes music, food and beverages. Visit lafittegreenway.org for more information. Tickets $55-$120.

Patron party at 6 p.m., soiree at 7 p.m., late-night at 9 p.m.

EVENTS

PREVIEW Beignet Fest

BY WILL cOVIeLLO BEIGNET FEST FEATURES sweet and savory beignets and live music Saturday, Oct. 6 at New Orleans city Park’s Festival Grounds. There are seafood beignets from Grannie cooking Pot and La Vie en rose cafe. Girls Gone Vegan serves tomato, basil and garlic beignets. The Howlin’ Wolf’s bacon-cheddar beignets with chipotle crema won the festival’s 2016 award for Best Savory Beignet. Loretta’s Authentic Pralines fills beignets with chocolate and praline P H OTO B Y e r I c K I e L or peanut butter and strawberry jelly. Luca eats’ Oreo version won for sweetest beignet at the last two festivals. Old School eats serves a Blackberry cloud versions filled with goat cheese and blackberry compote.

Other items include sandwiches, jambalaya, snowballs and fruit. The music lineup features eric Lindell (pictured), The Original Pinettes Brass Band, Soul Project, Imagination Movers and the confetti Park Players childrens chorus. There also is an art market.

Festival proceeds benefit the nonprofit Tres Doux Foundation, which provides grants to organizations supporting children with developmental delays. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds. www.beignetfest.com.

Oktoberfest. Deutsches Haus, 1700 Moss St. — The annual celebration of German culture includes a schnauzer costume contest and parade, dachshund races, a stein-holding contest and children’s activities. Visit www.oktoberfestnola.com for details. Tickets $8. 4 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday.

Preservation in New Orleans — Looking Back, Moving Foward. Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St. — Tulane University, the Preservation resource center and the Historic New Orleans collection host a symposium analyzing the past and future of historic and architectural preservation in the crescent city. Visit www.procno.org/ events for details. Tickets $25-$40. 9 a.m.

Professional Fighters League Playoffs.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd. — The road to the championship starts here for featherweight and heavyweight competitors.

Visit www.pflmma.com for details. Tickets $25-$125. 9 p.m.

Scales & Ales. Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, 1 Canal St. — The fundraiser focuses on fighting plastic pollution in waterways and oceans. The party includes food, drink and live entertainment. call (504) 861-5107 or visit www.audubonnatureinstitute.org/ aquarium for details. Tickets $65-$75. 8 p.m.

St. Mary Magdalen Seafood Festival. St. Mary Magdalen School, 6425 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie — The city’s centennial is the theme for this school fair, which offers food, rides, games and entertainment. Visit www.smmcougars.org for details. Free admission. 6 p.m., through Sunday.

Tennis “Fun-Raiser”. City Park Tennis Center, 5900 Marconi Drive — raphael Village

hosts the two-day tennis pro-am event and tournament for women’s and men’s doubles in levels from 6 to 9. Visit www. raphaelvillage.org for details. entry fee is $90 per team, $25 for visitors. 5 p.m. Friday (pro-am) and 11 a.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY 6 A Haunting Affair. New Orleans Opera Guild Home, 2504 Prytania St. — The Women’s Guild of the New Orleans Opera Association presents a Halloween masquerade black tie or costume event with music, opera singers, and fortune tellers. call (504) 267-9543 or visit www.neworleansopera. com for details. Tickets $125-$150. 7 p.m.

Algiers Fest. Federal City, 2500 General Meyer Ave., Algiers — Music, food trucks and more are part of a celebration of Algiers and the military presence on the West Bank. There’s music by Jon cleary, Walter Wolfman Washington and the Marine corps Band. call (504) 367-3331 or visit www.facebook.com/algiersfest for details.

Free admission. 11 a.m.

Angola Prison Rodeo. Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, 10000 Highway 66, Tunica — Started in 1965, this is the longest-running prison rodeo in the country and features bulldogging, barrel racing, bareback riding and more. There also are food vendors and a market featuring inmate crafts. Tickets $20. 9 a.m., through Sunday.

Beignet Fest. City Park Festival Grounds, 1701 Wisner Blvd. — There are more than 20 beignet dishes available from restaurants and food trucks, including simple fried versions with powdered sugar and beignets with seafood and other savory fillings. There’s also

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SUNDAY 7 Backyard BBQ. Central City BBQ, 1201 S. Rampart St. — This family-friendly fundraiser for crescent city Farmers Market

features live music, farm-to-table food and drinks and activities. Visit www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org for details. Tickets $75. 4 p.m.

Celebracion Latina. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St. — Visitors experience Latin American culture through live music, cuisine, arts and crafts, health and education displays and children’s activities. Free with zoo admission. 10 a.m.

Cirque de Cuisine French Quarter Kitchen Tour. Bourbon O Bar, 730 Bourbon St. — This benefit for Southern Food and Beverage Museum offers tours of 10 homes with noshes and beverages from restaurants at each stop. Visit www.natfab.org/events for details. Tickets $45-$65. 12:30 p.m.

Muffuletta Festival. Nor-Joe Import Company, 505 Frisco Ave. — The street festival in Old Metairie celebrates the crescent city sandwich and the traditions surrounding it with music, activities, demonstrations, vendors and munchies. Visit www.muffulettafestival.com for information. 10 a.m..

Pins for Parkinsons. Fulton Alley, 600 Fulton St. — The Team Fox NOLA bowling fundraiser includes an auction to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research. Visit www.teamfoxnola. org for more information. 1 p.m.

Rouquette Library open house. St. Joseph’s Seminary College, 75376 River Road, Covington — Tours of the new library are followed by Mass. 9:30 a.m.

MONDAY 8 BTE Foundation Tailgate party. Manning’s, 519 Fulton St. — The tailgate party for the New Orleans Saints game and fundrasier features music by Better than ezra with Big Sam, and performances by the 610 Stompers and Pussy Footers.

VIP tickets include an open bar, food and viewing area. Visit www.eventbrite.com for tickets. Tickets $55-$135. 3 p.m.

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 Alex Beard. Alex Beard Studio, 3926 Magazine St. — The painter-author-illustrator discusses and signs his book, ~The Lying King — A Tale From the Watering Hole~.

Visit www.octaviabooks.com. for details.

5 p.m. Saturday.

Beth D’Addono. Monkey Board, 1111 Gravier St. — The author signs the second edition of her book ~100 Things to Do In New Orleans Before You Die. 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Erin and Ben Napier. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St. — The television renovation couple discuss their book about their behind-the-scenes life.

Visit www.gardendistrictbookshop.com for details. 6 p.m. Friday.

Lake Douglas. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The author of Buildings of New Orleans discusses the book and the unique architectural style of the city. Free admission. 5 p.m. Thursday.

Leslie Zemeckis. Fleurty Girl, 3137 Magazine St. — The author discusses and signs Feuding Fan Dancers — Faith Bacon, Sally Rand and the Golden Age of the Showgirl.

Visit www.fleurtygirl.com for details. Free

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live music, a children’s village, art market and more. Free admission. 10 a.m.

Blues, Brews and BBQ. Docville Farm, 5124 E. St. Bernard Highway, Violet — The family-friendly festival features live blues music, barbecue and craft beers. Free admission. 11 a.m.

Dine & Dance. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St. — The Victory Swing Orchestra performs at the dinner series. Tickets $29.68-$64.99. $29.68-$64.99. 6 p.m.

Dr. Sketchy’s Date Night. Mudlark Public Theatre, 1200 Port St. — Burlesque dancers give short performances and pose for live drawing. Suggested donation $8. 10 p.m.

Fall Garden Festival. New Orleans Botanical Garden, 5 Victory Ave. — There are educational programs, children’s activities, music, arts and crafts, a marketplace, plant sales, live music and food. Tickets $10, $5 children 5-12, free for children 4 and younger and city Park members.

10 a.m., through Sunday.

Family Fun Day. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — explore food, dance and artifacts from Senegal as part of the exploring the Diaspora series.

Visit www.ashecac.org for details. Admission $8-$10. Noon and 2 p.m.

Gimme Shelter. Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant, 1001 Esplanade Ave. — The benefit for New Orleans covenant House for Homeless Youth features a long list of live music performances. Donations accepted. 6 p.m.

Japan Fest. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle — The festival is the largest celebration of Japanese culture in the Gulf South and features food, dance performances, demonstrations, fashion shows and more. Visit www.noma. org for details. Admission $5. 10 a.m.

Krewe du Vieux’s CIRC-AZZ Sideshow Spectacular. Republic NOLA, 828 S. Peters St. — Music, live and silent auctions, costume contests and more are part of this fundraiser for the carnival walking parade.

Visit www.kdvcircazz.brownpapertickets. com for details. Tickets $15-$20. 7 p.m.

NOLA ParaCon. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. — The paranormal literary festival features authors and publishers discussing science fiction, fantasy and horror. Visit www.jplibrary.net for details. Free admission. 9 a.m.

Night of the Witch — Under the New Moon. Etoile Polaire Lodge No. 1, 1433 N. Rampart St. — The Krewe of Goddesses fundraiser explores rituals and includes dancing, performance artists and more.

Visit www.kreweofgoddesses.com for details. Tickets $15-$45. 10 p.m.

OXtoberfest Beer Fest. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — Benefit for The Boys & Girls club, covington Unit, features music, food vendors and more. Visit www.oxtoberfest.org for more information. Tickets $30-$35. 3 p.m.

Toast to The Tatas 6.0. Bad Wolf Bar & Grill, 2010 O’Connor St., Gretna — This fundraiser for the cancer Association of Greater New Orleans features a silent auction, raffle and live entertainment. Visit www.cagno. org for information. Tickets $10. 7 p.m.

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Martin Fletcher. Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave. — The emmy Award-winning author presents his novel The Promised Land, a devastating love triangle set during the founding of the State of Israel, at the Jewish community center.

7 p.m. Wednesday.

Rashauna Johnson. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave. — The author and associate professor of history at Darmouth college lectures and signs her book Slavery’s Metropolis — Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Visit www.liberalarts.tulane.edu for information.

Free admission. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Sarah Cotton. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1601 Westbank Expwy., Harvey — The illustrator discusses and signs Jackson Sundown — Native American Bronco Buster, the story of the trick rider now in the National cowboy Hall of Fame. Visit www.barnesandnoble.com for details. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Tena Clark. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St. — The Grammy-winning producer and author signs her memoir Southern Discomfort, a story of coming of age in the civil rights era. Visit www. gardendistrictbookshop.com for more information. 6 p.m. Thursday.

Virgie Tovar. Jaci Blue Boutique, 2111 Magazine St. — The author reads and signs her book You Have The Right To Remain Fat — a manifesto for the fat revolution. Must purchase book to attend. Admission $15.

6:30 p.m. Thursday.

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PREVIEW Satchmo at the Waldorf

BY WILL cOVIeLLO LOUIS ARMSTRONG WAS A PROLIFIC letter writer and he recorded many of this thoughts and conversations on reel-to-reel tapes. collages he made on the covers of the boxes that stored the tapes were displayed at the New Orleans Jazz Museum as part of the Prospect.4 art expo P H OTO B Y J A N e T W I L S O N that closed in February. Biographer Terry Teachout relied heav- Barry Shakaba Henley stars in Satchmo at the Waldorf. ily on Armstrong’s roughly 650 recordings in writing the 2009 book Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Teachout adapted material from the book to create the one-man show Satchmo at the Waldorf.

Though he sang in appearances, Armstrong rarely played his trumpet publicly in 1970 due to illness. But he returned to deliver some triumphant performances in 1971, including a March concert at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It would be his final concert (Armstrong died July 6, 1971). Teachout imagines Armstrong in his dressing room after that show. Looking back on his life, Armstrong recounts stories from his early days in New Orleans, where he ran errands for Storyville brothels and played his horn in street parades. He moved to chicago to perform with his mentor Joseph “King” Oliver’s band and later to New York, which became his longtime home. But the show is not a measured biography as much as Armstrong’s view of his life’s work.

He recreates conversations with his longtime manager, Joe Glaser, who pushed him to reach wider audiences, and imagines debates with Miles Davis, who had accused Armstrong of “clowning” for white audiences.

Barry Shabaka Henley performed the show in chicago, and here he’s directed

by Le Petit Theatre Artistic Director Maxwell Williams. Tickets $10-$55. 7:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5-21. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com.

OPENINGS Colette (R) — Keira Knightley plays a woman pushed to write novels under her husband’s name in this biographical drama from director Wash Westmoreland. Cinebarre Canal Place 9.

Dream Big, Princess: Moana (PG) — A young girl answers the ocean’s call to face the Demigod that cursed her island in this 2016 Disney hit. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16.

A Star is Born (R) — Lady Gaga and Bradley cooper star in this remake of a young actress/musician and musician falling in love while dealing with fame. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, The Broad Theater, Chalmette Movies, Cinebarre Canal Place 9, The Grand 16 Slidell, Movie Tavern Northshore, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX. Venom (PG-13) — Tom Hardy plays eddie Brock, a mild-mannered New Yorker who acquires the powers of a symbiote in this action movie based on the popular Marvel character. AMC Dine-In Clearview Palace 12, AMC Elmwood Palace 20, AMC Westbank Palace 16, Chalmette Movies, The Grand 16 Slidell, Regal Covington Stadium 14, Regal Grand Esplanade 14 & GPX.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS Beetlejuice (PG) — Michael Keaton plays a bizarre demon who drives a family out of a deceased couple’s home in this comedy from director Tim Burton. 10 a.m.

Friday-Sunday at Prytania Theatre.

Before the West Coast (Not rated) — A documentary about the all-black St. Augustine High School football team, which battled racism following its integration of Louisiana’s all-white football league in 1967.

Wendell Pierce narrates. 7 p.m. Tuesday at The Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way, New Orleans. Doors open at 6 p.m. $15.

Bullitt (PG) — Steve McQueen stars as a San Francisco cop who is determined to find the kingpin that killed a protected witness in this action flick from 1968. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday at AMC Westbank Palace 16 and Cinebarre Canal Place 9.

The Dawn Wall (Not rated) — A documentary about free climber Tommy caldwell, who decides to scale a huge rock face to get over heartbreak. 7 p.m. Monday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20.

Doctor Who — New Season Premiere (Not rated) — The 11th season kicks off with exclusive screenings in select theaters. Jodie Whittaker, the series’ first female doctor, stars. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20.

Ghost Dog — The Way of the Samurai (R) — Forest Whitaker stars as a hit man who models himself after a samurai when targeted by the mob in this crime drama from director Jim Jarmusch. 7 p.m. Friday at NOMA, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans.

Halloween (R) — Michael Myers escapes the mental hospital to haunt his small-town

home in this 1978 slasher flick from director John carpenter. Jamie Lee curtis stars.

12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at The Grand 16 Slidell; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday at Movie Tavern Northshore.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Not rated) — charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara star in this 1939 black-and-white adaptation of the classic novel about a deformed bellringer saving a Gypsy. 10 a.m.

Sunday and Wednesday at Prytania Theatre.

The Icarus Line Must Die (Not rated) — A documentary about Los Angeles rock group The Icarus Line as it makes its way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

Loup Garou Film Festival (Ratings vary) — Featuring film screenings, filmmaker discussions and music. Movie screenings include Goreface Killer, Fear Clinic and others. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at ar Redux.

MetLive — Aida (Not rated) — The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Verdi’s drama screens exclusively in select theaters.

Featuring soprano Anna Netrebko. 11:55 a.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday at AMC Elmwood Palace 20.

MFKZ (Not rated) — The critically-acclaimed anime movie centers on a young Angelino and his pal Vinz, who both live in an L.A.-inspired dystopian metropolis. 7

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STAGE ON STAGE A Doll’s House, Part 2. Southern Rep Theatre, 2545 Bayou Road — The acting company kicks off its first performance in its new permanent space with a comedy about a woman who returns to the house she left 15 years before and deals with regret, recrimination and reconciliation. Visit www.southernrep.com for details. Tickets $25-$40. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Aladdin. Saenger Theatre , 1111 Canal Street — The hit Broadway musical features award-winning music, lyrics and more.

Tickets $25. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursdays, 2 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. FridaySaturday, 2 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

I Wrote A Song. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave. — Slotted Spoon Productions’ comedy musical about coming out. Visit www. slottedspoonproductions.com for details.

Tickets $25-$30. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Masque. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — RuPaul’s Drag Race winner raja Gemini presents a solo show of song with a story. Visit www. theallwayslounge.com for details. Tickets $20-$40. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Postcards From Over The Edge. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place — The play explores New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, moving from Storyville to contemporary cases.

Visit www.newcombartmuseum.tulane. edu for details. Tickets 0-$15. 6:30 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Shear Madness. Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Avenue, Westwego — JPAS presents an evening of improvisation and mystery in a hair salon where a murder is committed and the audience spots clues and participates in the action.

For more info, visit www.jpas.org.

Tickets $35. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

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. 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

The Laramie Project. Delgado Community College (Tim Baker Theater), 615 City Park Ave. — The documentary theater piece explores the reaction to the hate crime death of Matthew Shepard. The Storyville collective and the Delgado community college theater department present the show at Delgado. call (504) 671-6616 or visit www.dcc.edu for details. Tickets $30.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Where in the World is the Great Pumpkin?!?. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St. — The risque

variety show includes songs, dance and drag for the Halloween season. Visit www. great-pumpkin.eventbrite.com. Tickets $10-$15. 8 p.m. Friday

DANCE Green Table. Tulane University, Lupin Theatre, 16 Newcomb Place — Newcomb Dance company presents a work inspired

by Kurt Jooss’ political ballet The Green Table, created between the two world wars in Germany. Visit www.liberalarts. tulane.edu/departments/theatre-dance for details. Tickets $10-$15. 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday.

ART HAPPENINGS Art for Arts Sake On Magazine Street. — Galleries and merchants provide wine, art and trunk shows. 5 p.m. Saturday.

Art in the Bend. Nuance/Louisiana Artisan Gallery, 728 Dublin St. — The pop-up art exhibit includes works by artists from the region, including Flour child Bakery. contact artintehbend@gmail.com for information. 10 a.m. Saturday.

Artist reception and book signing. A Gallery for Fine Photography, 241 Chartres St. — Josephine Sacabo signs three books of her work at the Tagged exhibition.

5 p.m. Thursday.

Champagne & Art Tours. The Jung Hotel & Residences, 1500 Canal St. — Free champagne accompanies a weekly tour of the hotel’s commissioned artworks. 5 p.m.

Friday.

Live music. Brand New Orleans Art Gallery, 646 Tchoupitoulas St. — During the Farewell Show at the gallery, an evening of live music will mark Art for Art’s Sake; the gallery will close Oct. 31. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Open Studio. New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio, 727 Magazine St. — There are hands-on demonstrations in glassblowing, torchworking and printmaking. Visit www.neworleansglassworks.com for details. 10 a.m. Saturday.

Open studio. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St. — The studio invites artists of all kinds to use its space for art, music, dance, meetings and more. 5 p.m. Sunday Southern Crossings — CAC Artist Residencies. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St. — In an effort to foster the development of new performance work, the cAc invited three artist collaborators to utilize the cAc resources to develop their work. An informal showing of new work will occur on Arts for Arts’ Sake. Included are raw Fruit, Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever and Vessels. Free admission. 6 p.m. Saturday.

UnderExposed. New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave. — New Orleans Photo Alliance hosts a portfolio sharing event and reception for a photography exhibit by David Armentor. Visit www. neworleansphotoalliance.org for details.

Tickets $35-45. 5 p.m. Sunday.

OPENINGS A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins

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Phantasm (R) — A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber in this 1979 horror film from writer/ director Don coscarelli. 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Movie Tavern Northshore.

Zydeco Breakfast (Not rated) — Director Thomas Uhl tackles the people, music and spirit of zydeco breakfast gatherings in cajun country in this documentary. 7 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

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REVIEW Past Present Future and Best Seat in the House

BY D. erIc BOOKHArDT WHEN RUSSELL LORD’S MASSIVE book, Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art, was released in P H OTO B Y r O M A N A LO K H I N March, many local art buffs were stunned by the scale and depth of a collection that had been seen only in little snips and snatches over the years. The book not only revealed that NOMA’s photography shows barely had touched the tip of the iceberg, but also that NOMA had been an art photography pioneer for more than a century. This Past Present Future: Building Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art show revisits some of this forgotten history while providing a preview of the collection’s future, mingled with some colorful side trips along the way.

In 1918, NOMA — then called the Delgado Museum of Art after its Jamaican-born founder Isaac Delgado — staged an art photography show featuring work by the luminaries of the day, and this exhibition includes a partial recreation of it. There are works by Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Kasebier, Laura Gilpin and edward Steichen, including his legendary study of sculptor Auguste rodin silhouetted next to his two most famous works, Le Penseur and Monument to Victor Hugo. This was heady stuff for a small museum, and viewing these works enables us to revisit the origins of photography’s vintage avant garde worldview.

Another series, The Present, features recently acquired works, including robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of his local mentor, George Dureau, and Joel Levinson’s dramatic 1979 photomontage, Fractions (pictured), which uses spliced TV images to predict the confusing, super-saturated digital media environment in which we find ourselves today.

The Future includes some extraordinary promised works from major local photography collectors including Tina Freeman and Dr. russell Albright, among others whose generosity ensures that NOMA’s photography collection will remain among the finest in the nation. These works are complemented by a small expo featuring images by legendary New Orleans photojournalist and cameraman Dell Hall, whose emmy Award-winning efforts remind us why local TV news teams, which often covered national and international events, were for decades considered among America’s most dynamic and pioneering journalists. Through Jan. 6, 2019. New Orleans Museum of Art. 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org.

Diboll Circle — The exhibition by Lina Iris Viktor explores the mythicized history surrounding America’s involvement in the founding of Liberia.

Fighting Weight. The Engine Room, 2839 N. Robertson St.— The exhibition features short films by Kevin Jerome everson.

6 p.m. Friday.

Into the Thicket. Soren Christensen Gallery, 400 Julia St.— The solo debut of new work by Ashley Pridmore includes sculpture, work on paper and an interactive site-specific installation. Opening reception. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Luminous Spaces. Carol Robinson Gallery, 840 Napoleon Ave. — The exhibition features new work in pastel by Sandra Burshell. Opening reception. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Mind Over Mayhem. Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center— The installation was created collaboratively with Tulane University studio art students

by Sally Keller. Opening reception.

5:30 p.m. Thursday One More for the Road. Gallery 600 Julia, 600 Julia St. — The exhibition presents acrylic works by William B. crowell. Opening rececption. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Painting The Truth. LeMieux Galleries, 332 Julia St. — The gallery presents new works by Mary Monk. Opening reception.

6 p.m. Saturday.

Passage. Callan Contemporary, 518 Julia

Street— The exhibition features sculptures by raine Bedsole. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

The Atchafalaya. Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia St. — The exhibition is of paintings and works on paper by Australian-born Simon Gunning. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

The Free People of Color Who Built Antebellum New Orleans. Preservation Resource Center, 923 Tchoupitoulas St. — The exhibition explores the Dolliole and Soulie families. Opening reception 7 p.m. Saturday.

The Light Honoring Black Children. Stella Jones Gallery, Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132 — The exhibition features children in contemporary and historical settings by charly Palmer. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

They All Axed For You. Boyd Satellite, 440 Julia St. — The gallery presents an exhibition of new photography and illustrations by Sean Yseult. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Jewelry and Crafts. Ariodante Gallery, 535 Julia St. — The exhibit features cheryl Anne Grace, Sarah Nelson and Vicki Lee, jewelry

by Soren Pedersen and crafts by renee Melito. Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Joseph Havel, Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St. — The gallery presents a sculpture exhibition by Australian-born Joseph Havel.

Opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

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