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Publisher | MARGO DUBOS Administrative Director | MARK KARCHER EDITORIAL Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN Managing Editor | KANDACE POWER GRAVES Political Editor | CLANCY DUBOS Arts & Entertainment Editor | WILL COVIELLO Special Sections Editor | MISSY WILKINSON Staff Writers | ALEX WOODWARD, CHARLES MALDONADO Editorial Assistant | LAUREN LABORDE

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Voodoo Music Experience 2012...................... PULLOUT The schedule, the map, the cubes and all the scoop on this year’s Voodoo

7 IN SEVEN

Seven Things to Do This Week ..........5 Wanda Sykes, David Sedaris, Yo-Yo Ma and more

NEWS + VIEWS

News ................................................................7 A pastor revives a Central City church Bouquets + Brickbats .............................7 Heroes and zeroes C’est What?..................................................7 Gambit’s Web poll Scuttlebutt................................................. 10 News briefs and politics Commentary ............................................. 13 Endorsements in the school board race Clancy DuBos .......................................... 15 Mitch Landrieu, Stacy Head and the council races

Blake Pontchartrain.............................. 17 The New Orleans know-it-all Gus Kattengell......................................... 19 Sports fans and social media

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A + E News ................................................35 INTERVIEW: Wanda Sykes Music ............................................................37 PREVIEW: Joyce Manor ..........................37

Film................................................................43 REVIEW: Searching for Sugar Man .....45 Art ..................................................................47 REVIEW: Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels 47 Stage ............................................................53 PREVIEW: Spill ..........................................53 REVIEW: The Clifton Monroe Chronicles ....................................55 Events ..........................................................57 Crossword + Sudoku ...........................70

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seven days Norah Jones Tue. Oct. 23 | Ravi Shankar’s baby girl is all grown up. On sultry breakup album Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note), Norah Jones moves from adult contemporary to contemporary adult, using beatmaker-for-hire Danger Mouse to cut her coffeehouse coo with a bitter tea. Richard Julian opens at Mahalia Jackson Theater. PAGE 37.

David Sedaris Wed. Oct. 24 | Author, humorist and NPR contributor David Sedaris has been reading works from his forthcoming book Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls on his current speaking tour. He’s best known for the books Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

At Tulane University’s McAlister Auditorium.

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Yo-Yo Ma Fri. Oct. 26 | Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is the featured soloist in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra program including Steve Reich’s Three Movements, Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Roma and Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. At the Mahalia Jackson Theater. PAGE 37.

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Wanda Sykes | Emmy-winning comedian and actress Wanda Sykes is an alumnus of The Chris Rock Show, appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm and has hosted her own talk show.

She’s also a fan of New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints. She brings her standup act to the Mahalia Jackson Theater. PAGE 35.

Poor Moon Sat. Oct. 27 | It’s the year of Fleet Foxes offspring. The other gig of Foxes Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott, Poor Moon captures the Seattle band’s haunting harmonies and rural charm in a chamber-pop music box. An eponymous LP arrived on Sub Pop in August. Arc in Round and Harlan open at Circle Bar. PAGE 37.

Jewel Mon. Oct. 29 | Singer/songwriter Jewel’s debut album Pieces of You spent two years on the charts and peaked at No. 4. Since those heights, she’s released a steady stream of albums and been a familiar face on TV, especially Nashville Star. This concert at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is a benefit for Breast Reconstruction Awareness, for which she is a spokeswoman. PAGE 37.

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Spill Thu.-Sat. Oct. 25-27 | Writer Leigh Fondakowski (The Laramie Project) and portrait artist Reeva Wortel are finishing a multimedia drama about the BP oil disaster and the people affected by it. The piece features the voices and paintings of 20 people who were interviewed for the drama. The workshop production is at NOCCA. PAGE 53.

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Marshall Faulk,

a New Orleans native and former NFL running back, was named a Hometown Hall of Famer last week by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Allstate. Faulk received the award at his alma mater, George Washington Carver High School. Highlights of Faulk’s 12-year NFL career include more than 12,200 rushing yards and 100 touchdowns, and 767 career receptions for 6,875 yards and 36 touchdowns.

Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

celebrated the band’s 10-year anniversary at New York’s Carnegie Hall earlier this month. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien hosted the “10 Years, One Night” concert, which also featured Grammy-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater as well as saxophonist Branford Marsalis, American Idol finalists Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams, and string ensemble Sphinx Virtuosi.

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A dedicated pastor spreads his urban ministry in a crime-ridden neighborhood.

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he last thing Pastor John Gerhardt wants is to be perceived as a great white hope who moved to New Orleans to save Central City, although he could claim success in saving at least small parts of it, particularly the young people he’s mentored over the years. Most recently he saved a piece of the neighborhood’s history when his ministry bought St. Monica’s Catholic Church and renovated it as the new location of his Castle Rock Community Church and Urban Impact Ministries (UIM).

Castle Rock will celebrate its grand opening with a weekend of activities Oct. 26-28, beginning with the blessing and dedication of the new facility at 3 p.m. Friday. (For a schedule of activities, visit www.urbanimpact.org.)

Gerhardt has ministered to people in Central City for 14 years from a former bank building and dance hall on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Since opening Castle Rock/UIM there in 1998, he has developed a variety of programs to fill the needs of the church’s growing membership and its expanding role in the community. But space had become a problem.

The new location on Galvez Street has an old-fashioned white church with a cross atop of a small steeple, a brick school build-

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president of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents, calls a new state law banning bullying in Louisiana schools an “administrative nightmare.” The law requires schools to train staff to handle bullying in and out of the classroom. Though other states have far more stringent laws, Faulk claims the Louisiana law creates too much paperwork and possibly will require new staff. Students deserve basic-level school protection, not administrative excuses.

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ing and a large playground. Established as a mission parish in 1924, John Gerhardt, St. Monica’s sat empty for more pastor of Castle Rock Church, talks than three years after the Archdiowith a group of cese of New Orleans closed it and youngsters. dozens of other parishes to offset property damages suffered during Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures in 2005, coupled with a shrinking parishioner base in areas that were slow to repopulate after the flood.

UIM and Castle Rock Community Church purchased St. Monica’s in May 2011, renovated the property and has moved all its programs. Gerhardt says the new location has two great benefits: It’s in the heart of Central City, the community to which he has devoted his life’s work, and it has lots of space for programs including Tuesday and Thursday night youth Bible studies, Friday and Saturday night youth recreation programs, afterschool tutoring and more.

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Gerhardt’s journey to New Orleans began in 1989, when the Wisconsin native (who plays a pretty mean alto saxophone), was a youth minister in Minnesota and accompanied a group of students on a mission trip to Chicago.

“It was the first time I’d ever seen a holistic ministry at work,” he says. “The church bought real estate. They started a school, had a medical clinic. They even had a legal clinic.”

A trip to New Orleans with a youth group the next year changed his life.

Gerhardt, his wife and the youngsters worked in the heart of Central City for one week.

“We went back to Minnesota, and I told my wife, ‘We don’t even need to be thinking about coming to New Orleans,’’’ Gerhardt recalls. The more they tried to talk themselves out of it, however, the more obvious it became that they were Louisiana-bound.

They moved south in 1992 to work with UIM, established by another member of Gerhardt’s denomination, and Gerhardt focused on the community around the Melpomene housing project. One of his first activities was taking six boys to Branson, Mo., to a sports camp for inner-city youth. The experience had such an effect on the boys that they started a Bible study group.

“Actually it was a Bible study/football group,” Gerhardt says. “We had Bible study one day and we’d play touch football another day.” The group would play football anywhere it could find a lighted parking lot. “We were kicked off quite a few Schwegmann’s parking lots,” he says.

A high school ministry was formed, a junior high ministry was added, and the UIM program continued to grow. Gerhardt purchased a former bank on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in 1995 and founded Castle Rock Community Church.

He immersed himself in the community, forming relationships with neighbors and other churches, like the Central City Pastors Partnership. And he continues working with young people, trying to change the culture of crime and violence in the neighborhood. From the initial six boys, the ministry has grown to more than 150 active members from diverse backgrounds. “We have people with Ph.D.s and people trying to get their GED,” Gerhardt says.

His reception in the community was rocky at times, but Gerhardt always acted with an eye toward improving the neighborhood and making it safe for families who live there.

“I don’t go looking for trouble, but certain things we couldn’t and shouldn’t ignore,” Gerhardt says. He recounts talking with a local gang leader and drug dealer who had encountered a group of adults rehabbing a house in Central City. “I just said to him, “Look, man, you can’t be doing that. It’s not right, and we’re trying to do something different here, so would you mind not selling drugs around here? He said, ‘That’s how I roll.’ I said, ‘Well, this is how we roll. This will be a neighborhood where kids can ride their bikes, and this needs to be a safe corner.”

A year later, Gerhardt met the new leader of the gang. “Some kids were hiding drugs in a building right next to one we were cleaning,” he says. “I

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asked them to take it somewhere else.” word got back to the gang leader, who approached Gerhardt. “i told him that he needed to take it someplace else,” the pastor says. The situation was diffused when Gerhardt and the young man realized they both liked the Fox network show 24. such tense situations are not uncommon in the neighborhood. “it’s not always easy, but you have to show some

kind of moral presence,” the pastor says. “it emboldens people who want to stand up against it.”

Gerhardt knows about creating a presence. On weekdays he sometimes can be spotted driving through the neighborhood around his new church, knocking on doors and waking up kids for school. it might seem over the top, but Gerhardt says he sees positive results.

He also recognizes the irony of moving his church to a building named in honor of the patron saint of mothers of wayward sons. st. Monica followed her son augustine for 17 years, traveling halfway across the Roman empire imploring him to repent of his immoral ways. Gerhardt says he has comforted his share of mothers whose sons wouldn’t listen, and he’s buried more than his share of young men

who lost their lives to violence, but he also has helped other kids avoid the dangers of the streets. “some of the same kids i tussled with 10, 15 years ago have changed their lives,” he says. “a couple of them are youth ministers who grew up in the ministry.”

— Phillip Manuel is a freelance writer and New Orleans native.

scuttlebutt Quotes of the week

“i’m sure his advisers told him [President Barack Obama] drink all the Red Bull and caffeine you can. The problem is not his oratorical skills. The problem is his record. You can combine the speaking skills of Presidents (Ronald) Reagan, (Abraham) Lincoln and Winston Churchill … and you still couldn’t defend his record.”

— Gov. Bobby Jindal in the “spin room” backstage at the Oct. 16 presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., acting as a surrogate for GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

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“Over five years as Louisiana’s chief executive, (Bobby) Jindal’s given campaign speeches, traveled to fundraisers and dropped into Republican events in 39 states and washington, D.C., hitting key presidential race states like iowa multiple times. More than one-third of the 160 different out-of-state trips he’s taken in office have happened since January. … Polls have shown concern from some voters about the frequency of the trips, and even a few Republican lawmakers have quietly questioned Jindal’s commitment to state business when he seems to be eyeing a bigger political prize.” — The Associated Press’ Melinda Deslatte, in an Oct. 14 analysis of Jindal’s travels.

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BGR says take politics out of s&WB opeRations The New Orleans sewerage and water Board (s&wB) forwarded a long-term rate hike plan to Mayor Mitch Landrieu last week. The plan, which was approved by s&wB’s executive committee earlier this month, would increase water rates by 10 percent each year through 2020 to help pay for billions in infrastructure repairs. Landrieu, who also serves as the board president, is expected to review the plan before the board takes a vote, which could happen as early as next month.

The decision to advance the current plan comes in spite of criticism from Landrieu that it ignores a serious problem: governance. Over the summer, Landrieu asked the board to address governance issues in its report on the rate hike. Prior to last week’s board meeting, the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) sent a letter calling for delay of the full rate hike until the board — along with (the) city and the state — “fix the way [s&wB] is governed and the way it operates,” the letter reads. “Rather than providing a plan for governance reform, [the rate hike plan] calls for future meetings on the topic.”

BGR recommends removing the mayor and City Council members from the board, as well as setting shorter terms and term limits.

City Council President Stacy Head, a member of the s&wB, echoed this position at the meeting, saying she wants to minimize politics in decisions on the city’s infrastructure. “i’d like to see the governance changes before the rate increases,” other than those that would produce immediate, tangible benefits to customers or would be required to meet improvement deadlines set in a 1998 federal consent decree, Head said. “My suggestion is to take the council’s

direct input out, and have it be an appointment of the council, because i do think politics continues to play too strong a role,” she said, adding that she does not want to remove Landrieu from the board. — CHaRLes MaLDONaDO

the graphic designer did it tea paRty pampHlet eRRs on Boustany The race between U.s. Reps. Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry for the redrawn 3rd Congressional District seat got uglier last week when the Tea Party of Lafayette, which backs Landry, issued a pamphlet stating Boustany hadn’t been endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee (he had) and that he didn’t sign a pledge not to raise taxes (he did). what happened? since the Tea Party of Lafayette had co-endorsed Landry with the national nonprofit Freedomworks, Freedomworks printed the pamphlet, and Tea Party of Lafayette and Freedomworks spokeswoman Joyce Linde told KaTC-Tv, “The tax pledge was not in our original document, and so maybe we feel that the graphic designer at Freedomworks, or somewhere, inserted that.”

The website LaFactCheck.com, which supports Boustany, headlined the incident “Lies, Damn Lies and Landry Lies,” reprinting the Right to Life endorsement and concluding, acidly, “The very first line of the letter reads: ‘National Right to Life is pleased to endorse you for reelection to the U.s. House of Representatives.’ we realize this language is a tad bit ambiguous, but even someone with elementary comprehension of the english language can tell this is in fact an endorsement.” — KeviN aLLMaN

Parking wars zoninG RestRictions peeve DevelopeR The New Orleans City Council has unanimously approved a controversial plan for a surface parking lot in the 100 block of south Rampart street in the Central Business District.

Local preservationists balked at turning the site into a parking lot. Now an empty lot, the site was formerly home to several historic buildings, including Morris Music, which is closely associated with Louis armstrong. a 2000 plan to build a parking structure on the site never materialized. The City Planning Commission’s staff report noted that a surface lot, rather than a building or parking structure, would be inconsistent with high-density objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

District B Councilwoman Diane Bajoie brokered a compromise, limiting a conditional use permit to three years, rather than the five years that developer Muskeget LLC had sought. after that, Muskeget must either build a permanent structure or reapply for an extension of the permit. in addition, within nine months, the company is required to present a proposal to commemorate the history of the site. “it’s a conditional use, and the developer doesn’t like the conditions,” Bajoie said. “it’s a conditional use for a limited period of time.” — CHaRLes MaLDONaDO

tobacco stings bring fines sell ciGs to minoRs: $200 a pop The Louisiana Office of alcohol and Tobacco Control (aTC) was conducting sting operations as early as May 2012 using underage “operatives” to purchase tobacco products from bars (the operative asks bar staff where the cigarette machines are, purchases cigarettes and leaves the bar).

The stings are part of a three-year, federally funded program. in august, Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar and wit’s inn landed on the city’s alcoholic Beverage Control Board (aBC) docket for allegedly allowing underage operatives inside to purchase cigarettes. in september, Cooter Brown’s and snake and Jake’s Christmas Club Lounge each agreed to pay $200 to settle similar charges. at the Oct. 16 aBC meeting, a host of popular bars including aunt Tiki’s, Mango Mango, Lost Love Lounge and siberia each agreed to pay $200 for charges including allowing minors into the bar, selling tobacco products to minors, and “maintaining or creating a public nuisance.” at the august aBC meeting, aBC vice-chair Nyka Scott said, “i’m not sure this level of conduct amounts to nuisance.” City attorney Dan McNamara said that because a minor entered the bar before his iD was checked, it was in “clear violation of the law.” in July, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced a partnership between the aTC, the city and NOPD to “investigate nuisance bars that serve as breeding grounds for violence and crime,” Landrieu said in a press release. “Reducing violent crime and murder and making New Orleans safe has been and will continue to be the most important issue facing this city and its future, and this partnership with the aTC will help us to do this.”

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scuttlebits all tHe neWs tHat Doesn’t fit • City budget dates: Mayor Mitch Landrieu will present his proposed 2013 budget at a special meeting of the New Orleans City Council Oct. 29. Under the City Charter, the council is required to adopt a budget by Dec. 1. The council has scheduled the adoption of next year’s budget for its Nov. 30 meeting.

• Twitter watch: wwL-aM “Think Tank” host Garland Robinette gave in to Twitter last week and started tweeting under the handle “@yabugadahdah.” what does it mean? Nothing, Robinette explained: “just got aggravated when every name i wanted was already taken ... figured that babble had to be available and sho-nuf.” at press time, @garlandpainter was already claimed, but not @GarlandwwL or, uh, @GarlandRobinette …

• and finally: asked if he had gone back and looked at the New Orleans saints’ first four games during last week’s bye, quarterback Drew Brees said, “if i wanted to throw up, i would have.” — KeviN aLLMaN

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District 6: Woody Koppel — A fouryear incumbent and former public school

School board elections are always important, but this year’s contests are especially critical. teacher, Koppel points out that under the “new” board, local public schools are seeing the state’s best high school “cohort” graduation rate in the state (93 percent among classmates who started together in ninth grade). He credits much of the system’s academic improvement to charter successes but correctly notes that the multi-tiered local charter system can be unnecessarily confusing to parents, particularly when it comes to who’s in charge of individual charter schools. He has a thorough grasp of education policy issues and consistently brings a levelheaded approach to decision-making.

District 7: Thomas Robichaux — Another four-year incumbent, Robichaux has been a positive and energetic force on the board. He currently serves as the board’s president. While he would like to see more schools return from the RSD to local control, he says that returning all schools at once, right away, would be unwise. He favors moving RSD schools back over time so the board can prepare to oversee them properly.

“The system is not yet completely fixed, but it’s much improved and on the right track,” he says. We agree, and we support his re-election.

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oters in New Orleans will fill six of seven Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) seats on Nov. 6.

One incumbent, District 5 board member Seth Bloom, has been re-elected without opposition. The six other incumbents are seeking re-election. School board elections are always important, but this year’s contests are especially critical. Board members are expected to hire a new superintendent soon, and the next board must continue the ongoing discussion of how best to return once-failing schools from the purview of the Recovery School District (RSD) to local control. Here are our recommendations.

District 1: Heidi Lovett Daniels — Daniels was a standout on the board during her one term of service, from 2005 to 2009, and she was elected the board’s vice president during that time. A veteran teacher (she currently teaches math at Southern University), Daniels has an excellent grasp of the issues that confront the system: a chasm between charter proponents who like the improved student test scores and those who think Orleans teachers and parents have been lost in the charter shuffle; concerns that charter schools fail to serve special-needs students; and the need to hire a new superintendent who has a record of academic achievement in an urban system. Daniels has a knack for education policy and an ability to work with the state Department of Education to improve the communication between the two often-competing entities. The school board needs Heidi Daniels.

District 2: Cynthia Cade — Cade has served eight years on the board and was part of the team that helped turn around the system’s finances after Hurricane Katrina. An educator by profession, she applauds the increased levels of community involvement and on-site autonomy at many charter schools, but she also gives credence to widespread charges of a lack of transparency in the governance of some charters. She pledges to seek a new superintendent who understands the unique educational culture in New Orleans post-Katrina.

District 3: Sarah Newell Usdin — A dynamic leader in the charter schools, accountability, and Teach For America movements even before Katrina, Usdin founded the New Schools for New Orleans organization that helped more communities get charter schools in their neighborhoods after the storm. Now she wants to bring her impressive energy and two decades of educational experience to the local school board to work for continued reforms from the inside. She knows education policy thoroughly, and her only focus would be public education — not politics. We think she would be an excellent addition to the school board.

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High-Stakes council Races lections for New orleans City Council always put a lot on the line, despite the “strong mayor” form of government embedded in the City Charter.

Mitch Landrieu knows this, which is why he continues to stake out positions in council races.

In the past year or so, the mayor has locked horns with at-large Councilwoman stacy Head on a variety of issues, but in the end their squabbles all come down to the same thing: control. Both Landrieu and Head like to have their way, and both are skilled at maneuvering to get it. on many big issues, they play well together; when they don’t, they really don’t.

For a while, their spats were low-key and behind the scenes, but in recent months the hostilities between them have escalated. on good days, they are cool toward one another. on bad days, they seem to harbor mutual disdain.

As mayor, Landrieu has the upper hand when dealing with a recalcitrant councilmember. The council controls the purse strings, but as even Ray Nagin figured out,

the mayor can opt not to spend. The mayor also controls all departments and heavily influences most “independent” boards and commissions.

You want a broken street light fixed or a road paved? Call your councilmember, who in turn will call a department head, who reports directly to the mayor.

The lines of authority, and power, are clear and unequivocal.

As an opponent, Head is no slouch. she works as hard as anyone at her job, including the politicking.

Which brings us to the two special council elections on the Nov. 6 ballot. Voters will choose new council members to fill the unexpired terms of Jon Johnson in District E and Head in District B. Landrieu is playing heavily in both races. so far, Head has endorsed only in District E. In District E, Landrieu is backing attorney James Gray, as is a host of other elected officials. Head is supporting state Rep. Austin Badon, who finished third in the race for Head’s current at-large seat. In the runoff, Badon backed Head and helped

There’s a measure of irony in Head’s reluctance to back a successor in her own political backyard. her eke out a razor-thin victory over former District E Councilwoman Cynthia WillardLewis. (In that race, Landrieu backed Willard-Lewis, a longtime ally.)

In District B, Landrieu again leads a bevy of political heavyweights in backing Dana Kaplan. so far, Head remains neutral.

There’s a measure of irony in Head’s reluctance to back a successor in her own political backyard. on one hand, she could

influence that race a great deal in light of the fact that she served as District B’s council representative for six years. on the other hand, she has friends and supporters in the camps of all three major candidates.

If she picks one, she risks making more enemies than friends.

You could say the same for Landrieu, but he has an advantage: A mayor can find a lot more ways to kiss and make up than can a councilmember.

The stakes are high for Landrieu and Head. The mayor would like to have four council votes, if not five, that he can count on. Head at times has been able to cobble together three or four votes of her own, depending on the issue.

The election falls squarely in the middle of budget season, a time when council coalitions can come together and fall apart literally overnight. If either or both council races are resolved in two weeks, the council’s political fault lines — and the battle lines between Landrieu and Head — could be redrawn in short order.

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While playing cards with a group of friends the other day, the topic of women flashing their breasts for beads in the French Quarter came up. A dispute arose as to when this practice started. My friend Mac says it started during the 1979 Mardi Gras, when New Orleans police officers were on strike. Ed thinks it was not until the late 1980s or early 1990s. I thought it was no later than Mardi Gras 1985. Can you tell us who is correct?

Leo DEAR LEO, Of course it’s impossible to say exactly who was the first daring woman to try

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The link between beads and breasts was established no earlier than the mid-1970s, but it took hold and spread rapidly after that. The earliest published evidence found is a photo in the Feb. 1, 1978, issue of Figaro newspaper, a New Orleans weekly published from 1972 to 1981.

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DEAR MARY, Yes, there was. Its official name was the Louisiana Retreat Asylum for the Insane.

In 1853, the Sisters of Charity purchased a piece of property located in the Hurstville subdivision on the corner of Nashville Avenue and Magazine Street.

The sisters, who were in charge of the various hospitals and charities in New Orleans, bought the property to build a house for their own use. It was meant to be a retreat where sisters who were ill could go to recuperate and regain their strength so they could return to their duties.

A few years later, the sisters opened a school for poor girls at the same location. Eventually that school moved to Napoleon Avenue. Then the sisters converted the facility into a mental institution with both charity and paying patients. The facility grew, and in 1876 it moved to 1038 Henry Clay Ave. Around 1930, the institution became the De Paul Sanatorium and then De Paul Hospital.

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ports fans add a lot to the game day experience. But the popularity of social media has created a dirtier side to fandom. Hidden behind words on a screen, so-called fans have used Twitter, Facebook, online comments sections and message boards to express opinions ranging from distasteful to hurtful.

Following the LSU Tigers’ 14-6 loss to the Florida Gators Oct. 6, fans took to the airwaves declaring the end of the Tigers football program, name-calling players and coaches and talking about the loss as if the apocalypse had taken place. Tigers receiver Jarvis Landry was one of the targets on Twitter, and after reading the conversations he reached a boiling point. “If you have nothing positive to say don’t mention me,” he tweeted. “It’s us out there at practice every day etc. What gives you the right to have a voice?”

The next day, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel was hit hard and suffered a concussion. A majority of the home fans — the home fans! — cheered while Cassel remained on his back, diagnosis unknown, for several minutes.

Another instance of fandom gone wrong followed an Oct. 15 report on ProFootballTalk.com that former Saints linebacker Scott Fujita, now with the Cleveland Browns, is battling a neck injury that could threaten his career.

Fujita was a fan favorite during his four years in New Orleans and helped the city win its first Super Bowl championship.

I covered him during his time with the Saints and he was always professional, during both the best and worst of times.

When I got to the end of the story and saw comments football fans had posted, I was disgusted.

“Instant karma baby. Hate brings bad things,” one commenter posted. “I’d like to say I’m sorry to hear that … but … I’d be lying,” another read. “Bounty hit?” A respondent on one message board went so far as to say he hopes Fujita’s injury means he will have trouble picking up his children to hold them.

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SPRUCE ECo-STUdIo (2043 Magazine St., 504-265-0946; www.sprucenola.com) now accepts vintage, modern or unique furniture and decor pieces for consigment.

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Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > october 23 > 2012

oets often liken women to flowers, but to Patricia Steere, the essence of feminine beauty is strong, unpredictable and even deadly.

That vision is reflected in the name of her boutique, A Girl Is A Gun (6010 Magazine St., 504-891-4475; www.agirlisagun.com). Steere’s love for a time when women truly dressed up, donning hats and gloves on a daily basis, inspired her to open her shop last year.

“You look in the streets sometimes, and you see people looking like they don’t care,” Steere says. “My inspiration is to spread the care.”

Her edgy-yet-glamorous aesthetic is evident in her own ensembles as well as the shop’s furnishings: Andy Warhol prints, a TV playing film noir movies and classic books like Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. The shop offers vintage-inspired garments tinged with old Hollywood glamour. There are handbags, costume jewelry and screen-printed T-shirts and hair accessories the shop owner makes herself.

Steere thinks of dresses as weapons and accessories as ammunition. She considers her pieces to be tools that help women get ready to face their day.

“Every woman has had that experience of getting dressed to go out,” Steere says. “You’re getting dressed, and it’s really like the old days when men would go into battle and put on their armor — you’re putting on lipstick or nail polish or these items, and it’s like putting on your weaponry.”

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BY IAN MCNULTY Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@cox.net

putting everything on the table what

Norma’s Sweets Bakery

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2925 Bienville St., 309-5401

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breakfast, lunch and dinner daily

how much inexpensive

reservations not accepted

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tamales, meat pies, Cuban sandwiches, ceviche

Dunbar’s to reopen in Gentilly

Long before Freret Street got its groove back and emerged as a restaurant row, the Creole soul restaurant Dunbar’s Creole Cooking was the commercial strip’s go-to destination for fried chicken, meaty red beans, an exemplary Creole gumbo and perhaps the sweetest of all sweet teas.

Its building was badly damaged during Hurricane Katrina and Dunbar’s found a new home inside the student center of Loyola University’s law school, where it operated like a food court eatery when classes were in session. Dunbar’s did not reopen there with the current fall semester, however, and owner Celestine Dunbar has a new plan.

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a quick stop for an array of Latin flavors

The New Norma

2009 Birillo Rosso MAREMMA, ITALY

The staff at Norma’s Sweets Bakery serves Cuban sandwiches, chimitacos and other Latin dishes.

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masa are bound in banana leaves, foil and twine and stay warm for hours.

Norma’s is a colorful, engaging place with pinatas strung from the ceiling, bins of cactus and plantain and a tidy dining area in the corner. For those learning to navigate a Latin deli, manager Jose Castillo is ready with advice. The ceviche, he assures, is perfect beer-drinking food, and the large soups are traditional hangover cures. On weekends, these soups include mondongo, which has a broth so unquestionably rejuvenating that even people who aren’t into tripe, its star ingredient, may want to consider it on certain mornings.

On more composed mornings, diners might turn their attention to bakery cases filled with a whole golden constellation of the soft, chewy Mexican pastry called pan dulce, long, crullerlike Cuban churros and soft slabs of flan. There are meat pies with beef or pulled chicken and bits of dried fruit inside puff pastry. Others, filled with guava and cream cheese, fit somewhere between lunch food and dessert treat and make good snacks for a buck and change each.

Peer beyond the breadboxes and you’ll likely see Norma’s other claim to fame — sheet cakes decorated with great extravagance by women who apply icing like comic book artists use ink. After seeing these cakes at a kid’s birthday party, I can advise that a bounce house be readily accessible to absorb the potent sugar highs they produce.

$14-$21 RETAIL

Maremma, the southwestern-most appellation in Tuscany’s vast wine region, lies along the coast where the Ligurian Sea meets the Tyrrhenian Sea. Situated in a landscape of rugged, rolling hills, olive tree groves, sandy beaches and rocky coastline, the Marsiliano family estate produces this “mini” super Tuscan. Grapes for this blend of 60 percent cabernet sauvignon and 40 percent merlot were sourced from vineyards in Manciano in the Grosseto province.

The wine was fermented and macerated over a 14-day period in temperaturecontrolled, open stainless steel tanks, and then aged 12 months in small, second-use French oak barrels. It is full-bodied and offers aromas of red and dark berries, anise, pepper and subtle oak. On the palate, taste rustic, earthy flavors of currants, plum, sour cherry, leathery and toasty notes and smooth tannins. Decant 30 to 40 minutes before serving. Drink it with roast game, herb-crusted lamb, veal, pork, pasta with meat sauces and pizza. Buy it at: Elio’s Wine Warehouse, Swirl Wine Market and Acquistapace’s Covington Supermarket.

Drink it at: Assunta’s Italian Restaurant, Ceasar’s and The Chimes Covington.

Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > october 23 > 2012

A deli and bakery offers a wide range of Latin specialties. t trip to a Jewish deli means Reuben and Rachel sandwiches and maybe a cup of soup. At an Italian deli, it’s wheels of cheese, a dozen types of cured pork and, in New Orleans, a muffuletta. But what about a visit to a Latin American deli?

As the new Norma’s Sweets Bakery in Mid-City shows, it can mean huge cartons of carne asada and tortillas cooked on the griddle as you watch or a bracingly tart ceviche of shrimp, drum and scallops stored in iced tubs by the cash register. It could mean chimitacos, which are cigar-shaped crunch fests of chicken-stuffed tortillas piled with vinegary curtido slaw.

Or it could mean possibly the best Cuban sandwich in town, with ham and crumbling tender roast pork encased in buttercrisped bread that was baked in house.

This Norma’s is an offshoot of a bakery and grocery of the same name in Kenner. Shoppers can get groceries, but the Mid-City edition also has a deli with a changing array of hot plates spanning many different Latin traditions.

You’ll find stewed chicken and ribs coated with a dark mixture of spices and grill char, all with meat sliding off the bone into a rust-colored liquid to ladle over yellow rice. One day there might be vigoron, a Nicaraguan dish of boiled yuca and chicharones, on another day there’s roasted corn sprinkled with crema and white cheese, and there are always a few different tamales. These dense, moist, meat-studded bundles of

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interview She will reopen Dunbar’s Soul Food as a full-service restaurant in Gentilly at 5328 Franklin Ave., the former address of Vasquez Restaurant. She is planning to open in spring 2013, possibly in March. Dunbar’s Soul Food will have different menus at lunch and dinner.

“I’m going to keep all my menus from Freret Street for lunch there,” Dunbar says. “It will be like the old Dunbar’s, the all-you-can-eat fried chicken, the red beans, the cornbread, all that.”

At dinner, the restaurant will focus on Creole flavors, but the menu will feature more elaborate dishes, like grilled seafood and roasted meats, she adds.

Dunbar’s opened on Freret Street in 1985 and it grew into an institution for neighbors, students at nearby universities and diners with a nose for Creole cooking. Dunbar says she’s excited to open in a new neighborhood where there are currently few options for a sitdown restaurant meal.

“Freret is swamped with restaurants now, they have everything you can think of over there now, they’re doing fine,” she says. “So I think it’s time I bring my energy to another neighborhood that’s coming up now.”

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A vodka from the newly formed New Orleans distillery Atelier Vie (www.ateliervie.com) is making its way into stores and bars, and it really packs a wallop. It’s called Buck 25, a reference to its 125 proof (or 62.5 percent alcohol), much stronger than more common 80 proof Absolut or Stoli products.

Buck 25’s distiller says this highproof vodka wasn’t designed simply to make stronger drinks, but rather to provide a “secret weapon” for craft cocktail enthusiasts.

“The appeal is you only need a smaller pour,” says distillery founder Jed Haas.

“You can add more flavor and more ingredients to the glass and have the same alcohol content.”

Haas and his partners produce Buck 25 at ArtEgg Studios, a reclaimed industrial space in Mid-City.

The vodka is marketed as “professional infusion grade,” and Haas says this means it’s aimed at bartenders and others who want to make their own flavor-infused vodkas.

“The higher alcohol content means the flavor gets extracted a lot faster and is more intense,” he says.

One early adopter of Buck 25 has already come up with a highly personalized infusion. Pauline Patterson, proprietor of Finn McCool’s Irish Pub (3701 Banks St., 504-486-9080; www. finnmccools.com), infused a bottle of Buck 25 with Juicy Fruit gum. New Orleans Saints fans may recall that a ready stock of Juicy Fruit has been a game day superstition for head coach Sean Payton. The suspended coach scheduled an event benefiting his Payton’s Play It Forward Foundation during the Oct. 21 Saints versus Buccaneers game at

Brad McgEhEE

ExECuTIVE CHEF, YE OLDE COLLEGE INN Ye Olde College Inn (3000 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-866-3683; www.collegeinn1933.com) was founded in 1933. Over the generations, it evolved into a beloved, if increasingly dowdy, neighborhood standby. The Blancher family, proprietors of the bowling alley/music venue Rock ’N’ Bowl, bought the restaurant in 2003. Following Hurricane Katrina, they reopened it in an adjacent building and began a radical modernization of the menu. This was well underway when Brad McGehee was brought on as executive chef in 2011, but since then he has helped complete the College Inn’s transformation into a casual but modern Creole bistro. The restaurant runs its own farm on an adjacent lot to help supply the kitchen and it sources grass-fed beef from a ranch in Acadiana operated by relatives of the Blancher family. McGehee also oversees the food at Rock ’N’ Bowl. : What impact does running your own farm next door have on your kitchen?

McGehee: It means planning the menu isn’t just what I’m going to buy but what I’m going to plant months in advance so we can have it on our menu. That forces you to think not two steps ahead but 10 steps ahead, but it’s been very interesting. Having a farm like this really opens the door to a caliber of young, rising chefs who are passionate about this and want to work here with us. That’s been a blessing in the kitchen, and it’s not something I ever take for granted. : Your menu changes often, but are there some dishes you can’t touch?

M: There are still people who have been coming in here every week or a few times a week for years, and because of that there are certain dishes we won’t fiddle with. The veal dish, that’s a great dish, the onion rings, the burger. Those aren’t going anywhere, even if we’ve made some quiet adjustments, especially with the beef program.

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Gracious Bakery + Cafe 1000 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., (504) 301-3709 www.graciousbakery.com Smoky ham is topped with pecan cheddar spread, pepper jelly and apple slices on baguette.

Koz’s 6215 Wilson Ave., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 484-0841 www.kozcooks.com Barbecued ham that has been stewed in a salty, tangy jus is ladled onto French bread.

Mahony’s Po-boy Shop 3454 Magazine St., (504) 899-3374 www.mahonyspoboys.com The ham po-boy features meat glazed with root beer.

Rene Bistrot 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350 A textbook croque madame is topped with an egg and oozes richness.

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: What do you think connects the restaurant to its history?

M: It has been so many things over the years, I think that just shows that it’s adaptable, it’s a survivor. I think that speaks volumes for the place. It’s here to give customers what they want, and that changes over time. — IAN MCNuLTY

Manning’s. People contributing $1,000 to his charity joined him there for the game, and Patterson planned to present her Juicy Fruit Buck 25 to the coach as a symbol of support.

What’s next for Atelier Vie? The distiller plans a hibiscus-flavored absinthe called Toulouse Red, which is now awaiting government approvals.

Maki leads lunch at Bayona

The duck and cashew butter sandwich will likely always have a place on the lunch menu at Bayona (430 Dauphine St., 504-525-4455; www.bayona.com), but the daytime menu has been getting more eclectic than usual. Credit for this goes to sous chef Scott Maki, who first gained notice at the helm of Rambla. That Spanish-themed restaurant closed earlier this year, but by then Maki had moved on to Bayona, working with chef de cuisine Brett Duffee and chef/owner Susan Spicer. More recently, Maki has been put in charge of lunch and a recent visit showed the direction he’s headed.

There was pan-bagnat, which essentially is a Nicoise salad made into an open-faced sandwich and served with planks of seared yellowfin tuna. Shaved Parmesan melted over sweet potato gnocchi, pork meatballs and bitter rapini and seared scallops arrived over somen noodles and a stir-fried mix of bok choy and slivered mushrooms. Lamb tenderloin was skewered on a kebab and served over fennel-olive relish, yogurt and feta with triangles of fried eggplant.

Maki’s menus change a great deal but follow a coordinated theme. Earlier menus paired seared scallops with a Wagyu beef noodle bowl and kimchi, and gnocchi supported braised rabbit and Italian sausage one day and escargot and spinach another. A few staples of Spicer’s dinner menu, including sauteed sweetbreads with sherry-mustard butter, make lunch cameos, and there’s always that duck and cashew butter sandwich.

Bayona serves lunch Wednesday through Saturday, and on Saturday there’s a special three-course deal for $25 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Dinner is served Monday through Saturday.

5004 Prytania St., (504) 899-4737 www.stjamescheese.com The cheesemonger offers a simple French classic: ham and Brie de Meaux on buttered baguette.

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“Just like in the airline or hotel industry where the price might depend on the demand of that hotel room or airline seat, we introduced that same model to the restaurant industry.”

— Ben McKean, co-founder of the restaurant reservation website Savored, quoted in a CNN spot on his company’s strategy of offering different prices for the same meal at the same restaurant at different times.

Pre-K: Thursday, October 25, 6:30p.m.

Grades 6-12: Thursday, November 14, 6:30p.m.

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Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

AMERICAN CAFE BEIGNET — 311 Bourbon St., 525-2611; 334B Royal St., 524-5530; www. cafebeignet.com — The Western omelet combines ham, bell peppers, red onion and white cheddar, and is served with grits and French bread. The Cajun hash browns are made with andouille sausage, potatoes, bell peppers and red onions and served with a scrambled egg and French bread. No reservations. Bourbon Street: Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Royal Street: Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $

SOMETHIN’ ELSE CAFE — 620 Conti St., 373-6439; www.somethingelsecafe.com — Combining Cajun flavors and comfort food, Somthin’ Else offers noshing items including shrimp baskets, boudin balls and alligator corn dogs. There are burgers, po-boys and sandwiches filled with everything from cochon de lait to a trio of melted cheeses on buttered thick toast.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, late-night Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $$ TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — The Lotto burger is a 6-oz. patty served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and Frostop’s secret sauce and cheese is optional. There are waffle fries and house-made root beer. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ TREASURE ISLAND BUFFET — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 443-8000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The all-you-caneat buffet includes New Orleans favorites including seafood, salad and dishes from a variety of national cuisines. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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BAYOU BEER GARDEN — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., 302-9357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

BEACHCORNER BAR & GRILL — 4905 Canal St., 4887357; www.beachcornerbarandgrill.com — Top a 10-oz. Beach burger with cheddar, blue, Swiss or pepper Jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms or house-made hickory sauce. Other options include a grilled chicken sandwich. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

DMAC’S BAR & GRILL — 542 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., 3045757; www.dmacsbarandgrill. com — Stop in for daily lunch specials or regular items such as gumbo, seafood-stuffed po-boys, burgers or salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ DOWN THE HATCH — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, 522-0909; www.downthehatchnola.com — The Texan burger features an Angus beef patty topped with grilled onions, smoked bacon, cheddar and a fried egg. The house-made veggie burger combines 15 vegetables and is served with sun-dried tomato pesto. Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SHAMROCK BAR & GRILL — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938 — Shamrock serves an Angus rib-eye steak with a side item, burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, grilled chicken, spinach and artichoke dip and more. No reservations.

Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $

BARBECUE BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. The Cajun banh mi fills a Vietnamese roll with hogshead cheese, smoked pulled pork, boudin, fresh jalapeno, cilantro, cucumber, carrot, pickled radish and sriracha sweet chile aioli. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., latenight Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ SAUCY’S — 4200 Magazine St., 301-2755; www.saucysnola.com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled chicken.

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

CAFE ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St., 525-8045; www. antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Caprese panino combines fresh mozzarella, pesto, tomatoes and balsamic vinaigrette. The ham and honeyDijon panino is topped with feta and watercress. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ BREADS ON OAK — 8640 Oak St., Suite A, (504) 3248271; www.breadsonoak.com — The bakery offers a range of breads, muffins, pastries and sweets. Pain au chocolat is a buttery, flakey croissant filled with dark chocolate, and a vegan version also is available.

The breads include traditional, hand-shaped Parisian-style baguettes. No reservations.

Breakfast Thu.-Sun., lunch Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St., 861-7890; www.cafefreret. com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.

Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.Wed., Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GOTT GOURMET CAFE — 3100 Magazine St., 373-6579; www.gottgourmetcafe.com — This cafe serves a variety of gourmet salads, sandwiches, wraps, Chicago-style hot dogs, burgers and more. The cochon de lait panini includes slowbraised pork, baked ham, pickles, Swiss, ancho-honey slaw, honey mustard and chili mayo.

No reservations. Breakfast Sat.Sun., lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE — 5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations.

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O’HENRY’S FOOD & SPIRITS — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., 8669741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 461-9840; www. ohenrys.com — Complimentary peanuts are the calling card of these casual, family friendly restaurants. The menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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OuT to EAT Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK — City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream till early evening. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner daily.

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PRAVDA — 1113 Decatur St., 581-1112; www.pravdaofnola. com — Pravda is known for its Soviet kitsch and selection of absinthes, and the kitchen offers pierogies, beef empanadas, curry shrimp salad and a petit steak served with truffle aioli. No reservations. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009 Magazine St., 891-8280; www.jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes.

Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ MELANGE — 2106 Chartres St., 309-7335; www.melangenola.com — Dine on FrenchCreole cuisine in a restaurant and bar themed to resemble a lush 1920s speakeasy. Lapin au vin is a farm raised rabbit cooked served with demi-glace, oven-roasted shallots, tomatoes, potatoes and pancetta.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert.

Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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PINKBERRY — 300 Canal St.; 5601 Magazine St., 899-4260; www.pinkberry.com — Pinkberry offers frozen yogurt with an array of wet and dry topping choices including caramel, honey, fruit purees, various chocolates and nuts and more. There also are fresh fruit parfaits and green tea smoothies. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., 309-3570; www.redemption-nola.com — Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade. Roasted duck breast is served with red onion and yam hash, andouille, sauteed spinach and grilled Kadota fig jus. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

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STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ — Toulouse Street Wharf, 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Bread pudding is topped with candied pecans and bourbon sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ OAK — 8118 Oak St., 3021485; www.oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. The hanger steak bruschetta is topped with Point Reyes blue cheese and smoked red onion marmalade.

No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl. com — Chef Scott Snodgrass

CUBAN/CARIBBEAN MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 252-4800; www.mojitosnola. com — Mojitos serves a mix of Caribbean, Cuban and Creole dishes. Aruba scallops are seared and served with white chocolate chipotle sauce with jalapeno grits and seasonal vegetables. Warm walnut goat cheese is served with yuca chips.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

DELI KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, 888-2010; www.koshercajun. com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ MARDI GRAS ZONE — 2706 Royal St., 947-8787; www. mardigraszone.com — The 24-hour grocery store has a deli and wood-burning pizza oven. The deli serves po-boys, salads and hot entrees such as stuffed peppers, beef stroganoff and vegetable lasagna. Vegan pizzas also are available. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — The wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. The Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. The Sena salad features chicken, golden raisins, blue cheese, toasted pecans and pepper jelly vinaigrette over field greens. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ QUARTER MASTER DELI — 1100 Bourbon St., 529-1416; www.quartermasterdeli.com — Slow-cooked pork ribs are coated in house barbecue sauce and served with two sides.

Slow-roasted beef is sliced thin, doused in gravy and served on 10-inch French loaves. No reservations. 24 hours daily.

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FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-0900; www. flamingtorchnola.com — Chef Nathan Gile’s menu includes pan-seared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash.

Coffee- and coriander-spiced rack of lamb is oven roasted and served with buerre rouge and chevre mashed potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, 2620750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vindaloo and vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori. Vegetarian options are available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-2154; www. cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking.

Shrimp Dukie features Louisiana shrimp and a duck breast marinated in Cajun spices served with tasso-mushroom sauce.

Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations

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accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ ITALIAN PIE — 3706 Prytania St., 266-2523; www.italianpie. com — In addition to regular Italian pie pizzas, pastas, salads and sandwiches, this location offers a selection of entrees. Seared tuna comes over a spinach salad with Thai peanut dressing. Baked tilapia is topped with crabmeat and creamy bordelaise and served over angel hair pasta with glazed baby carrots. No reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946.

Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — The cafe serves breakfast items including pancakes, waffles and pastries. At lunch, try meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Open Sundays before New Orleans Saints home games. Reservations accepted for large parties.

Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni.

Bracialoni is baked veal stuffed with artichoke hearts, bacon, garlic and Parmesan cheese and topped with red sauce. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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JAPANESE CHIbA — 8312 Oak St., 826-9119; www.chiba-nola. com — Chiba puts creative local touches on Japanese cuisine.

The satsuma strawberry roll bundles scallop, yellowtail, strawberry, mango, jalapeno, wasabi tobiko and tempura flakes and is topped with spicy sauce and satsuma ponzu. Pork belly steamed buns are served with Japanese slaw and pickled onions. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ KAKKOII JAPANESE bISTREAUX — 7537 Maple St., 570-6440; www.kakkoii-nola. com — Kakkoii offers traditional sushi, sashimi and Japanese cuisine as well as dishes with modern and local twists. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads. “Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab.

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NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308 Magazine St., 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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OuT to EAT cialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ORIGAMI — 5130 Freret St., 899-6532 — Nabeyaki udon is a soup brimming with thick noodles, chicken and vegetables.

The long list of special rolls includes the Big Easy, which combines tuna, salmon, white fish, snow crab, asparagus and crunchy bits in soy paper with eel sauce on top. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

WASABI SUSHI — 900 Frenchmen St., 943-9433; 8550 Pontchartrain Blvd., 267-3263; www.wasabinola.com — Wasabi serves a wide array of Japanese dishes. Wasabi honey shrimp are served with cream sauce. The Assassin roll bundles tuna, snow crab and avocado in seaweed and tops it with barbecued eel, tuna, eel sauce and wasabi tobiko. No reservations. Frenchmen Street: Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner daily. Pontchartrain Boulevard: lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN — 416 Chartres St., 596-2530; www.chefpaul.com — At chef Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant, signature dishes include blackened Louisiana drum, Cajun jambalaya and the blackened stuffed pork chop. Lunch service is deli style and changing options include po-boys and dishes like tropial fruit salad with bronzed shrimp. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MANNING’S — 519 Fulton St., 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. The fish and chips feature black drum crusted in Zapp’s Crawtator crumbs served with Crystal beurre blanc. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com —

TOMAS BISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes like semiboneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. The duck cassoulet combines duck confit and Creole Country andouille in a white bean casserole. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ ZACHARY’S RESTAURANT — 902 Coffee St., Mandeville, (985) 626-7008 — Chef Zachary Watters prepares dishes like redfish Zachary, crabmeat au gratin and Gulf seafood specials.

Reservations recommended.

Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN BABYLON CAFE — 7724 Maple St., 314-0010; www. babyloncafe.biz —The Babylon platter includes stuffed grape leaves, hummus, kibbeh, rice and one choice of meat: lamb, chicken or beef kebabs, chicken or beef shawarma, gyro or kufta.

Chicken shawarma salad is a salad topped with olives, feta and chicken breast cooked on a rotisserie. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun St., 861-9602 — Diners will find authentic, healthy and fresh Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St., 522-1138 — Country Flame serves a mix of popular Mexican and Cuban dishes.

Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickory-smoked pork and charbroiled steaks or pork chops.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE GREEN BURRITO NOLA — 3046 St. Claude Ave., 949-2889; www.facebook.com/ the-green-burrito-nola — The steak burrito features Cajunspiced beef slow-cooked with

JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., 4869950; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Mardi Gras Indian tacos are stuffed with roasted corn, pinto beans, grilled summer squash, Jack cheese and spicy slaw. Red chile chicken and goat cheese quesadilla features grilled Creole chicken breast, salsa fresca, chile-lime adobo sauce, and Jack, cheddar and goat cheeses pressed in a flour tortilla. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves California-Mexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails.

Todo Santos fish tacos feature grilled or fried mahi mahi in corn or flour tortillas topped with shredded cabbage and shrimp sauce, and are served with rice and beans. No reservations.

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

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THE COLUMNS — 3811 St. Charles Ave., 899-9308; www. thecolumns.com — There’s live music in the Victorian Lounge at the Columns. The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 525-8899; www. gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris. The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo.

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YUKI IZAKAYA — 525 Frenchmen St., 943-1122; www. facebook.com/yukiizakaya — This Japanese tavern combines a selection of small plates, sake, shochu, live music and Japanese kitsch. Dishes include curries, housemade ramen soups, fried chicken and other specialties.

Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

RESTAURANT R’EvOLUTION — 777 Bienville St., 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramanto present a creative take on Creole dishes as well as offering caviar tastings, house-made salumi, pasta dishes and more. “Death

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

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., 309-7557; www. artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. Get one with a schmear or as a sandwich. Salads also are available. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Reservations accepted.

Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ OLIVE BRANCH CAFE — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 348-2008; 5145 Gen. de Gaulle Drive, 393-1107; www. olivebranchcafe.com — These cafes serve soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and entrees.

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The chicken portobello calzone is filled with grilled chicken breast, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, portobello mushrooms and sun-dried tomato mayo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., 891-2376; www. newyorkpizzanola.com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. The Big Apple pie is loaded with pepperoni, Canadian bacon, onions, mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, Italian sausage and minced garlic and anchovies and jalapenos are optional. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Gourmet pies are topped with ingredients like pancetta, roasted eggplant, portobello mushrooms and prosciutto. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. Also serving salads and sandwiches. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., 486-1600 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS DRESS IT — 535 Gravier St., 571-7561 — Get gourmet burgers and sandwiches dressed to order. Original topping choices include everything from sprouts to black bean and corn salsa to peanut butter. For dessert, try a chocolate chip cookie served with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ KILLER POBOYS — 811 Conti St., 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. The Dark and Stormy features pork shoulder slowly braised with ginger and Old New Orleans Spiced Rum and is dressed with house-made garlic mayo and lime cabbage. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash only. $ MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of poboys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

rie, 885-3416; www.parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and Creole-Italian entrees. The veal supreme po-boy features a cutlet topped with Swiss cheese and brown gravy. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $ SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria. com — Slice is known for pizza on thin crusts made from 100 percent wheat flour. Other options include the barbecue shrimp po-boy made with Abita Amber and the shrimp Portofino, a pasta dish with white garlic cream sauce, shrimp and broccoli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE STORE — 814 Gravier St., 322-2446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — The Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar where patrons can choose their own toppings. Red beans and rice comes with grilled andouille and a corn bread muffin.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

SEAFOOD GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes.

Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Galley’s popular softshell crab po-boy is the same one served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$ GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. The baked Gulf fish is topped with compound chili butter and served with local seasonal vegetables and herbroasted potatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NEW ORLEANS HAMBURGER & SEAFOOD CO. — citywide; www.nohsc.com — Menus vary by location but generally include burgers, salads, po-boys, fried seafood and New Orleans favorites. The thin fried catfish platter comes with wedge-cut garlic-herb fries, hush puppies and Mardi Gras coleslaw. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 8993374; www.mahonyspoboys. com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original poboys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. There are daily lunch specials as well. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., 598-1200; www. redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Barbecue oysters are flash fried, tossed in Crystal barbecue sauce and served with blue cheese dressing. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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TAPAS/SPANISH MIMI’S IN THE MARIGNY — 2601 Royal St., 872-9868 — The decadant Mushroom Manchego Toast is a favorite here. Or enjoy hot and cold tapas dishes ranging from grilled marinated artichokes to calamari. Reservations accepted for large parties.

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SANTA FE TAPAS — 1327 St. Charles Ave., 304-9915 — The menu includes both tapas dishes and entrees. Seared jumbo scallops are served with mango and green tomato pico de gallo. Gambas al ajillo are jumbo shrimp with garlic, shallots, chilis and cognac. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ VEGA TAPAS CAFE — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, 8362007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Paella de la Vega combines shrimp, mussels, chorizo, calamari, scallops, chicken and vegetables in saffron rice.

Pollo en papel features chicken, mushrooms, leeks and feta in phyllo pastry. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

THAI SUKHO THAI — 4519 Magazine St., 373-6471; 1913 Royal St., 948-9309; www.sukhothainola.com — Whole deep-fried redfish is topped with fried shrimp and scallops and served with vegetables and threeflavored chili sauce. Pineapple seafood curry includes either shrimp or a seafood combination in spicy red coconut curry with crushed pineapple, bell pepper, broccoli, zucchini and sweet basil. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

VIETNAMESE AUGUST MOON — 3635 Prytania St., 899-5129; www. moonnola.com — August Moon serves a mix of Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine. There are spring rolls and pho soup as well as many popular Chinese dishes and vegetarian options. Delivery

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Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $ CAFE MINH — 4139 Canal St., 482-6266; www.cafeminh. com— The watermelon crabmeat martini is made with diced watermelon, Louisiana jumbo lump crabmeat, avocado, jalapenos and cilantro and comes with crispy shrimp chips. Seafood Delight combines grilled lobster tail, diver scallops, jumbo shrimp and grilled vegetables in a sake soy reduction.

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Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ DOSON NOODLE HOUSE —135 N. Carrollton Ave., 3097283 — Traditional Vietnamese pho with pork and beef highlight the menu. The vegetarian hot pot comes with mixed vegetables, tofu and vermicelli rice noodles.

No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $$ LE VIET CAFE — 2135 St. Charles Ave., 304-1339 — The cafe offers pho, banh mi, spring rolls and rice and noodle dishes. Pho is available with chicken, brisket, rare beef or meatballs and comes with a basket of basil, bean sprouts and jalapenos. Vietnamesestyle grilled beef ribs come with a special sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ PHO TAU BAY RESTAURANT — 113 Westbank Expwy., Suite C, Gretna, 368-9846 — You’ll find classic Vietnamese beef broth and noodle soups, vermicelli dishes, seafood soups, shrimp spring rolls with peanut sauce and more. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.-Wed. & Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

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BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd., 241-2548; www.bigmommaschickenandwaffles.com — Big Momma’s serves hearty combinations like the six-piece which includes a waffle and six fried wings served crispy or dipped in sauce. Breakfast is served all day. All items are cooked to order. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $

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“Here’s the thing that really bugs me,” she says, referencing the first presidential debate. “i don’t know who showed up. Mitt romney — everything he says is the exact opposite of what he said on the campaign trail. i did a special for [cable channel] logo, and i had to study and read a lot, so i know what his position and his platform is. so he’s standing there, and i’m saying, ‘that’s not true.’

After the debate they say, ‘We’re gonna see what the factchecker says.’ to me, that’s where the system has fallen apart, right there. this is a debate and you’re talking to the American people, you’re running for office, everything coming out of your mouth should be fact.

“Why are they getting away with being able to tell lies like that?” she adds. “i would like an airhorn to go off whenever someone lies. Or maybe they can do like they

Sykes is such a fan of the New Orleans Saints, she says, that she asked Habitat for Humanity to build the team a new stadium after Hurricane Katrina.

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et’s get the important thing out of the way first: Wanda sykes is a big fan of the new Orleans saints. And the first time she came to new Orleans, it wasn’t as a comedian, but as a comedic correspondent for HBO’s Inside the NFL, a job for which she won three emmy Awards in the early 2000s.

“My best friend is from louisiana. they [the saints] weren’t doing so hot back then,” sykes adds, laughing.

“But i went to the super Bowl when it was in new Orleans — the rams against the Patriots — and that was my first time in new Orleans, and i fell in love with the city.” so who’s her favorite saint? “it’s gotta be Drew,” sykes says. “Drew Brees is just an incredible player — breaking Johnny unitas’ record. [Darren] sproles is just incredible. [Marques] colston. it’s just a solid team.

“After Katrina i was doing a piece on them when they were playing at a college. i did a bit where i went to Habitat for Humanity and asked them to build them a new stadium,” she says, laughing again. “i met the players, Joe Horn, all of them, and i said, ‘You know what? this is gonna be my team.’ i’m all with the saints.” sykes began performing standup comedy in the late 1980s, eventually opening for chris rock and going on to work as a writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which she won her first emmy. she has been a regular on several tv shows since, most notably Wanda At Large, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as appearing in movies (Monster-in-Law, Evan Almighty, Pootie Tang). sykes also briefly had a latenight talk show and has starred in several one-woman comedy specials. in 2003, comedy central named her the funniest woman on television. this week, sykes is bringing her standup act to the Mahalia Jackson theater, a return visit to the town where earlier this year she filmed her latest comedy, The Hot Flashes — the tale of middle-aged women reforming their old high school basketball team to raise money to save a mobile breast screening clinic. “i finally learned how to control myself,” sykes says of new Orleans. “i can enjoy the city, i can eat the food. now when i’m there, it’s not even about Bourbon street, i’m all over the city. such a beautiful place. the last time i was there i had my kids come stay with me for a little bit, and we went out to storyville [storyland]. there are beautiful parks; it’s just a great city.”

What’s sykes’ opinion of this year’s never-ending presidential election?

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do on Nickelodeon; they get slimed whenever they lie.”

In 2009, Sykes created a ruckus when she emceed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and insulted both Rush Limbaugh and former vice president Dick Cheney. (“Dick Cheney. He’s a scary man. He scares me to death. I tell my children that if there are two cars driving down our street — one has a stranger in it and one has Dick Cheney, get in the car with the stranger in it.”)

She’ll be hosting a second political special on Logo the night before the presidential election.

In recent years, she’s become an advocate for same-sex marriage and LGBT issues; four years ago, she married her wife Alex in California during the legal interregnum when same-sex marriage was legal there.

Sykes also was known for her jokes about never wanting kids. Now she has twins. What changed? “My wife,” Sykes says. “I met her, fell in love, planned on being with her the rest of my life, and she was really big on kids. I said, ‘Well, let me think on it,’ then I thought, ‘Why wouldn’t I have a family with this woman?’”

Last year, her family was shaken when Sykes went in for breastreduction surgery and routine testing found ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in her breast tissue — also known as “stage-zero cancer.”

Given her family history of breast cancer, Sykes decided to have a bilateral mastectomy.

“I’m not going to let something just linger,” she says. “That would have meant you’ve got to go get checked every three months — why go through that? I’m not gonna gamble, and if I do, I’m taking what’s going to give me the best odds.”

How’s her health now?

“Great! The reconstruction surgery has been completed,” she says.

“I’m 48, but now with the boobs of a 22-year-old.”

All of this may be fodder for her show at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, and she’s looking forward to the visit.

“I finally mastered New Orleans — well, let’s not say mastered. I finally have gotten it under control where I don’t think I’m gonna die on the way to the airport,” she says.

“The first time [I visited], I really thought: Oh, my God, I’m gonna die just as soon as I get through security.

Security might think I’m a dirty bomb or something. You know, when you get up with alcohol still just pouring out of you, and you’re still drunk — oh, it’s bad. It’s just bad.”

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TUESday 23 3 Ring Circus’ The Big Top — Joyce Manor, Hop Along, I’m Fine, All People, 7 AllWays Lounge — Broken Saddles, 9 Banks Street Bar — Kathryn rose Band, 9 Blue Nile — Ab Baars & Ig Hennemann, 10 BMC — Carolyn Broussard & the Scotch Hounds, 5; Eudora Evans & Deep Soul, 8; Mojo Combo, 11 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 6 Chickie Wah Wah — Tommy Malone, 7; geraniums, 9:30 Circle Bar — Dignan Porch, Michael girardot’s Macrofuns, 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — raw Men Empire, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Victor Atkins tribute to The Beatles, 8 Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts — Norah Jones, 8 The Maison — gregory Agid, 6; Magnitude, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — rebirth Brass Band, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Meghan Stewart Quartet, 6; Lagniappe Jazz Quintet, 9:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Patrick Cooper, 9 Old Point Bar — Josh garrett & the Bottom Line, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Victor Atkins tribute to The Beatles, 1 One Eyed Jacks — Weedeater, Sour Vein, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall-Stars

Saturn Bar — Lonely Lonely Knights, 10:30 Siberia — Chicano Batman, Stacks, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — UNo Modern All Stars, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — Andy J. Forest, 4; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Aurora & the royal roses, 10

WEdnESday 24 Banks Street Bar — Kenny Triche, 8; Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — Soundman Presents, 8; gravity A, 10 BMC — The Business, 5; Blues4Sale, 8; Deja Vu Brass Band, 11 Bombay Club — Monty Banks, 6 Buffa’s Lounge — Chris Peters, 7 Cafe Negril — Sam Cammarata & Dominick grillo, 7:30; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 7; richard Julian, 9:30 Circle Bar — Jim o. & the No Shows, 6; Exitmusic, 10 The Cove at University of New Orleans — Victor Atkins III, UNo Jazz Combos & Steve Masakowski, 7 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Leah rucker, 9:30 House of Blues — Luke Winslow King, 7; gWAr, Devildriver, Cancer Bats, Legacy of Disorder, 7:30 House of Blues (Parish) — Curren$y’s Jet Lounge, 11 Irvin Mayfield’s I Club — Kermit ruffins DJ session, 6; Brass-A-Holics, 9 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Kipori Woods, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s

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Lafayette Square — Harvest the Music feat. rebirth Brass Band, Mississippi rail Company, 5 The Maison — robin Clabby & the Multiphonics, 6; Upstarts, 9 Maple Leaf Bar — Dave Jordan & the Neighborhood Improvement Association, 10 Old Point Bar — Mumbles, 7:30 One Eyed Jacks — Donna the Buffalo, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — David Paquette, Ken Emerson, 7; Lars Edegran, Tom Sancton, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat.

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz orchestra, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat — orleans 6, 6; St. Louis Slim & the Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 Vaso — Easies, 6; Eric gordon’s Lazy Boys, 8; Mario Abney’s Super Jam, 11

THURSday 25 Armstrong Park — Jamal Batiste, 5; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 6:15 Banks Street Bar — Isla Nola, 9 Bayou Beer Garden — Walter “Wolfman” Washington, 8

Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7 BMC — Hubcap Kings, 5; Truman Holland & the Back Porch revue, 8; Upstarts, 11 Bombay Club — Tony Seville & roberto Perez, 6 Buffa’s Lounge — Aurora Nealand, 8 Cafe Istanbul — Michaela Harrison, 8 Cafe Negril — Soul Project, 9 Chickie Wah Wah — Sarah & the Tall Boys, 8 Circle Bar — Bob Andrews & Friends, 6; Courtney & the Crushers, Buck Biloxi & the F--ks, golden Vices, 10 Columbia Street, downtown Covington — Little Freddie King, 5

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BMC — Cakewalk, 3; Comebacks, 6; Dana Abbott Band, 9

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Howlin’ Wolf — GAUDI, 10 Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse — Roman Skakun, 5; James Rivers Movement, 8 Landlubbers Pub & Club — After Sundown, 8 The Maison — Erin Demastes, 5; The Session, 7; Big Fun Brass Band, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio, 10 Mojitos Rum Bar & Grill — Alabama Slim Blues Review, 6; Blues Jam feat. the 30 x 90 Blues Women, 9:30 Oak — Cristina Perez, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Shovels & Rope, 6 Old Point Bar — Upstarts, 6; Dana Abbott Duet, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Man or Astroman?, Octopus Project, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — David Paquette, Ken Emerson, 7; Tim Laughlin, Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Preservation Hall — Tornado Brass Band feat. Darryl Adams, 8

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24 Hour Service Package Delivery October 19, 2012 An Open Letter to the Residents of the City of New Orleans: On April, 24, 2012, the New Orleans City Council passed 24 ordinances radically changing the way in which cab owners, drivers and lines have been doing business in this city for the last 70 years. While many of these reforms were necessary (for the safety of passengers and drivers) some of them are so detrimental and are being implemented in such a way that many of the men and women at United Cabs will be forced to leave the industry. The city has given the entire industry of 1,551 taxicabs only 94 days to comply with these regulations. Cities across the country who have gone through a similar process have given their industries a minimum of 3 years to come into compliance.

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In addition to expediting compliance in an unreasonable time frame; the city has failed to consider the financial costs of these upgrades. For example, for those people whose vehicles will not meet the "model year" requirement, they will be required to spend an average of $26,000 on a vehicle and the equipment now required. Because of the short time frame implemented by the city, the industry has been unable to fairly negotiate with vendors for the upgrades.

More importantly; however, is the city's attack on the property rights of cab owners. In order to operate a taxicab in the city of New Orleans, a person is required to possess a certificate of public necessity and convenience (CPNC). For decades, taxi owners, with the knowledge of the city, have bought, sold, transferred, traded and pledged their CPNCs. A person's CPNC is crucial to finance the required upgrades. For many men and women in the industry, their CPNC is the only asset taxicab owners have and are able to use as collateral to secure a loan. However, because of the city's assault on the property rights of CPNC owners, the industry has been refused the financing desperately needed in order to implement the city's changes. While a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring the city to treat a CPNC as property, as opposed to a privilege which can be revoked at any time, until the issue is permanently resolved, no taxicab owner will be able to secure a loan using their CPNC as collateral.

United Cabs is made up of hard-working men and women who take pride in their service and are committed to excellence. Without adequate time or the ability to find financing, 55% of the United Cabs' fleet will be off the streets of New Orleans by the city's January 1, 2013 deadline. This amounts to 225 of the city's best drivers, with years of experience, that will be out of work and unable to serve you the public. Unfortunately, the City of New Orleans is very much aware of this and has offered no concession or support.

Today, we are asking for your help. We ask that you please contact Mayor Landrieu and your city councilperson and ask that they extend the deadlines for compliance and end the assault against taxicab owner's property rights.

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Myths and legends are almost as central to the history of rock ’n’ roll as the music itself: tragic deaths, mysterious disappearances and true stories so unlikely you couldn’t make them up if you tried. But the amazing tale of working-class Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez exists in a class by itself.

In the early 1970s, Rodriguez made two remarkably strong albums that never registered on the cultural radar in America. Sometime after, a young woman brought a copy of his debut record Cold Fact to South Africa and played it for her friends. Unable to buy the record — and many others — at the height of apartheid, liberal dissenters spread Rodriguez’s anti-establishment songs via bootleg tapes. the music eventually helped inspire the creation of a rebellious South African music scene that played a role in ending apartheid’s racial segregation and white-minority rule. But it was too late for Rodriguez. Frustrated by his undeserved obscurity, he went on stage one night and lighted himself on fire in a flamboyant and uniquely public suicide. Or did he?

As seen in the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, it’s clear that much of the legend of Rodriguez is true. Director Malik Bendjelloul has no trouble finding South African artists who were inspired by Rodriguez’s music. Casual fans from that country put Rodriguez in the same class as the Beatles and Bob Dylan and assumed the rest of the world did too. We even meet an employee of formerly state-run radio who shows us the station’s vinyl copy of Cold Fact, complete with individual tracks intentionally scratched with a knife to prevent airplay. And then there’s the music: Rodriguez’s powerful voice veers from Sam Cooke to James taylor to Matthew Sweet, and the way he constructs and dramatizes his catchy, politically aware folk-rock recalls Cat Stevens at the height of his popularity.

Given those powerful touchstones, it’s easy to imagine the career that might have been. the fact that even diehard music obsessives hadn’t heard of Rodriguez before Searching for Sugar Man lends the story a mythic quality that suits the subject matter to a tee.

First-time director Bendjelloul had made only short-form tV documentaries before Searching for Sugar Man, and he had serious trouble attracting the investors he needed to complete the film. He wound up not only finishing it on his own dime, but also crafting music, animation and other crucial elements himself despite a lack of experience. Even so, the finished product is surprisingly polished.

Bendjelloul’s ace in the hole is Swedish cinematographer Camilla Skagerstrom, who balances the usual talking heads and archival footage with gorgeous and contrasting cityscapes of Detroit and Cape town. the film becomes a tale of two cities that seem to have existed in different eras, which is key to the Rodriguez story. It also gives the film a chance to delve into the larger but often neglected tale of white resistance to apartheid in South Africa.

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OPENING NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity,” multimedia works depicting experiences of multicultural populations, through Dec. 16. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

PRESERVATION HALL. 726 St. Peter St., 522-2841 — “All Access/Exit Stage Right,” backstage portraits of musicians from Voodoo Experience by Zack Smith, through Nov. 26. Opening Friday.

GALLERIES

A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Moonshine & Stratum Lucidum,” photographs by Louviere + Vanessa; “Salt and Time,” photographs by Shelby Lee Adams; both through December.

ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 8998111 — Works by Diego Larguia and Philip C. Thompson, through Saturday.

ANGELA KING GALLERY. 241 Royal St., 5248211; www.angelakinggallery.com — Works by Andy Baird, through Nov. 7.

ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Works by William Rainey, Ginger Kelly, Shea Yetta and Erin Gafill, through October.

ART HOUSE ON THE LEVEE. 4725 Dauphine St., 247-8894 — “Hanging

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522-1999; www. arthurrogergallery.com — “Recent Observations,” paintings and drawings by John Alexander; sculpture by Lin Emery; both through Saturday.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Spirit Realm,” a group show curated by Pat Jolly; mixed media by Keith Duncan; both through Nov. 3.

BENEITO’S ART. 3618 Magazine St., 891-9170; www.bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings, prints, postcards and license plates by Bernard Beneito, ongoing.

BERTA’S AND MINA’S ANTIQUITIES GALLERY. 4138 Magazine St., 895-6201 — “New Orleans Loves to Second Line All the Time,” works by Nilo and Mina Lanzas; works

by Clementine Hunter, Noel Rockmore and others; all ongoing.

BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422 A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — “A New Hankering,” works by w.a.s.h., through Nov. 6.

BYWATER ART LOFTS II. 3726 Dauphine St., 9451881; www.bywaterartlofts. com — A group show featuring Bywater Art Lofts residents. By appointment only, through Nov. 3.

CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Rouville,” works by George Dunbar, through Nov. 23.

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www. carolrobinsongallery.com — “Autumn Meditations,”

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“As above, so below.” So said medieval European alchemists and astrologers. The idea that the lives of ordinary people reflect broader universal patterns harks back to the earliest beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists and Hebrews, among others, for whom the triangle was an important symbol.

Triangles also play an important part in Serra Fels’ “blueprint” paintings and wood sculptures at Parse.

Echoes of the Hindu Shri Yantra, the sacred mandala for the origins of time and space, as well as the geometric Hebrew kabbalah, appear everywhere in her works, which Fels says reflect all of the people whose personal and social histories, as well as DNA, go into the making of a single individual. Painted with a thin pigment wash on antique French meteorological tables, they suggest mysterious diagrams, perhaps of the arcane secrets of the soul, or maybe mystical alchemical algorithms of how many angels can fit on an atom of DNA. While visually intriguing, their effectiveness reflects the way they resonate with an aura of concealed yet extensive esoteric knowledge.

Similar triangulation appears in Fels’ hutlike sculptural installations (pictured), and if they look familiar it may help to know she was one of the artists who created the Music Box installation of sonic shanties in Bywater earlier this year. These structures, which mirror the forms of rooftops or mountain ranges, are more precise and convey, on a smaller scale, that sense of mystery we associate with ancient obelisks and Egyptian pyramids. Constructed of antique wooden slats in receding triangular patterns with triangular doorways, they are imposing yet airy. Like the paintings, they suggest a sense of intimate personal space mingled with the impersonal mathematical geometry of the infinite, reminding us that according to Albert Einstein — as well as the ancient Hindu and Buddhist sages — time and space, like energy and matter, are one and the same. For Fels, dealing with the intimate, as well as the infinite, is all a matter of perspective. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT page 49

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3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Candy Full of Razorblades,” works by Ryan Ballard, through Saturday.

P-Aintings” and “No More Sycamore” by Robert Tannen. By appointment only through Nov. 13.

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clay sculpture by tinka Jordy, through Oct. 30.

and watercolor works by Jan Wilken, through October.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 8916789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Stands in Motion,” paintings by Gaither Pope, through Saturday.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 5257300; www.heriardcimino. com — “Dreaming in Quicksilver,” works by Margaret Evangeline, through Oct. 30.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “At Play Amongst the Pines,” paintings

by James taylor Bonds, through Nov. 17.

ISAAC DELGADO FINE ARTS GALLERY. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, third floor, 615 City Park Ave., 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/ art-gallery — Faculty art exhibition, through Nov. 1.

COURTYARD GALLERY. 1129 Decatur St., 330-0134; www.woodartandmarketing. com — Hand-carved works in wood by Daniel Garcia, ongoing.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 5243936 — “Love Songs,” acrylic and resin collages on panel by Derek Cracco, through Nov. 1.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “Border/Line,” works by Katrina Andry and Happy Burbeck, through Saturday.

FOUNDATION FINE ART GALLERY. 608 Julia St., 568-0955; www.foundationgallerynola.com — “All Alive and Close Enough to touch,” prints by Rob Stephens, through Nov. 3.

THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery.com — “the times-Picayune: An Iconic Presence in Our Daily Lives,” work from 14 artists, including former or current members of the newspaper’s art staff, through Nov. 4.

THE GEORGES GALLERY. Metairie Park Country Day School, 300 Park Road, Metairie, 837-5204; www. mpcds.com — “Passages,” works by Dana Beuhler, through Monday.

GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY. 4037 St. Claude Ave., 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Me the People,” video, drawings and photographs by Dan tague and Nina Schwanse, John Henry Kelly, Katie Jo Robertson and Steve Spehar, through Nov. 4.

HALL OF FRAME GALLERY. 5312 Canal Blvd., 488-8560; hallofframeneworleans.sharepoint.com — Acrylic

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Body Shop,” multimedia paintings by Maximilian toth; “Blessing in Da’ Skies,” paintings by Justin Forbes; all through October.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Children’s Garden,” paintings by Alan Gerson, through Nov. 10.

M. FRANCIS GALLERY. 604 S. Julia St., 875-4888; www.mfrancisgallery.com — “Reshaping the Human Condition,” works by Kenneth Scott Jr., through October.

MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Bayou Something or Other,” paintings by Hunt Slonem, through Nov. 24.

MAY GALLERY AND RESIDENCY. 2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105; www. themayspace.com — “tantric Wealth,” multimedia installation by Derek Larson. Open by appointment only, through Nov. 23.

NEVER RECORDS POPUP. 841 Carondelet St.; www.secretshape.com/neverrecords — Never Records, an installation/pop-up record store by ted Riederer, through Nov. 4.

NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE. 1111 St. Mary St., 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.blogspot. com — “And the Winners Are ...” an exhibit of New Orleans Photo Alliance grant recipients, through Nov. 17.

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OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 3094249; www.octaviaartgallery. com — Painted wood construction and mixed media by Wayne Amedee, through Saturday.

PARSE GALLERY. 134 Carondelet St. — “Between You and the Mountains,” a wood installation by Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, through Friday.

REYNOLDS-RYAN ART GALLERY. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., 896-6369; www.newmanschool.org — “Divergence: Five New England Artists,” works

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THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront. org — “New Lease,” a group show of new gallery members, through Nov. 4.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Louisiana Reveries,” oil paintings by thomas Sully, through October.

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STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Justified: Silent Harmony,” works by Moe Brooker, Mr. Imagination and Bill Sirmon, through November.

THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 581-2113; www. thomasmann.com — “triple Martini,” reworked stainless steel martini glasses by John Greco, Cathy Cooper-Stratton and Christopher Poehlmann, through November.

UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — “Iconic Choice,” works by Ina Hsu and Wolfgang Wirth, through Nov. 3.

VIEUX CARRE GALLERY. 507 St. Ann St., 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — “Musicians Series,” paintings

by Sarah Stiehl, through Oct. 30.

SParE SPaCES CC’S COFFEEHOUSE. 2800 Esplanade Ave. — “Blue Bridge and Other Works,” paintings by Al Champagne, through October.

SIBERIA. 2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855 — “Hostile Work Environment,” concert photographs by Gary Loverde, through Dec. 23.

Call for artiStS GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS CONTEST. High school-aged contestants create art around the theme “Louisiana’s Culinary Heritage” for a chance to have the work appear in a cookbook and to win college scholarships and cash prizes. Visit www.rodriguefoundation.org/ artcontest for details. Submissions deadline is Feb. 20.

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL CRAFTS. the festival (April 26-May 5) seeks vendors for its crafts area. Visit www. nojazzfest.com for details. there is a $30 application fee. Application deadline is Nov. 28.

AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER. 6823 St. Charles Ave., 862-3222 — “Yet Do I Marvel: Countee Cullen and the Harlem Renaissance,” an exhbition on the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen and his literary and artistic contemporaries, through Dec. 20.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “time travelling tales,” a group show of mixed media, through Nov. 25. “Cinema Reset: New Media Works,” a film exhibit curated by Blake Bertuccelli and trevor Alan taylor in collaboration with the New Orleans Film Society, through Dec. 2. “Where Do We Migrate to?” a group show; “Rooted,” a mixed-media installation by Ben Diller; “Revolve,” sculpture by Rontherin Ratliff; all through Jan. 20. Murals by MILAGROS, through April 6.

HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Something Old, Something New: Collecting in the 21st Century,” an exhibition of the collection’s significant acquisitions since 2000, through Feb. 8.

LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — “Ritual Forms: the Sculptures and Drawings of Clyde Connell,” through Dec. 30.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt. state.la.us — “New Orleans Bound 1812: the Steamboat that Changed America,” through January 2013.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “the Louisiana Plantation Photos of Robert tebbs,” 60 gelatin silver prints by the architecture photographer, through November. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond”; “It’s Carnival time in Louisiana,” Carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

MADAME JOHN’S LEGACY. 632 Dumaine St., 568-6968; www.crt.state. la.us — “the Palm, the Pine and the Cypress: Newcomb College Pottery of New Orleans,” ongoing.

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NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www.noaam.com — “Bambara: From Africa to New Orleans, From the Gambia River to the Mississippi,” through Dec. 29.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Mass Produced: technology in 19th-Century English Design,” through Nov. 11.

“Photography, Sequence and time,” photographs from the 19th century to the present, through Dec. 2. “19th Century Louisiana Landscapes,” paintings by Richard Clague, Marshall Smith Jr. and William Buck, through Jan. 6. “Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights,” through Feb. 10.

“Make Yourself at Home,” paintings by Jim Richard, through Feb. 24. “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through Oct. 7, 2013.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Jewelry by Lauren Eckstein Schonekas of Construct Jewelry, ongoing.

SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE. Tulane University, Jones Hall, 6801 Freret St., 865-5699; seaa.tulane.edu — “Following Wright,” an exhibit highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence with drawings by architects Edward Sporl, Albert C. Ledner, Philip Roach Jr. and Leonard Reese Spangenberg, through Dec. 7.

SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 5690405; www.southernfood.org — “the Da Vino Code,” paintings by LeonARto da VINO (Chuck Gray), through Dec. 30. “tanqueray Olive” and “Guinness Pint,” prints by tom Gianfagna, through Jan. 21, 2013. “Lena Richard: Pioneer in Food tV,” an exhibit curated

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eigh Fondakowski developed her own approach to making documentary-like theater about real life tragedies. She was the main writer behind The Laramie Project, a play about the 1998 gay-bashing death of Matthew Shepard and how the community of Laramie, Wyo., saw the murder and the attention it focused on them. She’s also worked on a project interviewing the survivors of the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.

She had taken a break from documentary-based projects when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest environmental disaster in United States history. Later, as she cotaught a course at Wesleyan University about art and science, the BP oil disaster became the class’ main subject, and she visited the Gulf Coast.

“I saw dolphins being autopsied,” Fondakowski says.

She decided to start a project on the disaster, and a nearly complete version of Spill runs this weekend at NOCCA, where she and portrait artist Reeva Wortel have been working with students while finishing the multimedia production. They will present the play in Lockport, La., in early November and expect the final version to be completed for a late November production at LSU. The two have spent much of the past two years interviewing people in south Louisiana affected by the disaster, including fishermen, cleanup workers, family members of men who died on the rig, scientists, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and others.

“I came to tell the story about what happened on the rig and what happened with the spill,” Fondakowski says. “I got a whole education on culture and how deeply tied people are to the land, and how deeply tied they are to (the oil) industry.”

The play’s first half focuses on the explosion on the rig.

“It’s like a disaster movie,” Fondakoski says. “It’s highly charged.”

The second act expands to look at how the people of south Louisiana and the environment were affected by the disaster and how they have responded. The timeline goes up to the second anniversary of the explosion and includes the trial of the BP engineer who deleted hundreds of text messages about the event.

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ThEATER 6X6. Mid-City Theater, 3540 Toulouse St., 488-1460; www. midcitytheatre.com — the showcase features six 10-minute plays by the 6×6 writers group. tickets $10. 7:30 p.m. wednesday.

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. Mid-City Theater, 3540 Toulouse St., 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — a.J. allegra directs the rollicking musical that traces the founding of the Democratic party and repaints andrew Jackson as a rock star. tickets $35 general admission, $40 reserved seat-

HAPPILY EVER AFTER???. St. Martin’s Episcopal School Solomon Theater, 225 Green Acres Road, Metairie, 736-9930 — the Crescent City sound Chorus presents the musical featuring famous fairy tale characters appearing on tV talk shows. a portion of ticket proceeds benefits team gleason. Call 738-6460 or visit www.crescentcitysound.com for reservations. tickets $15. 6 p.m. saturday.

HIP HOP IS ALIVE: THE PLAY. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Heal-

ing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave.; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — the interactive play, which appeared in the 2011 new orleans fringe festival, fuses dance, film, sketches and more to illustrate hip-hop’s influence on society and culture. tickets $15. 7:30 p.m. tuesday.

JUMP, JIVE & WAIL: THE MUSIC OF LOUIS PRIMA. Stage Door Canteen, National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www. stagedoorcanteen.org — the show brings to life prima classics with local musicians and swing dancers. 8 p.m. fridaysaturday and 1 p.m. sunday through nov. 24. no shows nov.

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SMUDGE. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 298-8676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — in rachel axler’s dark comedy, a young couple’s family life is tested when their firstborn turns out to be a terrifying creature. tickets $15. 7:30 p.m. thursday-saturday and oct. 31-nov. 7.

SPILL. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., 940-2787; www.nocca.com — leigh fondakowski’s performance and art installation uses interviews

with fishermen, engineers and bp officials to tell the story of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill. tickets $20 general admission, $15 students and seniors.

8 p.m. thursday-saturday, 2 p.m. saturday.

VERBATIM VERBOTEN. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 298-8676; www. theshadowboxtheatre.com — actors present dramatized readings of surveillance tapes, wiretapped conversations, on-camera diatribes, released emails and other transcripts of notorious recorded conversations. tickets $8. 8 p.m. wednesday.

BURLESQUE & CABARET BOOBS & GOOMBAS: A SUPER MARIO BURLESQUE. Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Ave., 2988676; www.theshadowboxtheatre.com — the Chicago-based gorilla tango theatre brings its burlesque romp through the mario bros. video games to new orleans. Call (866) 3269740 or visit www.gorillatango. com/nola for reservations. tickets $15. 11 p.m. fridaysaturday through oct. 27.

FREAKSHEAUX TO GEAUX. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www. theallwayslounge.com — the vaudevillian variety show presents “Circus of the Double Damned part” with different guest performers each night. tickets $10.

10 p.m. friday-saturday.

THE GOODNIGHT SHOW. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave.; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — John Calhoun hosts the late-night talk show-style event that features comedy sketches, a house band and interviews with prominent locals. tickets $5. 8 p.m. wednesday.

LE ROYAL ROUGE SHOW. Harrah’s Casino (Harrah’s Theatre), 1 Canal St., 5336600; www.harrahsneworleans. com — Comedian Jodi borrello hosts the parisian-style show of cancan dancing and variety acts. tickets start at $30. 8 p.m. wednesday-sunday.

NAKED GHOULS READING. Cafe Soule, 720 St. Louis St., 304-4636; www.cafesoule. com — the event by naked girls reading, the literary event that started in Chicago, features nude women reading ghost stories for the Halloween show. reservations

required. Visit www.nakedgirlsreading.com/nola for details. tickets $20. 10 p.m. saturday.

REV. SPOOKY LESTRANGE & HER BILLION DOLLAR BABY DOLLS. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., 525-2951; www.eiffelsociety.com — the burlesque troupe presents “Zombies of the night Circus.” tickets $10. 8 p.m. thursday.

FAMILY ELMO MAKES MUSIC. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., 280-7171; www.arena.uno. edu — elmo, big bird and other sesame street friends make music from everyday objects when their instruments go missing. tickets $11-$56. 10:30 a.m. oct. 25-27, 7 p.m. oct. 25-26, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. saturday, 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. sunday.

STAGE EVENTS FRINGE FEST PEEKA-BOO. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.com — guests can get information about fringe fest selections in the happy hour event. Visit www.

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Saturday.

ALLSTAR COMEDY REVUE. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St. — Leon Blanda hosts the stand-up comedy show with special guests and a band.

Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday.

COMEDY BEAST. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., 5229653; www.thehowlinwolf.com — The New Movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase.

Tickets $5. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 944-0099; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. Free admission. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY SPORTZ. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

CRESCENT CITY COMEDY CLASSIC. Eiffel Society, 2040 St. Charles Ave., 525-2951; www. eiffelsociety.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts the comedy competition.

Tickets $7 general admission, $10

GIVE ’EM THE LIGHT OPENMIC COMEDY SHOW. House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com — Leon Blanda hosts the showcase.

Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m.

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LEVEL 5 IMPROV GRADUATION. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — The theater’s level 5 improv class performs.

Tickets $5. 10:30 p.m. Saturday.

TNM R.I.P. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www. newmovementtheater.com — The show features Halloween-themed sketch comedy. Tickets $5. 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday.

WANDA SYKES. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — The comedian and actress performs. Tickets $54.75-$49.75. 7 p.m. Saturday.

The Clifton Monroe Chronicles: The Case of the Murderous Mister

Clifton Monroe, ace reporter, was at it again in the second chapter in a series written by Ren French and Thomas Adkins, which ran at Shadowbox Theatre. The audience is whisked back to a local radio studio in the 1940s. Noir is a genre usually associated with film or literature, but it also seeped into radio, in programs like The Shadow. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Add touches of nostalgia and silliness and you’ve got the Clifton Monroe Chronicles.

The second chapter, The Case of the Murderous Mister, featured a larger cast than the first and involved more complications. At times it was hard to follow, but a great deal of fun was had by all, including the players. Clifton (Richard Mayer) seemed more like a private investigator than a journalist, offering a Humphrey Bogart-style mix of machismo and wisecracks.

The players were lined up behind music stands most of the time, there was considerable doubling of parts and the actors handled some sound effects, like a cymbal crash and high-heel footsteps. Most of the effects, however, were provided by announcer Dane Rhodes.

Clifton, his sidekick Mathilda Parker (Leslie Boles) and her young brother Chip (Ashton Akridge) are investigating a spree of prostitute murders. Clifton decides to solve the mystery and break the story.

He enters a labyrinth of vice at the Boom Boom Room strip club. The head vamp, Veronica Crutchfield (Kathryn Talbot), tries to seduce Clifton. She is in the skin trade on two levels; she also runs a brothel on the docks.

Clifton and his gang go to the brothel and are captured and tied up, and Crutchfield threatens to kill them.

In a sub-subplot, Mama Pearl (Laurie Kaufman) spins a tale of living in a tent city beneath the Huey P. Long Bridge. Family jealousies lead to murder and revealed identities.

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family TUESDay 23 KINDER-GARDEN: CREEPY CRAWLIES IN THE GARDEN. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Children and accompanying adults explore the world of insects through ageappropriate activities. tickets $12 general admission, $10 members. Call 293-1022 or email lvaughn@longuevue. com for details. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

THURSDay 25 ART ACTIVITIES DURING AFTER HOURS. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — the ogden offers art activities for kids during weekly after Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

SaTURDay 27 CRITTER CINEMA OVERNIGHT. LA/SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., 368-5191; www.la-spca.org — the la/ spCa screens g-rated movies at the overnight event with pizza, popcorn, animals for cuddling, and breakfast in the morning. the event is for children ages 5-10, and guests should bring a sleeping bag and pillow. pre-registration is required.

Call 762-3314 or email stephanie@la-spca.org for details. admission $55. 6 p.m. to 9 a.m.

SUNDay 28 ROBERT FRESH MARKET KIDS DUATHLON. Lakeshore Drive, shelter 1 — the “run-bike-run” race for

HallOWEEN EVENTS ACCESS BOO FEST. Lakeview Regional Medical Center, 95 E. Judge Tanner Drive, Covington, (985) 867-3800; www.lakeviewregional.com — adapting and Changing Children’s environments with successful solutions, the nonprofit that raises funds to help support families of children with disabilities, hosts a wheelchair-accessible trick-or-treating event and fundraiser. the event also includes pumpkin decorating, face painting, a photo booth, a chili cook-off and more. Call (985) 875-0511 or visit www. boofestonline.com for details.

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BERNIE BAXTER’S HAUNTED HOUSE. Bernie Baxter’s Traveling Sideshow, 44 Vivian Ct.; www.berniebaxter.com — the haunted house this year has the theme “peter’s puppets,” centering around a mad puppeteer and his diabolical performance. there also is trick-or-treating on Halloween night. free admission. 7 p.m. fridaysaturday and oct. 31.

BOO AT THE ZOO. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., 5814629; www.auduboninstitute. org — the event for children up to age 12 features trickor-treat houses with candy, a “ghost train,” a haunted house (with scary and nonscary versions), games with prizes, entertainment and more. admission $17. 5 p.m. friday-saturday.

DIRTY COAST HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY. Studio 3, 3610 Toulouse St. — there is a costume contest and DJ at Dirty Coast’s annual party. admission $20 (includes drinks).

9:30 p.m. friday.

HALLOWEEN HAYRIDE. Bayou Segnette State Park, 7777 Westbank Expwy., Westwego, 736-7140 — Campsites will be rewarded for the best decorations and children can trick-or-treat, go a hayride or on a haunted walk. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. saturday.

HOUSE OF SHOCK. House of Shock, 319 Butterworth St., Jefferson; www.houseofshock. com — besides a haunted house, phil anselmo’s legendary attraction also features an outdoor moss maze, live music from local and national acts, a bar, food and a multimedia stage with live actors, stunts and pyrotechnics. Visit www. houseofshock.com for details.

Haunted house admission is $25, Vip tickets $40 online, $50 at the gate. 8 p.m. fridaysunday and oct. 30-31.

JEAN LAFITTE’S HAUNTED SWAMP. Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tours, 6601 Leo Kerner Lafitte Pkwy., 6894186; www.jeanlafitteswamptour.com — the tour through the swamps of Crown point transforms into a haunted experience. the site will also have a DJ and drinks for the haunted tours, and costumes are welcome. tickets $25 general admission, $12 children ages 6-12. tours run continuously from 7:15 p.m. to midnight. friday-sunday.

THE MORTUARY. Haunted Mortuary, 4800 Canal St., (877) 669-3327; www. hauntedmortuary.com — the haunted house located in the former p.J. mcmahon funeral home this year has a “Cirque du fear” theme. Visit www. themortuary.net for details. admission starts at $25. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. thursday-monday and oct. 30-31.

MUSEUM MASH. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — the museum hosts its annual Halloween party with a performance of michael Jackson’s “thriller” dance led by the new orleans VooDoo Dolls and the new orleans Dance academy, Halloween games and crafts and other activities. admission $5 members, $10 page 59

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TODDLER TIME. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm.org — the museum hosts special tuesday and thursday activities for children ages 3 and under and their parents or caregivers. admission $8, free for members. 10:30 a.m.

children ages 5-15 benefits the angels on earth foundation, a nonprofit that provides free physical therapy and supporting services to children with physical and learning disabilities. Visit www.konafitnesscafe.com for details. 8:30 a.m.

GHOSTLY GALAVANT. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — the friends of the Cabildo hosts a weekend of activities that includes a Halloween costume gala (8 p.m. to 11 p.m. friday), which features food from local restaurants and music by los po-boy-Citos, and hourly french Quarter tours (10 a.m. to 3 p.m. saturday-sunday).

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Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The children’s event features a pumpkin-carving contest, trick-or-treating, a candy bag-making station and an interactive performance of the Wizard of Oz. Free admission.

10 a.m. to noon. Saturday.

events tUesDAY 23 CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway St. — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. Visit www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org for details. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

CROWDFUNDING: THE NEW TREND IN SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE. Xavier University, Norman C. Francis Complex, room 105, 1 Drexel Drive, 486-7411; www. xula.edu — A panel of local business leaders discusses crowdfunding and how it applies to small businesses.

Visit www.xucrowdfunding. eventbrite.com for details.

Free admission. 6 p.m.

ST. CATHERINE’S DAY PARADE KICKOFF FUNDRAISER. Clever Wine Bar, 3700 Orleans Ave., 483-6314; www.cleverwines.com — The hat sale and party benefits the walking parade for women and girls (Nov. 18). 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., 865-2074; www. montage.loyno.edu — The national event aims to raise awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence and includes a march to Tulane’s campus, where individuals affected by sexual assault and domestic violence can share their stories. 6 p.m.

WeDnesDAY 24 ARTSPEAK. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Lee Deigaard moderates the panel of artists including

COVINGTON FARMERS MARKET. Covington City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — The market offers fresh locally produced foods every week.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

ROUND TABLE FORUM. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 314-2200; www. tulane.edu — Eric Paulsen of WWL-TV moderates the bipartisan panel on the state of America’s economy hosted

by Tulane’s College Republicans. Free admission. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art, live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and Saturday.

YAMAUCHI LECTURE. Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Ave., 865-2011; www.loyno. edu — Religious studies faculty member Anne Daniell discusses “Theology of Caring for a Coastal-Carnival Place.”

Free admission. 6 p.m.

tHURsDAY 25 ANNE RICE’S VAMPIRE LESTAT FAN CLUB BALL & UNDEAD CONFERENCE. Author Sherrilyn Kenyon is the featured guest at the conference with author panels, Q&A sessions, book signings, cocktail events and more. The Vampire Lestat ball (Friday) features music by Saints of Ruin, Warchild and Lestat the Band.

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CONNOISSEUR KULTURE EXPO. Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., 561-1234; www.neworleans. hyatt.com — The event features more than 180 exhibitors showcasing tobacco products and accessories, as well as live music, education seminars and networking opportunities. Visit www. ckwholesaleexpo.com for details. Admission $15, free admissionSaturday. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA PROPANE AUTOGAS ROADSHOW. Regional Transportation Management Center, 10 Veterans Blvd., 483-8500; ww.norpc.org — The event gives attendees the opportunity to test drive vehicles than run on autogas. The event also

features presentations from industry experts. Visit www. louisianaroadshow.eventbrite. com for details. Free admission. 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m TEDXTU. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, 865-5105 ext. 2; www.tulane.edu — The event features a series of five-minute talks by more than a dozen local innovators, including Tulane University president Scott Cowen, Anoop Jain, founder of Humanure Power Project, and Johanna Gilligan, founder of Grow Dat Youth Farm. Visit www.tedxtu.com for details. Free admission. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 26 MARKETPLACE AT ARMSTRONG PARK. Armstrong Park, N. Rampart and St. Ann streets — The weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, natural products, art, crafts and entertainment. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays.

OKTOBERFEST. Rivertown, 415 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — Deutsches Haus hosts the annual festival with traditional German food, music and beer, a 5K run/walk, a Corvette show, dachshund races and more. Visit www.oktoberfestnola.com for details.

Admission $6. 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

ROUGAROU FEST. Downtown Houma, Main Street — The inaugural festival celebrating Cajun culture features live music, Cajun food and drinks, the “Rougarou Run” challenge course, a Halloween parade and more. Visit www.slwdc.org for details. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

WHERE Y’ART. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — The museum’s weekly event features music, performances, lectures, film screenings, family-friendly activities and more. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays.

sAtURDAY 27 ARTS MARKET OF NEW ORLEANS. Palmer Park, South Claiborne and Carrollton avenues, 523-1465 — Thee Arts Council of New Orleans’ market features local and handmade goods, food, children’s activities and live music. Visit www.artscouncilofneworleans.org for details.

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JEFFERSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GOLF CLASSIC. Chateau Golf & Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., 467-1351; www.chateaugcc. com — The group presents its 13th annual golf tournament that includes food, drinks and a reception. Visit www.jeffersonchamber.org for details.

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Girod Streets, 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, flowers and food. 8 a.m. to noon.

GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features a wide range of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon.

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ST. BERNARD SEAFOOD & FARMERS MARKET. Aycock Barn, 409 Aycock St., Arabi — The market showcases fresh seafood, local produce, jams and preserves, baked goods, crafts, live entertainment, children’s activities and more.

Call 355-4442 or visit www. visitstbernard.com for details.

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SUNDAY 28 FALL FEST. St. Paul’s Episcopal School & Church, 6249 Canal Blvd., 488-1319; www.stpauls-lakeview.org — Activities include a petting zoo, miniature golf, inflatables, a children’s craft tent, food, games, pumpkin decorating and pie eating contests and more. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

HOME BUYERS FAIR. Gardner, Realtors Office, 132 Robert E. Lee Blvd., 288-4100; www.gardnerrealtors.com — At the fair, potential homeowners can access home listings and obtain free mortgage counseling along with consultations from housing experts ranging from roofers to lighting and decor experts. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER GARDEN PARTY. Summergrove Farms, 18379 Hwy. 40, Covington — The benefit for the program that provides therapeutic riding services for children and adults with disabilities features food, auctions and the New Heights Derby. Visit www.newheightstherapy.org for details. 1 p.m.

NADINE VORHOFF LIBRARY BOOK SALE. Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Caroline Richardson Hall, 62 Newcomb Place, 865-5238 — Proceeds from the annual book sale benefit the Vorhoff Library and the Newcomb Archives. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, then 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Nov. 2.

WALK NOW FOR AUTISM SPEAKS. Audubon Park, Shelter 10, 6500 Magazine St. — The inaugural walk raises funds for autism research and awareness. Visit www. walknowforautismspeaks.org for details. Admission $20.

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

NORTHLAKE-MANDEVILLE ROTARY CLUB COOK-OFF & FAMILY FAIR. Madisonville Ball Fields, 1007 Pine St. — Proceeds from the cook-off and fair benefit Support Our War Heroes, Safe Harbor, New Heights Therapy and the Northlake-Mandeville Rotary Foundation. Call (985) 7892316 or visit www.mandevillerotary.org for details. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

RENAISSANCE MARKETPLACE OF EASTERN NEW ORLEANS. Renaissance Marketplace, 5700 Read Blvd. — The market offers cuisine from area restaurants, shopping, arts and crafts, children’s activities and more.

1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

SANKOFA FARMERS MARKET. Sankofa Farmers Market, ARISE Academy, 3819 St. Claude Ave., 875-4268; www. sankofafarmersmarket.org — The weekly market offers fresh produce and seafood from local farmers and fishers.

SPORTS HORNETS. New Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., 5873663; www.neworleansarena.com — The Hornets play the Houston Rockets. Visit www.hornets.com for details. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

CAll fOR VOlUNTeeRS BAYOU REBIRTH WETLANDS EDUCATION. Bayou Rebirth seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties. Visit www.bayourebirth. org for details.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS VOLUNTEERS. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana, 2626 Canal St., Suite 203, 309-7304 or (877) 500-7304; www.bbbssela.org — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Louisiana needs volunteers to serve as mentors. A volunteer meets two to three times a month with his or her Little Brother or Sister. You can play games, watch movies, bake cookies, play sports or plan any other

GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS. The group that provides free energy-efficient lightbulbs seeks volunteers to help install the bulbs in homes. Email peter.schamp@ greenlightneworleans.org or visit www.greenlightneworleans.org/volunteerapply.html for details.

HARMONY HOSPICE. 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Jo-Ann Moore at 832-8111 for details.

JACKSON BARRACKS MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS. The museum seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum. Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at 837-0175 or email daveharrell@yahoo.com for details.

LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS. The Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals. Call or email Dionne Simoneaux at dionne@la-spca.org.

MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS. Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults. Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed. Call Gail at 888-5880 for details.

NOLA WISE. The program by Global Green in partnership with the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy that helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient seeks volunteers. All volunteers must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@ globalgreen.org for details.

OPERATION REACH VOLUNTEERS. Operation REACH and Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps seek college student volunteers from all over the country to assist in providing recreation and education opportunities page 62

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GRETNA FARMERS MARKET. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue, between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, 362-8661 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 30 vendors offering a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meats and flowers. Free admission.

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SENIOR COMPANION VOLUNTEER. New Orleans Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., 8214121; www.nocoa.org — The council seeks volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Call for details.

START THE ADVENTURE IN READING. The STAIR program holds regular volunteer training sessions to work one-on-one with public school students on reading and language skills.

Call 899-0820, email elizabeth@scapc.org or visit www. stairnola.org for details.

TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION. The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middleand upper-school New Orleans students. Call 831-8475 for details.

VISITING PET PROGRAM VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION. Harahan Senior Center, 100 Elodie St., 737-3810 — The animal-assisted therapy program offers an orientation for prospective volunteers. Email paws4visits@gmail.com or visit www.visitingpetprogram.org for details. Admission $10. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

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WORDS ART SHRIVER & TOM WHITEHEAD. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The authors sign Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

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ARTHE ANTHONY. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 8952266 — The author signs and discusses Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Anthony also appears at Octavia Books (513 Octavia St., 899-7323)1 p.m. Sunday.

BARNES & NOBLE JR. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The bookstore regularly hosts free reading events for kids. Call for schedule information.

BEAU BOUDREAUX & TED ROSS. Maple Street Book Shop, 7523 Maple St., 8664916; www.maplestreetbookshop.com — Boudreaux is the author of the poetry collection Running Red, Running Redder. Ross wrote Am I a Jew?: Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man’s Search for Himself. 6 p.m. Monday.

CHARLES MOLESWORTH. Amistad Research Center, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 862-3222 — The author discusses And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countee Cullen. 6 p.m. Monday.

COFFEE AND CONVERSATION: MOIRA CRONE. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 838-1190 — The series includes local author interviews, book signings, Q&A sessions and complimentary coffee. Crone signs and discusses The Not Yet. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

DAVID LUMMIS. Crescent City Books, 230 Chartres St., 524-4997 — The author signs and reads from The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans: The Last Beaucoeur. 2 p.m. Saturday.

DAVID SEDARIS. McAlister Auditorium, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., 8655196; www.tulane.edu — The author of Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and others presents a reading and book signing. Tickets $49.05-$59.80 (includes fees). 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

DINKY TAO POETRY. Molly’s at the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net — The bar hosts a free weekly poetry reading with open mic. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

FAIR GRINDS POETRY EVENT. Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon St., 913-9073; www.fairgrinds. com — Jenna Mae hosts poets and spoken-word readers on the second, fourth and fifth Sunday of each month. 8 p.m.

FRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE. Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., 596-2625; www. nutrias.org — The group hosts twice-weekly sales of books, DVDs, books on tape, LPs and more. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and Saturday.

GEORGE SINGLETON. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The author signs and reads from Stray Decorum. 6 p.m. Friday.

JOHN “SITTING BEAR” MAYEUX. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 838-1190 — The author signs and discusses The Avogel Tribe, Part I. 7 p.m.

Tuesday.

JUSTIN NOBEL. Sound Cafe, 2700 Chartres St., 947-4477 — The author reads from Standing Still in a Concrete Jungle. 7 p.m. Thursday.

KAREN MARIE MONING. Le Pavillon, 833 Poydras St., 581-3111; www.lepavillon.com — The author signs ICED at

the book launch party hosted

by Octavia Books. 4 p.m.

Monday.

LOCAL WRITERS’ GROUP. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing. All genres welcome.

7:30 p.m. Monday.

LUNCH ‘N’ LIT BOOK CLUB. New Orleans Public Library, Rosa Keller Branch, 4300 S. Broad St., 596-2675; nutrias. org — The group discusses Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. Noon. Tuesday.

MARCELLE BIENVENU. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., 8952266 — The author discusses and signs True Blood: Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temp. 2 p.m. Sunday.

MICHAEL ALLEN ZELL. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar. com — The author reads from Errata. 3 p.m. Sunday.

PASS IT ON. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art, 2003 Carondelet St., 586-7432; www. themckennamuseum.com — Poet Gian “G-Persepect” Smith and Alphonse “Bobby” Smith host a weekly spokenword and music event. Admission $6. 9 p.m. Saturdays.

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The author signs and reads from The Hot Country. 6 p.m. Thursday.

TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground.org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading.

9 p.m. Wednesday.

THOMAS JOSEPH PEREZ. Maple Street Book Shop, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., 304-7115; www.maplestreetbookshop. com — The author signs and discusses Katrina Lashes Arabia. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

TONJA KOOB MARKING & JENNIFER SNAPE. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 899-7323 — The authors sign Louisiana’s Oil Heritage.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

THE WELL: A WOMEN’S POETRY CIRCLE. St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, 1313 Esplanade Ave., 947-2121; www. stannanola.org — The group for writers of all levels meets at 2 p.m. Mondays. Call 655-5489 or email fleurdeholly@gmail. com for details.

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NO. 2010-12217, SECTION 14 DIVISION I SUCCESSION OF ROBERT ALLEN LEVY NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO PAY ESTATE DEBTS Notice is given to the creditors of this Succession and to all other interested persons, that a Eighth Tableau of Distribution has been filed by Michael E. Botnick, the Testamentary Independent Executor of the Succession, with his Petition praying for homologation of the Tableau and for authority to pay the debts of the Estate listed thereon; and that the Eighth Tableau Distribution can be homologated after the expiration of seven days from the date of the publication of this notice. Any opposition to the petition and Eighth Tableau of Distribution must be filed prior to homologation.

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24th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 705-159 DIV N

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SUCCESSION OF WILLIE HARRIS

SUCCESSION OF CHARLES J. CASCIO

Succession of Louise Bevard

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NOTICE OF THE INTENSION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

Notice is hereby given to all creditors of this estate and all other interested persons to show cause within seven (7) days from the publication of this notice, if they have or can show cause why the Petition for Private Sale of Real Estate located at 410 Brooklyn Ave, Jefferson, LA, filed by Evelyn Butler, Administrator, should not be approved and the sale should not take place.

No. 11-12474

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Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the above succession and to all other persons herein interested to show cause within eight (8) days from the publication hereof why the tableau of distribution presented by Elaine Harris Washington the administrator of this estate should not be approved and homolgated and the funds distributed in accordance therewith.

Administrator Elaine Harris Washington George L. Gibbs Leefe Gibbs Sullivan Dupre & Aldous 3900 N. Causeway Blvd., Ste. 1470 Metairie LA 70002 (504) 830-3939 Publish: Gambit 10/23/12 BRIAN L. LENFANT A/K/A BRIAN J. LENFANT A/K/A BRIAN LOUIS LENFANT or anyone knowing his whereabouts, contact Atty R.L. Saizan, 504-210-4985 Property rights involved.

ANYONE Knowing the Whereabouts of Derek A. Lopez , please contact Norlisha Parker Burke, Atty, 504-444-1943 Anyone related to or knowing relatives of Rebecca Wright a/k/a Rebecca Wright Cousins, please contact Giles J. Duplechin attorney, as soon as possible at 504-368-3051, 1000 4th St., Gretna, LA 70053.

Notice is hereby given that KIM CASCIO MCLEMORE, executrix of the estate of the deceased, CHARLES J. CASCIO, intends to sell at private sale to DEBRA D. RICHERT for the sum of $125,000.00 cash, pursuant to a purchase agreement executed by the parties, dated September 20, 2012, said sale to take place on October 19, 2012, the described property, to-wit: Unit 211B of Metro View Condominiums, a Condominium, Jefferson Parish, State of Louisiana, together with all rights and appurtenances thereunto appertaining, including rights in the “Common Elements” and “Limited Common Elements “ as provided in the “Condominium Declaration” passed by act before P. Randall Garret, Notary Public, dated October 13, 2006 filed with the Clerk and Ex-Officio Register of Conveyances for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in COB 3175, Folio 279, creating and establishing “Metro View Condominium” (The Condominium Declaration), including the survey, plat plans, and other instruments annexed thereto, said unit being more particularly described in the Condominium Declaration and in the plat plans annexed thereto as Exhibit “A”.

Said property has a municipal address of 3805 Houma Blvd., Unit 211B, Metairie, LA 70006.

Any opposition must be filed within seven days from the date of the last publication.

CAUSE NO. 2011-45891 RECEIPT NO. 3234 $00 IQT

TR#82209497

In The Interest of: RILEY, LASHAWN NICHELLE RILEY, LA’MONNI NATHANIEL MINOR CHILD (REN)

In The 310th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas

CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS County of Harris TO: THE SHERIFF OR ANY CONSTABLE OF TEXAS OR OTHER AUTHORIZED PERSON TO: UNKNOWN FATHERS AND TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,

RESPONDENT(S)

Atty: PAUL W. ODENWALD 2821 KINGMAN ST., SUITE C P.O. BOX 1703 METAIRIE, LA 70004 TELEPHONE: 504-828-6262 PUBLICATION: GAMBIT 10/2/12 & 10/23/12

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH JUVENILE COURT

The suit requests AMENDED PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND ADOPTION OF MINOR CHILDREN

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION DEPENDENCY

RILEY, LASHAWN NICHELLE FEMALE; 04/03/2000; RILEY, LA’MONNI NATHANIEL MALE 12/29/2004;

NEW ORLEANS LA

“THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS SUIT TO ENTER ANY JUDGMENT OR DECREE IN THE CHILD’S (CHILDREN’S) INTEREST WHICH WILL BE BINDING UPON YOU INCLUDING THE TERMINATION OF THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP, THE DETERMINATION OF PATERNITY AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A CONSERVATOR WITH AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE CHILD’S (CHILDREN’S) ADOPTION.” ISSUED AND GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF SAID COURT AT HOUSTON TEXAS ON THIS THE 19TH Day of OCTOBER, 2012. NEWSPAPER: GAMBIT

Issued at request of: RAHLITA THORNTON ADDRESS: 3730 KIRBY SUITE #1200 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77098 BAR NO #19979500

DENISE RICHARDSON , Deputy

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN AND TO: 1. Nicolaus Bournes, alleged father of Ta’marion Reese Rene Whitaker, d.o.b.

04/03/11, Dependency Petition 12-7-00713-2 filed 08/10/12.

NEW ORLEANS LA

CHRIS DANIEL, D1STRICT CLERK Harris County, Texas 201 Caroline, Hou, Tx 77002 PO Box 4651 Houston Tx 77210

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You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If You or your attorney do not file a written answer with the Clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of 20 days after you were served this citation and AMENDED PETITION Petition, a default judgment may be taken against you. The Petition of, ROBERTSON. JEANNE Petitioner(s), was filed in the 310TH District Court of Harris County , Texas, on the 17TH day of AUGUST. 2012, Against Respondent (s), UNKNOWN FATHERS , numbered, 2011-45891 and entitled“ In the Interest” of RILEY. LASHAWN NICHELLE . RILEY, LA’MONNI NATHANIEL . A child ( or children).

The date and place of birth of the child (children) who is (are) subject of the suit

(JUST ALEX) HOME RENOVATION

2. Unknown biological father of Ta’marion Reese Rene Whitaker, d.o.b. 04/03/11, Dependency Petition 12-7-00713-2 filed 08/10/12.

A Preliminary Hearing on December 4, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. and a Fact Finding hearing on December 20, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. will be held on this matter at Snohomish County Juvenile Justice Center, 2801 10th Street, Everett, Washington 98201. These hearings will determine if your child is dependent as defined in RCW 13.34.050(5). This begins a judicial process which could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. THE ABOVE NAMED INDIVIDUALS ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR at both of said hearings regarding your child. If you do not appear at the first (preliminary) hearing, the court may cancel the second hearing and take evidence and enter an order without further notice to you. To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, and/or to view information about your rights in this proceeding, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.

SONYA KRASKI, Clerk of the Superior Court; L. PARDEE, Deputy Clerk

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Carter – Cox Seeds, Knobel, AR, has 1 position; rice & soybeans; 3 mo. experience required; must be able to obtain clean driver’s license within 30 days of employment; tools, equipment, housing & daily trans provided; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $9.30/hr; three-fourths work period guaranteed from 11/26/12 – 9/26/13. Apply at the nearest Arkansas Workforce Center with Job Order number 465224.

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Dear New Orleans Job Guru, “I just interviewed for a great job on Monday and I have another interview next week. What should I do as far as thanking the interviewer?”

— Gail A., New Orleans, LA

Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > october 23 > 2012

Dear Gail, First of all, congratulations on landing those interviews! In today’s competitive job search environment, simply getting an interview can be a challenge in itself. Your question is about how to thank the interviewer(s). Of course, at the conclusion of the interview you will want to verbally thank them, shake their hands firmly, and politely express that you are very enthusiastic about the opportunity. Many experts recommend sending a follow-up thank you letter, as opposed to a quick email. The idea is that an email shows very little effort, whereas Grant Cooper a letter shows initiative.

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Deckhands Culinary Cooks Vessel Engineers Towboat Pilots (Fleet & Line Haul) Candidates must possess a minimum of a valid Driver’s License and High School Diploma/GED. Generous wages, bonus plan and advancement opportunities, along with a comprehensive benefit package, (paid retirement , 401K, medical, life & AD&D, etc.)

Interested candidates must apply on-line at www.ingrambarge.com.

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However, as a certified résumé writer and career coach with over 18 years helping clients realize their job search goals, I have found that a lengthy, formal thank you letter can, at times, be seen as a bit of overkill. I have developed a truly effective two-part approach that has worked effectively for my clients. First, shoot off a quick email thanking the interviewer(s) for their time, professionalism, and interest in your candidacy for the position. Of course, always remind them that you are eager to compete for the position, enjoyed learning about the company, and would be happy, of course, to provide any additional information or references they may need.

A client of ours applied for a six-figure position as Southeast Louisiana Territory Manager for a hightech medical firm based out of Dallas. He followed our two-part post-interview process of sending out a quick email to the interviewers as well as dropping a Thank You card in the mail. Although he was not initially selected, the winning candidate ended up turning down the position because of the amount of travel required. When he was called in three weeks later and offered the job, the regional manager told him that, based on experience, he was actually rated behind several other candidates, but that his thoughtful card and follow-up had pushed him to the top of the list. He was apparently the only candidate that sent a thank you card after the interview to express his appreciation and continued interest.

The second step is, as quickly as possible, and preferably the same day, drop a thoughtful, conservative-looking thank you card in the mail. You can buy a pack of these at a local drug store. You can put stamps on the envelopes ahead of time so that it is a snap to simply address one and drop it in the mail immediately after your interview.

When business managers receive their daily mail at work, it is often filled with official-looking documents, invoices, and other dull items, but very rarely do they encounter attractively handwritten cards and notes. In study after study, it is shown that this type of mail will be opened first.

Here are a couple of suggestions for the handwritten thank you card you will send after each interview: 1. Select an attractive, conservative “Thank You” note card that is blank on the inside. Be sure to hand ad dress the card neatly. If your handwriting is horrible, a friend or family member with good penmanship can handle that for you.

2. Very briefly, thank the interviewer again for their professionalism and for extending the interview. Restate that you are eager to compete for the position and look forward to the possibility of joining the team.

3. Then comes a truly important part, the “P.S.” – At the bottom, insert a P.S. that is personal. During your interview, you should find out some personal item or tidbit about the interviewer… For example, you may see a photo on their desk of their children and inquire about their family, or a diploma on the wall, or they may remark about flying in from another city to conduct the interview. In the P.S., you can perhaps remark, “P.S. - I hope your daughter’s piano recital went well!,” or “P.S. - I hope your flight back to Chicago well!,” or “P.S. - I hope your back is feeling better!” Again, study after study shows that this type of personal touch can make all of the difference in how you are perceived.

New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Résumés®, Grant ranks in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Résumé Writing Experts and has assisted the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, NFL/NBA players & coaches, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations.

Send your questions to New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

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FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY

WESTBANK

1201 CANAL ST.

(Krause Bldg) 2 Bdrm/2Bath Condo.

French Quarter view. Parking available. $320,000 Call (504) 450-7215

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All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.

We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

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Appraising the Greater New Orleans Area for over 20 years.

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LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE BUILDER’S HOME

LAKEVIEW DOUBLE

908-910 Robert E. Lee Blvd. 3BR/2BA and 3BR/1.5BA. All kitchen appliances come with property. Off street parking.

Asking $279,000. Call Walter (504) 615-9212

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Can’t be duplicated for this price!

109 Orange Blosson Court, Belle Chasse. 4 BR, 4 BA, 5184 sq ft. Dble Crown molding, Brazilian cherrywood flrs. Kit w/3 ovens, 6 burner gas stove, . Lap pool with water feature. $660K. Diana Alfortish, 504-394-2255. Pivach Real Estate, L.L.C.

FOLSOM The Heart Of The Forest

A Northshore Residential Development

318 Lake Marina $124,000

Condo w/ Private Patio #106, 1 BR,/1 1/2 BA, 837 SF, Melissa Groetsch, Latter & Blum Realtors, (504) 231-1140.

504-866-2785. Latter & Blum, ERA Powered, is Independently Owned and Operated

Excellent selection of Wooded Lots 2+ Acres ready for building the home of your choice.

Conveniently located ten miles north of I-12 from Goodbee/ Madisonville Ext. 57.

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Walking distance to beach & Olde Town. High elevation 100x115 custom priv. fnce & reg’d oak $69,900 100x240x150 Lshaped multiple oaks $80,000 neg.

Call Michael 228-342-6750

ALL OF THIS FOR $70,000

Big house in Tyler Town, MS. 3/3 huge den. LR, FDRM. & kitchen w/ full DR. On 5 acres 10 miles north of Franklinton, LA 601-248-0888

MOBILE HOMES 117 MELODY DRIVE

FABULOUS 3714 sq ft. Brand new renovation/addition. 4 or 5 BR, possible 2 masters down, large den + study. Granite kit. New hardwoods. Formal dining.

10’ ceilings. Huge 2nd flr playroom. $649K. FAIRWAY DEVELOPMENT, Comm’l & Residential. New Const, Additions, Renov. 504-495-9534

FOR SALE AS IS

BOATHOUSE - REDUCED!

128 N. Roadway $165K with City water lease $242/mo.

This is a steal! Jennifer LaNasa Evans, HGI Realty, LLC. 504-207-7575

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

On the Water. 3 BR, 2 BA, split level, boat launch, great backyard deck.

Move-in ready. $189,000.

Call 504-887-4191

ORLEANS PARISH

2 OFFICE SPACES. $2200 and $1200/mo. Excellent location. Street car access. Convenient to downtown & CBD. Wood & ceramic floors. Lots of windows. New central a/c & heat units, plumbing & electrical.. Security system & surveillance cameras. Parking. $2200 unit has kitchen. Call Sylvia, 504-415-6501

LAKEVIEW OFFICE OR RETAIL

815 Rosedale Freestanding 2,280 sf w/ exc parking. All custom woodwork.

Lg open rm w/ cath ceil for studio, retail area or 4th off. Wright Com’l Realty Corp. Call Lucy 504-578-1777

LAW OFFICE FOR LEASE

For Sale Under $30K. Call Gayle 228-239-0621.

Delivery and setup available!

HIDE-AWAY-LAKE NO HURRICANE WORRIES!

Walking distance to all Gretna Courts. $750 per month includes utilities, office machines & Jeffnet. Call 504366-3551

WANTED TO PURCHASE WANT TO BUY LOT

After 7yrs &16 days of living in Katrina’s hell, finally staring over. Wanting to purchase a 4,000- 5,000 sq.ft lot in Metairie under $40,000 (That’s the miracle!) Please God send me another Angel. Call (504) 832-1901

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333 Julia #418

8 DUCKHOOK DRIVE

LUXURY TOWNHOME - $379,900 3 / 2 Next to N.O. Country Club Private gated cul de sac street.

Angela Discon, 504-554-8267 Keller Williams Realty 504-455-0100. Ea Ofc independently owned & operated

Legacy Condominiums Gulfport

PENTHOUSES 3 BR 2 BA, 2625 sf #1301 - $599,900; #1401 $669,900 UNIT 304 - 3 BR, 2 BA 1600 sf All units have outside storage areas FIDELIS REALTY JANINE DONELON, 228-313-1352 NICOLE NEZAT, 228-365-0550

2537 River Road; 2 brm/1ba, water pd $850/mo OR 315 S. Rocheblave, studio apt, wtr piad, $555/mo includes fridge, range, w/d hkkps. No pets/ pool/smoking. 504-887-1814

OLD METAIRIE SPARKLING POOL Bike Path & Sunset Deck

Renovated, 1 & 2 BR apts with new carpet, new tile, 12 x 24’ liv room. furn kit, laundry on premises, offst pkg.

NO PETS. Avail now. $699 & $799.

504-236-5776

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

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

504-362-7487

2 bedrooms, 2 baths Rent: $1300.

Gated secured parking for one car. Elevator.

Living room, dining nook, furnished kitchen, central a/h, patio, water paid.

CORPORATE RENTALS New Orleans Area (Metairie) 10 Min to Downtown N.O. 1 & 2 Br Apts, 1 Ba, furn. Qn bed, fully equipped kit. WiFi, Cbl. Parking & Util Incl. Lndry Fac. Sec Cameras.

From $1300/mth. 1 mth min. 2200 Pasadena, Met. 504-491-1591.

2537 RIVER RD OR 315 S. ROCHEBLAVE

1430 Jackson Ave.

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Walk to Saints Games! Be a part of one of the coolest n’hoods in the city!

Close to French Qtr. Galley kit, granite and s/s appl. Common workout room & rooftop pool. $192,900. Jennifer Shelnutt, 504-388-9383.

Jennifer@fqr.com.

French Quarter Realty, 504-949-5400. www.fqr.com

JEFFERSON PARISH

3300 CANAL STREET

Snappy Jacobs 525-0190

Snappy Jacobs, CCIM Real Estate Management, LLC

455 Phillip Street, $ 225,000

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Was gutted to the studs in 2004/05 and underwent a high quality renovation. 3 independent bedrooms, 2 full baths, master with whirlpool plus nice walk-in closet, off street parking in a great close to town location.

2225-27 Cambronne $ 339,000

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Huge Four (4) plex with a large 4 bedroom, 2 bath owners unit, off street parking for multiple cars and revenue from three apartments to pay the note with.

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Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

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Needs renov’t. 3300sq ft., 2900 Liv. 3br/3bt, gameroom, Lg. attic storage.

645 Metairie Lawn Dr. $289K (504) 939-7473 or (504) 812-5448

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Central a/h, wood floors, furn kit, w/d hookups, shed, near streetcar, fenced backyard, no smokers/pets. $850+dep. 504-858-5389, 491-4056

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 1101 N. WHITE

Large 1 bedroom w/front porch. $825 + deposit.

Call (504) 343-8651.

3324 DESOTO

Living room, large bedroom, tile bath, furnished kitchen. Private fenced backyard. Washer & Dryer. No pets. $750/ month + deposit. 504-494-0970

914 CITY PARK AVE

1 br, LR/DR combo, large furn kitchen w/breakfast area, wd flrs, cvr’d pkg.

No Pets. $700/mo. Water pd.

504-450-0850

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3218 Desaix Blvd. Single home, 2 BR/1BA, LR/DR, furn kit, office, W&D hkkps. CA&H. Fenced yard. $1100 per month .+ deposit. Call 504-952-5102

DOWNTOWN 1329 FRENCHMAN

Living room, 1 BR, kitchen, tile bath.

No pets. $500/mo. Call 504-4940970.

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY HEART OF FRENCH QTR

Large 1 Bedroom with Loft, 1 Bath, washer & dryer, central air & heat, $1475/mo. 985-630-6686

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UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT 1205 St Charles Ave

1 BR furnished, $1095. Wifi, secure, pool, gym, laundry room on site, gated parking, available October 1.

985-373-1025

1205 ST CHARLES/$1075

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail Oct. 14th. 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

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2BR, furn kitchen, $850/MO. Also Studio, Hrdwd Flrs. $550/mo util included. Both have cent a/h, washer/ dryer on site. No pets. 504-250-9010.

French Quarter Realty • 504-949-5400 222 London #224 2/1.5 900 sqft, inground pool, pets ok. Wtr incl $995 1205 St Charles 507 Studio Grtloc,tonsoflight.Pkng,pool&wrktrm.$900 937 Barracks #1 1/1 New carpet new flooring in the bthrm. $875 539 Toulouse A Studio Fullyfurn,2crtyrds.Middleofeverything!$1100 1003 Spain #2 Studio Renov, high ceil, w/d hookups, PARKING $850 1418 Chartres B 2/1 wd fls, nice bath & kit, crtyd, pvt balc $2,000 825 Bourbon Maisonette 2/1 1400sqft,pvtctyd/balc,free-stdingbldg$2250 1205 St Charles 404 Studio hdwd flrs, pkng(1), fit ctr, pool $800 517 Dumaine #4 2/2.5 Furn. renov. pvt deck. cable & net inc $3,500 631 Dauphine #2 1/1 Inc sunroom & office. Pvt balc. Crtyrd. $1250 812 Esplanade #5 Studio Open w/fplce & lgcloset. Crtyrd w/pool. $850 1910½ Rampart Studio Charming Sngl Bldg All utilities inc, w/d $700 711 Royal 1/1 Great loc. Spacious rms. Sm Balc. $2000 CONDOS FOR SALE 1233 Esplanade #3 2/1 NEWPRICE!Conretefls.SSappi.PoolPkng$145,000 421 Burgundy #3 1/1 Nice size grnd fl just off crtyd. $180,000 421 Burgundy #3 1/1 Bambooflrs.expwoodCentralHVAC.$180,000 1233 Esplanade #16 2/1 Twnhse style. pkng, pool & more. $145,000 1608 N Broad 2/2 Sngl fam renov. Near fairgrounds.$82,500 333 Julia #418 1 /1 Updatedcondo.whdist.pool&more. $192,900 1125 Royal #3 1/1 3rd flr,exp beams,storage! Lush crtyrd $269k 929 Dumaine #14 studio Cozy Pied-a-terre eff in heart of FQ $106,500 1418 Chartres B 2/1 Charming w/HUGE 2nd FLOOR BALC.$259,000 1418 Chartres D 2/1 Fullyfurnw/expbrick&glossywdfls.$225,000 1115 Prytania #303 2/2 SS appl, pvt terrace, pool & pkng! $355,000 824 Burgundy #5 1/1 Updated w/tons of FQ charm.POOL.$275,000 812 Esplanade #5 1/1 SpaclivingoverlooktheAvenue.Pool$159,000 1119 Dauphine #6 2/1.5 Spacious.2nd flr balc Light&charm $349,000 COMMERICAL 3817 Chartres Huge comm 3k sqft whse&3k sqft office space $6,500/mo 2200 Royal comm 3,760sq/ft. Blue chip loc HMC-2 Zone $4k/mo 512 Wilkinson Row Comm comm condo on quaint FQ street $465,000 840 N Rampart Comm Laundromat~business, not bldg $299,000

1510 CARONDELET

LARGE EFFICIENCY - $800 Util included. Upper unit has kit, bath & 1 large bdrm. A/C & ceiling fan. 1 blk to St. Charles. Close to everything. Easy access to !-10,, CBD & French Qtr. On site laundry facilities. Avail 11/1. No smokers/pets. Call 1-888-239-6566 or email mballier@yahoo.com

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LR, Kit & Bath. Hdwd flrs. Totally electric & stove is in apt. $450 Deposit & Rent $700 monthly. 504-416-5923

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