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TUE. APRIL 18 | Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir teamed with singer/songwriter Josh Ritter and the rhythm section of The National to summit Blue Mountain (Columbia), his first new solo material since 1978’s Heaven Help the Fool. At 8 p.m. at Saenger Theatre.

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Sediment & Smog TUE. APRIL 18 | The one constant in Scatterjazz’s revived weekly series has been Swiss time-bender Simon Berz, whose extended residency continues — and likely peaks — in this showdown with likeminded Dutch madman Klaas Hubner. At 8:30 p.m. at SidebarNOLA.

The French Film Festival presents new and classic movies

Louie Anderson FRI. APRIL 21 | Signature-voiced comedian Louie Anderson followed three decades of stand-up, film and TV appearances with his acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning performance as Christine, mother of Zach Galifianakis’ Chip (and Dale) on the darkly weird FX comedy series Baskets.

At 9 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

BY WILL COVIELLO WITH THE LIFELONG AND AT TIMES ROCKY FRIENDSHIP of painter Paul

Cezanne and writer Emile Zola at its core, Cezanne et Moi invokes the richness of French culture and the tumult of mid- and late-19th-century France, making it a marquee inclusion for the New Orleans Film Society’s 20th French Film Festival, produced in partnership with the Consulate General of France in New Orleans and Prytania Theatre.

The festival screens recent awardwinning French films, classics and short films April 21-27 at Prytania Theatre.

Cezanne and Zola met as boys in Aix-en-Provence and both moved to Paris, though Cezanne returned to Provence, enraged at initial rejection by the Parisian art establishment, which wasn’t ready to move past the Impressionists. Though Cezanne was born to a wealthy family, he became estranged, and he scraped by economically until late in his career.

Born to an Italian father, Zola was an outsider who became wealthy through his writing — a rare writer embraced by critics and popular audiences at the same time — as he pioneered the idea of literary naturalism. Cezanne bitterly confronted Zola over the successful book, The Masterpiece, about a painter, seemingly based on Cezanne. Zola was better known for characters such as Nana, a prostitute who used a wealthy clientele to climb into society’s upper classes.

Writer/director Daniele Thompson’s film envisions Cezanne (Guillaume Gallienne) and Zola (Guillaume Canet) as each other’s confidantes and critics.

We see the outlines of their careers as they converse in Zola’s estate and in outdoor settings in Provence, richly captured by cinematographer JeanMarie Dreujou. The film also dwells on their relationships with women,

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particularly the longtime bachelor Cezanne, though Thompson delves into the two men’s views and less on what the women had to say. The film was on the short list of French films considered for submission for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It’s an engaging if romanticized period drama.

The festival opens with Frantz, a drama set in the years after World War I. In it, a German woman distraught by the loss of her husband to brutal trench warfare meets a Frenchman who visits her husband’s grave. The film drew 11 Cesar Award nominations, the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.

Kristen Stewart stars in the closing night film, Personal Shopper. Steward plays Maureen, a personal shopper who works for wealthy clients in European capitals. She’s disturbed by the death of her twin brother and drawn to his home to make sense of the loss in the psychological thriller.

The festival screens the restored version of the classic musical film, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which helped make Catherine Deneuve a star and won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964. Also in the festival is director Jacques Demy’s follow up to Umbrellas, The Young Girls of Rochefort, also starring Deneuve, as well as American star Gene Kelly.

Cezanne et Moi focuses on the friendship between Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet) and Paul Cezanne (Guillaume Gallienne).

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The festival also includes comedies, documentaries and animated films.

Slack Bay features an odd family living in a seaside town where tourists have gone missing. The film descends into slapstick comedy as bumbling detectives arrive to investigate. My Life as a Zucchini, nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar, is the story of a boy trying to adjust to a new life after the death of his mother. Swagger is a stylized documentary about underprivileged children and their dreams. The kids live in a poor area on the outskirts of Paris, Aulnay-sousBois, where riots followed accusations of police brutality in 2005.

SAT. APRIL 22 | With ’80s political pop anthems like “Let the Day Begin” and the once-again-timely red scare skeptic “The Walls Came Down,” California rock band The Call reunites in New Orleans on Earth Day for a concert to follow the March for Science. Singer and founding member Michael Been died in 2010; guest vocalists include Ray Ganucheau, Michael Divita, JD Bruhl and others. Mairead, Alarm 58 and The Geraniums open at 6 p.m. at Siberia.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet SAT. APRIL 22 | Choreographer Dwight Rhoden’s Star Dust, a tribute to David Bowie set to the rock star’s music, and Imprint/Maya, featuring words by Maya Angelou and a solo by artistic director and dancer Desmond Richardson, highlight the program. At 8 p.m. at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

The Big Easy Awards MON. APRIL 24 | Lifetime achievement awards are presented to Deacon John and Anthony Bean, winners are announced in theater and music categories, and there are performances by Deacon John, Hot 8 Brass Band and Stoop Kids and scenes from Lizzie and Ragtime and more. At 6 p.m. at Orpheum Theater.

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LOUISIANA RESIDENTS MAY LOVE MEDICAID DOLLARS — BUT THEY DON’T LIKE “OBAMACARE.” That was the finding of a survey conducted in February and March, in which 91 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of Republicans approved of Gov. John Bel Edwards accepting Medicaid subsidies to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the state. The ACA itself, paradoxically, is less popular, with 51 percent of residents having a negative view of the federal health care act.

“Being told that the ACA allows for Medicaid expansion in Louisiana does not, on average, improve opinion of the federal health care law,” the survey’s authors wrote. “In contrast, describing the law as ‘Obamacare’ does increase the share of unfavorable opinions when the provision for Medicaid expansion is also mentioned.”

The survey was conducted by telephone and included a representative sample of 1,012 Louisianans. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percent.

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Orleans-based photographer, was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his 2016 photograph of Ieshia Evans, who appears stoic as heavily armored police officers approach to arrest her during protests against police brutality in Baton Rouge last year.

YMCA Educational Services was award-

ed a national Incentive Award from the Coalition of Adult Basic Education recognizing YMCA’s computer literacy programs at the New Orleans Public Library. The award highlighted the YMCA’s digital literacy program as part of its adult education services, which help people connect to jobs using computer skills.

Shannon Christopher Ceasar, a physician and former co-owner of Gulf South Physician’s Group in Metairie, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court April 5 to his involvement in a health care fraud scheme, including operating an Oxycodone “pill mill” and threatening to kill federal law enforcement. He faces up to 40 years in prison when sentenced in July.

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None. ... I hope Louisiana maintains the death penalty and I hope that the state begins using it again.” — esmithling

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1. AND THEY’RE OFF! LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE OPENS 2017 SESSION

GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAD A MESSAGE FOR REPUBLICANS opposing his plans for tax reform: Chart a new path.

The call to action came during his State of the State address — the second of Edwards’ tenure — that opened the 60-day Louisiana Legislature’s 2017 regular session April 10. Much of the speech centered on the governor’s proposals for tax reform, which includes eliminating one penny of the five-cent sales tax and implementing a commercial activity tax (CAT) on businesses.

A tax on commercial activity would measure gross receipts at various levels, with smaller businesses getting hit significantly less. A gas station with $500,000 in taxable gross receipts would only pay $250, noted the governor by way of example, while a doctor’s office with $2.5 million in fees would be taxed $1,500.

Edwards addressed Republicans and their steady

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“I wrote him a letter and I asked him to look out your window, look at the statue of Jackson there at the White House because Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square is next in New Orleans if we don’t do something.”

— Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, describing the letter he said he wrote to President Donald Trump, asking Trump to intervene in New Orleans’ ongoing controversy over removing Confederate-era monuments.

Nungesser told WVUE-TV his office was looking into ways to block the removal. Last week, he told Gambit he was personally calling back every constituent who contacted his office about the issue.

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AG Landry sues Gov. Edwards — again Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a lawsuit against Gov. John Bel Edwards over Edwards’

opposition to his efforts, saying he was open to compromise but added he had seen “very little constructive input and no constructive action.”

Edwards also hawked several non-fiscal proposals to the Republican-dominated body, including equal pay legislation for women and criminal justice reform. He said his initiatives for the criminal justice system, which include “cleaning up” the criminal code and broadening probation eligibility, would reduce the state’s prison population by 13 percent and save $300 million over 10 years. On equal pay, the governor said the state should be “offended” by its wage gap, noting that Louisiana has the highest gap in the nation, with a woman making 66 cents for every $1 a man makes. Edwards also called for an $8.50 minimum wage floor over the next two years.

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withholding of $4 million in escrow that Landry says should be used to fund his Department of Justice (DOJ). Landry filed the suit in state court in Baton Rouge April 11, arguing the money from a 2014 pharmaceutical settlement should be released to Landry’s office for spending. Edwards has cited state law in claiming the settlement should be sent to the state treasury and put into the state’s general fund — not into Landry’s coffers.

“Landry is going to great lengths at the taxpayer’s expense to protect an escrow account that doesn’t belong to his department while the rest of state government is taking a spending cut,” Edwards said in a statement.

Landry and Edwards also are in the middle of a debate over the governor’s executive orders on LGBT anti-discrimination language in state contracts. According to the results of a recent poll from LSU, more than two-thirds of Louisianans agree transgender people should

be protected from discrimination in the workplace. Poll results included a majority of Democrats (83 percent) as well as Republicans (59 percent).

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Roundtable tackles homeownership for communities of color At a roundtable discussing racial wealth inequality April 18, speakers from several local housing advocacy and neighborhood groups will propose solutions to a persistent problem: lack of access to homeownership for communities of color.

According to a release about the event, 43 percent of African-American households and 33 percent of Latino households own their homes, compared to 54 percent of white and Asian households. A recent Institute for Policy Studies report found that at current growth rates, it will take black families 228 years to reach the same levels of wealth that white families enjoy today.

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5. Public meeting on French Quarter plan April 18

Another public meeting on a controversial infrastructure improvement plan in the French Quarter is set for April 18. The plan calls for a massive overhaul of Bourbon Street from Canal to Dumaine streets, replacing the road with white concrete during an eight-month period beginning later this month. At a public meeting April 4, residents complained about potential road closures, economic repercussions from the street’s conversion to a pedestrian-only mall, handicap access, potential interruptions to delivery service and other concerns.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at St. Jude Community Center (400 N. Rampart St.).

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Artist residence to open in Treme The former Andrew J. Bell Junior High School has been converted into housing and workspace for low- to moderate-income New Orleans artists and “culture bearers.”

Developers are accepting applications for tenants to move in as early as June. Following a permitting, construction and approval process over the last few years, the Bell Artspace Campus will open 23 of its 79 planned units this summer, with additional units available in 2018.

Project manager Joe Butler told the New Orleans City Council’s Community Development Committee April 12 that Artspace aims to be the “next stewards of the Bell property and what it means to the Treme community.” Its mission, Butler says, is to “create, foster and preserve” local artists and arts organizations.

The building will house 47 one-bedroom rental units beginning at $486 a month, 23 two-bedroom units beginning at $714 a month, and studios beginning at $469 a month. Applications are available at www.artspace.org/bell.

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Universities announce all-star commencement speakers Artist and activist Janelle Monae, actress Helen Mirren and political commentator Van Jones head to New Orleans universities this spring to deliver commencement addresses.

Monae — a highlight of recent Essence, Voodoo and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival lineups — delivers her first-ever graduation speech to Dillard University’s graduating class May 13. CNN commentator Jones will speak to Loyola University New Orleans graduates May 13 and will also receive an honorary degree from the university (along with Ella Brennan, Edward “Kidd” Jordan and retired Criminal District Court Judge Dennis Waldron).

Academy Award-winning actress Mirren will receive an honorary doctorate from Tulane University May 20 when she delivers the university’s commencement speech.

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Speakers at the panel include representatives from New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, Louisiana Housing Corporation, HousingNOLA and Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance. The talk begins at 11:30 a.m. at Ashe Cultural Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.).

8. New Orleans photographer a Pulitzer finalist

New Orleans photographer Jonathan Bachman was named a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography April 10. Bachman was nominated for his striking photo for Reuters of heavily armored Baton Rouge police officers advancing toward protester Ieshia Evans in the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling by police.

The image appeared to have inspired, at least in part, Pepsi’s disastrous recent ad with Kendall Jenner.

Some of Bachman’s earliest work in New Orleans was covering the New Orleans Saints for Gambit.

9. Saints preseason

opponents announced

Before the full regular season schedule rolls out later this month, New Orleans Saints fans can look forward to the team’s preseason lineup. In August, the Black and Gold heads to Cleveland to face the Browns, followed by the recently renamed Los Angeles Chargers.

The team returns to the Superdome to face the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens before the regular season kicks off. Game dates will be announced soon.

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Willie, Sheryl Crow, Avetts headed to Outlaw Fest Willie Nelson, The Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow and Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real join the inaugural Outlaw Music Festival Tour stopping at the Shrine on Airline (formerly Zephyr Field, current home to the New Orleans Baby Cakes).

There’s also food, craft beer, local artists and other festival attractions. The tour hits New Orleans July 1 (the same weekend as Essence Festival). Tickets are on sale now.

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COMMENTARY

Putting ‘sanctuary cities’ on ICE LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY put

the brakes on its three-week-old policy of issuing weekly reports calling out so-called “sanctuary cities” — after municipalities on the lists and immigration advocates criticized the data involved. It was the latest attempt to turn “sanctuary cities” into a political cudgel. Once again, it backfired.

“Sanctuary cities” were a longtime hobbyhorse of former U.S. Sen. David Vitter, who used the term when he introduced legislation to block some federal funding to certain cities during his Senate tenure. In his final weeks in office, Vitter said, “During my decadelong fight to end sanctuary city policies, Senate Democrats and over 300 cities across the nation have foregone the safety of American families and communities in order to coddle and protect the 170,000 convicted criminal aliens who remain at-large in the U.S.” Coddle? Hardly. The term “sanctuary city” doesn’t even have a legal definition. It is generally applied to jurisdictions that do not force local law enforcement to do the work of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. Instead, those jurisdictions direct local cops to do their jobs by pursuing wrongdoers regardless of their immigration status. It also allows undocumented immigrants to report crimes without fear of being arrested themselves. Such policies reduce crime, not increase it.

Nevertheless, grandstanding politicians like U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and newly minted U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy claim “sanctuary” policies turn a blind eye to criminal activity. They say this mostly to appear tough on crime without doing much about it.

Landry even took a trip to Washington D.C. last year to testify before a Republican House committee on border security. He said New Orleans is a “magnet” for criminal immigrants, citing a Honduran immigrant who caused a fatal bus crash on I-10. Landry became a laughingstock when it was revealed the man actually lived in Jefferson Parish,

which is not a “sanctuary” parish.

The company that owned the bus he was driving likewise was domiciled outside New Orleans. Still, Landry persisted.

Last month Kennedy distributed a letter addressed to Mayor Mitch Landrieu, claiming the New Orleans Police Department was violating a federal law requiring local governments to cooperate with ICE or risk losing federal funding. Actually, the opposite is true.

NOPD and the Orleans Parish Prison are under separate federal consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice. Under the guidance of ICE, both local agencies have drafted policies to cooperate

It was the latest attempt to turn ‘sanctuary cities’ into a political cudgel.

Once again, it backfired. with federal immigration authorities.

Last month, Mayor Mitch Landrieu clarified for the umpteenth time that “New Orleans is not a sanctuary city and our police department’s policy on immigration complies with federal law.” NOPD Chief Michael Harrison told members of the New Orleans City Council this month that “who gets elected does not determine how well we deliver police services.”

The Center for American Progress reports 35.5 fewer crimes committed per 100,000 residents in socalled “sanctuary” areas, supporting Landrieu’s claims that NOPD’s policies make New Orleans safer. The feds have the resources — and the responsibility — to police immigration. Local cops do not.

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Pat Taylor’s legacy

PH OTO BY CH E RY L G E R B E R

AMID THE HOOPLA OVER STATE FUNDING FOR THE BELOVED TOPS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ,

it’s worth remembering how — and why — the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students got started in the first place. Spoiler alert: It was never intended to be an entitlement for families of means.

The brainchild of billionaire oilman Patrick F. Taylor, TOPS was enacted into state law in 1989. I had the privilege of knowing Pat Taylor. He was a complicated yet incredibly generous man who never forgot that he came from nothing. Taylor credited his success to his education, particularly the full scholarship he got from Louisiana State University.

In 1988, Taylor was invited to speak to 183 struggling students at Livingston Middle School in New Orleans East. Many of the kids in the room that day had already been held back in school, some more than once. By then a rich white Republican, Taylor recognized in that roomful of young black kids the same limited opportunities that he knew as a child, and he had an epiphany.

“How many of you plan to go to college?” Taylor asked.

Few hands went up.

“How many of you would like to go to college?”

Many hands went up.

That was it. Taylor knew what he had to do. Acting on a characteristically charitable impulse, he made the kids in that room a promise: Maintain a B average in a collegeprep curriculum and stay out of trouble, and I will make sure you go to college.

Taylor followed up with mentoring visits and field trips, keeping tabs on the kids who had accepted his offer. He also kept his promise, and those kids realized the same dream that changed Taylor’s life years before.

Years later I met one of those kids — Flozell Daniels, now CEO of the Foundation for Louisiana. Daniels told me how he and his classmates became known as “the original Taylor’s Kids.” (Pat and Phyllis Taylor had no children of their own, but through their Taylor Foundation and TOPS they have changed the lives of many kids.)

In 1989, Taylor convinced the Louisiana Legislature to enact the “Taylor Plan.” It required students to earn a 2.5 GPA in a college-prep curriculum and an ACT score of 18.

Like Taylor’s original promise, the program was intended to help lowand moderate-income students go to college. To achieve that goal, the law capped family incomes of qualifying students.

Over time, as state finances allowed, the Taylor Plan — which became TOPS — expanded into an entitlement for all students. That gave it a much larger political base, but it’s not what Pat Taylor originally envisioned. A wealthy man who came from nothing, he saw TOPS as a way out of poverty.

Pat Taylor died in 2004, but his wife Phyllis and the Taylor Foundation carry on his legacy of hope for kids who, like him, grew up with few prospects for a better life.

Lawmakers who tinker with TOPS should remember Pat Taylor’s legacy — and his original intent — and preserve both.

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Hey Blake, I read that the Bayou Barriere golf course has closed. Am I dreaming or was there a fine dining restaurant on the second floor of the clubhouse? I seem to recall eating there but can’t remember the name.

AS WE REVISIT BAYOU BARRIERE’S HISTORY and see the opening this week

DARRYL

Dear Darryl, There’s a reason your memory of that West Bank restaurant might be a little hazy. Though it earned good reviews and was owned by a wellknown chef, Maurice’s Plantation Bistro was open less than six months.

The restaurant was located inside the clubhouse at Bayou Barriere Golf Club in Belle Chasse. The 27-hole golf course opened in 1965 and was designed by local golf pro Jimmy Self. It was one of at least 10 West Bank golf courses over the years. In January, Bayou Barriere closed for good, citing a decline in membership.

Maurice’s Plantation Bistro opened there in August 1987. It was operated by chef Maurice Bitoun. Born in Morocco, the French-trained chef came to New Orleans in 1963. Bitoun and his brothers Jacques, Andre and Simon opened several West Bank restaurants including Andre’s in the Village, Maurice’s Bistro and the Bistro Steak Room. Maurice’s hallmark dishes included fried parsley (a free appetizer served in a basket at the start of the meal) and kosher eggs Benedict, featuring smoked salmon instead of Canadian bacon or ham.

Times-Picayune restaurant critic

The Bayou Barriere Golf Club in Belle Chasse closed in January after hosting golfers since 1965.

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Gene Bourg wrote of the restaurant, “The menu is filled with what may be the most sumptuous combinations ever seen in a Plaquemines Parish restaurant, a showcase for the chef’s multifaceted talent.” Unfortunately, the next time Bourg wrote about the restaurant in December 1987, it was to say it would be closing.

Maurice Bitoun died in 1995.

(April 21) of the new Bayou Oaks Golf Course in City Park, we remember a local golfing great who designed many local courses. Joseph M. Bartholomew was born in New Orleans in 1885 and became a caddy at Audubon Park Golf Course when he was just 7 years old. He taught himself the game of golf in the 1920s and went to work at Metairie Country Club. Club members sent him to New York to learn about golf course architecture. Over the next decade, Bartholomew built several local courses, including one at Metairie Country Club and two at City Park.

Because of segregation, Bartholomew, an African-American, could not play on any of the courses he designed. In the 1950s, he designed the course at Pontchartrain Park, which was open to African-Americans. Bartholomew died in 1971. The following year, he became the first African-American inducted into the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame. In 1979, the Pontchartrain Park golf course was renamed in his honor.

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WHAT’S IN STORE

Monkey business

BY PAIGE RITA NULTY

Patrons enjoy draft beer at the Copper Monkey Grill.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

BY KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

VICTOR PASTOR MANAGES THE COPPER MONKEY GRILL (725 Conti

St., 504-527-0869; www.coppermonkeygrill.com), but he has been affiliated with the company since it opened in 2006.

“I either drank there or I worked there,” he says, “but I’ve been here the whole time.”

Pastor says the food, drinks and business hours are what set the Copper Monkey apart from other French Quarter restaurants.

“It’s hard to find a good rib-eye steak at three in the morning,” he says, “but — for sure — we’ve got it. We’re open almost all day. We just close to clean up, reset, and then we’re open again.”

Even though other French Quarter spots are open late, “it’s a far cry to eat anything that’s actually decent,” he says.

Pastor thinks of the Copper Monkey as a safe haven of sorts.

“It’s nice to have a place that’s half a block off Bourbon Street, that’s not nearly as crazy, not nearly as loud,” he says. “(It’s) a place to sit down and have a cold beer and relax away from the hubbub of the street, but still be in the French Quarter.”

Pastor credits the bar’s success to word-of-mouth, specifically from service industry workers.

“As the night goes on, you’ll get people coming off their shifts after

SHOPPING NEWS Buffalo Exchange (4119 Magazine St., 504-891-7443; www.buffaloexchange.com) has an Earth Day sale Saturday, April 22. Select men’s and women’s clothing is $1, and all proceeds will be donated to the Humane Society of the United States.

serving everyone else,” Pastor says.

“All the bartenders, door men, dancers and everyone come in so they can unwind and relax.”

This creates what Pastor calls a family atmosphere.

“Everyone loves each other, everyone knows each other,” he says. “It’s a lot of hugging, a lot of kissing, a lot of ‘I haven’t seen you in so long.’”

The Copper Monkey’s frequent customers have even shaped the menu. The “Whitney Special” is a dish named after a regular. Pastor calls the popular item a “drunken heaven of carbs.”

“Whitney was a regular, and she had this favorite drunken meal,” he says. “Word spread about the ‘Whitney Special’ and we kept making it over and over again. … Eventu-

ally we just added it to the menu.”

The dish combines mashed potatoes, chicken tenders, bacon and cheese, and exemplifies why customers return.

“I think our consistency is a strong point,” Pastor says about the menu and the familiar atmosphere employees create. “Part of our plan is to stay the way we are, because that’s really what (customers) want.”

Pastor describes the bar as a welcoming spot filled with smiling faces, where dependability has retained customers since the beginning and makes new ones become regulars.

“Everyone comes back,” Pastor says. “They meet back up at the Monkey when it’s all said and done.”

Modern Market (3138 Magazine St., Suite C, 504-896-2206; www. modernmarketlifestyle.com) is moving to the Warehouse District and celebrating with a special promotion. The Annunciation sale is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the store’s future location at 1200 Annunciation St. Customers can get up to 75 percent off furniture and accessories and a treat from Bakery Bar with purchase. Modern Market also offers 12 percent off online purchases through May 31 with the promo code “1200.”

You Night Battle of the Models is 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22 at the Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center (8245 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, 504-278-1506).

The runway fundraiser is a walk off between You Night cancer survivors and professional models and benefits the We Lift You Up Fund for women living with cancer. Featured designers include Gwen’s Bridal Boutique and Keno Kouture. There will be a Kendra Scott pop-up shop, and a portion of sales will go to the fund. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 for non-reserved seating and $50 for VIP, and are available at www.younightevents.com.

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FOR DECADES, THE SHORE OF LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN FROM WEST END PARK TO SOUTH SHORE HARBOR WAS A PRIME DESTINATION IN NEW ORLEANS for dining,

boating, family gatherings and entertainment. Neglect and environmental issues diminished its draw over time, however, and Hurricane Katrina nearly wiped out parts, destroying the remaining restaurants at West End Park, wreaking havoc in Orleans Marina, heavily damaging the New Canal Lighthouse, flooding Lakefront Airport and other structures, spreading concern that a generation would grow up without making new memories there.

Following the renovation of the Lakefront Airport, commercial development near the lake is flourishing again. A flurry of new restaurants GentillyMessenger.com is in the works, and on an even larger scale, the owners of Tipitina’s are developing a $12 million entertainment complex on 19 acres at South Shore Harbor Marina and the former

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Seafood restaurants The Blue Crab and Brisbi’s Lakefront Restaurant & Bar opened on the Lakefront near Orleans Marina in 2013, and to the east, renovation of the Lakefront Airport included the opening of Messina’s Runway Cafe in 2014. Two more restaurants are in the works: Billy Wright’s Olde New Orleans Boil House and Coffee House in a shelter building on Lakeshore Drive, and Bird’s Nest Cafe in the Lake Vista Community Center. Ongoing beautification projects along the breakwall and opening Lakeshore Drive to two-way traffic have attracted a growing number of recreational users, making the area ripe for commercial development.

coming from a single commercial entity may be the entertainment facility being developed at South Shore Harbor by Roland and Mary von Kurnatowski, who own Tipitina’s and co-own the Orpheum Theater. Their Lakeshore Landing will host events and offer restaurants, an amphitheater for live music, a fuel dock, a marina store and a boathouse for the last operational World War II patrol torpedo boat, the PT-305, which opened to the public for rides April 1, almost 75 years after it was built.

At the dedication ceremony March 25, World War II veterans, patrol torpedo veterans, PT-305 volunteers and others

A Levee District department is interested in reopening Lincoln Beach.

gathered in the Lakefront Airport lobby to honor the 125,000 volunteer hours put in over the last 10 years to restore the boat.

Gary Curtis, a director of the Defenders of America Naval Museum, was part of the group that acquired the PT-305 in 2005, after it had been used as an oyster boat in Maryland until 2001. Curtis says he painted yellow eyes on the bow of the PT-305 in 2006.

“There’s a Chinese tradition that says you have to have eyes painted on your boat so it can find its way back if it gets lost,” Curtis says. “I thought that was appropriate.”

In recent years, the National World War II Museum has held its annual WWII AirPower Expo at the Lakefront Airport.

According to museum Chief Operating Officer Stephen Watson, this year’s air show, scheduled for Oct. 27-29, will include the new PT-305 boat.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of the development of Lakeshore Harbor,” Watson says. “For the last decade, a lot of New Orleanians haven’t really gone out there.

There really wasn’t a destination reason to be out there, unless you lived out there or were working.”

The PT boat rides are the kind of event that can draw a large audience to the Lakefront, says New Orleans historian Edward Branley.

“The people who love the concept of living history are going to be attracted,” he says. “The World War II Museum folks know that they have to market to a younger generation. That’s how you get people who haven’t been out in the neighborhood in 50 years or younger people who hear their parents and grandparents talking about going out to that area.”

Michael Gillen is executive director of the South Shore Harbor Association, which he started in 2013 to support a community of recreational boaters. “The marina itself is a fantastic physical facility,” he says. “The same people who come in for the special events — the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras — and fly in on private jets to the Lakefront Airport, some have beautiful yachts and boats and will now have a place to dock their boat and have a place to go to where they can get food and drink.

“The majority of the community out there is excited to see something happen.

Prior to that we had an abandoned building with an exposed roof.”

“For a city surrounded by water, there are very few places where you can actually go and be by the water,” Mary von Kurnatowski says. “The West End area hasn’t come back to what it was before [Hurricane Katrina], unfortunately.”

also could spur area residents to rediscover the Lakefront and give bikers, walkers, fishers and other recreational users reasons to stay longer. William Wright’s boil house, in what is known as Shelter House No. 1, will serve as a coffee shop in the mornings before transitioning into a tradi-

tional boiled seafood restaurant for lunch and dinner. It’s scheduled to open by early summer. “I just think it’s going to be a joy for neighbors to come sit and watch the sun rise over the lake with a cup of coffee and a pastry and a newspaper,” Wright says. “And come out in the evening with a bottle of wine and come watch the sun set over the lake, which is a beautiful sight.”

The shelter houses along the Lakefront currently have the doors to their public bathrooms welded shut because no one is there to maintain them, officials said. Rodger Wheaton, who serves on the board of the public agency that controls the shelter houses, says he hopes to see them all redeveloped and reopened.

The Bird’s Nest Cafe being developed at 6508 Spanish Fort Blvd. received approval for a lease at the end of March 2017 to become the first food and drink operation at the Lake Vista Community Center in 40 years.

“I think there is a desire and a need for this kind of business,” says Courtney Enderle, general manager of Lola’s restaurant for nine years and co-owner of Bird’s Nest. Enderle will open the cafe with her cousin.

The cafe is named for Lake Vista’s “bird” streets. “I love the area because it’s very family-oriented,” Enderle says. “There are lots of people on foot, exercising, walking their dogs or pushing strollers. It’s a nice place to live and will be nicer to not have to get in your car and drive to have your morning coffee or afternoon snack.”

that has approved and spearheaded many of these developments is the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority, the branch of the Orleans Levee District that controls properties owned by the levee board that do not directly contribute to flood protection. Led by chairwoman Wilma Heaton and vicechairman Eugene Green, the authority oversaw the renovation of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport in 2013, approved the placement of a Krewe of Nyx plaque at the Mardi Gras Fountain on Lakeshore Drive and approved an additional mural art restoration project in the Lakefront Airport.

“If [Heaton] can do a fraction of what she did for the airport and do that for the marina, it will be a huge success,” Gillen says. “There’s so many things that have been left and neglected for many years.”

Authority members also have expressed interest in the reintroduction of Lincoln Beach, an abandoned beach and amusement park located at Lake Pontchartrain near the intersection of Hayne Boulevard and Paris Road. Lincoln Beach was a racially segregated park that served African-Americans and operated from 1939 to 1964. With the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the formerly whites-only Pontchartrain

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Right: The public can ride in this WWII patrol boat at the new Lakeshore Landing. Below left: The owners of Tipitina’s are developing Lakefront Landing, an entertainment complex. Below right: Shelter No. 1 will be transformed into a coffee shop and seafood restaurant.

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Beach became open to all races, and Lincoln Beach closed.

“Lincoln Beach is historic and has been closed for a too-long period of time,” Green says. “No matter who develops it in time, the site presents recreational opportunities and beautiful views of the lake.”

Lincoln Beach technically is owned by the City of New Orleans, since the Levee District traded it to the city in 1980 for a piece of land at the end of Pontchartrain Boulevard, Heaton says. The beach is ready to be developed, she says, but the authority must regain ownership of it in order to redevelop it.

“Other items have taken priority, but we look forward to a follow-up in the near future,” Heaton says. “We are respectful that at this time the property is owned by the City of New Orleans.”

During segregation, Lincoln Beach served as African-Americans’ alternative to the larger, whites-only Pontchartrain Beach amusement park.

Alvin Lee, a member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, remembers going to Lincoln Beach with his family and friends as a young man. The amusement park is where Lee took swimming lessons and participated in fashion shows for which his mother made outfits for his brothers and him to wear. He also remembers the excitement of the amusement rides, the park’s 16-foot diving board and pool and the beauty of the park’s lights.

“It was classy. It was a ball for us,” Lee says.

“When it was lit up at nighttime, it was beautiful.”

While a student at St. Augustine High School, Lee says Lincoln Beach was a place he and his friends could hang out on weekends and stay out of trouble.

“The land itself, the location, you couldn’t beat it,” he says. “It was like another little town.” He was surprised when he learned it was closing.

“We were devastated because we couldn’t figure out why,” Lee says. “Lincoln Beach was greatly missed, and I still think about it.”

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As interest in the Lakefront accelerates, Lincoln Beach likely will be developed. The University of New Orleans’ Research and Technology Park occupies the former site of Pontchartrain Beach, though the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation is in the process of rebuilding the old amusement park’s sandy beachfront.

Meanwhile, the Non-Flood Authority is reviewing development proposals for more sites on the Lakefront, including a parcel of land in West End and a tract between Lakeshore Drive and Leroy Johnson Drive near the UNO East Campus.

The authority also is reviewing three proposals to develop the North Peninsula of the South Shore Harbor Marina. The 14.5-acre tract could accommodate commercial or marine-oriented concerns directly across from Lakeshore Landing.

The deadline for proposals for the North Peninsula passed in March, and Green encouraged the authority board and its committees to seek possible developers for the site.

Currently, a hotel is one of the three mixed-use zoning proposals that a Non-Flood Authority subcommittee is reviewing.

Robert Lupo, who served on the Orleans Levee District from 19962004 and was chairman of the NonFlood Authority from 2010-2013, says these Lakefront developments reflect a revival in the area.

“All these little things have added up to really bring back the Lakefront area that is really a 5-mile state park,” says Lupo, who also played a leading role in redeveloping the Lakefront Airport. “Now it’s families, barbecue, fishing. It’s a wonderful atmosphere.”

already has removed one controversial obstacle to redevelopment — reversing the 20-year-old policy making Lakeshore Drive one-way only in the eastbound direction.

The original policy was enacted to curb disturbances and conflicts among young people cruising the waterfront. It was lifted in 2014.

“It drove the families away,” Lupo says of the perception of the area as crime-ridden in the late 1990s.

“The one-way traffic drove cruisers away, so it took a while for people to see the lake again.”

Clifford Robinson, publisher of NewOrleansEast.com, was an advocate of restoring Lakeshore Drive to two-way traffic to make it as accessible as possible to residents. Now, Robinson regularly drives along the Lakefront, which he says is thriving with an increase in biking, tree planting and accessibility for walkers. “I think it’s heading in the right direction now,” Robinson says.

Eugene Green says there aren’t enough tourists and residents visiting the Lakefront and West End yet, considering its close proximity to the water, universities and parking. With control over so much vacant property, the Non-Flood Authority has a key role to play in making the area a more attractive destination, he says.

“Its (Lincoln Beach’s) development — when combined with the development of South Shore Harbor into a concert and entertainment venue, the continuing development of the Lakefront Airport and now possibly the North Peninsula — that will contribute to making the Lakefront a destination for citizens, instead of an afterthought,” Green says.

This story was developed in conjunction with our partners at Gentilly Messenger, the latest addition to the New Orleans Messenger family of neighborhood news sites that also includes UptownMessenger.com and MidCityMessenger.com

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Bubbling up

Roll with it After a a 10-year run in Mid-City, Little Tokyo closed last month, and a group of new owners have opened Ikura Hibachi and Sushi (310 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-4855658; www.ikuranola.com) in the space. It serves a similar menu of traditional and creative sushi rolls, as well as new lunch and dinner items.

Yusuke Kawahara opened the first of several Little Tokyo restaurants in Metairie in 1986. The local chain lost a few locations over the past several years.

Ikura is the group’s first collaborative restaurant project, said co-own-

Melt serves refined grilled cheese sandwiches and more.

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund THE NAME MIGHT IMPLY OTHERWISE , but Melt isn’t just a grilled cheese operation. The Mid-City restaurant feels more polished and grown-up than just another place hawking the childhood staple.

Not surprisingly, the menu is dominated by all things cheese (St. James Cheese Co. is the restaurant’s main supplier), but not all items are framed by slices of bread. There’s cheese served piping-hot and drizzled with olive oil in a cast-iron skillet. Truffle fries are topped with cheese, and fried macaroni and cheese balls are breaded in panko.

Wisconsin cheese curds are tempura battered and fried till they have a pale golden shell. The hefty knobs are served with ranch dressing and a marinara dipping sauce packed with oregano.

An appetizer of pork and beef meatballs topped with provolone and spicy red sauce doesn’t fare as well. While the pleasing sauce has subtle spice, the meatballs were overcooked and mealy, falling apart with a prick of the fork.

Sandwiches, which the restaurant touts as “gourmet,” are less lunchbox fare and more grownup fodder, served with a salad of mixed greens dressed in a snappy sugar cane vinaigrette. Velvety tomato-basil bisque doesn’t disappoint, and it is topped with buttery croutons.

The Owner’s Special features caramelized onions, melted Gruyere cheese and a sweet and smoky tomato jam on thick slices of buttery sourdough bread. Fresh tomato slices carry too much acid and juice and render the sandwich a mess to eat,

WHERE

2549 Banks St., (504) 821-0102; www.melt-nola.com

but the flavors shine — reminiscent of a rich French onion soup.

The Mama’s Melt takes a similar Gallic turn, with thinly sliced ham, brie, arugula and a thick smear of apricot preserves on pressed French bread. Though it’s hard to improve upon the time-honored Francophile ham-and-cheese standard, this sandwich takes a shot. Sweet, jammy apricot bits pair nicely with the creamy, pungent funk of the brie, while arugula adds a nutty, peppery kick.

The Kush’s Melt seems like an attempt to appease seafood lovers while sticking with the melted cheese concept. Garlicky basil aioli tops French bread stuffed with crab-boiled shrimp and a thick smear of pimiento cheese. It’s an odd and indulgent combination, but the basil overshadows the pimiento and shrimp flavors.

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Melt serves a chicken Parmesan sandwich with french fries.

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plex, and the restaurant has grow in phases. It opened with a bare-bones menu in November and since has added more sandwiches, a cocktail menu and a patio. Though it has been operating for six months, the grand opening party was last weekend. There are plans to add cheese and charcuterie plates, a selection of infused cocktails and a rooftop deck.

Along with restaurants such as Fharmacy and Marjie’s Grill, Melt’s steady growth reflects a neighborhood that slowly but surely is becoming a factor in the city’s dining scene.

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er and manager Indra Soeseno. The group added five hibachi tables at the restaurant.

Patrons of the former restaurant will notice that many of Ikura’s menu items are almost identical to its predecessor.

“We still have a lot of the same things, but we added more options for people that might want some other Asian dishes,” Soeseno said.

Those dishes include Japanese pork and chicken katsu, chicken and beef teriyaki, Korean bulgogi and Thaistyle chicken satay, among others.

There also are several ramen bowls, which include different iterations of the noodle soup topped with items such as grilled pork, slow-cooked pork ribs, buttered corn, melted cheese, seaweed, boiled egg and fried onions.

The new restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily. — HELEN FREUND

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EAT+DRINK Satsuma Cafe (www.satsumacafe.com), is opening a second location in Uptown on April 17.

The new spot at 5720 Magazine St. takes over the space formerly occupied by HiVolt Coffee’s (www.hivoltcoffee. com) short-lived expansion HiVolt Bakery, which closed in January following a oneyear run.

Peter and Cassi Dymond opened the original Pulp and Grind at 644 Camp St. in 2015. Managing partner and part-owner LaShaun Crawford, who was once the manager at Satsuma Cafe on Maple Street, is helming the

new location.

The new Pulp and Grind outpost features a menu identical to the Camp Street location, including fresh, coldpressed juices, scones, biscuits, quiches, bagel bombs, muffins and cookies. The cafe serves coffees from specialty roasters in New Orleans and across the country.

The new Pulp and Grind is open 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. — HELEN FREUND

Keep on trucking LIVE NATION presents its second Food Truck Friday April 21 in Champions Square with an expanded lineup of trucks and live music. Participating trucks include Burgers Ya Heard, Crepes a la Cart, Dirty Dishes NOLA, La Cocinita Food Truck, Frencheeze Food Truck, Rollin’ Fatties, Plum Street Snoballs and others. Food is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and indoor seating is available. There’s entertainment by Juke Box Heroes of New Orleans and concert ticket giveaways.

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3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Beth James FARMER AFTER FARMING CRAWFISH for years with

her sister at their farm in Prairie Ronde, Beth James (who is married to Dave Malone, formerly of the Radiators) partnered with Rolando Sanchez to buy a rice mill. In January, the duo (pictured) began selling their brand of non-GMO, single variety rice, Prairie Ronde Rice (www.prarieronderice.com). James spoke with Gambit about farming and milling rice.

What’s your background in farming?

JAMES: My father bought this land in 1981, and my sister and I ended up owning it in the mid-’80s. (We) owned Cafe Atchafalaya, and we started raising crawfish on the farm and had a distribution point in New Orleans through the restaurant. We raised prawns and catfish, too.

We’ve always farmed crawfish, and we would grow rice as a crop to feed the crawfish. We have a farmer, Rolando Sanchez, who my parents met in Mexico. My family rented a house there, and he was the child of the woman who was managing the house. He really wanted to come to the United States — that was his big dream.

My father went to Mexico and got all of his paperwork sorted and brought him to Louisiana and started training him to be a farmer. When my father passed away in August 2005, I went to Rolando and I said, “My sister and I can’t manage this alone.” We reversed our business deal and we allowed him to take over. He had worked with my father for 20 years, so I knew he knew what to do. ... He decided that he wanted to grow rice as a crop and not just fodder for the crawfish. He just won Farmer of the Year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and he just became an American citizen.

This, to me, is the ultimate in the American success story.

What are the benefits of milling your own rice?

J: The price of rice is so depressed that a lot of Louisiana farmers are cutting back on production.

It’s a commodity, so you’re at the mercy of the market. The farmer is the last one to get paid and ends up taking a lot of the risk. So I thought, we’ve got to change this formula. We did a lot of research.

There were a few people that

were growing on small rice fields and had these tabletop mills that would process about 10 pounds an hour. Last year our yield was about 2.5 million pounds of rice. … I looked at mills in India and Japan. The one that I liked the best was a mill from Brazil, because it’s modular: You can move components and switch to a bigger mill.

We started with a medium-sized mill, and as we grow we can add a line for brown rice. We’re only farming a third of our potential.

There are (not many) people in the United States that (farm and mill their own rice). Everyone is of the same mind as I am that we’re not going to be able to depend on making a living with the way it is today.

How does freshly milled rice differ from other varieties?

J: People want to know where their food comes from. I can tell them with absolute certainty that we haven’t used chemicals on our farm because we have live crawfish — it would kill them.

We grow a non-GMO variety. In Louisiana where we grow rice, all of the farmers have to grow the same variety if you have farms next to each other because it will cross-pollinate. So we’re all nonGMO (genetically modified organism) in the Prairie Ronde area.

When it’s freshly milled, it’s got a different taste to it. It’s like the difference between growing beans or tomatoes in your yard or Louisiana strawberries versus California strawberries.

We have Louisiana long grain white rice. We mill down to the lowest standard to leave as much bran on the rice as possible. ... Our mill is so good that we have under 1 percent broken in a bag, which means they’re all full kernels.

That’s a really high standard in the industry. — HELEN FREUND

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LOUISIANA NOW HAS ITS OWN LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE PINK BOOTS SOCIETY,

a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting female beer professionals globally. Cities and states that have a critical mass of women in the industry gather in local chapters, and Louisiana has reached that point. (Disclosure: the author is a member of the local and also the larger organizations.)

The Louisiana group, spearheaded by the leadership of Wayward Owl taproom manager Angela Grittman, participated in the Pink Boots Society Big Boots Brew March 8, a collective brewing day involving most of the worldwide chapters. March 8 also was International Women’s Day. Women from Wayward Owl, NOLA Brewing Company, Royal Brewery New Orleans and Parleaux Beer Lab brewed a beer for Big Boots Brew in collaboration with Wayward Owl, which provided the equipment and most of the ingredients.

The beer made by Louisiana’s Pink Boots, chosen by the parent organization and customized by the individual chapters, was a braggot, a honey beer. The women named it You Don’t Own Mead, and it was released at Wayward

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You Don’t Own Mead still is on tap at Wayward Owl, with a percentage of proceeds benefiting Pink Boots Society and its educational programs.

The beer received a good reception. At 7.2 percent ABV, You Don’t Own Mead has a subtle booziness up front, a lingering complexity of honey throughout and a dry finish.

The brewers also put some of the beer aside in a barrel to ferment with Brettanomyces yeast as an experiment. That brew will be released at a yet-to-be-determined date.

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2015 The Pass Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough, New Zealand Retail $9

NEW ZEALAND’S VAVASOUR FAMILY RELEASED its first

vintage nearly three decades ago and built its reputation with the Awatere River Wine Company. It originally created this wine at its namesake winery in Marlborough, but Foley Family Wines bought the estate in 2009. Marlborough is home to 75 percent of the country’s wine production. It has two subregions, Awatere Valley and Wairau Valley, which run parallel along the Pacific coast on the northeastern tip of New Zealand’s south island. Ocean breezes, abundant sunshine, daily temperature swings and a long growing season contribute to the development of the grapes’ expressive varietal character and distinctive acidity. Blended from grapes produced in both valleys, the wine offers aromas of grapefruit and tropical fruit. On the palate, taste guava, kiwi, honeydew, green apple, lime, some minerality and an herbaceous quality.

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Sippin’ in Seersucker 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 539-9650 www.ogdenmuseum.org The benefit for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art features food, cocktails, music by Little Freddie King and Aurora Nealand and The Royal Roses, raffles and shopping specials. Food is provided by local restaurants, including The American Sector, Banana Blossom, Nirvana Indian Cuisine and Vega Tapas Cafe. Tickets $65, $45 for Ogden Museum members.

APRIL 22

Crawfish Cookoff 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday Fritchie Park, 905 W. Howze Beach Road, Slidell www.hospicefoundationofthesouth.org The Hospice Foundation of the South’s annual Crawfish Cookoff fundraiser features more than 60 teams boiling more than 45,000 pounds of crawfish. There’s music by Marc Broussard, Witness, Rock Kandy and Traded Moments. Admission includes all-you-can-eat crawfish. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the gate. Children 12 and under get in free.

APRIL 23

Pinch A Palooza 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sunday Deanie’s Seafood, 1713 Lake Ave., Metairie, (504) 831-4141 www.pinchapalooza.com Pinch A Palooza includes crawfish-eating contests and music by Amanda Shaw , Flow Tribe, Rockin’ Dopsie & the Zydeco Twisters, Vince Vance & the Valiants and others. Crawfish are available boiled, fried, served over nachos and in other dishes. Proceeds benefit the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency.

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617 B Piety St., (504) 301-3222 www.bratzyall.com Dine on sausages, pretzels and German beers in the beer garden, decorated with potted flowers and plants and hanging pendant lights.

801 Rosedale Drive, (504) 309-9595 www.rosedalerestaurant.com Susan Spicer’s homespun restaurant serves gourmet comfort food in the Navarre neighborhood. The patio has shaded tables and plenty of room for weekend crawfish boils.

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Seaworthy 630 Carondelet St., (504) 930-3071 www.seaworthynola.com The seafoood restaurant and oyster bar housed in a Creole

cottage has a quaint courtyard and a second-floor patio.

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105 Metairie Hammond Highway., Metairie, (504) 345-2936 www.station6nola.com Chef Alison Vega’s Bucktown seafood restaurant has a shaded patio with plush banquettes and hanging plants.

3835 Iberville St., (504) 603-2775 www.vesselnola.com The Mid-City restaurant recently opened a patio, which sits behind the building and is shaded by olive trees.

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S .C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. 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 Bayou Burger & Sports Company — 503 Bourbon St., (504) 529-4256; www. bayouburger.com — No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $

The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

ASIAN August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Little Korea BBQ — 2240 Magazine St., (504) 821-5006; www.littlekoreabbq. flavorplate.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon. & Wed.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tsunami — 601 Poydras St., Suite B., (504) 608-3474; www.servingsushi.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe Maspero — 601 Decatur St., (504) 523-6520; www.cafemaspero.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Green to Go — 400 Poydras St., Suite 130; 2633 Napoleon Ave.; (504) 460-3160; www.greentogonola.com — No reservationas. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ New Feelings Cafe, Bar & Courtyard Lounge — 535 Franklin Ave., (504) 446-0040; www.feelingscafebar.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Pearl Wine Co. — 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 483-6314; www.pearlwineco.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — No reservations. Breakfast Fri.-Mon., lunch and dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

CAJUN

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe — 3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Reservations recommended.

Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Daisy Dukes — 121 Chartres St., (504) 5615171; 123 Carondelet St., (504) 522-2233; 5209 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 883-5513; www.daisydukesrestaurant.com — No reservations. New Orleans locations are open 24 hours. West Napoleon Avenue: Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Tres Bon Cajun Meats — 10316 Jefferson Highway, River Ridge, (504) 405-5355; www.tresbonmeats.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Willie Mae’s Grocery & Deli — 7457 St. Charles Ave., (504) 417-5424; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Bagels & Bytes — 1001 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 831-7968; www.bagelsandbytes.com — No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $ Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Audubon Clubhouse Cafe — 6500 Magazine St., (504) 212-5282; www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/golf-cafe — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Sun.-Fri., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www.bom-

OUT TO EAT bayclubneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www.creolehouserestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended.

Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 598-5005; www.kingfishneworleans. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredmaple.com — Reservations recommended.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Tomas Bistro — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-0942 — No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Tommy’s Wine Bar — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 525-4790 — No reservations.

Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MIDDLE EASTERN Jerusalem Cafe — 2132 Tulane Ave., (504) 509-7729; www.facebook.com/ cafehei — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ La Casita — 634 Julia St., (504) 2188043; 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations.

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The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations.

Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

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SEAFOOD Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House — 301 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 872-9975; 512 Bienville St., (504) 309-4848; 1327 St. Charles Ave., (504) 267-0169; 3117 21st Street, Metairie (504) 833-6310; www.mredsrestaurants.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Pier 424 Seafood Market — 424 Bourbon St., (504) 309-1574; www.pier424seafoodmarket.com — No reservations.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$$

Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Credit cards. $

Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

STEAKHOUSE Austin’s Seafood and Steakhouse — 5101 West Esplanade Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www. dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar — 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www. steakkniferestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

TAPAS/SPANISH Vega Tapas Cafe — 2051 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-2007; www.vegatapascafe.com — Reservations accepted.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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TUESDAY 18 21st Amendment — 30 x 90 Blues Women, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Bryce Eastwood Trio, noon; Joe Goldberg Trio, 3; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30; Chance Bushmen & the Rhythm Stompers, 10 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Allison & Wonderland, 8; The Budz, 11 Cafe Istanbul — Reggie Houston’s Anonymous Legends Band, 8 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Eldub, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Albanie Falletta, 6; Jon Cleary, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; Synthetic Ghosts, Junior League, 9:30 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Gasa Gasa — Helen Gillet, Baron Ahmon feat. The Urban Cellist, Monica Spirit McIntyre, 8 House of Blues — Bringin’ Down the House feat. Kodie Treaudo, Marigny Hemenway, Heartbeat Brass Band, ANSWRS, One Lan Band, Kirsten Theodore, Ahmir Trotter, 7 Joy Theater — Honey Island Swamp Band, 11 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Charlie Miller, 7 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 One Eyed Jacks — Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses (album release), Delish Da Goddess, The Tumbling Wheels, Gland, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Saenger Theatre — Bob Weir & the Campfire Band, 8 SideBar — Simon Berz, Klaas Huebner, 8:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Three Muses — Sam Friend, 5; Sam Doores, 8 Three Muses Maple — Gypsyland Jazz, 7

WEDNESDAY 19 21st Amendment — Royal Street Windin’

Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 8 Bamboula’s — Dave Hammer Trio, noon; Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat. Giselle Anguizola, 2; Messy Cookers, 6:30; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8:30; New Breed Brass Band, 10 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Tra$h Magnolia, Monocle, 10 BMC — Set Up Kings, 5; Sierra Leone, 8; Mignano, 11 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Kenny Claiborne, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Rubin/Wilson FolkBlues Explosion, 6; Tom McDermott & Friends, 8; The Mike Doussan Band feat.

Dana Abbott, 10:30 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7; Gino & the Goons, The Sueves, Planchettes, 10 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — James McCartney, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Klyph, Tranche, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — Curren$y, 10; Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Fortifiers, 8 Lafayette Square — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Naughty Professor, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Zakk Garner Duo, 7 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Noah Young Band, 10 National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen — The Vic-Tones, 11:45 a.m.

Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 8 The Sandbar at UNO — Howard Levy, 7 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 4; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

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THURSDAY 20 21st Amendment — G & the Swinging Three, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Kristina Morales & the Bayou Shufflers, noon; Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 2; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 PAGE 30

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Banks Street Bar — Willy Gantrim, 9 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJs Mange and Sea Wolff, 9 Bar Redux — Bronze Comet, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Bayou International Reggae Night feat.

Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Pink Magnolias, 5; Maid of Orleans, 7; Claude Bryant & the All-Stars, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — Quattrosonic, 7; Jig the Alien, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Wake the Dead feat.

Papa Mali, Dave Easley, Reggie Scanlan, Peter Bradish, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & the Naughty Sweethearts, 7 d.b.a. — Sarah Quintana, 7; MainLine, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren Pickford Quartet, 9:30 Downtown Covington — Luther Kent, 5 Gasa Gasa — Pile, Gnarwhal, Pope, Treadles, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Synthetic Ghosts, Richard Rourke & the Voodoo Collective, Killer Dale, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Whiskey Myers, The Steel Woods, 8 Howlin’ Wolf — Young Gunz, 9 Lafreniere Park — Four Unplugged, 6:30

Little Gem Saloon — Michael Watson & the Alchemy, 7 Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall — Loyola Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 Lucky’s — Hallelujah Hat Rack, 9 The Maison — The Good For Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Spencer Bohren, 6 Old Point Bar — Hallelujah Hat Rack, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Fast Times ’80s and ’90s Night, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger & Tim Laughlin, Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Louis Ford, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Horace Trahan, 8:30 SideBar — Shan Kenner & Martin Moretto, 8:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 21 21st Amendment — Shake It Break It Band, 2:30; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 11 a.m.; Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30; Magnolia

Dreams, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7; Kermit Ruffins, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Steve Kelly & Friends, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Holly Rock, 5; LC Smoove, 8; All 4 One Brass Band, 11; R&R Music Group, 1 a.m.

Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Annunceators, 7; Maid of Orleans, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; The Chris Mule Band feat. Papa Mali, 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; Alligator Chomp Chomp with DJs Pasta, Matty and Mitch, 10 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 6; Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Haruka Kikuchi & the Big 4Tune Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Loose Marbles, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Fair Grinds Coffeehouse (Mid-City) — Lips & the Trips, 7 Gasa Gasa — Sweet Spirit, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Volume Overload!, Salmon of Capistrano, 8; Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 The Historic New Orleans Collection — Dana Abbott Band, 6

House of Blues — Merci Raines, 9 House of Blues (Foundation Room) — Jake Landry, 5:30 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Folk Me Up, 10 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Naydja Cojoe, 7:30 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Gravity A, 11 Oak — Mia Borders, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Liberators, 9:30 The Orpheum Theater — Umphrey’s McGee, Big Something, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Pour House Saloon — Gravity Blinks, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 2; Justin Donovan, 6 Republic New Orleans — Desiigner, 7 RF’s — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 6; James Martin Band, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Mothership (Led Zeppelin tribute), Wendy Clear, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Three Muses — Royal Roses, 5:30; Doro Wat Jazz Band, 9

SATURDAY 22 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Abita Springs Town Hall — Three Rivers Cooperative, Crossing Canal, Crazy Whisky, Loose Marbles, 7 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Margerita, 8 Bamboula’s — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 11 a.m.; G & the Swinging Three, 1; Johnny Mastro, 7; Dysfunktional Bone, 11:30 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 BB King’s Blues Club — Ezra Open feat.

Better Than Ezra, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Ambush Reggae Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Josh Benitez, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Soul Company, 8; New Creations Brass Band, 11; Dat Funk Brass Band, 1 a.m.

Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Red Hot Jazz Band, 11 a.m.; Father Ron & Friends, 6;

Gentilly Stompers, 8 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Vegas Cola, 7; Maid of Orleans, 10 Casa Borrega — The Salt Wives, 7 Check Point Charlie — David Great, 4; Hubcap Kings, 7; Homemade Still, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — The Johnny Sansone Band, 9 Circle Bar — Biglemoi, Lady Legs, Midriff, 9:30 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 4; John Boutte, 8; Eric Lindell, 11 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Ambrose & Company, 9 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Shawan Rice, 5; McKenna Alicia, 7; DJ Chinua, 10 Gasa Gasa — Abolishment of Flesh, Center of Disease, Deface, Perceptions of Torment, 10 George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center — Concert for the Coast feat.

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PREVIEW BOSTON’S PILE IS A ZERO-COMPROMISE BAND, which helps to explain why it has such a rabid core following and why it hasn’t attracted a larger audience.

One suspects this is exactly how frontman Rick Maguire wants it. Taken alone, his voice has all the chesty resonance of Eddie Vedder’s, and the individual guitar melodies sketch out a spiky but not unnavigable terrain. It’s the big picture that proves most treacherous for casual listeners, who may find they’ve been led off the expected rock path into a mutated thicket of malnourished Venus flytraps. While new release A Hairshirt of Purpose (Exploding in Sound) doesn’t sound like the ideal point of entry for someone unaccustomed to aural punishment, it’s actually the most inviting album Pile’s ever produced. The angry-polygraph ups and downs rarely leave the graph paper, and Maguire’s arrangements require no protractor to solve, even ascribing to a kind of centerpiece-and-interlude order (though centerludes and interpieces seem more appropriate). If you’ve tamed the flytraps and beaten the polygraph, there’s “Hissing For Peace,” which resembles a redlining centrifuge missing a few screws.

That’s just Pile, a frayed stretch of elastic that lives for the snap. Gnarwhal, Pope and Treadles open. Tickets $10. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Pile • April 20 • 9 p.m. Thursday • Gasa Gasa, 4920 Freret St., (504) 338-3567; www.gasagasa.com PHOTO BY SUJA ONO

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Three Muses Maple — Linnzi Zaorski, 5; Monty Banks, 8 Tipitina’s — Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters (30th anniversary), Jon Cleary, Soul Project, 10 Twist of Lime — The Scars Heal in Time, Isomonic, Twinspan, My Heart Might Explode, 10 The University of New Orleans — Damond Young, Dudeyo, Foxhunter, Paris Avenue, Murda Mystery, 3 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3

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SUNDAY 23 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Abita Springs Trailhead — Abita Springs Busker Festival feat. Hokum High Rollers, Gentilly Stompers, Wasted Lives, Shakemup Jazz Band, Jackson & the Janks, 11:45 a.m.

Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Saints & Sinners Sunday Swing feat. Bon Vivant & Friends, noon; Moonshine Taste feat. Nicole Lynn Foxx, The Moonshine Players, 7 & 10

Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 11 a.m.; NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Mon Cher — Fools Gold String Band, 6 Bar Redux — Diako Diakoff, T’Lark, Coyote Anderson, 8 Beach House Bar & Grill — Christian Serpas & Ghost Town, 1 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Bayou Wind, 3; Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band, 7; XX-Y Band, 10 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Some Like It Hot, 10:30 a.m.; Heather Holloway & the Heebie Jeebies, 5; Steve Pistorius, Orange Kellin, James Evens, Benny Amon, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Big Frank & Lil Frank, 6 Cafe Negril — Vegas Cola, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 Columns Hotel — Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — Eight Dice Cloth, 3; Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Wonderland, 4 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Anuraag Pendyal, Dignity Reve, 7 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Mandolin Orange, The Dead Tongues, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Blue Velvet, 10 Hotel Maison Dupuy — Marlon Jordan Trio, 11 a.m.

House of Blues (Restaurant & Bar) — Jason Bishop, 6 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Jazz Cafe — The Key Sound, 7:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge — Kermit Ruffins, Paris Harris, DJ Sugar Ray, 4 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the NOLA Jitterbugs, 10 a.m.; Higher Heights, 10 Music Box Village — Weather Warlock feat. Quintron, Aaron Hill, Gary Wrong, 7 Old Point Bar — Luna Mora, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lucien Barbarin & Mark Braud, Sunday Night Swingsters, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bruce Daigrepont, 5:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — James Singleton Quartet, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Carolyn Broussard, noon; Jamey St. Pierre, 2; Kristina Morales & the Inner Wild, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

MONDAY 24 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Blue Nile — Jeff Chaz & NOLA Blues, 7; Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Yeah You Rite, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 6; Keith Stone, 10 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray & Bill Malchow, 8 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7

MUSIC d.b.a. — Chappy, 7; Glen David Andrews, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — New Orleans Jazz Manouche, 7 Gasa Gasa — Elysian Feel, Rosalia feat.

Spare Change, Sean Hobbes, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Danielle Nicole, 8 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Apple Juice Jones, 6; Retrofit, 10 Saturn Bar — King James & the Special Men, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Byron Asher. Xavier University, 1 Drexel Drive, (504) 486-7411; www.xula.edu — The clarinetist presents a new piece based on an oral history of New Orleans musicians. Free. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www.orpheumnola.com — The orchestra plays Mendelssohn’s “Scottish Symphony.” Tickets $20-$140.

7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday and at First Baptist Church (16333 Highway 1085, Covington) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Loyola Chamber Orchestra feat. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — The chamber group and violinist perform. Tickets $25, seniors $10. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Loyola Chorale. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2074; www.montage.loyno.edu — The group performs Handel’s “Messiah.” Tickets $10, students and seniors $5. 3 p.m. Sunday.

No Strings Attached. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse. org — Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra woodwind musicians perform contemporary and classical chamber selections.

Tickets $35. 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

NOCCA Classical Instrument Faculty Recital. NOCCA Riverfront, Nims Blackbox Theatre, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 9402875; www.nocca.com — New Orleans Center for Creative Arts music faculty present the concert with pianist Hristo Birbokuchov. Suggested donation $20.

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ovane Santos, noon; Jon Roniger, 3:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Kraw?! 3 After-Party feat.

Khris Royal, Miss Mojo, Naughty Professor, Tasche de la Rocha, The GRID, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Mobley, 10 Jazz Cafe — Jeff Chaz, 12:30; Louise Cappi, 8 The Jazz Playhouse — Michael Watson & the Alchemy, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Glen David Andrews’ Family Brass Band, 7:30 Louisiana Music Factory — Guitar Slim Jr. & Carlo Ditta, Robin Barnes, The Revealers, Miss Mojo, 1 Loyola University New Orleans, Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium — Areti Ketime, 6 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Pirate’s Choice, 11 Metropolitan Nightclub — Morgan Page Music Box Village — Weather Warlock feat. Quintron, Aaron Hill, Gary Wrong, 7 Oak — Rault & Sweetwater, 9 Old Arabi Bar — Hallelujah Hat Rack, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — 1 Percent Nation, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Jesse Tripp & the Nightbreed, The Quaalords, Green Demons, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Brian O’Connell & Palm Court Jazz Band, Ernie Elly, 8 PJ’s Coffee — Valerie Sassyfras, 7 a.m.

Pour House Saloon — Shelby LeAnn, 10 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Noisewater, 10 Republic New Orleans — SoMo, 7 RF’s — Lucas Davenport, 6; Hyperphlyy, 10 Rivershack Tavern — Jenn Howard, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Pine Leaf Boys, Pontchartrain Wrecks, 9 Saturn Bar — Julie Odell, Shrugs, Pheasants, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Larry Sieberth (album release), 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Monty Banks, noon; Jazz Band Ballers, 2; Panorama Jazz Band, 6; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 10 Suis Generis — DJ DMFX, 10:30 a.m.

Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Debbie Davis, 6; Shotgun Jazz Band, 9 Three Muses Maple — Joshua Tell, 5; Russell Welch, 8 Tipitina’s — PJ Morton (album release), Phony Ppl, 10 Twist of Lime — Akadia, Trick Bag, Ambassador, Anoxiot, 10

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S TO F N E W O R L E A N S . C O M = OUR PICKS Land of Mine (R) — POWs search for land mines in post-World War II FILM FESTIVALS Denmark. Chalmette Halfway 2 Halloween — The inaugural Life (R) — The latest in the fine tradition festival, presented by the NOLA Horror of spaceship-set creature features, plus Film Festival, focuses on filmmaking in Jake Gyllenhaal. Elmwood the horror genre from around the globe Logan (R) — The last of the Wolverine with screenings as well as live music, films (starring Hugh Jackman, anyway). local artists, dancers, DJs and more. Visit Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, www.nolahorrorfilmfest.com for details. 4 Slidell, Regal p.m. Saturday. Castillo Blanco Raw (R) — Audience members reportedly New Orleans French Film Festival fainted at early screenings of this — The festival offers a showcase of movie about a girl’s conversion from contemporary and classic French films. vegetarianism. Broad Visit www.neworleansfilmfestival.org for Saban’s Power Rangers (PG-13) — The details. Friday-Monday. Prytania Polyphonic Spree of the martial arts world battles aliens. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal OPENING THIS The Shack (PG-13) — God sends an inviWEEKEND tation to a grieving man. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell Born in China (G) — The nature documentary features pandas and the evT2 Trainspotting (R) — The sequel to the er-endangered snow leopard. Elmwood, ’90s classic, when heroin was still chic.

West Bank, Regal Broad, Canal Place Donald Cried — A man revisits his Your Name (PG) — An anime Freaky Frihometown posse after his grandmother’s day with beautiful animation. Elmwood death. Zeitgeist The Zookeeper’s Wife (PG-13) — ZooPhoenix Forgotten (PG-13) — The Blair keepers learn to #resist in World War Witch Project with aliens, apparently.

II-era Poland. Elmwood, West Bank, Prytania, Regal Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette The Promise (PG-13) — A love triangle unfolds as the Ottoman Empire crumbles.

Elmwood, West Bank Unforgettable — Katherine Heigl plays against type as a jilted, obsessive ex-wife. Chalmette

NOW SHOWING Beauty and the Beast (PG) — Hermione, I mean Emma Watson, falls in love with a furry Frankenstein. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Boss Baby (PG) — If you’ve ever wanted to see Alec Baldwin play a talking baby with a dark secret, this is your chance. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Case for Christ (PG) — A wayward journalist tries to disprove the existence of the Heavenly Father. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Ghost in the Shell (PG-13) — A live-action version of the cyberpunk manga controversially stars Scarlett Johansson.

Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Gifted (PG-13) — A child-prodigy tearjerker with beefcake-come-lately Chris Evans. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Canal Place Kedi — Istanbul is seen through the eyes of several iconoclastic cats. Broad Kong: Skull Island (PG-13) — Cinema’s greatest ape gets a new origin story. Clearview, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Elmwood

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Big Charity — Alexander Glustrom’s documentary explores the closing of Charity Hospital after Hurricane Katrina. 6 p.m.

Thursday. Zeitgeist BOSTON: An American Running Story — The documentary profiles the Boston marathon after the 2013 bombings. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, Regal Dark Crystal and Labyrinth — Jim Henson’s cult children’s movies are screened.

8 p.m. Thursday. One Eyed Jacks Death in Venice — A composer recuperating in Venice becomes obsessed with a young boy. 7:30 p.m. Friday. New Orleans Museum of Art Easter Parade — Fred Astaire and Judy Garland star as a Broadway actor and his new dance partner in the 1948 musical. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Gimme Shelter — Rock photographer Sam Emerson gives a short talk before the screening of the documentary about an infamous Rolling Stones concert. 7 p.m. Saturday. Zeitgeist The Graduate — Cinema’s most perfect final scene, plus the rest of the movie, is screened. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Grateful Dead Movie — Groovy, man.

7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood, West Bank, Canal Place I Called Him Morgan — The movie details the aftermath of jazz musician Lee Morgan’s murder. 5:30 p.m.

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REVIEW WHO SAYS THEY DON’T MAKE MOVIES LIKE THEY USED TO? Writer-director James Gray’s The Lost City of Z not only recalls the grand historical epics of eras gone by, but also revives a once-beloved film genre that celebrates explorers who mapped the world’s last uncharted territories at the start of the 20th century.

Based on the award-winning book of the same name by David Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker, The Lost City of Z tells the fictionalized story of real-world explorer Percy Fawcett, a British army officer who led several expeditions through the border regions of Bolivia, • Opens April 21 Brazil and Peru over a period of 20 years.

• The Broad Theater, Fawcett initially was sent to map the 636 N. Broad St., (504) 218region and prevent a border war from 1008; www.thebroadtheater.com erupting over the lucrative Amazon rubber boom, but he gradually became obsessed with finding an ancient lost city PHOTO BY AIDAN MONAGHAN / he called “Z.” AMAZON STUDIOS Though acutely aware of film history & BLEEKER STREET while making The Lost City of Z — specific shots are intended to recall Lawrence of Arabia and Apocalypse Now, arguably the two greatest screen epics of the 1960s and ’70s — Gray also aims to make Fawcett’s tale relevant to the world of today.

The effects of societal distinctions in class, gender and ethnicity underpin the story and push it forward, taking the film far beyond the personal heroism and lure of the unknown — central features in decades of explorer epics.

Initially motivated by the military honors and social status afforded by a successful expedition, Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, TV’s Sons of Anarchy) sees his own worldview evolve rapidly after finding physical evidence of an ancient yet advanced civilization deep in the Amazon jungle. The same cannot be said for the upper-crust members of the Royal Geographical Society that paid for Fawcett’s training and sent him to South America.

While Fawcett concludes, “We are all made of the same clay,” his colleagues in the organization have a vested interest in maintaining their view of indigenous peoples as “savages,” as it justifies the continued exploitation of the people and resources of that region. It also supports — at least symbolically — Britain’s rigid class system.

Fawcett’s father was a member of the privileged upper class before alcoholism and a gambling problem brought his downfall. In The Lost City of Z, Fawcett’s journey of enlightenment involves leaving behind his quest to regain social status and finding deeper meaning in his experience of unknown worlds. This is a welcome addition to the conventions of big-screen explorer epics.

The film also makes room for Fawcett’s wife Nina (Sienna Miller), an original suffragette, freethinker and independent woman who suffered greatly because of her husband’s unquenchable thirst for discovery and his regard for traditional gender roles. Her story reminds us that enlightenment is an ongoing process.

Ironically, Fawcett’s on-screen enlightenment has stirred real-world controversy.

Two noted British historians recently wrote op-eds in British newspapers to denounce both Grann’s book and Gray’s film as historically inaccurate. The authors called Fawcett a “nutter” and a “racist” in voices that sound a lot like the armchair explorers depicted in Gray’s film.

The Lost City of Z is not a documentary but a work of imagination. It takes us back to when the world seemed larger and more mysterious than it is today. Most of us could use a bit more of that before suffering through the next 24-hour news cycle. — KEN KORMAN

The Lost City of Z

The Lair of the White Worm (R) — A farmer discovers a mystery skull which may have belonged to a mythical beast.

9:55 p.m. Tuesday. Broad Love in the Afternoon — There are mistaken identities, murder plots and more in the 1957 film. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania Moulin Rouge — Like all Baz Luhrmann films, the Parisian cabaret drama is a love-it-or-hate-it experience. 5:30 p.m.

Friday. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art Queen of the Desert (PG-13) — Nicole Kidman is opposite James Franco in this biopic about British explorer Gertrude Bell. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 9 p.m.

Thursday. Zeitgeist Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly — Puccini’s opera is a tragic love story set in turn-of-the-20th-century Japan. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Broad Suntan — A doctor becomes obsessed with a hard-partying tourist on an island.

In Greek with English subtitles. 9:30 p.m.

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HAPPENINGS Low Road Art Walk. Royal Street — Galleries in the 700 to 1100 blocks of Royal Street stay open until 10 p.m. Thursday.

OPENING Bar Redux. 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — “Psychedelic Explosion Art87jr,” new paintings by Jason Rodriguez; opening reception 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/art-gallery — “Fine Arts Student Exhibition,” new mixed-media works by Delgado students; opening reception 5 p.m. Thursday.

Oxalis. 3162 Dauphine St., (504) 2674776; www.oxalisbywater.com — “Goodtimefrancis: A Solo Show,” mixed-media works by Francis Wong; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

GALLERIES A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Richard Sexton: Louisiana,” photography retrospective, through July 1.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — “10 Year Anniversary Show,” new work by gallery artists, through Sunday. Group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Flora, Fauna and Entrails,” group exhibition of works using fiber to explore nature themes, through May 7. “Afro Brother Spaceman,” work and prints by New Orleans comic artists inspired by cartoonist John Slade, through May 28.

Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 891-9080; www.antonart.com — Selected folk art by Mose Tolliver, Jim Sudduth, Howard Finster and more, ongoing.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5283722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “Ixtz’unun: Making Stories from Maya History,” new works by Melanie Forne, through May 5.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “On the Brink,” paintings

by Luis Cruz Azaceta, through Saturday.

Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “L’Eparpillage,” new work by Jonathan “Feral Opossum” Mayers, through Saturday.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Conspiracies,” paintings,

mixed-media and installation by Ruth Owens; “Surrounding Circumstances,” drawings, acrylic and latex works by Max Seckel; both through May 6.

Beata Sasik Gallery. 541 Julia St., (504) 322-5055; www.beatasasik.com — New work by Beata Sasik, ongoing.

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery.

4138 Magazine St., (504) 895-6201 — Paintings by Mina Lanzas and Nilo Lanzas, ongoing.

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “BXNY x NOLA,” street art by New Orleans and New York artists, through May. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Palladium,” mixed-media and sculpture incorporating palladium by George Dunbar, through April 28.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “From Light to Shadow,” works by Amanda S. Fenlon, Kristin Eckstein and Marcy Palmer, through May 27.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Recent Paintings,” oil paintings

by Joan Griswold, through April 29.

Ellen Macomber Fine Art & Textiles.

1720 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-9414; www.ellenmacomber.com — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Flux. 2124 Magazine St. — “NolaFLUX,” new work by Olesya, photographs by Tommy Crow and sculpture by Garret Haab, through May. Frank Relle Photography. 910 Royal St., (504) 388-7601 — New selections from “Until the Water,” “Nightscapes” and “Nightshade,” night photographs of Louisiana by Frank Relle, ongoing.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “Material Witness,” group exhibition, through May 7.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Riffs in Paint,” palette knife and brush oil paintings of New Orleans cultural icons

by Derenda Keating, through April.

Gallery B. Fos. 3956 Magazine St., (504) 444-2967; www.beckyfos.com — Paintings by Becky Fos, ongoing.

Gallery Burguieres. 736 Royal St., (504) 301-1119; www.galleryburguieres. com — Mixed-media work by Ally Burguieres, ongoing.

Glitter Box. 1109 Royal St., Suite A; www. glitterboxno.com — “Stay Bold: A Lady Tattooer Showcase,” work by women tattoo artists co-curated by Katie Barroso, through April.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Toxicite Radieuse,” liquid ink on glass slides and canvas by Manon Bellet, through May 7.

States of Incarceration and Mutual Support

REVIEW THE GROUND LEVEL ANNEX OF THE OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART

suggests either a wide tunnel or a narrow basement. Its rugged, subway station aura works well for gritty subjects, and few subjects are grittier than prisons.

States of Incarceration was produced by the Humanities Action Lab consortium of 20 universities, including the University of New Orleans’s Midlo Center. America jails more people than any other nation, and Louisiana jails more than any other state.

This exhibition illustrates how colonialism, slavery and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans forced to relocate to reservations presaged the shift from slave plantations to prison plantations, as well as the internment of innocent Japanese-Americans in labor camps with convicts and captured combatants during World War II. The UNO segment focuses on Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola’s early 20th-century, slavery-like, “convict lease” system. An online story project features UNO students’ postcard exchanges with current Angola inmates. Also on view are some haunting portraits and masks by local students at Travis Hill youth detention center created under the direction of maestros like local street art avatar Brandan Odums.

Shamanic, or “primitive,” cultures knew that visual art and music could heal fractured souls and sundered societies. Gallery X’s Mutual Support expo explores leading art-world shaman Nick Cave’s eight-month project with Shreveport residents including collaborative bead sculptures that represent the fabric of their lives and other works featured in Evan Falbaum’s As Is documentary (pictured). A quilt by Rachel Wallis extends the fabric metaphor to Chicago’s victims of violence, while Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s portraits of her mother depict her soulful persona in ways that transcend her bipolar disorder. Saul Robbins’ photographs document local clinical and spiritual healing spaces, but his adjacent rear gallery, consulting room “installation” is actually a free pop-up wellness center staffed by professionals and open to the public on Saturdays. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

• Through April 30 • States of Incarceration: Multimedia exhibit about mass incarceration in America.

• Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600, www.ogdenmuseum.org • Through April 23 • Mutual Support: Multimedia exhibit on mental and societal health • Gallery X, 1612 O.C. Haley Blvd., 252-0136; www.pelicanbomb.com

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “Getting in Formation,” new works by Ed Williford and Ember Soberman, through May 8.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Ex Libris,” mixed-media collage with hand drawing by Michael Pajon; “Consequences of Being,” woodcut prints about stereotypes and exoticism by Katrina Andry; both through May 27.

Ken Kirschman Artspace. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — “Painters Painting

Painters,” group show of New Orleans artists, through Saturday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Assembling Thomas Mann,” new works by the metal artist and jewelry designer, through May 27.

Lucky Rose Gallery. 840 Royal St., (504) 309-8000; www.cathyrose.com — “Heartburn,” new works by Beth Bojarski, through May 1.

M. Francis Gallery. 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 931-1915; www.mfrancisgallery.com — Paintings by Myesha Francis, ongoing.

ART Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Nos Histoires / Our Stories,” group show of work by women artists with contextual explication, through April.

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Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery. com — New work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing.

Vincent Mann Gallery. 305 Royal St., (504) 523-2342; www.vincentmanngallery. com — “Les Femmes,” work by French painter Francoise Gilot, through April.

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Where Y’Art Gallery. 1901 Royal St., (504) 325-5672; www.whereyart.net — “(Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Set Two,” group exhibition about music and culture curated by DJ Soul Sister, ongoing.

MUSEUMS Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Cecilia Vicuna: About to Happen,” work by the Chilean artist about discarded things in the time of climate change; “Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures,” sculpture retrospective; both through June 18.

The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “Storyville: Madams and Music,” photographs, maps, cards and objects from New Orleans’ one-time red-light district, through Dec. 2, and more.

Louisiana Children’s Museum. 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — Historic French Quarter life and architecture exhibit by The Historic New Orleans Collection, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Louisiana: A Medley of Cultures,” art and display exploring Louisiana’s Native American, African and European influences, ongoing.

Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts and more, ongoing.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s,” Carnival, fashion and street life scenes from 18th-century Venice, through May 21, and more.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories,” multimedia exhibit about the history of mass incarceration in the U.S., through April, and more.

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M.S. Rau Antiques. 630 Royal St., (504) 523-5660; www.rauantiques. com — “The Georgian Collection,” British works from the era of King George, through Oct. 16.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (707) 779-9317; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “In Quest,” paintings by Kim Zabbia, mixed-media works by Mapo Kinnord, sculpture by Babette Beaulieu, through May 7.

New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom. 1201 Mazant St.; www. nolacommunityprintshop.org — “The Dislocation of Familiarity,” Polaroids and other non-traditional photographs by Devin o Saurus, through April 29.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 5297277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Geometric glass sculptures and orbs by Paul Harrie; prints by Henry Miller; both through April.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery. com — “Gentleman’s Game,” acrylic and mixed-media works, through April 29.

Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery. 535 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-5271; www. old77hotel.com — “(Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul Set One,” group show about music and culture curated by DJ Soul Sister; “The Gospel According to New Orleans,” series by Cheryl Anne Grace; both through May 20.

Pamela Marquis Studio. 221 Dauphine St., (504) 615-1752; www.pamelamarquisstudio.com — New paintings by Pamela Marquis, ongoing.

Pelican Bomb Gallery X. 1612 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.; www.pelicanbomb.com — “Mutual Support,” work engaging with mental health, wellness and collectivity by Evan Faulbaum & Nick Cave, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Saul Robbins and Rachel Wallis, through Sunday.

RidgeWalker Glass Gallery. 2818 Rampart St., (504) 957-8075; www.ridgewalkerglass.com — Glass, metal sculpture and paintings by Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway, ongoing.

Scene by Rhys Art Gallery. 708 Toulouse St., (504) 258-5842; www.scenebyrhys. com — Pen and ink drawings by Emilie Rhys, ongoing.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter.org — “One Minute toMidnight: A Visual Protest,” work responding to the new presidential administration, through April.

ShiNola Gallery. 1813 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., (504) 223-5732; www.facebook. com/shinolagallery — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery. com — “Vocabulary Lesson,” bird studies on canvas and panel by Michael Dickter, through April 29.

The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Travel, Hurricane Katrina and Gulf South black-and-white photographs

by David Spielman, ongoing.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “I Should Have Called Her Virga,” atmospheric paintings by Inga Clough Falterman, through May 20.

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THEATER & CABARET The Bickersons. Valiant Theatre & Lounge, 6621 St. Claude Ave, (504) 2988676; www.valianttheatre.com — Comedy duo Spud ’n’ Mo star in the show about a bickering couple. Tickets $25. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Cocktales. Tulane University, Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway St., (504) 862-3214; www.tulane.edu — Whitney Mackman produces the series of monologues about sex and sexuality performed by men. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

An Evening with La Diva. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 9489998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — Adelina Patti performs opera favorites.

Tickets $10-$20. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Failure: A Love Story. Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, 2525 Burgundy St., (504) 920-7355; www.sanctuarynola.org — Rockfire Theatre presents the show, in which a family of clockmakers has surreal adventures. Tickets $20. 8 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday.

Gutenberg! The Musical! The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 638-6326; www.thetheatreatstclaude.com — The comedic musical is about two aspiring playwrights’ efforts to produce a show about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. Tickets $15$25. 10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Hand to God. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 638-6326; www.thetheatreatstclaude. com — Storyville Collective presents the play, in which an introverted teen discovers his puppet is demonically possessed.

Tickets $15-$25. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Hello Dawlin’. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — The Ricky Graham production spoofs several Broadway musicals. Tickets $30. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

You Belong to Me: A Patsy Cline Story.

Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — The jukebox musical about a mysterious woman uses the music of Patsy Cline. Tickets $22.50-$30.

Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m. through May 6.

BURLESQUE & VARIETY American Mess. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans.com — Katie East hosts local and touring comedians alongside burlesque performances. Free admission.

8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Bayou Blues Burlesque. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge. net — There are burlesque performances

at the weekly show. Tickets $10.

8 p.m. Friday.

Bella Blue’s Dirty Dime Peepshow. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Bella Blue presents the monthly burlesque and variety show; Ben Wisdom hosts. Tickets $15.

Midnight Saturday.

Burlesque Ballroom. The Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 553-2299; www. sonesta.com/jazzplayhouse — Trixie Minx and guests star in the late-night burlesque performance. 11 p.m. Friday.

Burlesque Bingo. Bar Mon Cher, 817 St. Louis St., (504) 644-4278; www. barmoncher.com — There are weekly burlesque performances and a bingo game.

7 p.m. Monday.

Circus Darling. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — The sexy circus cabaret features a rotating cast of burlesque, vaudeville, aerial and magic entertainers.

Tickets $10-$15. 9 p.m. Thursday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the evening of burlesque and stand-up. 9:30 p.m.

Monday.

Lovesexy. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The burlesque show is a tribute to Prince.

A viewing of Purple Rain follows. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Friday.

New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival.

Several days of giant puppet performances take place at Mudlark Public Theatre (1200 Port St.) and Fortress of Lushington (2218 Burgundy St.) Visit www.facebook. com/mudlarkpublictheater for details.

Shows $10-$20. Thursday-Sunday.

Nicole Lynn Foxx Variety Hour. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — The drag performer hosts a weekly variety show. 9 p.m. Thursday.

Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 9405546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

DANCE Complexions Contemporary Ballet.

Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater. com — The contemporary ballet includes a tribute to David Bowie. Tickets start at $24. 8 p.m. Saturday.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelvemilelimit — Julie Mitchell and Laura Sanders host an open-

mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 834-6474; www.facebook.com/pages/thenewwaloos — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Chris Champagne. Cello’s, 3401 N. Hullen St., Metairie, (504) 456-5596; www. cellosrestaurant.com — The comedian’s politics-themed show is “The Beasts of Southern Denial.” Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Friday.

Comedy Beast. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.com — Massive Fraud presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www.lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show.

10 p.m. Tuesdays.

Comedy Gold. House of Blues, Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St., (504) 310-4999; www.houseofblues.com — Leon Blanda hosts a stand-up showcase of local and traveling comics. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The Franchise. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The New Movement’s improv troupes perform.

9 p.m. Friday.

Gamma. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The theater hosts sketch comedy from new groups.

9:30 p.m. Thursday.

Go Ahead. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone and Shawn Dugas host a short lineup of alternative stand-up comics.

7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Harold Night. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Comedians perform Harold-style improv.

10:30 p.m. Friday.

Hot Sauce. Voodoo Lounge, 718 N. Rampart St., (504) 304-1568 — Vincent Zambon and Leon Blanda host a stand-up comedy showcase. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Jim Gaffigan. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www. saengernola.com — The comedian and actor (The Jim Gaffigan Show, Portlandia) performs.7 p.m. Friday.

Knockout. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Two comedy acts compete to win an audience vote.

9:30 p.m. Monday.

Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up comedy showcase with free food and ice cream. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Louie Anderson. Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St., (504) 528-9569; www. thejoytheater.com — The veteran comedian performs. Tickets $35-$44.50.

8 p.m. Friday.

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Sunday.

Permanent Damage. Bullet’s Sports Bar, 2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., (504) 669-4464 — Tony Frederick, Corey Mack and B-Dub host the weekly stand-up show.

8 p.m. Saturday.

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INTERESTING THINGS HAPPEN WHEN EMOTIONS ARE REPRESSED. Sometimes they’re channeled into a hobby and possibly great art, such as a symphony, a sculpture or a play. Or, as in the case of Hand to God, grief may turn a hand puppet into a Freudian id that dominates family dynamics.

In the Tony-nominated play, presented by The Storyville Collective at The Theatre at St. Claude, Jason (John Fitzpatrick), who is recovering from the death of his father, participates in an after-school puppet workshop at a Christian church, coordinated by his mother, Margery Stevens. Without warning, Jason’s sock puppet Tyrone takes on an evil life of its own (even growing a set of teeth) and spews venomous, uncensored social commentary.

It’s a little embarrassing to laugh out loud at these mild-mannered Christians’ misery, but Hand of God deftly exposes • April 20-23 and 27-29 basic human weaknesses by unearthing people’s forbidden fantasies.

8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday Fitzpatrick doesn’t attempt to be• The Theatre at St. Claude, come a ventriloquist, but his puppetry is 2240 St. Claude Ave. still powerful as he struggles to subdue Tyrone, who has no qualms about (504) 638-6326; www.theshouting what everyone else is feeling. theatreatstclaude.com/onstage/ The actor manipulates the puppet with hand-to-god such realism that it’s a simple leap to see Tyrone as a real character and not • Tickets $15-$25 just Jason’s split personality. One starts to wonder if Tyrone is merely acting out Jason’s repressed rage or if he has indeed become the Antichrist. The New York Times described Hand to God as “Sesame Street meets The Exorcist.”

Playwright Robert Askins grew up in a small Texas town, attended a conservative Christian church with a puppet ministry and also lost his father, so he knows the subject matter. He took the name Tyrone from Eugene O’Neill’s dark, depressive family drama Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Jason is torn between his inner demon and his attraction for the simple goodness of his classmate Jessica (Meredith Owens), but Tyrone gives voice to Jason’s base instincts.

Meanwhile, the frazzled widow Margery tries to be cheerful while seemingly coming apart at the seams. She coaxes her students into puppet arts while denying her own emotional pain. Bluntly rejecting the Rev. Greg’s (Michael Harkins) clumsy advances (“Try me, you’ll like me.”), she instead succumbs to the bold, temptations of an underage student, Timothy (Kyle Woods). The impetuous Timothy begs Margery to tell him what to do. “I’ll break things for you,” he says, scattering books and throwing chairs across the stage. Margery is so off-kilter, she’s surprised when the Rev. Greg announces he will contact the authorities.

All the while, a portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus looks down on the scene, and a poster implores youngsters to “Welcome Jesus into Your Family Today.”

Despite the absurdity, the actors evoke compassion for these flawed characters, who are trying so hard to be good, but are angry as hell. We identify with them and blame Tyrone for causing their misery, when he is just an unrecognized part of us. — MARY RICKARD

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The Rip-Off Show. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Comedians compete in a live pop-culture game-show hosted by Geoffrey Gauchet. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Sh*tstarter: Comedy + Crowdfunding.

The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Comedians present their worst real-life Kickstarter finds. 9 p.m. Saturday.

Something Like. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Improv performers riff on musicals; there’s a singalong. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Super Stupid. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Comedians

Benjamin Hoffman and Luke Oleen-Junk present the humorous discussion show.

9:30 p.m. Sunday.

Think You’re Funny? Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club, 8140 Willow St., (504) 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — Brothers Cassidy and Mickey Henehan host an open mic. Sign-up at 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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TUESDAY 18 Addressing New Orleans’ Racial Wealth Inequality Through Homeownership.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The roundtable discusses the problem of homeownership for households of color, who often lack access to family wealth. Refreshments are served. Free admission. 11:30 a.m.

Andre Perry. Loyola University, Thomas Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 8653240; www.loyno.edu — The Center for the Study of the New Orleans’ interview series presents the author and education leader. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Birthday BingOh! Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux. com — The bingo and game night has a birthday theme. 8 p.m.

Craft Happy Hour. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Workshop participants learn to make customized roll-on perfumes. Tickets $25. 6 p.m.

Garden Workshops. The Urban Farmstead, 4221 S. Robertson St.; www.southboundgardens.com — Workshops discuss composting and vermicomposting (Tuesday) and vegetable growing basics (Monday). Suggested donation $10. 5 p.m.

Spring Swing on Magazine. Red Dog Diner, 3122 Magazine St., (504) 934-3333; www.reddogdiner.com — A tasting tour begins at the diner and visits Dat Dog, Basin Seafood & Spirits and Arana Taqueria. Visit www.bonmomentnola.com for details. Tickets $45-$65. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 19 Evenings with Enrique. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Local musicians play near the garden’s collection of works by Enrique Alferez. Mojitos and Latin food are available for purchase. 5 p.m.

Fun with Stories. Children’s Resource Center, 913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 596-2628; www.nolalibrary.org — The workshop covers questions about kids’ reading abilities before age 5. 11 a.m.

The same program is presented at the library’s Latter branch (5120 St. Charles Ave.) at 6:30 p.m.

Jim Bruseth. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — The archaeologist discusses his excavation of a shipwreck off the Texas coast. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Literary Round Table Luncheon. Bourbon Orleans Hotel, 717 Orleans St., (504) 523-2222; www.bourbonorleans.com — Linda Thurman, Pamela Arceneaux and Jeff Crouere are the guest hosts at the monthly arts luncheon. Email judy.

leblanc@bourbonorleans.com for details.

Tickets $55. Noon.

THURSDAY 20 Tea Tasting with Leaf & Bean NOLA. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 5962667; www.nolalibrary.org — Tea experts discuss teas from around the world. 6:30 p.m. The same workshop is offered at East New Orleans Regional Library (5641 Read Blvd.) at 2 p.m. Saturday.

FRIDAY 21 Brian Dougherty. Loyola University New Orleans, Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 8652011; www.loyno.edu — The consultant and eco-friendly designer speaks. Free admission. 2 p.m.

Cajun Festival. Visitation of Our Lady School, 3520 Ames Blvd., Marrero, (504) 347-3377 — Cajun food, live music, bingo and other games are among the festival’s offerings. There’s a 5K walk/run at 8 a.m.

Saturday. Free admission. 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Hootenanny! A Barn Dance Benefit.

Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.growdatyouthfarm.org — There’s food from local restaurants, zydeco music and zydeco and square dance instruction at the farm’s fundraiser.

Tickets $45. 6:30 p.m.

Jungian Psychology and Analysis as Psycho-Spiritual Event. Parker United Methodist Church, 1130 Nashville Ave., (504) 895-1222; www.parkerchurch.net — Jungian analyst Terrill L. Gibson gives a multimedia presentation (Friday) and workshop (Saturday). Lecture $15, workshop $45. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Latin Night. Hotel Storyville, 1261 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-4800; www. hotelstoryville.net — There’s Latin music, cuisine and cigars at the garden party.

Admission $5. 7 p.m.

Purple Tie & Tiara Gala. Fleur de Lis Event Center, 1645 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville — The Token of Love Foundation holds its fundraising gala. Visit www. tokenoflove.org for details. Tickets $85.

7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Roast of the Town. Harrah’s Casino, Harrah’s Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504) 5336600; www.harrahsneworleans.com — The fundraiser for Delgado Community College Foundation features a roast of Liberty Bank and Trust CEO Alden McDonald, as well as a dinner and live auction. Visit www.dcc.edu for details.

Tickets start at $150. 7 p.m.

Sippin’ in Seersucker. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 522-9200; www.theshopsatcanalplace.com — At the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s annual fundraiser, attendees don seer-

sucker while enjoying art, fashion, live music, and food and drinks. Tickets $65.

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Studio 504: Disco for Dance. Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 371-5849 — Upturn Arts’ annual fundraiser includes cuisine from local restaurants and benefits summer arts camp scholarships. Visit www.upturnarts.org for details. Tickets $30-$250, kids free. 6 p.m.

SATURDAY 22 Brunch Fest. Mandeville Wharf at Crescent Park, 1008 N. Peters St. — The LA/SPCA presents its second annual dog-friendly brunch benefit featuring live music and entertainment, food, drinks, vendors, raffles and more. Festive brunch attire or costumes encouraged. Tickets $5-$25. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Community Arts & Literacy Workshop.

Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 596-3100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — Parents and young children (though kindergarten) enjoy the performing arts workshop. 10 a.m.

Covington Antiques and Uniques Festival. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The event features live music, food, antiques, collectibles, classic cars, architectural salvage, crafts, a live auction, appraisals, demonstrations and walking tours. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Crawfish Cookoff. Fritchie Park, 901 Howze Beach Road, Slidell — Bands play at the crawfish cookoff. Visit www.crawfishtickets.com for details. Tickets $30-$35.

11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cruisin’ for the Mission. New Orleans Mission Giving Hope Retreat, 31294 Highway 190, Lacombe, (985) 218-9485; www.neworleansmission.org/GHR — The New Orleans Mission’s classic car and motorcycle show fundraiser includes food, drinks and music by the Eli Seals Band.

Free admission. Noon to 5 p.m.

Cultivating Self-Compassion. Ecoutez!

Retreat, 435 Nighthawk Drive, Slidell — Lara Naughton leads the self-care workshop. Call (504) 899-3431 for details.

Registration $30. 9 a.m.

Earthwalks. City Park Volunteer Center, 1009 Harrison Ave., (504) 300-6394; www.neworleanscitypark.com — Walks through the park’s Couturie Forest celebrate Earth Day. Tickets $3. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Easter Eggstravaganza. Behrman Center, 2529 Gen. Meyer Ave. — There are bounce houses, raffles, carnival games and music at the egg hunt for children age 12 and under. Bring a basket. Free admission. 11 a.m.

Free Dog Microchipping & Rabies Vaccinations. New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board Office, 2100 Leon C. Simon Drive, (504) 658-2400 — The LA/SPCA provides free microchips and rabies vaccinations for local dogs. All dogs must be on leashes or in carriers.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Gold & Blue Gala. Holy Cross School, 5500 Paris Ave., (504) 942-3100; www. holycrosstigers.com — The fundraiser has a “Be Our Guest” theme. There’s food, drinks and auctions. Cocktail or black tie attire required. Tickets start at $75. 7 p.m.

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PREVIEW THE NEW ORLEANS GIANT PUPPET FESTIVAL has grown to two venues, 10 puppet companies, including international artists, and a variety of productions ranging from family-friendly traditional tales to late-night adults-only shows. Host and sponsor Mudlark Puppeteers presents Vassilisa the Wise, a new take on a Russian baba yaga folk tale. Returning companies include Toybox Theatre from North Carolina, Night Shade from Portland, Oregon, and Di Fillipo Marionette from Italy. Rasputin’s Marionettes from Los Angeles is among the newcomers.

There also are puppet slams — a sort of open mic for festival participants to present short pieces or snippets — at 10:30 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday at Mudlark Public Theatre.

New Orleans musician and puppeteer Harry Mayronne presents his High Strung Cabaret marionette show at the Saturday puppet slam. Suggested donations are $10-$20. Visit www. facebook.com/mudlarkpublictheater for schedule and information.

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includes food, drinks, music by the New Orleans Arrhythmia Band, a silent auction and raffles. Tickets $50. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Lake PontchARTrain Craft Fair. New Canal Lighthouse, 8001 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 282-2134 — Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation’s craft fair has vendors selling arts and crafts, clothes, soap, jam and more, plus educational kids’ Earth Day activities. Free admission.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Men In Kilts. Irish House, 1432 St. Charles Ave., (504) 595-6755 — Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Louisiana’s fundraiser offers music, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. Free admission. 7 p.m.

Mini Maker Faire. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, Delgado Theater, (504) 616-6066; www.dcc.edu — The family-friendly festival showcases the work of makers. Admission $10, kids free.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

New Orleans Air Show. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Belle Chasse, (504) 678-3260; www.nrs.navy.mil/nasno — There are performers and exhibitions by the Blue Angels flight team at the family-friendly air show. Gates open at 8 a.m.

Saturday-Sunday.

Ride for Homeless Heroes. New Orleans Mission, 1130 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

— The New Orleans Mission holds a fundraising ride from its New Orleans location

to its Lacomb retreat benefiting homeless veterans. Registration $10. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Shotgun House Tour. Santa Fe Restaurant, 3201 Esplanade Avenue, (504) 948-0077; www.santafenola.com — Tours visit Faubourg St. John shotgun homes. Tickets $25. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Spring Fling. Press Street Gardens, 7 Press St.; www.pressstreetgardens. com — At the garden party, there are workshops on natural Easter egg dying, a peanut-tossing contest and more. Food and drinks are available for purchase. Free admission. 3 p.m.

Spring Garden Fest. St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www. sttammany.lib.la.us/covington.html — There are speakers, cooking demos, plant vendors and kids’ activities at the fest presented by Louisiana Master Gardeners.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Sweet Soiree. Stone Creek Club and Spa, 1201 Ochsner Blvd., Covington, (985) 801-7100; www.stonecreekclubandspa. com — The fundraising gala benefiting ACCESS features a lineup of Louisiana musicians and cuisine and desserts paired with wine and cocktails. Tickets $75-$140.

7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Symposium of Secrets. Alombrados Oasis, 3151 Dauphine St.; www.alombrados-oasis.org — The fundraiser for Cripple Creek Theatre Company offers food, drinks, live music, an auction and theat-

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SUNDAY 23 Gullah Folklore Performance. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www.nolalibrary. org — Kyndra Joi leads the all-ages storytelling workshop based on West African folklore. 1:30 p.m.

Hibiscus Show and Sale. Grace King High School, 4301 Grace King Place, Metairie — Hibiscus plants are displayed and sold. 1 p.m.

Pinch A Palooza Festival & Crawfish Eating Contest. Deanie’s Seafood, 1713 Lake Ave., (504) 831-4141; www.deanies. com — A variety of crawfish dishes and activities are offered at the family-friendly seafood festival. Several bands play. Free admission. 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Puppy Workshops. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191 — Sunday dog workshops include a humans-only class for new puppy owners and an off-leash puppy social. Registration required. 10 a.m.

Spring Tour of Homes. Gretna Historical Society Complex, 209 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 362-3854 — Participants tour several historic homes, museum sites and a business. Tickets $25. 1 p.m.

Sunset Garden Gala. Beauregard-Keyes House, 1113 Chartres St., (504) 523-7257; www.bkhouse.org — There are food, drinks and a performance by Deacon John & the Ivories at the garden party benefiting Beauregard-Keyes House. Tickets $50-$75. 6 p.m.

MONDAY 24 Big Easy Entertainment Awards. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871 — The annual awards ceremony benefitting Gambit’s Foundation for Entertainment Development and Education honors local musical and theatrical talent. Visit www.bestofneworleans.com/ gambit/BigEasyAwards for details. 7 p.m.

Internet Safety Class. St. Tammany Parish Library, Causeway Branch, 3457 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-9779 — A reference librarian leads a class on internet security, passwords, terminology and how to protect yourself online. Registration required. 3 p.m.

SPORTS New Orleans Baby Cakes. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.cakesbaseball.com — The

New Orleans Baby Cakes play the Iowa Cubs at 7 p.m. Tuesday and ThursdayFriday and at noon Wednesday. They also play the Omaha Storm Chasers at 6 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday.

Big Easy Rollergirls. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — The Big Easy Rollergirls play the Spindletop Rollergirls and Duke City Roller Derby. 5 p.m. Saturday.

WORDS Emma Fick. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The cartoonist signs her book Snippets of New Orleans.

6 p.m. Thursday.

Jen Sincero. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author discusses and signs You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth. 2 p.m. Sunday.

Mary Louise Christovich and Roulhac Toledano. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The authors sign Garden Legacy.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

New Orleans Poetry Festival. St. Claude Arts District — Readings, panels and musical performances are featured at the festival. Visit www.nolapoetry.com for details. All-access passes are $75. Thursday-Saturday.

Poetry StoryWalk for Adults. St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany.lib.la.us/covington. html — Adults are invited to the Poetry StoryWalk under the library’s oak trees.

Free admission. 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Rad Families Book Release. Rank and File Books, 5206 Magazine St. — A party accompanies the release of Rad Families: A Celebration, a book about inclusive models of parenting. 5 p.m.

Spree MacDonald, Tom Lowenstein. Antenna Gallery, 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/antenna — The poet and the journalist present recent works. 7 p.m.

Tom McDermott. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The musician presents Five Lines No Waiting, his book of limericks and sketches. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Write-a-Thon. Citywide — Participants travel to locations around New Orleans for the 24-hour writing project. Visit www. give.classy.org/writeathon for details. Saturday.

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Tails but No Black Tie. Equest Farm, 1001 Filmore Ave, (504) 483-9398; www.equestfarm.com — The equestrian exhibition benefits Friends of City Park.

“Cowboy casual” attire encouraged. Visit www.tailsbutnoblacktie.org for details.

Tickets start at $15. 4 p.m.

You Night Battle of the Models. Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center, 8245 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, (504) 278-4242; www. sigurcenter.com — You Night, a women’s empowerment group for cancer survivors, presents a runway battle between its own models and professional models. Tickets $25-$50. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Medals $6.99 to $12.99

Communion Picture Frame $12.99

Cross Stretch Bracelet $7.99

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RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL AFTER CONSTRUCTION CLEANING HOLIDAY CLEANING LIGHT/GNERAL HOUSEKEEPING HEAVY DUTY CLEANING

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If you cannot attend the public meetings for the 2018 GOM Draft Supplemental EIS for the proposed 2018 GOM lease sales, you may submit written comments within 45 days following the publication of the Notice of Availability of the 2018 GOM Draft Supplemental EIS in the Federal Register in one of the following ways: 1.

In an envelope labeled “Comments on the 2018 GOM Draft Supplemental EIS” and mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Greg Kozlowski, Deputy Regional Supervisor, Office of Environment (GM 623E), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394;

2.

Through the regulations.gov web portal: Navigate to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket No. BOEM-2017-0001. Click on the “Comment Now!” button to the right of the document link. Enter your information and comment, then click “Submit.”

BOEM does not consider anonymous comments; please include your name and address as part of your submittal. BOEM makes all comments, including the names and addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that BOEM withhold their names and/or addresses from the public record; however, BOEM cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. If you wish your name and/or address to be withheld, you must state your preference prominently at the beginning of your comment. All submissions from organizations or businesses and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses will be made available for public inspection in their entirety.

If you have questions, please call Mr. Greg Kozlowski at 5047362512.

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This notice will be published once a week for four consecutive weeks beginning 4/11/17 and ending 5/2/17.

H O M E | FA S H I O N | B E A U T Y

Done the 11th day of April, 2017.

Magaria Bobo Clerk of the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County 6001 12th Avenue East Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35405 Leon Storie P.O. Box 20029 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35402 Attorney for the Petitioners

Weekly Tails

NOTICES / GENERAL CLASSIFIEDS

NOTICE OF JUVENILE ACTION

COURTNEY WELLS, whose whereabouts are unknown, a Petition for the Termination of Parental Rights with regard to minor child KNM (born 8/22/11) has been filed in the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama in case number JU-2014-759.03.

You must answer said petition within fourteen days of the date of final publication or a default judgment may be entered against you. Your answer is to be filed in the Juvenile Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Gambit: 4/11/17, 4/18/17, 4/25/17, 5/2/17

Kennel #34794285

Moe is a 1-year-old, neutered, terrier mix. He a lot of energy in a small package and loves to spend his time exploring new surroundings. He’d be the perfect companion for hikes or walks through the parks!

MARIMBA

Kennel #34443981

Marimba is a 5-year-old, spayed, domestic shorthair. Marimba came to us as a fearful stray in January, but thanks to the hard work of our animal Care staff, she is now a sweet and affectionate lady looking for a home!

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT Playmates or soul mates, you’ll find them on MegaMates Always FREE to listen and reply to ads!

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To meet these or any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun., call 368-5191 or visit www.la-spca.org

NEED TO PLACE A REAL ESTATE AD? CALL 483-3100

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5811 TCHOUPITOULAS ST. • CLASSIC UPTOWN SHOTGUN ON A QUIET SECTION OF TCHOUP - Quaint 2 BR/1.5 BA home + cute Guest House with full bath. Main home boasts an Open Floor Plan with 11’ ceilings, Heart of Pine floors in the living area, built-in bookcases and kitchen w/ custom solid cypress cabinetry. Lovely courtyard in rear. Guest House has many possibilities - great home office or artist’s studio OR extra rental income! Convenient location provides easy access to downtown, I-10 and the Westbank. $425,000

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We are always looking for additions to our wonderful team! Hospice volunteers are special people who make a difference in the lives of patients and families affected by terminal illness. Interested in a future medical career? Get on our exciting new track!

Many physicians and nurses receive their first taste of the medical field at Canon.

To become a hospice volunteer, call Paige at 504-818-2723 Ext. 3006 EMPLOYMENT

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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, NOTICE: 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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ROOMS BY WEEK. Private bath. All utilities included. $180/week. 1 BR avail. Call (504) 202-0381 or (504) 738-2492.

FARM LABOR Temporary Farm Labor: Anderson-Tucker Farm Holdings, Calvert, TX, has 6 positions, 3 mo. experience operating large farm equipment for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops, swathing, raking, baling, stacking & transporting hay from field to storage, planting, harvesting & transporting cotton, vaccinating, ear tagging, supplements & feeding livestock; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver license with clean MVR within 30 days; once hired, workers may be required to take employer paid random drug tests; testing positive/failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment; employer provides free tools, equipment, housing and daily trans; trans & subsistence expenses reimb.; $11.59/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 5/28/17 – 12/31/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order TX7185780 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

PROFESSIONAL Bus. Devel. Spec/Bakery for mfr of modular conveying systs for bakery mkt segment.

Ident & prioritize growth opps; devel in depth knowledge of customer accounts & needs; prepare investment payback analysis; devel customer bus cases; drive devel & commercialization of new apps & new prods; work with mkting to develop clear mkting msging. Req: MBA; in depth knowledge of bakery process & technologies; new product development process; bakery spiral applications; preparing bakery payback calculations & business cases; Spiral, ProTrax, & AIM technologies. Adept at Sharepoint, Powerpoint, Excel. Excellent written and spoken communication skills. International travel. Send CV & cv ltr to Michelle Donnelly, Recruiter, Intralox, LLC, 200 Laitram Lane, Harahan, LA 70123 within 30 days & refer to Job #16041 to be considered.

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Mechanical Engineer —Harahan, LA. For conveying systems manufacturer. Spiral prod dsgns, prod line improvement, prod testing, materials sel, prepping tech manuals/doc. Utilizes comp. mod. for design functions. BS, ME; in depth knowl of: math computing & analysis tools (such as Excel, Logger Pro); Auto CAD; Solidworks; 2D & 3D engineering design & manufacturing tools; remote problem troubleshooting & tracking; on site mechanical troubleshooting & evaluation. Telecommuting from any location in the US is an option for this position. Occasional travel to Harahan LA. Send CV & cover letter to Intralox, LLC, Attn: Raye Latham, 200 Laitram Lane, Harahan LA 70123 w/i 30 days & mention job #13021.

Now Hiring: Servers & Host/Hostess. Apply in person from 11:00 am - 2:30 pm or 5-9 pm at 1403 St. Charles Ave.

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