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TUE. JUNE 20 | Seattle’s Wimps’ 2015 LP Suitcase (Kill Rock Stars) anti-romanticizes every old guy at the party and the dumps they call home.

Black Abba and Ghost Coast open at 10 p.m. at Siberia.

Jacuzzi Boys WED. JUNE 21 | Last year’s Ping Pong is a lethally leather-clad dose of basement glam from the Miami rock ’n’ roll band. This month, the group released a decidedly Miami-remixed version turning the band’s greasy anthems into retro-funk and dance pop.

Lawn opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

Close to home New Orleans honky tonkers The Deslondes return with new album Hurry Home

Black Marble THU. JUNE 22 | Reborn as a solo project after a split with co-founder Ty Kube, Black Marble sharpened the vision of singer/songwriter Chris Stewart on last year’s It’s Immaterial (Ghostly International): a steady stream of basement vocals and New Wave bass melodies. Body of Light and Boyish Charm open at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

BY ALEX WOODWARD @ALEXWOODWARD FOR A BAND HAILING FROM ALL POINTS, HOME CAN MEAN A LOT OF THINGS. There’s the South, from

Arkansas to North Carolina, and families and roots planted across the country, and there’s the wideopen road and the shows paving the way between them. Then there’s The Deslondes’ homebase in New Orleans, where the group has shared songs in dim bars and at backyard campfires on the band’s namesake street in Holy Cross by a slight turn tucked behind the Mississippi River levee.

With The Deslondes’ second full-length album Hurry Home, the New Orleans’ country- and R&Binfluenced honky tonkers (Dan Cutler, Sam Doores, Riley Downing, Cameron Snyder and John James Tourville) channel American roots music, gospel, electrified R&B, country and folk on the 13 songs culled from the songbooks among them. Hurry Home is out June 23 on New West Records.

The band’s songs often reflect the bittersweetness of leaving home, coming back to it, or the urge to “hurry up and get home” while on the road and the restlessness to start rambling again, says bassist and songwriter Cutler. “There’s a lot of feelings when we’re home to be out there, to start moving,” he says.

“People’s idea of home is really sort of romanticized and mixed up with a lot of feelings of nostalgia.”

The album cover — a deep blondeand peach-colored roadway meeting a sunset seemingly pulled from a widescreen Ed Ruscha landscape — “looks like an old memory of something,” Cutler says. “But in real life, it’s a picture outside of Riley’s house in Missouri,” painted by Downing’s father and hanging in the family home.

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Annie Get Your Gun THU.-SUN. JUNE 22-25 | Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre opens its 50th season with Irving Berlin’s musical based on sharpshooting entertainers Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley, featuring songs such as “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” At 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday at Dixon Hall.

Sea Battle EP release FRI. JUNE 23 | Celebrating the release of its debut EP Clones, Sea Battle’s noisy, hip-hop-influenced beats and freestyle sounds are seemingly shredded and put back together again. AF THE NAYSAYER opens at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

“Sometimes it looks like that — sometimes it’s just a highway,” he says. “Your idea of beauty and image of home in your memories are idealistic and can be surrealistic, I guess.”

The band recorded rhythm tracks in the summer-humid Tigermen Den in Bywater with longtime producer Andrija Tokic, who helmed the band’s 2015 self-titled debut from his studio in Nashville.

“There’s a lot of mojo in the wooden shotguns in the houses and in the wood,” Cutler says. “You can hear a lot of that in the quieter parts of the album. … We took it back to Nashville and put a bunch of shit on it, but in the quiet songs, you can hear it.”

Those sweat-stained early sessions include the vibrating, dreamy blues of “Just In Love with You,” the doowop specter of “She Better Be Lonely,” and album opener “Muddy Water,” a wistful, heavy-slow piano blues

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buzzing with childhood nostalgia.

Downing’s song is bookended by his “Deja Vu and a Blue Moon,” an ode to the roadlife and all its trappings.

The album throughout is powered by electric organ, rolling piano and lap steel, threaded by close harmonies in the foreground, with no lyric left out of the spotlight.

“They’re kind of all of our songs,” Cutler says. “People talk about how there are five songwriters and they write all their songs. ... Everybody came up with ideas, but the rest of the band turns them into a song. In particular, if another band played these songs, they’d sound completely different. We have our thing.”

Naughty Professor album release FRI. JUNE 23 | The New Orleans funk powerhouse celebrates the release of Identity, which finds the sextet working alongside members of Lettuce and the Soul Rebels, David Shaw of The Revivalists, Ivan Neville, Mike Dillon, Dexter Gilmore and others. The Crooked Vines open at 10 p.m. at Tipitina’s.

Louisiana CajunZydeco Festival SAT.-SUN. JUNE 24-25 | The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s free festival features D.L. Menard and the Jambalaya Cajun Band, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Les Freres Michot and other Acadiana bands.

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The percentage of black women in Louisiana living below the poverty line in 2014.

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A REPORT RELEASED LAST WEEK FROM THE NONPARTISAN INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S POLICY RESEARCH revealed troubling data about the economic and social challenges facing black women in Louisiana. Among its other findings: • Black women in Louisiana (and Mississippi) make less money that anywhere else in the country. In 2014, their median annual earnings were just $25,000. The median income for women nationwide was $38,000.

• Louisiana, Massachusetts and Minnesota have the nation’s highest percentages of black women employees in service occupations.

Only 28.3 percent of black women in Louisiana worked in (better-paid) managerial or professional occupations.

• The report did note Louisiana is the country’s fourth-best state for black women business owners; a bright spot in an otherwise-dismal accounting.

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On the Louisiana Legislature’s recent special session, which was called because lawmakers couldn’t finalize a budget during the regular session: “Can’t they be cloistered with skeleton staffs until all activity is finished, with coffee and sandwiches, or Hot Pockets, like the college kids do? That would save some money and provide incentive.” — born70128

rescheduled for this week Mayor Mitch Landrieu will hold his annual State of the City address June 21. Landrieu postponed the speech June 14 following the early morning shooting of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise outside Washington D.C. Landrieu was scheduled to deliver the address at the Civic Theatre later that morning. It likely will be the final State of the City for Landrieu, who is term-limited, before mayoral elections this fall. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Civic Theatre (510 O’Keefe Ave.).

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U2 will expand its 2017 world tour to include a show in New Orleans in September — the band’s first performance in the city in more than a decade. U2 returns to the Superdome Sept. 14 as part of the band’s The Joshua Tree tour. Singer-songwriter Beck will open.

The tour celebrates the 30th anniversary of the release of the band’s landmark fifth album, produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and featuring hits “With or Without You,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Where the Streets Have No Name.” The band last performed in the Superdome alongside Green Day in September 2006 in a dramatic, emotional and cathartic reopening of the Dome following Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures, where they played the song “The Saints Are Coming.”

Tickets are $35-$75. There is a four-ticket limit for subscriber purchases and a six-ticket limit for general sales.

2 . Quote of the week “We are feeding into very fragile or disturbed minds ideas and language they shouldn’t hear over and over on TV. ... Elections have consequences, but, too, words have real consequences. And the political climate, as far as my lifetime — and I’m not that old — it’s the worst I’ve seen it.” — U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, addressing the media one day after his colleague and close friend U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and three others were shot at a Virginia park where they were practicing for an upcoming charity baseball game for members of Congress.

Richmond said he had visited Scalise in the hospital three times in the day since the shooting.

Asked if he thought Scalise would pull through, Richmond said, “I’m prayerful he’ll pull through.” (See Commentary, p. 11.)

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State Senate passes budget in special session The Louisiana Senate passed a $28 billion state operating budget June 16, wrapping up the 2017 special session that hinged on the passage of a workable budget. The budget appropriates every last dollar of forecasted revenue on the condition that agencies hold back from spending a combined $60 million as a precaution against midyear shortfalls. Civil service workers will get 2 percent pay raises, higher education will not take a cut, TOPS will be fully funded, psychological rehabilitation services will not halt, and the Acadiana Center for Youth will open. “The bill is actually better than it was before,” Finance Committee chairman Sen. Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, said. “It’s smart, reasonable, and we did the right thing.”

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Louisiana ranks among the worst states in the U.S. for overall child well-being, according to the 2017 Kids Count report from the Agenda for Children and Annie E. Casey Foundation. More than a quarter of Louisiana children live in poverty, and more than 30 percent live in households that lack secure employment or have a high housing cost burden. Louisiana also was one of 14 states in which death rates among young children and teenagers increased between 2010 and 2015. Half of young children are not enrolled in school, and nearly three-quarters of fourth-graders are not proficient in reading.

Despite the low rankings, more children in Louisiana have access to health insurance than in previous years. Only 4 percent of Louisiana kids were uninsured in 2015, gains reflected in other states with improving insurance coverage via Medicaid expansions and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Anthony Recasner, CEO of Agenda for Children, said, “Policies that help working families maintain their jobs and get ahead — such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Care Assistance — are some of the best tools we have to make sure children grow up in economically secure households.

“Louisiana has made some improvements ... in recent years,” Recasner added, “but if we really want to move the needle on child poverty, our lawmakers need to significantly increase public investments in these evidence-based programs.”

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Medical marijuana in Louisiana moves forward Louisiana State University announced plans last week to partner with GB Sciences for the state’s medical marijuana manufacturing program. LSU’s AgCenter will contract with the Las Vegas-based company — pending approval of the

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The program comes two years after the passage of statewide legislation to begin cultivating, dispensing and prescribing medical marijuana in Louisiana. The AgCenter says no tax dollars will be used for the program, which could cost up to $15 million. The company likely will build a facility to grow the plant at a secure, undisclosed location, as per state law.

7. Council supports Paris climate change accord

The New Orleans City Council unanimously supported a resolution June 15 to support efforts to reduce carbon emissions locally, in the wake of President Donald Trump’s pledge to pull out of the landmark 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change. The City Council joins “the growing coalition of leaders locally and around the world declaring their intent to continue to adhere to the Paris Agreement.”

Earlier this month, Mayor Mitch Landrieu also joined more than 60 U.S. mayors pledging to “uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement.”

“This City Council wishes to reaffirm its commitment to the principles of the Paris agreement,” reads the resolution, which recommits the City Council to lowering carbon emissions, adopting energy-efficiency measures and using renewable energy resources.

8. Bike share voting is over; first stations to appear in October

New Orleans’ bike share program officially rolls out this fall with Social Bicycles Inc., and the city has asked residents to vote online to decide where they’d like to see the first round of bike stations. Voting was set to conclude June 18.

Phase I of the program will involve installing 70 bike share stations (700 bikes total) on the East Bank of New Orleans in a number of neighborhoods concentrated around downtown, the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny/Bywater, the Garden District and MidCity. The city says each bike share station is 6 feet wide and between 20 to 50 feet long (the size of one to three parking spaces).

Permitting and installation will go on all summer, with the goal of opening Phase I in October.

The city is guaranteeing a future expansion to 90 stations and 900 bikes, with the possibility of future growth, depending on public

reception, though no Phase II plans have been announced.

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Longtime local journalist Dennis Persica dies at 67 Dennis Persica, a journalist who worked for The Times-Picayune, The Lens and most recently as a weekly columnist for The New Orleans Advocate, died June 14 after what was described as a short battle with cancer, according to his brother Michael Persica and sister Anne Persica Morel. Persica was 67.

Persica worked for The Times-Picayune for 25 years as a reporter and editor, and was laid off in the “digital transition” there along with some 200 other employees of the paper. He led the Charter School Reporting Corps for The Lens for much of 2013, and worked most recently as a freelancer with a weekly column in The New Orleans Advocate.

Persica also managed — and occasionally refereed — the Facebook group Friends of the Times-Picayune, where current and former staffers of the paper kept in touch.

“I got to work with him at two different times, both at The Times-Picayune and The Lens,” said Steve Beatty, publisher and CEO of The Lens, the New Orleans nonprofit newsroom. Beatty joined The Times-Picayune in 1991 and said Persica was known as a “solid and thoughtful editor” there.

“Dennis was a real New Orleanian. He loved the city, loved the language and respected both,” Beatty said. “He loved language not in a hokey way, but in a way that is probably fading.”

10. President Mitch? Media won’t leave the notion alone

Though he’s said he has no interest in running for President in 2020, the national media just won’t seem to leave Mayor Mitch Landrieu alone. First it was The New York Times, then Chuck Todd on Meet the Press — and last week The Hill was bandying about the Landrieu name in highly flattering terms, claiming unnamed “Democrats say Landrieu and other non-establishment politicians like him could be the future of the party.”

It was a confusing (if flattering) piece — after calling Landrieu a “non-establishment” politician, it went on to stress the Landrieu family’s longtime political bona fides.

The Hill also cited Landrieu’s crime ordinances and anti-violence work — without mentioning that violent crime is spiking in New Orleans right now.

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SPANISH WINE DINNER THERE WERE MANY THOUGHTFUL STATEMENTS OF SYMPATHY follow-

ing the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, and four others during a baseball practice in a Virginia park last week.

Perhaps none was more thoughtful than that of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was shot and nearly killed at a constituent event in 2011 (six people died in that attack). “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, nor if you’re a senator or a representative, nor a staffer or a sworn officer,” Giffords wrote. “This shooting is an attack on all who serve and on all who participate in our democracy.”

That didn’t stop many from jumping online and filtering the tragedy through their own ideological lenses — whether it was noting that the shooter had been a volunteer with Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, or trying to make ironic comparisons between Scalise’s hospital stay and his support for President Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the Affordable Care Act, or Scalise’s pro-gun position and the alleged shooter. All this was being batted around even as Scalise was undergoing surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he remained in critical condition at the end of last week.

Local blogger Adrastos (www. first-draft.com) summed up the scrum well. “Not everything is a political issue to be instantly batted about by social media trolls and keyboard warriors,” he wrote. “That’s too abstract for my taste, it shows a fatal lack of empathy; a quality we need now more than ever.”

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We agree. The more divided the country becomes on political and social issues, the more empathy we need when tragedy strikes. We saw that after Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures, when those who tried to make political hay out of the help Louisiana needed were quickly outdone by those who cared and offered assistance. We saw it again after the shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida a year ago, when people all over the U.S. were shocked and outraged at the deaths of dozens of mostly LGBT people. And we should see it in the wake of this tragedy as well.

Among the reasons Scalise was elected House Majority Whip are his people skills. Many who vehemently disagree with his positions on the issues still like Scalise as a man. One of his closest friends in Washington, in fact, is fellow U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, whose positions often are diametrically opposite Scalise’s. The two men are not only good friends but also good neighbors — their districts abut one another, and the two work very well together on issues important to southeast Louisiana.

We join millions across our nation in wishing Congressman Scalise a complete and speedy recovery. We likewise join the growing chorus of Americans who hope this tragedy will bind people from all parts of the political spectrum closer together so that we all may follow the example of Reps. Scalise and Richmond by seeking common ground — and common purpose. That, truly, is the American Way.

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Free speech vs. politics as usual A RECENT FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED

BY A DOZEN UNCLASSIFIED KENNER CITY EMPLOYEES raises very inter-

esting legal and political questions.

The suit seeks to overturn a Kenner city charter amendment barring “political activity” in Kenner city elections by unclassified (read: politically appointed) City Hall employees. Those same employees are free to politick in all other elections.

The legal issue pits the First Amendment right to free speech — particularly political expression — against Kenner citizens’ express desire to depoliticize the city’s historically politicized workforce. U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown will decide the matter on purely legal grounds, but the courts’ ultimate decision (assuming an appeal by the losing side) will have profound political implications.

The suit also presents the question of whether the defendants in the suit — Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn and other high-ranking city officials — truly want to prevail. Their personal political interests don’t exactly align with the wishes of the Kenner citizens who approved the charter amendment by a 70-30 vote in a high-turnout election.

The defendant-politicians, who are the plaintiffs’ bosses, undoubtedly would love nothing more than to “allow” their at-will political employees to campaign on behalf of the establishment’s favored candidates and causes, which is what led to the charter amendment in the first place. The First Amendment notwithstanding, what Kenner business owner would feel comfortable saying “no” to a code enforcement officer who asks for a contribution or a sign location?

In fairness, I must point out that the defendants have hired skilled, veteran litigators who are fully capable — and legally obligated — to mount spirited defenses against this constitutional challenge. I’m confident they will do that.

Before going further, a disclosure: Plaintiffs’ attorney Scott Sternberg is the general counsel for the Louisiana Press Association, on whose board I sit. That makes me Sternberg’s client on another front.

That said, I’m intrigued by the legal issue and skeptical about the political side of this matter.

I’ve been covering Kenner politics

Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn

for almost four decades, yet I’m constantly amazed at the intensity of Kenner’s politics, which makes New Orleans’ elections look like Girl Scout cookie sales. That, no doubt, also contributed to the charter amendment’s adoption.

Legally, Sternberg says the charter amendment is “incredibly unconstitutional” because it prohibits certain citizens from engaging in “political activity” without defining what that term means. “We know what the civil service system defines as ‘political activity,’” Sternberg says, “but the charter does not reference that law.”

Sternberg adds that his clients “are not civil service employees.

The reason we have civil service is because people exchange certain rights in consideration for not having to worry about getting fired because someone else gets elected,” Sternberg says. “The whole purpose of unclassified employees is that they are appointed by the politicians that get elected, and serve at their pleasure.”

Ah, there’s the political rub.

New Orleans, for example, has a large unclassified work force, which often becomes a potent political force at election time. The same holds for every sheriff in the state and for other local government leaders with politically appointed employees. The spoils system is part and parcel of American politics and government, but citizens often find it repulsive — and Kenner citizens voted overwhelmingly to put some constraints on it.

The legal question before Judge Brown is whether those constraints pass constitutional muster.

If they don’t, it will literally and figuratively be “politics as usual” in Kenner once again.

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Hey Blake, What can you tell me about the history of the Saulet Plantation?

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Dear Drew, When talking about the Saulet Plantation, first we have to delve into the early history of the area now known as the Lower Garden District, where the plantation was located. After founding New Orleans in 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville claimed for himself a huge swath of land that today comprises much of Uptown. A royal order soon forced him to sell the land, however. Twenty arpents of land that were sold to the Jesuits were sold again at auction in 1763, when the King of France expelled the religious order from Louisiana.

Thomas Saulet was one of the new landowners.

As Samuel Wilson Jr. explains in the Friends of the Cabildo book New Orleans Architecture: The Lower Garden District, Saulet subdivided his plantation but kept a large portion of it to build a home in what now is the 1300 block of Annunciation Street. Houses still standing in the 1200 block date back to the 1830s and once were owned by Saulet’s descendants.

The Saulet was named after the family whose plantation once encompassed the land in the Lower Garden District.

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In 1859, the Sisters of Charity purchased the property at 1321 Annunciation St. and opened a finishing school called St. Simeon’s Select School for Girls and Young Ladies of the City. In 1912, it became a parochial school affiliated with St. Theresa of Avila Church, which was dedicated in 1849 on land that also once was part of the plantation and was donated by the Saulet family.

The plantation house was sold again in 1922 and operated for a short time as St. Luke’s Private Sanitarium. In 1923, Leona Saulet Soniat, a relative of the original owners, purchased the building and donated it to the Sisters of Mercy, who operated Mercy Hospital there before relocating to Mid-City. The building on Annunciation Street was demolished in 1959 to make way for a Schwegmann supermarket. Later operated as a Robert Fresh Market, the store never reopened after Hurricane Katrina. A developer has proposed building a new residential development there.

As for the Saulet name, it lives on in a nearby apartment complex built in 2001.

BLAKEVIEW FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS, summers in New Orleans meant spending time at

Spanish Fort, a resort area built near the spot where Bayou St. John meets Lake Pontchartrain. It originally was home to what the French called Fort St. Jean (Fort San Juan to the Spanish) and was designed to protect the area from Native Americans, pirates and even the British during the War of 1812.

Remnants of the original fort can still be seen near Beauregard Avenue and Lakeshore Drive. It was decommissioned in 1823, and the land was sold to Harvey Elkin, who built a hotel and garden. Later owners added an amusement park, casino, restaurants and a concert spot, establishing the area as “the Coney Island of the South.” It played an important role in the development of jazz, with many early musicians playing there. Playwright Oscar Wilde even lectured there during a visit in 1882. The area closed in 1926.

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BY HELEN FREUND New summer cocktails include the spicy Ghost SUMMERTIME IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ALWAYS BEEN Pepper margarita — and it’s A TEMPTING TIME TO ESCAPE the city’s heat and always happy hour when humidity. That’s quickly changing with a number of it rains. pools and rooftop bars opening to the public, most The Drifter Hotel of which offer food and drink specials, so you never 3522 Tulane Ave., (504) even have to leave the water. Add to that some stel605-4644; www.thedrifterlar frozen drinks, ice cream treats and raw seafood hotel.com options, and you’ve got yourself plenty of The hottest new party spot ways to beat the heat and spend the summer in Mid-City is on Tulane in the city.

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Weekend parties often include DJ sets and plenty of bacchanalian fun. A clothing optional policy exists (for now). Whenever it rains, drink specials include house wines and beer-and-shot specials for $5. Weekly food specials are provided by food trucks and pop-ups.

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BARS WITH A BREEZE Hot Tin 2031 St. Charles Ave., (504) 323-1500; www.hottinbar.com The elegant cocktail bar on top of the Pontchartrain Hotel boasts arguably the best 270-degree view of the city's skyline and the Mississippi River. The light and citrusy Skyliner cocktail features Cathead honeysuckle vodka, grapefruit, lime, Campari and habanero bitters.

Monkey Board 1111 Gravier St., (504) 5185600; www.monkeyboardnola.com The breezy rooftop bar at the new Troubadour Hotel draws young professionals on weekdays and has a clubby atmosphere on weekends. The spacious wraparound rooftop features killer views, DJ sets Tuesday through Sunday and food truck-inspired snacks from chef Phillip Lopez. Cocktails include a Toronja Especial, a mix of Espolon reposado tequila, Campari, pamplemousse liqueur and soda.

ICE CREAM, YOU SCREAM Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans 130 Roosevelt Way, (504) 648-1200; www.therooseveltneworleans.com For the month of July, The Sazerac Bar’s popular Southern Gentleman cocktail will be reimagined in ice cream form. Made with blackberries, lemon, mint and Buffalo Trace bourbon, the ice cream will be served at Teddy’s Cafe in the hotel.

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son Ave., (504) 218-7428; www.turkeyandthewolf.com The Lower Garden District hot spot is best known for its whimsical sandwiches and creative cocktails, but the soft-serve ice cream is equally worthwhile, topped with everything from rainbow sprinkles to tahini with date molasses, to a version topped with graham crackers and Key lime pie chunks.

POKE GAME Cavan 3607 Magazine St., (504) 509-7655; www.cavannola.com Chef Nathan Richard’s recent menu makeover features a seafood-heavy spread, including a poke and tartare hybrid, where sushi-grade tuna hunks are marinated and formed into a cylinder, garnished with bene seeds, avocado and chili purees.

Cellar Door 916 Lafayette St., (504) 265-8392; www.cellardoornola.com The Central Business District cocktail lair and gastropub features a tuna poke bowl made with popcorn rice, kimchi and pickled peppers. A Vietnamese-style hot sauce drizzle adds flavor and a sharp heat.

NOSH 752 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 581-7101; www.noshneworleans.com The new Warehouse District lounge features a small plates menu full of selections from the raw bar, including an Ahi tuna poke with hijiki, avocado and edamame.

Poke Loa 3341 Magazine St., (504) 309-9993; www.eatpokeloa.com Build-your-own poke bowl at New Orleans’ first restaurant to focus exclusively on the raw fish trend sweeping the country. Mix-and-match bowls include a number of fish proteins, toppings, sauces and extras, such as avocado or crumbled macadamia nuts. The assembly-line model means you can be on your way in no time.

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Audubon Zoo (6500 Magazine St., 504-8612537; www.audubonnatureinstitute.org) — The zoo’s annual, familyfriendly “Dinner and a ZOOvie” event is at 8 p.m. every other Friday through July and includes The Lego Batman Movie (June 30), Trolls (July 28) and more.

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The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad St., 504-218-1008; www. thebroadtheater.com) — The theater’s $2 Tuesday promotion returns in August. Otherwise, programming is a mix of indies and wide-release hits. Some summer highlights include JUNE 30-JULY 2 Baby Essence Music Driver Festival

Catahoula Hotel (914 Union St., 504-6032442; www.catahoulahotel.com) — The hotel’s Rooftop Cinema series is most Wednesdays at 8 p.m. The screenings mostly focus on cult classics (Heathers and Donnie Darko). A schedule appears on the hotel’s Facebook page.

New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Circle, 504-658-4100; www.noma.org) — The museum screens five John Waters films at 7 p.m. during Friday night events July 21 through Aug. 18. It’s in conjunction with the exhibit Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans, which includes some of Waters’ photography.

Orpheum Theater (129 Roosevelt Way, 504-274-4870; www. orpheumnola.com) — A selection of free crowd-pleasing movies is offered on several dates throughout the

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Prytania Theatre (5339 Prytania St., 504-891-2787; www. theprytania.com) — Uptown’s 100-year-old movie theater hosts an annual summer series of daytime kids’ screenings, including E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (July 7), Labyrinth (July 21) and The Wizard of Oz (July 28). Midnight movies most weekends revive cult classics. Golden Age of Hollywood movies play Sunday and Wednesday mornings.

Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop (631 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-5985536; www.tubbyandcoos.com) — “Summer nerd movie nights” at the bookstore take place at 7 p.m. every other Friday in June and July.

There are screenings of Spaceballs (June 23), Mars Attacks (July 7) and The Neverending Story (July 21).

W New Orleans French Quarter (316 Chartres St., 504-581-1200; www. wfrenchquarter.com) — Free “dive-in” movies are screened monthly at the hotel’s pool, accompanied by themed cocktails and free popcorn.

Shows start at sunset.

Guests should RSVP to wnolarsvp@whotels. com; the event is firstcome, first-served.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Art Center (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-352-1150; www.zeitgeistnola. org) — This summer’s programming at the arthouse auditorium features its typical slate of impeccably chosen indies, documentaries and rare films.

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but the stifling heat and sticky humidity push you back to the sofa for another session of binge-watching. There are options: Several art and history museums (see p. 18 for deals) have interesting exhibits, and movie theaters provide a respite from high mercury — or try one of these other indoor adventures: Work up a sweat the heat WORK without stroke on rock UP A climbing walls SWEAT at New Orleans Boulder Lounge (1746 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-510-2990; www. climbnobl.com), which has 2,500 square feet of climbing surfaces inside the former 1880s Cotton Press building. The lounge also has yoga classes, a training room and sometimes hosts live music, movies and speakers. Members-only hours are 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday through Thursday; kids’ hours 10 a.m. to noon Sunday; open climbing noon to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. Day passes (includes any classes or events taking place) $16 general admission, $12 kids/teachers/military personnel. There also are weekly specials.

Slidell Rocks (39543 Highway 190 E., Slidell, 985-646-1411; www. slidellrocks.com) JULY 7-9 offers various San Fermin in methods of Nueva Orleans rock climbNew Orleans

ing, including a 40-foot-high climbing wall, two bouldering rooms and top-rope and lead-climbing areas.

Admission is $14 with no time limit.

Sector 6 Extreme Air Sports (612 Distributors Row, Jefferson, 504539-4224; www.sector6.us) — The 44,000-square-foot indoor facility has more than 12,000 square feet of trampolines, angled wall trampolines, launching decks and more.

There’s an obstacle course, dodgeball area, air dunk game, a slack line suspended over foam cubes, a trapeze, aerial equipment and foam pits. The venue is for ages 15 and older from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission $13 to $20 per hour.

Surge Trampoline Park (6930 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-267-3898; www. surgeneworleans.com) — Opening later this month, the indoor facility includes interconnected trampolines, a jousting battle beam, gumnastics tumble tracks, spinning wipe-out and log roll sections, dodgeball courts, basketball goals, rock-climbing walls, trapeze, foam pits and a toddler area The venue

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is for ages 2 through adult. Hours TBA. Admission $12.95 per hour, $17.95 for 90 minutes or $21.95 for two hours.

Escape games are designed to test the critical-thinking skills of players, who must follow clues, solve a puzzle or mystery or escape in 60 minutes. Most rooms are for eight players, so you can come with a group or play with whomever shows up.

There are four such rooms in the New Orleans area: Clue Carre (830 Union St., Suite 101, 504-667-2583; www.cluecarre.com) — The first escape room to open in New Orleans, Clue Carre offers five different rooms: the Mardi Gras Den, the Voodoo Room, the Haunted Swamp Room, the Vampire Hunter Room and the French Quarter House of Curiosities.

Each contains its own clues, codes and puzzles that must be solved to escape.

Admission $28.

Escape My Room (633 Constance St., 504-475-7580; www.escapemyroom.com) — The DeLaporte mansion offers a choice of the Mardi Gras Study, where players follow clues to find a missing treasure, or the Jazz Parlor, which was the scene of an unsolved murder. Admission $30.

Escapology (3025 Pinnacle Parkway, Covington, 985-520-0570; www. escapology.com) — The Northshore escape venue begins with a tour of the Time Displacement Institute. When things go wrong in the past, players

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must travel to that time, fix the problem and return to the present before their time is up. Admission $28.

Mystere Mansion Escape Rooms (4800 Canal St., 504-483-2350; www. partyvenuesneworleans. com) — Players are locked in a themed room ( Serial Killer’s Lair, The Game Room, Embalming Room Zombie Escape, The Ghost Lab or Treasure Hunt) and must follow clues and solve a mystery to escape. $39.95 general admission, $29.95 Louisiana residents with ID.

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• What’s more fun than playing games while drinking cocktails or beer (think Chuck E. Cheese for adults)? These bars offer a variety of arcade, midway and sports games without the small fry.

Barcadia (601 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans. com) — There are vintage arcade games, a life-size Jenga game on the patio, a 5-foot-tall Connect Four and more, plus food and 44 craft beers on tap.

Only people 21 and older are allowed in the bar after 9:30 p.m.

Dave & Buster’s (1200 Poydras St., Suite 601, 504-226-3300; www. daveandbusters.com) — The national chain opened shop in New Orleans in late May and offers arcade games including Zombie Snatcher, Mario Kart, Star Trek, a driving game, Ghostbusters, Candy Crush Saga and more.

There’s also billiards, food, alcohol and two happy hours a day.

Shamrock (4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-3010938; www.shamrockparty.com) — The neighborhood bar has 23 pool tables, pingpong cages, dart boards, mini bowling lanes, foosball, shuffleboard, a punching bag, air hockey, soccer, football and more. There’s also live music, a dance floor, food and a full bar.

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time exhibitions that cover everything from contemporary art to the spiritual ramifications of the African diaspora. Here are just a few examples of the cultural wealth (and cool, dry air) you’ll find at local museums.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-569-9070; www. ashecac.org) — The Maafa: Roho ya Babu exhibit opens June 27. The exhibit takes its name from Kiswahili words: maafa, or “great disaster” and refers to the death of enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas, roho means “soul” or “spirit” and babu means “grandfather or ancestor”. Together, the words refer to the connections between the ancestors and the present and future generations of the African diaspora.

Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum (1113 Chartres St., 504-523-7257; www.bkhouse.org) — Piccolo Palermo: The Sicilian Immigrant Experience opens July 5 and is packed with oral histories of descendants of New Orleans’ early Sicilian population, including the Giacona family who owned the house from 1904-1926.

The Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) (533 Royal St., 504-523-4662; www.hnoc.org) — The HNOC presents Storyville: Madams and Music, a selection of maps, photos and the infamous “blue book” directories to the brothels and bars of Storyville, New Orleans’ red-light district that had its heyday in the early 20th century. Admission is free; free smartphone tours are available. Docent-led tours are $5.

New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Circle, 504-658-4100; www.noma. org) — Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans opens June 23. The exhibit of Arthur Roger’s personal contemporary art collection includes over 80 paintings, photos and sculptures. Museum admission is free on Wednesdays.

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (Woldenberg Art Center, 6823 St. Charles Ave., Suite 202, 504-8655328; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane. edu) — The museum hosts Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico through July 9 to coincide with the centennial of Puerto Rico’s U.S. citizenship. Admission is free.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art (925 Camp St., 504-539-9650; www.ogdenmuseum.org) — William Eggleston’s photography exhibit, Troubled Waters, and The Colorful South, an exhibit by five artists around the time of Eggleston, are on display. Louisiana residents get in free on Thursdays, and UNO students and staff are free every day. Current military personnel and their families get in free from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Southern Food and Beverage Museum The National World War II Museum (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504(945 Magazine St., 504-528-1944; www.

569-0405; www.natfab.org) — The nationalww2museum.org) — The Louimusuem presents Shakers, Knives and siana Memorial Pavilion at the National Irons, photographer Romney Caruso’s World War II Museum presents Arsenal collection of photos that depict the of Democracy: The Herman and George bartenders and chefs who power the Brown Salute to the Home Front, an hospitality industry — and their exhibit about America’s tattoos — and the artists who deroad to World War JULY 18-23 JULY 27-30 II and efforts to sign those tattoos. The exhibit Tales of Grand Isle the Cocktail Tarpon Rodeo support the opens July 9.

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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC BIKE RIDE www.facebook.com/groups/ musicinNOLAride The group typically meets in Armstrong Park and stops at music venues during the night. Follow the group’s Facebook page for schedule changes, special rides and other updates.

WEDNESDAYS GENTILLY RIDERS Recent Wednesday rides met at Harris Playground and stopped at the 7th Ward’s Prime Example Jazz Club.

Search for the group on Facebook.

BY ALEX WOODWARD NEW ORLEANS’ BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE HAS GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST DECADE.

The city now has more than 100 miles of shared lanes, dedicated bike lanes and buffered bike lanes — and hordes of brightly lit, technicolored bicycles are using them on any given night of the week. You’ve likely passed dozens, or hundreds, of neon LED hoops swarming neutral grounds and sidewalks outside bars and restaurants and lighting up the night across town. With rims decked out with pink, blue, rainbow-flecked and tie-dyed rope lights, riders and their bikes congregate at weekly meetups called social rides, a growing scene of informal bike rides — caravaning street parties, bar crawls, networking events, potential meet-cutes — cropping up in neighborhoods throughout the New Orleans area.

Riders don’t have to be particularly fit (no all-over spandex required), but having a bike (or renting one) and knowing how to use it well enough for a relatively slow, three-hourlong stroll-pace ride are required. Here are several social rides hitting the streets and trails.

GET UP N RIDE www.bikerite.club Known for tricked-out LED lights, Bike Rite’s weekly rides meet at spots throughout the city and stop at bars and events along the route. Blake Owens and Nick Reed co-founded the group in 2010. The rides now attract up to 600 riders each week. Follow the group’s Twitter and Instagram (@getupnride_nola) for updates.

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HAPPY THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE www.facebook.com/pg/ HappyThursdayofNewOrleans NOLA Social Ride’s slow-paced weekly ride stops at bars and restaurants on its route and ends about 10 p.m. A recent ride through Mid-City started at Parkway Bakery and Tavern and ended at Treo. Follow the group’s Facebook page for updates.

NOLA SOCIAL RIDE www.nolasocialride.org; www.facebook.com/groups/nolasocialride Since its launch in 2010, the group has gained thousands of followers on social media and is a one-stop shop for social ride activities in the New Orleans area, including weekly and special rides, workshops and more. The ride meets at different neighborhoods each Thursday. Check the calendar for a schedule.

WESTBANK RIDES Algiers Street Riders, Gretna Social Ride, Terrytown Social Ride and West Bank Social Riders groups meet throughout the week for rides on the East and West Banks. A Friday Night EZ Ride rolls most Fridays, meeting up where Huey P. Long Avenue meets the Mississippi River, then rolling through Old Gretna and Algiers. Find the various groups and their upcoming ride informaAUG. 3-6 tion by searching Satchmo their names on SummerFest Facebook.

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FREE STUFF TO DO THIS SUMMER AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY

BY KEVIN ALLMAN

ANY BRANCH OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY (NOPL) IS A GREAT PLACE TO CHILL OUT in the summer

heat, and the NOPL has a calendar of summer events available on its website (www.nolalibrary.org). Here are a few things to do for kids, teens and adults — and a list of free resources available through the NOPL to keep you entertained well after the heat finally breaks.

Wetlands Express Representatives from Audubon Zoo bring wetlands creatures to the library.

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Children gather for story time at Alvar Library.

June 27, 11 a.m.

Keller Library & Community Center, 4300 S. Broad Ave. July 20, 10:30 a.m.

Latter Library, 5120 St. Claude Ave.

July 19, 11 a.m.

Morning Movie Drive-In Alvar Library, for Children 913 Alvar St. Sit in cardboard cars, eat popcorn and watch a movie.

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Dog Education Workshop Villalobos Rescue Center employees demonstrate dog safety and training with a rescue dog.

Mondays through July 24 Mid-City Library, 4140 Canal St. 5120 St. Claude Ave.

Code Your Story Learn some basic computer coding skills and turn your own story into basic animation.

July 13, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St.

MACCNO Workshop Representatives of the Musician & Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MACCNO) talk about the history of street performance in New Orleans, the laws that apply to busking and MACCNO’s Guide to New Orleans Street Performance.

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ACLU: Know Your Rights Come learn about your rights under the law and get your questions answered at a discussion with representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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Main Library, 219 Loyola Ave. June 29, 6 p.m.

Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St.

June 14, 5 p.m.

Central City Library, Mahalia Jackson Center, 2405 Jackson Ave., Suite C-235 June 17, 2 p.m.

East New Orleans Regional Library, 5641 Read Blvd.

July 8, 2 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 1611 Caffin Ave. July 18, 6 p.m.

Mid-City Library, 4140 Canal St.

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Brien does Public Service Chef Dustin Brien pictured will helm the kitchen at PUBLIC SERVICE when the new restaurant opens next month inside the NOPSI Hotel (317 Baronne St.).

The luxury boutique hotel opens July 6 in the historic building that once was the headquarters for New Orleans Public Service Inc., the city’s public utility and streetcar operator.

Brien was executive chef at Salu before the Magazine Street Mediterranean restaurant shuttered last year. The menu at Public Service will

Bratz Y’all! brings a German biergarten to Bywater.

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund IT’S HARD TO RESIST THE ALLURE OF A GOOD BIERGARTEN. At Bratz Y’all!,

rows of wooden picnic tables face lattice-lined walls, giant barrels serve as stands for overflowing potted plants and dangling pendant lights illuminate the outdoor area. Order from the window carved into the side of the building where a chalkboard lists the daily specials, or have a seat inside the cozy front room overlooking the space’s massive open kitchen.

Owner and native Berliner Sven Vorkauf launched the popular sausage and pretzel stand in 2012 and has developed a local following for his presence at festivals and public markets. His new brick-and-mortar space, which is tucked behind Pizza Delicious in a gravel-filled lot on Piety Street in Bywater, has an extended menu of German specialties and multiple German beers on tap.

Part beer garden, part bistro, the menu stretches from the casual beer-and-brat format to larger dishes that showcase the heartier breadth of German cuisine. Breaded and pounded pork schnitzel loins sidle mounds of vinegary German-style potato salad. Giant potato dumplings come swimming in a deep, dark gravy. Flaky apple strudel arrives hot from the oven with scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Freshly baked pretzels, or laugenbretzel, come studded with fat salty crystals. Though perfectly fine on their own, the Bavarian obatzda is an addictively creamy brie and cream cheese spread sweetened with onions, paprika and caraway seeds — perfect for dunking hunks

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617 Piety St., Suite B, (504) 301-3222; www. bratzyall.com

of the salty, squishy pretzel, which along with a veggie sandwich is among scant options for vegetarians on the pork-heavy menu.

Sausages come in all sizes here, from the massive King Brat, a fat grilled pork sausage filled with cheddar and wrapped in strips of bacon, to the classic Berliner currywurst, where lightly fried smoked pork sausage comes topped with a sweet apple and curry-tinged ketchup and fried onions. Then there’s the skinny, slightly spicy Nurnberger, which arrives tucked into a doughy pretzel bun showered with soft caramelized onions, sharp mustard and sauerkraut.

My favorite of the sausages are the smoky landjaeger links (which also happen to make a great road trip snack). They are affixed to wooden sticks and sold at the register.

The Drunken Pig sandwich is less sausage, more the German answer to cochon de lait. Tender, milky bits of slow-roasted pork marinated in dark beer and herbs are ladled into a roll and topped with mustard, caramelized onions and sauerkraut.

A note on the sauerkraut: This isn’t your run-of-the-mill, bracingly sour ballpark hot dog stand stuff.

Instead, the medley is soft, almost caramelized; cooked with a smoked ham hock, the finished product carries strong caraway notes that

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obatzda pretzel dip, schweinshaxe, sauerkraut

Sausages come in all sizes and with a variety of accompaniments at Bratz Y’all!

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impart a lingering sweetness and warming feel.

The real showstopper doesn’t come in sausage form: It’s the Sunday night-only schweinshaxe, a caveman-sized roasted pork shank that arrives blistering from the oven and easily feeds two very hungry people. Crunchy fatty bits give way to tender pieces of roasted pork, while the accompanying potato dumplings help sop up the delicious juices left behind.

Though the selection of German beers and wines are great accompaniments to a meal, after a heavy dinner, a Kuemmerling shot is the way to go. The tiny bottles of the dark and bitter German herb liqueur carry pungent notes of black licorice and other herbs that are said to aid digestion. If nothing else, it offers an excuse to linger a little longer at this charming new restaurant and say Prost.

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Bywater biergarten serves brats, brews and other German specialties in a charming, casual setting

follow a farm-to-table model and will pay homage to the “Gulf Coast’s hardworking fishermen and farmers,” according to a news release from the restaurant.

The menu still is in development, but will have plenty of seafood and hand-tossed flatbreads. The restaurant’s interior will feature exposed brick walls and a chef’s counter overlooking an open kitchen. There’s also a raw bar and an exposed flame rotisserie.

Public Service will anchor the hotel’s restaurant operations, but an abbreviated food and drink menu also will be available at a lobby bar and patio cafe, as well as the rooftop pool and lounge called Above the Grid.

Public Service will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and brunch on weekends.

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tative for the restaurant confirmed last week. The project is still “in its infancy” and so far no name or opening date have been selected.

The new spot from Devillier and his wife Mia Freiberger-Devillier will be modeled on a French brasserie, the spokesperson said.

The new spot is the third restaurant for the couple, who also run La Petite Grocery on Magazine Street in Uptown and Balise on Carondelet Street in the Warehouse District.

Devillier has been a strong presence in the New Orleans dining scene and was the winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef: South in 2016. — HELEN FREUND

High steaks South American steakhouse BRASA CHURRASQUERIA (2037 Metairie Road, Metairie, 504-5706338) opened last week in the space formerly occupied by Chateau du Lac. The new restaurant is being opened by Antonio Mata and Edgar Caro, owners of Basin Seafood & Spirits and Baru.

Mata, originally from El Salvador, and Caro, who hails from Colombia, designed the concept based on their shared love for South American steakhouses.

“It’s a South American steakhouse with a mix of South American cuts of meat, all cooked over a wood-fired grill,” Mata said.

Meats are ordered a la carte and include a wide variety of South American cuts, including the Brazilian-inspired picanha and Argentinean entrana, or skirt steak, Mata said.

Three types of chimichurri will be available, as well as a long list of sides in which potato dishes feature prominently. So far, side dishes include grilled carrots with goat cheese, grilled asparagus, mushrooms with garlic, garlic fries, potatoes au gratin, and papas saladas, or salted potatoes.

A craft cocktail menu will pay tribute to South American staples like pisco. The opening list includes a maracuj, or passion fruit, sour as well as a Brazilian caipirinha. A wine list heavy on reds and South American wines and a selection of craft beers round out the drinks menu.

A happy hour starts this week from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will feature skewers of various meats, including skirt steak, chicken, pork belly and more. The restaurant is open for dinner from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

— HELEN FREUND

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3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Lisa Nelson CHEF LISA NELSON RUNS THE TRINIDADIAN FOOD SHOP in the back of Hank’s Meat Market on St.

Claude Avenue, which her family purchased in 2013. (On social media and to her customers, most people know her as Queen Trini Lisa.) Nelson also is among several vendors participating in the NOLA Caribbean Festival June 24 and 25.

Nelson spoke with Gambit about her Trinidadian cooking and the nuances in different styles of Caribbean and Creole cuisines.

What is your background in Trinidadian cooking?

Nelson: I was [raised] in Trinidad and Tobago, and learned by watching my mom in the kitchen.

My mom is of East Indian descent, so her cooking would (reflect that) and included a lot of curried dishes. When I moved to New York with my dad in 1996, that’s where I really started learning about jerk chicken. In Trinidad, we rarely did jerk chicken. But in New York, I lived in Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, East New York — and in all of those places I met people from all over the Caribbean with different cooking styles.

After Hurricane Katrina my family moved to New Orleans in 2006.

Back in 2013, the opportunity to buy Hank’s Meat Market came around and eventually I started cooking at the store and giving out tastes. I started out slowly, just on Sundays only, but then it got to the point where it was almost every day. Business at the store hasn’t been so great, but the food keeps it alive and keeps it going. I don’t have a set menu, but I kind of do it now based on what mood I’m in.

On weekends, I’ll often have oxtails, rice and beans, callaloo.

And on Sundays it’s my curry day, where I’ll have curried fish, curried chicken. I make a curried goat — and at first a lot of people would come in and didn’t know about goat, and then said they never knew goat could taste like that. I always say, “Don’t knock it till you try it.”

I’m pretty good with my vegetables, like cabbage, spinach and green beans. I try to keep the side dishes vegetarian because there are a lot of vegetarians in the neighborhood who come in. I do a vegetarian corn soup, and if it’s rainy and cold I’ll try to do a lot of stews.

What similarities exist between New Orleans Creole and Trinidadian Creole cuisine?

N: It’s pretty similar, actually. ...

The food has a lot of similarities too. We cook a lot of seafood in the Caribbean, even though it’s not boiled. Jambalaya is very much like a dish we call pilau and we often cook dishes called Creole fish or Creole chicken, and we use a lot of the same ingredients.

But I do things differently, too.

I put tomato in my red beans and rice, which surprises some people.

I started making something that my customers call Trini yaka mein: it’s a similar concept, made with my stewed meat, which I brown with caramelized sugar, and then I add the egg and the noodles and the green onions. I often try to combine the Trini and New Orleans culture together. And I love using Tony Chachere’s — I use it in my cooking all the time.

Have you seen a shift in the Caribbean and West Indian culture and cuisine in New Orleans?

N: Definitely. I think it’s growing a lot and people are getting to know and understand that there are other countries besides Jamaica in the Caribbean. There’s a better understanding now that we have different foods with different influences. ... For instance, we have a lot of East Indian and African influences that [were] passed on from slaves. My grandfather is East Indian and my grandmother is black, so we have that clash of the cultures too that affects the food.

My family back home — some are Christian, some are Hindu and Muslim. You learn a lot that way about different cultures and what they eat. — HELEN FREUND

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BY MARK BURLET NEW BREWERIES ARE A SIGN OF THE TIMES. In

2000, there were about 1,500 microbrewers and brewpubs in the country. By 2010, the number was nearly 2,000. In 2016, we passed 5,000 breweries and the count continues to increase. In Louisiana, our options have tripled in the last five years to about 30.

Lucky for us — and for the brewers — we like to drink here, and drinking locally is easier than ever.

Port Orleans Brewing Company (4124 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-266j2332; www.portorleansbrewingco. com), pictured, has been open a month, but already offers a wide variety of beer styles. In addition to an opening lineup of Riverfront Lager (a golden malty brew), Storyville IPA (a light citrusy-hopped IPA) and Slack Water Brown Ale (a sweet and roasty medium-brown ale), the brewery currently offers a pilsner, a pale ale infused with tea and a zwickelbier (an unfiltered light, German-style beer).

This expansion also brings the opportunity for collaboration.

Several of the new kids in town are collaborating on a couple of beers:

• Wayward Owl Brewing Company and Brieux Carre Brewing Company just released their first collaboration, a 7.5 percent ABV double IPA named Je M’appelle Hop. It was rolled out June 10 at the Brieux Carre taproom off Frenchmen Street.

• Urban South Brewery and Parleaux Beer Lab joined forces to brew an IPA fermented with brettanomyces yeast, giving it a funky, grassy flavor not often seen in local brews. This one should be available at Parleaux in Bywater in July.

Another entry in the recent bounty of New Orleans beer, Second Line Brewing, isn’t resting on its laurels. The Mid-City crafter hosts a release party at the brewery June 24 for its Imperial Rye IPA called Alryte, Alryte, Alryte.

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2016 Fleurs de Prairie Rose Cotes de Provence, France Retail: $14-$22

ROSES ARE LIGHT, BRIGHT VERSATILE WINES that can be equally accommodating whether paired with brunch, picnics, seafood boils, barbecues, desserts or an aperitif.

This Fleurs de Prairie, which translates as “wildflowers,” was named for the flower-filled fields of Provence. Located in southeastern France, Cotes de Provence is the largest appellation in the region, with about 50,000 acres of vineyards. The 2016 vintage was exceptional due to the year’s mild spring and dry, sunny summer. A blend of 55 percent grenache, 30 percent cinsault and 15 percent syrah, the wine was kept in a near-zero oxygen environment during the wine-making process to preserve the concentrated fruit aromas. In the glass, the wine exhibits floral scents, red berries and herbal notes. On the palate, it is clean, crisp and refreshing, with strawberry, white peaches, a touch of citrus and integrated acidity and minerality. Drink with with seafood, salads, fried chicken, corned beef and Asian and Cajun cuisine. Buy it at: Vieux Carre Wine & Spirits, Rouses, Langenstein’s in Metairie, The Wine Seller, Lakeview Grocery, some Robert Fresh Markets, Grand Krewe Fine Wine & Spirits, Dorignac’s Food Center and Acquistapace’s Covington Supermarket.

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Domaine Saint Prefert Dinner & Tasting 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday Martin Wine Cellar, 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411 www.martinwinecellar.com A four-course dinner is served with Domaine Saint Prefert wines from the Chateauneuf du Pape district. The menu includes chilled peach gazpacho with lump crab, five-spice duck breast with leeks, mushrooms and sour cherries, grilled sweetbreads with braised oxtail and Fourme d’Ambert cheese with baked apple and red wine confiture. Tickets $85.

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Celebrity Chef Dinner Series — Michael Gulotta 6:30 p.m. Saturday ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St., (504) 722-3628 www.culinarymedicine.org Michael Gulotta, chef/owner of MoPho and Maypop, prepares a multi-course dinner. Drink pairings are included. The event benefits the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine. Tickets $200.

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Treme Food & Music Experience Parking Lot Party 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Carver Theater, 2101 Orleans Ave., (504) 304-0460 www.carvertheater.org The Carver Theater, 14 Parishes restaurant and community partners present the outdoor neighborhood party featuring music by Mike “Soulman” Baptiste, Kermit Ruffins, HyperPhlyy, Neil Simmons, Brandon Terrell and the Cool Nasty Band. Food trucks offer food and drink. Free admission.

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4508 Freret St., (504) 324-1636 www.ancorapizza.com A Miller’s Negroni is made with Martin Miller’s Gin, Cocchi Torino and Campari.

800 Louisa St., (504) 302-2357 www.henri.cafe The frozen Negroni features Oryza gin, sweet vermouth and Luxardo Bitter.

1036 N. Rampart St., (504) 509-7644 www.nolabubbles.com A sparkling take on the drink features Caperitif, fresh blueberries and Bristow gin.

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801 Rosedale Drive, (504) 309-9595 www.rosedalerestaurant.com The Oxford Negroni features Pimm’s liqueur, gin and Campari.

625 Chartres St., (504) 265-8123 www.sylvainnola.com The Negroni Sbagliato Bianco is made with Campari, Cocchi vermouth di Torino and sparkling wine.

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Tombs with Thou

OF ALL THE MODIFIERS USED TO SUBDIVIDE AND CATEGORIZE METAL, • 7 p.m. Thursday “coffeehouse” somehow got missed. Yet • Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, here comes Tombs — Brooklyn’s self-dis5110 Danneel St., emboweling, re-reincarnating metal-metamorphosis masters, spreading newly (504) 891-3381; sprouted wings on this week’s The Grand www.neutralgroundcoffeeAnnihilation (Metal Blade) — to cap off house.com your cortado with a steaming shot of cyanide. (God help any unsuspecting openPHOTO BY JACLYN SHEER mic night regulars who assume 7 p.m. on a Thursday at an Uptown poetry haven is a safe-enough respite from the darkest vestiges of Hades on earth; they’ll be the ones shaking and clutching their knees in the corner.) Granted, Neutral Ground is as far from Starbucks as coffeehouses get. The Danneel Street DIY venue has been presenting live music of all stripes seven days a week for the better part of the past four decades, all free of charge, which is about as punishing a life pursuit as any metal outfit can lay claim to. This saturnalian sunset booking opens with a stress-test sound check by native serpent Thou, a final slither in its hometown hole before hitting the road for a monthlong, nationwide “Friendship Tour.” Thou’s return engagement will be another early-evening surprise, on July 22 at First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans — a bully pulpit, sure, but you’ll have to bring your own java. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

SideBar — Stephanie Nilles & Jonathan Freilich, 8:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 22 21st Amendment — G & the Swinging Three, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; City of Trees Brass Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Selma Street Chemical Company, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJ Mange, 9 Bar Redux — Nate & Colin Ryan, 9 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 — Mike Darby & House of Sheiks, 5; Maid of Orleans, 8; Burris, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Luneta Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Tom Saunders & the Hotcats, 5; Tom McDermott & Chloe Feoranzo, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — Blue Garou, 7; Baby Whiskey, 11

Chickie Wah Wah — Grayson Capps, 5; Phil DeGruy, 6; Ray Ganucheau, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; Proper Channels, Harbinger Project, Lucy, 9:30 d.b.a. — Drums & Tuba, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Jason Bishop’s American Jam, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren Pickford Quartet, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Constants feat. Ian Lewis, Tony Wilson, The Ill Relatives, The Essence, 9 Gasa Gasa — Black Marble, Body of Light, Boyish Charm, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Foot & Friends, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Mason Ruffner Band, 7 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Tombs, 7 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Lynn Drury, 6 Old Point Bar — Vance Orange, 9 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6 Siberia — Particle Devotion, The Fruit Machines, Julie Odell, 9 PAGE 30

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SideBar — James Singleton Trio, 8:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Cindy Scott Quartet, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — The Company Stores, Mudcat, 9 Treo — The St. Claude Serenaders, 6:30 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 23 21st Amendment — Shake It Break It Band, 2:30; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30; John Lisi, 10 Banks Street Bar — Nick Name & the Valmonts, Swinging Doors, Trash Night, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 Bar Redux — DJ Reverend Average’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble, 10 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7; Mia Borders, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Sam Price & the True Believers, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Terra Terra, 3; HollyRock, 5; Soul Company, 8; New Creations Brass Band, 11; R&R Music Group, 1 a.m.

Bourbon O Bar — The Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Steve DeTroy, 6; Rebecca Zoe Leigh & Clint Johnson, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; The Hubcap Kings, 7; The Bad Mimosas, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; Mason Ruffner, 10 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Alex McMurray, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Dave Ferrato & Stan Cuquet, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Antonio!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Gert Street Trio, 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) — Sam Cordts, 3; Reece Sullivan, 7 Hi-Ho Lounge — Loose Willis, 8; Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues (The Parish) — Summer League, 11:30 Howlin’ Wolf — Tink, Tynisha Keli, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Chris Klein & the Boulevards, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5; Beth Patterson, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — John Mooney, Marc Stone, Mike Dillon, 8 Mahogany Jazz Hall — The Key Sound, 9 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7

Maple Leaf Bar — Smoke N Bones, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Phil the Tremolo King, David Gregory, Gina Forsyth, 8 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Gal Holiday, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Sea Battle, AF THE NAYSAYER, 10 Poor Boys — The Horrorist, Caffetine, DJ Mange, 10 Pour House Saloon — The Key Sound, 9:30 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 7, 8&9 Siberia — Weak Flesh, Classhole, Recluse, Spellbreaker, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — Naughty Professor (album release), The Crooked Vines, 10 Twist of Lime — Bending (album release), Finfox, A Sunday Fire, 10

SATURDAY 24 21st Amendment — Big Joe Kennedy, 2:30; Juju Child, 6; The Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Bamboula’s — G & the Swinging Three, 2:30 Banks Street Bar — Mystery Girl, 10 Bar Mon Cher — A Midsummer Night’s Dream (goth night), 10 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Ambush Reggae Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Tom Leggett Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Kenny Brown Express, 5; Sam Price & the True Believers, 8; Dominique’s Kreole Soul, 11; Category 3, 1 a.m.

Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Check Point Charlie — Black Laurel, 7; The Green Mantles, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Joe Ely, George McConnell, 9 Circle Bar — Mod Dance Party with DJ Matty, 10 d.b.a. — Eight Dice Cloth, 4; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 8; Mike Dillon Band, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Joe Krown Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Joystick (album release), 10 Gasa Gasa — MIPSO, Patrick Cooper, 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Vali Talbot, 5; Lynn Drury & Chris Pylant, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Dr. Michael White, 7 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Tony Hall Band, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Gigi, 7; TJ Sutton, 9 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — 1 Percent Nation, 9:30 Preservation Hall — The Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 7, 8 & 9 Prime Example Jazz Club — Barbara Shorts, 8 & 10

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND Icaros: A Vision — Psychonauts pursue healing through ayahuasca. Broad Koneline: Our Land Beautiful — The documentary investigates changes to the Canadian wilderness, as seen by First Nations people. Zeitgeist Raising Bertie — Three African-American boys come of age in North Carolina.

Zeitgeist Transformers: The Last Knight (PG-13) — God knows why, but Anthony Hopkins called director Michael Bay a “genius” and “savant” as they made this film.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Tubelight — The family drama is set in the hills of northern India. In Hindi with English subtitles. Elmwood

NOW SHOWING 47 Meters Down (PG-13) — Sisters plunge into shark-infested waters.

Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal All Eyez on Me (R) — Demetrius Shipp stars as (questionably?) dead rap icon Tupac Shakur. Clearview, Elmwood, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Baywatch (R) — The Rock and Zac Efron star in the high-camp reboot of the beachfront TV series. Kenner, Slidell, Regal The Book of Henry (PG-13) — The Atlantic: “A Frankenstein’s monster version of a feel-good classic.” Canal Place Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (PG) — “More powerful than boxer shorts,” they say. (So ... not that powerful?) Kenner, Slidell, Regal Cars 3 (G) — Pixar goes for the threequel, I guess. Clearview, Elmwood, Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Prytania, Regal Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (PG-13) — Tribune Media Company’s fatigued synopsis: “Based on the comic book.” Slidell It Comes at Night (R) — A nebulous monster terrorizes a family. Broad, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Megan Leavey (PG-13) — A soldier and her dog save lives, woof. Slidell, Regal The Mummy (PG-13) — Tom Cruise and a mummy rise from the grave.

Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place My Cousin Rachel (PG-13) — The incomparable Rachel Weisz is a scheming widow in this thriller. Canal Place Paris Can Wait (PG) — Diane Lane stars in the French-countryside romance, which celebrates pleasures of the flesh.

Canal Place, Elmwood

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (PG-13) — All Johnny Depp knows how to do anymore, it seems.

Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Rough Night (R) — Some bachelorettes (woooo!) accidentally kill a male stripper. Elmwood, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Tiny Giants 3-D — Cute things fend for themselves in the wild. Entergy Giant Screen Wonder Woman (PG-13) — An Amazon princess in a corset saves the world.

Broad, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Awake, A Dream for Standing Rock — Director Josh Fox presents the documentary about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. 7:30 p.m.

Sunday. Zeitgeist Bellator NYC: Sonnen vs. Silva — MMA fighters pummel one another. 9 p.m.

Saturday. Slidell Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson directs the behind-the-scenes (literally) look at a cinematographer’s life. 7 p.m.

Friday. The Tigermen Den (3113 Royal St.) Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life — Oh, right, that guy. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank DCI 2017 Tour Premiere — Drum corps groups compete for acclaim, bragging rights. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Elmwood, Regal I, Daniel Blake (R) — The film about a man caught in the U.K.’s welfare system won the Cannes Palme d’Or. 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Ivory — The locally-produced short film is by Phillip Youmans. 6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist La La Land — Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone do their best softshoe. 7 p.m.

Thursday. Orpheum Ladies Shooting Punks — Women filmmakers present 16mm films inspired by punk culture. 8 p.m.

Saturday. New Orleans Photo Alliance (1111 St. Mary St.) The Lady Eve — A con artist falls in love with her mark. 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Prytania The Lego Batman Movie — Two powerful franchises join forces to fight crime. 10 a.m. Friday-Saturday. Prytania Les Pecheurs de Perles — The French opera is about a love triangle. 7 p.m.

Wednesday. Elmwood Live and Let Die — James Bond battles a heroin kingpin. 10 a.m. Sunday. Prytania My Neighbor Totoro — Source of the catbus beloved by kawaii aficionados. 12:55 p.m. Sunday, 7 p.m. Monday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal

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Rough Night

YOU CAN TELL A LOT ABOUT A SUMMER MOVIE FROM THE WAY HOLLYWOOD • Wide Release MARKETS IT. The latest example is Rough Night, the first feature by Lucia Aniello, who is best known for her work as a writer and producer on Comedy Central’s Broad City. As described in the film’s press kit — and dutifully repeated word-for-word by movie-focused news outlets ranging from IndieWire to Vanity Fair — Rough Night is “the first big-studio R-rated comedy about women to be directed by a woman in nearly 20 years.”

That’s a lot of adjectives just to differentiate Aniello’s film from the many male examples of the popular “grown-ups behaving badly” movie genre, which includes The Hangover and most things made by Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg and their friends (Pineapple Express, The Interview, et al.). But then Hollywood places barriers in the paths of women hoping to infiltrate male-dominated genres. Since Aniello surely had to work harder than her male peers for a chance to make a film like Rough Night, it’s easy to hope the results might transform the formulaic bad-behavior comedy.

Rough Night earns some points just for being about women and starring five talented ones, but it’s hard to imagine anyone suggesting the film elevates a lowbrow form. This familiar tale of college dorm mates reuniting for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami wants to march to a different drummer — you can tell by the manic and disruptive way it moves from bawdy comedy to crime thriller to relationship movie, and back again — but never really finds a rhythm or purpose of its own.

Sisterly friendship is Rough Night’s primary topic. Scarlett Johansson stars as Jess, the group’s alpha female and current candidate for state senator back home. Alice (Jillian Bell) is the clingy one who can’t let go of her college-era identity. Frankie (Ilana Glazer, co-creator and star of Broad City) is a rich kid-turned-political activist who used to be romantically involved with Blair (Zoe Kravitz), the materialistic and status-conscious one. The wildcard is Pippa (Kate McKinnon), the Aussie friend Jess acquired during her semester abroad and the group’s only true free spirit. The bachelorettes accidentally kill their stripper soon after arriving in Miami and hijinks ensue.

Like so many mainstream Hollywood comedies, Rough Night has few actual laughs. The strategy is more to keep the physical comedy and other distracting bits coming at an extremely rapid pace, which keeps viewers in a state of mild amusement and precludes the need for thought-provoking, reality-based humor. Rough Night‘s only real foray into social satire comes when McKinnon refers to Florida’s “stand your ground” laws (which allow the use of deadly force for self-defense) as the state’s “good murder” laws — as in, “Hey, we committed a good murder!”

Best known as the Saturday Night Live cast member who played Hillary Clinton so memorably during last year’s presidential election, McKinnon has a knack for stealing every movie in which she appears. She kept the all-female 2016 remake of Ghostbusters in her back pocket throughout, and she brings much-needed wit and personality to Rough Night. If these films only earn McKinnon a starring role in a firstrate comedy of her own, they will have done their fair share to advance the cause of women in Hollywood. — KEN KORMAN

Nelly — The Canadian work of autofiction is about sex worker and author Nelly Arcan. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist RiffTrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party! — Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers denigrate cheesy educational shorts. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — You, too, can whistle while you work. 2 p.m.

Thursday. Orpheum

Trapped — The documentary looks at anti-abortion laws; a discussion follows. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Cafe Istanbul

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HAPPENINGS Live Painting. Marigny Brasserie & Bar, 640 Frenchmen St., (504) 945-4475; www.marignybrasserie.com — Jeff Morgan paints portraits and scenes from current events and popular culture.

6 p.m. Sunday.

OPENING Bar Redux. 801 Poland Ave., (504) 5927083; www.barredux.com — “Casualties of Precision,” new works by Huggington Behr, Carlos Mendieta, Lee Dotson and Nick Parnell; opening reception with live music 8 p.m. to 10 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 — Group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Convergence,” letterpress and bookmaking arts by Sara White and Jessica Peterson, through July.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 3040849; www.antieaugallery.com — New work by Chris Roberts-Antieau, ongoing.

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

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — New work by David Lumpkin and Dan Spiller; jewelry by Marie McConnell; crafts

by Renee Melito; all through June.

Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Intentional Landscapes,” new photographs

by Edward Burtynsky, through June.

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.

Boyd Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery. com — “Another Show,” group exhibition of paintings by Blake Boyd, David Eddington, Pinkney Herbert and others, through June 29.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “It Was Such a Beautiful Promise,” new work by Sibylle Peretti, through June.

CANO Creative Space at Myrtle Banks Building. 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. — New works by Keith Duncan, through July.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Louisiana Wetlands,” new work in oil by Dave Ivey, through July 1.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Art NO(w),” contemporary works by New Orleans-based artists, through July 29.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Recent Work,” photorealist watercolor paintings by Stephan Hoffpauir, through Saturday.

Creason’s Fine Art. 831 Chartres St., (504) 304-4392; www.creasonsfineart.com — “Figures II: Jazz Portraits on Strings,” marionettes by Harry Mayronne, ongoing.

Ellen Macomber Fine Art & Textiles.

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

The Exchange Center. 935 Gravier St., (504) 523-1465; www.artscouncilofneworleans.org — “What Is Love,” installation examining the idea of love by Angela Fama, through July 7.

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 — “MIGRATIONS,” short films addressing the concept of home; “Mini-Mart,” sale of affordable prints from local artists; both through July 2.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Lowland Louisiana,” landscapes by Ronnie Collins, through June.

Gallery Arlo. 837 Chartres St., (504) 330-0803 — “From Counter to Culture,” new work by Jacques Soulas, through Oct. 1.

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.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Tastier,” mixed-media installation about Western culture by Leslie Friedman, through Sunday.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — “Rebirth,” work about Hurricane Katrina by Antoine Prince Jr., through July 13.

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ART Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Interruption,” minimalist mixed-media paintings and sculpture by Sidonie Villere; “Salons,” watercolor and lithography on paper by Nurhan Gokturk; both through July 22.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Face to Face,” group exhibition about portraiture and the experience of viewing art, through July 29.

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

Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans.

433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — New work by Robert Deyber invoking cliches, euphemisms and idioms, through June.

Martin Welch Art Gallery. 223 Dauphine St., (504) 388-4240; www.martinwelchart.com — Paintings and mixed-media work by Martin Welch, ongoing.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Pop Up Show 2017,” new works by Kristina Knipe, Erica Lambertson, Maggie Lloyd, ongoing.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos. com — Paintings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

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 — “Between Piety and Desire,” new work by Piety Street artists, through June.

New Orleans Glassworks & Printmaking Studio. 727 Magazine St., (504) 5297277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — Glass sculptures of water and Louisiana wildlife, through July 1.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Marfa Intrigue,” group exhibition of works in oil, acrylic and watercolor, through July 29.

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

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.

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 — Group exhibition by gallery artists; “Looking Beyond,” abstracts by Kathy Buist; both through June.

The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Black-and-white photographs by David Spielman cover travel, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf South, ongoing.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — “The Passenger,” urban landscapes by Kaori Maeyama, through July 2.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “HERstory,” works celebrating the women of the African diaspora, through June.

Thomas Mann Gallery I/O. 1812 Magazine St., (504) 581-2113; www.thomasmann. com — “From Here ... to There,” metalsmithing and jewelry in conjunction with the Society of North American Goldsmiths, ongoing.

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

SPARE SPACES Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Show Us Your Happiest Moments in New Orleans,” group exhibition curated by Peter Nahkid, through Thursday, and more.

The Building 1427. 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283; www.building1427.com — Work by New Orleans artists Daniel Jupiter, Mark Lacabe and Eric Alugas, ongoing.

Pirate’s Alley Cafe. 622 Pirate’s Alley, (504) 524-9332; www.piratesalleycafe. com — Paintings, prints and mixed-media works by Joe Bostick, Mario Ortiz, Chris Holcombe, Nathan Durapau, Ernest Brown, Emily Stieber, Jennifer Laffin, Brandon Felix and others, ongoing.

Slidell Library. 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 646-6470; www.sttammany.lib. la.us/slidell.html — “Building a Better World,” traveling exhibit about global warming, through June.

St. Louis Cathedral. Jackson Square, 615 Pere Antoine Alley, (504) 525-9585; www.stlouiscathedral.org — Artists including Ken Cook, Sher Stewart, Joan Bonner, Lee Tucker and Nathan Pitts display works in front of the cathedral and around Jackson Square, ongoing.

MUSEUMS The Historic New Orleans Collection.

533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “A Most Significant Gift: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection,” more than 80 works from the Nelson Collection including Newcomb pottery, through Oct. 21, 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 Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm. crt.state.la.us — “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” interactive displays and artifacts, ongoing.

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REVIEW Mississippi indirectly enabled color photography’s acceptance as an art form through native son William Eggleston’s landmark 1976 solo show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art — a show that set the tone for much subsequent color photography, as we see in these two adjacent exhibitions.

Troubled Waters is a selection of mostly low-key Eggleston works from the William Greiner collection.

Many appear deadpan, but a closer look reveals paradoxical contrasts, a Eudora Welty short story that she never got around to writing. Views of roadside diners with Formica counters and chrome jukeboxes suggest ossified archaeological artifacts of suburban pop culture, while strands of old Christmas tree lights seem to strangle porch columns like electric jungle creepers. Eggleston’s manic gonzo style makes a cameo appearance in a night scene with a luridly glowing Confederate flag neon sign engulfing a ragged palm tree in its crimson glow, an omen like a latter-day burning bush illuminating the byways of the oblivious.

Greiner, a New Orleans-born photographer, works in an Egglestonian mode infused with his own unique quirks. Jet Over Blue and Black House, Kenner LA conveys the vertiginous aura of America’s airport towns, but the deco flourishes of Hope Mausoleum and its glowing geometric sign suggests Mussolini-era Italian expressionist cinema set in Mid-City. Birney Imes’ iconic photos of juke joints like Purple Rain Lounge (pictured) convey something of the expansive savannas and Soweto-like shanties of the Mississippi Delta, while documentary images by William Christenberry and William Ferris capture the haunted soul of the Southern landscape. Finally, Alex Soth’s through-the-window portrait of Eggleston at home with his vintage piano and audio gear reminds us that paradox is a human invention and Eggleston may be the most paradoxical contemporary photographer of all. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

Troubled Waters: Color dye transfer prints

by William Eggleston The Colourful South: Color photography in the South group exhibition • Through Oct. 26 • Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9650, www.ogdenmuseum.org

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “African Art: The Bequest from the Francoise Billion Richardson Charitable Trust,” more than 100 African sculptures, through June, and more.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico,” work of five Puerto Rican artists, through July 9.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Waltzing the Muse,” James Michalopoulos retrospective, through July 16. “Profligate Beauty,” work inspired by the American South, from the museum’s permanent collection, through September, and more.

CALL FOR ARTISTS New Member Call. The Front seeks new members for its artist-run gallery space.

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THEATER & CABARET Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www. stagedoorcanteen.org — The revue features the music of Thomas “Fats” Waller.

Tickets $29-$64. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1 p.m. Saturday.

Annie Get Your Gun. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre presents the musical based on the life of Annie Oakley. Tickets $26-$46.

8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Bats in His Belfry: Three Treatments for a Crusader Who’s Caped. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 638-6326; www.thetheatreatstclaude. com — Jim Fitzmorris’ play features creative takes on the Batman character.

Reserved tickets $12, door tickets paywhat-you-can. 8 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday.

Courted. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Alison Logan’s one-woman show is followed by variety acts. Tickets $10.

8 p.m. Sunday.

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). Loyola University New Orleans, Marquette Theatre, Marquette Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — Southern Rep presents the show, in which a slave is promised freedom if he fights for the Confederate army. Visit www.southernrep.com for details. Tickets $20-$40. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

It’s Only a Play. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — The NOLA Project and Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre present Terrance McNally’s farce about Broadway insiders. Tickets $35-$50. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Marvel Universe Live. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The family-friendly live show features Marvel characters. Tickets $27-$230. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday.

Peter Pan: The New Musical. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — The musical is adapted from J.M. Barrie’s children’s story. Tickets $13.50-$20. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

BURLESQUE & VARIETY Bad Girls of Burlesque. House of Blues, The Parish, 225 Decatur St., (504) 3104999; www.hob.com — The leather-clad burlesque troupe performs. Tickets $22.

8 p.m. Friday.

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 — Lefty Lucy is the emcee at this bingo night with burlesque performances. There’s a one-drink minimum to play. 7 p.m. Monday.

Burlesque Boozy Brunch. SoBou, 310 Chartres St., (504) 552-4095; www.sobounola.com — A burlesque performance by Bella Blue and friends accompanies brunch service. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.

Cut Throat Freak Show. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge. net — Cut Throat, Scarlett Storm and Eric Odditorium perform in the variety show with juggling, stunts and other acts.

9 p.m. Wednesday.

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.

Whiskey & Rhinestones. Gravier Street Social, 523 Gravier St., (504) 941-7629; www.gravierstreetsocial.com — Bella Blue hosts a burlesque show. Visit www. thebellalounge.com for details. Tickets $10. 9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.

DANCE Summer Solstice. NOCCA Riverfront Lupin Hall, 2800 Chartres St. — New Orleans Ballet Theatre presents the performance featuring the premiere of a piece by choreographer Diogo de Lima.

Visit www.nobt.brownpapertickets. com for details. Tickets $25-$35. 8 p.m.

Friday-Saturday.

COMEDY Adam Ferrara. Harrah’s Casino, Harrah’s Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504) 533-6600; www.harrahsneworleans.com — The comedian performs. Tickets $22-$30.

8 p.m. Friday.

Catfish. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The improv group won The New Movement’s “Knockout” competition. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comedy F—k Yeah. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Vincent Zambon and Mary-Devon Dupuy host a stand-up show. 8:30 p.m. Friday.

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.

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “Red-

CALL FOR THEATER Dancing with the Stars and Stripes. BB’s Stage Door Canteen hosts auditions for a swing dance competition. No appointment necessary. Visit www.nationalww2museum.org for details.

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Bean” Plunkett hosts an open-mic standup show. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola.com — Chris Lane hosts the stand-up comedy open mic with burlesque interludes.

9:30 p.m. Monday.

Crescent Fresh. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — Ted Orphan and Geoffrey Gauchet host the stand-up comedy open mic. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Crush Sketch Comedy. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3028264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Chris Trew directs the collaborative show featuring elements of sketch and improv comedy. 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

Friends with Gum. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — The sketch comedy group performs.

9 p.m. Saturday.

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.

Hell Yes Next. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — The event is the first round of a stand-up competition for a spot performing at Hell Yes Fest.

7:30 p.m. Saturday.

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.

Night Church. Sidney’s Saloon, 1200 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 947-2379; www.sidneyssaloon.com — Benjamin Hoffman and Paul Oswell host a stand-up show, and there’s free ice cream. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

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 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday.

The Spontaneous Show. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Young Funny comedians host the comedy show and open mic. Sign-up 7:30 p.m., show 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Stoned vs. Drunk vs. Sober. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Comedians in altered states go head-to-head in a stand-up competition.

10:30 p.m. Friday.

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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FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2, & 3 is an emotionally moving epic about the U.S. Civil War written by Suzan-Lori Parks and presented by Southern Rep Theatre. It borrows themes from classical Greek theater to heighten the drama about a slave named Hero (Sam Malone), • June 22-25 who faces an awful dilemma. He can stay and toil on the plantation or take his chances • 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat; following the colonel (Greg Baber), his mas3 p.m. Sun. ter, to the battlefront. Master promised Hero freedom twice before, but perhaps Hero • Loyola University New will be rewarded once the Confederacy triOrleans, Marquette Theatre, umphs. By putting on the gray uniform and cap of the Confederacy, however, Hero takes Marquette Hall, sides against his enslaved brothers.

6363 St. Charles Ave.; “I’ll be helping out on the wrong side,” www.southernrep.com he says.

Parks’ characters are multidimensional • Tickets $20-$40 and intelligent, eschewing the stereotypes of uneducated field workers lacking conscience PHOTO BY JOHN BARROIS or aspiration. They laugh, philosophize and wager whether Hero will go off to war.

Hero’s choice is not a moral decision, but “two sides of the same coin,” and neither guarantees happiness. At war, he will risk injury or death and cannot be heroic since he is but a servant who fetches firewood, shines the colonel’s boots and cares for his horse. Hero will sleep outside on the ground while the “boss master” enjoys a warm tent. Unaccustomed to making choices, Hero changes his mind often, despite desperate pleas from his lover Penny (Idella Johnson) to stay.

The play opens on a cotton plantation with flickering gaslights glowing beside shanties and trees draped with Spanish moss. Blues guitar and vocals denote an intensely personal story set in the rural South. A group has gathered, waiting for the sun to rise on the day the master will depart. Parks’ saga is divided into three parts, depicting slavery before the war, the battlefield and Hero’s return home. There is little action, but much discussion, delving into concepts such as loyalty, freedom and the value of one’s life.

At one point, the colonel urges a captured Union soldier (Todd d’Amour) to guess Hero’s auction block price, taking into account the slave is probably worth less now, having aged. Hero wonders if he will have any value once he is no longer a white man’s property. The colonel judges his own worth based on the number of slaves he owns.

“I’m grateful every day I’m white,” he brags to both captives.

Terrific ensemble acting and expert stage direction by Valerie Curtis-Newton, founding artistic director for the African-American theater lab The Hansberry Project, make this performance exciting to watch despite lengthy speeches. Using Homer’s Odyssey as a blueprint, Parks shows how war devastated eveyone’s life, whether rich or poor, black or white. War’s participants are permanently changed.

Hero betrays his friends. The Union soldier befriends a slave. Penny runs off with another man.

Noteworthy performances include Baber as the depicable master, Robert Diago DoQui as Homer, d’Amour as the disillusioned Union soldier, Martin Bradford as a runaway slave and Zeb Hollins as Odd-See, a faithful dog with mystical powers. — MARY RICKARD

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Silicon Bayou Summer Kickoff Party.

The Drifter Hotel, 3522 Tulane Ave., (504) 605-4644; www.thedrifterhotel.com — Silicon Bayou News hosts the poolside cocktail party for the entrepreneurial and tech communities. Email julia@siliconbayounews.com for details. Admission $10, includes a drink. 6 p.m.

Sippin’ in the Courtyard. Hotel Maison Dupuy, 1001 Toulouse St., (504) 5868000; www.maisondupuy.com/fqbistro. html — The courtyard cocktail party benefits Dress for Success New Orleans.

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Are You Interested in Becoming a U.S. Citizen? North Kenner Library, 630 W. Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 736-8730; www.jplibrary.net — The workshop covers the naturalization process. Participants can observe a mock interview. 6:30 p.m.

Festigals New Orleans Women’s Weekend Experience. JW Marriott New Orleans, 614 Canal St., (504) 527-6752 — The women’s empowerment event features a leadership conference, a “bodacious bras” brunch, a “Stiletto Stroll” second line, networking events and more. Visit www.festigals.org for details. Admission varies. Thursday-Saturday.

Social Media Hour. St. Tammany Parish Library, Lee Road branch, 79213 Highway 40, Covington, (985) 893-6284; www. sttammany.lib.la.us/leeroad.html — The workshop for adults covers Instagram and features an app scavenger hunt.

Bring a smartphone or tablet. 3:30 p.m.

Wetlands Express. Central City Library, Mahalia Jackson Center, 2405 Jackson Ave., Building C, Room 235, (504) 5963110; www.nolalibrary.org — Audubon Zoo staff brings wetlands creatures to the library for kids ages 4 and older to enjoy. 2 p.m.

Arts Market of New Orleans. Palmer Park, South Claiborne and South Carrollton avenues — The Arts Council of New Orleans’ market features local and handmade goods, food, kids’ activities and live music. Visit www.artsneworleans.org for details. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Big Top Cake Competition. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.natfab.org — There’s a cake-decorating competition judged by the public and a “bakery carnival” featuring sweet treats from local bakers. Free with museum admission. 11 a.m.

Blood Drive. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelvemilelimit — At the blood drive, donors enjoy appetizers and can receive an event shirt. Eat before you arrive to donate and bring a picture ID. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Family Overnight. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.nationalww2museum. org — The pajama party for families with children ages 7-12 features activities, teamwork challenges and a tour of the museum’s Sherman tank. Registration required. Tickets $75. 5 p.m.

Garden Workshops. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037; www.hollygrovemarket.com — This workshop focuses on veggie growing basics.

Suggested donation $10-$15. 1 p.m.

Greater New Orleans Iris Society Meeting. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — The gardening group hosts a meet-and-greet and educational demonstration. New members welcome.

Free admission. 9 a.m.

Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival. Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St. — The 11th annual festival features Cajun and zydeco music, Louisiana food and an arts market.

Visit www.cajunzydecofest.com for details. Free admission. 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Vegan Village Market. Tibetan House, 4900 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 897-9339;

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TUESDAY 20 Appy Hour. St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany. lib.la.us/covington.html — The workshop covers use of the library’s apps, including cloud services and electronic books. 6 p.m.

BingOh!. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The bingo night has a circus theme, and there are performances by Young Funny comedians. Tickets $5. 8 p.m.

Craft Happy Hour. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Fiber artist Connie Shea leads the workshop on making macrame plant hangers. Tickets $25. 6 p.m.

The Greatest Legislation: The GI Bill Then and Now. National World War II Museum, U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, 945 Magazine St., (504) 5281944; www.nationalww2museum.org — A reception and lecture cover the passage and influence of the GI Bill. Participants may share how the bill changed their lives. Call (877) 813-3329 x 412 to register (recommended). 5 p.m.

New Orleans and Its Impossible Location: Floods, Levees and Drainage.

Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., (504) 322-7479; www.neworleanspubliclibrary. org — UNO historian Dr. Gerald Bodet presents the lecture on coastal erosion and water management. 6:30 p.m.

School of Fish. New Canal Lighthouse, 8001 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 282-2134; www.saveourlake.org — A free half-day workshop teaches kids to fish. Visit www. saveourlake.org for details. Registration recommended. 8 a.m. to noon.

WEDNESDAY 21 Art + Apertifs. Le Meridien New Orleans, 333 Poydras St., (504) 525-9444; www. lemeridienneworleanshotel.com — Artist Kristin Malone leads the painting class.

Registration includes a cocktail and snoballs. Tickets $38. 6 p.m.

Dinner with a Curator. American Sector, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940; www. nationalww2museum.org/american-sector — The four-course dinner with drink pairings includes a lecture about the Battle of Midway. Tickets $56.99. 6:30 p.m.

Good for the Soulstice Celebration.

Glitter Box, 1109 Royal St., Suite A; www. glitterboxno.com — There’s a pop-up sale, braiding workshop and self-defense class at the summer solstice party. Donations of pads, tampons and underwear are encouraged. 5 p.m.

King of Crawfish. Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702; www.generationshall.com — Participants vote on the best crawfish dish from 15 restaurants’ offerings. Visit www.lra.org

FRIDAY 23 Big Chief Tyrone Casby’s 50th Anniversary Masking. L.B. Landry-O.P. Walker High School, 1200 L.B. Landry Ave., (504) 302-7170; www.landry-walker.org — The Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Indians celebrate their chief’s 50th anniversary masking at a presentation and reception.

Free admission. 7 p.m.

Create Late. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — The adult craft workshop focuses on tiny printmaking. Email education@noma.org for details. Registration $10, includes materials and a glass of wine. 6:30 p.m.

Favorite Fathers Celebration. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — The event celebrates fathers and father figures with a community party.

www.tibetanhouse.com — Vendors offer vegan food and crafts, and DJ Mickie Milton performs. Free admission. 11 a.m.

SUNDAY 25 Dog Workshops. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www. la-spca.org — A day of workshops covers “dogs and babies,” “reactive Rover” and “intro to dog training.” Registration required. Times and admission vary.

Grill Out with Your Gills Out. Bayou St. John, at Orleans Avenue and N. Jefferson Davis Parkway — Krewe of Mermoux hosts the barbecue benefit for New Orleans Advocates for GLBT Elders (NOAGE).

Plates and drinks are sold, and donations are accepted. 3 p.m. to 7 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 Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Saturday is Star Wars night featuring an appearance by the Chewbacchus marching group. 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday, noon Sunday.

Big Easy Rollergirls. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — The roller derby team plays the Southern Illinois Roller Girls and the Alamo City Tejanas.

5 p.m. Saturday.

WORDS Dogfish Reading Series. Private residence, 2448 N. Villere St. — Poets Laura Mullen and Tiana Nobile read. Refreshments are served. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Kathy Schrenk, Dalt Wonk, Del-Rio Gardner, Vernon Smith. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The authors discuss the process of writing a children’s book. 7 p.m.

Wednesday.

Mary Koppel. Latter Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave., (504) 596-2625; www. nolalibrary.org — The author presents her mystery novel Volunteer to Die. 6:30 p.m.

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Megan Braden-Perry. Mignon Faget, 3801 Magazine St., (504) 891-2005; www. mignonfaget.com — The author signs Crescent City Snow, and sno-balls are served. 2 p.m. Saturday.

Mystery Readers and Writers Literary Festival. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The festival is for mystery readers and writers; there are lectures and a master class.

Free admission. 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

Tanisha D. Jones. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author presents Mark of the Fallen. 2 p.m. Sunday.

Tom McDermott. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The musician gives a short performance and presents his book Five Lines No Waiting: Limericks and Sketches.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Writing for Healing. Women’s Center for Healing & Transformation, 71667 Leveson St., Abita Springs, (985) 892-8111; www. womenscenterforhealing.org — The

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Tickets $5-$10, kids ages 3 and younger free. 6 p.m.

Irwin Royes. Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 5963100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The “world’s smallest magician” performs for young audiences. 2 p.m.

Mission Possible. Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702; www.generationshall.com — New Orleans Medical Mission Services hosts the gala to raise money for medical services for the international community. Visit www.nomms.org for details. Tickets $75-$250. 7:30 p.m.

R.C. Blakes Sr. Scholarship Banquet.

Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., (504) 561-1234; www.neworleans. hyatt.com — Gospel singer Kierra Sheard performs at this gala and benefit for the R.C. Blakes Sr. Scholarship Foundation.

Visit www.rcblakescholar.com for details.

Tickets $100. 7 p.m.

RuPaul’s Drag Race Finale Viewing Party. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — There’s a watch party with free food for the finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race. 7 p.m.

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• June 22-24 FESTIGALS, A WEEKEND OF CELEBRATIONS, EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN • JW Marriott, 614 Canal St., AND FUNDRAISING for issues that affect (504) 525-6500; them, includes the Bodacious Bras for a Cause brunch and auction (9:30 a.m. Satwww.festigals.org urday) of bras made into works of art to raise money for breast cancer organizations. The Stiletto Stroll (7 p.m. Saturday) is a walking parade through the French Quarter led by local singer and FestiGals Grand Diva Robin Barnes (pictured) with marching bands and krewes raising money for the New Orleans Family Justice Center. Friday is the New Orleans Women’s Leadership Conference, a program of talks, workshops and events addressing topics including negotiating, women-owned businesses, fitness, shopping, burlesque and cuisine. Speakers include Linda Alvarado, who heads a Denver construction firm and co-owns the Colorado Rockies major league baseball team, and actress Zoe McLellan, former star of NCIS: New Orleans. Admission varies. — KANDACE POWER GRAVES

women’s writing workshop focuses on writing for wellness. Registration $25. 3 p.m. Sunday.

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American Cancer Society. The society seeks volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Visit www.cancer.org or call (504) 219-2200.

CASA New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteer court-appointed special advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month. No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@casaneworleans.org.

Dress for Success New Orleans. The program for women entering the workplace seeks volunteers to manage inventory, help clients and share their expertise. Call (504) 891-4337 or email neworleans@ dressforsuccess.org.

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Each One Save One. Greater New Orleans’ largest one-on-one mentoring program seeks volunteer mentors. Visit www. eachonesaveone.org.

CALL OR EMAIL AD DIRECTOR SANDY STEIN: 504.483.3150 | SANDYS@GAMBITWEEKLY.COM

Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Program. GOAL seeks volunteers to conduct courses for reading comprehension, GED

preparation and English language learning. Call (504) 373-4496.

Hospice Volunteers. Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Carla Fisher at (504) 832-8111.

Louisiana SPCA. The LA/SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 12 years old and complete an orientation to work directly with animals. Visit www.la-spca. org/volunteer.

NOLA Tree Project. The forestry organization seeks volunteers to adopt and trim trees around the city. Visit www.nolatreeproject.org.

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FOR SALE 820 Spain #8 1/1 pkng, pool w/d, wd flrs, hi ceils, ctrl ac, gated secure entry ............................................. $295,000 224 Chartres 5 units avail, 1-3 beds, reno’d, elevator access, ctyd, great loc starting at ................... $649,000

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2223 Franklin Lrg lot for sale. Home is certainly able to be reno’d, but if not there is value in the salvaging of historic and valuable components of the home if interested in a tear down ............................................. $85,000

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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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Will carry out Hispanic programming for indivs. & groups. 100% of clients assisted in the Hispanic progs are Spanish speakers w/ limited command of English. Master’s in Counseling, Therapy, or related field; 1 yr exp in assessment & counseling, incl. solid exp. in each: psychometrics (incl. administering, interpreting, reporting standardized assessments); counseling persons w/ substance use disorders; supervision in substance abuse setting. Skills & knowledge must be completely up to date w/ respect to: assessment tools, protocols; state & fed law regarding substance abuse & counseling (privacy, reporting, etc); ethical rules across disciplines (counseling, addictions, social work). Must be proficient w/ Microsoft Office. Fluent Spanish. Occasional travel to on-site locations. Resume & cvr ltr to Joyce Bracey, Council on Alcohol & Drug Abuse, 2640 Canal Street, Floor 4, New Orleans, LA 70119 w/in 30 days & mention Job #15559.

FARM LABOR Temporary Farm Labor: JF Phillips Farms, Yazoo City, MS, has 3 positions, 3 mo. experience with GPS for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, harvesting & transporting grain & oilseed crops from field to storage facilities, auger & fan operation & maintenance; clean & maintain building, equip & vehicles; long periods of standing, bending & able to lift 75#; must able to obtain driver’s 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.; $10.38/hr, increase based on experience, may work nights, weekends & asked but not required to work Sabbath; 75% work period guaranteed from 7/21/17 – 12/15/17. Review ETA790 requirements and apply with Job Order MS216597 at nearest LA Workforce Office or call 225-342-2917.

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Bathroom fixtures • Ceramic tile walls, floors and counters • Fiberglass bathtubs and enclosures • Formica countertops Claw foot bathtubs • Pedestal sinks Cast iron and tin bathtubs Marble walls and countertops

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GAMBIT EXCHANGE / REAL ESTATE

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