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Garden and an hourlong special on Comedy Central, Mark Normand performed at a handful of open mics in New Orleans with a small cadre of stand-up comics, driving to Baton Rouge and Lafayette for a few minutes of stage time.

“We’d drink, it was a community, a group of us who’d push each other and got all excited about new jokes, and it was scary and fun and new,” Normand says from his home in New York.

“Back then it was like being a — what’s something that’s really rare? Like a Mormon. It was like six of us.”

Normand returns to New Orleans to headline One Eyed Jacks Aug. 15.

His first hourlong special, Amy Schumer Presents: Mark Normand: Don’t Be Yourself, premiered earlier this year. Normand has toured and opened for Schumer for several years after she caught him at Comix in 2010.

“She saw my act, and I bombed, but one joke worked and she clinged on to that,” he says. “She gave me a gig — it was a date in Atlanta. I was too scared.

I didn’t know if I could do 30 minutes, I didn’t know who this girl is, I didn’t want to hang out with her, who the hell is she? So I turned it down. I lied and said my parents were coming into town. I was talking to her on the phone and she was like, ‘OK?’ I remember her being like, ‘What are you, an idiot?’”

Two weeks later, she called him back for a show at Hofstra University. They rode the train from the city and hit it off. “I later learned she said the reason she used me was she liked my stuff, I was low maintenance and I never tried to sleep with her,” he says. “All the big three.”

After a year performing standup around New Orleans, Normand moved to New York in 2007 with only a few hundred bucks, followed by

a harrowing series of events he rattles off in one breath — mugged three times, apartment got bedbugs, landlord died of complications from AIDS, all within Normand’s first few months in town. After begging his old film school for a job, they hired him as a custodian.

“It was brutal,” he says. “I was so desperate. My whole career was put together with gum and tape. … The city tries to chew you up and spit you out, and if I was a sane, normal human being I would’ve listened to it but I had nowhere else to go.”

Normand has appeared in the comic slot on several late-night TV shows and on Louis CK’s Horace and Pete and Schumer’s Comedy Central sketch series Inside Amy Schumer, among many gigs around the world, including institutions like Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater. He’s also active on social media (@marknorm on Twitter, @marknormand on Instagram) and hosts a long-running podcast Tuesdays With Stories with comedian Joe List.

But he still works material at open mics and intimate bar shows, including spots around New Orleans.

“One day you’re in Madison Square [Garden], Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater,” he says. “The next day you’ve got that new joke to try out and it bombs in front of six people at a bar with the Rangers game on.”

Onstage, Normand carefully builds

Girl Friday! with Delish Da Goddess with MC Sweet Tea & Da Tastee Hotz and Sea Battle FRI. AUG. 18 | Violet native Delish Da Goddess anchored Gambit’s 2016 music issue with a string of deliciously titled releases (Gold Blooded, Terminally Trill, Queendom). The trap artist’s dominating stage presence is the draw for this “Girl Friday!” female showcase featuring MC Sweet Tea and Sea Battle. At 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Comedian Mark Normand returns to New Orleans

YEARS BEFORE CONAN AND THE TONIGHT SHOW, Madison Square

WED. AUG. 16 | The railroad tour pivots at New Orleans, from Los Angeles to Chicago-bound, unloading a country, folk and punk music lineup for a show at Chickie Wah Wah. Dave Alvin (The Blasters, X), Peter Case (The Nerves, The Plimsouls), Jimmie Dale Gilmore (The Flatlanders), Dead Rock West and Blind Boy Paxton perform at 8 p.m.

Kap G FRI. AUG. 18 | College Park, Georgia’s George Ramirez landed on XXL magazine’s coveted freshmen issue earlier this year on the strengths of his mixtapes and 2016 hit “Girlfriend.” The Mexican-American rapper’s 2017 tape, Supajefe, fits alongside his Altanta contemporaries with big hooks and his melodic flow. J.R. Donato, Paper Paulk and DOON open at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

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up to taboo or collar-pulling topics, revealing his relatably awkward, sometimes-charming and admittedly gross behavior on the way there.

“I’m really trying to tell jokes about these horrible things and make light of them,” he says. “That’s my favorite kind of joke. At one point they are a new joke that’s not ready, so when it’s not funny yet you just look like an asshole holding a microphone. You have to go through that suffering and pain of people hating you and hope to God you find the funny in it. … It’s a long journey to get there, but if you get there, it’s worth it.”

SAT. AUG. 19 | The Krewe of O.A.K. turns “Dirty One,” or 31, and celebrates with its annual costume parade from the Maple Leaf Bar to Palmer Park and back to Oak Street. There are festivities in the park and a post-parade party at La Casita Taqueria with DJ Soul Sister.

The parade departs the Maple Leaf at 7:30 p.m.

NOLA Ameripolitan Festival SAT. AUG. 19 | New Orleans’ premier punk venue goes west with the inaugural Ameripolitan Fest: Seattle’s Darci Carlson, Denver’s Adam Lopez and Kansas City’s Dusty Rust join locals Gal Holiday, Johnny Dilks and Ron Hotstream in an impressively deep country lineup from across the country.

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Julie Stokes, a

1992 magna cum laude graduate of the University of New Orleans (UNO), is the 2017 recipient of UNO’s Homer L. Hitt Distinguished Alumni Award, the university’s highest honor. Stokes, a CPA, represents Louisiana’s House District 79. Recently she dropped a planned run for state treasurer due to a diagnosis of breast cancer.

Johnette Downing will receive the 18th annual Louisiana Writer Award from the Louisiana Center for the Book at October’s Louisiana Book Festival. Downing, a writer and musician, has written 22 children’s books. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said, “Johnette Downing has a special gift for making Louisiana’s unique culture come alive for children around the world. We are proud to call her one of our own.”

Frank Scurlock,

the businessman and mayoral candidate, suggested to Uptown Messenger last week that the recent municipal floods were due to God’s displeasure with New Orleans. “I don’t want to call it judgment,” he said. “I’d call it a wake-up call because there was so much going wrong.” He added, “New Orleans East needs a cleansing in itself. There’s hardly anything going right, except the opening of dollar stores.”

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and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) increased the chances of an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, predicting 14 to 19 named storms and saying the season “could be the most active since 2010.” The six named storms that had formed by early August were double the number of an average season, with three named storms forming by the end of June.

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Heads rolled at City Hall and at the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board (S&WB) after widespread misinformation about broken drainage pumps during and after massive flooding in parts of New Orleans Aug. 5.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu terminated city Public Works Director Mark Jernigan and asked for the resignations of S&WB General Superintendent Joseph Becker and Communications Director Lisa Martin last Tuesday, Aug. 8, in the wake of the flood debacle on Aug. 5.

The mayor also accepted the notice of retirement of S&WB Director Cedric Grant, who got the job with Landrieu’s backing several years ago and was tasked with turning around the troubled agency.

Jernigan is the only terminated employee who reported directly to the mayor. He had failed to satisfy questions from New Orleans City Council members (twice within a week’s time) about the status of the city’s catch basins and what his department had done with $3 million earmarked in its budget to clean the basins.

Grant announced his retirement moments before he was set to appear before the City Council Aug. 8, though his departure won’t officially happen until after hurricane season. “The information I have learned over the last 24 hours indicates that some parts of our system did not operate as they should have, which is disappointing because it contradicts information that I was given to provide to the public,” Grant said in a prepared statement. “Our staff was not forthright, which is unacceptable.”

S&WB officials assured the public and city officials that all pump stations were “fully operational” during the flood. The agency later revealed that 16 pumps were down, including nine major drainage pumps and seven smaller “constant duty” pumps.

Things got worse Aug. 10, when an overnight fire damaged one of five turbines on which the S&WB relies for its drainage pumps as well as its water treatment plant. There already are three other turbines down for periodic repairs — leaving only one working turbine.

A forecast of rain forced the city to cancel public schools Thursday and Friday as the mayor and Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency.

Landrieu is requesting a third-party review of the beleaguered agency and suggested hiring a private management group to take over S&WB operations. (See Commentary, p. 12, and Politics, p. 13.)

P H O T O B Y W I L L C OV I E L L O

2. Quote of the week “I thought we were on a witch hunt — and we found witches.” — District E City Councilman James Gray, expressing disbelief at the testimony of New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) General Superintendent Joseph Becker before the council Aug. 8. Before the meeting had concluded, Mayor Mitch

Landrieu held a press conference asking for the resignation of Becker and other S&WB officials.

3. NOAA upgrades chances of a busy hurricane season

Last week, as New Orleanians attempted to dry out from the Aug. 5 flood, the National Oceanic

State Sen. J.P. Morrell will hold a town hall at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 17 to discuss state hurricane preparedness and the status of flood control structures. Representatives from the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Southeast Flood Protection Authority-East (SLPA-E) will be on hand, and there will be an hour for attendees to ask questions starting at 6:30 p.m. Also invited: reps from the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It takes place in the atrium of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport (6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd.).

5. Flooding gets big play in national media

Local tourism officials no doubt reached for the antacids Aug. 10, when The Washington Post’s widely read daily newsletter First Reads led with the dramatic headline “Can New Orleans Be Saved?”

Those who clicked through got a mostly well-researched story, which delineated the problems and failures leading to the Aug. 5 flood. “The aftermath has thrown the New Orleans government and its municipal water and sewage authority into turmoil, reviving longstanding concerns that natural disasters here have been made worse by inconsistent leadership,” the story concluded.

6. Transit study: New

streetcars do ‘nothing to increase jobs access’

Only 11 percent of people who rely on public transit in New Orleans are able to reach their jobs within 30 minutes, according to a new report from transit advocacy group Ride New Orleans. The group revealed in its 2017 State of Transit in New Orleans report that the much-celebrated Loyola and Rampart streetcar lines also “did nothing to increase jobs access” and prevented residents living along those lines from reaching more than 1,000 jobs within a half hour.

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7. Blue Bike-you Blue Bikes will debut across New Orleans this fall as part of a citywide bike rental program that brings 700 bikes to 70 locations.

Last week, city officials revealed the program’s title sponsor will be Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana.

The bikes are provided by bike share vendor Social Bicycles. The program is funded entirely through sponsorships, ads and rental fees, according to the city.

The city previewed the new system as it prepared for NBA All-Star Weekend and gathered input from residents who attended six public meetings and took surveys about the program’s plans.

Beginning this fall, the bikes will be available 24 hours a day at kiosks throughout the city. Riders will have to download a smartphone app and start an account to access the bikes. A monthly pass is $15, which covers up to one hour of riding a day. The city also will offer a pass for low-income riders at $1.67 a month ($20 a year). There also is a “pay-as-you-go” rate for $8 per hour of use.

8. Speaking of ‘rainy days’ New Orleans voters will determine the fate of a “rainy day” fund requested by Mayor Mitch Landrieu for the city’s 2018 budget. The fund is set to be used only in the event of emergencies that threaten loss of life or property, or as approved by the New Orleans City Council following an “economic downturn of serious proportions,” or as mandated by the federal government. The fund, which requires voter approval of a City Charter amendment, would comprise at least 5 percent of the city’s annual budget, and it can only be tapped via a two-thirds vote of council members.

The City Council agreed to put the measure on the Nov. 18 ballot.

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By comparison, residents with cars are able to reach 86 percent of the region’s jobs within 30 minutes.

The report also notes that low- or no-additional-cost network changes such as the Regional Transit Authority’s reconnection of the No. 15 Freret and No. 28 MLK bus lines to Canal Street — rather than Union Passenger Terminal — had allowed access to more than 5,000 jobs within 30 minutes.

“We have a regional economy but a transit system that stops at the parish line,” Ride New Orleans Director Alex Posorske said in a statement. “If we want to make a big difference in access to jobs, we need to break down that invisible wall.”

9. Mayoral candidate

Scurlock cleared of charges

Mayoral candidate Frank Scurlock, who was arrested in May on a misdemeanor charge at the site of the former Jefferson Davis monument in Mid-City, was cleared of those charges last week by Municipal Court Judge Donald Johnson, who called the case “a total waste of time.” Scurlock also made waves in an Uptown Messenger interview in which he suggested God’s displeasure with New Orleans was the cause of the recent floods. “I don’t want to call it judgment,” Scurlock said. “I’d call it a wake-up call, because there was so much going wrong.” He also said he saw a pattern in which parts of the city flooded, saying the tornadoes that struck New Orleans East in February mostly destroyed “prostitution hotels.” He added, “New Orleans East needs a cleansing in itself.”

10.

Ponderosa Stomp releases lineup The biannual Ponderosa Stomp has released its nightly lineup of acts for the October music festival, which this year moves to the Orpheum Theater in downtown New Orleans.

Friday, Oct. 6 will feature Roky Erickson performing with 13th Floor Elevators; The Gories; Archie Bell; Barbara Lynn; a swamp pop revue with G.G. Shinn, Warren Storm and TK Hulin; Lil’ Buck Sinegal and the Top Cats; and others. Saturday, Oct. 7 will bring The Mummies; Gary U.S. Bonds; Don Bryant and The Bo-Keys; Evie Sands; Los Straitjackets; a honky-tonk revue featuring Frankie Miller, Darrell McCall and James Hand; and more.

Performing both nights: Rockabilly/western revivalists Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-Fonics, along with Austin, Texas-based garage rockers Eve and the Exiles.

A music history conference will be held at the Ace Hotel Oct. 5-6, along with a record show in the hotel Oct. 6-7. The kickoff “Hip Drop” DJ party will be held at d.b.a. Oct. 5 ($5 admission).

Festival passes are $180 and admit bearers to the music history seminars and both nights of shows.

Tickets to the two nights of concerts are $128 plus fees, and there are single-night tickets available for $70 plus fees.

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COMMENTARY

A not-so-dry run

A car parked on a sidewalk in Mid-City can’t escape rising waters.

PHOTO BY KEVIN ALLMAN

WHEN JOSEPH BECKER, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD,

began answering questions from the New Orleans City Council Aug. 8, it was clear the S&WB’s original story about its performance during the Aug. 5 storm was taking on more water than a Lamborghini stranded in Lakeview. Just before the council’s special meeting, S&WB Executive Director Cedric Grant announced he would retire by the end of the year. “Some parts of our system did not operate as they should have, which is disappointing because it contradicts information that I was given to provide to the public,” Grant said. That was an understatement.

The information referenced by Grant — that all the drainage pumps were in working order during the

storm — was contradicted by data that Council members tweezed out of Becker during the special meeting. Becker floated the equivocality that “all the pump stations were working at the capacity they had available to them.”

As it turned out, 16 of the system’s 121 pumps were out of commission. A Lakeview pumping station operating at 100 percent of its “available capacity” was actually working at 57 percent of its capacity. Other stations reported similar problems.

In fairness, no urban area in America can absorb 9 inches of rainwater in three hours’ time. There was bound to be flooding, but the S&WB’s response was uniformly poor.

For example, the head of the city’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness said the S&WB didn’t contact his office to let him know about pumping

issues. Elsewhere, people stranded in the hardest-hit areas couldn’t use their phones to get emergency information from the S&WB because the agency has no active official Facebook page or Twitter feed to disseminate news and emergency information efficiently.

That lack of communication — along with other snafus — prompted Mayor Mitch Landrieu to seek the termination of S&WB Communications Director Lisa Martin and Becker, the general superintendent. As an independent agency, the S&WB does not report to the mayor, though he chairs the board “ex officio.” (See “Politics,” p. 13.)

Then there was the issue of clogged catch basins, which fall under the city’s Depart-

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The council had approved $3 million in the department’s 2017 budget expressly for cleaning catch basins, and Council members were rightfully upset when DPW head Mark Jernigan said that an environmental review had not been conducted and the work not done. Jernigan stepped down that same day.

Could it get worse? Yes. In the middle of the night Thursday, the city reported

a fire had knocked out one of only two working turbines that power the pumps (there are five turbines). If another bad rainstorm had come, or worse, if the turbine lost power, the city could have flooded again — and worse. Fortunately that didn’t happen.

Landrieu also called for an independent “after-action” analysis of the city’s performance during and after the storm. We hope he’ll include the New Orleans Police Department in that review.

Even after cars got moving again, motorists reported few cops directing traffic on still-flooded streets.

We are entering the height of hurricane season, and the Aug. 5 storm was a not-sodry run that tested the readiness of city agencies. We should all be thankful that the freak storm wasn’t an actual hurricane.

THE NEW ORLEANS SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD

(S&WB) hasn’t come under this much scrutiny in at least a generation. The Aug. 5 rainstorm that flooded several neighborhoods triggered an unprecedented housecleaning at City Hall and at S&WB. Going forward, the shakeup should include a look at the troubled agency itself.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu sacked city Public Works Director Mark Jernigan for not cleaning catch basins in a timely manner (after the City Council allocated $3 million for that purpose). Jernigan’s termination was justified, but the mayor bears responsibility as well. The buck stops

at his desk on the issue of catch basins.

As for the S&WB, that agency is a political nation unto itself. It was created by legislative act nearly 120 years ago and remains a strange admixture of state and local law. The mayor chairs its board, but he cannot hire or fire anyone on the board.

Thanks to a handful of 2013 “reforms,” he doesn’t even have a free hand in naming board members to the S&WB. He must choose from a short list proffered by a “blue ribbon” committee.

Previously, mayors appointed S&WB board members with City Council approval — and two Council members

on the table — but upsized to include all S&WB operations.

It’s still a bad idea, for several reasons. The two biggest functional problems at S&WB are transparency and accountability. Privatizing man-

This may sound like heresy to “reformers” who want to depoliticize everything, but I think we should seriously consider making S&WB a city department under the mayor and council. agement would solve neither.

The other big problems are a lack of sufficient resources and proper allocation of existing resources. Privatizing

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served on the board. In the name of depoliticizing things, Council members no longer serve on the board, though the Council still must approve rate hikes.

Days after the Aug. 5 flood, Landrieu called for the terminations of several top S&WB administrators, a third-party review of what went wrong and the possibility of an outside management firm taking over S&WB operations.

That last idea proves one thing: If you live long enough, you get to see everything at least twice.

Back in 2001, then-Mayor Marc Morial suggested outside management for S&WB’s water operations, but his tenure expired before the idea could gain traction.

That was a good thing. The proposal touched off an intense round of jockeying that saw politically connected firms body-checking one another for the inside track. It was ugly.

Now, apparently, the idea of private management is back

CLANCY DUBOS management may or may not solve those problems, but we’d never know because a private company wouldn’t be transparent or accountable to the public.

This may sound like heresy to “reformers” who want to depoliticize everything, but I think we should seriously consider making S&WB a city department under the mayor and council.

Would that lead to more political patronage? Absolutely. But the next time it floods, we wouldn’t have to wonder whom to hold accountable.

It all would be on the mayor and the council.

Making such a change would take years because of the S&WB’s longstanding independence, bonded debt, retirement system and other factors — but those issues could be resolved over time.

If you want accountability and transparency at S&WB, you don’t want the status quo — and you definitely don’t want privatization.

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The Deli, located at 1534 Melpomene St., may not have had the most creative name, but its pizza made an impression. The restaurant even drew notice from restaurant critic Richard Collin, better known as The New Orleans Underground Gourmet. In a May 1973 review in The States-Item, Collin called The Deli a “seedy little place on Melpomene Street that turns out good and unusual food and delivers it in the Uptown area.”

He called the restaurant, which proprietor C. Joseph McAuliffe opened in 1972, a “promising new place” and a “fine new kitchen in modest surroundings.” Collin wrote that the restaurant’s specialty was Sicilian deep-dish pizza, which had a much thicker crust and resembled a pie more than the “usual flat pizzas.”

“At The Deli, it is freshly baked, beautifully seasoned and delicious,” Collin added. “The sausage and onion pizza is spectacular.” He also singled out the restaurant’s corned beef and pastrami sandwiches.

The Deli was known for its Sicilian-style deep dish pizza.

“I wouldn’t put it up against the best of the New York delicatessen sandwiches but it is certainly respectable and welcome in delicatessen-starved New Orleans.” While Collin didn’t mention the wooden furniture you remember, he did say the restaurant’s weak point was its physical appearance. He noted there was only a handful of tables, but since most of the business was take-out, it didn’t seem to matter.

In 1974, The Deli added a second outlet at 2130 Gen. DeGaulle Drive in Algiers. Later, the Melpomene location featured live music from J. Monque’ D and Johnny J. and the Hitmen. By 1988, with music in mind, the restaurant’s name had changed to Blues Alley.

BLAKEVIEW AS THE WORLD REMEMBERS ELVIS PRESLEY this week on the 40th anniversary of his death on Aug. 16, 1977, we recall some of his Louisiana appearances.

Beginning in 1954, the Tupelo, Mississippi native performed often on the legendary Louisiana Hayride country music show, broadcast on radio and TV from Shreveport. One of the guest announcers was Keith Rush, who later became a New Orleans radio star. Rush booked Presley for two shows in February 1955 at Jesuit High School’s auditorium. Presley also appeared at Pontchartrain Beach, including for the “Miss Hillbilly Dumplin’” contest. The 21-year-old was there again in 1956 as part of a Gulf Coast vacation with his parents and then-girlfriend, June Juanico of Biloxi. On Aug. 12, 1956, Presley performed two shows at the Municipal Auditorium. “The more he sang and squirmed, the more the crowd squealed,” wrote reviewer Rose Kahn in The New Orleans States. “No one could hear more than the opening bars of any song. No one could tell whether Elvis had a voice or not. No one cared.” Presley returned to New Orleans in 1958 to film the movie King Creole. Co-starring Walter Matthau and Carolyn Jones, it is set in the city and features a catchy title song and Presley singing the opening number, “Crawfish,” from a Royal Street balcony. He stayed at The Roosevelt Hotel during filming, and throngs of young female fans tried to get a glimpse of him in the French Quarter and at the lakefront, where scenes were filmed.

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Aerialists and other artists try to build a circus scene in New Orleans

BY WILL COVIELLO

Left and center: Elizabeth Rose.

PHOTOS BY CRISTIAN BUITRON Right: Morgan Tsu-Raun and Nathan Kepner of Crescent Circus.

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t’s not hard to spot Elizabeth Rose’s Fly Circus Space on North Claiborne Avenue in Treme. There’s no marquee, but the weathered building looks like one of New Orleans’ many old neighborhood movie theaters. Rene Brunet Sr. opened it as the Harlequin in 1910, and it later became the Clabon Theatre (and even later a disco and a church). There’s a colorful seahorse mural on the Ursulines Avenue side, but the gym sits on a strip of scruffy buildings across from the I-10 overpass.

Inside the airy raw space, trapeze bars, ropes and aerialists’ silks hang from the rafters. Thick black crash mats lie on the theater’s sloping cement floor.

Four unicycles lean against the exposed brick wall. Boxes of juggling pins and balancing stands line another wall. Here, Rose teaches acrobatics and aerialist skills both to hobbyists and aspiring performers.

Aerialist classes are becoming more common and specialized gyms are opening across the country, but Rose is not focused on an exotic exercise trend.

Since moving to New Orleans in late 2013, she’s been working on building a circus scene in the city.

“I want to make a circus community in New Orleans of artists that are creating work — doing their own devised work — and who are working for other circus companies around the world,” Rose says.

NEW ORLEANS IS FULL OF PERFORMERS, from French Quarter and Frenchmen Street buskers to those who focus on convention and corporate events. While sideshow stunts, aerial acts, magic and burlesque often are bundled together in variety shows, circus performance has its own well-established traditions, skills and

lingo. A handful of circus artists are working on their solo careers and appearing around town. In recent years, the revival of burlesque has drawn many new performers to local stages. And the standup comedy scene has both launched local comics and drawn performers here.

Could a circus scene be next?

Rose has performed with professional companies including Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle, the all-female Aerialistas troupe during stints in Spain and Germany, and she choreographed and performed in The Way Out for Acrobatic Conundrum, a contemporary circus group in Seattle.

She spent the first two weeks of August in Spain at the International Rope Meeting, an event for 100 aerialists from around the globe. This week, she’s in Trenton, New Jersey, serving as program director for the American Youth Circus Festival.

When Rose moved to New Orleans, she worked out of a gym in the Lower Garden District called La Motion, which had been opened by movie stuntmen.

“I didn’t think there would be no collaborators,” Rose says. “I thought there had to be someone here who was doing circus at a professional level. I never lived in a city where there wasn’t. … I was like, ‘OK, I am just going to do this.’ I am going to grow the circus community here. I am going to teach, make community, make space and we’ll have artists around making shows. It’ll be great.”

Last year though, the stuntmen moved to Atlanta, along with many movie industry professionals and projects that were lured by Georgia’s film tax credits. La Motion’s lease expired and the gym closed.

A frantic search for a new space — and home for her community-building efforts

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TOP: Kaeti Frady balances on a table in her acrobatic living room set. PHOTO BY ELSIE SMITH BOTTOM l-r: Kristine Oines takes an aerial class at Fly Circus Space, and Elizabeth Rose practices. PHOTOS BY CHERYL GERBER — landed Rose at the building at 1031 N. Claiborne Ave., not far from her Treme home. Since opening Fly Circus Space in January, Rose has taught classes in various types of acrobatics and aerial work. Other performers teach trapeze classes and there’s a juggling club session on Sundays.

“The studio is a mechanism to make work,” she says. “All of this is only to make work and create that community here.”

The juggling club is run by other performers who moved to New Orleans, though they are following a different path than Rose.

Nathan Kepner and Morgan Tsu-Raun are married and perform as a duo under the name Crescent Circus. Kepner is a magician and juggler and Tsu-Raun does balancing acts. They use a circus theme to tie together their act and have appeared on The Tonight Show.

Kepner believes circus arts are

becoming more popular.

“There’s no such thing as a famous juggler,” Kepner says. “No one knows Anthony Gatto (who holds several world records in juggling). But with the internet, people are starting to appreciate (circus arts) in a deeper way.”

During their first year in New Orleans, Kepner taught chemistry at a local school and the duo busked in the French Quarter. Then they quit their day jobs. In a few years, they built a reliable schedule of corporate events (mostly outside of New Orleans), college performances and occasional theater shows, and they still busk a couple times a week in the French Quarter.

Busking is one way to get started in circus and sideshow performance. Arianna Pelullo, who performs as LadyBEAST, got established locally by breathing fire and doing other pyrotechnics tricks on Frenchmen Street. As she devel-

cluding circus, sideshow, clowning and more.

The San Francisco-based Vau de Vire Society, a circus group that performs on stages and in immersive events that are melded with the city’s dance scene, hired LadyBEAST to do her bottle-walking and other acts at the Eclipse Festival in Oregon Aug. 18-23. Ladybeast also is preparing to attempt to set a record for a straitjacket escape performed in the air, while hanging from a hot air balloon at the Burning Man festival next summer.

DEVELOPING A UNIQUE ACT is the way circus artists used to get hired by circuses. Performers still can get contracts to do their act in circuses across Europe, which has many more professional opportunities, Rose says. In North America, there are fewer circuses, and some hire performers and have choreographers create the show, Rose says.

In May, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus gave its final performance after 150 years. Ticket sales plummeted after it removed elephants from its shows, and its owners decided to fold.

There are other traditional circuses, such as New York’s clownheavy Big Apple Circus, UniverSoul Circus based in Atlanta and Circus Flora and Circus Harmony, both in St. Louis, Missouri, but they aren’t as big as Ringling Bros. was. There also are contemporary circus groups such as Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco and Seattle and California’s Flynn Creek Circus.

In 33 years, Cirque du Soleil has grown from a collection of street performers in Montreal, Canada to a global entertainment company. For years, its shows focused on core circus skills: acrobatics, balancing, object manipulation and clowning.

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oped the act, it grew to four people performing on the empty lot where Dat Dog now stands at the corner of Chartres Street.

LadyBEAST grew up in Philadelphia and was training to be a track and field athlete like her father, who had competed in the Olympics. In her early 20s, she switched gears and moved to London, where she worked as a visual artist.

“You can’t do both,” she says.

“Once I discovered circus, I was like, ‘I can be an athlete and an artist at once.’ Those two things are married. We train four hours a day for things people will see.”

As she became more focused on circus arts, she trained with Vaughn Avery to do escape acts and taught herself the classic balancing trick of walking on the tops of bottles, she says. She’s also done aerial performances, including a three-woman trapeze act on a frame resembling a chandelier.

LadyBEAST has combined circus and other types of performance in shows such as YardBaret, a speakeasy-style cabaret held at private spaces in Bywater. It has included aerialists, fire-breathers, knife-throwers and performances by Guglielmo, who looks like a mustachioed sideshow strongman and sings opera while dancing on broken glass or having a nipple pierced. LadyBEAST also presented versions of the variety show at One Eyed Jacks and incorporated burlesque dancers.

Along with Clay Mazing, LadyBEAST created Vaude d’Gras, a show with a dystopic theatrical narrative that incorporates many of the same players and their acts. The show went on a West Coast tour in LadyBEAST’s truck in midsummer, and she has spent August in Bellingham, Washington at the Lookout Arts Quarry, a collective space for artists in many disciplines, in-

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But circus is a professional calling for Frady. She originally was interested in martial arts but became fascinated by trapeze work while pursing a cultural anthropology degree at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

“The moment I first touched a piece of aerial equipment, I felt like, ‘This is it,’” she says. “It freaked me out — not the thing I wanted to feel while about to graduate college. I fought it for a couple years, but it got to a point where I couldn’t see myself doing anything else.”

After a couple of years working with AirDance New Mexico, an aerialist dance troupe in her home state, she pursued professional circus training at NECCA. For Frady, it was a sort of graduate school where she worked on performing and learned business and professional skills, such as how to properly rig and secure aerial equipment and develop safety practices.

Rose also switched her focus from another discipline. In the 2000s, she was dancing with companies out of Dance Space Center in lower Manhattan. Then she discovered flying acrobatics at the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at its Palace of Variety on 42nd Street. She ended up trading lessons in dance technique for trapeze skills with a Russian trapeze artist who was trying to improve a duo act. She eventually replaced his performing partner in the act. Then she trained with Smith and Smith Forchion at acrobatic innovator Elizabeth Streb’s SLAM (Streb Lab for Action Mechanics) in Brooklyn. Rose specializes in rope work and performs on silks.

“The point of circus is to inspire,” Rose says. “It’s all about what a human body can do in space. It’s more than contemporary dance, which merely seeks to explore — and that’s not a small thing. But the whole point of doing these things that are fantastic is to inspire. So when people see a circus artist fighting gravity — because that’s what all circus is about — they

might not connect with it on a visceral level. They may not know how it feels to flip upside down or walk on a wire. But they are connecting with it on an emotional level.

They’ve had the feeling of facing fear and anxiety. (You have to) keep going. In our lives, we all have those challenges that seem insurmountable — and then we do them. You figure it out, and then you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I did that.’”

At Fly Space, Rose has taught many new aerialists to do moves such as saltos or their first “drop” — any maneuver in which an acrobat lets go of the silk and falls or unravels in loops she’s wrapped around herself to another fixed position.

“What I have been trying to do is offer real quality instruction so that people will stop learning things off YouTube,” Rose says. “It’s like someone who learns how to do a cartwheel and a back walkover saying, ‘I’m a gymnast.’”

Rose and LadyBEAST are working to cultivate an audience for circus in New Orleans so they can do professional work here. Both carry their own insurance and bring their own rigging equipment.

“People need to understand the value of your work,” LadyBEAST says. “If they’re not an artist, then how would they understand why you’re charging what you do? The reason it’s $500 is because I get on bottles every day. You’re not paying for five minutes of me walking on bottles. You’re paying me to live my life and train bottle walking so I can do that for that five minutes.”

At Fly Circus Space, Rose also teaches kids, both in summer camps and classes throughout the year. She has taught acrobatics to students at International School of Louisiana for three years. She’d like to see more kids from the neighborhood in her gym. She is becoming a sponsored artist of the New York nonprofit Fractured Atlas. It allows artists to seek grants under the guise of the umbrella organization.

“I am getting fiscal sponsorship

from them so I can start a nonprofit youth company for kids in the 6th Ward and 7th Ward,” Rose says.

Getting young people interested in circus offers multiple benefits.

“In 10 years, I can have a circus in New Orleans.” Rose says. “I want to be able to create work after I am not performing any more.”

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Where to look for circus arts performances and news.

Art Klub

1941 Arts St.; www.artklub.org Reese Johanson’s art space hosts regular events and artist residencies for all sorts of performance and visual artists.

Fly Circus Space

1031 N. Claiborne Ave., (504) 4756475; www.flycircus.space The gym offers classes in acrobatics, silks and trapeze for various ages and experience levels. There are other circus skill groups and classes as well.

Fly Movement Salon

Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 975-0286; www.cafeistanbulnola.com Circus arts and other performers present 3-to-10 minute new and improvised works in an informal setting at 8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month.

LadyBEAST Productions

www.ladybeastproductions.com LadyBEAST produces YardBaret, Vaude d’Gras and other shows at One Eyed Jacks and popup venues.

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around the music of The Beatles and Michael Jackson and the movie Avatar.

Montreal also is a hub of circus training and creativity. It’s home to the Ecole nationale de cirque and many contemporary circus companies, including the influential 7 Doigts, or Seven Fingers, and Cirque Eloize.

Notable American training programs include the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), founded by former Cirque du Soleil performers and twin sisters, Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion.

Trapeze and balancing artist Kaeti Frady graduated from NECCA in May. She had job offers in Portland, Oregon, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Austin, Texas, which has a small circus scene. But the jobs were teaching aerial skills in gyms where working on silks is an exotic workout (though some students may perform on an amateur level).

Frady chose to move to New Orleans. She arrived in June with her rigging equipment and what she calls her “acrobatic living room set,” a structurally reinforced armchair and a side table she uses for balancing tricks.

“I was looking to integrate myself into a diverse artistic community with people doing different things than I do,” Frady says. “The circus community is small here.

It’s fledgling.”

She’s performed a couple of times at low-key events. She improvised a trapeze act at Fly Movement Salon, which Rose created two years ago as a sort of open mic for circus acts held the first Tuesday of every month at Cafe Istanbul (spectators are welcome). Frady also collaborated on a performance at Art Klub, an art and performance space in St. Roch that’s open to interdisciplinary projects, particularly dance and performance art. Frady did contortion work while an artist draped paper and plastic over her and projected video onto that.

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ife as a parent can seem an endless circuit of school drop-offs and pick-ups, music and dance lessons, sports practices and homework. If this describes your child’s daily routine, you’re not alone.

The overscheduled child is increasingly common, says Barbara LeBlanc, licensed clinical social worker and director of the Parenting Center at Children’s Hospital (938 Calhoun St., 504-896-9891; www. chnola.org/parentingcenter), as are attendant emotional disorders.

“We’ve seen an increase in anxiety, even in young ages,” LeBlanc says, adding that it is more common in middle- and high school-aged kids. National statistics support LeBlanc’s experience — a 2010 article in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reports nearly 32 percent of U.S. adolescents have an anxiety disorder, and experts believe it’s an underdiagnosed condition.

“Well-meaning parents want to give their children the opportunity to develop different skills, often in structured after-school time,” LeBlanc says. “This interferes with a child’s time to process daily experiences and the time to ‘play out’ those experiences. Children communicate and process through play. They ‘play out’ anxiety.”

However, play is difficult to come by. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted its School Health Policies and Practices Study in 2006 and found that nationally, 57.1 percent of elementary school districts required a regularly scheduled recess for all students. The same CDC study was conducted again in 2012, and showed the number of districts that required elementary schools to provide physical activity breaks to all students dipping to less than 12.5 percent. Recess provides unstructured free play, which researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine say enhances self-regulation, empathy and group management skills. Some

kids thrive with heavily structured schedules, but LeBlanc agrees that open-ended play is essential to children’s well-being.

“Allowing time for lack of structure (is important),” she says.

“Kids need to spend time with themselves and attend to their own emotions in order to develop emotional literacy.”

Parents should promote free play at home because it teaches children to solve problems, work with others and learn to be on their own in the absence of a playmate. It’s OK to let kids just “be” after school, rather than rushing them off to the next structured activity.

LeBlanc says kids of all ages face pressure to be involved in various activities as they build their academic resumes, and parents face pressure to offer their children opportunities to learn new skills and be exposed to different hobbies. But too many extracurricular activities can be overwhelming.

“For preschoolers, just getting through the structured day … is enough,” she says. “When kids are older developmentally and have increased energy and have these skills mastered, then think about those extracurricular skills.”

Think about your child’s schedule as a 24-hour period. Consider how many hours kids spend sleeping, how many hours are spent at school, at meals and in commute, and count how many hours are left. Then consider how much of that time can be devoted to an extracurricular activity after accounting for family time, which LeBlanc and other child care professionals say is important.

An analysis of the 2002 Panel Survey of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement published in Journal of Marriage and Family found that as the amount of time parents spent with adolescent children between ages 12 and 18 increased, behavioral problems, substance abuse and delinquent behaviors decreased.

When parents should hit ‘pause’ for kids on the go.

BY K ATHERINE M . JOHNS ON LeBlanc suggests setting aside at least an hour a day — during meals or even the morning commute — for parents to connect with their kids.

“Be present, conscious and aware and not just rushing through life,” LeBlanc says. “It’s important to protect that family time. … Slow down and really work on relationships in the family, and work on ways to decrease anxiety and increase enjoyment.”

After adding a club or sport to the schedule, LeBlanc says parents should expect a transitional period while kids get used to new obligations — at least two to three weeks.

Check in at least weekly to see how they’re managing.

Watch for changes in interactions with other family members or with friends, in their grades and in sleep habits.

“The most powerful parenting tool is the relationship — being able to have empathy with your kids,” she says.

“Listen more than you talk and pay attention.”

If you notice a slip in any of these areas, LeBlanc suggests re-evaluating the activity in a discussion that includes the child.

When a child feels involved in the decision-making process, she’s more likely to accept the outcome, even if you have to play the bad guy.

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Basketball is the most popular sport among children in the U.S., followed by baseball/ softball/tee ball and football. — ESPN

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hannon Robertson, registered dietitian at Curahealth Hospital New Orleans, says many families struggle to find time for even one home-cooked meal a week.

No matter the provenance of your repast, a well-rounded meal should include protein, fruits and veggies.

She suggests both ideal and realistic options for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. And don’t forget dessert.

Breakfast Cereals can contain a lot of processed ingredients, so choose cereals with a lot of whole grains, especially ancient grains, or oatmeal.

The ideal: Set aside at least one morning a week as a brunch day, when everyone can sit down and eat a hot breakfast together.

The real: Portability reigns. Robertson recommends cereal bars or yogurt with a little added granola, but says to check the nutrition label for excessive sugars (the American Heart Association recommends no more 6 to 9 teaspoons of sugar per day). For an easy hot breakfast, scramble two eggs in a mug with a little milk and microwave for a minute and a half.

Serve with an English muffin.

Lunch Robertson suggests making lunch fun. To drink, she likes water or juice pouches with no added sugar — the more natural the better.

The ideal: Make lunch kebabs.

Skewer cheese cubes, grapes, cut-up veggies and deli meat or cubes of chicken breast with pretzel sticks or bamboo skewers (cut in half to reduce the chance the kids will weaponize them).

The real: String cheese sticks and a simple sandwich will get the job done nicely. And don’t forget a serving of fruit.

Dinner Portion control is the name of the game, Robertson says. Make sure dinner includes a lean protein such as pork loin or seafood, a vegetable

and a source of fiber. It’s OK to indulge in a little bread or even a baked potato, but be wary of adding too many salty, fatty condiments. There are ways to sneak in veggies — dishes like cauliflower rice and zucchini “pasta” make great substitutes for starchy white rice. Stay away from meal-in-a-box dinners — they’re full of unhealthy preservatives, she says.

The ideal: Dishes like stuffed bell peppers cover most food groups.

Robertson suggests exchanging the rice in the stuffing with quinoa or another whole grain.

The real: Opt for low-fat and low-sodium takeout, such as a rotisserie chicken and a big green salad from the salad bar.

Steam-in-the-bag veggies make a great side dish.

Snacks “Look for things that are high in fiber and protein,” Robertson says.

“Any snacks that (kids) can help make is a big plus, such as frozen banana pops — they’re really easy and good for summertime.”

The ideal: Robertson loves hummus and guacamole cups accompanied by carrot sticks or other sliced raw veggies. Fruit kebabs also are filling, as are roasted chickpeas.

The real: Substitute pretzel crisps for the veggies with hummus or guacamole. String cheese is another go-to, or healthier snacks like Veggie Straws.

Dessert Fresh fruit is preferable to refined sugar-loaded items. Strawberries topped with whipped cream top Robertson’s list.

The ideal: Bake fruits, such as apples and pears, sprinkle with a little sugar substitute and serve warm.

The real: “Once in a while, you just need a cookie,” she says.

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“We no longer plant vegetables or quilt on the front porch together, so meal time is one of the few times of the day when a family connects with one another,” says Dr. Anne Fishel, author of Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids.

Eating dinner together also provides parents with an opportunity to model face-to-face social skills and etiquette. It’s increasingly important to develop these skills in children whose communication largely is conducted through technology.

Designate mealtime “tech-free” to ensure your family’s attention is on each other.

Get the conversation going with these games, recommended by mothers of children from preschoolers to teens. truths and a lie. I came 1 Two up with this game, which helps me learn something new about my children’s day. To play, go around the table and take turns sharing two events that happened that day and one that did not. Who can guess which one is false? forth a discussion.

2 Draw Christie Zemencik, a mother of daughters ages 9, 16 and 20, covers the table with butcher paper and puts out crayons. “My girls draw or write random things that usually lead to conversations as to why that was on their minds,” Zemencik says.

Adrienne Dreher, a 3 High-Low. mother of sons ages 5 and 8, says she and her boys discuss the ups and downs of the day: “What was the best thing that happened to

Conversation-starting games can help parents learn about their child’s day.

you today? What was the hardest?” are conversation starters. in a jar. Karen 4 Conversation Conklin, mom of three children ages 4, 8 and 10 years old, created a jar with conversation starters on strips of paper. “An example is ‘Name two people who made you smile today and why,” she says. topics. Julie Melchi5 Table or, whose children are 10, 13 and 16, purchased a pack of Christmas-themed conversation questions one year. Each night the family selected a card to discuss. “The kids couldn’t wait to sit down and get the cards passed out,” Melchior says. “It was so interesting for my husband and me to listen to their answers and hear what they remembered from their past holidays. ... We talked about things that probably wouldn’t come up in normal dinnertime conversation.”

Kid Talk: Conversation 6 Find Cards, Crunch a Color Conversation Starters, Chat Packs or Table Topics are available at area retailers, bookstores or online.

For additional ideas, visit The Family Dinner Project at www. thefamilydinnerproject.org.

— Christa Melnyk Hines is a freelance journalist and author of the book Happy, Healthy & Hyperconnected: Raise a Thoughtful Communicator in a Digital World.

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Back-to-school technology for all ages Coding for kiddos

SPRK+ by Sphero, $130 at Apple (Lakeside Shopping Center, 3301 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-830-1400; www.apple.com).

Sphero’s SPRK is an adorable and educational robot for kids who want to learn the basics of coding. Children can set the device to emit different colors and travel on different paths and mazes, controlled via smartphone or tablet.

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Nikon CoolPix W100, $159 at Lakeside Camera Photoworks

(3508 21st St., Metairie, (504) 885-8660; www.lakesidephotoworks.com).

This camera is drop-proof up to 5.9 feet and waterproof up to 33 feet, and can snap underwater footage for aspiring marine biologists. “We sell it to all ages,” says Dawn Wallace, store manager at Lakeside Camera Photoworks, “but I always tell the moms that it’s great for kids.” The camera also has Wi-Fi capabilities, so photographs and videos can be downloaded immediately to smartphones and tablets.

9 Tile Mate tracker, $24.95 each at Tulane University Book Store (31 McAlister Drive, 504-865-5913; www.tulane.bncollege.com).

Tile trackers loop easily onto a keychain or attach to anything you don’t want to lose. Trackers use Bluetooth and a smartphone app and will emit a sound when activated to help you find your misplaced item. You also can see where you had the item last and connect to an online “lost and found” network if the item is out of range.

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Canon Selphy CP1200 Printer, $119 at Lakeside Camera Photoworks.

Canon’s Selphy is a lightweight, transportable printer that uses Wi-Fi to print photos instantly. “This is perfect for teachers,” Wallace says, “especially for those who teach younger kids.” The results are high-quality, 4- by 6-inch color photographs. Users can customize and decorate photos from the printer panel and even print a sheet of postage stamp-size pictures.

Safe and sound Wearsafe device tags, from $30 plus monthly or annual subscription fee at Wearsafe.com.

This inconspicuous safety device easily attaches to clothing and the user can activate it to send a mobile message to pre-selected contacts. Notified friends and family can see the GPS coordinates of the user and hear audio from when the tag was activated through the Wearsafe app.

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Agenda for Children (2486 Florida St., Mandeville, 985-624-2950; 8300 Earhart Blvd., Suite 201; 504-5868509; www.agendaforchildren. org) — The group helps parents find appropriate child care, holds training sessions for parents, has violence prevention programs and health insurance initiatives.

Autism Society of Greater New Orleans (504-464-5733; www. asgno.org) — The group focuses on educational opportunities for autistic children, referral and support services and information for families.

Center for Development & Learning (1 Galleria Blvd., Suite 903, Metairie, 504-840-9786; www. cdl.org) — The nonprofit has guides to state education standards, what children should learn by grade levels and teen parenting programs.

The Children’s Bureau of New Orleans (2626 Canal St., Suite 201, 504-525-2366; www.childrens-bureau. com) — The nonprofit provides mental health services, including counseling and crisis intervention.

Families Helping Families of Southeast Louisiana (7240 Crowder Blvd., Suite 200, 504888-9111; www.fhfsela.org) — The nonprofit provides resources for people with disabilities.

Family Services of Greater New Orleans (2515 Canal St., Suite 201, 504-822-0800; www.fsgno.org) — The nonprofit offers counseling, education and resources to families in need. Many services are free; others are billed on a sliding scale.

Healthy Start New Orleans (Andrew P. Sanchez & Copelin-Byrd Multi-Service Center, 1616 Caffin Ave., 504-658-2600; www.nola.gov/ health-department/healthy-start) — The community-based program for pregnant women and mothers helps with prenatal care, parenting skills, nutrition education, counseling and support groups.

Institute for Families, Parenting & Children (McGraw & Associates, 3350 Ridgelake Drive, Suite 200, Metairie, 504-296-6475; www.mcgrawandassociates.com) — The institute offers counseling and education services for children and parents, including play therapy, parenting skills and more.

The Parenting Center at Children’s Hospital (938 Calhoun St., 504-8969591; Goldring-Woldenberg Jewish Community Campus, 3747 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, 504-896-9591; www.chnola.org/parenting center) — There are parenting classes, workshops and referrals for community resources.

The Parenting Center at St. Tammany Parish Hospital (1505 N. Florida St., Suite B, Covington, 985-8984435; www.stph.org/parentingcenter) — The center offers parenting programs, talks, workshops, activities, safety seminars and more.

Pyramid Community Resource Center (3132 Napoleon Ave., 504-8991505; www.pyramidparentcenter.org) — The program supports parents of children with disabilities and special education needs..

TBEARS (Tulane Building Early Relationships Support & Services) (1440 Canal St., Suite 1172, 504-988-9222; www.tbears.org) — The program helps parents with issues ranging from sleeping and feeding a baby to postpartum depression.

Total Community Action Inc. (1420 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway, 504872-0334; www.tca-nola.org) — The organization operates a Head Start program and helps low-income families with a range of issues.

Zuka Baby (Vieux Carre Shopping Center, 3248 Severn Ave., Metairie, 504-407-2700; www.zukababy.com) — The baby boutique offers classes in baby sign language and cloth diapering and tips for parents.

Find a more detailed list at www.bestofneworleans.com/ parentresources.

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tudents moving from one academic milestone to the next may experience a wide range of emotions, from excitement to fear.

Some students cope well with changes, but others need guidance.

When students go from middle school to high school, they find themselves at the bottom of the totem pole. Students must “figure out the big business of moving from classroom to classroom, in three minutes, between the two bells,” says Denise Newman (4616 S. Carrollton Ave., 504-482-1412), a clinical and developmental psychologist.

Students also must organize a locker, select the right books and find a seat in the classroom and the lunchroom — tasks they’ve likely never done before.

“The social dynamics are the most daunting feature,” Newman says, especially since high school student populations are often larger than those at elementary schools.

Newman says parents can help by making sure their child is getting enough sleep. She

Moving from middle school to high school is a big milestone but can be stressful.

says adolescents need up to 10 hours of sleep, and possibly 12 when going through a growth spurt. Establish a sleep schedule and urge your child to prepare for the school day the night before by setting aside an outfit or packing a lunch.

“Practice those things that make the first minutes of the morning a little less insane and give everyone a chance to take a deep breath,” she says. “Taking on a school day is going to be a challenge in and of itself.

It doesn’t need to start off as a mess.”

Greater emphasis on grades can be overwhelming as well.

After school, parents should ask about their child’s day without dwelling on grades, Newman says. Remind them that challenging transitions do get easier, without dismissing their struggle.

“If week one was really hard, it doesn’t mean the rest of the year’s going to be a flop,”

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she says. “You have to give things time.”

The transition from high school to college can bring more unforeseen predicaments. The charter school network Collegiate Academies (5552 Read Blvd., 504-503-0008; www.collegiateacademies.org) runs four schools comprising a diverse group of students, and seeks to prepare each for success before and during the college experience. Lauren Katz, the network’s director of college completion, says college students may face new struggles: financial aid, course work and time management.

“We’re here to be their college concierge, to help push them through,” Katz says, and adds parents can help, too, by being involved in their student’s college preparedness. They can visit colleges with their teen and participate in on-campus recreational events. Parents should encourage students to focus on reading and writing skills while still in high school, since those are instrumental to both academic and real-world success, and help advise them during the college admissions process by collaborating with the college counselor.

If students continue to struggle, it may be time to consult a professional. Berre M. Burch holds a doctorate in school psychology and is the program director of Project LAST, which provides outreach for children dealing with trauma, at Children’s Bureau of New Orleans (2626 Canal St., Suite 201, 504-525-2366; www. childrens-bureau.com). Children’s Bureau receives referrals for struggling students, and has a school-based mental health program that places clinicians in a school to provide counseling. She says parents first should listen to and empower their kids.

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Negative emotional reactions are prolonged and interfere with daily life.

Suspected problems with using or abusing controlled substances.

Child is unusually socially isolated or withdrawn.

for your child can actually backfire, leading to your child feeling less competent in his or her ability to tackle new challenges,” she says.

But she stresses that having a conversation about mental health is important, especially if parents realize kids aren’t coping well.

“Just like we talk with adolescents about changes occurring in their bodies, we should also talk about changes happening in the brain,” Burch says.

Get to know the counselors or social workers in your child’s school, and find out what services the school offers. Many mental health problems first appear in adolescence, and early intervention is key.

“Navigating the mental health service system can be challenging,” Burch says.

“Include your child in the process so he or she will be able to assume a more active role in treatment.”

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1. Johnnie B star-studded button-down denim shirt, $21.99 at Swap for Kids.

3. Curious George pencil pouch, $12 at Blue Cypress Books.

3. Crawfish Pi T-shirt, from $18 at Dirty Coast.

2. Where the Wild Things Are pencil pouch, $12 at Blue Cypress Books.

4. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, $7.95 at Octavia Books.

2. Baby Gap dinosaur T-shirt, $9.99 at Swap for Kids.

4. Crewcuts star dress, $36.99 at Swap for Kids.

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3. Daily diary, $7.95 each at Octavia Books. 4. Flapjacks keyboard cover, $19.99 at B Kids.

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Budding linguists NOLA ABC Coloring Book, $10 at Dirty Coast.

Toutes les choses avec lesquelles … French picture book by Gaia Stella, $19.50 at The French Library.

The Little Spanish ABC Coloring Book, $1.95 at Blue Cypress Books.

Picasso in training Watercolor paint set, $12 and assorted paint brushes, from $3 at Mo’s Art Supply & Framing.

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Peru-sing a menu A NEW PERUVIAN RESTAURANT AND PISCO BAR , Tito’s Ceviche &

Spotted Cat Food & Spirits serves casual fare in Marigny

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund AT SPOTTED CAT FOOD & SPIRITS, the restaurant’s name, signature pale green decor and colorful logo match its Frenchmen Street predecessor, but that’s where the similarities end.

The restaurant on St. Claude Avenue is from the owners of the Marigny music spot, but it is foremost a restaurant, albeit with regular live music.

A strong Southern current runs through the menu by executive chef Rob Clement, and regional ingredients and dishes are reimagined with a touch of whimsy and creative flair.

This has had mostly successful results, but there are plenty of changes afoot: The menu recently was revamped from a breakfast-focused concept to offer more traditional lunch and dinner options.

The changes are a nod to the neighborhood clientele, Clement says, and while more vegan and vegetarian dishes have found their way to the table during the shift, there’s still a homey influence. Red beans comprise a sort of veggie burger and also are used in a hummus-like spread.

In a fun spin on the “everything” bagel trend, the breakfast staple meets its Asian match. Disguised as a smoked salmon and cream cheese rangoon, the thin wonton wrappers envelop the snacks, which are served on a bright crimson sweet and sour sauce dotted with black sesame seeds and scallions.

A watermelon salad arrives brimming with fresh herbs, dusted with cumin and showered with nibs of queso fresco, an original and Latin-leaning take on the summer staple.

Some of the menu seems designed for snacking. Three slices of lacquered pork belly adobo were tasty, but the

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portion was small compared to some of the dinner dishes. A massive shrimp and grits plate gets an Italian spin, with shrimp smothered in roasted tomato sauce and garlicky herb pesto atop crispy grits cakes.

Some dishes seem deprived of the kitchen’s creative flair. Deviled eggs tasted fine but didn’t come off as enticing or original.

The former all-day breakfast concept has been shed, but brunch is one of the best reasons to visit Spotted Cat. Live music from a jazz trio fills the space and bottomless mimosas help fuel the lively atmosphere. Dishes range from the conventional, such as an earthy mushroom omelet filled with goat cheese, to traditional brunch standards turned on their heads. One special dish featured a brilliant hybrid of sweet, salty and umami flavors in bacon and scallion pancakes tucked beneath fat pats of garlicky miso butter and topped with green onions. At times sweet and at others deeply savory, the pancakes are good for diners hankering

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for something sweet without risking a sugar overload.

Fried chicken and buttermilk waffles sets a high bar. Juicy dark meat is beneath a deep caramel-colored exterior and is coated in a vanilla and maple syrup hot sauce that leaves behind a sweet and vinegary heat that pairs nicely with the soft waffle wedges dusted in powdered sugar.

There may be more changes to come at Spotted Cat Food & Spirits, but the creative menu is promising, and the space provides a relaxed and fun dining atmosphere.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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fun and imaginative Southern-inspired dishes at a lively St. Claude Avenue hub

Pisco (5015 Magazine St., 504-2677612; www.titoscevichepisco.com), scheduled to open Aug. 14, will specialize in traditional Peruvian dishes.

Owners Juan Lock and his wife, Tatiana, are behind the eatery. Lock will run the kitchen along with his sous chef Nanyo Dominguez Cervantes, who previously worked at Johnny Sanchez.

Lock says the menu will reflect the South American country’s myriad culinary influences, including Japanese, Chinese and Spanish.

Featured dishes include ceviche and lomo saltado, which is sauteed beef tenderloin strips and onions served with crispy potatoes. Several ceviche preparations with marinated raw seafood such as salmon, tuna, snapper and Gulf fish will be offered daily.

The menu also includes duck confit with cilantro rice and salsa criolla, braised lamb shank with a canary bean stew, whipped potato causas topped with everything from octopus or Louisiana crabmeat, and a seafood-packed arroz con mariscos cooked in an aji amarillo pepper broth, similar to Spanish paella.

The bar focuses on pisco, a spirit similar to brandy. Lock says the bar will offer every Peruvian pisco available from distributors in the United States, roughly 50 varieties.

The restaurant takes over the empty space formerly occupied by chef Sue Zemanick’s short-lived small plates concept, Ivy, which closed in 2015.

Lock, who originally is from Lima, Peru, opened several restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when he first moved to the U.S., but has resided in New Orleans for nearly two decades. — HELEN FREUND

Loa expectations RAW FISH HUB POKE LOA (www.

eatpokeloa.com) will expand to a third location at 939 Girod St. in the Warehouse District in coming months.

The city’s first restaurant to specialize in the trendy Hawaiian raw fish dish opened its flagship location (3341 Magazine St., 504-309-9993) in February. Earlier this summer, the owners announced plans to open a second location in Old Metairie (701 Metairie Road) in the fall.

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casual approach where diners can mix-and-match raw fish, vegetables, rice and an array of toppings.

The Warehouse District location will be open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

— HELEN FREUND

Campus kosher RIMON, A NEW KOSHER RESTAURANT FROM CHEF DANIEL ESSES,

is open for lunch with a limited menu at Tulane University’s Hillel House (912 Broadway St., 504232-0758; www.rimontulanehillel. com). Rimon will expand to a full menu when it adds dinner hours on Aug. 21.

Rimon is the latest from Esses, chef and co-owner of Three Muses (536 Frenchmen St., 504252-4801; www.3musesnola. com) in Marigny. A Maple Street location of Three Muses closed in May. Esses also also runs the pasta company Esses Foods Nola.

Rimon’s menu features an all-kosher spread with a farm-totable ethos, inspired largely by vegetarian, vegan, French, Korean and Israeli cuisines. The current menu features snacks like sweet potato fries, fried mushroom ravioli with marinara dipping sauce, and Korean-style chicken wings tossed in hot sauce and served with house-made pickles.

Breakfast features avocado toast topped with an over-easy egg, breakfast tacos and banana and chocolate chip pancakes.

Lunch dishes include a tomato panzanella salad tossed in balsamic dressing, a grilled peach salad served with pickled red onions, green olives and a honey-Dijon dressing, Gulf fish tacos topped with slaw and a shawarma plate served with couscous and vegetables.

Rimon, which means pomegranate in Hebrew, is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Aug. 18.

— HELEN FREUND

Arrivederci, Il Posto UPTOWN ITALIAN CAFE IL POSTO

(4607 Dryades St., 504-895-2620; www.ilpostocafenola.com) announced it would close at 5 p.m.

Aug. 14 and reopen in September under new ownership.

A Dryades Street fixture, Il Posto has been known for its quiet charm and classic Italian cooking, which included antipasto platters, soups. salads, panini, meat and cheese boards and scones.

The announcement was made on the cafe’s Facebook page Aug. 8.

Owner Madison Curry opened the neighborhood eatery nearly 10 years ago. — HELEN FREUND

Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Antonio Molesini WINE SALESMAN ITALIAN WINE ENTHUSIAST AND SALESMAN

for Republic National Distributing Company Antonio Molesini will host a tasting of the wines of Montalcino at Swirl Wine Bar & Market (3143 Ponce de Leon St., 504-304-0635; www.swirlnola.com) at 6 p.m. Aug. 29. Molesini originally hails from Cortona in Tuscany. He spoke with Gambit about Italian wines.

How did Brunello di Montalcino become so sought-after?

MOLESINI: Montalcino is one of the most characteristic medieval villages in Tuscany. Originally, it was just a few families producing in the 1950s — about 15 to 20 families — and now you have more than 250 producers.

We, as a company, represent more than 400 Italian wine labels.

Montalcino is one of my favorite (wine regions) and it is one of the best. When I arrived (in New Orleans in 1993), the Brunello wines were very limited, but today I see a much larger (interest), in part because people travel much more. A lot more tourists have visited Italy, Tuscany and Montalcino. Because of this, there are more exported wines from those regions.

In general, you have three styles of the wine. Rosso di Montalcino is the youngest and the freshest.

Then you have the Brunello (di Montalcino), where the wines have to be aged in oak barrels for a minimum of four years. The last type is the riserva, which is produced only from the top vintage and is aged at least five years.

Recently, a lot of other wineries in the area are blending different grapes, but they can’t be used to produce a Brunello. Brunello (wines) are only made with sangiovese grapes. ... It’s always from the one variety of grape, and only from that specific region.

enjoy with meat, cheese, anything [with] tomatoes, like an appetizer.

At the same time, it’s not made to be kept for a long time.

Brunello di Montalcino is one of the best wines in Italy. After four years (aging), you’re looking at a much richer wine, with a lot of oak flavor and structure. It’s dryer and at the same time (has) much more developed flavor. You’ll find some plum (notes), a hint of tobacco or chocolate flavor. It’s a wine that will go better with meat, a truffle risotto, or something made with porcini mushrooms, and it also goes well with aged cheese, like a Parmigiano. Personally, I enjoy it after dinner with some dark chocolate. This wine can be stored. It gets better with age. The current vintage is 2012, and it’s outstanding. If you have a chance to pick, you go down the lines and pick a 2009 or 2005. These Brunellos are collector’s items.

The riserva is the cherry on the cake. It has similar characteristics to the Brunello but is a lot more rich, has more body and a lot more finesse. It also has a longer shelf life. A riserva Brunello you can easily store for 30-35 years. I had the opportunity to have one when I went to Col d’Orcia, where the owner opened a bottle from the 1970s, and the wine drank very nice. In color, it looked a little more brick brown — you wouldn’t expect it to be ruby red — and on the nose there were beautiful raisin aromas, dried cherry, and on the palate, a softness.

What do they taste like and what would you serve them with?

What local restaurants have Brunello wines on their lists?

M: Rosso di Montalcino is the youngest, and in Italy we call it our everyday wine. It’s softer and younger with a red cherry flavor that is aged for a short time. It’s the kind of wine that you can

M: The Italian Barrel, Avo, Andrea’s Restaurant in Metairie, Marcello’s (Restaurant & Wine Bar) on St. Charles Avenue, Impastato’s (Restaurant) and Del Porto (Ristorante). — HELEN FREUND

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HOUSE OF BLUES (225 Decatur St., 504-310-4999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans) hosts Brewsiana: Craft Beer & Music Festival at 7 p.m. Aug. 19. The event features brews from more than 20 Louisiana breweries, including Abita Brewing Company, Parish Brewing Company in Broussard, Shreveport’s Great Raft Brewing and Arnaudville’s Bayou Teche Brewing. Newcomers such as Royal Brewery New Orleans also will participate.

Sexy Dex and the Fresh, Jonathon Boogie Long, Dash Rip Rock and others perform. A special menu features burgers, veggie wraps, shrimp and crawfish nachos, Buffalo chicken poppers, pretzels and more.

Admission is $10. Admission plus five beer tastings is $20.

All-you-can-drink admission is $45, and VIP tickets are $75 and include early admission, unlimited beer and a souvenir. The Foundation Room is open to VIP ticket holders and will feature beer from more breweries, including Mandeville’s Old Rail Brewing Company, Parleaux Beer Lab and Broad Street Cider & Ale. Tickets can be purchased on the HOB website.

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40 Arpent Brewing Company (6809 N. Peters St., Arabi, 504444-3972; www.40arpentbrewery.com) will feature beer and barbecue Aug. 19. Sarg’s Mobile Smoke House will serve chicken and ribs at the brewery from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

NOLA Brewing Company (3001 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-896-9996; www.nolabrewing.com) continues to produce excellent sour beers, most only available at the taproom. Passion Pit, the most recent entry in its Petit Lot series, is a sour made with passion fruit and naranjilla. It’s a tart brew with balanced sweetness and acidity.

Also available are BOHM, a blood orange, honey and mango sour, and Butterfly in a Hurricane, a barrel-aged sour made with passion fruit and grenadine.

winediva1@bellsouth.net

BY BRENDA MAITLAND

2016 Lagar de Indra Albarino Rias Baixas, Spain Retail $16-$19

SPAIN DEVOTES MORE ACRES TO VITICULTURE than

any other country and continues to develop diverse varietals and styles of wine. This albarino wine is from the renowned white wine-producing Rias Baixas D.O. (Denominacion de Origen), located in the Galicia region bordering Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. The Lagar de Indra is a product of a fourth generation, family-owned, 135-year-old bodega. Albarino grapes dominate the area as its signature varietal, and many vines are 30 years old.

Vineyards enjoy mild temperatures, and sea mist and fog keep the climate cool, which helps the fruit produce crisp acidity for the wine. After harvest, grapes were destemmed and went through cold maceration. The wine was fermented at low temperatures and matured for up to nine months in stainless steel tanks. In the glass, it offers aromas of citrus and stone fruit. On the palate, taste melon, green apple, a core of minerality and great acidity.

Drink it with paella, pasta, quail, arugula, scallops, fish and all types of seafood. Buy it at: Grande Krewe and Acquistapace’s. Drink it at: Irene’s Cuisine, GW Fins, Baru Bistro & Tapas, Marcello’s Restaurant & Wine Bar, Oak, 1000 Figs and The Broad Theater.

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Bow Wow Luau 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday Arbor Room at Popp Fountain, New Orleans City Park, 30 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 488-2896 www.neworleanscitypark.com The fundraiser for NOLA City Bark features a luau theme and Hawaiian food and cocktails, as well as wine and beer. The band Prescriptions performs, and there’s an auction. Contact NOLA City Bark at (504) 483-9377 for information. Tickets $101 and up.

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Louisiana Saturday Night 7 p.m. Saturday Cochon, 930 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 588-2123 www.cochonrestaurant.com The fundraiser for the Link Stryjewski Foundation features fried chicken, side dishes and pie served family-style, plus bourbon cocktails and Champagne. Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion performs. Tickets are $75 including tax and tip.

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Monsters of Rustic Cuisine 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday Press Street Station, 5 Press St., (504) 249-5622 www.pressstreetstation.com Chef Michael Doyle serves a six-course meal of rustic dishes. The menu features barbecue shrimp over grits, salad, Gulf fish amandine, chicken with garlic, potatoes and vinegar, and chocolate and Stilton cheese. Wine pairings are available. Tickets are $45 plus tax and tip, or $70 with wine.

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Carmo 527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132 www.cafecarmo.com Avocado tiradito is topped with aji amarillo peppers, yuzu sauce and puffed corn kernels.

and mango stack is drizzled with soy and Sriracha sauces and served with flatbread chips.

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The Franklin 2600 Dauphine St., (504) 267-0640 www.thefranklinnola.com A sashimi tostada is topped with tuna, avocado, cherry tomatoes, lime, chipotle pepper and Mexican crema.

Mayas 2027 Magazine St., (504) 309-3401 www.mayasrestaurantnola.com The crab, shrimp, avocado

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Mr. Bubbles Mr. Bubbles Sandwich House, 925 Behrman Highway, Suite 12, Gretna, (504) 570-6377; Mr. Bubbles Cafe, 1441 Canal St., Suite 1, (504) 516-2994 www.mrbubblesnola.com Avocado smoothies are available with tapioca or jelly pearls.

Trinity 1117 Decatur St., (504) 325-5789 www.trinityrestaurantneworleans.com Chilled cream of basil soup features cashew milk, corn, avocado and cucumber.

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Located at 214 ROYAL STREET. For dining reservations please call 504.681.4444 or visit CRIOLLONOLA.COM

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Contact Will Coviello willc@gambitweekly.com 504.483.3106 | FAX: 866.473.7199 C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S T O F N E WO R L E A N S .C O M Out 2 Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans. Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483-3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

AMERICAN Bayou Burger & Sports Company — 503 Bourbon St., (504) 529-4256; 3226 Magazine St., (504) 224-6024; www.bayouburger.com — Bourbon Street: Lunch. dinner and late-night daily. Magazine Street: lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — Open 24 hours daily.

Credit cards. $ LA Smokehouse — 8300 Earhart Blvd., (504) 265-8905; www.lasmokehouse. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — Lunch Tue.Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Cafe Maspero — 601 Decatur St., (504) 523-6520; www.cafemaspero.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse. com — Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tsunami — 601 Poydras St., Suite B., (504) 608-3474; www.servingsushi.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/cafeluna504 — Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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

Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $

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Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$

Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly. com — Breakfast and lunch daily.

Cash only. $

Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www.facebook.com/queeniesonstclaude — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Treasure Island Buffet — 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 443-8000; www. treasurechestcasino.com — Lunch Mon.Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Green to Go — 400 Poydras St., Suite 130; 2633 Napoleon Ave.; (504) 460-3160; www.greentogonola.com — Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — Breakfast Fri.-Mon., lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended.

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

COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Chez Pierre French Bakery & Cafe — 3208 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 467-3176; www.chezpierreneworleans.com — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted.

Brunch and early dinner Thu.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.-Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

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

Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$

CONTEMPORARY

Willie Mae’s Grocery & Deli — 7457 St. Charles Ave., (504) 417-5424; www. williemaesnola.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations

Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.willie-

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maesnola.com — Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

Bagels & Bytes — 1001 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 831-7968; www.bagelsandbytes.com — Breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended.

Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$

Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8350916; www.sammyspoboys.com — Lunch Mon.-Sat., Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

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Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner Sun.-Thu. Credit cards. $$ Jerusalem Cafe — 2132 Tulane Ave., (504) 509-7729; www.facebook.com/ cafehei — Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

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Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola. com — Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

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

Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY

La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Bombay Club — Prince Conti Hotel, 830 Conti St., (504) 577-2237; www.bombayclubneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD

Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 5813866; www.broussards.com — Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

2015

The Red Maple — 1036 Lafayette St., Gretna, (504) 367-0935; www.theredmaple.com — Reservations recommended.

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

MIDDLE EASTERN

Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$

95 FRENCH MARKET PLACE

Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

FROM 11AM-10PM

Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $

Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www. revolutionnola.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

ITALIAN

OPEN EVERYDAY

Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 5985005; www.kingfishneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DINING CASUALLY IN THE FRENCH QUARTER DOESN’T GET ANY FINER.

creolehouserestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www.

The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola. com — Lunch and early dinner daily.

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

OUT TO EAT

NEIGHBORHOOD

No reservations. Hours vary by location.

Cash only at Conti Street location. $

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

Credit cards. $$

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 MetairieHammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 8311248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

PERUVIAN Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Reservations accepted.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards.$$

PIZZA G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www.gskitchenspot.com — Lunch Fri.Sun., dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards.$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www. lpkfrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — Lunch Tue.Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com —

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The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant.com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; Www.jackdempseys.net — Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ENJOY OUR COOLINARY MENU ALL MONTH LONG! 3701 IBERVILLE ST•504.488.6582

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

Credit cards. $$ Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant — 910 West Esplanade Ave., Kenner, (504) 463-3030; 1001 Live Oak St., Metairie, (504) 838-0022; www.mredsno. com — Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Pier 424 Seafood Market — 424 Bourbon St., (504) 309-1574; www. pier424seafoodmarket.com — Lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily.

Credit cards. $$

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

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

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MON - THURS 11AM - 9PM•FRI & SAT 11AM - 10PM SUN BRUNCH 9AM - 3PM

MOSCA’S Est. 1946

DINNER TUES-SAT Call Ahead.

Large parties available.

436-9942 or 436-8950

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21st Amendment — 30 x 90 Blues Women, 7:30

Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; Wahala Boys, 11 BMC — Set Up Kings, 5; Sierra Leone, 8; Jazmarae, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Shynola Jazz Band, 8 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Voodoo Wagon, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Roots on the Rails, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 d.b.a. — Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Brick + Mortar, My Heart Might Explode, The Moms, Killer Dale, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Burnhouse, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Seva Venet, 7 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers,6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Jordan Anderson Band, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat.

Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Queenie’s — Jackson Square AllStars, 6:30 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Johnny J & the Hitmen, 8 SideBar — Nathan Lambertson, Joey Van Leeuwen, Shan Kenner, 8:30

Bamboula’s — Joe Goldberg Trio, 3; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Captain Buckles, 11 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Kenny Claiborne, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Chip Wilson, 5:30; Andrew Duhon, 8; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 10 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Tchoups, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman & Todd Duke, 9:30 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard “Piano” Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Gary Leming Duo, 7 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars, 6, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Ray’s — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 SideBar — Brad Walker, Michael Skinkus, Will Thompson IV, 8:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Pellera-Richburg Quintet, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

PREVIEW

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony with Alfred Banks

IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE, in this fiercely loyal broadcasting locality, that arguably the greatest gift bestowed by the radio gods in 2017 has been an automated satellite simulcast from faceless corporation iHeartMedia.

• Aug. 17 Yet any devotee of classic hip-hop, R&B and • 10 p.m. Thursday New Orleans bounce will attest: K242CE, better known to FM listeners as Throwback • Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., 96.3, is exactly what our airwaves were (504) 895-8477; missing. There’s a healthy dose of 2Pac and www.tipitinas.com Biggie, of course, but where the station really kills it is in the margins, those pop-cultural recesses where hibernating, deeply nostalgic sentiment thrives, from SWV to Mia X, Kurtis Blow to DJ Jubilee. This 96.3-sponsored show is like a drive-time hour sprung to life, an inspired crossroads of national and regional rap’s past and present: octave-hopping 1990s ensemble Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — which last month dropped its 11th release, New Waves, a Krayzie/Bizzy joint credited simply to Bone Thugs — with up-and-coming area MC Alfred Banks, on track to be a staple of the 2020s Throwback. Amanda Ducorbier opens. Tickets $33 in advance, $35 day of show. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 17 Bamboula’s — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 2; Gentilly Stompers, 6:30 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJ Mange, 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 — Joy Owens Band, 5; Crescent Kings, 8; Burris, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Luneta Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Calvin Johnson & Native Son, 5; Doyle Cooper Trio, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Castle Theatre — Linda Wright, 8 PAGE 34

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Check Point Charlie — Swamp Motel, 7; The Kurt Loders, 11 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; White Gregg, Quintron, 10 d.b.a. — Funk Monkey, 10 Gasa Gasa — Sweet Crude, Aurora Nealand’s The Monocle, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Deltaphonic, Jelly Ellington, 9 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Old Point Bar — Luna Mora, 9 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Armina Scott Quintet, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners, 8:30 SideBar — David Bandrowski & Jonathan Freilich, 8:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jeffrey Miller Quintet, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Amanda Ducorbier, 9 Treo — The St. Claude Serenaders, 6:30 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 18 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Thibault, 7 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Smoky Greenwell, 5:30 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl & Adam Everett, 8:30 Bar Redux — Dreaming Dingo (EP release), 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — DJ Black Pearl, 11 BMC — HollyRock, 3; Le Bon Temps, 5; Vance Orange, 8; Randi & Lo-Fi Soul, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Caddyshack Bar & Grill — Gwen & the Old Man, 8 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Maggie & the Magitones, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; The Texas Hearts, 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; Alligator Chomp Chomp with DJs Pasta, Matty and Mitch, 10 d.b.a. — Trad Stars Jazz Band, 6; Pine Leaf Boys, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — St. Roch Syncopators, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10

Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Fulton Alley — DJ Strategy, DJ RQ Away, 9 Gasa Gasa — Kap G, J.R. Donato, Paper Paulk, DOON, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Jazmarae, Soltree, 8; Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — Strangelove (Depeche Mode tribute), The Siouxsies (Siouxsie & the Banshees tribute), 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Radioactive Red, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Reid Poole Duo, 7:30 Mahogany Jazz Hall — The Key Sound, 9 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Mia Borders, 11 Oak — Andrew Duhon, 9 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Steve Mignano, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Delish Da Goddess, MC Sweet Tea, Sea Battle, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Rockin Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twister, 9:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Eyehategod, Negative Approach, 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Sonic Bloom, 10 Twist of Lime — People on the Side, 10 Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market — Dana Dufrene & Velvet Kick, 7 Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center — Improvisational Arts Council feat. Mark Fowler, Dr. Jimbo Walsh, Jana Saslaw, Dave Cappello, Eric Shuman, 9:30

SATURDAY 19 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Water Seed, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Resident Aliens, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Deidra Ruff, 8; Hyperphlyy, 11 Carrollton Station Bar and Music Club — New Creations Brass Band, 10 Check Point Charlie — Buddha’s Band, 4; Lips & the Trips, 7; Dirty Rain Revelers, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Ian Moore, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Hot Club of New Orleans, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Black Laurel, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 7 & 9 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Ruby & the Rogues, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — The Painted Hands, Gools, Pucusana, The Noise Complaints, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — David L. Harris Quartet (album release), 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — New Orleans Arrythmia, 9:30

Saenger Theatre — Musiq Soulchild feat. Carl Thomas, 8 Tipitina’s — Lost Bayou Ramblers, Motel Radio, 10 Twist of Lime — Event Horizon, Solunar, Vega, Rella, 10

SUNDAY 20 Bamboula’s — Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Evan Taylor Jones, 3; Ruth Marie’s Jazz Band, 7; Mignano, 10 Bullet’s Sports Bar — VL & Just Right Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 5; Tin Men, 9 Gasa Gasa — The Max Tribe, Gools, Killer Dale, Jack Rabbit, 9 House of Blues — Tower of Power, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — Cindy Van Duyne, The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 7 The Maison — Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Cha Wa, 10 Old Point Bar — Amanada Walker, 3:30; Romy Vargas & the Mercy Buckets, 7 One Eyed Jacks — RC & the Gritz, Khris Royal, 8 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Paul Varisco & the Milestones, 5:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Kristina Morales & the Inner Wild, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10

MONDAY 21 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 Bourbon O Bar — Shake It Break It Band, 8 Check Point Charlie — HG Breland, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30 Circle Bar — Motown Monday with DJ Shane Love, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 9 Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar — James Andrews & the Crescent City All-Stars, Bobby Love, 8 Republic New Orleans — Betty Who, Geographer, 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND 68 Kill (NR) — A downtrodden couple plots the theft of $68K from one of their benefactors. Chalmette Movies The Confessions (PG) — A murder mystery is set at the G8 meeting among a group of economists. Zeitgeist Logan Lucky (PG-13) — Steven Soderbergh directs the heist movie set in West Virginia and starring Channing Tatum.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Canal Place My Journey Through French Cinema — Bertrand Travernier tours the French film oeuvre in this documentary. Chalmette Movies Wind River (R) — Elizabeth Olsen stars in the whodunit set on a Native American reservation. Canal Place

NOW SHOWING Annabelle: Creation (R) — The haunted doll’s origin story is the, sigh, fourth film in the Conjuring series. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Atomic Blonde (R) — Sort of a contemporary La Femme Nikita, with Charlize Theron. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Batman and Harley Quinn (NR) — Batman and Harley Quinn animatedly battle Poison Ivy. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Big Sick (R) — A Pakistani comic gets involved with an American grad student just before she falls into a coma. Prytania, Regal Bonnie and Clyde 50th Anniversary (1967) Presented by TCM (NR) — The original crime-spree duo, not Jay Z and Beyonce.

Canal Place, Elmwood, West Bank, Regal The Dark Tower (PG-13) — “Last gunslinger” Roland (Idris Elba) wants to scale the tower that binds all possible worlds.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Despicable Me 3 (PG) — The franchise’s third installment features the voice of Trey Parker (South Park). Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Detroit (R) — Kathryn Bigelow directs the historical drama about the 1967 Detroit riots. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Dunkirk (PG-13) — Christopher Nolan’s take on the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the beach at Dunkirk during World War II. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Emoji Movie (PG) — Almost not even worth writing a synopsis that can’t include emojis. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Endless Poetry (NR) — Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical film is immersed in the Chilean poetry scene. Zeitgeist

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (NR) — The anime is about Dragon Cry, a “mystical staff of cataclysmic power.” Prytania Girls Trip (R) — Galpals reunite in New Orleans for one last bacchanal. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R) — A bodyguard is called upon to protect an assassin.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Canal Place I Dream in Another Language (NR) — A linguist travels to the Mexican jungle in search of a vanishing language. Zeitgeist An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG) — Al Gore’s climate-change series soldiers on. Elmwood, Canal Place Jab Harry Met Sejal (NR) — In the Indian rom-com, lovers go on a European grand tour. In Hindi with English subtitles. Elmwood Kidnap (R) — Halle Berry is the single-mom heroine in this parents’-worst-nightmare action movie. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Landline (R) — Want to feel old? This dramedy is a ‘90s period piece. Elmwood The Lion King (G) — It means no worriesssss for the rest of your days. Elmwood Mune: Guardian of the Moon (PG) — A French Pixaresque movie about a moon faun and a girl made of wax.

Elmwood, Regal Nowhere to Hide (NR) — The documentary explores the “triangle of death” in Iraq. Zeitgeist The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (PG) — Squirrels rebel against evil developers.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal RiffTrax Live: Doctor Who — The Five Doctors (NR) — Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers disparage this installment of the Doctor Who saga. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place Spider-Man: Homecoming (PG-13) — The franchise is trapped in a web of its own reboots. Clearview, Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Stage Fright (NR) — An actress protects a friend accused of murder. Prytania Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (PG-13) — Luc Besson’s latest futuristic experiment, with Clive Owen and Cara Delevingne. Elmwood, Slidell War for the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) — The Guardian: “The Godfather, but with chimpanzees.” ( ... ) Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Wonder Woman (PG-13) — An Amazon princess in a corset saves the world.

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS Beatles Movies — A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour are screened. 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Deutsches Haus Big Charity — The documentary is about the destruction of Charity Hospital after

TODAY’S HOLLYWOOD APPEARS TO DOMINATE WORLD CINEMA by exporting American film (and culture) to every corner of the globe, but it’s not surprising to learn that the true history of world cinema is rich, varied and complex, and that France has long played a central, influential role in the development of film as artistic expression. All of that is taken for granted in My Journey Through French Cinema, French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier’s sprawling yet deeply personal examination of French cinema from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Tavernier’s (A Sunday in the Country, Round Midnight) documentary is anything but comprehensive in its approach to French film. True to its title, the 195-minute My Journey Through French Cinema focuses on films and filmmakers that inspired Tavernier and shaped his life and career.

Those who know French cinema may be surprised to find scarcely a mention of major figures such as Jacques Tati (Playtime) and Max Ophuls (Lola Montes). But a nonacademic approach to the pleasures of French film is the documentary’s primary strength.

In a brief but impassioned introduction, Tavernier connects his childhood experi• Opens Aug. 18 ences of the liberation of his hometown of Lyon at the end end of World War II • 2 p.m. daily with his discovery of film. The 76-year-old • Chalmette Movies, filmmaker proceeds to construct his cinematic journey primarily in 15- or 20-minute 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, segments, each focusing on the work of a Chalmette, (504) 304-9992; single filmmaker he holds dear. www.chalmettemovies.com Tavernier’s early heroes include Jacques Becker (Casque d’Or), lauded for his simple stories and passion for American film; the great Jean Renoir (The Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game), revered for the naturalism of his characters; and Marcel Carne (Children of Paradise), whom Tavernier seems not to admire as a director but who nevertheless gains tribute for creating true classics of world cinema.

The filmmaker-specific sections are broken up by forays into the innovative early use of music in French film and a lengthy examination of actor and great French anti-hero Jean Gabin. For the film’s final hour, Tavernier switches focus to the auteurs he worked with early in his career, including Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Doulos, Quentin Tarantino’s favorite film) and stalwarts of the French New Wave including Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) and Claude Chabrol (Les Bonnes Femmes).

Tavernier’s film offers a great density of material to take in all at once. On top of the barrage of film excerpts are English subtitles translating Tavernier’s insightful narration, often mixed with subtitles translating film dialogue, all presented alongside sometimes fast-shifting titles (in French) of the excerpted films at the bottom right of the screen.

But full attention reaps rewards. The magic of Tavernier’s Journey comes from how many of these earth-shaking works are unfamiliar even to fans of foreign film.

It’s a special treat to see these often stunning clips in a theatrical setting. The cumulative effect is one of being initiated into a secret society you never knew existed but may never want to leave.

The documentary loses some steam before concluding, but that may be because we’re ready to move on from excerpts to experiencing newly discovered, full-length masterworks. That is the gift of Tavernier’s impassioned film. — KEN KORMAN

My Journey Through French Cinema

Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch The LEGO Batman Movie (PG) — Two powerful franchises join forces to fight crime. 5:30 p.m. Thursday. East New Orleans Regional Library Mind of the Maker — The short film is about a cypress skiff built by Edward Couvillier. 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum (133 Mabel Drive, Madisonville) My Best Friend’s Wedding (PG-13) — A poolside screening of the movie that launched a thousand marriage pacts. 6:30 p.m. Thursday. W New Orleans French Quarter (316 Chartres St.) Overdrive Minor Paradox — A government employee discovers a time machine and uses it to visit his own past. 8 p.m.

Friday. Mudlark Public Theatre Pecker (R) — A blue-collar Baltimore teen unexpectedly becomes a famous photographer, with mixed results. 7 p.m. Friday.

New Orleans Museum of Art Refugee Kids — The documentary is about challenges refugee students face.

6 p.m. Wednesday. New Orleans Public Library, Mid-City branch Shevaun Cavanaugh Kastl — Films by the writer/producer/actress are screened, and she appears at a Q&A. 9 p.m. Thursday.

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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.

Unity Redux. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — At the event, artists AZ Smith, Kathryn Zansler, Vanessa Bates, Paul Thomas and others create works. Musicians The Somerton Suitcase and Me & the Aral Sea perform. Donation $5. 8 p.m. Saturday.

White Linen and Lagniappe Night. Olde Towne Slidell, Slidell — Slidell’s white party features art walks, shopping, a dunking booth, an ice cream-eating contest and more. Free admission. 6 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Tulane University (Jones Hall). 7801 Freret St. — “The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner,” drawings, letters and photographs by the architect; opening reception 5 p.m. Thursday.

GALLERIES 811 Howard Ave. Gallery. 811 Howard Ave. — “Fauna,” colored pencil drawings

by Franco Alessandrini, through Sunday.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery. com — “Reconstruction of an Emotion,” new surrealist paintings by Eddy Stevens, through Aug. 24. Group exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Pop That Thang,” photographs of New Orleanians at clubs, bars and second lines by Polo Silk, through Sept. 3. “Paper Cut,” work by five book artists using cut paper techniques, through Oct. 2.

Antieau Gallery. 927 Royal St., (504) 304-0849; www.antieaugallery. com — New work by Chris RobertsAntieau, 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 — “Pathless Travel Continued,” new works by Cheryl Anne Grace; jewelry by Wilsa Studio; works by Jerry Hymel; all through August.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “John T. Scott: His Legacy,” woodcut prints by the artist, through Sept. 23.

Arthur Roger@434. 434 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Dapper Bruce Lafitte,” drawings by the artist, through Sept. 23.

Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — “City of Killers,” cement, metal and images by Susan Bowers; “Tool-MeFool-Me (Pattern Making for a Gender Hybrid World II),” new work by Maxx Sizeler; both through Sept. 2.

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

Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery.

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

Brand New Orleans Art Gallery. 646 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 251-2695; www. brandneworleansartgallery.com — “Soul of New Orleans,” new works by Epaul Julien, through August.

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “Faith and Reason II,” works by Doyle Gertjejansen, through Sept. 20.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Generation Gaps,” mixed-media portraits of pop figures by Brent Houzenga, through Aug. 27.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Ritual and Ruin: Tableaux of a Lost War,” new works by David Knox, through Sept. 9.

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.

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 — “Shuffle,” new works by Painters Painting Painters; “Coordination,” works by Lars Anderson, Andy Mauery and Bonnie Maygarden; “Rare Earth,” mixed-media works by Jennifer Bock-Nelson, Kelly A. Mueller and Amy Sacksteder; through Sept. 3.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia. com — “White Linen Night on Bayou Black,” oil paintings by Will Smith, Jr., through August.

Gallery Arlo. 837 Chartres St., (504) 3300803 — “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 — “OUH HUO,” installation about language and power by Carrie Fonder, through Sept. 3.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “Summer Show,” salon-style group exhibition of works by local and national artists, through Oct. 5.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “A Burning House,” conceptual activist artwork by Ti-Rock Moore, through Aug. 26.

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

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 — “Being,” new works by Adrien Broom, ongoing.

Michalopoulos Gallery. 617 Bienville St., (504) 558-0505; www.michalopoulos. com — Paintings by JamesMichalopoulos, 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 — “Alien vs Predator,” group exhibition curated by Nicolas Aziz, through Sept. 3.

New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom. 1201 Mazant St.; www.nolacommunityprintshop.org — “Black Goes with Every Color,” screenprints and photographs

by NOCP kids’ program members, ongoing.

New Orleans Photo Alliance. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www. neworleansphotoalliance.org — “POWER,” photographs on oil drum lids by David Emitt Adams, through Sept. 2.

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.

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — “Size Matters: A Small Group Show of Small Works,” group exhibition of works by local artists, through Sept. 2.

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 —

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IN 1904, the great French cinema pioneer Georges Melies released his silent film classic, The Impossible Voyage, about a farcically misguided scientific expedition to the sun. Although an amazing innovator himself, Melies portrayed science as a disorienting force that always took people back to the same old human foibles in a new form.

Doyle Gertjejansen’s fantastical abstract paintings in this Faith and Reason II show express no pointed opinions, but they do in some ways reflect the disorientation posed by technological advances happening faster than most people can assimilate. What we see suggests a floating world where bits and pieces of our planet seem to • Through Sept. 20 levitate and share space with the marks and brush strokes that traditionally have • Callan Contemporary, been used to depict what we see around us. That slippery relationship between 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; the real world and the techniques people www.callancontemporary.com have used to depict it is the implicit underlying subject of this whimsical painterly investigation.

Petroglyph 2 is emblematic in the way it recalls Gertjejansen’s earlier obsession with continental topography via its suggestions of flinty mountain ranges, verdant forests and dark crimson lava flows punctuated with fat, gloopy brushstrokes, as if a dissatisfied creator god had decided to paint over parts of a newly minted planet. In Aztec, those dense physical structures seem to have been distilled into a floating realm of cryptic symbols that resonate the ominous incantations of long-dead languages. But the title piece, Faith and Reason II, 2017 (pictured), is as buoyant as a Latin jazz riff in which dense clusters of blue notes and hot brassy jazz stanzas are contrapuntally defined by free-form percussive undulations.

Gertjejansen’s emphasis on basic mark making harks to the origins of our long, strange trip into an ever more elaborate mass-mediated mirror maze of endless electronically reproduced imagery where digital technology and virtual reality are just the latest, most turbocharged examples of humanity’s history of messing with stuff that ends up messing with our own heads in the process. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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“A Distant Holla,” new paintings, sculpture and installation by Daniel Minter; new work by Kathy Buist; group exhibition by gallery artists; all ongoing.

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.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “Summer Show,” annual exhibition of works completed within the past two years, through Saturday.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Still Life,” installations based on other artists’ fragments and discards by Allison Owen, through Sept. 3.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Constellation,” mixed-media works inspired by vintage and family photographs

by Delita Martin, through September.

Steve Martin Fine Art. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www.stevemartinfineart.com — “Money Land,” new works by Dan Tague, through Sept. 12.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Eat Me,” paintings exploring food as still life, through Aug. 26. “Left Handed for a Year,” left-handed drawings by Brent Houzenga, through August.

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.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Heat and Ambiguity,” prints by Sarah Marshall, through Sept. 3.

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

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Caligula. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave. — Cripple Creek Theatre Company presents Albert Camus’ drama about the decadent Roman emperor.

Visit www.cripplecreektheatre.org for details. Free admission. 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Camino Real. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St. — Tennessee Williams Theatre Company presents the play set in a mythic border town. Visit www.twtheatrenola.com for details.

Tickets $25, students and seniors $20.

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Debauchery. The Theatre at St. Claude, 2240 St. Claude Ave. — Southern Rep presents the live soap opera featuring an Uptown family with a downtown mom.

Admission $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Hairspray. Cutting Edge Theater, 747 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 640-0333; www.cuttingedgetheater.com — The musical adapts John Waters’ movie about a ’60s-era Baltimore teen who aspires to join a TV dance competition. Tickets $22.50-$30. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Joey & Mary’s Big-Ass New York Comedy Wedding. Gretna Cultural Center for the Arts, 740 Fourth St., Gretna, (504) 267-5693 — The immersive comedy is about a Brooklyn family’s nuptials.

Tickets $52, includes dinner. 6:15 p.m.

Friday-Sunday.

Love Letters. Little Gem Saloon, 445 S. Rampart St. — Nell Nolan and Dennis Woltering star in the play about an epistolary romance. Tickets $20-$25. 8 p.m.

Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday.

Transplant. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Dante Fuoco’s one-man show deals with issues encountered by new arrivals to New Orleans.

Tickets $7-$10. 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Waterworld: The Musical. Maison de Macarty Bed & Breakfast, 3820 Burgundy St., (504) 267-1564; www.maisonmacarty. com — The musical adapts the 1995 thriller and is staged in a pool. Visit www. artful.ly/store/events/12570 for details.

Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Tuesday and Friday.

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

8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Burgundy Burlesque. The Saint Hotel, Burgundy Bar, 931 Canal St., (504) 5225400; www.thesainthotelneworleans.com — Trixie Minx leads a weekly burlesque performance featuring live jazz. Free admission; reserved table $10. 9 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. 8 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.

Dirty Dime Peepshow. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge. net — Bella Blue produces the burlesque show featuring performances by the Lady Lucerne, Vinsantos and Bunny Love. Ben Wisdom hosts. Tickets $15.

Midnight Saturday.

Jock Strap Cabaret. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Neon Burgundy hosts the drag and variety show with a “lube wrestling” contest.

Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Friday.

Modern Vaudeville. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Variety entertainers appear in the vaudeville-style show. Free admission. 8 p.m. Saturday.

Stripped into Submission. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — The burlesque show is influenced by fetish culture and BDSM. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Sunday.

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

Vixens & Vinyl. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net — Miss GoGo McGregor hosts the evening of burlesque performances.

DJ Shane Love performs. Free admission.

9 p.m. Wednesday.

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.

COMEDY Bear with Me. Twelve Mile Limit, 500 S. Telemachus St., (504) 488-8114; www. facebook.com/twelvemilelimit — Laura Sanders hosts an open-mic comedy show. Sign-up at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Monday.

Brown Improv. Waloo’s, 1300 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 834-6474;

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Caligula is staged at Castillo Blanco Art Studios through Aug. 27. www.facebook.com/pages/thenewwaloos — New Orleans’ longest-running comedy group performs. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Chris & Tami. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www. newmovementtheater.com — Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform improv weekly.

9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 9492009; www.lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show.

10 p.m. Tuesday.

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 “RedBean” 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.

Dean’s List. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Kaitlin Marone, Margee Green and Cyrus Cooper perform improv. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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

9 p.m. Friday.

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. Thursdays.

I’m Listening. Voodoo Lounge, 718 N. Rampart St., (504) 304-1568 — Andrew Healan and Isaac Kozell offer armchair

analysis of a rotating cast of comics.

9 p.m. Friday.

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

9:30 p.m. Monday.

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

Mark Normand. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www. oneeyedjacks.net — The comedian performs. Tickets $16. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Improv comics take inspiration from a local celebrity’s true story.

10:30 p.m. Saturday.

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.

Permanent Damage. Bullet’s Sports Bar, 2441 A.P. Tureaud Ave., (504) 6694464 — Tony Frederick, Corey Mack and B-Dub host the weekly stand-up show.

8 p.m. Saturday.

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

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

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TUESDAY 15 BingOh! Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The bingo night has a “beach party” theme, and stand-up comedians perform between rounds. Costumes encouraged.

Admission $5. 8 p.m.

Health and Education Alliance of Louisiana Luncheon. Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St., (504) 595-5511; www.sheratonneworleans.com — Health and Education Alliance of Louisiana (HEAL) presents the luncheon and discussion of its programs. Visit www.heal-no.org for details. RSVP to plandrieu@ cox.net required. Noon.

Pay What You Can Day. Cafe Reconcile, 1631 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 568-1157; www.cafereconcile.org — Guests pay what they can at a luncheon.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Public Information Session on New Orleans Power Station. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 596-2660; www.nolalibrary.org — Entergy New Orleans hosts the information session about a prospective power station in New Orleans East. 6 p.m. A session also takes place at Corpus Christi Epiphany Community Resource Center (2022 St. Bernard Ave.) 6 p.m. Monday.

Sake Hop. 21st Amendment, 725 Iberville St., (504) 378-7330; www.21stamendmentnola.com — The annual self-guided bar crawl features sake tastings at five French Quarter bars. Visit www.sakehop. com for details. Tickets $10. 5:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 16 Elvis Lives On. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux. com — The annual Elvis tribute party features themed cocktails, peanut butter banana sandwiches and screenings of King Creole and other Elvis movies. 8 p.m.

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Adult Crafternoon. New Orleans Public Library, Robert E. Smith branch, 6301 Canal Blvd., (504) 596-2638; www.nolalibrary.org — Adults meet to enjoy crafting projects. Supplies are provided. 3 p.m.

Bacchanalia. Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar, 1009 Poydras St., (504) 309-6530; www. walk-ons.com — At the fundraiser for HandsOn New Orleans, teams bring three bottles of the same wine to be shared at a judged tasting. There’s also music, food and a raffle. Email development@handsonneworleans.org for details. Tickets $35-$105. 6 p.m.

College Financial Planning. St. Tammany Parish Library, Causeway Branch, 3457 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-9779 — The workshop for families covers how to apply for financial aid and deciding

which loans are appropriate for your student. 6:30 p.m.

American Business Women’s Association Luncheon. Heritage Grill, 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 934-4900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Erin McQuade-Wright is the guest speaker at the women’s networking luncheon. Visit www. abwaneworleans.org to register (recommended). Tickets $28-$40. 11 a.m.

Information Session for Nonprofit Organizations. JLNO Headquarters, 4319 Carondelet St., (504) 891-5845 — Junior League of New Orleans hosts the presentation for nonprofit groups to share how JLNO can help with volunteering or fundraising projects. 9 a.m.

Steep On Steepin’ On. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Tea aficionados Charles McLaughlin and Nick Carlisi host the tea seminar and tasting. 7 p.m.

Van Jones. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The CNN commentator appears on his “We Rise” tour. Tickets $39-$186. 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 18 Beatles Karaoke Night. Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 5228014; www.deutscheshaus.org — German food is available for purchase at the karaoke night. Free admission. 7 p.m.

Moonlight Hike and Snow and Ice. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www. northlakenature.org — A nighttime hike is followed by a sweet treat. Email rue@ northlakenature.org to register (required). Tickets $5. 7:30 p.m.

Moonshine Fever. Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 259-1509 — Participants should wear white to this adults-only blacklight party at the amusement park. There’s free beer, rides and games. Tickets $30$40. 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 19 Anthony Radosti. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The Metropolitan Crime Commission (MCC) vice-president and former detective speaks on public corruption. 3 p.m.

Bonsai Auction. Marine Corps League Hall, 2708 Delaware St., Kenner; www. marinecorpsleaguelouisiana.com — The auction features a large selection of bonsai plants and related materials. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Bow Wow Luau. New Orleans City Park, Arbor Room at Popp Fountain, 12 Magnolia Drive, (504) 488-2896; www.neworleanscitypark.com — The gala is a benefit for NOLA City Bark and has food, drinks

SUNDAY 20 Pelicanpalooza. Southport Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., (504) 835-2903; www. southporthall.com — The benefit for Camp Pelican, a camp for children with pulmonary disorders, features music, food, raffles and more. Paper Chase, Weathered and Jukebox Heroes perform. Visit www.camppelican.org for details. Tickets $5-$20. Noon.

MONDAY 21 Nacho Libre Mondays. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www. barredux.com — Lucha libre wrestling is screened, and nachos are available for purchase. 7 p.m.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Crescent City Farmers Market. Citywide — The market offers fresh produce, prepared foods, flowers and plants at locations citywide, including Tulane University Square (200 Broadway St.) 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday; the American Can Apartments (3700 Orleans Ave.) 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and in the CBD (750 Carondelet St.) 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

CRISP Farms Market. CRISP Farms Market, 1330 France St.; www.facebook. com/crispfarms — The urban farm offers greens, produce, herbs and seedlings. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

French Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket. org — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

German Coast Farmers Market. Ormond Plantation, 13786 River Road, Destrehan — The market features vegetables, fruits, flowers and other items. Visit www.germancoastfarmersmarket.org for details. 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 361-1822 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers.

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Grow Dat Farm Stand. Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans City Park, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive, (504) 377-8395; www.growdatyouthfarm.org — Grow Dat Youth Farm sells its produce. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037 — The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

ReFresh Project Community Garden Farmers Market. ReFresh Project, 300 N. Broad St.; www.broadcommunityconnections.org — The weekly Monday market offers local produce, homemade kimchi, cocoa-fruit leather, pesto and salad dressing. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday.

Rivertown Farmers Market. Rivertown, 400 block of Williams Boulevard, Kenner, (504) 468-7231; www.kenner.la.us — The market features fruits, vegetables, dairy products, preserves and cooking demonstrations. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Sankofa Mobile Market. Lower 9th Ward Community Center, 5234 N. Claiborne Ave. — The Sankofa market truck offers seasonal produce from the Sankofa Garden. 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday. The truck also stops at 6322 St. Claude Ave. 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Vietnamese Farmers Market. Vietnamese Farmers Market, 14401 Alcee Fortier Blvd.

— Fresh produce, baked goods and live poultry are available at this early morning market. 5 a.m. Saturday.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market.

Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market, Sala Avenue at Fourth Street, Westwego, (504) 341-9083; www.cityofwestwego.com/

content/westwego-farmers-market — The monthly West Bank market offers produce, eggs, pickles, baked goods, art, live music and pony rides. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

SPORTS New Orleans Baby Cakes. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.cakesbaseball.com — New Orleans Baby Cakes play the Round Rock Express. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

WORDS Beyond Personality: Getting Psychiatry Right in Fiction. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Psychiatrist Leanne McBurney Trueheart presents the lecture for fiction writers.

1 p.m. Saturday.

Dogfish Reading Series. Private residence, 2448 N. Villere St. — Poet and activist Michael “Quess?” Moore performs.

Refreshments are served. 7 p.m. Thursday.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED 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.

Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads, volunteers to help sort beads and volunteers for Arc farm duties. Visit www.arcgno.org for details and drop-off locations.

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.

Community Educators. Alzheimer’s Association Louisiana seeks volunteers to lead educational programs and classes.

Email Stacey Denham at sdenham@alz. org for details.

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.

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

Edible Schoolyard. Edible Schoolyard seeks community volunteers and interns to assist in kitchen and garden classes and to help in school gardens. Visit www. esynola.org/get-involved or email amelia@esynola.org.

First Tee of Greater New Orleans. The organization seeks volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches to kids and teens through its golf program. Visit www. thefirstteenola.org.

Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run seeks running partners, assistant coaches, committee members and race-day volunteers. Email info@gotrnola.org or visit www.gotrnola.org.

Golden Opportunity Adult Literacy Program. GOAL seeks volunteers to conduct courses for reading comprehension, GED preparation and English language learning. Call (504) 373-4496.

EVENTS Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. The center seeks part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills, reliable transportation and no criminal convictions to help expose housing discrimination in the New Orleans metro area. Call (504) 717-4257 or email mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org.

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 for Life Mentors. The city initiative’s partner organizations seek adults to mentor boys ages 15 to 18 who are at risk for violence. Visit www.nolaforlife.org/ give/mentor.

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

Parkway Partners. The green space and community garden organization seeks volunteers for building, gardening and other projects. Email info@parkwaypartnersnola.org, call (504) 620-2224 or visit www.parkwaypartnersnola.org.

Refugee mentors. Catholic Charities of New Orleans’ Refugee Service Program seeks volunteers, especially those with Arabic, Burmese and Spanish language skills, to help newly arrived refugees learn about everyday life in America.

Senior companions. The New Orleans Council on Aging seeks volunteers to assist seniors with personal and daily tasks so they can live independently. Visit www.nocoa.org or call (504) 821-4121.

SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more.

Visit www.spaymart.org, email info@ spaymart.org or call (504) 454-8200.

Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular training sessions for volunteers, who work one-on-one with lower elementary school students to develop reading and language skills. Call (504) 899-0820, email margo@stairnola.org or visit www. stairnola.org/how-to-help to register for training.

Teen Life Counts. The Jewish Family Service program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention to middle school and high school students. Call (504) 831-8475.

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Tickets $101. 7 p.m.

Brewsiana Craft Beer & Music Festival.

House of Blues, 225 Decatur St., (504) 3104999; www.houseofblues.com/neworleans/ restaurant — The festival features offerings from local brewers and restaurants. Where Y’acht, Dash Rip Rock, Sexy Dex & the Fresh and other bands perform. Admission $10, does not include tastings. 7 p.m.

Dr. Craig Bauer. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 5297323; www.nolalibrary.org — The historian gives a talk based on his book An Unretractable Country: The History of Kenner, Louisiana. 10 a.m.

Essential Oils: Essence of Nature. Algiers Regional Library, 3014 Holiday Drive, Algiers, (504) 529-7323; www.nolalibrary. org — The workshop covers the chemistry of essential oils and how they may affect wellness. 1 p.m.

Greater New Orleans Iris Society Meeting. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — The iris-focused gardening club hosts an open meeting for prospective members. 9 a.m.

Madisonville Art Market. Madisonville Art Market, Tchefuncte River at Water Street, Madisonville, (985) 871-4918; www. artformadisonville.org — The monthly market features works by local artists including paintings, photography, jewelry, wood carving, sculpture, stained glass and more. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Midsummer Mardi Gras. Oak Street — Krewe of OAK leads a walking parade, and there are a few parties at Oak Street businesses. DJ Soul Sister hosts an after-party at La Casita Taqueria (8400 Oak St.) at 10 p.m. 6 p.m.

OCH Recycled Art Market. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistnola.org — There’s live music, entertainment, art and home furnishings crafted from reclaimed materials. Visit www.ochartmarket.com for details.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Photography Workshop. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The workshop is inspired by current photography exhibits and covers color palettes, composition, manual exposure settings and more. Tickets $35. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Summer Sausage Sprint. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515; www.fairgroundsracecourse.com — A quarter horse meet also features wiener dog races. Admission $5.

First post is 12:30 p.m., dog races begin at 3 p.m.

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FOR RENT 305 Decatur #202 3/3 reno’d, hdwd flrs, ss apps, w/d in unit, central loc ........................................................ $2600 601 Decatur 1/1 Ctrl a/h, w/d on site, balc, wd floors $1350 929 Dumaine #5 1/1 fully furn, all utilities included, ground floor unit .............................................................................. $995 920 Royal 2/2 wd flrs, hi ceils, large balc, lots of storage, pets possible .................................................................................. $2000 914 St. Peter 1/1 renovated, hi ceils, 2 stories, balc & ctyd, w/d on site ................................................................. $1600 222 London Ave #224 2/1.5 pool, ctyd, new paint, new flrs, new carpet & vanities ................................................ $1150 1024 Bienville 2/2 pkng, balc, hi ceils, hdwd flrs, w/d in unit, lots of storage ................................................. $2500 1511 St. Ann #A 1/1 w/d in unit, new flrs, ctrl a/h, great location ........................................................................ $825

FOR SALE 618 Spain 3/2 reno’d, pool, patio, wd flrs, 2 ctrl a/h units, nat light throughout .......................................... $765,000 820 Spain #8 1/1 pkng, pool w/d, wd flrs, hi ceils, ctrl ac, gated secure entry ............................................. $285,000 224 Chartres 5 units avail, 1-3 beds, reno’d, elevator access, ctyd, great loc starting at ................... $649,000 1225-31 Marais 4 reno’d units avail, parking, pool mod amenities w/historic settings starting at ...... $304,000 1303 Burgundy #U14 1/1 reno’d, deck, lots of lite w/d beautiful views ................................................................ $649,000 919 St. Philip #8 1/1 balc, ctyd, spacious, full kit, w/d on site, can be purch furnished...............................$260,000 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 1319 Decatur #5 1/1 great loc, hdwd flrs, hi ceils, natural light ,very private ............................................... $385,000

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