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STAFF President & CEO | MARGO DUBOS Publisher | JEANNE EXNICIOS FOSTER Administrative Director | MARK KARCHER

EDITORIAL Editor | KEVIN ALLMAN Managing Editor | KANDACE POWER GRAVES Political Editor | CLANCY DUBOS Arts & Entertainment Editor | WILL COVIELLO Special Sections Editor | KATHERINE M. JOHNSON

NEWS

Senior Writer | ALEX WOODWARD Calendar & Digital Content Coordinator | KAT STROMQUIST

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COMMENTARY

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CLANCY DUBOS

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DELLA HASSELLE, KEN KORMAN, BRENDA MAITLAND, ROBERT MORRIS, NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

Contributing Photographer | CHERYL GERBER

PRODUCTION Production Director | DORA SISON Assistant Production Director | LYN VICKNAIR

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LISTINGS MUSIC

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FILM

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ART

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TUE. & FRI. AUG. 22 & 25 | Kevin Costner’s epic flop Waterworld resurfaces in a farcical musical adaption performed in a pool — incorporating synchronized swimming and burlesque — and presented with a pre-show pool party. The Friday party includes music by Alexandra Scott. The pool party begins at 6 p.m., show at 8 p.m. at Maison de Macarty bed and breakfast.

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SEVEN THINGS TO DO IN SEVEN DAYS

Killer reads

Crescent City Chamber Music Festival

Gabe Soria pens neonoir graphic novel Murder Ballads with music from Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys

THU.-SUN. AUG. 24-27 | The Manhattan Chamber Players perform free concerts at 6 p.m. Thursday at Urban South Brewery, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at Tulane University’s Rogers Memorial Chapel and 3 p.m.

Sunday at Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church.

BY ALEX WOODWARD @ALEXWOODWARD

Alvin Youngblood Hart IN AN OFFICE STUFFED WITH BOXES

of 45s upstairs at Euclid Records in Bywater, comics writer Gabe Soria remembers the seemingly unlikely mashup that inspired his latest graphic novel.

“What if you combined this Alan Lomax person, a person trying to discover obscure blues artists, and mash this together with a Jim Thompson-esque noir thing, some Coen brothers Blood Simple stuff,” Soria says. “That rolled around in my brain for a few years. The idea of someone looking for music, and having that ambition to be the first. … That could just be a tick away from noir territory.”

Murder Ballads follows the story of a fictional record — a desperate producer and his disintegrating relationship, an undiscovered genius, a disturbed legend coming out of retirement — and the crime spree and dangerously rising stakes that made it.

Soria’s institutional knowledge of behind-the-scenes legends passed around record stores and buried in liner notes inspired Murder Ballads’ fictional history of blues musicians Donny and Marvell Fontweathers, upon whom a burned-out one-time record producer is hanging what remains of his life.

(In another comic, The Ballad of Franklin Bonisteel, Soria assembles the titular antihero’s crew for a rip and run of royalties from a fictional Eagles-esque ’70s band — responsible for the perfectly, stupidly titled hit “Comfy Mama.”)

Soria plotted out Murder Ballads in 2010, and a finished book finally was published earlier this month by Z2, with art from Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt. An accompanying soundtrack from The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and soul singer Robert Finley brings to life the songs on the pages. Auerbach

joins Soria for a book signing at Euclid Records Aug. 22.

“I was trying to figure out how to make it special,” Soria says. “Writing a book about music, about fake musicians — I realized I had a friend who could probably do some music for it.”

So Soria turned to Auerbach.

(Soria also wrote the liner notes to Dr. John’s Locked Down, which Auerbach produced.) “He said ‘Yeah, sure,’ just like that,” Soria says. “He knew where I was coming from when I told him the story.”

Auerbach transformed Soria’s idea for a song inspired by Macbeth’s three fate-forecasting witches into “Three Jumpers,” which Soria describes as “basically a country, inner-city interpretation of Macbeth where the three witches are three jumpers, the dudes on the corner, from Do the Right Thing, talking to a kid about what’s going to happen to him.”

“That’s what Dan does,” Soria says.

“I trust Dan with my life, so I trust him with music.”

Murder Ballads’ grim winter and nighttime color palettes give way to warm orange and red as music spills from the page. Soria envisioned cinematographers like Robby Muller or Roger Deakins for his moody, cinematic panels that capture brutal violence as well as the feeling of hearing and seeing a dynamic piece of music.

“You’re guiding [the illustrators],” Soria says. “They have to not only use

FRI. AUG. 25 | After several years providing horsepower for the allstar South Memphis String Band, blues-rocker Alvin Youngblood Hart re-emerged as a solo recording artist with the snarling 2014 single “Helluva Way (For a Man to Make a Livin’),” his debut on Fat Possum subsidiary Big Legal Mess records. Nicholas Crown opens at 9 p.m. at Three Keys at The Ace Hotel.

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Gabe Soria releases the comic Murder Ballads.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

MURDER BALLADS GABE SORIA, PAUL REINWAND AND CHRIS HUNT Z2 COMICS GABE SORIA AND DAN AUERBACH SIGN MURDER BALLADS 5 P.M. TUESDAY, AUG. 22 EUCLID RECORDS, 3301 CHARTRES ST., (504) 947-4348; WWW.EUCLIDNOLA.COM

your direction but their instincts, and their knowledge of how comic book language works to put what you want on the page and also put what they think needs to be there, and be faithful to both the writer’s intent and what they’re doing as an artist. It’s a delicate dance. It helps if you have good collaborators.”

FRI. AUG. 25 | On its two releases — 2015 debut A Thousand Hands and last month’s Albeit Living (felte) — Los Angeles trio Sextile brews up a smogchoked storm cloud of hammering industrial synths and harrowing post-punk guitar clatter, led by singer Brady Keehn chanting his lyrics like warlock incantations. Mea Culpa and Trashlight open at 10 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

WHIV-FM fundraiser FRI. AUG. 25 | The Aug. 5 floodwaters pushed into nonprofit radio station 102.3 WHIV-FM on Orleans Avenue.

United Bakery Records hosts a fundraiser with music from The Tumbling Wheels, art sales to benefit the station’s recovery efforts and beer from Urban South Brewery.

At 6 p.m. at WHIV.

Vox and the Hound and Midriff SAT. AUG. 26 | The yacht rockinspired pop and blue-eyed funk on Aloha Shores is Vox and the Hound’s perfect soundtrack for this end-ofsummer tropical storm with New Orleans’ beachy psychedelic pop outfit Midriff. Naughty Palace opens at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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Speak NEW ORLEANS’ WEEK IN TWITTER

Greg Carr

@AfricanaCarr David Duke was once an elected member of the Louisiana State Legislature. Whetever America is, it is also home to a lot of white supremacists.

Keith S. Wilson

@robottomulatto Also folks are acting like for every one statue of Robert E Lee going down three Juvenile statues go up instead of a different white general

Leslie Holder

@JustLeslieCat I’m gonna take down the statue erected for student loans to erase that history from my life.

reconstructed pat @panarmstrong

Whenever you attend a candidate forum in New Orleans, be sure to ask them who they would appoint to these boards that oversee everything.

John Jel Jedwards @JohnJelJedwards

If we want to put up a statue, how about Barry Tabasco, inventor of spicy sauces, just a suggestion #lagov #lalege

Ralph Marlbrough @SaintsForecast

The more time passes the more I think “How in the hell did this bunch running the Saints win a Super Bowl?”

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The number of registered voters in Louisiana as of Aug. 1.

PHOTO COU RTESY B LE ECKE R STRE ET

C’est What

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Who is mostly to blame for the New Orleans flooding Aug. 5?

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SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD

THIS IS VOTER REGISTRATION WEEK IN LOUISIANA, and Secretary of State Tom Schedler, along with registrars of voters, will be encouraging Louisianans to register. Anyone with a valid Louisiana driver’s license can register online (voterportal.sos.la.gov), at a parish Registrar of Voters office or while conducting business at an Office of Motor Vehicles. Paper applications can be found at most public libraries.

“While this year is a slow election cycle for many communities,” Schedler said in a statement, “Louisiana will be electing a state treasurer this fall as well as hosting many local elections, propositions and constitutional amendments on the ballot.” The Oct. 14 primary will include the New Orleans mayoral and City Council races, as well as several judgeships.

— KEVIN ALLMAN SOURCE: LOUISIANA SECRETARY OF STATE.

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MAYOR LANDRIEU’S OFFICE

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Britney Spears will

donate $1 for each ticket sold to her Las Vegas revue, “Britney: Piece of Me,” to the Louisiana School Boards Association, a federation of all the public schools in the state. Spears, a multiple Grammy Award winner, is a native of Kentwood.

Her stage show returns in September to Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and runs through the end of the year.

Turkey and the The New Orleans Wolf, Mason Hereford’s Department of Irish Channel sandwich Public Works joint, was named Best (DPW) had only two New Restaurant in America last week by the magazine Bon Appetit. “Were we prepared to call a quirky, nostalgic, counter service-only sandwich spot our No. 1 new restaurant in America? A place that serves what some might call, for better or for worse, stoner food?” editor Andrew Knowlton wrote. “We looked at each other and grinned.

Yes, we were.”

of five working vacuum trucks last week to clear clogged catch basins.

The other three trucks were out of service. That was the latest revelation in the ongoing tale of municipal incompetence following the Aug. 5 rainstorm that flooded much of the city. DPW head Mark Jernigan tendered his resignation shortly after the storm at Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s request.

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Comment

On Clancy DuBos’ column, ‘S&WB needs accountability and transparency’: “Privatization would be a mistake for many reasons, including cost, loss of control, and transparency. Bringing the S&WB under the purview of the city seems a no-brainer. ... Those who would so serve should be screened by a transparent, non-governmental committee of volunteers having appropriate, relevant training and experience. I suggest that this screening group could be appointed by the Mayor or Council, but only after multiple public fora or hearings.” — bsorcs

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I-10 News on the move 1. RENE BRUNET, KING OF THE

PRYTANIA THEATRE, DIES AT 95 Rene Brunet Jr., who spent his life running New Orleans movie houses, was a familiar face at the Prytania Theatre, which he bought in 1996 while in his seventies. Brunet died Aug. 17. He was 95.

Brunet’s father, Rene Brunet Sr., built and ran several movie theaters in the early 1900s. Brunet Jr. was born Aug. 25, 1921 and started working with his father at The Imperial Theater at a young age. He took over the business when his father died in 1946. During his career, Brunet Jr. operated many New Orleans motion picture houses, including the Clabon, Carver and Gallo theaters, as well as others in the region. For several decades, he owned and ran the Joy Theater on Canal Street, which hosted the first New Orleans Film Festival.

With historian Jack Stewart, Brunet wrote a book about local theaters, There’s One in Your Neighborhood: The Lost Movie Theaters of New Orleans, published

by Arthur Hardy Enterprises in 2012. It documents the city’s many single-screen neighborhood theaters.

Brunet is survived by his wife Muriel and five children. Services will be held Friday, Aug. 25 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor (2701 State St.). The family also plans a memorial at the Prytania.

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City approves millions for drainage repair, flood response

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

2. Quote of the week “I look at this like Edwin is an entertainer,” Honeycutt said. “And I haven’t been to a concert yet where an entertainer just said, ‘Come on in for free.’ Everyone’s willing to pay to see him perform.” — Former Gov. Edwin Edwards’ official biographer, Leo Honeycutt, on the $250-perhead 90th birthday party for Edwards in Baton Rouge Aug. 12. Edwards, who had four trials for public corruption, was eventually convicted of 17 charges of racketeering, wire and mail fraud, money laundering and other charges.

The crowd that gathered to fete Edwards included Gov. John Bel Edwards, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, former Gov. Kathleen Blanco and GOP state Senate President John Alario, as well as French Quarter entertainer Chris Owens. NOLA.com’s Julia O’Donoghue reported that major sponsors included “prominent lobbyists, former

lawmakers and The Advocate,” and that photos of the Edwards family were for sale in the lobby. The event was not for charity; proceeds, if any, benefited the Silver Fox himself. State Sen. Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, called it “a tribute to corruption” and said, “We are a rich state filled with poor people to a great extent because of the Edwin Edwards philosophy and the people who honored him Saturday night.”

3. Beatty out at

The Lens under unclear circumstances

Steve Beatty, publisher and CEO of The Lens, “has left the nonprofit, investigative newsroom in New Orleans to pursue other interests,” The Lens announced last week — a characterization Beatty, a longtime New Orleans journalist, disputes.

Reached by phone, Beatty asked Gambit how the news had gotten out, and was

Pelican Institute for Public Policy. He became editor of The Lens after its founding in early 2010, moving on to the role of publisher/CEO in 2016, when Myers assumed the editorship.

Under Beatty and Myers, The Lens has watchdogged the city’s public school system, city contracts and criminal justice, among other issues.

Peddle said a search for an interim publisher is underway now, and a search for a permanent replacement for Beatty would begin “in the new year.”

unaware The Lens had announced his departure.

Editor Steve Myers had no comment, referring Gambit to Nicholas Peddle, chairman of The Lens’ six-person board of directors.

Peddle told Gambit, “It’s accurate he did resign. The Lens has grown a lot under his leadership and the board and staff of The Lens wish him nothing but the best.”

Asked if the board requested Beatty’s resignation, Peddle said, “No, the board did not pressure him to resign.”

Pressed further on whether the board then would welcome Beatty back if he changed his mind, Peddle said, “He resigned. Let’s just leave it at that.”

Informed of Peddle’s comments, Beatty said, “No. I did not resign.”

Beatty spent 15 years as an editor at The Times-Picayune before moving to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He returned to New Orleans in 2009 and worked as an investigative reporter for the

The New Orleans City Council approved nearly $34 million to cover drainage repair and flood response in the wake of flooding this month. That $34 million includes $22 million for repairs through the Department of Public Works (DPW) and $11.9 from the general fund to target drainage and bulk up future flood prevention.

More than $14 million from bond funding already is budgeted for catch basin and drainage repair. At a meeting Aug. 17, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration requested $11.9 million from the general fund, including $7.8 million for emergency drainage repairs, $650,000 for alarm systems and warning signals, $3 million for Homeland Security readiness, and $500,000 for a so-called “after-action” report to determine what went wrong throughout the city’s S&WB system before, during and after the Aug. 5 floods. Landrieu opened a request for proposals for that report Aug. 15.

Dani Galloway, serving as DPW director following the departure of Mark Jernigan, also introduced two emergency bid contracts totaling $22 million to assess and repair the city’s catch basins. Under one $7 million contract, crews will assess and clear 15,000 catch basins. Another $13 million contract will cover major and minor repairs over 12 months.

City officials say progress is being made slowly to repair the power sources for the S&WB’s drainage pump systems, and DPW is beginning to clear a backlog of backed-up drains.

DPW has cleaned and unclogged 393 catch basins since the flooding earlier this month. There still are 6,000 open calls for catch basin and drainage service from residents calling 311.

S&WB’s turbine No. 1 is back

online after a reported fire had cut off power in the days after the flood. Two others are expected to come back online in September.

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Netroots Nation coming to NOLA in 2018 The annual Netroots Nation political conference will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans Aug. 2-4, 2018, organizers announced last week at the 2017 conference in Atlanta.

Netroots Nation describes itself as “the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing thousands of attendees from around the country and beyond.” This year’s conference in Atlanta featured speeches by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Al Gore; past speakers have included former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

6. Internet in Louisiana schools: getting better

In March, only 11 of the state’s 69 districts applied to participate in a no-cost statewide network that would drastically improve internet access in schools. The Louisiana Board of Regents declined to move forward with the plan “due to an apparent lack of interest,” it said in a statement earlier this year. The program would use “e-rate” funds through the FCC to build a statewide fiber network within the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure and extend them to schools.

Despite that news, Education Superhighway, an advocacy group that reports on the state of internet access in schools, says individual school districts in Louisiana have made progress with internet connectivity and that all 69 districts are connected to fiber. The group — meeting with the Louisiana House of Representatives’ Joint Education committee Aug. 16 — said schools are close to meeting FCC connectivity goals, with roughly 80 percent of schools on a bandwidth of at least 100 kbps.

But access to affordable and reliable Wi-Fi remains a cost burden for districts in lower-income and rural areas. Schools that aren’t able to meet connectivity goals are finding that higher-speed internet access is cost prohibitive. The group revealed that only 42 percent of school districts meet affordabil-

ity benchmarks, and only 74 percent have sufficient Wi-Fi.

Low staffing levels, high caseloads and high staff turnover rates have crippled Louisiana’s foster care program within the state’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). An August report from the state Legislative Auditor’s office finds an overworked department “which affects employees’ ability to ensure the safety and well-being of children in foster care.” In 2016, caseworkers had an average of 16 cases — DCFS policy is for caseworkers to have no more than 10.

The report also found that that DCFS didn’t ensure whether foster providers had required background checks. DCFS didn’t perform “timely background checks” on 34 percent of non-certified providers in 2016, and nearly 30 percent had no background checks at all as of December 2016.

DCFS Secretary Marketa GarnerWalters isn’t surprised by the results of the audit. Walters was brought in by Gov. John Bel Edwards in January 2016 after Edwards’ transition team found a department struggling to provide basic services.

Since then, DCFS has shuffled employees to cover cases and implemented a policy preventing kids from going to homes where cases of abuse have been reported.

Earlier this month, Louisiana first lady Donna Edwards launched a statewide campaign to help connect faith-based organizations, businesses and nonprofits with foster families that may need community support. DCFS has served 7,808 children in foster care in the last year. More than 4,000 children lived in 2,250 foster families in that time frame, and more than 50 percent of those children are under age 5. Find more information at www. louisianafosters.la.gov.

8. Free brake light repair clinics

The New Orleans chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is sponsoring two brake light repair events, where volunteers will fix broken tail lights at no cost to help prevent tickets or arrests that disproportionately impact people of color and low-income drivers who are stuck with costly fees that can add up quickly.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, traffic stops made up 42 percent of contacts between police and citizens in 2011. Three percent of all stops resulted in a search of the driver, vehicle or both.

In a 2017 report that scraped data from 31 states between 2011-2015, The Stanford Open Policing Project

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Louisiana Children’s Museum breaks ground on new City Park location This month, the Louisiana Children’s Museum (LCM) officially breaks ground on its new home in New Orleans City Park, with ambitious plans to offer groundbreaking programming to improve child welfare in New Orleans.

The museum is expanding from its 19,000-square-foot Warehouse District space to an 8.5-acre complex in the heart of City Park across from the New Orleans Botanical Garden and overlooking a lagoon.

The center, along with its expanded community partnerships, will feature five indoor exhibits and galleries, including the “Follow that Food” gallery, which focuses on Louisiana food resources from field and stream to table. Outdoor attractions include a sensory garden and an edible garden, plus Pelican’s Perch and the Floating Classroom, which offer interactive ways to experience and understand Louisiana’s wetlands and ecosystem.

The Julia Street location remains open throughout construction. The City Park museum is slated to open in summer 2019.

10. Youth misdemeanor

offenses could become summonses rather than arrests

New Orleans youth who commit misdemeanor offenses could receive a warning or summons instead of being arrested under an ordinance the New Orleans City Council is expected to debate this week. The ordinance — which was approved by the Council’s Criminal Justice Committee — is aimed at preventing young people from entering the criminal justice system.

Under the ordinance, police officers would have the discretion to give youth a warning or summons for 11 types of misdemeanor crimes.

According to the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, 28 percent of juvenile misdemeanor arrests in 2016 would have been eligible for summonses or warnings under the ordinance. Fourteen percent of all cases were for school-based offenses — misdemeanors that occurred during school hours on school grounds that could have been handled by the school.

The council is scheduled to vote on the ordinance Aug. 24.

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Louisiana foster care program ‘overworked’

found black and Hispanic drivers are twice as likely as whites to be searched when they are stopped.

The events are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Aug. 26 at 711 Broad St. and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 16 at Baronne and Euterpe streets. Email info@dsaneworleans.org for more information.

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COMMENTARY

After Charlottesville

WATCHING THE IMAGES AND HEARING THE WORDS OUT OF CHARLOTTESVILLE , Virginia last weekend was

depressing, sickening, infuriating — and necessary. Necessary because the country got a good look at the people who call themselves the “altright,” which is their sanitized term for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Ku Klux Klansmen and other haters who feel emboldened in America today. It’s also necessary because some of them are planning similar rallies in Boston, San Francisco and elsewhere in the coming days and weeks.

Some of the malefactors who caused harm in Charlottesville also were in New Orleans during the weeks surrounding the hotly contested removal of four Confederate monuments. It’s easy to say New Orleans was lucky it didn’t have the chaos and death that marked Charlottesville, but it was more than luck.

It was planning.

Credit goes first to New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison and the men and women of the NOPD. Decades of Mardi Gras details have taught them what to look for in rowdy crowds and how to disarm situations before they get out of hand. The NOPD provided both the pro- and anti-monument protesters with their own spaces and let them exercise their First Amendment rights (and Second Amendment rights, in some cases). Take ’Em Down NOLA, which organized the protests, worked closely with law enforcement to keep things peaceful and under control. Those who got violent were swiftly removed and detained or arrested. The NOPD also announced that masking would not be permitted, which largely eliminated danger from anyone who thought a mask — or a hood — offered the “protection” of anonymity.

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New Orleans’ strategy of not announcing when the statues would be removed also proved prudent.

While detractors criticized Mayor Mitch Landrieu for taking them down “in the dark of night,” doing so seems to have avoided the sorts of clashes we saw in Charlottesville.

(It didn’t, however, stop some from making emailed and social media threats against city officials and contractors.) While we maintain that it would have been better to have known beforehand where the statues would wind up, it’s hard to argue now, after Charlottesville, with how they were taken down.

In addition, New Orleanians themselves deserve credit for not giving in to violence. As in Charlottesville, many who wanted to see violence in New Orleans weren’t from here; they came looking for a fight. Instead, we met them with determination — and a bit of humor reminiscent of satirical Mardi Gras krewes.

The Supreme Court has made it clear: Hate speech is protected speech. An American has as much right to wear a swastika as to don the Stars and Stripes. Nevertheless, as Gov. John Bel Edwards said, “This idea that you can be patriotic and be a Nazi at the same time — it’s the antithesis of patriotism.”

Like all patriotic Americans, we mourn the three lives lost in Charlottesville — one woman speaking out against hate, and two state troopers serving the noble cause of public safety. Thanks to a bit of luck and a lot of planning, no lives were lost in New Orleans during our own recent clashes over the Cult of the Lost Cause.

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always destined to be a mixture of successes and failures. Such is the fate of all mayors, though history seemed likely to paint Landrieu in mostly positive hues — until recently.

The Aug. 5 flood and revelations of systemic dysfunction at the Sewerage and Water Board (S&WB) now threaten to overshadow Landrieu’s accomplishments as mayor.

Which is why he’s working overtime to whip the S&WB (and his legacy) into shape before he leaves office May 7, 2018.

Given the almost daily dose of bad news about S&WB operations and infrastructure problems, Landrieu has a Sisyphean task. That we’re now in the peak of hurricane season raises the stakes for everyone.

Right now, New Orleanians don’t give a damn about Landrieu’s legacy. They just want the pumps and generators fixed, the catch basins cleaned (that failure is squarely in Landrieu’s lap, since the basins were supposed to be cleaned by the city’s Department of Public Works) and the pumping stations manned. Sadly, none of those will happen quickly.

Truth is the S&WB has been dysfunctional for years. It will take years to fix all that’s broken at the legislatively created agency.

Politically and fiscally, the S&WB is an island nation unto itself. It has resisted reform efforts by several mayors, but now things may have reached the point where citizens and political leaders will find the will to put all of New Orleans’ water, sewerage and drainage operations under City Hall’s direct oversight.

Make no mistake: That will be a bloody political and fiscal fight.

“Reformers” will say the S&WB needs to be independent of city politics, as if the agency somehow is immune from political influences now. (If that were the case, how did Landrieu engineer the appointment of Cedric Grant, who announced recently he will retire after hurricane season, as S&WB executive director?)

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Even if Landrieu somehow succeeds in significantly improving things at the S&WB between now and next May — and the city miraculously dodges severe weather events — the next mayor and council will have to grapple with the issue of how to make the agency more efficient and more accountable.

Ironically, the Aug. 5 flood — as devastating as it was to those whose homes, vehicles and businesses took water that day — was a wake-up call. Had it not happened, and had leadership changes as well as emergency enhancements not ensued, imagine what might have happened if New Orleans had been hit by a slow-moving tropical storm — or Category 3 hurricane — capable of dumping 20 inches or more of rain over the entire city in less than 24 hours.

As bad as things were on Aug. 5, they would have been much worse in the face of a “wet” storm. They still could be, if we’re unlucky.

Now, hopefully, the system will at least see some moderate upgrades.

Even more hopefully, New Orleans will be spared major weather events until the S&WB sees significant, permanent improvements.

Otherwise, Mayor Sisyphus will wish the downsides of his legacy were “merely” a resurgent wave of gun violence, lingering economic disparity and too many potholed streets.

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Hey Blake, There is a building on South Rampart Street near Poydras that stands out because of its Greek Revival style, sort of a mini Gallier Hall. What can you tell me about it?

Dear reader, Though its history may be little known, that building at 518 S. Rampart St. has been designated a historic landmark by the city’s Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC). According to a report prepared by the HDLC in 2009, the building originally housed the Commercial Germania Trust and Savings Bank, which was organized in 1881 and had branches all over town. The Rampart Street branch was opened in 1906 when the bank added six new branches, all located near public markets. A terrazzo mosaic by the front door bears a later version of the bank’s name (Canal Bank and Trust, with which it merged).

The mosaic also identifies it as the Poydras Market Branch, a reference to the nearby public market that operated from 1838 until 1932.

The building, which the HDLC refers to as a good example of small-scale classical revival commercial architecture, was sold in 1940 when Canal Bank and Trust was liquidated.

From 1940 until 1966, the building was home to the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1419. The union, representing mostly African-American longshoremen,

This historic landmark originally opened as the Commercial Germania Trust and Savings Bank, which opened in 1906.

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was led by noted local labor leader Clarence “Chink” Henry from 1954 until his death in 1974. In 1966, the group moved to a new hall at 2700 S. Claiborne Ave., which became a meeting site during the civil rights movement as the union became a political force. The hall also was a hotspot for music, hosting R&B and gospel acts. It was demolished after Hurricane Katrina.

As for the Rampart Street building, after the longshoremen left in 1966, it was sold. Today it is home to several different businesses, including a law office.

BLAKEVIEW AS STUDENTS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL THIS MONTH, we remember a small private school that educated young men in the city from the 1940s through the 1970s. Sam Barthe School for Boys opened in 1941 at 3620 Gen. Pershing St. In 1947, the school moved to the old McFadden mansion in City Park (now home to Christian Brothers School). Owner Sam Barthe Jr., a former athlete and coach, attended Tulane University on a track scholarship. He and his wife Mildred, who was known to all as “Mama,” ran an operation that was strong on discipline (often doled out by Barthe’s paddle) and with athletics as a focus. “First it was a boys’ camp, a boys’ club, then a kindergarten, a grade school, a junior high and then, in August 1964, a high school,” Sam Barthe explained in a 1979 article in The Times-Picayune. Just four years after the high school opened, Barthe’s football team (the Hornets) made it to the state football playoffs. Teams in other sports at the Barthe School won several district and state championship titles. In 1958, Barthe moved his school to Haring Road in Metairie, where he could build larger facilities for the school, which by then had 700 students. In 1979, Barthe sold his school to another family-run institution, Ecole Classique. Barthe died in 1998. Some of his notable alumni are businessmen John Georges and Fred Heebe, journalist Errol Laborde, artist George Schmidt and meteorologist Bruce Katz.

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15 Bolles will have finished packing the contents of her Riverbend apartment.

She, her partner, their two young sons and two dogs will then pile into her Subaru and drive 350 miles to Houston, where her partner will start a new job.

The move is the upshot of six years of frustration and disappointment for Bolles since she graduated from Tulane University’s law school in 2011. Since then, she’s struggled to find a well-paying job in New Orleans; she’s been runner-up for several positions and has worked odd jobs and short-term gigs to make ends meet. She’s in the same boat as many of her friends and acquaintances in the city — a one-time National Merit Scholar who’s been waiting tables for a decade, a buddy with two doctorates who can’t find a professional job.

“You hear one person’s story,” Bolles says, “and you think maybe there’s something going on with them, maybe there’s something wrong with this person, maybe they’re difficult to work with, blah blah. Right?

“But you start hearing multiple stories from multiple people, people who are smart, ethical, hardworking, driven … and they just can’t find anything.”

‘This should be a city where if you make $50,000 a year, it’s just you, you should be OK. But you’re not.

You’re struggling.’

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With rising housing costs, stagnant wages and dim job prospects, young professionals weigh the costs of staying in the city.

— Andreanecia Morris, executive director of HousingNOLA.

IT’S A STRANGE TIME FOR THE YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS IN NEW ORLEANS.

In the years following Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, the city has loomed large in the popular imagination. Capitalizing on a narrative of recovery, local business and civic leaders have cast New Orleans as a revitalized, dynamic metropolitan area and an ideal home for millennials and young professionals.

In terms of demographics, at least, younger people are ascendant in the city: Recent research from the Urban Land Institute charts an 8.5 percent increase in the number of millennials moving to New Orleans between 2010-2015, making it one of the country’s most popular destinations for that age group.

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city, so it’s sort of like you can’t really have both.”

Lindsay Mitchell, a special education teacher, had to look outside Orleans Parish to find an entry-level teaching job. Her boyfriend has been trying to find lab tech work, but nothing seems to pay any better than bartending. They recently moved to Mid-City after being priced out of their Treme apartment.

This widespread sense of economic pressure is compounded by dayto-day aggravations of life in the city, from potholes to spotty mail service, which sometimes are framed as quirkiness. “So many little problems kind of stack up and exacerbate each other,” Mitchell says.

But inconveniences often have financial implications. New Orleans’ public transportation system is wide-

‘If you’re getting paid less, you can’t live in a city that’s each year costing more and more.

It’s tough to act against your own economic self-interest.’

— Courtney Williams, CEO of the education startup Torsh.

KIA GROOM SPENT EIGHT MONTHS ON THE JOB MARKET before being hired

for a marketing and graphic design position at a local women’s clothing company at a starting rate of $13 an hour (about $27,000 a year). Recently she interviewed for a different marketing job that drew 350 other applicants. She and her partner have discussed moving to his hometown of Baton Rouge or somewhere else in search of lower housing costs.

Ryan Harris moved to the city in 2008 anticipating a hot film industry job market related to Louisiana’s film tax credit program. He found unsteady work, dismal wages compared to other markets and rents that seemed to rise exponentially during the years he lived here. He moved away in 2014 to pursue a different career.

Joseph Smith (not his real name), who works in the sales department at a luxury hotel, is baffled by a sense of financial insecurity he says he never experienced living elsewhere. He says pay for comparable positions at other properties can be as much as $25,000 more annually, even in places with a lower cost of living. “[In our business], the people that write the checks say [New Orleans] is not a major market,” he says. “But then the cost of living reflects a major

ly viewed as unreliable, making it difficult to get around without a car — which then requires insurance in one of the country’s most expensive markets. Infrastructure issues can lead to pricey car repairs. Uneven school quality can mean overpaying for an apartment, like Bolles and her partner, who stayed put for many years so their eldest son could attend Lusher Charter School. “[The good schools] are not attainable for most people who live in the city,” Bolles says. “We want to stay [in New Orleans] … but it would be a disservice to our children not to move.”

In some ways, these testimonies are a little confusing, since these people all have undergraduate and in most cases graduate degrees.

There’s no obvious reason why they’re struggling. But their experiences convey a shakiness to the notion that New Orleans is a city where young people can, theoretically, begin a career and put down roots.

“I think the narrative of the young professional Mecca is a cooked-up one,” Harris says bluntly.

And whether or not one endorses the rise of this class in the city, its

difficulties indicate clouds on the city’s economic horizon. After all, if emerging professionals have trouble shouldering stagnant wages and unaffordable rents, how must those same conditions look to line cooks, retail clerks, fast food workers and day care employees?

“I’m [in a] double-income [household], no kids … and I’m complaining [about money]? That’s a real problem,” Smith says. “The people who lose ultimately are the lowest-income, the most on the fringe, who don’t have the luxury to get up and go.”

IT’S HARD TO QUANTIFY A PERSON’S SENSE THAT THEY AREN’T MAKING IT, or to pin down the truth about a

job market based on interviews and anecdotes. But recent data substantiate impressions of scant well-paying opportunities, depressed wages and rising living costs.

A 2015 summary of Brookings Institution research reported that seven out of 10 jobs being created in New Orleans are in “low-wage” industries, such as tourism, retail and administrative services. The labor market analysis group Emsi found that 36 percent of New Orleans’ job growth since 2010 has been in restaurants alone.

A July 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics report identified wages below the national average throughout New Orleans, but particularly in professional occupational groups. In management, business and financial operations and computer and mathematical fields, wages were 14 to 19 percent lower than the national average; health care and support professionals are paid 13 percent less. A 2015 Data Center report focused on low-wage workers found that almost 60 percent of jobs across the region in 2011 paid less than $39,996 per year.

Lower wages are expected in less expensive metro areas, but as has been widely noted, New Orleans’ cost of living is rising. One of the biggest reasons is spiking housing costs.

In July, rent-analysis company ABODO found median rents for a New Orleans one-bedroom apartment ran $1,397 per month — higher than median rent in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Denver; Philadelphia; Nashville, Tennessee; Las Vegas; Baltimore; Houston and many other places.

“This should be a city where if you make $50,000 a year, it’s just you, you should be OK. But you’re not.

You’re struggling,” says HousingNOLA Executive Director Andreanecia Morris. In characterizing the city’s housing difficulties, Morris describes an overheated market with high rents that don’t seem based on wages or demand, unusually high utility rates and an economy she says hasn’t “earned” its housing crisis.

Hecht of GNO Inc. says the cost of living in New Orleans is still below

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ple are arriving to take advantage of the area’s storied culture; a lower cost of living than in major metro areas such as New York, San Francisco or Chicago; and the sense of purpose offered by a city on the mend.

But some of those same young people are quietly expressing doubts about the viability of remaining in New Orleans. They’re talking about a perceived lack of career opportunities, compensation they say hasn’t kept pace with the rest of the country, and a cost of living (particularly in terms of housing) that strains people at all but the highest income levels. There’s also frustration over what many characterize as widespread institutional failure, from crumbling infrastructure to a network of local schools that varies wildly in quality — a serious drawback for people ready to start families.

Gambit spoke with Bolles, an aspiring lawyer, and people between the ages of 27 and 41 who work or recently have worked as a special education teacher, a hotel sales professional, a city criminal intelligence analyst, a film industry professional and a digital marketing and social media manager — people who should be poised to make up the next generation of the city’s middle and professional classes. Instead, they paint a dispiriting portrait focused on limited prospects, lackluster pay and rising expenses — and they almost universally push back on the notion that they’re thriving.

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the national average. One of the organization’s internal reports based on Council for Community and Economic Research’s ACCRA Cost of Living Index shows New Orleans as having an only marginally higher cost of living than Austin, Texas or Raleigh, North Carolina and a vastly less expensive “sticker price” than Washington, D.C. or San Francisco.

But can one compare New Orleans to Austin, where median income is higher ($57,689 to New Orleans’ $36,792 in 2015) and the city proper is three times as large?

Or to metropolitan centers such as Washington, D.C., especially when, as Hecht acknowledges, the density of opportunity (the number and size of companies, the number of jobs) falls short locally?

‘I think the narrative of the young professional Mecca is a cooked-up one.’

— Ryan Harris, who moved to New Orleans in 2008 and left six years later for other opportunities.

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city, and offered a few responses to reports of challenges.

“The frustration that you’re describing is because we’re still in this rebuilding phase and bringing back an economy,” Hecht says. “We still don’t yet have as diverse a set of jobs as we want to get to. As we grow, we’re going to have growing pains.”

He says increased mobility, like enhanced public transportation between the city and the surrounding suburbs, would ease pressure on the housing market and make it easier for people to envision a long-term life here. Hecht predicts a greater economic turnaround will take time — perhaps as long as 30 years.

“Many people who came here after [Hurricane Katrina] … are now realizing that they have to move on to their career,” he says. “There are going to have to be some folks that go to New York or Houston, because the volume of opportunity there is so much more advanced.”

At 504ward, which works to attract, retain and develop emerging professionals, Executive Director Mary Matthews doesn’t necessarily see these difficulties as unique to New Orleans. She says it’s hard to find a good job in a lot of places.

Her organization is focused on con-

necting people with opportunities more efficiently, and she emphasizes the city’s unusually high quality of life: its parks, walkable neighborhoods, bike paths and festivals.

Courtney Williams, CEO of the the education startup Torsh, says the business community could take steps to refine and share its data on what kinds of jobs are available, and adds the tech community in particular could improve its outreach to young professionals of color, which he views as an underutilized resource. Civic leaders need to do their part to mitigate rising living costs, such as addressing housing shortages.

It’s a tough problem, he says, because it doesn’t make good business sense for employers to raise wages indefinitely — but the same cool economic rationality is just as valid for those who live and work here.

“If you’re getting paid less, you can’t live in a city that’s each year costing more and more,” he says.

“It’s tough to act against your own economic self-interest.”

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some might make about all this, something about “good riddance” to younger people who are dissatisfied and increasingly willing to leave — particularly post-Katrina transplants, who sometimes are blamed for surging living costs in the city.

But the departure of one generation of young people won’t create a more viable job market or fix ongoing cost-of-living issues. And a revolving door of short-term younger residents who move to New Orleans for a few years, figure out it’s not a sustainable place to live and then leave benefits no one. It’s in the community’s best interest to cultivate young people, both transplants and long-term residents, who will build careers, have families and become advocates in schools and local politics — and who will come back to rebuild after disasters.

The classic arguments for living in New Orleans focus on specialness: its rich history, Carnival, neighbors on the porch who say hello when you walk by. But at some point, steadily increasing economic pressure will outweigh charm. And current difficulties expressed by young professionals suggest a precarious future for New Orleanians without as many options, who don’t have job offers in another city or a hometown to go back to.

Harris, the former film industry professional, often wonders what could have kept him in New Orleans.

“I don’t believe there’s a day where I don’t wish I could come back, and wish that things were different there for me,” he says. “It’s a wonderful city to live in, if you can afford it.”

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“This project allows us to literally give a voice to those who cannot speak,” Verter says, “and I cannot think of anything more rewarding than that.”

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WATCH THE MOVIE GLEASON and give amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients a voice at the University of Queenland ALS Voice Banking Project and Ochsner Medical Student Association’s fundraiser Thursday, Aug. 24. Proceeds will be used to record and synthesize ALS patients’ voices before they lose the ability to speak. When patients no longer can talk, they can use the recorded word bank with voice-generating devices to communicate in their own voices.

“We record 1,600 preselected phrases — excerpts from novels,” says Elizabeth Verter, a medical student at Ochsner and coordinator of the voice banking program. “After that, (a software program called) ModelTalker deconstructs the words into the pure syllables and uses this data to synthesize a voice bank.”

Ochsner medical students are making the recordings, which include patients’ favorite phrases, and ModelTalker optimizes the recordings and sends

each patient a synthetic voice file that can be downloaded to various electronic devices and used with a variety of interfaces. “Patients can use an adapter to make the synthetic voice say whatever they would like to share,” Verter says.

“They see it as a way for themselves and their family to retain a very personal and important part of themselves — their voice — after they lose so much to ALS.” Gleason, which details former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason’s life with ALS and includes his video journals for his son, will be shown at 7 p.m. Aug. 24 at Monroe Hall (Ochsner Medical Center, 1514 Jefferson Highway). Tickets are $15, and people who purchase tickets in advance at www.gleasonscreening. eventbrite.com will be entered in a raffle for Saints game tickets, movie tickets and other prizes. The film will be followed by a questionand-answer session with Dr. Dan Larriviere, a neurologist and director of the ALS Clinic at Ochsner; Dr. Stephen Kantrow, a pulmonologist at LSU Health Sciences Center who appeared in Gleason;

EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL HOSPITAL (EJGH) now offers women undergoing chemotherapy a way to minimize hair loss during treatment. Dignicap Intelligent Scalp Cooling System, also called cold cap, is a device worn during chemotherapy infusion.

The silicone cap, which is connected to a cooling and control unit, lowers the temperature of the scalp, reducing blood flow to the area. That means less of the chemotherapy drugs reach hair cells, reducing permanent hair loss.

EJGH installed the cold cap system in its infusion center in mid-July after breast cancer patient Gail Wall and her husband donated it. Wall had rented a cap and used dry ice for the cooling system during her chemotherapy treat-

ARTIST AND BRAIN INJURY SURVIVOR EARL BRIDGES’ ABSTRACT PAINTINGS will be on display and for sale at A Therapeutic Journey: Unmasking Brain Injury art show from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 26 at the St. Tammany Art Association (320 N. Columbia St., Covington, 985-892-8650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org). The opening also focuses on art as therapy for brain injury, including an exhibit of masks painted by brain injury survivors from across Louisiana depicting their emotions as they recover. That exhibit is sponsored by the Brain Injury Association of Louisiana (BIALA). Kimberly Hill, director of outreach and resources at BIALA will give a short overview of her group and the mask exhibit.

Art therapist Kathleen Doyle will discuss art therapy.

The event is free and open to the public.

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The class is led by Equip Fitness instructor Jerren Pierce. HIIT workouts boost the heart rate by using a variety of movements at different intensities. It also burns calories in a short period of time.

The classes are free and open to the public, but reservations are requested through www.eventbrite. com. Participants should bring a mat, towel, water and a swimsuit for swimming after the workout.

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ments at EJGH and found it to be effective but cumbersome. The system she donated is streamlined and does not require ice.

In a release from EJGH, Wall said a woman’s hair is part of her identity and a factor in her confidence.

“It’s something that is so important for women,” she said. “This disease changes everything about your life, and if this one small thing can make a positive impact in their lives during this struggle, then I want to do that.”

LOOKING FOR A NEW WAY TO BURN ENERGY? Surge Trampoline Park (6930 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-267-3898; www.surgeneworleans.com) opened in Jefferson Parish earlier this month with 33,000 square feet of exercise space for adults and children ages 2 and older.

The sports and fitness park features a large area of interconnected trampolines, foam pits, a padded log roll, rock walls, a jousting beam and a flying trapeze.

The park is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Friday, 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday and noon to 8 p.m.

Sunday. Admission is $12.95 for an hour and increases in half-hour increments to $27.95 for three hours.

There’s also Toddler Time from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays for $7.99. College Night on Thursday offers discounts to students with an ID from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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HEARING INSTRUMENT SPECIALIST TONY GOYETTE of Zounds Hearing of Metairie discusses hearing health and hearing loss at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24 at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library (4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, 504-889-8143; www. jplibrary.net). The presentation is free and open to the public.

Goyette will cover how the auditory system works; causes, prevalence and symptoms of hearing loss; auditory testing and hearing aids; and emotional and medical aspects of untreated hearing loss.

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The young risk factors

“Do not give an aspirin,” she says, “especially if it’s a hemorrhagic stroke — aspirin is a blood thinner and will increase bleeding.

Fifty percent of people experiencing a stroke can’t swallow, and the aspirin could end up in their lungs.

Aspirin is an acid — that can do real damage.”

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What next?

New research shows strokes may strike earlier than you think

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DURING A STROKE, up to 2 million brain cells die every minute.

Dr. Sheryl Martin-Schild is the statewide stroke medical director for the Louisiana Emergency Response Network (LERN), and the medical director of stroke and neurology at Touro and New Orleans East Hospitals. LERN’s purpose is to make sure all Louisiana hospitals are equipped to recognize, evaluate and treat strokes.

In 2009, the project launched its system of care for time-sensitive emergency support.

Martin-Schild says there are two major types of stroke: ischemic stroke, in which an artery carrying blood to the brain becomes blocked (usually by a blood clot), and hemorrhagic stroke, in which one of those arteries bursts and there’s bleeding in the brain. Both result in loss of oxygen to cells, which damages the brain. Hemorrhagic stroke is characterized by progression — as the bleeding continues, symptoms worsen.

Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or “mini-strokes” are the result of traveling blood clots that cause temporary stroke symptoms. The blood clots either dissolve or dislodge, allowing normal blood flow to resume. TIAs have been recognized as strokes only for the last decade.

Even if stroke symptoms are fleeting (many TIAs go unacknowledged), report to a hospital at once. A 2014 article in Practical Neurology cites a report that found 15 to 30 percent of ischemic strokes are preceded by TIA symptoms, often on the same day.

“If you don’t get diagnosed and you don’t initiate treatment, you lose the opportunity to prevent another stroke that could be catastrophic,” Martin-Schild says.

Think you’re too young to have a stroke?

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published some startling findings this year.

After analyzing national hospital data, researchers found hospitalization for acute ischemic stroke increased significantly from 2003 to 2012 among young adults, doubling for men and women between 18 and 34 years old and increasing 41.5 percent among men ages 35 to 44 years old and 30 percent in women in the same age range.

Hospitalizations for hemorrhagic stroke mostly held steady. An editorial published in tandem with the JAMA study suggests classifying TIAs as strokes may be a factor in this increase.

“The average age at which a person suffers a stroke is 64 years old,” Martin-Schild says. “Someone 45 years old or younger is considered young, and a lower proportion of [this age range] will present for treatment in the appropriate time frame because … they think they’re too young (to have a stroke).”

Further, the JAMA study found the prevalence of a person having three or more of the five most common stroke risk factors increased markedly between 2003 and 2012 — from 19 to 35 percent in men ages 35 to 44, and from 15 to 32 percent in women in the same age group. The five factors are diabetes, hypertension, lipid disorders (high cholesterol), obesity and tobacco use.

There is concern the data may only suggest an increase in stroke diagnosis. But increased hospitalization rates for ischemic strokes are concurrent with increased incidence of risk factors, suggest-

ing the problem requires a greater focus on education and prevention.

“Researchers are still trying to understand (the cause), but lots of … bad living habits such as not exercising, alcohol and illicit drug use … account for some of the spike,” Martin-Schild says.

Genetics also dictate predisposition to stroke.

Less commonly known factors are atrial fibrillation or AFib, obstructive sleep apnea and even pregnancy — “Anything that affects the structure or function of the heart,” Martin-Schild says.

What to do when you suspect a stroke

The American Stroke Association promotes the acronym FAST to help people recognize the three major stroke symptoms: “face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, time to call 911.” Symptoms also may include sudden loss of vision, clumsiness and severe headaches. Stroke victims usually experience loss of function on one side of the body, but it can affect both sides.

“That’s why it’s called a stroke — the sudden loss of function is like a stroke of lightning,” Martin-Schild says.

She says calling 911 the moment you suspect a stroke is critical.

“Use the right language,” she says.

“Say ‘I think I am having a stroke,’ and give the time of onset and what symptoms are present. The dispatcher will get an ambulance there with priority, and paramedics are trained to screen for stroke and will notify the hospital. The emergency department activates the stroke team and is ready to receive you when you arrive — this won’t happen if you come by private vehicle.”

She also debunks a stroke myth.

Stroke is the No. 1 cause of adult-acquired disability. Even though mortality has decreased (Martin-Schild says death from an ischemic attack occurs in less than 10 percent of cases, and the rate for hemorrhagic stroke has decreased from 40 to 20 percent in recent years), it can have long-term effects on cognitive and communicative functions and motor skills. Getting to a hospital as soon as possible is critical.

Doctors need to arrest the symptoms and restore circulation, then focus on determining the cause of the stroke and preventing complications, as well as beginning therapies for recovery, which are crucial in the first three months after an attack.

“A little over 20 years ago, there wasn’t much (in the way of treatment) beyond beginning an aspirin regimen and going to rehab after a stroke,” she says. “Treatment to minimize long-term damage has changed drastically since 1996, but it is time-sensitive.”

Despite the increase in ischemic strokes and subsequent hospitalizations of young men and women, older people still are more likely to experience stroke, especially if they’ve already had one.

“It’s a J-shaped curve,” Martin-Schild says. “As you get older, your risk increases. There’s increased body wear and tear, and possibly accumulated injury to the heart and arteries from conditions like high blood pressure and smoking.”

Early detection is the best prevention. “Having a good primary care provider is essential,” she says. “Often, people don’t know they have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or even diabetes.

A physician helps with aggressive medical management of risk factors, but sometimes (surgical) intervention may be necessary.”

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BY KAT STROMQUIST @KSTROMQUIST

IN WHAT MAY BE AN UNWELCOME CONSEQUENCE OF OUR DISTINCTIVE FOOD CULTURE, Louisiana regularly appears on lists of states with the highest rates of obesity.

On a 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, the state joins just three others with an obesity rate higher than 35 percent, and doctors statewide often warn of related public health implications, including high rates of heart disease and diabetes.

Bariatric surgery (surgery for weight loss — bariatrics is the study of obesity) is an increasingly common way to reverse significant weight gain. Though the concept isn’t new, this treatment method has become more common as insurers have begun writing bariatric coverage into policies and social stigma has faded. “[In the past] patients, for whatever reason, didn’t want to reveal that they were having weight loss surgery, or they were afraid because of misconceptions about it,” Dr. David Treen, director of bariatric surgery at West Jefferson Medical Center, explains. “[Now] pretty much everybody knows somebody who’s had weight loss surgery.”

Bariatric surgery can be a good option for patients who have had trouble maintaining a healthy weight over a number of years. At Ochsner Medical Center - North Shore, chief of surgery and bar-

iatric director Dr. Asahel Gridley says it isn’t a first step before diet and exercise, but if those efforts repeatedly fail, surgery is worth considering — especially in the presence of other health problems that often are associated with obesity. “[For patients with Type 2 diabetes] there is a good chance you could help control your blood sugars altogether, and maybe even get your blood sugars to a much lower number,” he says.

According to Gridley, bariatric surgery also can help with sleep apnea, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Prospective bariatric patients should set appointments with a primary care physician, a dietitian and a psychiatrist to establish relationships for post-surgery supportive care, and to ensure they don’t have an existing health problem that conflicts with the surgery. Some genetic disorders make people ineligible, and patients with severe congestive heart failure should clear bariatric procedures with a cardiologist.

People with schizophrenia or any other psychotic disorder generally aren’t good candidates, because they can have difficulty following dietary plans. And even before surgery, the doctor wants to see that the patient can stick to a prescribed diet, Gridley says.

“Just doing the surgery itself will make you lose some weight, because it will restrict how much food you can eat,” he says. “But if you don’t make the right choices and you continue to eat the wrong sorts of foods … the weight will eventually catch back up.”

In Louisiana, the most common type of bariatric surgery is called a vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG). Unlike the gastric bypass or gastric band, both of which have fallen out of favor with surgeons due to potential complications, the VSG physically removes 80 percent of the stomach. This reduces stomach capacity and removes stomach cells that manufacture the hormone ghrelin, which contributes to hunger.

Treen says the loss of ghrelinproducing cells helps patients readjust their eating habits after the surgery, encouraging portion control.

“When the stomach is gone, you don’t have this churning feeling in your stomach when it’s empty,” he says. “You don’t have this feedback mechanism of an empty stomach telling the brain ‘go get some food and fill me up.’”

The majority of insurance policies explicitly state whether bariatric surgery is covered and any special requirements. Treen says some insurers only offer coverage if the surgery takes place in an approved “center of excellence.”

At West Jefferson Medical Center’s bariatric clinic, the out-of-pocket cost is about $14,000, which includes coverage for any complications that may occur. (Treen says complications are relatively rare.)

People who have had VSG surgery can expect to proceed through a protocol that gradually reintroduces normal food. For West Jefferson Medical Center patients, it usually takes about six weeks to move from liquids to soft foods to regular food. As they recover, bariatric patients are encouraged to undertake an exercise regime to build heart health and accelerate their weight loss.

“As they lose weight, they’re able to exercise more, and don’t dread it like they [did],” Treen says.

“Most importantly, [with the VSG] they don’t feel deprived. (With) some of these other procedures, you’d still be hungry after you ate as much as you could eat. …

It’s easier to stay on a diet when you’re not hungry all the time.”

Sounds great, but what is it really like?

A year and a half after her bariatric surgery, Tara Taylor feels good about the results — with a few caveats. Taylor had VSG surgery at a New Iberia clinic after reaching a point of profound unhappiness with her body image and weight, which she’d been struggling to manage since she was a teenager.

“Either I would be relatively in control on Weight Watchers … [or] I would fall off, then gain [the weight] back,” she says. “It had gotten to the point where I was having trouble sleeping and my knees were … super-inflamed.”

Since the surgery, she feels healthier and has lost a significant amount of weight. But she’s been challenged by psychological aspects of an extreme physical transformation. “I’ve cried in so many dressing rooms,” she says.

It’s also been hard managing the precise balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat her doctor recommended — she worries that the diet exacerbates her complicated feelings about food. She has had some small complications, including digestive problems. She avoids some foods due to her reduced stomach capacity, including carbonated beverages, soup and gumbo, and she’s stopped drinking alcohol almost completely.

Taylor also says people close to her have had to adjust to life after her surgery. During the first months after her procedure, she found it difficult to eat more than a few bites of food at a time. Even though they knew she was following her doctor’s advice, family members sometimes were hurt when she declined meals.

“When you reject someone’s food … people take it personally,” she says. “The last time I went home to Lafayette, there were tears.”

Taylor says the surgery has been really effective in terms of her weight loss. But like Treen and Gridley, she encourages prospective bariatric patients to look into aftercare with a doctor or support group, to help deal with any issues that might come up.

“I genuinely do like the way I look now; I’m proud of this,” she says. “But [more important] than the nutrition, is the psychological [care].”

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Artists take the stage to promote health care services for performers.

BY SUZANNE PFEFFERLE TAFUR

New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation’s workshops push performers to become healthier and stronger. PHOTO BY TAYLOR COHEN

AN UPCOMING HEALTH CARE EVENT WILL FEEL MORE LIKE A CARNIVAL CELEBRATION, complete with flamboyant costumes, glittery makeup, live music and risque dance performances.

On Aug. 29, Carl Mack Presents and the New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation (NOMAF) will host an open-mic drag show to help performers — especially drag performers — learn more about local health care options.

The free event, dubbed “I Will Survive” after the eponymous disco hit by singer Gloria Gaynor, takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes and Culture, and features performances by local drag performers such as Laveau Contraire, Sugar Monroe and Blazen Haven. Local musicians, face painters and tarot card readers will add to the fun. Burlesque sensation Trixie Minx is the mistress of ceremonies.

The event is part of NOMAF’s Dancer Wellness Program, which includes monthly wellness workshops that address health and injury topics relevant to various performance groups — from the Mardi Gras Indians to marching band members.

“We’re raising awareness that we have this particular program for drag queens, which are kind of a below-the-radar group of individuals who need access to services,” says Erica Dudas, managing director of NOMAF. During the disco-inspired bash, a health care

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discover his performance artists — jugglers, aerialists, stilt walkers, female impersonators and others — could receive health care services from NOMC. “A lot of people might be misled by the title of the ‘Musicians’ Clinic’ and think they’re not eligible (for health care) because they’re not a musician,” Mack says. “But it’s broader than that. (Health care) is available to all types of people in the performing arts and the supportive arenas around it.”

Mack met with the director of NOMAF to discuss hosting a workshop at his French Quarter museum to attract female impersonators from around the city. The winning idea was the open-mic “drag show.” Mack will play the xylophone during the event.

NOMC is a member of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, an international consortium of doctors who help performing artists.

They provide cost-efficient access to comprehensive and preventive health care, wellness education, mental health services and social services.

An athletic trainer from the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine designed “the course work” for the Dancer Wellness Program, which was established in 2015. The free monthly workshops teach attendees about good nutrition and how to become better performers and strengthen their bodies. It also connects them to primary clinical care.

Future workshops include an event at the Marigny Opera House Sept. 18, followed by an event at the Ashe Cultural Arts Center Oct. 21, where nearly 20 local athletic trainers will assess the physical condition of dancers. The New Orleans Public Library also will be there to sign up attendees for library memberships.

“I think that health care can be a scary topic for some people,” says Dudas. “What I’m personally looking forward to is the amount of access that people will have (to health care) and the ability to answer questions about the health care system in New Orleans. Also, it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29.

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Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes and Culture (1010 Conti St., 504-218-4872; www.themardigrasmuseum.com)

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guide will enroll people in Medicaid and teach them about the many clinics that offer primary care or behavioral health services. There also will be a table with information about NOMAF’s upcoming events and monthly workshops.

NOMAF is a nonprofit organization that works in tandem with the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic & Assistance Fund (NOMC). This clinic has provided medical care to musicians and performing artists in New Orleans for nearly 20 years.

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Drink to your health?

Local nutrition experts evaluate some popular health drinks

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CHLOROPHYLL. STEVIA. GINSENG. WHEN CONSIDERING INGREDIENTS OF SO-CALLED HEALTH DRINKS, a simple stroll down a grocery store aisle offers a dizzying bevy of options.

Brightly colored liquids in eye-catching packaging promise everything from bursts of energy to near-perfect gut health — a benefit that promises a trimmeddown waistline to boot.

It seems each year brings a new fad, and for good reason: Americans keep buying in. According to First Beverage Group, an organi-

zation that advises and invests in beverage companies, the growth of smaller “better-for-you” brands means the non-alcoholic beverage market is projected to grow from roughly $160 billion in 2008 to almost $190 billion by 2020.

But just how healthy are these “health” drink options? According to New Orleans-based health experts, the answer varies.

Simone Walker, clinical nutrition manager at West Jefferson Medical Center, says she always prefers her patients drink water instead.

“Often you’re drinking flavored

water anyway,” Walker says. “Just have the regular water and save yourself some calories without having the extra sugar.”

Walker says sports drinks are some of the biggest culprits when it comes to added sugars, and the extra dyes and chemicals don’t do the body any good. She only recommends sports drinks after a workout of more than an hour, or after an intense day in the heat.

Too much dietary sugar will cause weight gain, but Walker says there are other dangers that consumers may not think about when reaching for a Gatorade or vitamin water.

“The excess of sugar intake increases inflammation in the body and leads to other diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer,” Walker says. “Any disease you think of forms from inflammation being built up in the body over time.”

Health experts agree that some drinks are fine to consume in moderation — even if heavy exercise isn’t involved.

Molly Kimball, a registered dietitian with Ochsner Fitness Center and founder of the Eat Fit NOLA program, says she’s a big fan of kombucha and fresh-pressed juices — particularly if they’re packed with healthy greens.

Kimball says coconut water, too, can be fine to drink for some added taste and extra electrolytes, as long as it doesn’t have too many added flavors. She says the biggest mistake consumers

make is picking brands or particular products that sneak in added flavoring, which often hides even more sugar.

“Make sure you’re looking for that sometimes hard-to-miss label that says ‘unsweetened,’” Kimball says. “It’s otherwise easy to have as much as a day’s worth of sugar in a cup.”

Regardless of whether healthconscious consumers are sipping something flavored or just plain water, nutritionists agree: It’s imperative to keep hydrated, especially in hot weather.

Kimball says dehydration often causes an array of health problems. Muscle cramping can be a sign, and even grogginess or lack of mental clarity can mean you need a few more glasses of water or other hydrating liquid throughout the day.

“When people come to me, one of the first things I ask about is their fluid intake,” Kimball says. “That’s going to be the biggest thing that’s linked to our energy levels.”

According to Kimball, any number of drinks can be healthy and also count toward that ideal amount of fluid intake, including fizzy waters and herbal tea.

Walker’s advice is simpler: just have a glass of water, maybe with lemon for flavoring.

“Replacing your water intake with the drinks that claim to be healthy is just not the best thing for you,” she says.

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Gogi Korean Restaurant gets creative in Metairie

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund DURING A MEAL AT GOGI KOREAN RESTAURANT, THE FIRST PLATES TO ARRIVE ARE BANCHAN , a host

of small dishes of pickled and fermented vegetables and other items. There was sukjunamul, the fermented mung bean salad with a touch of brine and lots of crunch.

Stir-fried fish cakes, or eomuk bokkeum, arrived in starchy and chewy strips bathed in a garlicky red sheen.

There was emerald green seaweed salad, lightly brined zucchini, a diced potato and apple slaw.

Of course, there also was the staple of the East Asian cuisine: kimchi, the spicy fermented vegetable medley, available here in myriad forms.

The ubiquitous Napa cabbage was included, but also crunchy radishes and fat slices of cucumbers, which were almost sweet and had faint heat and the tang characteristic of the fermentation process.

The arrival of these dishes before a meal at Gogi, which opened earlier this year on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, might have implied that a classic set of Korean dishes would follow. And while tradition is the model, the kitchen colors outside of the lines with some dishes.

Gogi nachos feature tortilla chips blanketed in melted cheddar and American cheeses, diced green peppers, bulgogi (sweet strips of marinated and grilled beef) and soy and mayonnaise-heavy “special” sauce. The delicious dish blended the appeal of trashy movie nachos with some creative inspiration.

Then there is the mysteriously named “Gogi special,” a sushilike appetizer of blended spicy tuna and snow crab that is deep-fried

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4620 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 872-9992; www.gogirestaurantnola.com

in spears and served with a spicy mayonnaiselike dipping sauce.

Unfortunately, it was greasy and fell apart quickly.

The kitchen’s playful, modern touches likely are the result of the restaurant’s multi-generational staff.

Owner Jae Kim runs the restaurant with his mother, Young Yoo, who ran Korean restaurants in California and Las Vegas for a decade before she moved to New Orleans.

More traditional dishes include stone pots of bibimbap, filled with steamed rice, vegetables, a fried egg and choice of meat. Yangnyeom tongdak, or Korean hot wings, were a crispy treat, with the drumsticks and wings coated in a sweet and garlicky sauce and dusted with sesame seeds. Hamul pajeon, a plump and oily seafood pancake, was downright decadent. The fried, soft dough was filled with chewy bits of squid, mussels and clams and green onions for contrast.

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Owner Jae Kim and Young Yoo serve Korean dishes at Gogi Korean Restaurant.

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without restraint in some dishes.

Thuk poki (also called tteokbokki) was one of my favorite dishes, with soft and chewy oblong rice cakes swimming in a thick, crimson gochujang pepper sauce. Equally good is the kimchi jigae, a piping hot, spicy stew bobbing with fiery bits of kimchi, tofu, onions, bell peppers and pork.

Though the number of Korean restaurants in New Orleans is increasing slowly, there still are scant options for the East Asian cuisine in the area. A meal at Gogi offers an array of traditional Korean dishes as well as some creative and modern touches.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

restaurant openings of the summer is here: Saffron NOLA (4128 Magazine St., 504-323-2626; www. saffronnola.com) opened quietly in Uptown Aug. 10.

The Vilkhu family garnered a following for Saffron on the West Bank, though the restaurant was only open for dinner on Friday nights. The new restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday nights.

Saffron NOLA is in a renovated space formerly occupied by Tryst and Saveur. In the open kitchen in back, chef Arvinder Vilkhu interprets Indian dishes incorporating local flavors and cooking styles culled from time spent in France, Thailand, Singapore and China.

Appetizers include large silver platters of buttery roasted oysters topped with caramelized onions and garlic served with naan. The house charcuterie board features garlicky pork sausage, chicken pate, a spicy pickled shrimp dish. creamy eggplant spread and truffled naan.

The menu also includes a section of roti sathi, or “companions” for the soft flatbread, including royal paneer featuring soft Indian cheese, tomato curry, greens and cashews.

Entrees include a bone-in goat masala served with basmati rice and a spice-crusted Gulf fish with curd rice, korma sauce and mango pickle.

Pastry chef Cait McNamee, formerly of Willa Jean, makes creative desserts brimming with exotic flavors. The Pineapple Express features a cream biscuit, star anise-roasted pineapple, passion-hibiscus foam, ginger ice cream and fruit. Some of the more popular deserts from the West Bank restaurant are on the list, including an Indian-style doughnut served with saffron syrup and a fig, date and praline ice cream.

Saffron NOLA is open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday for brunch. — HELEN FREUND

Best thing on sliced bread BON APPETIT NAMED TURKEY AND THE WOLF (739 Jackson Ave., 504-

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garnered accolades from critics since opening last year.

Two weeks ago, the magazine announced its picks for the top 50 new restaurants in the country, and the list included Hereford’s restaurant and Marjie’s Grill (320 S. Broad St., 504-603-2234; www. marjiesgrill.com), which serves Southeast Asian-style barbecue.

The magazine’s “Hot 10” were announced Aug. 15, with Turkey and the Wolf sitting in the top spot.

The list, culled by Bon Appetit editors Andrew Knowlton and Julia Kramer, also included Elske in Chicago, Mister Jiu’s in San Francisco and Hart’s in Brooklyn.

Last year, local French restaurant N7 (1117 Montegut St.) was named among the top 10.

Praising Turkey and the Wolf’s “weird and wacky appeal,” Knowlton credited Hereford’s long tenure as chef de cuisine at Coquette and his childhood in Charlottesville, Virginia for his restaurant’s approach to food.

About the collard green melt, Knowlton wrote, “In my four-plus decades on this planet, it’s the best sandwich I’ve ever crammed into my mouth, with a mastery of flavors and textures way beyond any sandwich joint.”

— HELEN FREUND

Birds of a feather BIG FREEDIA, NAUGHTY PROFESSOR AND BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION will perform at the Fried

Chicken Festival (www.friedchickenfestival.com) Sept. 23-24 in Woldenberg Park. Large crowds at last year’s event prompted organizers to expand it to two days and move from Lafayette Square to the riverfront.

“With the addition of a second music stage, it allowed us the ability to create more opportunities for New Orleans musicians, while providing a greater diversity in entertainment for our guests,” said festival organizer Cleveland Spears III. The lineup also includes Shamar Allen and the Underdawgs, Motel Radio, Los Po-Boy-Citos, DJ Raj Smoove and DJ Captain Charles.

Big Freedia will headline Sunday night’s “Ode to Bounce, “ which will include Partners-N-Crime, Cupid and Denisia.

Food vendors include Willie Mae’s Scotch House, McHardy’s Chicken & Fixin’, The Original Fiorella’s Cafe, Bayou Hot Wings, Heard Dat Kitchen, Crepes a la Cart, Dat Dog, Frencheeze Food Truck and others.

— HELEN FREUND

Email Brenda Maitland at winediva1@bellsouth.net

3-COURSE INTERVIEW

Serigne Mbaye CHEF SENEGALESE CHEF SERIGNE MBAYE learned to cook

in kitchens in New York City, Cleveland and Montpelier, Vermont. After traveling in Senegal, he decided to share the food of his homeland with diners. Mbaye is a senior line cook at Commander’s Palace, and he hosts pop-up dinners in which he combines classical cooking techniques and African dishes. He presents a four-course dinner highlighting Senegalese dishes and French influences at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum Sept. 30 (search eventbrite.com for chef Serigne’s pop-up dinner). Mbaye spoke with Gambit about Senegalese cuisine and the pop-up.

What made you focus on Senegalese cuisine?

SERIGNE: (I was working in Cleveland) and I started wondering whether there were Senegalese chefs out there doing our cuisine.

I found chef Pierre Thiam — he had two books, and one was this award-winning book that was one of the first cookbooks focused on West African cuisine. Shortly after that we became friends and he (advised) me to go back to my country to cook, so I went to Senegal last summer. I was there for about a month and a half, learning and understanding more about my culture and the cuisine. That’s when I decided I wanted to come to New Orleans, because I had never been to the South. I chose New Orleans because when the (African) slaves left Senegal, they arrived in New Orleans.

What will you cook at the pop-up dinner?

S: I have all these cuisines that I had learned in the past, and I thought, “Why not create a pop-up dinner to show what I’ve learned and teach other people about African cuisine?” There’s no fine dining African cuisine in New Orleans, and really, in America in general.

The first course is going to be sort of like a salad made with a grain we use a lot called fonio, which is like millet. I’ll be serving it with watermelon, mint, pickled peaches and red onions and a tamarind vinaigrette. The second course will be a traditional Senegalese gumbo. The third course will be one of our most famous Senegalese dishes, thieboudienne, which is going to be made with redfish with seasonal vegetables.

In Senegal, we would make every dish using whatever was fresh from the market, so I never know what vegetables I’ll use until that day. There will definitely be okra in

there, because it will be in season.

I’ll serve that with a spicy pesto and a tamarind jus. For dessert, there’s another grain we use similar to fonio, but it’s a sweet grain, and we normally eat it with sour cream and raisins. So I’m going to make it with sour cream, raisin coulis and some fruit.

How does Senegalese gumbo differ from Creole gumbo?

S: Gumbo is really from Senegal, and okra is one of the ingredients (slaves) brought (to New Orleans) from Senegal. Everybody has a history of where gumbo comes from, but before it was in New Orleans we ate it in Africa. It’s very different how it’s prepared, because it’s not made with a roux.

The French (use) a lot of roux. We have one of the healthiest cuisines in the world, and we use okra to thicken our gumbo, and we also don’t use a lot of fat. We get our fat content from palm oil. We don’t use any type of butter or dairy. I’ll put (in) the palm oil, green onions and we use a variety of seafood.

Sometimes it’s dehydrated, which gives it a more seafood flavor. I’m using this dehydrated seafood that I brought back from Senegal, and it gives it a more modern flavor.

New Orleans has a very special culture and many similarities with Senegal. Especially beignets — everywhere you go around 6 or 7 o’clock, it could be in the countryside or the city, you will find beignets on all the street corners (in Senegal). When I first came to New Orleans, I (went) to the French Quarter. As I was looking around I saw so many things that reminded me of Senegal, and specifically Cafe du Monde. I went in the line and waited for my order, and when I sat down and I ate them, I thought, “Wow, this tastes just like Senegal.”

— HELEN FREUND

EAT+DRINK @Drunkintellect

BY MARK BURLET INDIA PALE ALE , or IPA, is king of the craft beer movement, but it is a continuously evolving style.

The once-popular West Coaststyle IPA, known for its bitter and resinous hop character, has been replaced by the New England style: an unfiltered, juicy brew with more floral and citrus character.

Other styles, including lower-alcohol session IPAs and flavored IPAs, which infuse fruit and spices into the beer, have had their moments as well. No matter which version is trending, a big bunch of hops remains the essential ingredient.

Louisiana breweries are doing much with IPAs, introducing new ones and updating established ones. Here are three of the most heralded Louisiana-made IPAs. • Gnarly Barley Brewing Company’s Jucifer. One of the latest beers from the Hammond brewery, Jucifer lands firmly within the New England style. This hazy juice bomb became popular quickly.

Gnarly Barley released a statement saying the brewers “have decided to suspend packaging of Jucifer cans to allow us to focus on meeting the demand for draft.”

The brewery plans to resume canning once it acquires additional brewing capacity and staff.

• Great Raft Brewing’s Grace and Grit. This well-balanced double

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IPA from the Shreveport brewery has been a favorite in local bottle shops since its introduction in 2014. The latest version adds Amarillo hops — with hints of melon and stone fruit — to the usual recipe, complementing its traditional Citra hops to create a more complex flavor.

• Parish Brewing Company’s Ghost in the Machine. There has been an increase in production of this beer-geek favorite. Its big, tropical, juicy flavor is balanced by a mild bitterness that dries out quickly, making the 8 percent alcohol-by-volume double IPA more palatable than a typical strong brew.

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BY BRENDA MAITLAND

2014 Poggio Badiola Rosso Toscana, Italy Retail $11-$17

IN THE HEART OF CHIANTI CLASSICO lies Castello di Fonterutoli, one of Italy’s most highly regarded wine producers. Since 1435, 24 generations of the Mazzei family have made wine there. The property comprises more than 1,160 acres, in distinct vineyard sites including Fonterutoli, Siepi, Belvedere and Le Ripe. Vines are planted in rocky limestone and sandstone soils at altitudes from 750 to 1,640 feet above sea level. A baby super-Tuscan, this wine is a blend of 70 percent sangiovese and 25 percent merlot grapes from Le Ripe. Hand-harvested fruit was fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The maceration period lasted 12 to 15 days, and the wine was aged 10 months in French and American oak barrels. It offers aromas of red cherry and dark berries, hints of licorice and subtle oaky notes. On the palate, taste currants, ripe plum, blackberry, wild raspberry, cherry and fine tannins.

Decant 30 minutes before serving. Drink it with beef short ribs, veal Parmesan, leg of lamb, poultry, cured meats, pasta and pizza. Buy it at: Brady’s Wine Warehouse, Swirl Wine Bar & Market and Acquistapace’s in Mandeville. Drink it at: Marcello’s Restaurant.

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EAT+DRINK PLATE DATES AUGUST 23

Dinner with Friends 7 p.m. Wednesday Bar Frances, 4525 Freret St., (504) 371-5043 www.barfrances.com Bar Frances presents a four-course dinner featuring farmhouse cheeses made in the South, and representatives from St. James Cheese Company will discuss farmhouse cheeses. Wine pairings are included.

Tickets $60.

AUGUST 24

Summertime Blues Food Hop + Shop 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 522-9200 www.theshopsatcanalplace.com The event features free beer from Urban South Brewery, and there are offerings from food trucks Frencheeze, Food Drunk, Diva Dawg and Grilling Shilling. There’s music by Colin Lake and a raffle to benefit Team Gleason. Free admission.

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An August Night at Antoine’s 7 p.m. Saturday Antoine’s Restaurant, 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422 www.symphonychorus.org The fundraiser for Symphony Chorus New Orleans includes wine, oysters Foch, shrimp remoulade, crabmeat ravigote, choice of Gulf fish amandine or filet mignon with marchand de vin, creamed spinach and baked Alaska. Symphony Chorus also performs. For information, call (504) 289-0633. Tickets $150 (includes tax and tip).

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Angeline 1032 Chartres St., (504) 308-3106 www.angelinenola.com Black-eyed pea and collard green soup is flavored with bourbon, bacon and smoky pork broth.

collard greens, bacon, Gruyere cheese and a farm egg.

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Turkey and the Wolf

DTB 8201 Oak St., Suite 1, (504) 518-6889 www.dtbnola.com The LA 1 gumbo features blue crab, collard greens and crab fat potato salad.

Paladar 511 511 Marigny St. (504) 509-6782 www.paladar511.com A pizza is topped with

625 Chartres St., (504) 265-8123 www.facebook.com/ sylvainnola Crispy-fried pork shoulder is served on a bed of sweet, slow-cooked collard greens.

739 Jackson Ave., (504) 218-7428 www.turkeyandthewolf.com The collard green melt features slow-cooked collards, Swiss cheese, pickled cherries, coleslaw and pepper dressing on rye bread.

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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 — No reservations. Bourbon Street: Lunch. dinner and late-night daily.

Magazine Street: lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. Credit cards. $ LA Smokehouse — 8300 Earhart Blvd., (504) 265-8905; www.lasmokehouse. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www. facebook.com/queeniesonstclaude — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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

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

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Cash only. $ Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/cafeluna504 — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early 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. $ 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. $ Chartres House — 601 Chartres St., (504) 586-8393; www.chartreshouse. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Green to Go — 400 Poydras St., Suite 130; 2633 Napoleon Ave.; (504) 460-3160; www.greentogonola.com — No reservationas. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early 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. $$

Pierre Maspero’s — 440 Chartres St., (504) 524-8990; www.originalpierremasperos.com — No reservations. Breakfast Fri.-Mon., lunch and dinner daily, latenight Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. 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. $$

Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Tsunami — 601 Poydras St., Suite B., (504) 608-3474; www.servingsushi.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

CAFE Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504)

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

maesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Boulevard American Bistro — 4241 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 889-2301; www.boulevardbistro.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$

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

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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. $$

Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $

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

Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, early dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ 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. $$$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., Dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.Fri. Credit cards. $

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

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

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

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

Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$

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

Willie Mae’s Grocery & Deli — 7457 St. Charles Ave., (504) 417-5424; www.willie-

Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com —

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Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Creole House Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 509 Canal St., (504) 323-2109; www. creolehouserestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

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

Dinner Wed.-Mon. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Kingfish — 337 Chartres St., (504) 5985005; www.kingfishneworleans.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night Mon.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Ralph’s On The Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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

Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-2022; www. gumbostop.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 484-0841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 737-3933; www.kozcooks.com — No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $

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

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

R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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MIDDLE EASTERN Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner Sun.-Thu. Credit cards. $$ Jerusalem Cafe — 2132 Tulane Ave., (504) 509-7729; www.facebook.com/ cafehei — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

MEXICAN El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; 800 S. Peters St., (504) 3098864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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; 5538 Magazine St.; www. juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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 — No reservations.

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

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

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Mid City Pizza — 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; www.midcitypizza.com — Delivery available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $

La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

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Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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 —

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. $

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

L OCAT ION TH E S H O P S AT CA NA L P L AC E

Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., early dinner Mon.-Thu., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

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

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

IN PA R T N ER S H IP W IT H TH E C H A MB E R

Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant. com — No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ 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. $$

B EN EF IT T IN G TE A M G L E A S O N

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 — No reservations.

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. $$$ Royal House Oyster Bar — 441 Royal St., (504) 528-2601; www.royalhouserestaurant.com — No reservations. Breakfast Sat.-Sun., lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

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

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

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TUESDAY 22 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Captain Buckles, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters Jazz Band, 8 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7; Niko Lorraine, 11 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; The Geraniums, 9:30 d.b.a. — Treme Brass Band, 9 House of Blues — Gente de Zona, 8 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard “Piano” Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Gary Leming Duo, 7 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; Preservation All-Stars feat.

Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Queenie’s — Jackson Square AllStars, 6:30 Ray’s — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 Saturn Bar — Big Huge, Vile Bodies, Chamois Boys, Room 101, 8 SideBar — Rex Gregory & Dave Easley, 8:30 Sidney’s Saloon — All 4 One Brass Band, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

WEDNESDAY 23 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; Iceman Special, 11 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7; Ivor SK, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Jamey St. Pierre & Dave Freeson, 8; The Mike Doussan Band, 10 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 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Catbamboo, The Hail Mercy, Acadiana Trace, 8 Little Gem Saloon — Reid Poole Duo, 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 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Boogie Men, 8 SideBar — Trapper Keeper feat. Dr. Jeff Albert, 8:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 24 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Peter Kienle, Dave Easley, Doug Garrison, 10 Bar Redux — JD Hill, Domenic Fusca, 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; Lady Whiskey, 8; Burris, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Luneta Jazz Band, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Castle Theatre — Linda Wright, 8 Check Point Charlie — Chi Town Nick & the Blues Hustlers, 7; Yeah You Rite, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; John “Papa” Gros Band, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; Growl, Lawn, The Melters, 9:30 d.b.a. — Deltaphonic feat. Khris Royal, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Rougarou, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Swamp Brew, 10 Gasa Gasa — Ambush Reggae Band, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Myron Thomas, Quinten Hakeem, Kristen Avian, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Reid Poole Duo, 7 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Old Point Bar — Ted Hefko & the Thousandaires, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin, 8, 9 & 10 Santos Bar — Blue Persuasion (goth and industrial night), 10 SideBar — Carl LeBlanc Trio, 8:30

Southport Hall — Thy Art Is Murder, Decapitated, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Tipitina’s — Royal Teeth, Merci Raines, No True Scotsman, 9 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 25 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Alvin Youngblood Hart, Nicholas Crown, 9 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 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7:30; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Oski Foundation, 3; Bon Bon Vivant, 5; Hyperphlyy, 9; Randi & Lo-Fi Soul, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Champions Square — Lil Weezyana Fest, 7 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Captain Buckles, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Jason Ricci & the Bad Kind (album release), 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, 6; UNLV, PMW, 10 d.b.a. — Ingrid Lucia, 6; Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Abner Deitle, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Fulton Alley — DJ Strategy, The Urban Cellist, 9 Gasa Gasa — Sextile, Mea Culpa, Trashlight, 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Relapse: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 House of Blues — Grunge Fest feat.

Nirvanna (Nirvana tribute), Rusted Cage (Soundgarden tribute), The Kurt Loders, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Jeff “Snake” Greenberg, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Nayo Jones Experience, 8 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Chubby Carrier & Roland Cheramie, Zydeco Roots, 11 Oak — Tom Leggett, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Little Maker, Mr. Universe (The Band tribute), 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; The Preservation Brass feat. Daniel “Weenie” Farrow, 8, 9 & 10

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Lil Weezyana Fest

THE SMALL VENN DIAGRAM OVERLAP of multiverse • Aug. 25 theorists and hip-hop heads • 7 p.m. Friday will have a ball with Friday’s • Champions Square, Lasalle Street, convergence of Cash Money players-turned-haters. Three (504) 587-3663; hours and eight CBD blocks www.champions-square.com apart, two concerts will trace a winding parallel history of the definitive New Orleans rap label, which grew out of area housing projects into a $300 • 10 p.m. Friday million behemoth (with past • Circle Bar, 1032 St. Charles Ave., and present legal complaints (504) 588-2616; levied by at least two of the evening’s participants). www.circlebarneworleans.com Champions Square hosts the third iteration of Lil Wayne’s (pictured) star-studded Lil Weezyana Fest, whose inaugural event in 2015 commemorated the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a Hot Boys reunion, a Drake cameo and a second line of local gods and goddesses (DJ Jubilee, Master P, Ms. Tee), and whose 2016 follow-up ended with Weezy putting the bird in Birdman (“F—k Cash Money”). Just as Wayne is hyping his latest surprise guest, a smaller gathering down the street will be doing the Eddie Bauer with PxMxWx — the Iberville crew whose 1993 release Legalize “Pass tha Weed” introduced the world to Mannie Fresh’s Midas production — and dragging Mystikal in the river with relaunched Uptowners U.N.L.V. The question is, which show does Fresh attend? If Fresh hustles, he just might make it to both. Lil Weezyana Fest tickets are $49.50-$195. Circle Bar tickets $10 in advance, $20 at the door. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

U.N.L.V. with PMW

RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 6; James Martin Band, 9

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Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bucktown All-Stars, 9:30

Bamboula’s — G & the Swinging Three, 2:30 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — St. Louis Slim, 7; Mainline, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Marigny Street Brass, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; River Rats, 8; Slow Rollerz Brass Band, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 8 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Castle Theatre — Dana Arthur, 7:30 Check Point Charlie — Phil the Tremolo King, 4; Hubcap Kings, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Johnny J & the Hit-

Santos Bar — Cliff Hines, 5 SideBar — Mike Dillon Band feat.

James Singleton, Cliff Hines, 9:30 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Contraflow, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Cottonmouth Kings, 10 Tipitina’s — John “Papa” Gros Band, Sexual Thunder!, 10 Twist of Lime — Barghest, The Black Moriah, A Hanging, Art of the Process, 10 Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center — The Time Flies, 9:30

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MUSIC men (album release), 8 Circle Bar — Mod Dance Party with DJ Matty, 10 d.b.a. — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 7; Hot 8 Brass Band, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Eight Dice Cloth, 7 Fulton Alley — DJ Strategy, The Urban Cellist, 9 Gasa Gasa — Swamp Motel (album release), 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — DJ Chinua, 10 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — The New Orleans Suspects, 11 National World War II Museum, Stage Door Canteen — Victory Swing Orchestra, 8 Oak — Jon Roniger, 9 Old Point Bar — Anais St. John, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Vox & the Hound, Midriff, Naughty Palace, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 Rivershack Gretna — The Strays, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — 90 Degrees West, 9 Saenger Theatre — Musiq Soulchild feat. Carl Thomas, 8 Santos Bar — Organami, 5; Jesse Tripp & the Nightbreed, Rik Slave & the Phantoms, Palafoxx, 8 Siberia — Alex McMurray, 6; Accoridionistan, Krescent Klezmorim, 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Tipitina’s — Noisewater, Noruz, Blonde Roses, 10 Twist of Lime — Big Story, Like, Water, Bending, To Whom It May Concern, 10

SUNDAY 27 Bamboula’s — Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light, Matt Babineaux, Dusky Waters, Alex Bosworth, Natalie Mae, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Bayou Wind, 3; Ruth Marie’s Jazz Band, 7; Mignano, 10 Bourbon O Bar — G & the Swinging Three, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — John Pierre, 7 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Circle Bar — Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, 6; Country Night with DJ Pasta, 9:30 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 5; Royal Fingerbowl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Kabaka Pyramid, The Pebble Rockers, 7; Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Germaine Bazzle, 8 The Jefferson Orleans North — Cindy Van Duyne, The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 7 Joy Theater — MattyB, The Haschak Sisters, 6

The Maison — Higher Heights, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — Cha Wa, 10 Old Point Bar — Anais St. John, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious, 8, 9 & 10 Santos Bar — The Silent Life, 5 Sidney’s Saloon — Damn Gina, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Olivier Bou & Matt Lemmler (album release), 8 & 10 Trinity Episcopal Church — Cordell Chambliss & Friends (Jo “Cool” Davis tribute), 5 Twist of Lime — Raven, Dead By Wednesday, 10

MONDAY 28 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 6:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Sunshine Brass Band, 9 Blue Nile — Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Demi Zaino, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 6; The Kingsmen feat. TUBAD, 10 Bourbon O Bar — Shake It Break It Band, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray & Joe Cabral, 8 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7; Motown Monday with DJ Shane Love, 10 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 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 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel, 8, 9 & 10 Sidney’s Saloon — Ingrid Lucia, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Sarah McCoy, 4; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock by candlelight. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Crescent City Chamber Music Festival. Citywide — Manhattan Chamber Players visit venues throughout the city to present classic and modern chamber music. Concerts at Urban South Brewery (1645 Tchoupitoulas St.) at 6 p.m. Thursday, Tulane University Rogers Chapel (6823 St. Charles Ave.) at 6 p.m. Saturday and Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church (3900 St. Charles Ave.) at 3 p.m.

Sunday are open to the public. Free.

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND 4 Days in France — In the French countryside, a jilted lover pursues his former partner by tracing him on Grindr. Zeitgeist All Saints (PG) — A new pastor and Burmese refugees work together to save a church. Elmwood Birth of the Dragon (PG-13) — A modern kung fu movie in the style of Bruce Lee movies. Slidell, Chalmette Ingrid Goes West (R) — A woman at the end of her rope tries to befriend her rich-kids-of-Instagram crush.

Elmwood, Broad Swim Team — The documentary is about a New Jersey team that includes several autistic athletes. Zeitgeist

NOW SHOWING 68 Kill — A downtrodden couple plots the theft of $68K from one of their benefactors. Chalmette 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, Kenner, 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. 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, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Detroit (R) — Kathryn Bigelow directs the historical drama about the 1967 Detroit riots. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell Dunkirk (PG-13) — Christopher Nolan’s take on the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the beach at Dunkirk during World War II. Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place, Clearview The Emoji Movie (PG) — Almost not even worth writing a synopsis that can’t include emojis. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell Girls Trip (R) — Galpals reunite in New Orleans for one last bacchanal. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Glass Castle (PG-13) — Like you, four siblings are disappointed and inspired by their parents. Elmwood, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Canal Place The Hitman’s Bodyguard (R) — A bodyguard is called upon to protect an assassin.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (PG) — Al Gore’s climate-change series soldiers on. Elmwood, Canal Place

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 Leap! (PG) — In the animated film, a French orphan runs away to become a ballerina. Slidell Logan Lucky (PG-13) — Steven Soderbergh directs the star-studded heist movie set in West Virginia.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Kenner, Slidell, Regal, Canal Place The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (PG) — Squirrels rebel against evil developers.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Spider-Man: Homecoming (PG-13) — The franchise is trapped in a web of its own reboots. Elmwood, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Step (PG) — Girls in inner-city Baltimore look to step competitions for sisterhood and strength. Elmwood, Broad Vivegam — An Indian spy thriller. In Tamil with English subtitles. Elmwood War for the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) — The Guardian: “The Godfather, but with chimpanzees.” ( ... ) Elmwood, West Bank, Kenner, Slidell, Regal Whose Streets? (R) — The documentary profiles activism after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Broad Wind River (R) — Elizabeth Olsen stars in the whodunit set on a Native American reservation. Elmwood, Canal Place Wonder Woman (PG-13) — An Amazon princess in a corset saves the world. Slidell

SPECIAL SCREENINGS The Confessions — A murder mystery is set at the G8 meeting among a group of economists. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday.

Zeitgeist The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches and The Giant Gila Monster — B-movies are screened. 9 p.m. Friday.

Bar Redux Gleason — The documentary is about the former New Orleans Saints player’s battle with ALS. 7 p.m. Thursday. Ochsner Medical Center (1514 Jefferson Highway) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG) — The first Harry Potter film is screened with a live score by Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Saturday. Jefferson Performing Arts Center (6400 Airline Drive, Metairie) I Dream in Another Language — A linguist travels to the Mexican jungle in search of a vanishing language. 9 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday. Zeitgeist Mayweather vs. McGregor — Two dudes beat each other up for money. 8 p.m.

Saturday. Elmwood My Journey Through French Cinema — Bertrand Tavernier tours the French film oeuvre in this documentary.

1:45 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Chalmette

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Logan Lucky

IT SEEMED A HUGE LOSS WHEN WRITER-DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH ANNOUNCED HIS • Wide release RETIREMENT from filmmaking at age 50 in 2013.

PHOTO COURTESY Soderbergh played a major role in establishing a BLEECKER STREET new era of American independent film through his groundbreaking 1989 debut feature Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Over the next 24 years, he made little-seen masterpieces (The Limey), brave experimental films (Schizopolis) and beautifully crafted Hollywood blockbusters (Ocean’s Eleven).

Soderbergh’s career reached an almost absurd level of success in 2000, when he made Traffic and Erin Brockovich. Both films earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, meaning Soderbergh competed with himself in two major Oscar categories. (He won Best Director for Traffic.) Even more impressive is Soderbergh’s Extension 765 website, where he manages to post illegal homemade mashups and re-edits of classic movies directed by other people. What’s not to love about Steven Soderbergh?

Those who follow his career were not surprised to find Soderbergh’s retirement involved creating innovative television like Cinemax’s The Knick — especially since his exasperation with Hollywood was a major factor in what now must be called a hiatus. Soderbergh’s return to feature filmmaking is Logan Lucky, a near-perfect blast of summer entertainment the director made outside the Hollywood studio system. He pioneered new ways to retain creative control of his film (and its marketing campaign) while successfully tapping into a wide theatrical distribution network that long has been the primary benefit of that system.

Logan Lucky is what used to be known as a heist picture. Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is a down-on-his-luck construction worker with an angry ex-wife (Katie Holmes) and adorable 10-year-old daughter (Farrah Mackenzie). Jimmy enlists his brother Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), sister Mellie Logan (Riley Keough) and bank-vault demolition expert Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during what turns out to be the year’s biggest racing event. That’s it — but that’s all Soderbergh and his hyper-talented cast require to work their magic.

The dangers here are many, but foremost among them is condescending to both characters and subject matter. Early on, Tatum and Driver skirt good-old-boy stereotypes, but it’s all a setup for the far more interesting characterizations they develop over the course of the film. Just about everyone in the movie is funny and relatable (though the hilarious Craig comes close to stealing the film). NASCAR and child beauty pageants both figure heavily into the story and are treated with rare, low-key respect, rendering the story’s Southern setting an asset rather than a liability.

Logan Lucky may set some kind of record for implausibility — pretty much everything that happens in the film represents an exaggerated notion of how the real world works. Somehow that becomes the primary source of the movie’s charm. It’s a pleasure to receive each small piece of the puzzle as the unlikely caper moves along.

Soderbergh’s mastery of craft as director, cinematographer and editor is something to behold. (He may also have written the screenplay — news reports are suggesting that credited author Rebecca Blunt does not exist.) He wastes not a single shot, moment of screen time or fleeting opportunity to tell his story in purely visual terms.

Logan Lucky is the kind of thoughtful, engaging entertainment that should fill every summer. How can that happen when the release schedule is overstuffed with sequels and other formula fare? Things will improve only if established filmmakers follow Soderbergh’s lead and shake things up with new methods for financing and distributing their work. A humble heist picture seems the ideal starting point for disruptive and long-overdue change. — KEN KORMAN

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REVIEW “THIS IS THE ONLY CITY I have ever been in where, if you listen, the sidewalks will speak to you.” So said John T. Scott, the late gentle giant of the New Orleans art world. A son of the lower 9th Ward who spent decades on the Xavier University fine arts faculty, Scott distilled the varied sonorities of the streets into works that, like his city, encompassed both the gritty and the sublime. Sacred Music for Sonny Stitt is all poise and grace as a pair of kinetic metal sculptures comprised of delicately balanced circles and rods seem to ceremonially greet each other. Painted in the bold colors and patterns of traditional sub-Saharan fabrics, they evoke the African ideal of Ashe — the commanding inner coolness Scott associated with great musical savants like its modern jazz saxophonist namesake. Foodstore (pictured) is a 2003 woodcut of ramshackle shops on a street strewn with wreckage. A visual parable of chaos and neglect, it fuses expressionistic grit with mute echoes of troubled jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden’s shrieking cornet. For Scott, that alternation of the chaotic and the sublime was the yin and yang of what he called “jazz thinking,” the improvisation method of his creative process. Here, the way Foodstore anticipated Hurricane Katrina’s • Through Sept. 23 tumultuous fury was nothing short • John T. Scott: His Legacy: of prophetic.

Prints and sculpture by John T. Scott Dapper Bruce Lafitte was born Bruce Davenport Jr. but assumed • R.I.P. Bruce A. Davenport, Jr.: the name of the housing project Artwork by Dapper Bruce Lafitte where he grew up. A self-taught artist who began drawing as a • Arthur Roger Gallery, 5-year-old, he created hieroglyph432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; iclike depictions of high school marching bands in response to the www.arthurrogergallery.com ominous quiet of New Orleans’ deserted post-Katrina neighborhoods.

As street life returned, his obsessive bird’s-eye views morphed into complex, quiltlike compositions of streets, parks and byways populated by Mardi Gras Indians and colorful indigenous figures. Laced with scribbled social critiques and self-praise, his eloquently pithy works are now internationally exhibited and represented in major art collections. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/ departments/art-gallery — “Side-Eye: Recent Work by Shawne Major,” opening reception 5 p.m. Thursday.

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 — “Paper Cut,” work by five book artists using cut paper techniques, through Oct. 2. “Pop That Thang,” photographs of New Orleanians at clubs, bars and second lines by Polo Silk, through Sept. 3.

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-Me-FoolMe (Pattern Making for a Gender Hybrid World II),” new work by Maxx Sizeler; both through Sept. 2.

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

by Doyle Gertjejansen, through Sept. 20.

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; all through Sept. 3.

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.

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.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Jim Steg: New Work,” pieces by the influential printmaker, through Oct. 8. “Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans,” personal art collection of Arthur Roger, through Sept. 23, and more.

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.

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Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — “The Colourful South,” exploration of color photography in the South, through Oct. 26. “Troubled Waters,” dye transfer color prints by photographer William Eggleston, through Oct. 26, and more.

Newcomb Art Museum. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — “Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists,” new work by seven U.S. abstract artists; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

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THEATER & CABARET Caligula. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8201; www.4321saintclaude.com — 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.

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.

NOLA Voice Theatre. Valiant Theatre & Lounge, 6621 St. Claude Ave., Arabi, (504) 298-8676; www.valianttheatre.com — Three short performances celebrate voice and radio theater. Tickets $10.

8 p.m. Monday.

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. Friday, 9 p.m. Saturday.

United Methodist Men’s Fellowship Annual Musical. Aurora United Methodist Church, 3300 Eton Street; www. auroraumc.org — The cabaret’s theme is “To God Be the Glory.” It pays tribute to deceased congregation members including former president Billy Gill. Tickets $10 plus a canned good. 4 p.m. Sunday.

Waterworld: The Musical. Maison de Macarty Bed & Breakfast, 3820 Burgundy St., (504) 267-1564; www.maisonmacarty. com — The show adapts the 1995 thriller and is staged in a pool. There’s live music and a pool party. 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.

Bayou Blues Burlesque. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.net — There are burlesque performances at the weekly show. Tickets $10. 8 p.m. Friday.

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.

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

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.

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.

Chris Trew’s French Quarter Comedy Night. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks. net — Chris Trew hosts the weekly show featuring local and touring stand-up comedians. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Comedy Catastrophe. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., (504) 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts a stand-up show. 10 p.m. Tuesday.

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.

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.

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

Local Uproar. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2185778; www.theallwayslounge.net — Paul Oswell and Benjamin Hoffman host a stand-up showcase. 8 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.

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 Rip-Off Show. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.

EVERY ERA HAS ITS TYRANTS. We’ve got Kim Jong-un.

Not long ago, there was Idi Amin and Radovan Karadzic.

When Albert Camus wrote Caligula about the crazed Roman emperor, the playwright was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, ruled by Adolf Hitler. Under these regimes, the despots ultimately brought destruction on their own people. That absurdity is the premise of Camus’ play, presented in a powerful and terrifying • Aug. 25-27 performance at Castillo Blanco Art Studios by Cripple Creek Theatre Company.

• 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday As emperor, Caligula (Ian Hoch) has • Castillo Blanco Art Studios, been artistic, appreciative of literature 4321 St. Claude Ave. and an advocate for justice. After the untimely death of his sister Drusilla, with • www.cripplecreektheatre.org whom he had an incestuous relationship, • Free admission he disappears from the palace for three days and is seen by peasants running through a thunderstorm. He returns disheveled and deranged. One of the patricians says Caligula had been the perfect emperor, “scrupulous and inexperienced,” thus allowing the patricians to rule. The court had ignored the incest, “but to destroy Rome because (Drusilla) is dead, that oversteps the boundaries,” one patrician says.

Caligula now wants the moon, precisely because he can’t have it. “This world, as it is constituted, is not bearable,” Caligula says. “Therefore I have need of the moon, or of happiness, or immortality, of something which is demented perhaps but which is not of this world.” He is insatiable.

Thenceforth, Caligula commands torture, murder and starvation of his subjects.

When a high official mentions the importance of the treasury, he comes up with a two-pronged plan. Parents must disinherit their children, changing their wills to benefit the state, and patrician wives should work in brothels. Caligula distrusts and condemns intellectuals and artists who question his reasoning.

“If the treasury is of paramount importance, then human life has none,” Caligula says.

Hoch careens around an elongated stage bordered by a low fence that makes it look like a boxing ring. He wears a flowing, glittery teal cloak and undergarments and flails his arms while pontificating. Caesonia (Evan Spigelman), his bald, transgender mistress, tries to console and reason with him, saying his desire to be like a god is “lunacy.”

Caligula demands complete loyalty from his subjects, but insults and punishes them and forces them to don red neckties. “Without doubt, this isn’t the first time that, among us, a man has command of an unlimited power,” says Cherea (Clint Johnson). “But it’s the first time that he uses it without constraints — as far as to deny the existence of mankind and the world.”

In the most chilling scene, donning a wreath, Caligula sings “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” The poet Scipio courageously argues with Caligula, but is dragged away for execution.

Hoch’s fascinating performance is complemented by an excellent supporting cast. Dramatic tension never lags. The genius of Camus’ amazing script, adapted

by Andrew Vaught, is that its message is timeless and universal. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

“The impossible is all I want,” Caligula says.

The show features strange, haunting music by harpist Luke Brechtelsbauer and percussionist Fiona Digney with singers Angie Z and April Louise. — MARY RICKARD

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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.

Stoked. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf. com — Mary-Devon Dupuy and Lane Lonion host the stand-up comedy show.

9 p.m. Saturday.

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

head to head in a stand-up competition.

9 p.m. Friday.

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

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THURSDAY 24 Frank W. Abagnale. Hilton New Orleans Riverside, 2 Poydras St., (504) 561-0500; www.hilton.com — The self-described “scam prevention expert” teaches a workshop for seniors on avoiding common scams. Visit www.aarp.cvent.com/abagnalela to register. Free admission. 6:15 p.m.

Importance of Hearing Health. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — Hearing specialist Tony Goyette presents the lecture on aural health. 7 p.m.

Introduction to the Internet. St. Tammany Parish Library, Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 893-6280; www. stpl.us — The workshop teaches internet basics. 10 a.m.

Leaf All Your Wormies Behind. One Love Community Art Space, 1502 N. Derbigny St. — Dig Easy hosts the party, which celebrates the city’s newly released climate action strategy. There are plant and seed trades, art, a clothing swap, raffles and auctions. Free admission, suggested donation $10. 5 p.m.

Low to Moderate Income Homebuyers Workshop. St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington Branch, 310 W. 21st Ave., Covington, (985) 893-6280; www.sttammany. lib.la.us/covington.html — The discussion covers grant money that may be available for low-income people who wish to purchase a home. 6 p.m.

Summertime Blues Hop + Shop. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 522-9200; www.theshopsatcanalplace. com — There’s free beer at the inaugural event, which offers blues music and barbecue from food trucks. Colin Lake performs. Free admission. 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 25 Downriver Bar Crawl. Markey’s Bar, 640 Louisa St., (504) 943-0785; www.facebook.com/markeysbarnola — St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce Emerging Professional Council hosts the bar crawl, which visits locations in Bywater, Chalmette and Arabi. Tickets $10. 5:30 p.m.

Exotic Animal Racing. Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, 1751 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 944-5515; www.fairgroundsracecourse.com — Camels and ostriches race in between quarter horse races, and there are inflatables and food trucks. Admission $5. 5 p.m.

Going Higher Women’s Conference.

Victory Fellowship, 5708 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 733-5005 — The women’s empowerment conference incorporates Christian religious readings. Registration $25, includes lunch. 7 p.m.

Nocturnal Moth Program. Woodlands Conservancy, 449 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse, (504) 433-4000; www. woodlandsconservancy.org — Naturalist James Beck hosts the nighttime nature walk and insect talk. Admission $10, kids

under age 13 free. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY 26 Alzheimer’s Association Legal and Financial Planning Seminar. Little Farms United Church of Christ, 135 Sauve Road, River Ridge, (504) 737-5858 — The workshop covers legal and financial issues for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Free admission. 10 a.m.

Arts Market of New Orleans. Palmer Park, South Claiborne and South Carrollton avenues — The Arts Council of New Orleans’ market features local and handmade goods, food, kids’ activities and live music.

Visit www.artsneworleans.org for details.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

CHAIRish the Children. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 523-1357; www.lcm.org — The museum’s gala celebrates the Mississippi River and features food, drinks, auctions, raffles and more. Tickets start at $75. 8 p.m.

Discover the Dinosaurs Unleashed.

Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985; www.pontchartraincenter.com — Kids can encounter “dinosaurs” and take part in dino-related education activities. Tickets $19, children under age 2 free. 9 a.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers & Collectors Guild Decoy Show. Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, 133 Mabel Drive, Madisonville, (985) 845-9200; www.lpbmaritimemuseum.org — Traditional decoy carvings are displayed. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Senior Moments Gala. Chateau Golf and Country Club, 3600 Chateau Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-1351; www.chateaugcc. com — Jefferson Council on Aging hosts the gala featuring food, margaritas and a performance by Latin jazz group Julio & Cesar. Visit www.jcoa.net for details.

Tickets start at $70. 8 p.m.

A Therapeutic Journey: Unmasking Brain Injury. St. Tammany Art Association, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation.org — The discussion covers how art therapy helps people with brain injuries. There’s also a reception for an art show. Free admission. 5 p.m.

Ultimate Tailgate Party. Tchefuncta Country Club, 2 Pinecrest Drive, Covington, (985) 892-4739; www.tchefuncta. com — The tailgate party benefits Coalition Against Human Trafficking and other groups, and there’s a raffle, auctions, a dance-off and barbecue competition.

Four Unplugged performs. Visit www. ultimatetailgateparty.com for details.

Admission $75. 7 p.m.

Vive la Cure. The Chicory, 610 S. Peters St. — The Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans’ gala has a Latin theme and features dancers, auctions, food and drinks.

Bucktown All-Stars performs. Visit www. cagno.org for details. Tickets $75. 7:30 p.m.

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MONDAY 28 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.

SPORTS New Orleans Baby Cakes. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155; www.cakesbaseball.com — The New Orleans Baby Cakes play the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Saturday is Star Wars night featuring an appearance by the Chewbacchus marching group. 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

WORDS Anne Gisleson. Saturn Bar, 3067 St. Claude Ave., (504) 949-7532; www. facebook.com/saturnbar — The author presents her memoir The Futilitarians. 7 p.m. Thursday.

David Cappello. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author presents The People’s Grocer: John G. Schwegmann, New Orleans and the Making of the Modern Retail Worlds. 7 p.m. Thursday.

Liah Penn and Colleen Murphy. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson. lib.la.us — The mystery writers discuss recent books. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author presents her New Orleans-set novel A Kind of Freedom. 6 p.m. Saturday.

Price Ainsworth. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author presents his legal thriller A Minor Fall. 2 p.m. Sunday.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Arc of Greater New Orleans. The organization for people with intellectual disabilities seeks donations of Mardi Gras beads and volunteers. 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. No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@casaneworleans.org.

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

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.

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.

NOLA Wise. The partnership of Global Green, the City of New Orleans and the Department of Energy helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient.

It seeks volunteers, who must attend a 30-minute orientation. Email mrowand@ globalgreen.org.

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.

Teen Life Counts. The program seeks volunteers to teach suicide prevention.

Call (504) 831-8475.

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Back-to-School Extravaganza. Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — Dinerral Shavers Educational Fund hosts the family-friendly party with free school supplies, haircuts, health and HIV screenings, manicures, henna tattoos and more. Free admission. Noon to 4 p.m.

Tropical Blood Drive. Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-8477; www.tipitinas. com — The Organ Grinders and Musicians’ Clinic and Assistance Foundation host the party with a blood drive, dance performances and a raffle. Bonerama, Soul Brass Band and others perform. Free admission.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Warehouse Sale. The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351 — ALG Style and Gambit’s CUE magazine host the flash sale featuring wares from area boutiques and designers. Champagne is served. Free admission, VIP $30. 10 a.m.

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Call (504) 834-3465.

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Large 1 Bedroom / 1 Bathroom with Loft.

Washer & dryer, central air & heat, $1350/ mo. Small pets negotiable. Call 985-6306686 or 504-505-1774.

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Two lg 2BR apts w/hdwd flrs, ceil fans, clwft tubs, full kits w/pkg. Furn/unfurn. Lush ctyd. POOL. $1,700-$1900. No pets. (504) 866-2527.

LOWER GARDEN DISTRICT 1/2 BLOCK TO MAGAZINE

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

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Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139.

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Large Victorian 3 bed/2 ba, 2,200 sq. ft, 2 extra rooms for liv/din/bed, furn kit, w/d, wood fls, lg closets, hi ceils, porch. Gated w/security, off-street pkg, pool privileges. $1,800/mo. Call 504-274-8075.

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At auction by Constable on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 from Rudy Smith Service, Inc., 425 N. Claiborne Ave., this city, at 12:50 o’clock PM in the matter entitled: HARLEY-DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., AS ASSIGNEE OF EAGLEMARK SAVINGS BANK (HDCC) vs LEMUEL Y. AUSAMA First City Court For The Parish Of Orleans Case No: 2017-00911

By Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE: YEAR: 2013 MAKE/MODEL: HARLEY-DAVIDSON / FLTRX ROAD GUIDE CUSTOM SERIAL NO.: 1HD1KHM14DB609424 Seized in the above suit, TERMS: CASH ON THE SPOT Atty: Herschel C. Adcock Gambit: August 22, 2017 The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a deposit of 10% of the purchase price and the balance by 4:00 p.m. same day. ____________________________________ Lambert C. Boissiere, Jr. Constable, Parish of Orleans

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2 bed/1.5 ba, walk-in closet, liv, din, kit w/appls, wood flrs, hi ceils, balcony, cen a/h. Gated with security patrol, off-street parking, pool privileges. $1,625/mo. Call 504-274-8075.

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

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

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