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Brian Haas THU.-MON. OCT. 19-23 | Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey pianist Brian Haas kicks off a scattered monthlong residency with a scattered, smothered and covered guest list (including Mark Southerland, Simon Lott, Chris Combs, Helen Gillet, Carly Meyers and Annie Ellicott) at AllWays Lounge (9 p.m. Thursday), Mag’s 940 (10 p.m. Friday), Marigny Recording Studio and SideBar NOLA (8 p.m. & 10 p.m., respectively, on Saturday), and the Hi-Ho Lounge (10 p.m. Monday).

Cabaret star Bridget Everett comes to New Orleans

BY WILL COVIELLO BRIDGET EVERETT SAYS she treats cabaret singing like a “full-contact sport,” and many of the clips of her performances posted on YouTube, performing hits by Rihanna and Janis Joplin, help explain how she’s gone from singing with abandon to landing movie roles as a brassy, hardcharging personality.

Everett has had several movies released so far this year. She plays the mother of a teenage female rapper in Patti Cake$, released by an offshoot of Court 13 (Beasts of the Southern Wild). She has a lead role along with Molly Shannon and Toni Collette in Fun Mom Dinner, in which women who only know each other because their kids are in preschool together go on a bender.

She’s also in Little Evil, a comedy horror film about a couple who may have given birth to the Antichrist.

“People who want me in their movies want the flavor of Bridget, and I just have to calibrate the level,” Everett says via phone from her home in New York. “My instinct is to play to people in the room. I did a table read (for a screen role). My friend came up to me and said, ‘They want me to fire you. We’re going to keep you. Tone it down.’”

Everett isn’t planning on toning it down for her cabaret show at One Eyed Jacks Monday, Oct. 23, with comedian and host Murray Hill and Kitten N’ Lou. The show includes original songs (many with explicit names) from her album Pound It!, plus whatever she’s in the mood for.

“This is old time showbiz: big time hits and money notes,” she says. “It’s like you’re on a first great date and the only question is, ‘Is anybody gonna get laid?’”

Everett broke into New York’s cabaret scene and movies because of her powerhouse voice and the way she throws herself into a song. She was discovered singing karaoke.

“I like to sing ‘Piece of My Heart’ and big rockers,” Everett says. “I wasn’t

TUE. OCT. 17 | Hot Thoughts, the ninth stellar album in a row by Spoon, is both homecoming and new beginning for America’s most consistent rock band. It’s the group’s first on Matador Records since debut Telephono, and its first without multiinstrumentalist Eric Harvey since 2002’s Kill the Moonlight. Mondo Cozmo opens at 7:30 p.m. at House of Blues.

Lil Yachty THU. OCT. 19 | Cruising on the simpler-pleasures appeal of his first major studio release, Teenage Emotions, hip-hop star Lil Yachty makes up a postponed August show at 8 p.m. at The Joy Theater.

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trying to get discovered. I was just trying to shake the beast — the beast inside of me that needed to sing like that. Even in show choir in high school (in Manhattan, Kansas), I wanted to rip out of my clothes and my skin and throw my heart on the floor and be like, ‘Look at that motherf—kers!

That’s rock.’”

That energy has paid off in New York — many times. After Broadway diva Patti LuPone heard Everett sing The Velvet Underground’s “Waiting for the Man” at a show, she invited Everett to sing with her at Carnegie Hall.

Doing her act at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy festival attracted Amy Schumer, and Everett has been on every season of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central. (The two are friends and have vacationed together in New Orleans, Everett says.)

Everett and her band The Tender Moments (often featuring the Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz) have been regular performers at Joe’s Pub, one of the venues at New York’s Public Theater. Joe’s Pub is a notable spot where Amy Winehouse and Adele first performed when they arrived

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in the U.S., and it helped launch a generation of new types of cabaret performers including Everett and Justin Vivian Bond.

While she plans to continue cabaret singing, Everett’s spending more time on film. Love You More, an Amazon pilot written with Bobcat Goldthwait and also starring Loni Anderson debuts Nov. 10.

“I keep it 50/50,” Everett says.

“Singing and doing live performing is the wife. The film and TV stuff is the mistress. And I love both and I can’t quit either of them.”

FRI.-SUN. OCT. 20-NOV. 5 | Betterknown for blood-splattering comedy musicals (Musical of the Living Dead), See ’Em On Stage presents Shakespeare’s tragedy about vengeance in the battle between Roman general Titus Andronicus and the Queen of the Goths. At 8 p.m. at AllWays Theatre.

Ballet Hispanico SAT. OCT. 21 | The program includes a flamenco-inspired piece created by renowned Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and a Cuban-inspired work set to music by Dizzy Gillespie and Paquito D’Rivera. At 8 p.m. at Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts.

Dinner SAT. OCT. 21 | Danish producer Anders Rhedin synthesizes lush dance pop on New Work (Captured Tracks), his latest album since moving Dinner to Los Angeles, which inspires his moody soundtrack for late nightlife. Babes and Crush Diamond open at 10 p.m. at Circle Bar.

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I-10 News on the move 1. FINAL MAYORAL DEBATE GENERATES FEW SPARKS The three leading candidates in the New Orleans mayoral race — Michael Bagneris, LaToya Cantrell and Desiree Charbonnet — met for a final debate Oct. 11, but most of the drama took place before and outside the event. The website Think504 sent out an email claiming supporters of Troy Henry, who was polling in fourth place, “plan to deny other candidates entrance into the debate,” which was presented by WWL-TV and the Committee for a Better New Orleans. At the WYES-TV studio where the debate was broadcast, police officers were at the doors, but no such protest took place, though about two dozen supporters of similarly excluded candidate Tommie Vassel staged a cheerful, friendly protest in front of the building.

The debate itself covered little new ground, other than a moment when moderator Karen Swensen asked the candidates to express something they admired about each other. Bagneris complimented Charbonnet’s “taste in shoes,” while Cantrell likewise saluted Charbonnet’s fashion sense. For her part, Charbonnet complimented Cantrell’s activism in the Broadmoor neighborhood, but said of Bagneris, “I feel like he has a lovely wife who has stood by him.” Charbonnet didn’t explain the comment.

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Quote of the week “Giving #Equifax a $7.3-mil contract to protect the IRS frm fraud is outrageous- it looks like we’re giving Lindsay Lohan keys to the minibar.” — U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy, criticizing the award of a federal contract to Equifax, which had a much-publicized security breach just weeks before. Kennedy was referring to Lohan’s stints in rehab. His comment infuriated Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, who said, “Dina [his exwife] and I are seeking legal counsel for Lindsay regarding the slanderous comments and unprofessional behavior of Senator John Kennedy. His comment and analogy was inappropriate, slanderous and unwarranted.” (Lindsay Lohan is 31.)

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Ferry pedestrian bridge moves forward New Orleans officials recently announced funding for construction of a pedestrian bridge alongside the new Canal Street Ferry Terminal for passengers to cross over the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad tracks. Mayor

Mitch Landrieu and District C City Councilwoman Nadine Ramsey announced funding for the $7.4 million project with money coming from $5 million in city capital funds, $900,000 in bonds from the New Orleans Building Corporation Canal Street improvements, and $1.4 million in New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) funds. The bridge will be next to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas (on property the Audubon Nature Institute owns) and will link to the $27 million ferry terminal. Both projects are expected to be completed in 2018, and demolition of the existing terminal will begin “in the coming months,” according to Landrieu’s office.

The bridge announcement follows months of discussion and speculation — and political sniping — about its inclusion in the riverfront’s development. City officials noted last week that the bridge won’t include a covered walkway, which many Algiers ferry users (and District C City Council candidate Kristin Gisleson Palmer) have lobbied for — and criticized Ramsey for not securing.

Landrieu’s Deputy Mayor of External Affairs Ryan Berni told the Council’s Public Works, Sanitation and Environmental Committee Oct. 11

that “anybody who says [a covered walkway] is realistic at this point would be lying.”

Landrieu has endorsed Ramsey for re-election.

Committee members questioned the transparency of the design process and whether the multi-million dollar costs are necessary.

RTA officials said designs are still in progress.

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Landrieu issues endorsements Without a press conference or fanfare, Mayor Mitch Landrieu last week announced his endorsements in the Oct. 14 election. Most notably, Landrieu did not issue an endorsement in the mayoral race, nor in the race for City Council District A, though he has said he may do so if there is a runoff.

In the City Council races, Landrieu endorsed Helena Moreno and Jason Williams for the At-Large Division 1 and At-Large Division 2 seats respectively, as well as Jay Banks in District B, Nadine Ramsey in District C, Jared Brossett in District D and James Gray in District E. He also urged renewal of three Orleans Parish School Board millages.

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Jeff Parish schools urged to protect immigrant youth

Juvenile Court advocates help for kids without putting them into the justice system

Parent advocacy organization Nuestra Voz is pressing the Jefferson Parish School Board (JPSB) to pass policies that protect undocumented immigrant youth in schools and limit law enforcement interactions with students on campus. In July, the group called on the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) to adopt similar policies, which the OPSB incorporated in September. Those policies provide OPSB schools with guidelines for how to engage law enforcement on campus, including federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, without involving students.

“Immigrant and minority families face increased intimidation, criminalization, and deportation under Louisiana’s current school policies and the current administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement,” read an October statement from Nuestra Voz. “Passing these policies is a concrete action [the Jefferson Parish Public School System] can take to support and protect valued members of our community.”

New Orleans Juvenile Court judges hope to find alternatives for youth offenders involved in minor crimes by granting them continued access to court-approved diversion programs.

Juvenile Court Chief Justice Candice Bates-Anderson told the New Orleans City Council Oct. 11 that young people “don’t want to leave” diversion programs but still need referrals, transportation help, homework assistance and other aid. The court also is putting together a Racial Justice Improvement Project Task Force to build intervention programs that prevent young people involved in schoolbased offenses from having to enter the courts. The number of school-based offenses in juvenile courts increased from 6 percent to 14 percent from the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 school terms, she said.

Bates-Anderson also discussed human trafficking victims entering the court system, which she said has often been “housing” them for their safety as a way to “offer protection” instead of putting them back on the street. Dis-

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cook in his kitchen. The inmates do not exist to serve at Sheriff Prator’s pleasure,” he said.

Prator’s comments went national and international, being picked up by the likes of the New York Daily News and England’s Daily Mail, as well as on African-American websites like Ebony and The Root.

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New Orleans Youth Open Mic new season starts this week

‘Defender Dialogues’ and justice second line The community storytelling event Defender Dialogues returns Oct. 23 for its second year. Hosted by WBOK radio host and former City Councilman Oliver Thomas, the event is a discussion on criminal justice and the need for reform. It is 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Cafe Istanbul, with a suggested $10 donation to fund the second annual “Second Line for Equal Justice,” which is sponsored by the Innocence Project New Orleans, the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights and the Orleans Public Defenders. That parade will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 4 and will go from Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge (1500 N. Claiborne Ave.) to the steps of Criminal District Court at Tulane Avenue and Broad Street.

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Caddo Parish Sheriff laments loss of ‘good’ inmate labor with criminal justice reform Reaction was swift last week to a video of Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator lamenting new criminal justice reform laws that will reduce the prison population beginning Nov. 1 (see “Commentary,” p. 10). Prator’s objection? The loss of inmate labor.

The state will be “releasing some ‘good ones’ that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in our cars, to cook in our kitchen, to do all that where we save money,” Prator said.

“The criminal justice system is supposed to be about keeping communities safe,” said Marjorie Esman, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.

“Jails are not supposed to incarcerate people just because they need work done — that is slavery.”

State Rep. Gary Carter Jr., D-New Orleans, was similarly appalled: “We will not make criminal justice decisions based on the availability of an inmate to wash the sheriff’s car or

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Now in its fourth year, the New Orleans Youth Open Mic begins its fall season Oct. 18, opening a space for young people to showcase their voice, whether in poetry, prose, rap or other media. Organizers noticed a pattern in poetry scenes around the U.S. where “the best adult scenes have well-supported youth scenes and poetry pipelines,” says co-founder Mwende Katwiwa.

While New Orleans has developed space for local adult writers and slam poetry competitors, “we don’t necessarily have the next generation set up to do the same,” she said.

Signup begins at 6 p.m. and the events start at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18, Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 at Ashe Cultural Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.). It’s open to people in the seventh-12th grades age range.

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Louisiana Nature Center reopens Opened in 1980, the Louisiana Nature Center in New Orleans East gave visitors an immersive, handson look at Louisiana wildlife and the Mississippi River Delta. It came under the wing of the Audubon Institute in 1993 and in 2005 was submerged in 6 feet of floodwater following Hurricane Katrina.

The 86-acre center reopened this month following a years-long, $10 million restoration, bringing back trails and boardwalks winding through trees and waterways, a planetarium, an 8,500-squarefoot “exhibit pavilion,” classrooms and more.

Exhibits are open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, and walking trails are open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. The planetarium is open only during scheduled programming.

Classrooms are available by reservation. Visit www.audubonnatureinstitute.org/nature-center for more information.

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trict A Councilwoman Susan Guidry, who chairs the council’s Criminal Justice Committee, asked whether those “protective” measures end up putting young people in jail who otherwise would not be there.

Bates-Anderson said they often have failure-to-appear warrants and are picked up for other reasons.

“We try to look at each case independently,” she said.

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received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” of $625,000 over five years. Ward, who teaches creative writing at Tulane University, also is among five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction for her new book Sing, Unburied, Sing. She won the award in 2011 for Salvage the Bones. The 2017 winner will be announced Nov. 15.

The Meters once again

were nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It’s the seminal New Orleans funk band’s fourth nomination for the honor, having previously been nominated in 1997, 2013 and 2014.

Five of this year’s 18 nominees will be inducted in a ceremony in 2018.

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Can we talk about 2017?

FIFTEEN-THOUSAND SIX-HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT people voted during the weeklong early voting period in citywide elections from Sept. 30 to Oct. 7, roughly 6 percent of the city’s 257,768 voters.

According to the Louisiana Secretary of State, 66 percent of early voters were African-American, 61 percent were women and nearly 80 percent were Democrats.

Among changing voter demographics is the rise in voters between the ages of 18 and 34. More than 84,000 voters in Orleans Parish are between the ages of 18 and 34, outnumbered only by voters older than 55 (roughly 89,000), but nearly twice as much as the block of votes older than 65 (46,746). “If [young voters] turn out, they could make a huge difference in a lot of elections,” UNO pollster and political science professor Ed Chervenak told Gambit’s Clancy DuBos in September. “They are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.” — ALEX WOODWARD

@ZachLowe_NBA Last night’s NBA dream: Pelicans upset GSW in conference finals, 4-2, and The Jump crew partied w/ Boogie in New Orleans

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showed a photo of the flooded Circle Food Store from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 during a report last week about FEMA’s resources being stretched thin from the 2017 hurricane season.

The show was referencing Hurricane Nate, which made landfall in Mississippi as a Category 1 and did no damage in metro New Orleans. The 12-year-old photo misrepresented the story completely and gave the impression that New Orleans was underwater again.

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BY ANY METRIC, THERE ARE TOO MANY NONVIOLENT PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA JAILS — and putting them

there has not reduced our state’s violent crime rate in any measurable way. We have roughly the same rate of violence as our neighboring states; we just incarcerate more nonviolent offenders. If anything, putting too many nonviolent offenders in jail often turns them into potentially violent offenders after they are released. Think about that as you ponder one more statistic: 95 percent of the people in jail in Louisiana will be released at some point.

Study after study shows America imprisons more of its citizens per capita than any other industrialized country, and Louisiana imprisons more of its citizens than any other state. What we’ve been doing clearly hasn’t worked.

One of the few unqualified successes of the 2017 legislative session was a serious, bipartisan effort to enact a package of criminal justice reform bills. The goal — and it’s a comparatively modest one — is to shrink Louisiana’s nonviolent prison population by 10 percent over the next decade.

We’ll see one of the first fruits of those reforms Nov. 1, when the Louisiana Department of Corrections will release approximately 1,400 nonviolent prisoners, none of whom were convicted of sexually related offenses. The policies leading to their release were crafted by a broad coalition of prison reform advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, crime survivors and other stakeholders. The reforms are estimated to save the state $262 million over the next decade.

These facts make little difference to unscrupulous politicians who demagogue the issue by claiming lawmakers who supported the reforms are “soft on crime.” That, in fact, already happened in the Jefferson Parish Council election. Kenner Councilman Dominick Impastato has aired TV ads falsely claiming that state Sen. Danny Martiny, who authored one of the bills in the reform package, “is willing to let violent criminals go free.” That claim is a shameless lie.

Sadly, such attacks are likely to intensify in the statewide elections of 2019. Gov. John Bel Edwards, who supported the reforms, already seems to be girding himself against false claims that he’s “soft on crime.”

Last week, an Edwards adviser issued a statement pointing out that most of the 1,400 nonviolent prisoners being released on Nov. 1 are getting out “just eight weeks earlier than their projected release date under the previous policy.”

One of the smartest aspects of the reform package is a provision that 70 percent of the $262 million saved by the changes must be reinvested in programs designed to prevent crime and recidivism via job training and education programs. As the two candidates left vying to be New Orleans’ next mayor hone their crime-fighting messages for the Nov. 18 runoff, we hope they will articulate specific proposals to implement the kind of programs anticipated by the reforms that lawmakers adopted last spring.

Reducing crime requires more than hiring more cops and paying them more. It demands being smart and honest on crime by improving the quality of life for all citizens.

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Sales taxes have been a temporary measure to keep the state budget in balance, but that may not be an option any longer.

ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS, IF NOT THE MAIN REASON, state lawmakers

have failed to enact fiscal reform is that they approach the topic the way opposing teams approach a football. They have been focused more on scoring political points and winning the battle for headlines than serving the long-term interests of people who elected them.

This is especially true in the hyper-partisan state House of Representatives. For the past few years, House Democrats and Republicans (and I’m laying the blame on both teams here) have shown so little willingness to work together and so little trust in one another that even nonpartisan ideas have difficulty getting through.

One glaring exception was the recent passage of criminal justice reform, which happened only after a major push from business, civic, faith-based and criminal justice leaders — and after significant compromise. Could that bipartisan effort serve as a template for fiscal reform in 2018?

It’s possible, but a lot will have to change in the next few months.

Last week we saw a sign — a small sign — that House Democrats and Republicans may at least be ready to start talking to one another. Sixty-five House members gathered in Baton Rouge for a one-day informational “retreat” at which legislative staffers briefed them on the socalled “fiscal cliff” that lawmakers and taxpayers face on July 1, 2018.

That’s the date that $1.38 billion in “temporary” taxes (mostly sales taxes) enacted in 2016 automatically roll off the books, leaving a gaping hole in the state budget.

Staffers also presented a list of options for covering that hole, and

there were no surprises. Every potential solution was considered in recent years, but lawmakers refused to consider anything beyond the temporary, stopgap measure that was sold to taxpayers as a “bridge” to fiscal reform. Trouble is, it’s been a bridge to nowhere, and Louisiana is near the end of it.

That’s the bad news. The good news is the warring House factions are starting out with exactly the same information — and list of possible solutions — as time begins to run out.

The safe bet, politically, is that lawmakers will continue to do what they’ve always done: kick the fiscal can down the road by reauthorizing “temporary” measures while promising to seek long-term solutions in the interim.

Even that “safe” play may not work this time, however. “There is absolutely no support on my committee for renewing the sales tax,” says state Sen. JP Morrell, a New Orleans Democrat who chairs the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee. Morrell’s committee has a Democratic majority, and Dems take a dim view of sales taxes.

Without the concurrence of both the House and Senate, no revenue measure — or cost-cutting plan — can be adopted.

House leaders put a more positive spin on last week’s meeting, but the real test will come in the next few months as they try to agree on measures to replace the expiring sales tax. Ultimately, House members, senators and Gov. John Bel Edwards will have to cobble together twothirds majorities in both chambers to enact anything substantial.

That’s why last week’s meeting was but a small step.

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Hey Blake, Is there any information referencing Shoeless Joe Jackson’s playing days here?

—JASON

Dear Jason, Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson was born in rural South Carolina in 1888 and began his professional baseball career with the Philadelphia Athletics. According to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, he picked up his nickname in 1908.

He took off a pair of new spikes which were causing blisters on his feet. After scoring a triple, a fan shouted, “You shoeless son of a gun!” It was reportedly the only time Jackson played “shoeless,” but the name stuck.

Local baseball historian S. Derby Gisclair says “Shoeless Joe” came to New Orleans for spring practice two years later. Philadelphia A’s manager Connie Mack sent Jackson here hoping he would feel at home in a Southern city like New Orleans, where the Pelicans were founded in 1887. According to Gisclair, Jackson stayed through the 1910 season, playing games with the Pelicans at Pelican Park on South Carrollton Avenue. He also picked up another nickname, “the Carolina Confection,” because of his sweet swing.

Baseball historians say Jackson’s time in New Orleans developed his skill as a player. He ended his career with the Pelicans with a .354 batting average. He was traded to the Cleveland Naps and then the

“Shoeless Joe” Jackson spent the 1910 baseball season playing for the Pelicans in New Orleans, where he picked up a second nickname, “the Carolina Confection.”

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Chicago White Sox, which won the 1917 World Series. In 1919, the “Black Sox scandal” rocked the team with allegations the White Sox had thrown the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Jackson was one of eight players indicted by a grand jury. The scandal fostered the legendary (and oft-disputed) “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” plea reportedly uttered by a youthful fan outside the Cook County Courthouse. Although acquitted of the charges, Jackson was banished from the league.

BLAKEVIEW NEXT SUNDAY, OCT. 22, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WILL FILL OAK STREET FOR THE 11TH ANNUAL PO-BOY FESTIVAL , a celebration of the city’s signature

sandwich. What better time to also pay tribute to three men who helped popularize the po-boy: restaurant owners Bennie and Clovis Martin and baker John Gendusa. Born in Raceland, the Martin brothers came to New Orleans to work as streetcar conductors before opening Martin Brothers’ Coffee Stand and Restaurant in the French Market in 1922. According to historian Michael Mizell-Nelson, their work on the streetcars helped form a bond between them and the conductors and motormen who went on strike in 1929. “We fed those men free of charge until the strike ended,” Bennie once said. “Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming, one of us would say, ‘Here comes another poor boy.’” The name would become linked to the sandwich the men served, though some historians say the French bread loaf loaded with any number of ingredients pre-dated the Martins. One of the brothers’ undisputed innovations was the modern po-boy loaf. They worked with Gendusa, who opened his bakery in 1922, to develop a 40-inch loaf that was uniformly rectangular from end to end, unlike the narrowed ends of a traditional French bread. The Martin brothers later moved their restaurant closer to Gendusa’s bakery on St. Claude Avenue. When the brothers parted ways in the late 1930s, Bennie kept the St. Claude location while Clovis developed other restaurants. Clovis died in 1955, and Bennie lived until 1970. John Gendusa’s grandson and great-grandson continue to operate a bakery in Gentilly, producing loaves used by some of the area’s most popular po-boy shops.

WHAT’S IN STORE

BY SARAH RAVITS

AFTER SUFFERING A DEVASTATING FIRE IN MAY, longtime retail

boutique gae-tana’s (7732 Maple St., 504-865-9625; www.gaetanas. com) finally reopened Sept. 7 in its original home. Owner Carolyn Billet says the shop has been completely repaired, offering a fresh variety of women’s clothing, accessories and gifts after losing its entire inventory.

A New Orleans native who grew up with three sisters, Billet took a keen interest in fashion when she got to college. “I always had a tendency to like clothing and style,” she says. “But when I got to college I studied merchandising and felt like it would be a good way to support myself.”

She opened the Riverbend store in 1984 after deciding it was time to establish her own business. Prior to setting up shop, she gained valuable experience in the industry by working at Leon Godchaux’s (now-shuttered) department store on Canal Street, where she was responsible for setting up its first sportswear department.

Her work in merchandising and retail also led her to Paris, where she spent a year. The experience altered her view on fashion, and to this day she seeks clothing and items that have a European flair.

“I always followed the European color trends,” says Billet. “I like the casual sophistication, and it complements our lifestyles here in New Orleans. I like to find trends that are

gae-tana’s owner Carolyn Billet sits outside of her newly renovated store on Maple Street.

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of-the-moment and interpret them into something affordable.”

This fall, she says the shop will feature items made with luxurious fabrics — including velvet — along with embroidered items and other garments that exude sophisticated but casual elegance. She also notes that tassels embellishing jewelry and purses will be prominent.

Billet believes high-quality customer service sets her and her staff apart from competing businesses.

They understand their repeat customers’ personal preferences and cater to their needs.

“We pay attention to our customers and their clothing,” she says.

“We try to sell them things like accessories that will go with what they already have in their closet.”

The shop is versatile in its appeal.

“Some of our clients are in high school, and some of them are 70, 80 years old,” says Billet. “We’re all about lifestyle and attitude, more than trying to cater to a certain age group. It makes a difference.”

The customers also were helpful and supportive when Billet was working to repair the store over the summer. “We had good karma for it,” she says.

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Women chefs in the New Orleans restaurant industry say conditions are changing, though not quickly enough

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tional news when she called out San Pellegrino — the company that sponsors the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list — for a series of photographs of a group of male chefs the brand had picked as jurors.

Crenn, who in 2012 became the first-ever female chef in the U.S. to receive two Michelin stars and in 2016 was named the World’s Best Female Chef by the San Pellegrino brand, called out the organization for its “disappointing” leadership skills. Only 14 out of the 100 jurors picked to cull the prestigious list of restaurants are women.

“You are not inspiring and I hope you learn from this, and show up for all of us,” Crenn wrote. “Please evolve and do the right thing.”

Crenn’s post struck a chord in the culinary world, sparking a debate about unequal gender representation in a profession that has grown in recent years and is attracting more women than ever before. More women than men now are enrolled in The Culinary Institute of America, and in Louisiana, the state ranks fifth in the country for restaurants that are majority-owned by women, according to the Louisiana Restaurant Association.

In New Orleans, more and more women are leading kitchens or stepping into executive chef positions, and a younger generation of chefs is following in the footsteps of trailblazing chefs and restaurateurs like Susan Spicer (Bayona & Mondo), Leah Chase (Dooky Chase’s Restaurant), JoAnn Clevenger (Upperline Restaurant) and Michelle McRaney (Mr. B’s Bistro).

Despite the incredible wealth of female kitchen talent in the city, when it comes to visibility, media attention and equal pay, most women in the industry say work remains to be done.

Chef-driven festivals, in particular, are events where women are starkly underrepresented. At the upcoming Boudin, Bourbon and Beer festival, the event’s four co-chairs are all men, and of the 71 people listed as participating chefs, only eight are women. Three out of 13 contestants in the most recent edition of the Great American Seafood Cookoff were women. September’s farm-to-table Chefs Taste Challenge featured two women out of the lineup of 10 chefs, and Gambit’s own Emerging Chef Challenge in 2016 included only one woman in a list of 14 reader-nominated contestants.

“There’s just not enough women being represented in these events,” said Coutelier NOLA owner and chef Jackie Blanchard. “It makes it hard to participate — and there are enough women chefs out there. We’re just not invited.”

It’s not the only area where female chefs feel slighted. Many women interviewed

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Nina Compton, executive chef at Compere Lapin: “I have cooks that are single moms that need to leave at 5 (p.m.); it’s still tough, to be a professional and to have kids and have a family. I think that it’s tough to work 12 hours or 14 hours and have a kid.”

for this story said they felt they had to work harder than their male colleagues while getting paid less. In 2016, the job transparency website Glassdoor found that female chefs still make 28.3 percent less in base pay than their male counterparts.

BLANCHARD CUT HER TEETH AT THOMAS KELLER’S THE FRENCH LAUNDRY IN NAPA VALLEY and San

Francisco’s esteemed Benu and was a sous chef at Restaurant August from 2010 to 2014. Realizing she was never going to make the same as her male colleagues, she decided to take a break from the industry to open up her own knife shop on Oak Street.

“The pay scale is where the real problems are and I think that’s why eventually I left,” Blanchard said.

“The pay scale wasn’t contingent upon merit — it still feels like you’re being paid as a woman.”

Martha Wiggins, who took over as executive chef at French Quarter restaurant Sylvain in 2014, said early on in her career she was more likely to work longer hours for less pay.

“We’re kind of catching up with the men now, and we’re excelling and that’s something that I think needs to be recognized.”

— Nina Compton “Grueling hours, grunt work, anything like that — no problem,” Wiggins said. “I was just so happy just to be there. In my mind, it was because I thought I didn’t know shit.

A lot of that was probably because

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Haley Bittermann, executive chef of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group: “I always felt that to gain the respect of the men, that I needed to work just as hard — if not better — than them. Once I could hold my own, I was part of the team.”

I was a woman, but also because I was young.”

And the idea of kitchens as places where sexism and racism can thrive hasn’t helped women in the industry either, Wiggins said.

“It’s been more empowering to be a person of color in this industry amongst a very white male, Southern peer group,” she added. “Sometimes, I have a hard time identifying in that context. I got really lucky, but I think it’s still really hard for women in a lot of ways, mostly from a business ownership point of view.

When you start to get in a room of men who are business owners, then you can get to be made real small, real quick.”

Willa Jean chef and partner Kelly Fields said “being unheard and unseen, constantly being undermined by chefs, co-chefs and even cooks was commonplace” in many of the American kitchens where she’s worked. “I also truly stand behind the idea that women have to work twice as hard, sacrifice twice as much to make it in this industry,” Fields adds.

IN 1993, THEN-27-YEAR-OLD HALEY BITTERMANN became the youngest

executive chef and first woman to helm a kitchen in a Brennan family restaurant. Now the director of operations and executive chef for the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, Bittermann says she credits a strong female role model (her mother) and hard work for her ascent in the company.

“Kitchens are very much a contact sport and it is a team effort; if there’s a weak link on the line, everybody suffers,” Bittermann said. “I always felt that to gain the respect of the men, that I needed to work just as hard — if not better — than them. Once I could hold my own, I was part of the team; it didn’t matter if I was a woman or a man … it wasn’t an issue.”

During the 1970s and 1980s, a group of women began making their marks on New Orleans kitchens and restaurants, including restaurateurs like Upperline’s JoAnn Clevenger and Ti Adelaide Martin of Commander’s Palace, who recently tapped chef Meg Bickford to head

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How would you like to see conditions in the culinary field improve for women?

Nina Compton,

chef, Compere Lapin I definitely think women need to have a support system. I think a lot of the women in the industry don’t really have anyone to talk to or to relate to. I feel like, as women, we should connect a little bit more and support each other in the same way.

I think it’s also about making women know that it’s OK to take a chance to become a chef or a sous chef and having those things in place to help (them) get there … just to allow them to grow as a professional.

Ruby Bloch,

solo baker I think the restaurant as a whole is going in the right direction. Kitchens should be about respect and about treating people like humans. But there’s a reason why the industry is known for drug and alcohol abuse, and I think that’s partially because of the environment. The work-hard play-hard thing … I think that when it’s abused, it can be unhealthy for certain people — it is fun to get the adrenaline rush and everything, but it doesn’t have to be the extreme where you’re not taking care of yourself. You can work hard and love your work and have it be a positive thing.

Martha Wiggins,

executive chef, Sylvain I think what would be helpful would be a restaurant system that respects and hears everyone’s point of view.

The general idea that it’s fine for a kitchen to be a toxic environment or an abusive environment because ‘it’s just how it is,’ to be dispelled — because it’s bullshit. I think we have a higher tolerance for putting up with it than men do, and then we kind of end up getting stepped on, because we can take it. I think that would offer a lot more progressive movement in the industry.

Kelly Fields,

chef and partner, Willa Jean I think far more of the credit should go to individuals and organizations who are talking openly and honestly about mental, emotional, and physical health in kitchens. I think we’re well on our way to an even playing field as long as we continue to be vocal and fight for ourselves as women. … Conversations such as this are happening with great frequency.

I would love to see us get to a place where the gender of chefs no longer needs to be discussed or noted. I know we’re not there yet, but I feel hopeful.

Susan Spicer, pioneering chef and restaurant owner: “I think people are focused on better working conditions in general now, and not just for women.”

the kitchen at Cafe Adelaide as the first female executive chef to lead a kitchen in the restaurant group.

Martin credits her mother Ella Brennan, the strong-willed matriarch of the Brennan family, for inspiring her own foray into the business — and for her management style.

“I worked extremely hard, like my role model,” Martin said. “I think one of the things that holds women back is not having the presence in situations to be acknowledged. I’ve been taught enough by my mom to be present in the room and have your thoughts heard when needed.

(As women), we’re more collaborative — we’re better communicators.

And we women in town have always had each other’s back.”

Compere Lapin’s Nina Compton echoes those sentiments and said the camaraderie between New Orleans chefs helped welcome her to the city in ways she hadn’t experienced elsewhere. At her restaurant, Compton employs a number of young women, who she says are eager for support and mentorship.

“As a whole, the industry has changed a lot,” Compton said. “It’s not that French system of ‘We’re gonna berate you, we’re gonna talk down to you, we’re gonna smash plates’ — those days are gone. That system was in place and made women feel unwelcome.”

“This is all such great work, such great direction ... we just have to keep it up and be in for the long haul.”

— Kelly Fields Many of the women interviewed said the decision to pursue a career in the culinary field, which requires notoriously long hours and extreme physical work, presents challenges when it comes to starting a family.

Women entering the profession at a young age may have a better chance of being in a higher position when they reach their prime childbearing years, but it’s never easy, says Compton.

“I have cooks that are single moms that need to leave at 5 (p.m.); it’s still tough, to be a professional and to have kids and have a family,”

Compton said. “I think that it’s tough to work 12 hours or 14 hours and have a kid. I think those things have hindered women for a very long time. … We’re kind of catching up with the men now, and we’re excelling and that’s something that I think needs to be recognized.”

In an industry where maternity leave is often unheard of, child care often is not an option — even if you’re an owner. Samantha Carroll, who together with her husband, Cody, runs the Warehouse District restaurant Sac-a-Lait, worked up till — and on — the day she gave birth to their baby girl, Malley.

“I begged my doctor to induce me, because we were about to open the restaurant,” Carroll recalled. Two weeks after the restaurant opened, Carroll worked a shift on the line, went home, took a bath, and promptly went into labor. Two weeks later, she was back in the restaurant, often bringing her infant daughter along, pumping breast milk in the bathroom between running the dining room and popping back in the kitchen.

“I’d have her in a little portable crib, and sometimes I would stick her in the window with me while I was expediting,” Carroll said, laughing. “But after I had her, and after we had gotten settled in with a kid and two restaurants, I felt like I could handle anything. This industry is really hard on families … but women in this industry are tough: They figure things out, they make things work.”

DESPITE WHAT MANY SAY STILL IS AN UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD, an old-

er generation of female chefs in the city say progress is being made.

“I think people are focused on better working conditions in general now, and not just for women,” said Susan Spicer, the James Beard Award-winning chef whose landmark restaurant Bayona recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Spicer, who started cooking at 26, inspired a generation of younger women in the city to become chefs.

The kitchens at her restaurants Bayona and Mondo both are led by women, and many of the women interviewed for this story listed her as their role model.

Last month, Les Dames d’Escoffier International, a group of women leaders in the food, beverage and hospitality professions, introduced a New Orleans chapter. And Besh Restaurant Group chef Kelly Fields recently launched the “Yes Ma’am” foundation to increase access to mentorship and hands-on continuing education for New Orleans women in the industry.

“We’ve also seen wonderful programs being developed and offered

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Ti Adelaide Martin, co-proprietor of Commander’s Palace: “I think one of the things that holds women back is not having the presence in situations to be acknowledged. I’ve been taught enough by my mom to be present in the room and have your thoughts heard when needed.”

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Martha Wiggins (right), executive chef at Sylvain: “The general idea that it’s fine for a kitchen to be a toxic environment or an abusive environment because ‘it’s just how it is’ needs to be dispelled — because it’s bullshit.”

through the James Beard Foundation directed towards, and in support of, women chefs and entrepreneurs,” Fields said. “This is all such great work, such great direction ... we just have to keep it up and be in for the long haul.”

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Banana appeal

Briq house BRIQUETTE (701 S. Peters St.,

504-302-7496; www.briquettenola.com), a sprawling seafood restaurant, is now open in the Warehouse District.

Lindsey Jo Vasquez and husband and chef Robert Vasquez and restaurateur Anna Tusa opened it Oct. 5 in the Refinery building, the home of the Rodd Bros. Molasses Refinery in the 1800s. There’s a spacious dining room with picture windows offering views of the chefs at work.

Mangu serves Dominican cuisine in Gretna

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund BRIGHT GREEN PLANTAINS ARE BOILED, SMASHED and

whipped with butter until silky. Known as mangu, the traditional Dominican dish is where it all begins at a new Gretna restaurant bearing the same name.

For the whipped plantains, there are toppings to consider. From carne de res guisada — tender, melt-inyour-mouth hunks of braised beef — to fried pork chops, sauteed shrimp, braised goat and Dominican sausage, the list of accompanying options can seem endless. I loved the Criollo version, in which a mound of creamy plantains is topped with a citrusy avocado sauce, cracklings and shredded braised chicken, served with a vinegary carrot and cabbage salad — comfort food at its very best.

Tres golpes, or “three punches,” is perhaps the most widely known version of the dish. Traditionally it is served for breakfast, and the plantains serve as a starchy accompaniment to fried eggs, fried salami and fried cheese.

Until now, New Orleans has had scant options for Dominican cuisine.

The owners of this restaurant, a local family with relatives hailing from the Caribbean nation, opened their eatery this summer in a strip mall on a stretch of Belle Chasse Highway.

The small, brightly colored restaurant has a welcoming vibe and consists of little more than a handful of tables and a small bar, where imported Dominican Presidente, a

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light, crisp pilsner, is plentiful.

The Dominican Republic is a former Spanish colony, and the dishes here carry the influences of Spain, Africa and the indigenous Taino community, among others.

Quipes, a take on Lebanese kibbeh, was introduced by Middle Eastern immigrants who arrived in the country at the end of the 19th Century.

The croquettes of ground beef and spices are fried to a golden brown for a crunchy, delicious snack.

Rice and kidney beans are cooked together so the rice takes on the flavor and color of the beans and spices, a style common in several Caribbean countries. Although the dish was flavorful, it was dry. Golf ball-size bolas de yuca — the Dominican answer to Italian arancini — feature mashed yuca wrapped around mozzarella, which is breaded and fried until the cheese melts. They are served four to an order.

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quipes, mangu Criollo

Dariana Marte serves Dominican cuisine at Mangu.

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features prominently on the menu and the most obvious example of this comes with yaroa, a popular Dominican street food consisting of french fries or sweet plantains topped with roasted pork and a blanket of melted cheddar cheese.

For the morning after, there’s the traditional tripe soup mondongo, a crimson elixir served piping hot, bobbing with gelatinous tripe bits, onions and peppers.

Mangu has relieved New Orleans of its dearth of Dominican food and plantain and cheese lovers in particular are all the better because of it.

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Gretna restaurant highlights traditional Dominican dishes and serves plenty of plantains

Chef Robert Vasquez opened Briquette.

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Robert Vasquez originally is from Scottsdale, Arizona, and is known locally for the Southwest-inspired New American cuisine served at Opal Basil in Mandeville. The couple closed that restaurant earlier this year to reopen a more casual version of it in the Warehouse District along with Briquette.

Briquette highlights Louisiana and Gulf Coast seafood and a section of the menu is dedicated to grilled fish, which on the opening menu included redfish, cobia, halibut, pompano, tuna and snapper.

Smaller dishes and salads fall in the $10 to $14 range and include a lobster tamale with spicy chorizo, a fried egg and bisque sauce. Lump crabmeat salad is tossed with avocado, pickled mirliton, blue corn crisps and a jalapeno-lime vinaigrette. Grilled octopus and Gulf shrimp and served with tomatoes, cilantro and a lemon-butter broth.

Larger dishes range from $18 to $26. Broiled boneless short rib is served with bacon risotto, wilted spinach and a Calvados sauce.

Cilantro-flecked shrimp come with gnocchi, queso fresco and Crystal butter. A smoked-chili pork tender-

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THE OAK STREET PO-BOY FESTIVAL

(www.poboyfest.com) is free to attend, but this year, patrons who want to buy food from festival vendors at the Carrollton area street party have to buy a $5 wristband.

The 11-year-old festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, on Oak Street between South Carrollton and Leake avenues and on Leonidas Street from Oak to Willow Street.

Wristband sales support vendors and musicians and also benefit the Son of a Saint (www.sonofasaint. org) youth mentorship program.

Wristbands are not required to purchase alcoholic beverages.

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“We are happy to keep the festival free to enter and, in fact, we welcome everyone from our neighborhood, as well as from across the city and state,” said Min Yang, co-president of the Oak Street Merchants, Residents and Property Owners. “We also needed to find a way to create a fund for future improvements, to grow Po-Boy Fest year over year for the foreseeable future.”

Creative po-boys are the focus of the event, and restaurants and vendors include Boucherie, Bratz Y’all!, Crabby Jack’s, Dunbar’s Creole Cuisine, Jacques-Imo’s Cafe, Red Fish Grill, Seither’s Seafood, Walker’s Southern Style BBQ and others.

The festival kicks off at 10:15 a.m. with a second line parade led by Coolbone Brass Band.

The festival main stage lineup includes King James and the Special Men, Brass-A-Holics, Robin Barnes & the Fiyabirds and others. Three smaller stages feature Michot’s Melody Makers, Soul Brass Band, Bon Bon Vivant, Hill Country Hounds, Kettle Black and others.

There also are craft vendors at the festival. — HELEN FREUND

boudin patties are on the menu at the Emeril Lagasse Foundation’s (www.emeril.org) upcoming Boudin, Bourbon & Beer (www. boudinbourbonandbeer.com) event in Champions Square Nov. 3.

The organizers of the annual fundraiser announced the full menu for the festival last week. Each year, local and visiting chefs roll out creative takes on the Louisiana sausage and bourbon dishes.

Among the dishes from the more than 65 participating chefs are a neck bone stew with foie gras fried

OF WINE THE WEEK

rice and mustard from chef John Folse of Restaurant R’evolution; bacon bread pudding with beer cheddar sauce and a bourbon macaron from Salon by Sucre’s Tariq Hanna; crispy smoked boudin, roasted apple raviolini and colatura from Maypop’s Michael Gulotta; and sheepshead boudin crackling and caviar from GW Fins’ Michael Nelson, among others.

A selection of Abita beers, Buffalo Trace bourbon cocktails, wines and Nat Sherman cigars also will be offered to attendees. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Langhorne Slim & the Law, Kristin Diable & the City and Silverado Pickups perform. — HELEN FREUND

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2016 Disruption Rose Columbia Valley, Washington Retail $12 ROSE WINES ARE BECOMING MORE POPULAR , and im-

ports have doubled in the past five years, according to Wine Spectator. Domestic roses also are gaining fans, and U.S. wineries are producing some well-structured, easy-drinking versions. This wine from Washington’s Columbia Valley is produced by newcomer Disruption Wine Company. Winemaker and co-owner Andrew Latta worked as a sommelier in Southeast Asia, where he became familiar with the wines of the world. He worked as a cellar hand for a decade in Washington’s Walla Walla region. Disruption sources fruit from high-quality vineyards in the state. A blend of 64 percent syrah, 17 percent cinsault, 11 percent grenache and 8 percent mourvedre grapes is pressed and fermented with native yeasts. In the glass, the wine offers intense citrus and raspberry aromas. On the palate, taste red berries, good acidity and minerality. Drink it with barbecue, melons and other fruit, salads, egg dishes, boiled seafood and many other foods.

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loin is served with lump crabmeat, charred romaine lettuce, red peppers and sweet potato mash.

Briquette is open daily for dinner.

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Todd Pulsinelli CHEF/RAPPER RESTAURANT AUGUST EXECUTIVE CHEF TODD PULSINELLI has more than just impres-

sive kitchen skills up his sleeve. On Sept. 9, the Ohio-bred chef, aka Warbucks, dropped his third hip-hop album Side Dishes, a record full of heavy beats and explicit lyrics, including the songs “Dirty Rice” and “Cheese Gritz.” It’s available on Apple’s iTunes store and at Coutelier NOLA and Turkey & the Wolf. Pulsinelli talked to Gambit about his creative process and how he got rapping.

When did you start rapping?

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PULSINELLI: It all stems from skateboarding, watching skateboarding videos and being into hip-hop. Since I was 13, I’ve always been in bands. In Ohio, around that time, I started getting into hip-hop from watching skateboard videos, because I’ve been a skateboarder my whole life. My friend Chuck and I, we just started recording using a boombox in the living room. We started getting more into it when we started using a four-track tape cassette recorder, which were relatively cheap back in the day.

As I got older and got a job and started making money, I could buy better equipment. For this (album), we used Logic (Pro recording software), and I also have an old digital eight-track recorder from 1995 that I recorded two of the songs on. (My influences) are from the mid ’90s, East Coast mostly: A Tribe Called Quest, Mobb Deep, stuff like that.

What’s your creative process like when recording?

P: It was hard to find time to record stuff, but I made it with my brother-in-law — after work we would mess around with beats.

He’d made beats in the past, and so we would work together on the music. I usually like to make the beats first and then write words to them. It kind of depends on what the beat is, what comes to mind while you’re doing it.

(The name Warbucks) is because I’m going bald and I’m white, and I just thought it was funny. Really, rappers always boast about being rich and I thought it was funny because I’m

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definitely not rich at all, but I am white and going bald.

(For the album) all the songs we were making were like side dishes, so it seemed like a good name.

That was the concept of the album. Every song comes on and I just start rapping … so there’s no real chorus or hook. It’s just beat, kind of like a side dish. I like the second song — that’s really fast, “Baked Jalapeno Cheese Mac” — and I like “Collard Greens and Fish Sauce.” I think that turned out pretty good too.

Some of it is just from experience and funny things that happen (in the kitchen).

It’s definitely an outlet, and it helps to express yourself. Some people play sports and some people workout and do yoga. It’s just something I’ve always loved to do.

There are some other kitchen talent cameos on both albums. Who are we listening to?

P: (Root and Square Root chef) Phillip Lopez is on one of them.

He’s on the Soup and Sandwich album, and he says a bunch of funny stuff. He used to be my neighbor and we recorded this song, in like 2009, and I put it on this record that came out later. But there’s been a few cook friends. On the new album, there’s Big Zesty; he’s a cook over at Cochon, Richard Horner. I know him through Mason (Hereford) over at Turkey & the Wolf and those guys.

There was another kid on the last album. He was a line cook when I was the chef at The American Sector. He was really, really good and had a few YouTube videos and was really trying to do something, so we recorded two songs together on the last album.

— HELEN FREUND

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The Lamb & the Owl 6 p.m. Friday Press Street Station, 5 Press St., (504) 249-5622 www.pressstreetstation.com Chef Michael Doyle roasts Mississippi lamb and serves it with Koreaninspired pickles, preserves and sides. The first course includes arugula with sheep’s cheese and persimmon vinaigrette and lamb tartare.

Roasted lamb is served with flatbread, eggplant chutney, sweet curry potatoes, pickled apples, maple-whipped tofu, papaya-okra relish, and more. There’s chocolate bark and fruit for dessert. The dinner costs $45, or $60 with unlimited beer from Wayward Owl Brewing Company. Tax and tip not included.

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NOLA Cochon de Lait Festival 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday Palmer Park, S. Carrollton Avenue at S. Claiborne Avenue www.nolaporkfest.com Formerly the Magazine Street Blues Festival, an annual fundraiser for a nonprofit supporting officers of the New Orleans Police Department’s Second District, the event is now the NOLA Cochon de Lait Festival.

There’s food from Jacques-Imo’s Cafe, Moe’s Original Bar B Que, Chef Linda Green “The Yakamein Lady,” Reginelli’s, Crepes a la Cart, T Moise Farms, Plum Street Snowballs and others. Soul Rebels, Big Sam’s Funky Nation and Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters perform. Free admission.

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NOLA Mac n’ Cheese Fest 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St. www.nolamacncheesefest.com A dozen vendors including Atchafalaya, The Big Cheezy, Food Drunk, Frey Smoked Meat Co. and Melt compete in a macaroni and cheese contest and serve other dishes as well. There’s music by George Porter Jr. and the Runnin’ Pardners, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux with John “Papa” Gros, John Boutte, Susan Cowsill and others. Free admission.

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Breads on Oak 8640 Oak St., (504) 324-8271 www.breadsonoak.com Pumpkin-cheddar biscuit sandwiches are filled with a tofu scramble and vegan andouille sausage.

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527 Harrison Ave., (504) 827-1152; Elmwood Shopping Center, 1126 S. Clearview Parkway, Suite D, Elmwood, (504) 605-7944; 2209 Magazine St., (504) 570-6945; 5637 Magazine St., (504) 313-1316 www.districtdonuts.com Pumpkin seeds top glazed pumpkin cheesecake donuts.

The Italian Barrel 430 Barracks St., (504) 569-0198 www.facebook.com/theitalianbarrelneworleans House-made pumpkin-filled ravioli are served with brown butter and sage sauce.

Josephine Estelle Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet St., (504) 930-3070 www.josephineestelle.com Sourdough toast is topped with chanterelle mushrooms, pumpkin, ginger and creme fraiche.

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Spotted Cat Food & Spirits New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074 www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com Sweet potato gnocchi are served in a pumpkin spice sauce.

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

AMERICAN Vista Buffet — Treasure Chest Casino, 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — The buffet includes New Orleans and Southern favorites, barbecue, Asian and Italian dishes, carving stations, a salad bar and more. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

BAR & GRILL Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www.facebook.com/queeniesonstclaude — The daiquiri shop offers house-made mini pies in flavors such as Key lime and pecan, and weekly specials include oyters on Tuesday nights and steaks on Wednesday night. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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BARBECUE Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — Ted’s special combination includes choices of three meats (sliced brisket, pulled pork, sausage, pork ribs) and two sides (baked beans, corn, coleslaw, potato salad). No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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cheeses and sauteed ham, peppers and onions served with hash browns. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily.

Cash only. $ Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/ cafeluna504 — The menu includes locally roasted coffee, house-made chai, handrolled bagels and a variety of items cooked from scratch. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma. com — The cafe serves shrimp salad, chipotle-marinated portobello sliders, flatbread pizza topped with manchego, peppers and roasted garlic and more. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Sun., dinner Fri. Credit cards. $ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — The bar offers wines by the glass and full restaurant menu including mussels steamed with Thai chili and lime leaf. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees, pastries and desserts baked in house and a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads.

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 — The organic Argonne turkey sandwich features organic avocado, tomatoes, sprouts and Havarti cheese on choice of bread. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — The menu features an array of charcoal-grilled burgers topped with cheese, chili and barbecue sauce and more. No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. Credit cards. $

Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., , (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — The menu includes pastries, bagels, breakfast dishes, sliders, burgers, sandwiches and more. Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — The coffee shop serves pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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August Moon — 3635 Prytania St., (504) 899-5129; www.moonnola.com — The menu includes Chinese and Vietnamese dishes such as sweet and spicy tilapia glazed in tangy sweet-and-spicy sauce served with bok choy. Delivery available.

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

Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — The croque St. Bernard features roast beef debris, smoked Gouda cheese, caramelized onions, chive aioli and bechamel on focaccia. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly. com — The Morning Star features two eggs topped with Swiss and American

Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations to lo mein dishes. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ PAGE 26

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COFFEE/DESSERT Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $

CONTEMPORARY Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Stuffed quail is served with cornbread dressing, haricots verts, cherry tomatoes and rum-honey glaze. Reservations accepted. Brunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include crispy smoked quail salad with pear and bourbon-molasses dressing. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Vinegar-braised grilled beef short ribs are served over stone-ground yellow grits with arugula and boiled peanut salad. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — The eclectic menu includes bouillabaisse, grilled Caribbean lobster, jerk shrimp and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., early dinner Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Pecan-glazed Colorado lamb loin is served with bourbon and lamb bacon-braised kale, black-eyed peas and pecan gremolata. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — A tamarind-glazed double-cut pork chop is topped with green chili mole and served with sweet potatoes. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Emeril Lagasse’s newest restaurant offers an array of internationally inspired dishes, such as sofrito-marinated turkey necks with Crystal hot sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Garlic-crusted drum is served with brabant potatoes, crimini mushrooms, bacon, haricots verts and beurre rouge. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Mon., dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Grilled Gulf fish is seasoned with tandoori spices and served over Brussels sprouts, smoked potato puree and apple and fennel slaw.

Reservations recommended. Dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — The Belgian waffle sundae is a waffle topped with brown butter pecan and chocolate gelato, caramel, chocolate, cocoa nibs, chocolate croutons and

whipped cream. Reservations accepted. Brunch and early dinner Thu.-Mon. Credit cards. $$ Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — The constantly changing menu features dishes such as pan-fried Gulf flounder with kumquat-ginger sauce, crispy Brussels sprouts and sticky rice. Reservations accepted for large parties. Dinner Wed.Sun., late-night Thu.-Sat., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards accepted. $$

CREOLE Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines. com — Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Eggs Sardou is poached eggs over crispy artichokes with Parmesan creamed spinach and choron sauce.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast and lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — The Landing serves Cajun and Creole dishes with many seafood options. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; www.palacecafe.com — Creative Creole dishes include crabmeat cheesecake topped with Creole meuniere.

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 — This restaurant offers contemporary Creole dishes.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter. com — Tableau’s contemporary Creole cuisine includes marinated crab claws in white truffle vinaigrette. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

DELI Breaux Mart — Citywide; www. breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” and weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli offers corned beef and pastrami from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — The wine emporium’s dinner menu includes pork rib chops served with house-made boudin stuffing, Tabasco pepper jelly demi-glaze and smothered greens. No reservations. Breakfast

OUT TO EAT Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; Www.sammyspoboys.com — The Flickaletta is the muffuletta made with ham, salami, Swiss cheese and olive salad on French bread. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., Dinner daily.

Credit cards. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 5920223; www.weltysdeli.com — The New Orleans AK sandwich features a choice of four meats plus cheddar, provolone, pepper Jack and Swiss cheeses on a warm muffuletta bun. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

INDIAN Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — The restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. 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 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including curries and tandoori.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — The menu features tandoori dishes with chicken, lamb, fish or shrimp, mild and spicy curries, rice dishes such as chicken, lamb or shrimp biryani, and many vegetarian items. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

ITALIAN Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines old world Italian favorites and pizza. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JAPANESE Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include raw and cooked versions. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. Delivery available. Credit cards. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese PAGE 30

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like duck and wild mushroom spring rolls with mirin-soy dipping sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$ Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant.com — Shrimp Ya-Ya features Gulf shrimp sauteed with Cajun pesto and served with garlic toast. 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 — Popular dishes include turtle soup finished with sherry, grilled lamb spare ribs and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola.com — “Death by Gumbo” is an andouille- and oyster-stuffed quail with a roux-based gumbo poured on top.

Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

MEDITERRANEAN/ MIDDLE EASTERN

Chef de Cuisine Paul Robert presents a Besh burger at Besh Steak (8 Canal St., 504-533-6111; www.caesars. com/harrahs-new-orleans) at Harrah’s New Orleans.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

cuisine, including sushi, hibachi dishes, teriyaki and tempura. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily.

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LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Rebel Yell braised short ribs are served with corn maque choux and mashed sweet potatoes. Reservations accepted.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola.com — Baked stuffed Creole redfish is served with crabmeat and green tomato crust, angel hair pasta and Creole tomato jam.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys.com — Braised Niman Ranch pork cheeks are served with sauteed Southern greens, grit cakes, sweet potatoes and country gravy. Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — This power lunch spot offers dishes

Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — House-made couscous can be topped with Moroccan-style chicken, lamb or beef and is served with vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner Sun.-Thu. Credit cards. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

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MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola. com — Ceviche Cabo San Lucas features yellowfin tuna, avocados, tomatoes, onion, jalapenos, cilantro, lime and sea salt, and cucumber is an optional addition.

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 — Juan’s serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — El Fuego tacos feature braised brisket, Monterey Jack cheese, salsa verde and pico de gallo in corn tortillas. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

MUSIC AND FOOD The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — The menu offers such Creole favorites as gumbo and crab cakes and there are cheese plates as well. Reservations accepted. Breakfast daily, lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Thu., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

OUT TO EAT

House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 3104999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Panseared jumbo shrimp top a grit cake and are served with chipotle-garlic cream sauce and tomatoes. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — Dine indoors or out on seafood either fried for platters or po-boys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish pie, crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

NEIGHBORHOOD biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Signature dishes include a waffle topped with brie and blueberry compote. Delivery available Tuesday to Friday. No reservations.

Brunch and lunch daily. Credit cards. $$ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — This cafe serves an elevated take on the dishes commonly found in neighborhood restaurants. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — Stuffed gumbo features a hand-battered and fried catfish fillet atop chicken, sausage, shrimp and crabmeat gumbo. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch daily, Dinner Mon.Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Koz’s — 515 Harrison Ave., (504) 4840841; 6215 Wilson St., Harahan, (504) 7373933; www.kozcooks.com — Red beans and rice with fried chicken is a Monday and Wednesday special. The roast beef po-boy features house-cooked roast beef on Gendusa Bakery bread and is dressed with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. No reservations. Hours vary by location. Credit cards. $ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — The roast beef po-boy is dressed with cheese and brown or red gravy and served on a toasted sesame loaf. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

PERUVIAN Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Daily ceviche selections feature seafood such as tuna, snapper or other Gulf fish. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards.$$

PIZZA G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — Brick-oven Margherita pizza includes mozzarella, basil and house-made garlic-butter sauce. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards.$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 483-6464; www.gspizzas.com — Margherita pizza features house-made dough topped with garlic-butter sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan, oregano and tomatoes. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $ Louisiana Pizza Kitchen — 95 French Market Place, (504) 522-9500; www.lpkfrenchquarter.com — Jumbo Gulf shrimp are sauteed with sherry, tomatoes, white wine, basil, garlic and butter and served over angel hair pasta. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil.

No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — Slice serves pizza by the pie or slice, plus salads, pasta and more. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — The neighborhood bar and restaurant offers a menu of pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and bar noshing items. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

SANDWICHES & PO-BOYS Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — Killer Poboys offers a short and constantly changing menu of po-boys. No reservations.

Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $ Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — Po-boy fillings include everything from fried seafood to corned beef. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — Popular po-boy options include fried shrimp or fried oysters and roast beef slow cooked in its own jus. 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 — The menu includes

grilled whole fish, royal red shrimp with garlic butter and crab and crawfish beignets with remoulade. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Bourbon House serves seafood dishes including New Orleans barbecue shrimp, redfish cooked with the skin on, oysters from the raw bar and more. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant.com — Blackened or sauteed redfish Pontchartrain is served with crabmeat, mashed potatoes and lemon beurre blanc. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; Www. jackdempseys.net — The Jack Dempsey platter for two features gumbo, shrimp, catfish, crab balls, redfish, crawfish pies and two sides. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — The menu of Cajun and Creole favorites includes gumbo, turtle soup, seafood platters and New Orleans barbecue shrimp. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

STEAKHOUSE Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — The house filet mignon is served atop creamed spinach with fried oysters and Pontalba potatoes. Reservations recommended.

Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar — 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www. steakkniferestaurant.com — Shrimp bordelaise features jumbo Gulf shrimp sauteed with mushrooms, white wine and garlic butter and flamed with brandy.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$

VIETNAMESE Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 483-8899; www.namese.net — Shaken pho features bone marrow broth, flat noodles and a choice of protein (filet mignon, short rib, brisket, seafood, chicken, tofu) stir-fried with onions, garlic and bone marrow oil. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — Banh mi include roasted pork dressed with carrots, cucumber, jalapenos and cilantro on French bread.

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Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — The Gazebo features a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes and ice cream daquiris.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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TUESDAY 17 21st Amendment — Prohibition AllStars, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Jan Marie, 3; Dana & the Boneshakers, 6:30; Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band, 6:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 Banks Street Bar — Ricky T & the Robots, 9 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8 Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters Quartet, 8 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Chip Wilson, 5:30; Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 8; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 10:30 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6 Columns Hotel — John Rankin & Friends, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Kismet, The Wasted Lives, The Modern Eldorados, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Jennifer Westwood & the Handsome Devils, 9 House of Blues — Spoon, Mondo Cozmo, 8:30 House of Blues (The Parish) — Tricky, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Rougarou, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard “Piano” Scott, noon The Jazz Playhouse — The James Rivers Movement, 8 Joy Theater — Roadcase Royale, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Mag’s 940 — All-Star Covered Dish Country Jamboree, 9 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Mardi Gras World — Kid Cudi, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Dorian Greys, 10 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band feat. Wendell Brunious, 6; Preservation All-Stars feat. Will Smith, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Queenie’s — Jackson Square AllStars, 6:30 Ray’s — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Vincent Marini, 4; Lucas Davenport, 7

Santos Bar — Zeke, ANTiSEEN, Against the Grain, Spellbreaker, 8 SideBar — Helen Gillet & Loren Pickford, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10; John Wooton Caribbean Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Dave Geare, 3; Geovane Santos, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 Three Muses — Sam Cammarata, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8 Tipitina’s — Azealia Banks, 9

WEDNESDAY 18 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Jonathan Freilich, James Singleton, Rick Trolsen, Rex Gregory, Stanton Moore, 9 Algiers Ferry Landing — Wednesdays on the Point feat. Amanda Shaw, Darcy Malone & the Tangle, 5:30 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 6:30; Sunshine Brass Band, 10 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Sierra Green & Soul Machine, 5; Mignano, 8; MainLine, 11 Bourbon O Bar — Shynola Jazz Band, 8 Cafe Negril — Maid of Orleans, 6; Another Day in Paradise, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — T-Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters, 7 Chickie Wah Wah — Ivor Simpson-Kennedy, 5:30; Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8; WWD40 feat. Charlie Wooton, Jermal Watson, Mike Doussan, 10:30 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7; Siham & Phil the Tremolo King, Thibault, 10 Columns Hotel — Andy Rogers, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Consider the Source, The Iceman Special, 9 House of Blues — MadeinTYO, K Swisha, 8 House of Blues (The Parish) — White Reaper, 7:30; Jet Lounge, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — Glen David Andrews, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8:30 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Jordan Anderson Band, 10

Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Claude Hitt, 8 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Will Smith, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1; Matt Galloway, 9 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — David Bach, 4; Tony Seville & the Cadillacs, 7 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Jerry Embree, 8 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 The Sandbar at UNO — John Wooton, 7 Santos Bar — Omni, Walter TV, Video Age, 8 Siberia — DJs Matt Scott and Otto, 9 SideBar — Larry Sieberth & Mark Southerland, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Gemini Syndrome, Deadset Society, First Fracture, Spoken, 6:30 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Bart Ramsey, 3; Up Up We Go, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10 Three Muses — Leslie Martin, 5; Schatzy, 8

THURSDAY 19 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJ Mange, 9 Bar Redux — Burning Down the House with DJ Solo X, 8 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 — Burris, 11 Bourbon O Bar — The Key Sound, 8; The Luneta Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Banu Gibson, 5; Ce Beguine, Charlie Halloran, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Casa Borrega — Los Caballeros del Son, 7 Castle Theatre — Linda Wright, Reggie Smith, 8 Champions Square — The xx, Perfume Genius, 7:30 Check Point Charlie — The King Snakes, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; John “Papa” Gros Band, 8:30 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; Country Night with DJ Pasta, Lou Roux, Josh Lee Hooker, 9:30 Covington Trailhead — Rockin’ Dopsie, 5 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30 d.b.a. — Sarah Quintana & the Miss River Band, 7; MainLine, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Jason Bishop’s American Jam, 7 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren Pickford Quartet, 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Bianca Love, Noelle Tannen, McKenna Alicia, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Future

Leaders of the World, 8:30 The Jazz Playhouse — Ashlin Parker Trio, 5; Brass-A-Holics, 8:30 Joy Theater — Lil Yachty, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Vincent Marini, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — Jamey St. Pierre & Dave Freeson, 7 Mudlark Public Theatre — Fister, Un, Cikada, Crossed, 7 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Nattie, 8 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Simon Burke, 9 One Eyed Jacks — Louie Fontaine & the Starlight Searches, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Tim Laughlin & Duke Heitger, Crescent City Joymakers, 8 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Rare Form — Voodoo Wagon, 5 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Monty Banks, 5 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Horace Trahan, 8:30 Siberia — Eastern Bloc Party feat. Krescent Klezmorim, 9 SideBar — Annie Ellicott & Jonathan Freilich, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Gene Bertoncini & Bill Grimes, Steve Masakowski, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Davis Rogan, 3; Tom Witek Band, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Arsene Delay, 8 Treo — The St. Claude Serenaders, 6:30 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Sam Kuslan, 5

FRIDAY 20 21st Amendment — Juju Child Blues Band, 9:30 The AllWays Lounge & Theater — Rewind: ’80s, ’90s, ’00s with DJ Matt Scott, 10 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Caesar Brothers, 5:30; Swamp Donkeys, 10 Banks Street Bar — Days N Daze, We the Heathens, Yotam Ben Horin, Seth Anderson, Samm Bones, 9 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl & Adam Everett, 8:30 Bar Redux — Monster Mash with DJ Shane Love, 10 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers’ Funk Box, 7; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — MB3, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Slow Rollerz Brass Band, 6 Bourbon O Bar — The Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Phil DeGruy & Emily Robertson, 6; Kris Tokarski Trio, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 PAGE 35

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Pampered & Pink

AT AUDUBON ZOO

A WOMEN’S HEALTH CELEBRATION PRESENTED BY TOURO INFIRMARY

Thursday, October 19 6 to 9 p.m.

Audubon Tearoom, New Orleans TICKETS: $20 EACH OR TABLE RATE 6 FOR $100 Learn more or purchase tickets at www.touro.com/pinkparty This event is made possible with support from The Heebe Family Fund at the Touro Infirmary Foundation

Made possible with financial support from the Touro Infirmary Foundation

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The xx and Perfume Genius

PERFUME GENIUS’ MIKE HADREAS authored my favorite album of 2017, an unsettling and unsettled pop smear called • Oct. 19 No Shape (Matador). It’s my favorite by such a large margin that English trio The xx • 6:30 p.m. Thursday — which is headlining this tour, and which • Champions Square, also released a fine album in 2017, I See You Lasalle St., (504) 587-3663; (Young Turks) — won’t get another mention here. All four of Hadreas’ LPs are essenwww.champions-square.com tial listening. His 2010 debut Learning is a detailed-to-the-pixel childhood emotional PHOTO BY LUKE GILFORD purge set to affecting, repeating piano figures. Follow-up Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) lifted the lo-fi veil and adopted a layered, classicist approach, but the primary coloring remained. On 2014’s Too Bright, everything changed. The song structures and his androgynous voice morphed into hugely weird/weirdly huge theatrical numbers, and Hadreas’ embattled homosexuality became a source of undeniable power — both in his lyrics (“Queen” answers his early “non family safe” YouTube censorship with the wicked retort “No family is safe when I sashay”) and his look, approximated on Too Bright’s 24-karat cover by his transformation into the Academy Awards’ Oscar as a gay-runway runaway. No Shape offers yet another unexpected explosion: One minute in to the baroque-minuet intro “Otherside” and lead-single liftoff “Slip Away,” those primary colors burst into blinding rainbows, showering audiences in summit-sunrise sound. Every subsequent track argues for this to be either Hadreas’ most inclusive and outre work yet, from the plucky, two-toned “Valley” (“How long must we live right / Before we don’t even have to try?”) and heart-racing Lindsey Buckingham rocker “Wreath” to sidetwo sundowner “Choir” (a Vivaldi-scored panic attack) and deprived whisper “Die 4 You.” It’s the kind of record that immediately demands a second spin, an immortal coil as penetrating as it is impenetrable. Hadreas’ challenge is thrown down in another of Too Bright’s defining lines: He doesn’t need your love; he doesn’t need you to understand. He needs you to listen. Tickets $15-$52. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

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Casa Borrega — Geovane Santos, 7 Check Point Charlie — Luna Mora, 8; The Jerk 6, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Colin Lake Band, 8 Circle Bar — Rik Slave’s Classy Country Combo, 6; Craft Night, Rathbone, 10 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Marc Stone, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Joe Krown Trio, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Zoe K & Friends, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social Latin Dance Party, 10 Gasa Gasa — Khris Royal, Partners-nCrime, Nell Simons, 11 The Historic New Orleans Collection —

Robin Barnes, 6 House of Blues (The Parish) — Atlas Genius, Magic Giant, Half the Animal, 8 The Jazz Playhouse — Joe Krown, 4; Ricardo Pascal’s New Orleans Wildlife Band, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 5; Beth Patterson, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7; Tom Leggett Band, 11 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Mudlark Public Theatre — Manhattan Murder Mystery, Ekumen, Space Ship, 9 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Damn Hippies, 7; Una Walkenhorst, Thibault, 9 Oak — Burris, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Marshland, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8

SATURDAY 21 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Abita Springs Town Hall — Chris Talley Band, The Trustys, Rick Robertson Band, Gentilly Stompers, 7 Bamboula’s — G & the Swinging Three, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 Bar Redux — John Underwood, Aurelea River, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Andy J Forest & St. Louis Slim, 7; Stooges Brass Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Marigny Street Brass Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5 Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters & the Party Meters, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene Delay & Friends, 6; The Royal Rounders, 9 Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Casa Borrega — Co & Co, 7 Check Point Charlie — Woodenhead, 8; Swamp Motel, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Dylan LeBlanc, 8 Circle Bar — Dinner, BABES, Crush Diamond, 10 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 7; Rebirth Brass Band, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Antonio!, 10 PAGE 37

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21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Ace Hotel, 3 Keys — Ivan Neville, 9 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Paul Sanchez, Spencer Bohren, Alex Bosworth, 8:30 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Foot & Friends, 3; Ruth Marie’s Jazz Band, 7 Bourbon O Bar — G & the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Ben Fox Trio, 4; Steve Pistorius, Orange Kellin, James Evans, Benny Amon, 7

21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 7:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — NOLA Swingin’ Gypsies, 5:30; Smoky Greenwell, 9 Banks Street Bar — Chris Dibenedetto’s Piano Showcase, 7 Blue Nile — Jeff Chaz, 7; Brass-A-Holics, 10 BMC — Lil Red & Big Bad, 8; TUBAD & the Kings of NOLA, 10 Bourbon O Bar — Shake It Break It Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene Delay, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray, 8 Circle Bar — Phil the Tremolo King, 7; Spodee Boy, Datenight, 9:30 Columns Hotel — David Doucet, 8 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6

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d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Esther Rose (album release), Lonesome Doves, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Danny Alexander’s Blues Jam Session, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 Gasa Gasa — Worriers, Thin Lips, Crocuta, 9 House of Blues — The Magpie Salute, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Stolen Rhodes, Debris, 9 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French Trio, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 8:30 Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts — Evanescence, 7:30 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Ed Mosley, 8 Rare Form — Nervous Duane, 1 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — John Marcey Duo, 4; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 7 SideBar — Dave Easley, David Anderson, Tom Chute, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Sam Cammarata, 3; Carolyn Broussard, 6 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 Three Muses — Monty Banks, 5

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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.

Brenden Gunnell. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — The tenor sings Schubert’s “Die Winterreise” accompanied by pianist Hendrik Heilmann. Suggested donation $20. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871 — The orchestra performs Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto,” Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 (“Reformation”) and Adamo’s “Overture to Lysistrata.”

Tickets $20-$140. 7:30 p.m. Friday. The orchestra also presents a free outdoor concert on the Mandeville lakefront (Lakeshore Drive, Mandeville) at 5 p.m.

Saturday.

Pacifica Quartet. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — The quartet performs with guitarist Sharon Isbin. Tickets $18-$35.

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Hi-Ho Lounge — Pink Room Project, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — Daniel Meinecke, 5; Michael Watson, 8 Joy Theater — Gogol Bordello, Lucky Chops, 8; Hell’s Gala After-Party feat.

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Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5; Jamie Lynn Vessels, 9 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Mardi Gras World — Hell’s Gala feat.

Excision, Kayzo, Trippy Turtle, 9 Marigny Brasserie & Bar — The Key Sound, 4 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Clint Kaufmann, 7 Oak — Dapper Dandies, 9 Old Opera House — Chicken on the Bone, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Misfit Toys, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Tasche & the Psychedelic Roses, Bottomfeeders, DJ Rusty Lazer, 10 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Charlie Fardella & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation AllStars feat. Shannon Powell, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 RF’s Dining Music Cocktails — Lucas Davenport, 6; Hyperphlyy, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Soul Rebels, 10 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Amanda Ducorbier, 9 Santos Bar — The Bad Signs, Lizvfer & the Tree, The Quaalords, 8 Saturn Bar — The Fruit Machines (album release), HiGH, Skelatin, 9 Siberia — Green Gasoline, Colossal Heads, Brian Minks & the Kentucky Sons, 10 SideBar — Brian Haas, Annie Ellicott, Noelle Tannen, 10 Smoothie King Center — Bruno Mars, 8 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Herlin Riley Quartet, 8 & 10 Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — Up Up We Go, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 Three Muses — Chris Christy, 5; Meschiya Lake, 6 Tipitina’s — DJ RQAway, The Great Glaspy Experience, 11 Twist of Lime — DD Shock, Arn Mait’n, 10 Windsor Court Hotel (Cocktail Bar) — Sam Kuslan, 5

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REVIEW A TOWERING FIGURE IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORIES OF THE U.S., Thurgood Marshall may have been the most effective legal tactician of his time. At age 45, Marshall won the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court that ended segregation in public schools and paved the way for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

He became the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967 and was a beacon of social progress throughout his 24-year tenure on the court.

Marshall’s extraordinary life and career make him a prime candidate for the kind of well-intentioned but superficial biopic often churned • Directed by out by Hollywood, even when an incisive docReginald Hudlin umentary seems a far better idea. Fortunately for all concerned, director Reginald Hudlin’s • Starring Chadwick Marshall is not that film.

Boseman and Josh Gad Focusing almost exclusively on an important • Wide release but now little known 1941 legal case, Marshall serves up an old-fashioned, character-driven courtroom drama. It also humanizes its largerPH OTO BY BAR RY WE TCH E R / than-life central figure and spotlights MarO P E N R OA D F I L M S shall’s heroic work early in his career. There’s nothing remotely gritty or realistic about Marshall — it’s engaging, often funny and built for mass appeal, even while establishing a clear but unspoken connection to the social struggles of the 21st century.

By conceiving his film as entertainment, Hudlin elevates a story about the fight for racial equality in America above partisan politics and increases his odds of reaching those who might shy away from a heavy historical drama.

Marshall spent the first 20 years of his career as a star defense attorney for the NAACP. In that role, he continuously traveled the country by train — often venturing into dangerous areas of the Deep South where few people had ever seen a black attorney — to defend innocent men and women facing severe danger in the form of a legal system stacked against people of color.

Marshall focuses on the case of Joseph Spell, a black chauffeur accused of raping his employer, Greenwich, Connecticut socialite Eleanor Strubing. The case became a tabloid sensation (knocking news of World War II from the top of the front page on many American newspapers) that only increased racial tensions at the height of the Jim Crow era. That few people today are familiar with Spell’s story allows Marshall to build suspense regarding the outcome of the trial.

Playing the 33-year-old Marshall is Chadwick Boseman, an actor who recently has developed a considerable talent for portraying historical figures such as Jackie Robinson (42) and James Brown (Get on Up) in full-blown Hollywood biopics.

Boseman’s Marshall is charming, charismatic and fully aware that he’s almost always the smartest guy in the room.

Marshall’s foil in the film is Samuel Friedman (comedic actor Josh Gad), a mild-mannered local insurance lawyer hired to smooth Marshall’s entry into upper-crust Greenwich. When the presiding judge (James Cromwell) forbids Marshall from speaking on behalf of his client in court, Friedman must step in and collaborate on the case despite a complete lack of relevant experience. The odd couple’s rocky personal and professional relationship adds another dimension to the story and set up the film’s most humorous scenes.

The story presented by Marshall suggests that one often must fight from within a deeply flawed system to accomplish meaningful social change. It’s a hard lesson from an easy-to-watch film, but one that continues to resonate today.

— KEN KORMAN

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FILM FESTIVALS

OPENING THIS WEEKEND Blood Country — The Mississippi-set thriller takes place in 1884 and stars Jeremy London. Chalmette The Challenge — The documentary profiles Qatari sheiks who are interested in falconry. Zeitgeist Geostorm (PG-13) — Climate scientists battle weather-control satellites gone haywire in this vaguely futuristic environmental thriller. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette Loving Vincent — The animated film tells the story of Vincent van Gogh’s death. Broad Same Kind of Different as Me (PG-13) — An art dealer buddies up to a homeless man in a last-ditch effort to win back his wife (Renee Zellweger). Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell The Snowman (R) — Michael Fassbender is elite detective Harry Hole on a killer’s trail during a harsh winter. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (PG-13) — Madea and friends must flee a haunted campground in Tyler Perry’s perpetual franchise. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal

NOW SHOWING American Assassin (R) — A Cold War veteran and a vengeful young man try to foil a world war. Regal American Made (R) — Tom Cruise tries to win us back in this trueish story about a pilot recruited into CIA cartel ops. Elmwood, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Battle of the Sexes (PG-13) — Tennis players (Steve Carell, Emma Stone) face off in a famous match/media circus. Elmwood, Broad, Regal Blade Runner 2049 (R) — The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s cyberpunky thriller features Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Slidell, Prytania, Regal, Clearview, Cinebarre Flatliners (PG-13) — This is a remake of the ’90s creepshow about med students playing around with near-death experiences.

Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal The Foreigner (R) — A London businessman (Jackie Chan) breaks bad when his daughter is killed in a terrorist attack.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Happy Death Day (PG-13) — Like Groundhog Day, if Groundhog Day had been a slasher film. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Home Again (PG-13) — Three dudes move in with single mom Reese Witherspoon. Slidell It (R) — A new adaption of the Stephen King book that sparked a nation’s fear of clowns. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R) — The star-studded spy comedy follows 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Broad, Slidell, Regal

SPECIAL SCREENINGS 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti — This documentary tells the story of the Haitian revolution. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Prytania Bolshoi Ballet: Le Corsaire — The ballet is loosely based on a poem by Lord Byron.

11:55 a.m. Sunday. Elmwood Brave (PG) — A headstrong princess tosses arrows, and her curls. 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday. Elmwood The Century of the Self — The documentary covers Freudian theory and its use by people in power. 9 p.m. Monday. Happyland Theater (3126 Burgundy St.) Bayou Maharajah — David Torkanowsky plays at a screening of the James Booker biopic. 1 p.m. Sunday. Preservation Hall Black Cat, White Cat — The comedy mixes slapstick and folklore as it follows a Bosnian community. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

Happyland Theater (3126 Burgundy St.) Blade Runner (R) — The classic sci-fi film was inspired by Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 9 p.m.

Friday-Saturday. Happyland Theater (3126 Burgundy St.) Chasing Trane — The documentary profiles musician John Coltrane. 6 p.m. Friday.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center Chocolat (PG-13) — A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in an uptight French town. 6 p.m. Thursday. Le Meridien (333 Poydras St.) Dead Ant — Tom Arnold appears in the horror comedy about a metal band battling giant ants. 10 p.m. Monday. Prytania Dementia 13 — Francis Ford Coppola directed this 1963 horror movie involving an inheritance plot and a murderer. 10 p.m.

Sunday. Prytania Disney Junior at the Movies: Halloween Party! — Kids are invited to dress up for screenings of Halloween-themed shorts.

10 a.m. Satuday. Elmwood, Regal Double Indemnity — A woman convinces a weak-willed man to kill her husband for the insurance money. 10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania

FILM Finding Joseph — The eccentric behavior of a singer from Bad Brains is profiled. 9 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday. Zeitgeist Ghostbusters (PG-13) — “When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes!”

7:30 p.m. Friday. New Orleans Museum of Art Goldfinger (PG) — Bond — James Bond — must foil a raid on Fort Knox. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania Halloween (R) — Michael Myers preys on small-town teens. Midnight Friday-Saturday. Prytania The Heart of Man — The faith-based documentary is loosely themed around the story of the prodigal son. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Elmwood, Regal King No Crown — Hip-hop artist Blueprint presents the documentary. 7 p.m. Thursday. Zeitgeist Kirk Cameron Revive Us 2 — This film’s terrifying tagline: “A National Family Meeting.”

7 p.m. Tuesday. Elmwood, West Bank, Regal The Metropolitan Opera: Die Zauberflote — This is Mozart’s opera better known as “The Magic Flute.” 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood Mississippi River Sharks — The SyFy channel film first screened as part of “Sharknado Week.” 8 p.m. Thursday. Rice Mill Lofts (522 Montegut St.) The Nile Hilton Incident — In Cairo, a corrupt cop uncovers a murder’s connection to Parliament. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Zeitgeist Plan 9 from Outer Space— San Fernando Valley residents battle flying saucers. 8 p.m.

Wednesday. Catahoula Hotel (914 Union St.) The Princess Bride (PG) — The oft-quoted fairy-tale send-up is screened. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) — An engaged couple forgets to leave a trail of breadcrumbs when they find a strange mansion in the woods. 10 p.m. FridaySaturday. Elmwood Steve McQueen: American Icon — The documentary features interviews with stuntmen and McQueen’s biographer.

7 p.m. Thursday. Elmwood Stranded in Canton — The documentary is by photographer William Eggleston. 8 p.m.

Saturday. New Orleans Photo Alliance (1111 St. Mary St.) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG) — The powered-by-pizza quartet fights crime.

7 p.m. Friday. Lemann Park The Triplets of Belleville — An elderly Frenchwoman and her dog get mixed up in international intrigue. 7 p.m. Monday. Happyland Theater (3126 Burgundy St.) Tokyo Ghoul — Based on the dark manga (it sounds like True Blood, but with zombies).

7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Elmwood “Unfamiliar Again” Screenings — Several short films by women directors are screened.

7 p.m. Wednesday. Tulane University, Newcomb Art Museum Wildkat Wrestling Halloween Special — The wrestling program’s Halloween special premieres. 7 p.m. Friday. Zeitgeist

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Visit www.neworleansfilmfestival.org for details. Tuesday-Thursday

Marshall (PG-13) — Chadwick Boseman portrays Thurgood Marshall as a young NAACP lawyer trying a highprofile sexual assault case. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Cinebarre The Mountain Between Us (PG-13) — Kate Winslet is opposite Idris Elba in a survivalist drama about a plane crash.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre My Little Pony: The Movie (PG) — Round up your bronies for this animated musical based on the children’s show. Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal Only the Brave (PG-13) — An elite firefighting team spars with a raging fire in Yarnell, Arizona. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell A Question of Faith (PG) — Car crashes cause strangers’ lives to intersect.

Elmwood, Slidell The Stray (PG) — Broken relationships are mended through the healing power of a dog. Elmwood Stronger (R) — Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing. Elmwood ’Til Death Do Us Part (PG-13) — A woman tries to escape her abusive partner. Elmwood Victoria & Abdul (PG-13) — An Indian man and Queen Victoria hit it off on the eve of her Jubilee. Elmwood, Cinebarre

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HAPPENINGS Farewell Party. National Art & Hobby, 5835 Magazine St., (504) 899-4491; www.nationalartandhobby.com — There’s a farewell party for the art supply, paint and hobby store, which is closing.

7 p.m. Saturday.

Third Thursday Exhibition Tour. Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Newcomb Place, (504) 314-2406; www.newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu — Tom Friel leads a free tour of current museum exhibitions.

Noon Thursday.

OPENING Martin Lawrence Gallery New Orleans.

433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — New work by modern masters including Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Dali; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection,” exhibit about African-American contributions to visual art; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday. “The Colourful South,” exploration of color photography in the South; “Troubled Waters,” dye transfer color prints by photographer William Eggleston; both through Oct. 26.

GALLERIES 5 Press Gallery. 5 Press St., (504) 940-2900; www.5pressgallery. com — “Lo.cus,” new mixed-media works created from found materials by Lorna Williams, through Nov. 11.

Academy Gallery. 5256 Magazine St., (504) 899-8111; www.noafa.com — “A Retrospective,” Dorothy J. Coleman retrospective; “New Work,” oil paintings by

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A Gallery for Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Barking at God — Retablos Mundanos,” hand-colored photogravures combining Mexican devotional art and New Orleans graffiti, through December.

Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — “Human/Nature,” new surrealist works by Steven Kenny, through Oct. 24.

Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “Pleasure, Performance, Politics,” work addressing contemporary issues by eight Louisiana artists, through Nov. 5. “We Believe in Infinite Intelligence,” prints from Lacey Prpic Hedtke’s book of the same name, through Nov. 27.

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

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

Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 524-3233; www.ariodantegallery.com — New work by Dana Manly and Carmen Lee Nance Gambrill; jewelry by Nancie Roark; crafts by Nancy Susaneck; all through October.

Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico.

901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 5283722; www.culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico.blogspot.com — “The Mardi Gras Indians: Cultural Connections in the Americas,” photographs depicting Mardi Gras Indian culture, through Thursday.

Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Crossing,” new work by Ralph Bourque; “Sensitivity Training,” new work by Stephanie Patton; “Entangled,” new work by Brian Guidry; “Balancing Act,” new work

by Troy Dugas; all through Oct. 28.

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forms can be alluring, but only Spanish artists have made them as immortal as Picasso’s curvy, convoluted concoctions or Joan Miro’s mysterious blobby squiggles — and only Fernando Botero could get away with a tubby, chubby Christ in crucifixion scenes. Jose-Maria Cundin, born in Spain in 1938, was an accomplished artist when he landed in New Orleans in 1964. Here his surreal satirical paintings of impish Latin characters quickly found a following. Despite occasional sojourns in Spain, Paris and Miami, he remains a local presence at his sprawling studio compound across Lake Pontchartrain in Folsom.

Along the way, his impish characters morphed into vividly colorful clusters of blobs and fragments that radiate oddly human sensibilities.

In this new show, those nubby forms have begun reverting back into human figures, at least partially. Maybe it was a nihilist impulse that made him turn blobby in the first place, but the recent rise of nihilistic, infantile narcissism in American politics has made even artists look relatively responsible by default, and here Cundin tackles political tackiness in The Supreme Leader (pictured), in • Through Oct. 30 which a larger than life demagogue in • The Supreme Leader and gold finery strikes a grandiose pose. His regal abode includes a fat cat grasping Other Ponderables: New a Barbie doll and a mousetrap baited paintings by Jose-Maria Cundin with cash, but his head is a pulsating miasma of incoherent globs. Maybe • Callan Contemporary, America’s recent banana republic ten518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; dencies inspired Cundin’s reprise of old Latin stereotypes, including deranged www.callancontemporary.com dictators and wayward priests. Non-Denomination Preacher Showing the Way depicts a sanctimonious blob figure confronting a cowed congregant, but Exercises on Levitation (Extreme Yoga) takes a lighter approach to social commentary. The Dark Room of the Bourbons depicts ghastly green fragments swarming like demons from the dank dungeons of history — but the most poignant example is The Unqualified Candidate, a view of an empty chair accompanied by a lumpy humanoid zombie, a manic morass of incoherent impulses grasping at an aura of authority that eternally eludes him. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

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Berta’s and Mina’s Antiquities Gallery.

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

Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary.com — “The Supreme Leader and Other Ponderables,” works in oil by Jose-Maria Cundin, through Oct. 30.

Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “Apparitions,” new work in oil by Jere Allen, through October.

Claire Elizabeth Gallery. 131 Decatur St., (843) 364-6196; www.claireelizabethgallery.com — “Garden of Earthly Delights,” new works by Jason Kruppa, Michael Meads and Carlton Scott Sturgill about vanity, lust and human desire, through Saturday.

Cole Pratt Gallery. 3800 Magazine St., (504) 891-6789; www.coleprattgallery. com — “Beneath the Layers,” figurative oil paintings by Stephen Strickland, through Oct. 28.

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

Ellen Macomber Fine Art & Textiles. 1720 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-9414; www.ellenmacomber.com — Exhibition by gallery artists, ongoing.

Frank Relle Photography. 910 Royal St., (504) 388-7601 — New selections from “Until the Water,” “Nightscapes” and “Nightshade,” night photographs of Louisiana by Frank Relle, ongoing.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “A Growing Dance,” photography and installation exploring the body by Robyn Leroy-Evans, through Nov. 5.

Gallery 600 Julia. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.gallery600julia.com — “Illuminations: New Orleans in the Night,” night scenes in oil by Lesperance, through October.

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

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

Gallery Orange. 819 Royal St., (504) 701-0857; www.gallery-orange.com — “In Bloom,” stylized portraits by Anna Kincaide, ongoing.

Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave., (504) 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “Property of Emptiness,” works by Ana Husman, Jusuf Hadifejzovic and Summer Acceptance, through Nov. 5.

Hall-Barnett Gallery. 237 Chartres St., (504) 522-5657; www.hallbarnett.com — “WTF,” group show featuring James Kane, Caitlin Albritton and 25 other artists, through Dec. 5.

Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave., (504) 361-6620; www.dcc.edu/departments/art-gallery — “We’re Still Here,” group exhibition by fine arts and visual communications faculty, through Nov. 15.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “Object,” hand-cut road map sculptures and metallic paintings by Nikki Rosato; “Campaign Julienne,” patterned drawings on mylar by Laura Tanner Graham; both through Oct. 28.

Ken Kirschman Artspace. NOCCA Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St., (504) 940-2787; www.nocca.com — “Strivin’,” group show curated by NOCCA alumna April Curran, through Monday.

LeMieux Galleries. 332 Julia St., (504) 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “The Concurrence of Things,” new work

by Kathryn Hunter, through Oct. 28.

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

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

by Martin Welch, ongoing.

Martine Chaisson Gallery. 727 Camp St., (504) 304-7942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “Hello There,” new paintings by Logan Ledford, ongoing.

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

M.S. Rau Antiques. 630 Royal St., (504) 523-5660; www.rauantiques.com — “Aristocracy: Luxury and Leisure in Britain,” art, furniture and objects from 19th-century England, through Jan. 20, 2018.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383-4765; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — Group show by Jim Sohr, Glenn Miller, George McClements, Britney Penouilh, Sergio Alvarez and Hernan Caro, through Nov. 3.

New Orleans Photo Alliance. 1111 St. Mary St., (504) 610-4899; www.neworleansphotoalliance.org — “Deafening Sound,” documentary photography about domestic and sexual violence by Annie Flanagan, through Nov. 11.

Octavia Art Gallery. 454 Julia St., (504) 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Ode to a Flower,” paintings, works on paper and multi-sensory pieces by Joseph Cohen, through Oct. 28.

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

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

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

Second Story Gallery. New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 710-4506; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — “Grand Claims,” new works by Ron Bennett, through Nov. 4.

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

Slidell Cultural Center. Slidell City Hall, 2055 Second St., Slidell, (985) 646-4375 — “Women’s Caucus for Art Louisiana,” new work by regional artists, through Oct. 27.

Soren Christensen Gallery. 400 Julia St., (504) 569-9501; www.sorengallery.com

SPARE SPACES Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. 1725 Baronne St., (504) 314-2330; www.architecture.tulane. edu/outreach/small-center — “Sites of Resistance,” works highlighting activism in New Orleans throughout the city’s history, through Feb. 5, 2018.

Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — “Things Imagined: Life Outside the Lines,” work about dreams and ideas, through Nov. 26.

Crescent City Brewhouse. 527 Decatur St., (504) 522-0571; www.crescentcitybrewhouse.com — Group exhibition by Al Champagne, Brenda Delle, Darlene Johnson, Karen Kelly, Dawn Koetting and Glinda Schafer, through Oct. 30.

East Bank Regional Library. 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — “1,000 Words,” nine photographs by Olivia Greene, through October.

M. Furniture Gallerie. 2726 Royal St., Suite B, (504) 324-2472; www.mfurnituregallerie.com — Paintings by Tracy Jarmon; copper work by Giovanni; watercolors by Bill James; furniture by John Wilhite; all ongoing.

ART Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery. 535 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 527-5271; www. old77hotel.com — “Art Crush I,” group exhibition curated by Dabito, ongoing.

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

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

Tulane University (Jones Hall). 6801 Freret St. — “The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner,” drawings, letters and photographs by the architect, through June 8, 2018.

MUSEUMS The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc. org — “A Most Significant Gift: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection,” more than 80 works from the Nelson Collection including Newcomb pottery, through Oct. 21, and more.

Le Musee de F.P.C. 2336 Esplanade Ave., (504) 233-0384; www.facebook.com/ lemuseedefpc — “Through His Lens,” Harold F. Baquet photography retrospective, through Dec. 15.

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

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

Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes and Culture. 1010 Conti St., (504) 218-4872; www.themardigrasmuseum.com — “Jours des Phantoms; Masks and Mayhem,” new paintings by Herb Roe, through Dec. 27.

New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “East of the Mississippi: 19th-Century American Landscape Photography,” vintage photographs of the American landscape, through Jan. 7, 2018.

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, through Dec. 23.

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The Spielman Gallery. 1332 Washington Ave., (504) 899-7670; www.davidspielman.com — Black-and-white photographs

by David Spielman cover travel, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf South, ongoing.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/ staplegoods — “Magenta Alert,” photography and audio installations from an endurance performance by Jenna Knoblach, through Nov. 5.

St. Tammany Art Association. 320 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 8928650; www.sttammanyartassociation. org — “Self/Reflection,” selections from New Orleans Museum of Art collections, through Dec. 3.

Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Instinct,” abstract works by Antonio Carreno; mixed-media prints by Delita Martin; both through October.

The Striped Hat. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8207 — “Dr. Seuss’ Unorthodox Taxidermy,” sculpture by the children’s book author presented by Angela King Gallery, through October.

Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “Shuffle,” exhibition by gallery artists, through Nov. 1.

UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.finearts.uno. edu — “Lakeshore Drive,” new work by UNO fine arts faculty, through Nov. 5.

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

Zack Smith Photography Studio and Gallery. 4514 Magazine St., (504) 2517745 — “The Battlefield Oak,” landscape photography by Zack Smith, ongoing.

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center.

1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistnola.org — “The Mini Worlds and Many Words of Sean IssoFresh,” psychedelic mixed-media works by the Louisiana artist, ongoing.

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STAGE Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www. oneeyedjacks.net — The burlesque troupe’s performance is the kickoff to its 12th season. Tickets $15-$25. 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday.

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Mischief & Mysticism Show. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 9454446; www.hiholounge.net — Ragbag Productions presents the burlesque and variety show. 10 p.m. Sunday.

The Really Big, Super Gay, Happy Clown Wedding. The AllWays Lounge & Theater, 2240 St. Claude Ave., (504) 2185778; www.theallwayslounge.net — The variety show is a wedding celebration for Glitter the Clown and Thugsy DaClown.

Tickets $20, or $10 in clown costume.

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Talk Nerdy to Me. Dragon’s Den (upstairs), 435 Esplanade Ave., (504) 940-5546; www.dragonsdennola.com — The weekly sci-fi-themed revue features burlesque performers, comedians and sideshow acts. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday.

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DJ Shane Love performs. Free admission.

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

DANCE Ballet Hispanico. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., (504) 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — New Orleans Ballet Association presents the company, whose performance is a tribute to Cuban dance. Tickets $25-$110. 8 p.m. Saturday.

OPERA Treemonisha. Music Box Village, 4557 N. Rampart St.; www.musicboxvillage.com — OperaCreole and Cripple Creek Theatre present Scott Joplin’s opera about a woman on a former slave plantation who is kidnapped by local magicians. Tickets $25-$40. 7 p.m.

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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.

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

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

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

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

Comedy Gumbeaux. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — Frederick “RedBean” Plunkett hosts an open-mic standup show. 8 p.m. Thursday.

Comic Strip. Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.siberianola. com — Chris Lane hosts the stand-up comedy open mic with burlesque interludes. 9:30 p.m. Monday.

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

7:30 p.m. Friday.

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

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

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

9 p.m. Friday.

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

9 p.m. Friday.

KC Arora and Dennis Rooney. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — The comedians appear on their “Trial by Fire” tour. 10:30 p.m. Friday.

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

9:30 p.m. Monday.

Larry Larkin. Scandinavian Jazz Church and Cultural Center, 1772 Prytania St. — The comedian performs. Tickets $25. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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

The Megaphone Show. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater. com — Improv comics take inspiration

PREVIEW GETTING AN EDUCATION shouldn’t be a liability. But in Scott Joplin’s opera, Treemonisha, a young woman who confronts conjurers who sell “bags of luck” to superstitious people finds herself under suspicion. One of the conjurers proposes a solution to his followers.

“We’ll throw her in the wasps’ nest!” sings Simon (Kentrell Roberts) in a deep bass voice.

Treemonisha is set on a former plantation in Texarkana in the early 1880s. Treemonisha (Kenya Jackson), who was born after the Civil war, has been educated and that sometimes puts her in conflict with some of the freed • Oct. 21-22 slaves who hold onto superstitious beliefs.

• 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Treemonisha’s parents Ned (Terrance Brown) and Monesha (Ebonee Davis) try to • The Music Box Village, protect her, but it’s revealed that she’s adopt4557 N. Rampart St. ed. That doesn’t help with the mob clutching their bags of luck, closing in to throw her in • www.squareup.com/ the wasps’ nest. store/airlift OperaCreole, led by Givonna Joseph and • Tickets $20-$40 filled with many former Xavier University students, has performed songs from Treemonisha such as “A Real Slow Drag” since 2012.

PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER The group typically closes its annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival performances with works from the show. In conjunction with Cripple Creek Theatre Company and the New Resonance Orchestra, OperaCreole is staging a full production at the Music Box Village Oct. 21-22. (VIP tickets include a short lecture on Joplin at 6:30 p.m.)

“When I saw the houses at the Music Box, they seemed like the houses in Treemonisha,” Joseph says. The opera company decided to do the production outrdoors to make use of the setting.

Treemonisha features a 13-piece orchestra, five dancers and 13 singers, many of them veterans of OperaCreole performances. Cameron-Mitchell Ware starred as a pianist based on Scott Joplin, the composer considered the father of ragtime, in Cripple Creek’s production of the musical Ragtime in August 2016. Nicole Buckels, who also worked on Ragtime, is choreographing the dancers.

The Ragtime production helped initiate a conversation between Cripple Creek and OperaCreole, says Cripple Creek artistic director Emilie Whelan, who is stage directing Treemonisha. The company reached out to OperaCreole because of its expertise on Joplin’s work. The two groups initially talked about doing a Treemonisha production in time for the New Orleans Ragtime Festival, but decided on the full production this fall at the Music Box. Joplin finished Treemonisha in 1910, but it was not fully staged before his death in 1917. The opera was lost and rediscovered in the early 1970s. It has had several full productions, but never before in New Orleans.

In the opera, the music follows historical change, Whelan says, incorporating black musical traditions from spiritual singing up through the beginning of ragtime, pointing to the future — jazz.

“It’s operatic,” says Joseph. “But it has a ragtime feeling about it with lots of music and dance.” —WILL COVIELLO

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

NOLA Comedy Hour. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www. hiholounge.net — Duncan Pace hosts an open mic. Sign-up at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Sunday.

R.I.P Showcase. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Comedy troupes Blackheart and Night School perform Halloween-themed improv and sketch. 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

Rocky Horror Shadow Cast Sing-along.

The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Audience members are invited to a Rocky Horror Picture Show singalong. Midnight Saturday.

Special Features. The New Movement, 2706 St. Claude Ave., (504) 302-8264; www.newmovementtheater.com — Improv comedians create a summer blockbuster.

9 p.m. Saturday.

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

Stoked. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 901 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www.thehowlinwolf.

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PHOTO BY JOHN BARROIS “I had a life I thought I understood,” says adult Alison (Chrissy Bowen).

Because Fun Home is such a personal story, its dramatization is bound to elicit widely different reactions. Based on a graphic novel memoir penned by Alison Bechdel, who grew up in the 1970s in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story focuses on the author’s relationship with her father Bruce (Jason Dowies), a closeted gay man who never revealed his true persona. Alison wonders if she is nothing like her father or exactly like him.

After becoming involved with a college classmate, Joan (Keyara Milliner), Alison hopes to receive emotional support from her parents, but Bruce avoids discussion and her mother (Leslie Castay) blurts out the truth about their marriage.

Three actresses play Bechdel at different periods in her life. The story is told through the eyes of the adult Alison, who ostensibly is invisible onstage, observing her former selves. Though the performers are gifted, their personalities and appearances are dissimilar, diminishing the illusion that they are the same Alison.

Camille Burkey, Castay’s real-life daughter, is a spark of joy yearning for her father’s attention, and Taylor Lewis a bright, young talent. Alison and her brothers Christian (Christian Collins) and John (Henry Morse) appear to experience a normal, carefree childhood, apart from playing games inside the funeral home their father runs.

Bruce also teaches English in a high school and restores old homes. He stays busy but still finds time to rendezvous with young men. Several times, he says, “Not so bad, if I say so myself. I might still break a heart or two.”

Bruce insists on projecting the image of a perfect family, and the kids fall in line at his every beck and call. In the song, “Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue,” the children boast how polished their lives are, but appearances are deceiving.

Besides the constantly shifting family dynamics, what is spellbinding about Fun Home is its integration of nostalgic, emotional orchestration into the drama. A band plays behind a screen, weaving music into the scenes perfectly in sync with the singers.

Under Blake Coheley’s direction, Dowies is excellent as the inscrutable husband and father, and Castay shines as the long-suffering wife. Anyone who has had the experience of hiding an aspect of their personality or marrying someone very different from themselves will find this drama particularly meaningful. — MARY RICKARD

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9:30 p.m. Friday.

Super Stupid. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Filmmaker Joe Badon is the guest at the live comedic discussion show. Benjamin Hoffman and Luke Oleen-Junk host. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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TUESDAY 17 BingOh!. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — The bingo night has a pajama theme, and comedians perform short sets between games. Admission $5. 8 p.m.

Franco-American Relations: Will Macron Make Ties Great Again? East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — Vincent Sciama, Louisiana’s consul general of France, delivers the lecture. 7 p.m.

Night Out Against Crime. Citywide — Venues around the city and in the greater metropolitan area host parties in support of safer communities. Visit www.natw.org for details.

Power of 10 Fundraiser. The Building 1427, 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 352-9283; www.building1427.com — The Posse Foundation’s reception includes hors d’oeuvres, drinks and a brief program honoring Posse alumni. Visit www. possefoundation.org for details. Tickets $100. 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 18 Cocktails for KID smART. Private residence — The gala includes cuisine, drinks and an auction at the residence of Virginia and John Rowan. Visit www.kidsmart.org/ cfk2017 for details. Tickets $125. 6:30 p.m.

Evenings with Enrique. New Orleans Botanical Garden, 5 Victory Ave., (504) 483-9386; www.neworleanscitypark. com/botanical-garden — Local musicians perform in the gardens, and mojitos and Latin food are available for purchase. Free admission. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Farmer Fizz. Martin Wine Cellar Deli & Catering, 3827 Baronne St., (504) 896-7300; www.martinwine.com — Champagne and Cajun caviar are served at the tasting.

Tickets $20. 6:30 p.m.

A Historic Storyville Dinner. Tableau, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 934-3463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — The Historic New Orleans Collection cohosts the six-course dinner exploring the food, drinks and businesses that shaped the former red-light district, with commentary from historians.

Tickets $100. 6:30 p.m.

Adopt-an-Instrument Drive. Urban South Brewery, 1645 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 267-4852 — White beans and jambalaya are served at Make Music NOLA’s fundraiser for student instruments.

Hot Club of New Orleans performs.

Visit www. makemusicnola.org for details.

Tickets $10. 5:30p.m.

Musicians’ Workshop. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — The workshop for musicians covers copyright law, licensing and other common legal issues for people in the music industry. 6:30 p.m.

NOLA & Lee on His 78th Birthday. Citywide — A day of events celebrates theories

about Lee Harvey Oswald’s role in the Kennedy assassination. There’s a walking tour, a book signing and a party. Email trineday@icloud.com for details. 10:30 a.m.

THURSDAY 19 75 Years of Making Democracy Work.

The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351; www.cannerynola.com — The anniversary party for League of Women Voters features a documentary screening on the organization’s work in New Orleans. Email lwvno@bellsouth.net for details. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

American Business Women’s Association Luncheon. Heritage Grill, 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., (504) 934-4900; www. heritagegrillmetairie.com — Dima Ghawi is the keynote speaker at the women’s networking luncheon. Visit www. abwaneworleans.org for details. Tickets $33-$40. 11 a.m.

Big Book Sale. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4659985; www.pontchartraincenter.com — Friends of the Jefferson Public Library hosts its annual book sale featuring books, puzzles, DVDs, tapes and records. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Creole Culinary Bike Tour. Citywide — Bon Appetit and Confederacy of Cruisers Bike Tours host the tour, which stops at Compere Lapin, Cochon, Bakery Bar and Arnaud’s. Visit www.bikeonetimeinnola. com for details. Tickets $99. 12:30 p.m.

Thursday-Sunday.

Femmpowerment Story Hour. Glitter Box, 1109 Royal St., Suite A; www.glitterboxno. com — A launch party for Girl Code NOLA features women leaders sharing stories of community and empowerment. There’s also a donation drive for Covenant House, and food and drinks are served. 6 p.m.

Wine Around the World. Elmwood Self Storage & Wine Cellar, 1004 S. Clearview Parkway, (504) 290-0879; www.elmwoodselfstorage.com — The fundraiser benefits Children’s Hospital and includes a sampling of food and wine from six countries. Call (504) 737-7676 for tickets.

Tickets $40-$50. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

FRIDAY 20 Bingo Night. Castillo Blanco, 4321 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8201; www.

4321saintclaude.com — The bingo night is a fundraiser for Goat in the Road Productions, and there’s free food. Visit www. goatintheroadproductions.org for details.

Tickets $15. 6 p.m.

Boo at the Zoo. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629 — The Halloween event for children 12 and younger features trick-or-treat houses, a haunted house, a “ghost train,” games and entertainment. Tickets $17, children under age 1 free. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

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The U.S. roster includes World Cup winners Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Christen Press, Tobin Heath, Becky Sauerbrunn and two-time FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd. The U.S. last faced South Korea in 2015. Both teams are preparing to qualify for the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France.

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Children of Incarcerated Parents: Ending the Cycle of Trauma. Loyola University College of Law, room 308, 7214 St. Charles Ave., (504) 861-5668; www.law.loyno. edu — The symposium covers parental incarceration and its mental and physical effects on children’s health. Free admission. 9 a.m.

Corsets & Cowboys. Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St., (504) 595-5511; www.sheratonneworleans.com — Mystic Krewe of Nyx hosts the benefit for American Heart Association. There’s food, bourbon tastings and a mechanical bull. Email kemisha@kreweofnyx.org for details. Tickets $75-$675. 7:30 p.m.

Creatures of the Night Ball. The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St., (504) 486-8351; www. cannerynola.com — Mediums attempt to communicate with the afterlife, and there’s a party. Visit www.spiritual6.com for details. Tickets $30-$99. 7 p.m.

Festival of the Lake. Our Lady of the Lake, 316 Lafitte St., Mandeville, (985) 626-5671 — Festival of the Lake features live music, food vendors, games, kids’ activities and a craft show. Visit www.festivalofthelake.com for details. 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

The HiFi Shop Record Swap. Wilson Audio, 3133 Edenborn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-8851; www.wilsonaudioneworleans.com — The community vinyl records swap has snacks and beverages, turntable setup demonstrations and

U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team vs.

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vinyl record-cleaning clinics. Free admission. 5 p.m.

Midnight at the Masquerade. Hilton Garden Inn New Orleans Convention Center, 1001 S. Peters St., (504) 525-0044 — The Murder Mystery Company presents an interactive murder mystery dinner show. Visit www. murdermysterydinnerneworleans.com for details. Ticket $90, $109 for VIP. 7 p.m.

Oktoberfest. 1700 Moss St. — Deutsches Haus hosts its annual version of the German harvest festival near its new location on Bayou St. John. There’s beer, dance performances, beer stein-holding contests and German food. Admission $8, children under age 12 free. 4 pm. to 11 p.m.

Friday, 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.

Pasta & Puccini. Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St., (504) 595-5511 — Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s gala has “A Night at Moulin Rouge” as its theme.

There’s dinner, drinks, performances and a silent auction. Visit www.jpas.org for details. Tickets $220. 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY 21 Birdwatch through the Woods. Northlake Nature Center, 23135 Highway 190, Mandeville, (985) 626-1238; www. northlakenature.org — Local bird guides point out migrating birds. Bring binoculars, telescopes and cameras. Email rue@ northlakenature.org to register (required).

Registration $5. 8 p.m.

EVENTS Medicare and Medicaid and estate planning at the fair. 9 a.m.

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

Night of the Witch: The Woman Forbidden.

Poor Boys, 1328 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 603-2522; www.facebook.com/poorboysbar — Krewe of Goddesses hosts the fundraiser benefitting New Orleans Women and Children’s Shelter and has art installations, variety acts, food and drinks. Email goddesses2011@gmail.com for details.

Tickets $20-$40.

NOLA Cochon de Lait Festival. Palmer Park, South Claiborne and South Carrollton avenues — The fest benefitting COPS2 includes live music, food vendors, a crackling contest and an art market. Visit www.nolaporkfest. com for details. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

NOLA Mac ’n’ Cheese Fest. Louis Armstrong Park, 701 N. Rampart St., (504) 658-3200; www.nola.gov/parks-and-parkways — The inaugural festival features macaroni and cheese dishes along with other food items, drinks and live music. Visit www. nolamacncheesefest.com. for details. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

O What A Night! Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The museum’s blacktie gala celebrates Southern art, cuisine and music. Tickets start at $600. 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

OCH Recycled Art Market. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 827-5858; www. zeitgeistnola.org — There’s live music, entertainment, art and home furnishings crafted from reclaimed materials. Visit www.ochartmarket.com for details. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Oxtoberfest. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The beer festival benefits Boys & Girls Club of Covington.

Tickets $30-$35. 3 p.m.

Plant Sale. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www. longuevue.com — Irises are sold at the annual plant sale, and iris experts answer questions. 10 a.m. to noon.

Soiree de Gala. Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans, 821 Gen. Pershing St., (504) 896-4500; www.ebnola.com — The school’s gala has a “Noir et Blanc” theme, and blackand-white costumes and formal wear are encouraged. Sexy Dex & the Fresh performs.

Tickets start at $100. 7 p.m.

Zombie Run. Warehouse District — Krewe of Boo presents the 2-mile race, in which runners wear zombie and monster costumes.

Visit www.facebook.com/nolabullsllc for details. 9 a.m.

SUNDAY 22 The Big Easy Caffeine Festival. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www.jpas.org — There are tea tastings, music, food and arts and crafts at the outdoor festival. Visit www. bigteasy.com for details. Tickets $10. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Fete du Jardin. Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., (504) 482-0312; www.louisianalandmarks. org — Louisiana Landmarks Society’s garden party features cuisine, wine and music by the

Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble. Tickets $35-$75. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Mimosas and Mediums. English Turn Country Club, 3201 Rue Parc Fontaine, (504) 3926590; www.englishturn.com — Mediums Sid Patrick and Trenny Simmons attempt psychic readings, and breakfast and bottomless mimosas are served. Email jessicak@englishturn.com for details. Tickets $40. 11 a.m.

Pet Fest. Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie, (504) 838-4389; www. lafrenierepark.org — The theme is “Barks and Recreation” at this annual dog-friendly festival. There’s food, live music and a pet costume contest judged by Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

MONDAY 23 Hat Sale & Champagne Kickoff Party. Pearl Wine Co., 3700 Orleans Ave., (504) 4836314; www.pearlwineco.com — Hats are sold at the benefit for the annual St. Catherine’s Day hat parade. 6:30 p.m.

STEM Workshop. Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 596-3100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The free science workshop is for kids in fifth through ninth grades. 5:30 p.m.

FARMERS MARKETS Covington Farmers Market. Covington Trailhead, 419 N. Hampshire St., Covington — The Northshore market offers local produce, meat, seafood, breads, prepared foods, plants and music. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

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

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

French Market. French Market, corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and French Market Place, (504) 522-2621; www.frenchmarket.org — The historic French Quarter market offers local produce, seafood, herbs, baked goods, coffee and prepared foods. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday.

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

Gretna Farmers Market. Gretna Farmers Market, Huey P. Long Avenue between Third and Fourth streets, Gretna, (504) 3611822 — The weekly rain-or-shine market features more than 25 vendors offering fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared foods, baked goods, honey and flowers. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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

Hollygrove Market. Hollygrove Market & Farm, 8301 Olive St., (504) 483-7037 —

The urban farm operates a daily fresh market. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

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

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

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

Sunday.

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

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

SPORTS U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.

Mercedes-Benz Superdome, 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive, (504) 587-3663 — The team plays Korea Republic. 7 p.m. Thursday.

New Orleans Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — New Orleans Pelicans play the Golden State Warriors.

8:30 p.m. Friday.

WORDS Blood Jet Poetry & Fiction Series. BJ’s Lounge, 4301 Burgundy St., (504) 9459256; www.facebook.com/bjs.bywater — Fiction writers Neil Ranu and Alex B. Johnson read. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

C. Morgan Babst. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — The author discusses and signs her book The Floating World. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

David Cappello. Norman Mayer Branch Library, 3001 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 5963100; www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org — The author discusses The People’s Grocer, his biography of John G. Schwegmann.

6 p.m. Wednesday.

Dixie Poche. Southern Food & Beverage Foundation, 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.natfab. org — The author presents her cookbook Louisiana Sweets, and there’s a cooking demonstration. 1 p.m. Saturday.

Dogfish Reading Series. Private residence, 2448 N. Villere St. — Writers John Pope and Jon Padgett read. Refreshments are served. 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Errol Laborde. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses his book New Orleans: The First 300 Years. 7 p.m. Thursday.

George O’Connor. Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd., Slidell, (985) 646-6470; www.sttammany.lib.la.us/slidell.html — The graphic novelist discusses his works. 7 p.m. Friday.

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Camp Parapet Day. Camp Parapet, Arlington Street at Causeway Boulevard, Jefferson — There are flag raisings, drills, salutes, historical displays and music at the camp, which served both Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Celebration for the Dogs. Southport Hall, 200 Monticello Ave., (504) 835-2903; www. southporthall.com — NOLA Lab Rescue’s costume party benefit features food, door prizes, a costume contest, comedy and live music. Visit www.nolalabrescue.org for details. Tickets $40. 7 p.m.

Chess Fest. Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center, 4300 S. Broad St., (504) 5962675; www.nolalibrary.org — Grand Master Varuzhan Akobian appears at the festival celebrating chess. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cocktails and Blues Gala. Messina’s at the Terminal, 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; messinasterminal.com — Lake Forest Charter holds its annual gala with music, food and drinks. Visit www. lakeforestcharter.org for details. Tickets $65$150. 6 p.m.

Critter Cinema. Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., (504) 368-5191; www.la-spca. org — At a sleepover and movie screening, kids ages 5-10 snuggle up to kittens and puppies while enjoying pizza and popcorn.

Email erica@la-spca.org for details. Tickets $75. 6 p.m.

Dancing with the Stars, The Good Shepherd Way. Marriott Hotel, 555 Canal St., (504) 5811000; www.marriott.com — Local celebrities compete in the Dancing with the Stars-style dance competition, which benefits The Good Shepherd School. Visit www.thegoodshepherdschool.org for details. 6 p.m.

Final Exit: Lessons for the End of Life.

Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 8381190 — Julia Hanway speaks about “death with dignity” and related issues. 3 p.m.

Garden Workshops. Crescent City Farmers Market, 750 Carondelet St., (504) 861-4488; www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org — A workshop series covers beekeeping basics.

Suggested donation $15. 10 a.m. There also is a class on urban ecology exploration at Hollygrove Market and Farm (8301 Olive St.) at 10 a.m.

Halloween Costume Sale. Kingpin, 1307 Lyons St., (504) 891-2373 — Costumes, headdresses, paper eyelashes, crowns and more are sold. Noon to 5 p.m.

Handle with Care: Protecting Your Personal History in a Storm-Prone City. New Orleans Public Library, main branch, 219 Loyola Ave., (504) 596-2602; www.nolalibrary.org — New Orleans Preservation Collaborative discusses how to protect personal papers and photographs. Noon.

Kitten Party. Alvar Library, 913 Alvar St., (504) 596-2667; www.nolalibrary.org — Southern Animal Foundation hosts the party, where you can meet, play with and adopt cats and kittens. 2 p.m.

Krewe of Boo. French Quarter — Blaine Kern is the king and WWE stars The Miz and Maryse preside over the Halloween parade. 6 p.m. An after-party at Generations Hall (310 Andrew Higgins Blvd.) features a performance by A Flock of Seagulls begins at 8 p.m.

Legal Fair. AARP Community Resource Center, 3502 S. Carrollton Ave. — There are free notarial services and basic legal assistance regarding Social Security,

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John Magill. Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., (504) 899-7323; www.octaviabooks.com — The author and historian reads from and signs The Incomparable Magazine Street.

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Music & Poetry. Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., (504) 592-7083; www.barredux.com — Several spoken word poets perform, and there’s live music. 6 p.m. Sunday.

Thom Gilbert. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 8952266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The author reads from Blue Suede Shoes: The Culture of Elvis, his Elvis photography collection. 6 p.m. Thursday.

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

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. The time commitment is a minimum of 10 hours per month.

No special skills are required; training and support are provided. Call (504) 522-1962 or email info@casaneworleans.org.

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

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

The Creativity Collective. The organization seeks artists, entrepreneurs, parents and teens to help with upcoming projects and events, including maintaining a creative resource directory and organizing charity bar crawls. Visit www.creativitycollective. com or call (916) 206-1659.

Crescent City Farmers Market. CCFM and MarketUmbrella.org seek volunteers to field shoppers’ questions, assist seniors, help with children’s activities and more.

Call (504) 495-1459 or email latifia@ marketumbrella.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.

Edgar Degas Foundation. The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to foundation development. Call (504) 821-5009 or email info@degashouse.com.

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.

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

Green Light New Orleans. The group seeks volunteers to help install free energy-efficient lightbulbs in homes. Visit www.greenlightneworleans.org, call (504) 324-2429 or email green@greenlightneworleans.org.

HandsOn New Orleans. The volunteer center for the New Orleans area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the opportunities available and how to be a good volunteer. Call (504) 304-2275, email volunteer@handsonneworleans.org or visit www.handsonneworleans.org.

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

Lakeview Civic Improvement Association.

The association’s green space committee needs volunteers to pick up trash or trim trees for the adopt-a-block program. Sign up with Russ Barranco at (504) 482-9598 or rpbarranco@cox.net.

Longue Vue House and Gardens. Longue Vue seeks volunteers to assist with giving tours, garden maintenance and education outreach. Email info@longuevue.com or call (504) 293-4720 for information.

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.

Lowernine.org. Lowernine.org seeks volunteers to help renovate homes in the Lower 9th Ward. Visit www.lowernine.org or email lauren@lowernine.org.

National World War II Museum.

The museum accepts applications for volunteers to greet visitors and familiarize them with its galleries and artifacts. Call (504) 527-6012, ext. 243, or email katherine. alpert@nationalww2museum.org.

New Canal Lighthouse Museum. The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation seeks volunteer docents for its museum and education center. Visit www.saveourlake. org or call (504) 836-2238.

New Orleans Airlift: The Music Box Village.

Volunteers are needed for fabrication, education workshops, events and general duties. Visit www.neworleansairlift.org to apply.

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.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The museum seeks docents to discuss visual arts in the South with adults and children. Email ebalkin@ogdenmuseum.org for details.

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

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

SBP. The disaster recovery organization (formerly St. Bernard Project) seeks volunteers to help rebuild blighted homes.

No construction experience is necessary.

Email volunteer@sbpusa.org for details.

Second Harvest Food Bank. Volunteers are needed to help prepare meals in the community kitchen at the food bank’s Elmwood location. Email vcaveherazo@secondharvest.org for details.

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

SpayMart. The humane society seeks volunteers for fundraising, grant writing, data input, adoptions, animal care and more. Visit www.spaymart.org, email info@spaymart. org or call (504) 454-8200.

St. Thomas Hospitality House. The Catholic charity seeks individuals and groups of volunteers to serve people experiencing homelessness. Contact Daniel Thelen at nolacw@gmail.com or (517) 290-8533.

Start the Adventure in Reading. The STAIR program holds regular training sessions for volunteers, who work one-on-one with lower elementary school students to develop reading and language skills. Call (504) 8990820, email margo@stairnola.org or visit www.stairnola.org/how-to-help to register for training.

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

Touro Birthing Center. Volunteers are needed to give updates and help family members in the birthing center’s waiting room. Call (504) 897-8107 or email denise. chetta@lcmchealth.org for details.

Veterans Housing Outreach Ministries. The charity seeks volunteers to help disabled, wounded and senior veterans with food and clothing distribution, home improvements and beautification, social media and web design. Call (504) 340-3429 or visit www. veteranshousingoutreach.webs.com.

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FO R SA L E 618 Spain 3/2 reno’d, pool, patio, wd flrs, 2 ctrl a/h units, nat light throughout .......................................... $700,000 820 Spain #8 1/1 pkng, pool w/d, wd flrs, hi ceils, ctrl ac, gated secure entry ............................................. $285,000 224 Chartres 5 units avail, 1-3 beds, reno’d, elevator access, ctyd, great loc starting at ................... $649,000 3625 St. Charles #4D 2/2 Private beds, pkng, balc. Reno’d bath &kit. Perfect for Mardi Gras ..................... $299,000 632 Burgundy 3/2 reno’d, 3 story home w/gated driveway Wraparound balcs overlook Burgundy Street and Courtyard ......................................................................... $1,135,000 931 Gov Nicholls #3 2/1 grnd flr unit, huge island in kit, wd flrs, gas fireplaces great loc ........................ $439,000 2223 Franklin Lrg lot for sale. Home is certainly able to be reno’d, but if not there is value in the salvaging of historic and valuable components of the home if interested in a tear down ............................................. $85,000 620 Decatur #I 2/2 Hdwd Flrs, High Ceils., Reno’d Baths/ Kit, w/d in unit, amazing views .......................... $825,000

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She is an adorable, petite dilute calico. Biscuit is incredibly loving and she purrs like a motor. Biscuit gets along with other cats!

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

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