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CONTENTS

FEBRUARY 20 -26, 2018 VOLUME 39 || NUMBER 08 NEWS

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CLANCY

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BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN

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FEATURES

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WED.-FRI. FEB. 21-23 | The trumpeter highlights his genredefying “stretch music,” in which he says he expands on “jazz’s rhythmic and melodic and harmonic conventions” to incorporate other musical forms not as distinguishable parts, but as a new whole. At 7:30 p.m. at Contemporary Arts Center.

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Let’s go crazy Brownmark and The Revolution pay tribute to Prince at The Joy Theater

BY ALEX WOODWARD @ALEXWOODWARD A FEW YEARS BEFORE PRINCE asked him to join The Revolution, Mark Brown tried not to stare from the service counter window while the 15-yearold bassist cooked pancakes for the budding star of Minneapolis. A few years later in 1981, Prince called Brown’s band Fantasy during its after-hours rehearsal at a community center — but he asked only to speak to Brown.

“Prince came to see us several times, but I never knew he was coming to see me,” says Brown, AKA Brownmark, among the mononyms and monikers in the most-famous lineup of The Revolution with Wendy and Lisa, Dr. Fink and Bobby Z. — guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardists Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink, and drummer Bobby Rivkin.

“Nobody knew we rehearsed at that community center. How in the world did this guy know where we rehearsed? … He wanted me to learn all three of [his] albums, by tomorrow. It was

already about 1 o’clock in the morning.

The next day, he said, ‘I’ll have Bobby Z. pick you up at 7-Eleven.’ I worked at the 7-Eleven. He even knew that. How did he know where I worked?”

Following his 1978 debut For You, his self-titled commercial breakthrough follow-up, and the beginnings of the futurist pop artist on Dirty Mind and Controversy, Prince began assembling his band, glimpsed on 1999 and cemented with Purple Rain. The band’s brief but crucial period from 1982 through 1986 elevated Prince’s cult image and helped craft his definitive works. Following his death in 2016, The Revolution agreed to reunite and take Prince’s music on tour. The band performs at The Joy Theater Feb. 22.

“We were the living band, his only ‘real’ band band,” Brown says. “The only band Prince was in. ... Even though he formed us, we became a separate entity. It was a force within itself, a creative force. That’s what made it work. Prince’s genius and our diverse backgrounds created this incredible music we all knew was special.”

On his audition day, Brown jammed with Prince and Rivkin for roughly 15 minutes before Prince cut the music, telling Rivkin he’ll take Brown home.

“I got nervous then,” Brown says.

“He’s talking to me in the car and says, ‘Look, I’m about to go on this journey, and I want you to be a part of it. If you want to, it’s yours.’”

Growing up in Minneapolis with limited access to black radio stations, Brown attributes the city’s idiosyncratic funk to its pop and rock ’n’ roll influence, which Brown

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incorporated into his unique playing style, studying bassists like Larry Graham and Slave’s Mark Adams.

Brown says his bass technique closely mirrored Prince’s, “but he knew he had to groom me.”

“He beat me up pretty good,” Brown says, laughing. “He was mean as hell. But I needed it. I did not buck the system. I was kind of happy — I was getting a crash course in rock star-ism.”

The band performed at the Superdome during a 1985 leg of its Purple Rain tour. Prince also performed at the venue for his final New Orleans performance in 2014.

His sudden 2016 death galvanized the scattered members of The Revolution to perform together again.

“It jolted us,” Brown says. “It was painful. It was like losing a brother.

We reacted like a family. We huddled together. What we had decided was to start performing together, take this on the road as the unit we used to be, and give back to the people a moment in time that was pivotal in their lives and help them grieve, help them heal from this loss.”

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Diet Cig FRI. FEB. 23 | In the two years between the eyelash-batting 2015 EP Over Easy and last year’s collargrabbing debut LP Swear I’m Good at This, Alex Luciano and Noah Bowman planted a wet one on Frenchkiss Records and ratcheted their powerpop energy to 11. Great Grandpa and The Spook School open at 10 p.m. at Hi-Ho Lounge.

Bitchin Bajas SAT. FEB. 24 | The band’s latest album of sonic expeditions, 2017’s Bajas Fresh (Drag City), also includes its longest, the 23-minutes-long “2303,” among seven of the band’s far-out experiments, each circling and cycling through loops and pieces of sound like mantras recited in the far reaches of space. Benni, Rotten Milk and Beat.Imprint open at 8 p.m. at the Mudlark Public Theatre.

Fruit Bats and Vetiver SUN. FEB. 25 | Eric D. Johnson’s Fruit Bats and Andy Cabic’s Vetiver were instrumental in the indierock mainstreaming of the early 2000s, then watched as respective collaborators James Mercer and Joanna Newsom became relative superstars. The longtime friends join forces for a double solo show at 9 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

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The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry (LABI) rightly backpedaled

after inviting Fox News host Laura Ingraham to be the keynote speaker at its annual meeting — when Ingraham scoffed at the #MeToo movement in her remarks and expressed support for New Orleans’ Confederate monuments. LABI issued a vague statement saying “some” of Ingraham’s views “are not reflective of the opinions held by the diverse membership.”

What did LABI expect?

Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s attorney general, said he thought Laura Ingraham would “make a great Governor” of Louisiana — despite the fact that Ingraham isn’t a Louisiana resident, has no governing experience and any candidate for governor has to have lived in the state for no less than five years. We already know Landry will do anything for publicity, but shouldn’t our attorney general know the law?

The number of vehicles towed by the city during Mardi Gras parade days this year.

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RECYCLE ME SOMETHING, MISTER If you’re looking to unload those 40-pound sacks of plastic headed for the back of your closet, consider making a trip to one of several branches of the New Orleans Public Library, which is partnering with the Arc of Greater New Orleans to recycle Mardi Gras beads and other parade throws.

Arc of Greater New Orleans helps create wage-earning jobs for people with intellectual disabilities to sort and repackage throws for future Carnivals. It recently opened its recycling center at 925 Labarre Road in Metairie, and the group also partnered with the Young Leadership Council to collect throws after the Freret and Thoth parades.

You can bring your beads and throws to the following New Orleans library locations: Algiers Regional Library (3014 Holiday Drive), Alvar Library (913 Alvar St.), Children’s Resource Center Library (913 Napoleon Ave.), East New Orleans Regional Library (5641 Read Blvd.), Cita Dennis Hubbell Library (725 Pelican Ave.), Rosa F. Keller Library (4300 S. Broad Ave.), Milton H. Latter Memorial Library (5120 St. Charles Ave.), Main Library (219 Loyola Ave.), Norman Mayer Library (3001 Gentilly Blvd.), Mid-City Library (4140 Canal St.) and Robert E. Smith Library (6310 Canal Blvd.).

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ALONG WITH BEADS AND KING CAKES, Carnival also brings about 3,000 temporary “No Parking” signs along parade routes, banning parked vehicles two hours before and after a parade is scheduled to roll. Along with more than 28,000 citations, parking enforcement towed 1,174 vehicles on parade days — a big jump over last year’s 729 tows. Happy Mardi Gras.

— KEVIN ALLMAN SOURCE: CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

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“I actually didn’t know who Jimmy Kimmel was.” — U.S. Sen. and physician Bill Cassidy, explaining to the Washington Examiner he wasn’t aware of the late-night talk show host when he somehow agreed to go on Jimmy Kimmel Live in May 2017 to discuss his health care plan. It was an odd explanation from Cassidy, who coined the term “Jimmy Kimmel test” to pledge he would not support any health care plan where a family would be “denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can’t afford it.”

The appearance backfired not long after when Kimmel analyzed Cassidy’s health care overhaul, which fell far short of Cassidy’s own “Jimmy Kimmel test,” and he declared Cassidy was lying “right to my face.”

Landrieu’s memoir gets an official launch event — in New York Mayor Mitch Landrieu has added another date to his upcoming book tour. He’ll be interviewed at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York March 21, discussing his memoir In the Shadow of Statues: A PAGE 9

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White Southerner Confronts History, which will be released by Viking/ Penguin the day before. The evening will be moderated by The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, and it will serve as the book’s official launch, according to the event website.

Tickets are $28 and include a copy of Landrieu’s book.

Other dates on Landrieu’s tour, which first was revealed by Gambit, include March 26 in Atlanta, March 28 in Philadelphia and March 29 in Washington, D.C. Viking/Penguin has kept a tight lid on both the book and Landrieu’s tour, at least locally. Publicist Louise Braverman told Gambit and at least one other local media outlet that no galleys or advance copies of Landrieu’s book were available, and she did not confirm the book tour. A seven-minute snippet of the audio book (read by Landrieu) appeared last week on the Viking/ Penguin website.

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In Louisiana the program is administered by the state Department of Children and Family Services.

The department’s public information officer Heidi Rogers Kinchen told Gambit the department still is reviewing the proposals before determining their impact.

Eric Paulsen remembers Fats in a 30-minute special WWL-TV will air Fats Domino: Eric Paulsen Remembers at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 26, a special charting the interviews and friendship struck up between the late musician and

Trump administration proposes radical overhaul of SNAP benefits The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps roughly 46 million people with low or no income buy groceries.

In Louisiana, it serves more than 920,000 people each month, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In its budget proposal last week, President Donald Trump’s administration floated repacking roughly half of the $24 billion to $29 billion per year in SNAP benefits into a preselected box of shelf-stable items (Budget Director Mick Mulvaney compared it to the home-delivery food company Blue Apron), a potentially dramatic overhaul of a program meant to combat food insecurity and ensure people earning lower incomes have access to healthy foods.

The other half of those funds would be cut entirely.

Officials largely believe the plan has no chance, though it has baited and incensed Democrat and Republican lawmakers while the White House looks to make more than $200 billion in cuts to food assistance programs over the next decade. Among those cuts: ending waivers to states allowing people to access SNAP benefits without a work requirement. States could only receive a waiver if unemployment is above 10 percent, “an extremely high bar that will miss many locations where few jobs are available to lower-skilled workers,” according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

In 2016, Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an executive order requiring unemployed, able-bodied childless adults to sign up with the state’s

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Paulsen, the newsman who landed a 2004 interview with the famously reclusive Domino. (Disclosure: WWLTV is Gambit’s TV partner.)

Excerpts and previously unseen footage from that interview will be included, as well as footage from a subsequent interview Paulsen conducted after floodwaters destroyed Domino’s house on Caffin Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

Domino died in October 2017.

Hard Rock Hotel coming to Canal Street Hard Rock International announced last week its plans to build an 18-story Hard Rock Hotel at the corner of Canal and North Rampart streets. The plan includes 350 rooms and 62 residences, as well as “an upscale restaurant that will be quickly known for its authentic Louisiana seafood, offering low-key music, ridiculously good drinks, and a place where tradition and tales are shared and celebrated.”

It’s the first Hard Rock Hotel planned for the city (there’s a Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on the beach in Biloxi, Mississippi), though New Orleans has had a Hard Rock Cafe for more than two decades. It opened first on Decatur Street, then moved to the first block of Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in 2013.

Harrah’s New Orleans Casino also announced plans recently to build a second hotel on Canal Street.

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New Orleans needs local power THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL SOON WILL DECIDE whether to allow

the local Entergy affiliate to build a new electric power plant in New Orleans East.

The proposed “peaking plant” would provide New Orleanians with immediate power during periods of greatest demand — on the hottest days of summer, during hard freezes and after severe weather events such as hurricanes. The council has been studying this issue for almost two years, and its Utilities Committee is scheduled to make a recommendation Wednesday (Feb. 21).

The full council likely will decide the issue next month.

Entergy New Orleans (ENO) wants to build a 226-megawatt facility, which local utility watchdog the Alliance for Affordable Energy rightly criticizes as too large. In the face of this and other criticism, ENO has proposed an alternate 128-megawatt facility. The Alliance opposes this plan as well, suggesting that the council force ENO to use alternative energy sources — particularly solar power.

For most of the past century, the council has regulated ENO and its predecessors. In recent decades, council members have done a good job of holding the local utility’s feet to the fire — thanks largely to a battery of technical and legal advisors who have helped them navigate the arcane waters of utility regulation. In the present matter, the council’s advisors unanimously recommend approval of the smaller plant, which is less than onesixth the size of the old Michoud generating station. We agree, and we likewise agree with the consultants’ recommendation that ENO invest heavily in alternative power sources (including solar) and upgrades to its distribution system.

When the old Michoud facility was decommissioned, New Orleans found itself with no local generating station. This should be a critical factor in the council’s decision. Our city literally sits at the tail end of the interstate transmission lines on which New Orleanians rely for electric power. If those interstate lines — the closest of which must cross the Mississippi River to reach local ratepayers — should go down during a storm, New Orleans could

literally be in the dark. Moreover, New Orleanians need access to reliable, affordable, locally available electricity during peak demand days.

The council’s lead utilities advisor, Clinton Vince, who has successfully represented the council and local ratepayers against ENO and others for more than three decades, put it this way: “The City Council is faced with a stark choice between reliable electricity for its constituents and the unacceptable risk of cascading outages and blackouts. The city does not have a reliable local source

Our city literally sits at the tail end of the interstate transmission lines on which New Orleanians rely for electric power. of all-weather, fast-start generation that can serve the city at peak times and after severe storms or disruption to the utility’s transmission system.

The proposed plant’s technology has been used successfully around the country and is considered clean, economical, reliable and safe. New Orleans does not need blackouts to become the ‘boil water alerts’ of the next decade.”

We would love to see the city be able to rely more heavily on solar and other forms of alternative energy, but until that day comes the council must make sure New Orleans has access to a local source of power during peak times — and all times if need be.

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Once more, into the ditch GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS HAS SUMMONED

state lawmakers into a fifth special session in just over two years to deal once more with Louisiana’s structural deficit. The session runs Feb. 19 through March 7.

Its focus is a roughly $1 billion fiscal “cliff” in the form of temporary taxes that expire June 30, the end of the current fiscal year.

Is there any reason to think the outcome this time will differ significantly from previous efforts?

Not really, though it’s not because the stakes aren’t high enough.

Lawmakers all know the problem: Louisiana has a recurring deficit because our tax system doesn’t generate enough money to support state spending.

Republican lawmakers say we have a spending problem, yet they are chronically incapable of identifying specific cuts that will make it unnecessary to renew expiring taxes. In fact, every objective study — including those by business-oriented, conservative researchers — has concluded that Louisiana cannot cut its way out of this problem. That fact has not deterred GOP leaders from sticking to their narrative.

Democrat Edwards likewise has been unable to cobble together the two-thirds legislative majority needed to pass systemic tax reforms — or even to make modest headway toward permanently covering the deficit he inherited from predecessor Bobby Jindal. He has suggested several revenue measures and touted millions in cuts he has already made (Republicans say this claim is bogus), but negotiations remain at an impasse.

While it’s the governor’s job to propose solutions, lawmakers must actually enact them. The problem has been one of politics more than policy. A group of GOP leges in the House remains hellbent on denying Edwards anything resembling a victory, even if it means driving the state into a fiscal ditch.

For what it’s worth, statewide surveys consistently show that the only thing voters like less than taxes are cuts to education and hospitals.

(Those two sectors rank prominently among the “unprotected” parts of the state operating budget.) The

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Polls show voters give Gov. John Bel Edwards a positive job rating, but he hasn’t been able to muster enough support from lawmakers to reform the state’s tax system.

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same surveys likewise show voters giving the governor high marks, despite GOP efforts to torpedo Edwards at every turn.

The latest example is a poll taken Feb. 7-12 by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, which has polled often for Democrats in Louisiana and elsewhere. It’s worth noting that even conservative polling outfits find results similar to those reported by Anzalone: 61 percent of Louisiana voters give Edwards a “positive” job rating and 57 percent credit him with “moving Louisiana in the right direction.”

The Anzalone survey further shows that a large plurality of voters — 49 percent — trust the governor to handle the budget more than legislative Republicans (39 percent). Moreover, 58 percent of voters prefer raising taxes to cutting schools and hospitals.

Those numbers may bolster Edwards’ confidence as he tries to negotiate a budget and tax deal with his legislative adversaries, but the numbers that really matter are “70” and “26.” That’s how many votes the governor will need on the floors of the House and Senate, respectively, to renew expiring taxes or to enact new ones.

The governor and GOP legislative leaders have been negotiating for weeks. We’ll know soon enough if we’re headed in the right direction — or back into the ditch.

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Hey Blake, I work in Central City and am curious about the names of three streets there. Who were Oretha Castle Haley, Robert C. Blakes Sr. and Rev. John Raphael?

Dear reader, Oretha Castle moved to New Orleans from Tennessee in 1947, when she was 7 years old. She became involved in the civil rights movement by picketing Canal Street department stores and participating in sit-ins at segregated cafeterias. She later co-founded the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and served as its president from 1961 to 1964. In 1967 she married Richard Haley, who became an attorney for CORE. Oretha was arrested several times for taking part in protests, including a march on City Hall at which police carried her out of the building on a chair.

She also was one of the leaders of a lawsuit that helped end racial discrimination at Charity Hospital.

She helped organize political campaigns, including one for Dorothy Mae Taylor, the first African-American woman to be elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives.

After Oretha died in 1987, Taylor led the effort to rename the first eight blocks of Dryades Street in her honor. The change was made official in 1989.

The City Council’s decision in 2015 to rename sections of streets after Robert C. Blakes Sr. and John C. Raphael Jr., both Central City pastors, was more controversial.

There was debate over the decision, partly because it went against a city ordinance that says those honored through the naming of streets must be deceased for at least five years.

The ministers had died just two years earlier in 2013. Mayor Mitch

The Rev. John C. Raphael Jr. was known for his walking ministry and efforts to curb violence.

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Landrieu and the City Planning Commission supported the change, which eventually was approved by a 4-3 council vote. Carondelet Street between Felicity and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. was renamed Robert C. Blakes Sr. Drive. LaSalle Street between Earhart Boulevard and Simon Bolivar Avenue was renamed Rev. John Raphael Jr. Way. Blakes, known as “the Prophet,” became pastor of New Home Missionary Baptist Church on Jackson Avenue in 1965. In the 1970s, he founded New Home Ministries in a former synagogue on Carondelet Street. By 2000, his congregation had grown to 7,000 and the ministry expanded as far as Houston.

Raphael spent 14 years as a New Orleans Police officer before becoming pastor of New Hope Baptist Church. He was well-known for his vigils and fasting against violence as well as his walking ministry in which he personally confronted young men and warned them to turn away from a life of violence.

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BY DANIEL WALTERS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JEFF DREW

AS WITH ANY TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, the possibility of a breakup sparks feelings of terror — and maybe a little bit of relief.

That’s the spot in which Facebook has put the news business.

Last month, the social media behemoth announced it would once again alter its newsfeed algorithm to show users more posts from their friends and family — and a lot fewer from media outlets.

The move isn’t surprising. Since the 2016 presidential election, Facebook has been under siege for creating a habitat where fake news stories flourished. Facebook executives went before Congress last year to testify about how they sold ads to Russians who wanted to influence the election.

In some ways, it’s simply easier to de-emphasize the news business altogether.

But for news outlets that have come to rely on Facebook funneling readers to their sites, the impact of a separation sounds catastrophic. Until recently, the social media site had been sending more traffic to news outlets than Google has.

“The End of the Social News Era?” a New York Times headline asked. “Facebook is breaking up with news,” an ad for the new BuzzFeed app proclaimed.

Consumers, meanwhile, have grumbled as media outlets have stooped to sensational headlines to lure Facebook’s web traffic.

They’ve become disillusioned by the flood of hoaxes and conspiracy theories on Facebook.

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For years, media outlets chased the clicks promised

by Facebook — but what the social media giant once gave, it’s now taking away.

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A Knight Foundation/Gallup poll released last month revealed only a third of Americans had a positive view of the media.

About 57 percent said websites or apps using algorithms to determine which news stories readers see was a major problem for democracy. Two-thirds believed the media being “dramatic or too sensational in order to attract more readers or viewers” was a major problem.

Now, sites that rely on Facebook’s algorithm have watched the floor drop out from under them when the algorithm changed.

Meanwhile, Facebook has diverted print advertising revenue with its own ads.

It’s landed media outlets in a hell of a catch-22: It seems like Facebook is killing journalism. But can journalism survive without it?

“Traffic is such a drug right now,” says Sean Robinson, an investigative reporter at the Tacoma News Tribune. “The industry is hurting so bad that it’s really hard to detox.”

WHEN FACEBOOK FIRST LAUNCHED ITS “NEWS FEED” IN 2006, it didn’t have anything

With digital ad rates tied to web traffic, incentives in the modern media landscape could be especially perverse: Pluck heartstrings or stoke fury. In short, be more like Upworthy. A site filled with multi-sentence emotion-baiting headlines, Upworthy begged you to click by promising you would be shocked, outraged or inspired by what you were about to read — but not telling you why. (One example: “His first 4 sentences are interesting. The 5th blew my mind. And made me a little sick.”)

By November 2013, Upworthy was pulling in 88 million unique visitors a month. With Facebook’s help, the formula spread.

The McClatchy-owned Bellingham Herald headlined a short crime story about the arrest of a carjacker this way: “Four people, two cars, one gun. What happens next?”

A short Herald story asking for tips about a recent spree of indecent exposure was headlined, “She was looking at her phone, but the man wanted her to watch him masturbate.” Even magazines like TIME and

they don’t know it happened thousands of miles away. Robinson, the veteran Tacoma News Tribune reporter, says local cops have complained about crime stories from elsewhere that were being shared without context by local TV stations on Facebook, misleading readers into thinking they were local stories.

Grieve, the McClatchy executive, says he never wants to sensationalize a story. But he also says the “internet and social media are noisy places” and papers have to sell their stories aggressively to be heard over the din.

“If you’re writing stories that aren’t getting read you’re not a journalist — you’re keeping a journal,” Grieve says.

MANY MEDIA OUTLETS BUILT THEIR ONLINE BUSINESS on the foundation of Facebook’s

News Feed algorithm. But they got a nasty surprise: That foundation can collapse in an instant. As Facebook’s News Feed became choked with links to Upworthy and its horde of imitators, the social network declared war on clickbait. It tweaked its algorithms, which proved catastrophic for Upworthy. A 2014 TIME magazine story estimated that two to three global algorithm tweaks on Facebook were happening every week.

Much of the time, Facebook and Google don’t announce their shifts up front. Media outlets often have had to reverse-engineer the changes, before issuing new commands to their troops in the field.

“Oh, they changed their algorithm again?”

Robinson says. “Oh, what is it today, coach?

OK, it’s 50-word [headlines] instead of 60?”

“It keeps changing,” Ingram says, “Even if the algorithm was bad in some way, at least if it’s predictable, you could adapt.”

Six years ago, for example, KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington, told readers they’d have “an entire day here on FB dedicated to positive local news” if the post got liked 500 times. It worked. The post got more than 1,200 likes, and KHQ followed through a with a puppy picture-laden “Feel Good Friday!!!”

Under the current Facebook algorithm, such tactics could get the entire page demoted. So could using shameless “you-won’t-believe-what-happened-next” style phrases.

A pattern emerged. Step No. 1: Media outlets reinvent themselves for Facebook.

Step No. 2: Facebook makes that reinvention obsolete.

Big publishers leaped at the chance to publish “Instant Articles” directly on Facebook, only to find that the algorithm changed, rewarding videos more than posts. So publishers like Mic.com, Mashable and Vice News “pivoted to video,” laying off dozens of journalists in the process. “Then Facebook said they weren’t as interested in video anymore,” Ingram says.

“[Web] traffic is such a drug right now.

The industry is hurting so bad that it’s really hard to detox.”

to do with news — at least not how we think of it. The News Feed was intended to be a list of personalized updates from your friends. It meant, in the words of Facebook’s announcement, like “when Mark [Zuckerberg] adds Britney Spears to his Favorites or when your crush is single again.”

But in 2009, Facebook introduced its iconic “like” button. Soon, instead of showing posts in chronological order, the News Feed began showing you the popular posts first. Facebook didn’t invent going viral — grandmas with AOL accounts were forwarding funny emails and chain letters when Zuckerberg still was in grade school — but its algorithm amplified it. Wellliked posts soared. Unpopular posts simply went unseen.

Google had an algorithm too. So did YouTube.

Journalists were given a new directive: If you wanted readers to see your stories, you had to play by the algorithm’s rules. Mysterious formulas had replaced newspaper editors as gatekeepers of information.

So when the McClatchy Company — a chain that owns 31 daily papers including Washington state’s Tacoma News Tribune and The Bellingham Herald — launched its reinvention strategy last year, knowing how to get Facebook traffic was central.

“Facebook has allowed us to get our journalism out to hundreds of millions more people than it would have otherwise,” says Tim Grieve, McClatchy’s vice president of news and a former POLITICO editor. “It has forced us, and all publishers, to sharpen our game to make sure we’re writing stories that connect with people.”

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Newsweek began pumping out headlines like, “Does Reese Witherspoon Have 3 Legs on Vanity Fair’s Cover?” and “Trump’s Hair Loss Drug Causes Erectile Dysfunction.”

But Newsweek’s publisher went beyond clickbait; the magazine actually was buying traffic through pirated video sites, allegedly engaging in ad fraud.

This month, Newsweek senior writer Matthew Cooper resigned in disgust after several Newsweek editors and reporters who’d written about the publisher’s series of scandals were fired. He heaped contempt on an organization he said had installed editors who “recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness” and left him “despondent not only for Newsweek but for the other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall.”

Mathew Ingram, who covers digital media for Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), says such tactics might increase traffic for a while. But readers hate it. Sleazy tabloid shortcuts give you a sleazy tabloid reputation. “Short-term, you can make a certain amount of money,” Ingram says.

“Long-term you’re basically setting fire to your brand.”

One strategy throughout the industry is to downplay the location of a story: Readers in other markets are more likely to click if

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had trouble determining what’s local.

The Seattle Times reporter Joe O’Sullivan noted on Twitter that of the five stories featured in a screenshot of Facebook’s Olympia test, “NONE OF THEM ARE OLYMPIA STORIES. ZERO.” The Seattle Times and other outlets say they’re taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the latest algorithm, analyzing how the impact shakes out before making changes. They’ve learned to not get excited. “It just, more and more, seems like Facebook and news are not super compatible,” says Shan Wang, staff writer at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. At least not for real news.

For fake news, Facebook’s been a perfect match.

ONCE, FACEBOOK WAS POSITIVELY SMUG ABOUT ITS IMPACT ON THE WORLD.

The platform had fanned the flames of popular uprisings during the Arab Spring. “By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible,” Zuckerberg bragged in a 2012 letter to investors. “We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.”

Facebook certainly has done that — though not the way it intended.

A BuzzFeed investigation before the 2016 presidential election found that “fake news” stories on Facebook — either hoaxes or hyperpartisan falsehoods — actually performed better on Facebook than stories from major outlets like The New York Times.

That, experts speculated, is another reason why Facebook, despite its

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The latest change: The News Feed, Zuckerberg announced last month, had skewed too far in the direction of social video posts from national media pages and too far away from personal posts from friends and family. Facebook would get back to its roots.

News organizations that had dumped a lot of money into eye-catching pre-recorded video would suffer the most under the latest algorithm changes, Facebook News Feed Vice President Adam Mosseri told TechCrunch last month, because “video is such a passive experience.”

Even before the announcement, news sites had seen their articles get fewer and fewer hits from Facebook.

Last year, Google once again became the biggest referrer of news traffic as Facebook referrals decreased. Many sites published tutorials pleading with readers to change their Facebook settings manually to guarantee the site’s appearance in their news feeds.

“Some media outlets saw their [Facebook] traffic decline by as much as 30 to 40 percent,” Ingram says.

“Everybody knew something was happening, but we didn’t know what.”

Zuckerberg’s comments that stories that sparked “meaningful social interactions” would do the best on Facebook caused some to scoff.

“For Facebook, it’s bad if you read or watch content without reacting to it on Facebook. Let that sink in for a moment,” tech journalist Joshua Topolsky wrote at The Outline. “This notion is so corrupt it’s almost comical.”

In subsequent announcements, Facebook said it would rank local community news outlets higher in the feed than national ones. The company also was launching an experiment for a new section called “Today In,” focusing on local news and announcements, beta-testing the concept in cities like Olympia, Washington. But in early tests, the site

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massive profits, might be pulling back from its focus on news.

“As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it’s being used in unforeseen ways with societal repercussions that were never anticipated,” Samidh Chakrabarti, Facebook’s product manager for civic engagement, wrote in a recent blog post.

A Dartmouth study found about a fourth of Americans had visited at least one fake news website — and Facebook was the primary vector of misinformation. While researchers didn’t find fake news swung the 2016 presidential election (though about 80,000 votes in three states is a small margin to swing) the effect has endured.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has played a role. He snatched away the term used to describe hoax websites and wielded it as a blunderbuss against the legitimate press, blasting away at any negative or critical reporting as “fake news.” By last May, a Harvard-Harris poll found that almost two-thirds of voters believed that mainstream news outlets were full of fake news stories.

The danger of fake news, after all, wasn’t just we’d be tricked with bogus claims.

It was that we’d be pummeled with so many different contradictory stories, with so many different angles, that the task of trying to sort truth from fiction just becomes exhausting.

So you choose your own truth. Or Facebook’s algorithm chooses it for you.

Every time you like a comment, chat or click on Facebook, the site uses that to figure out what you actually want to see: It inflates your own bubble, protecting you from facts or opinions with which you might disagree.

And when it does expose you to contrarian views, it’s most likely going to be the worst examples, the trolls eager to make people mad online, or the infuriating op-ed all your friends are sharing.

That’s partly why many of the 3,000 Facebook ads that Russian trolls bought to influence the election weren’t aimed

at directly promoting Trump. They were aimed at inflaming division in American life by focusing on such issues as race and religion. Facebook has tried to address the fake news problem — hiring fact checkers to examine stories, slapping “disputed” tags on suspect claims, putting counterpoints in related article boxes — but with mixed results.

The recent Knight Foundation/Gallup poll, meanwhile, found that those surveyed believed that the broader array of news sources actually made it harder to stay well-informed. And those who grew up soaking in the brine of social media aren’t necessarily better at sorting truth from fiction. Far from it.

“Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the internet can be summed up in one word: bleak,” Stanford University researchers concluded in a 2016 study of more than 7,800 students. More than 80 percent of middle schoolers surveyed didn’t know the difference between sponsored content and a news article.

It’s why groups like Media Literacy Now have successfully pushed legislatures in states like Washington to put media literacy programs in schools. That includes teaching students how information is manipulated behind the scenes, says Erin McNeill, the organization’s president. “With Facebook, for example, why am I seeing this story on the top of the page?” she asks. “Is it because it’s the most important story, or is it because of another reason?”

But Facebook’s new algorithm threatens to make existing fake news problems even worse, says Ingram with CJR. By focusing on friends and family, it could strengthen the filter bubble even further. Rewarding “engagement” can just as easily incentivize the worst aspects of the internet.

What’s really good at getting “engagement”?

Hoaxes. Conspiracy theories. Idiots who start fights in comments sections. Nuance doesn’t get engagement. Outrage does.

“Meaningful social interactions” is a hard concept for algorithms to grasp.

“It’s like getting algorithms to filter out porn,” Ingram says. “You and I know it when we see it. [But] algorithms are constantly filtering out photos of women breastfeeding.”

Facebook hasn’t wanted to push beyond the algorithm and play censor. In fact, it’s done the opposite. After Facebook was accused of suppressing conservative news sites in its Trending Topics section in 2016, it fired its human editors. (Today, conspiracy theories continue to show up in Facebook’s Trending Topics.)

Instead, to determine the quality of news sites, Facebook is rolling out a two-question survey about whether users recognized certain media outlets, and whether they found them trustworthy. The problem, as many tech writers pointed out, is that many Facebook users, like Trump, consider The Washington Post and The New York Times to be “fake news.”

IT’S NOT FAIR TO SAY THAT FACEBOOK KILLED the Metro Pulse, the alt-weekly

in Knoxville, Tennessee. But it probably landed the final blow.

The internet, obviously, has been eroding newspapers for a long time. It killed other revenue sources as well. Craigslist cut out classified sections. Online dating killed personal ads. Amazon.com put many local mom-and-pop advertisers out of business.

Yet the Metro Pulse still was turning a slight profit in 2014 when the E.W. Scripps Company shut it down, so editor Coury Turczyn and a few other staffers set out to start their own paper. But in the six months it took to get the Knoxville Mercury off

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The Boston Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Philadelphia City Paper and the Baltimore City Paper. Others, including The Village Voice and the Houston Press, have gone online-only.

Daily papers are suffering, too. The West Virginia Gazette-Mail won a Pulitzer Prize

what else you’re missing.

“The media companies want the traffic, the traffic, the traffic,” Robinson says. “The stuff [readers] need to know — but don’t know they need to know — disappears.”

Asked if there’s any reason for optimism, the Columbia Journalism Review’s Ingram laughs wryly.

If you’re not a behemoth like BuzzFeed, he says, your best bet is to be small enough to be supported by diehard readers.

“If you’re really, really hyperfocused — geographically or on a topic — then you have a chance,” Ingram says. “Your readership will be passionate enough to support you in some way.”

That’s one reason some actually welcome the prospect of less Facebook traffic. Slate’s Will Oremus recently wrote that less news on Facebook would eventually cleanse news of “the toxic incentives of the algorithm on journalism.”

Maybe, the thinking goes, without a reliance on Facebook clicks, newspapers would once again be able to build trust with their readers.

Maybe, the hope goes, readers would start directly seeking out newspapers again.

But even if Facebook suddenly ceased to exist, there are other sites with other algorithms that can drive traffic and shape coverage. As traffic referred by Facebook falls, the focus at McClatchy already is shifting.

You can optimize your news coverage to appear high in the Facebook News Feed — but you also can optimize it to appear higher in the Google search results.

“We’re all about Google, again,” Robinson says. “Google, Google, Google.”

So you choose your own truth.

Or Facebook’s algorithm chooses it for you.

IT’S NOT THAT NOBODY’S MAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY on online advertis-

ing. It’s just that only two are: Facebook and Google — and they’re both destroying print advertising.

The decline in print advertising has ravaged alt-weeklies, killing icons like the

last year for reporting on the opioid crisis.

It filed for bankruptcy last month. Eleven more staffers were cut from The Oregonian Jan. 31, the latest in a series of layoffs at the Portland, Oregon paper, the same day Silicon Valley’s San Jose Mercury News slashed staff.

McClatchy’s made a lot of cuts in the last year, too, though Grieve declined to say exactly how many positions have been eliminated. He doesn’t blame Facebook.

“Our newsrooms are smaller than they once were, but because we’re so focused on serving the needs of our communities, we’re actually reaching more readers than we ever have before,” Grieve wrote in an email.

Yet the convergence of layoffs with the pressure to get web traffic has influenced coverage, Robinson says. When potential traffic numbers are an explicit factor in story selection and you’re short-staffed, you have to make choices.

Stories about schools don’t get many clicks. Weird crime stories do.

But as a longtime reporter, Robinson knows bombshell scoops can sometimes begin with mundane reporting. Fail to report on the dull stuff, and you don’t know

— A version of this article first appeared in the Inlander.

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the ground, the market had changed.

“We lost a lot more small-business advertisers than we expected,” Turczyn says.

Facebook had captured them.

Once, alt-weeklies could rake in advertising dollars by selling cheaper rates and providing advertisers with a younger, hipper, edgier audience. But then Facebook came along, letting businesses micro-target advertisements at incredibly specific audiences.

Like Google, Facebook tracks you across the web, digging deep into your online activity to figure out whether to sell you wedding dresses, running shoes or baby formula. “You go to Facebook, you can try to pick your audience based on their geographic location, their interests,” Turczyn says. It’s cheaper. It’s easier.

And it comes with a report full of stats on whom the ad reached.

“Even if it doesn’t result in any sales and foot traffic, it at least has this report,” Turczyn says.

Knoxville Mercury ad reps would cite examples of businesses that advertised in print and saw foot traffic double the next day — but the small businesses wouldn’t bite. Attempts to rally reader donations weren’t enough. The paper shut down in July 2017.

Turczyn says two decades of journalism experience hasn’t helped much with the job search. Journalists aren’t what outlets are looking for. “The single biggest job opening I see consistently is social media manager. Or ‘digital brand manager,’” Turczyn says.

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‘Mr. Okra,’ New Orleans iconic produce vendor, dies at 75 “MR. OKRA,” ARTHUR ROBINSON ,

the singing produce vendor who drove the streets of New Orleans for decades selling fruits and vegetables from his brightly painted truck, has died at 75.

Cloud Nine Bistro specializes in waffles

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IN BELGIUM , the waffle options are endless, but the Liege waffle, or gaufre de Liege, stands out.

Named for the Belgian city of Liege, it is dense and chewy and much sweeter than traditional Brussels waffles. Made with brioche dough, the Liege has golden and buttery grids with uneven edges and deep, caramelized pockets. At Cloud Nine Bistro, a new bright and friendly cafe tucked off Magazine Street in the Irish Channel, Liege waffles are the focus.

Liege waffles are marked by their dough, studded with pearl sugar that melts into the batter as the waffles cook, seeping into the crevasses and forming a caramelized, crispy exterior. In a basic presentation, the waffle is dusted with powdered sugar and served with a side of fresh fruit, such as strawberries or raspberries.

The decadent Chunky Monkey features caramelized bananas and Nutella — more dessert than breakfast, but delicious nonetheless.

Waffles provide great canvasses for sweet preparations, but some of Cloud Nine’s savory combinations are the most unexpected and successful.

A savory Liege waffle is topped with sunny side up eggs, two strips of bacon and a heavy pour of maple syrup. Also delicious is the croque madame version, in which thick slices of grilled Canadian bacon are topped with melted sharp cheese and two sunny side up eggs. The dish is served open-faced on a waffle, so when the yolk is broken it drips into all the crevices, making for

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a pleasing sweet and savory hybrid.

The menu also includes salads, sandwiches and other breakfast items. A simple grilled Gruyere and cheddar cheese sandwich served on white toast was tasty but small and more appropriate for a kid’s meal. The house salad, while very large, featured little beyond chopped romaine lettuce with a sprinkling of stale croutons, cherry tomatoes and shredded cheddar cheese. It seemed out of place on an otherwise creative menu.

More satisfying was the whimsically named Frenchmen in the Bathtub sandwich, which includes fat slices of roast beef and melted brie cheese on a French roll served with a salty, dark jus for dipping.

Cloud Nine took over a space formerly occupied by Maple Street Patisserie and Artz Bagelz. The cafe is decorated in cheery pastels, and

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Bartender Kevin Davis, (l-r) chef Skie Rainey and owner Mark O’Donnell serve waffles at Cloud Nine Bistro.

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there are high ceilings and plenty of exposed brick walls.

On two visits, however, the ventilation was very poor and the room a bit smoky. Dining outside is a better option when possible.

While improvements are needed to the ventilation system, and some of the regular lunch items could be improved, Cloud Nine Bistro offers both winning sweet and savory ways to scratch that waffle itch.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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When Mr. Okra’s truck died in 2009, New Orleanians held fundraisers to buy him a new one.

That year he was the subject of a documentary, Mr. Okra, by executive producer Andre Jones and director T.G. Herrington. He also was a fixture at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Robinson talked to Gambit in 2012 about his career and his legacy: “Oh, things change. I remember when children would see you coming, they’d call for their parents, saying, ‘Mama, mama, here comes the vegetable man!’ Now, you pass by ... you ask the kids if their parents want something and they look at you like you’re crazy.”

A family member told The New Orleans Advocate Robinson died at home of natural causes. No funeral services or memorials have been announced.

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Reclaimed Landry’s JUST IN TIME FOR LENT, Landry’s Seafood House opened a new French Quarter location at 620 Decatur St. The seafood chain operated a restaurant at 400 N. Peters for 20 years before closing in 2016.

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Square and the Riverview Bar, overlooking the Mississippi River.

There also is a private dining area and balcony for events.

The restaurant is part of Landry’s Inc. (www.landrysinc. com), a Texas-based chain of restaurant and hotel brands.

There also is a Landry’s on Lake Pontchartrain at 8000 Lakeshore Drive. At the French Quarter location, executive chef Eric Walker will serve a similar spread of Louisiana Cajun- and Creole-inspired seafood dishes such as blackened catfish Atchafalaya, smoked bacon-crusted scallops, New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp and trout meuniere.

The restaurant will have happy hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and will be open for lunch and dinner daily.

— HELEN FREUND

Brunch rebooted RESTAURANTS AVO AND TOUPS SOUTH are upping their

brunch games.

BUY & T R A DE at

Chef Nick Lama’s Italian restaurant Avo (5908 Magazine St., 504-509-6550; www.restaurantavo.com) is serving a brunch menu including baskets of house-made pastries and small plates such as pesto deviled eggs, meatballs and polenta, brown butter yogurt parfaits and an everything-spice bagel flatbread topped with smoked salmon, capers, red onions and leek cream. Larger plates include spaghetti carbonara topped with a poached egg, hanger steak with soft scrambled eggs, a tuna and orzo dish with avocado, olives and tomatoes, and “eggs in a hole in purgatory” — gnocchi alla Romana topped with eggs, sausage, peppers and arrabbiata sauce.

A build-your-own mimosa deal includes pitchers of orange, strawberry, white peach or blood orange juice. Brunch cocktails include Negroni sbagliatos, grilled pineapple mojitos and bloody marys made with spicy beet-infused vodka. Drinks range from $8 to $10, and pitchers (which serve four) are $25 to $30.

Avo serves brunch 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Isaac Toups’ Central City restaurant Toups South (1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504-304-2147; www.toupssouth.com) is launching a brunch extension of its Counter Club dinner series. The restaurant already serves brunch on Sundays, but starting March 11, it will host a limited-seating brunch on the second Sunday of the month. It will be a four-course meal of dishes not on the regular menu, plus bottomless mimosas, for $50.

The menu will change each month, and might include dishes such as pancake-battered smoked sausage with Tabasco mash hollandaise, smoked lamb chilaquiles, and sourdough biscuit churros with cinnamon ice cream and chocolate sauce. Call for reservations. — HELEN FREUND

Top chefs

THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION

(www.jamesbeard.org) released the list of semifinalists for the 2018 James Beard Awards, considered the Oscars of the culinary and hospitality worlds. The list of finalists will be released March 14. Winners will be announced May 7 at the annual James Beard Awards Gala in Chicago.

New Orleans restaurants, bars and restaurateurs had a strong showing in the list, particularly in the Best Chef: South category.

Here are local restaurants and individuals included on the short list.

Best New Restaurant: Saffron NOLA Outstanding Service: Brigtsen’s Outstanding Bar Program: Cure Outstanding Wine Program: Bacchanal Wine Outstanding Chef: Donald Link, Herbsaint, Cochon, Cochon Butcher and Peche Outstanding Pastry Chef: Kelly Fields, Willa Jean Outstanding Restauranteur: JoAnn Clevenger, Upperline Best Chef: South: Nina Compton, Compere Lapin Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus, Coquette Michael Gulotta, Maypop and MoPho Slade Rushing, Brennan’s Hieu Than, Kin Isaac Toups, Toups’ Meatery, Toups South Martha Wiggins, Sylvain (the LeBlanc + Smith restaurant group announced earlier this year that Wiggins will be departing the restaurant soon).

— HELEN FREUND

EAT+DRINK Shane K. Bernard HISTORIAN

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TABASCO IS CELEBRATING ITS 150TH birthday this year. The hot pepper sauce invented on Avery Island now is sold in more than 185 countries. Historian Shane Bernard has worked for the company for 25 years and spoke with Gambit about Tabasco.

What was the earliest reference to Tabasco?

BERNARD: We use 1868 as the founding date of the company because that’s when Edmund McIlhenny incurred his startup costs and also when he grew his first full crop of peppers. Edmund had previously worked as a banker for the Bank of Louisiana in New Orleans. ... He kept meticulous records by nature, and that’s how we know what his start-up costs were.

About three or four years ago, one of the elder members of the McIlhenny family passed away, and his children found a notebook with some handwritten notes. They brought it to me, and I said that’s Edmund’s McIlhenny’s handwriting. It contained the earliest known reference to Tabasco sauce, dated Jan. 18, 1868. That is actually before the commercial product.

He was referring to it as something made for the family table.

They did not have a name (for the pepper used) at the time.

(Edmund McIlhenny) called it the Tabasco pepper after the sauce, but there were a lot of things being exported from the central Gulf coast of Mexico that were called Tabasco peppers. ...

So it seems to have been a vague term until Edmund said, “My pepper is the Tabasco pepper.” It wasn’t until the 1950s that it received a formal Latin name, which is Capsicum frutescens.

How did the sauce become popular?

B: Edmund began asking grocers he knew in New Orleans, New Iberia (Louisiana) and Galveston (Texas) to carry the product. He started out very small.

Oysters were kind of the staple of everyday food back then. There were a lot of places called oyster saloons, and so Edmund got Tabasco in a lot of those saloons because Tabasco naturally complimented the oysters. It seems that by the 1890s, Tabasco had become a household word.

The earliest exports are from early 1873-1874 to France and England. There are occasional references to it being found in places like Himalayan foothills of India in the 1880s and on the upper Nile in Egypt in the 1890s and also in Shanghai and on the west coast of Africa around 1900. Who knows how the sauce got there, because we weren’t exporting directly to those places at that time. It wasn’t until after World War II that we really began to make a concerted effort to open up new markets for it overseas and begin advertising in non-English languages.

Will coastal erosion and land loss in Louisiana affect Avery Island and Tabasco production?

B: It’s a concern, but it’s not an immediate concern. We were hit by (Hurricane) Rita. I think it was an 11-foot storm surge that swept around the island. It flooded the perimeter of the island, which includes the pepper fields. But of all the sauce we make, only about 1 or 2 percent of it comes from the pepper fields on the island. Those fields are used mainly as seed stock that we send to Central and South America and also to Africa, and it’s the peppers grown there that are primarily used in making the sauce.

We built a 17-foot levee around the low side of the factory. Our major concern is that the state highway leading to the island will flood.

The McIlhennys have been working for decades to do what they can to stop this coastal erosion, with things like planting grass, planting cypress trees and teaming up with groups like the (National) Audubon Society and local landowners to do what they can to minimize the loss of coastal land. — HELEN FREUND

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Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant — 738 Poland Ave., (504) 943-9914; www.jackdempseys.net — Reservations accepted for large parties. L Tue-Fri, D Wed-Sat. $$

Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $

Suis Generis — 3219 Burgundy St., (504) 309-7850; www.suisgeneris.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

D Wed-Sun, late Wed-Sun, brunch Sat-Sun. $$

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$ — average dinner entrée under $10

BYWATER

Queenies on St. Claude — 3200 St. Claude Ave., (504) 558-4085; www. facebook.com/queeniesonstclaude — No reservations. L, D daily. $

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B — breakfast L — lunch D — dinner late — late 24H — 24 hours

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — Reservations recommended. B & D daily, L Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Welty’s Deli — 336 Camp St., (504) 592-0223; www.weltysdeli.com — No reservations. B, L Mon-Fri. $

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. L SatSun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$ La Casita Taqueria — 8400 Oak St., (504) 826-9913; www.eatlacasita.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted for large parties. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe — 7801 Panola St., (504) 314-1810; www.panolastreetcafe.com — No reservations. B and L daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 7839 St. Charles Ave., (504) 866-9313; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

CHALMETTE Cafe Aquarius — 2101 Paris Road, Chalmette, (504) 510-3080 — No reservations. L Tue-Fri, D Tue, brunch Sat-Sun. $

CITYWIDE

Spotted Cat Food & Spirits — New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 371-5074; www.spottedcatfoodspirits.com — Reservations recommended.

B, L daily, D Mon-Sat. $$

FRENCH QUARTER Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $ Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. L, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$$ Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 5254455; www.bayona.com — Reservations recommended. L Wed-Sat, D Mon-Sat. $$$ Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; www.bourbonhouse.com — Reservations accepted. B, L. D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Brennan’s New Orleans — 417 Royal St., (504) 525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com — Reservations recommended.

B, L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Criollo — Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 681-4444; www.criollonola. com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. L, early dinner daily. $$ Green Goddess — 307 Exchange Place, (504) 301-3347; www.greengoddessrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Wed-Sun. $$ House of Blues — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www.hob.com/neworleans — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Killer Poboys — 219 Dauphine St., (504) 462-2731; 811 Conti St., (504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.com — No reservations. Hours vary by location. Cash only at Conti Street location. $

Breaux Mart — Citywide; www.breauxmart.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

Le Bayou Restaurant — 208 Bourbon St., (504) 525-4755; www.lebayourestaurant. com — No reservations. L, D, late MonSun. $

La Carreta — Citywide; www.carretarestaurant.com — Reservations accepted for larger parties. Lunch and dinner daily. $$

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

NOLA Restaurant — 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652; www.emerilsrestaurants. com/nola-restaurant — Reservations recommended. L Thu-Mon, D daily. $$$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Red Fish Grill — 115 Bourbon St., (504) 598-1200; www.redfishgrill.com — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$$ Restaurant R’evolution — 777 Bienville St., (504) 553-2277; www.revolutionnola. com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$ Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

GENTILLY Cafe Gentilly — 5339 Franklin Ave., (504) 281-4220; www.thecafegentilly.com — No reservations. B, L daily. Cash only. $

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE Heads & Tails Seafood & Oyster Bar — 1820 Dickory Ave., Suite A, Harahan, (504) 533-9515; www.headsandtailsrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

OUT TO EAT 888 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-8981; www. steakkniferestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. D Tue-Sat. $$$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — No reservations. 24H $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — No reservations. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Heritage Grill — 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Suite 150, Metairie, (504) 9344900; www.heritagegrillmetairie.com — Reservations accepted. L Mon-Fri. $$ Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ R&O’s Restaurant — 216 Metairie-Hammond Highway, Metairie, (504) 831-1248; www.rnosrestarurant.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www.riccobonospeppermill.com — Reservations accepted. B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$

KENNER

Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $

Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $

Vista Buffet — Treasure Chest Casino, 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. L Mon-Fri, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

LAKEVIEW El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola. com — See No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$ Sala Restaurant & Bar — 124 Lake Marina Ave., (504) 513-2670; www.salanola.com — Reservations accepted. L and D TueSun, brunch Sat-Sun, late Thu-Sat. $$ The Steak Knife Restaurant & Bar —

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The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$

Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

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biscuits & buns on banks — 4337 Banks St., (504) 273-4600; www.biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com — Delivery available TueFri. No reservations. L, brunch daily. $$ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Cafe NOMA — New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 482-1264; www.cafenoma.com — Reservations accepted for large parties.

L Tue-Sun, D Fri. $ Cafe Navarre — 800 Navarre Ave., (504) 483-8828; www.cafenavarre.com — No reservations. B, L and D Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness. com — Delivery available. Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$ G’s Pizza — 4840 Bienville St., (504) 4836464; www.gspizzas.com — No reservations. L, D, late daily. $ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity. com — No reservations. L daily, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 569-0000; www. juansflyingburrito.com — No reservations.

L, D daily. $ Namese — 4077 Tulane Ave., (504) 4838899; www.namese.net — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Reservations recommended. L Tue-Fri, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Rue 127 — 127 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 483-1571; www.rue127.com — Reservations recommended. D Tue-Sat. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — No reservations.

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OUT TO EAT Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$ G’s Kitchen Spot — Balcony Bar, 3201 Magazine St., (504) 891-9226; www. gskitchenspot.com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D, late daily. $ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Magazine Po-boy Shop — 2368 Magazine St., (504) 522-3107 — No reservations. B, L Mon-Sat. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 4109997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria. com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; www.titoscevichepisco.com — Reservations accepted.

D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT

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

Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. late Fri-Sat. $$

NORTHSHORE

El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Martin Wine Cellar — 2895 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (985) 951-8081; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

UPTOWN Apolline — 4729 Magazine St., (504) 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com — Reservations accepted. brunch, D Tue-Sun. $$$ Basin Seafood & Spirits — 3222 Magazine St., (504) 302-7391; www.basinseafoodnola.com — Reservations accepted.

L, D daily. $$

Emeril’s Restaurant — 800 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 528-9393; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D daily. $$$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Meril — 424 Girod St., (504) 526-3745; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/meril — Reservations accepted. L, D daily. $$

WEST BANK

Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/cafeluna504 — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $

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

The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$

Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$

The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$

Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

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TUESDAY 20 Bamboula’s — Jan Marie, 3; Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band, 6:30; Smoky Greenwell, 10 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Jersey Slim, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Chip Wilson, 5:30; Bonnie Montgomery, 8 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; The Blind Owls, 8:30 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard “Piano” Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — NOLA Dukes, 8 The Maison — New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 4; Gregory Agid Quartet, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Queenie’s — Jackson Square All-Stars, 6:30 SideBar — Joe Cabral, Martin Krushe, Dan Oestreicher, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Todd Duke Trio, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 St. Mary’s Catholic Church — Tom McDermott, 6:30

WEDNESDAY 21 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 — Demi, 5; Joy Owens, 8; Funk It All, 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, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Ivor Simpson-Kennedy, 5:30; Meschiya Lake & Tom McDermott, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7; Unearthly Child, 10 Contemporary Arts Center — Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, 7:30 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 — Oh Jeremiah, Frankie Boots, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Howlin’ Wolf Den — McLovins, 8 Joy Theater — Rebelution, Raging Fyah, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Tim Robertson, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Sidney Bechet for Lovers, 7:30 The Maison — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 6:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Percy J, 10 Mudlark Public Theatre — Timeghost, Strait Panic, fri(G)id, Asukubus, 8 New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint — Across the Pond Guitar Festival feat. The Bruskers Duo, New Orleans Guitar Masters, Jimmy Robinson & Michael Skinkus, Phil DeGruy, 7 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 7:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious, 5:30 SideBar — Harry Hardin & Mark Weliky, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

THURSDAY 22 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3; Royal Street Windin’ Boys feat. Jenavieve Cook, 6:30; Bon Bon Vivant, 10 Banks Street Bar — Ex Vicus, Pucusana, 9 Bar Mon Cher — Bats in the Belfry with DJs Mange and Emily Anne (goth night), 9 Bar Redux — JD Hill & the Jammers, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Micah McKee & Little Maker, 7; Bayou International Reggae Night feat.

Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Ainsley Matich & the Broken Blues, 5; Andre Lovett Band, 8; Burris, 11 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Banu Gibson, 5; Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Castle Theatre — Linda Wright, Reggie Smith, 8 Check Point Charlie — Sandra Love & the Reason, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones, 8 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with Rik Slave, 7; DJs Howie and Panzer, 10

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Upcoming concerts » THE WEEKS, CAROLINE ROSE , March 25, Gasa Gasa » BIG K.R.I.T. , April 11, House of Blues » THIRDSTORY, April 20, House of Blues » JOEY BADA$$, April 25, Republic » THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS, April 27, House of Blues » ICEAGE , May 24, Santos » DESCENDENTS, Sept. 14, Joy Theater

Big K.R.I.T. performs at House of Blues April 11.

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d.b.a. — Alexis & the Samurai, 7; John Sinclair & the Carla Ditta Trio, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Kuwaisiana, 10 House of Blues — Nothing More, 7 Joy Theater — The Revolution, DJ Soul Sister, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Foot & Friends, 8:30 Le Bon Temps Roule — Soul Rebels, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Sidney Bechet for Lovers, 7:30 The Maison — The Good for Nothin’ Band, 4; Dysfunktional Bone, 10 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Marigny Opera House — Afrodiziac’s Jazz, 7 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Nutria, 6 Old Point Bar — Extended Recess Band, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger & Tim Laughlin, Crescent City Joymakers, 7:30 Pour House Saloon — Dave Ferrato, 8:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Republic New Orleans — 3LAU, 9 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas, 8:30 Santos Bar — Real Cool Trash, 9 Siberia Lounge — Eastern Bloc Party feat.

G String Orchestra, 9 SideBar — Billy Iuso & Eddie Christmas, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — The Bruskers Duo, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 Treo — The St. Claude Serenaders, 6:30 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 23 21st Amendment — Juju Child Blues Band, 9:30 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1; Sierra Green & Soul Machine, 5:30; Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones, 10 Bar Mon Cher — Samantha Pearl, 8:30 Bar Redux — Synthwave Apocalypse with DJs Jenn Hazmat and Mange, 10 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7:30; Water Seed, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Street Legends Brass Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Lifesavers, 3; Mignano, 6; Hyperphlyy, 9; La Tran-K Salsa, midnight Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Alexandra Scott & Her Magical Band, 6; Greg Schatz, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; Alpha Rhythm, Black Laurel, 8; Stephen Neeper & the Wild Hearts, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Paul Sanchez, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7 d.b.a. — Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Dash Rip Rock, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Julie Odell, 7; The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social (Latin dance party), 10 Hi-Ho Lounge — Diet Cig, Great Grandpa, The Spook School, 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Psychedelic Fashion Super Jam feat. George Porter Jr., Ivan Neville, Papa Mali, Khris Royal, Terrence Higgins, Terrence Houston, DJ Logic, 8 Howlin’ Wolf Den — The Quickening, Vibe Doctors, 9 Joy Theater — Busted on Bourbon: Iko All-Stars feat. Billy Iuso, Reggie Scanlan, Eddie Christmas, CR Gruver, Michael Fouquier (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Kevin Specht & Tom Marron, 5; Beth Patterson, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Lilli Lewis, 5; Sidney Bechet for Lovers, 7:30 The Maison — Shotgun Jazz Band, 7 Music Box Village — Tony Allen, Kumasi, 8 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Jesse Tripp & the Nightbreed, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Pleasure Club, Five EIGHT, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Justin Donovan, 6 Rock ’n’ Bowl — The Topcats, 9:30 Santos Bar — Harvey & Wolf, Rik Slave’s SPACE, Deadly Fists of Kung Fu, 9 Siberia Lounge — Hallelujah Hat Rack (Grateful Dead tribute), 10 SideBar — Mia Borders, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Where Y’acht, 8:30 Southport Hall (Deck Room) — Framing the Red, Delta Revelry, 8:30 PAGE 32

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SATURDAY 24 21st Amendment — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 9:30 Bamboula’s — G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7; Bon Bon Vivant, 11:30 Bar Mon Cher — Barbarella Blue, 8:30 Bar Redux — Josh Benitez Band, 9 The Bayou Bar — Philip Melancon, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 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; Vintage Pistol, 9; Hallelujah Hat Rack (Grateful Dead tribute), midnight Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Check Point Charlie — Swamp Motel, 8; J Monque’D, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — James LeBlanc & Dylan LeBlanc, 9 d.b.a. — New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 7; Brass-A-Holics, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Walter “Wolfman” Washington Trio, 10 Gasa Gasa — The Iceman Special (Grateful Dead after-party), midnight Hi-Ho Lounge — Pink Room Project, 11 House of Blues — Tab Benoit, 9; Bamboleo (Latin club night), midnight Howlin’ Wolf — Dumpstaphunk, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, DJ Logic, 10 Jazz National Historical Park — Seguenon Kone, noon Joy Theater — Gramatik, Haywyre, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Paul Tobin, 5; Hurricane Refugees, 9 The Maison — Chance Bushman & the Ibervillianaires, 1; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 7 Mudlark Public Theatre — Bitchin Bajas, Benni, Beat.Imprint, 8 Music Box Village — Tony Allen, Kumasi, 8 New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint — DOLO Jazz Suite feat. AF THE NAYSAYER, 7:30 Old Point Bar — Marshland, 9:30 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Duke Heitger & Palm Court Jazz Band, 7:30 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Rare Form — Will Dickerson Band, 1; Justin Donovan, 6; Steve Mignano, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Bag of Donuts, 9:30 Siberia Lounge — Alex McMurray, 6; Pony Hunt, Julie Odell, 10 SideBar — Noelle Tannen & Nahum Zdybel, 9 Smoothie King Center — Dead & Company, 7 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — The New Orleans Griots feat. James Rivers, Germaine Bazzle, David Torkanowsky, George French, Herlin Riley, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6

PREVIEW Tony Allen and Kumasi

BY NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS AS THE SIMMERING, exciting/inciting beat behind Afrobeat, Tony Allen will forever be fused to the memory and legacy of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musical and political firebrand who changed the sound and mind of a continent throughout the 1960s and ’70s. But the 78-year-old Allen — who split with Kuti in 1979 — has lived an entire second life since then: emigrating to Europe and cultivating his own branch of Afrofunk, lending his perpetual popcorn jump to art as far-flung (stylistically and geographically) as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Moritz von Oswald, Damon Albarn and Flea. Last year, working in signature polyrhythm, Allen issued A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, a four-song EP paying homage to Blakey’s tributes to intricate West African percussive tradition and its influences on American jazz drumming. In September, he followed with The Source, Allen’s debut for the storied Blue Note Records, on which Blakey’s Messengers first appeared 70 years earlier. Here, Allen performs with New Orleans’ Kumasi Afrobeat orchestra, whose 13-piece outfit is a worlds-spanning monument to the man whom, for two magical nights, they get to back by fronting. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 day of show. At 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. The Music Box Village, 4557 N. Rampart St.; www.musicboxvillage.com.

The Tasting Room — Spider Murphy, Gabriele Trabucco, 7 Tipitina’s — Uptown Get Down feat.

Ze11a, 10 Twist of Lime — Muleskinner, Six Pack, Tokyo Gas Attack, Totally Possessed, 10

SUNDAY 25 21st Amendment — Christopher Johnson Quartet, 8 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Tiny Dinosaur & the Gravity Wells, Dusky Waters, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Foot & Friends, 3; Jazmarae, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Bourbon O Bar — G & the New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Nattie Sanchez Songwriter Circle, 4; Steve Pistorius Quartet, 7 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Big Frank & Lil Frank, 6 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 Circle Bar — Fantasy Non Fiction, Aaron Lopez-Barrantes, Kathryn Rose Wood, 9:30 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; Soul Project (album release), 10

Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Michael Mason Band, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — Joywave, Sasha Sloan, Kopps, 8:30 House of Blues — Of Mice and Men, BLESSTHEFALL, Cane Hill, Fire From the Gods, MSCW, 6:30 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 The Jefferson Orleans North — Cindy Van Duyne, The Pat Barberot Orchestra, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Chip Wilson, 8 The Maison — Higher Heights, 10 Old Point Bar — Tres Bien, 3:30; Jean Marie Harris, 7 One Eyed Jacks — Vetiver, Fruit Bats, 8 Rare Form — The Key Sound, 10 Siberia Lounge — Todd Day Wait & Pigpen, Jon Hatchet Band, Danny Dodge, Gold Star, Josh Desure, 9 SideBar — J.C. Tokes’ Carolina-One-Man-Band, 9:30 Trinity Episcopal Church — Claude Hitt, 5; Jazz Vespers feat. Calvin Johnson, 8

MONDAY 26 21st Amendment — Kala Bazaar Swing Society, 7:30 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 2; G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 5:30; James Williams Band, 9

MUSIC Blue Nile — Jeff Chaz, 7; Brass-AHolics, 10 BMC — Zoe K, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray, Mike Voelker, Jason Jurzak, 8 Circle Bar — Clint Johnson, 7 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Soul Brass Band, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 House of Blues — Molotov, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Roy Gele, 8:30 The Maison — Chicken & Waffles, 5; Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 One Eyed Jacks — Blind Texas Marlin, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10

CLASSICAL/CONCERTS Albinas Prizgintas. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 5220276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s “Organ & Labyrinth” performance includes selections from baroque to vintage rock, played by candlelight. Free.

6 p.m. Tuesday.

Davide Mariano. St. Joseph Abbey Church, 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, (985) 892-1800; www.sjasc.edu — The organist plays selections dating from the Middle Ages through the contemporary era. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Get Yah Praise On. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www. auduboninstitute.org — Kim Sky, Casme’, Drea Marie, Jessica Harvey & the Difference and Collage III perform at the gospel showcase. Free with zoo admission.

11 a.m. Saturday.

Lise de la Salle. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www. tulane.edu/~theatre — The pianist’s program includes pieces by Bach, Liszt and Thomas Enhco. Tickets $18-$35.

7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The Orpheum Theater, 129 University Place, (504) 274-4871; www.orpheumnola.com — The orchestra previews its Carnegie Hall program, which includes selections from Philip Glass and Silvestre Revueltas.

Tickets start at $20. 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

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EVENTS WEDNESDAY 21 Fighting for the Right to Fight in Louisiana. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www. nationalww2museum.org — A lecture focuses on the challenges African-Americans faced in Louisiana during World War II. 6 p.m.

Ndar to New Orleans. Martin Luther King Library, 1611 Caffin Ave., (504) 529-7323; www.nolalibrary.org — Dillard University scholar Zella Palmer discusses the African roots of Creole cuisine, and there’s a potluck. 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 22 From Ochsner with Love: A Red Tie Affair. Ritz-Carlton, 921 Canal St., (504) 524-1331; www.ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/new-orleans — The inaugural gala

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includes dinner, dancing and entertainment. Visit www.giving.ochsner.org for details. Tickets $250. 6 p.m.

Steve Gleason’s Inspire Birthday Celebration. Fulton Alley, 600 Fulton St., (504) 208-5569; www.fultonalley. com — There are silent and live auctions, food, drinks and entertainment at the ALS awareness fundraiser. Visit www. teamgleason.org for details. Tickets start at $50. 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 23 Bingo Night. Second Line Brewing, 433 N. Bernadotte St., (504) 248-8979; www. secondlinebrewing.com — This bingo night benefits New Orleans Musician’s Clinic and Assistance Foundation. Bingo cards are $3 or two for $5, and beer is sold. 6:30 p.m.

Pontchartrain Home Show. Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 465-9985; www.pontchartraincenter.com — The spring home show features remodeling exhibitors, vendors and more. Tickets $8. Noon to 7 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Tet Fest. Mary Queen of Vietnam Church, 14001 Dwyer Road — The festival celebrates the Vietnamese New Year with Vietnamese food, games, music and dance performances, a raffle and more.

Free admission. 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

SATURDAY 24 SweetArts. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www. cacno.org — The theme for the museum’s gala is “Art Unfolds,” and there are immersive art experiences and pop-ups, food, drinks, an auction and other entertainment. Tickets start at $100. 8 p.m.

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REVIEW Prospect.4 work by John and Akomfrah and Odili Donald Odita

BY D. ERIC BOOKHARDT NEW ORLEANS IS OFTEN DESCRIBED as mysterious, but much of that may have to do with the mysteries surrounding some of its most influential figures. The sudden rise to fame of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the cornet player widely credited with “inventing” jazz around 1900, was cut short in 1907, when at age 30, he was institutionalized for schizophrenia until he died in 1931. He left a few old photos and many vivid legends as his legacy. Despite that dearth of detail, John Akomfrah’s Precarity three-screen video at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is often cited as one of Prospect.4’s most emblematic works for the way it evokes Bolden’s brief presence in our midst by immersing us in the sights and sounds of Bolden’s New Orleans as he seems to wander amid vivid figures in period garb in scenes interwoven with vintage images of his old riverside haunts and modern views of the city. Accompanied by a ghostly voiceover based on Bolden’s fragmented ruminations, Precarity functions as an extraordinary example of intuitive time travel by Akomfrah, the Ghana-born, London-based winner of Britain’s 2017 Artes Mundi prize.

Many New Orleans natives grew up amid the legacy of the Anglo-American South’s attempts to redefine our Creole heritage via laws and monuments, but Creole sensibilities always were more welcoming. In Prospect.4, Nigeria native Odili Donald Odita articulates that inclusive sensibility in the form of flags in which interwoven bands of color reflect the intermingling of gravitas and buoyancy that characterize Creole values here and elsewhere. His Indivisible and Invincible project includes 15 historically fraught sites, such as the spot where Homer Plessy was arrested, the school first integrated by Ruby Bridges and the ferry to Algiers, where African slaves were held before being sold. Odita’s expansive philosophy of social aesthetics offers a vision of a world in which flags celebrate the contributions of all ethnicities rather than marking off national boundaries in an endlessly futile game of defense and conquest.

Through Feb. 25. Precarity at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9650; www.ogdenmuseum.org. Indivisible and Invincible at various locations. www.prospectneworleans.org.

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PREVIEW Kara Walker’s The Katastwof Karavan closes Prospect.4

BY WILL COVIELLO P H OTO B Y A R I M A R C O P O LO U S

NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART TRIENNIAL Prospect.4 closes Feb. 25. The final installation and performances are highlighted

by New York artist Kara Walker’s The Katastwof Karavan, a steam calliope in a wagon on the levee at Algiers Point.

A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, Walker is best known for her murals in silhouette and the 2014 installation of A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, a giant sphinx-like figure with the face of a black woman constructed in a former Domino Sugar refining plant in New York. It referenced the history of slave labor in the production of sugar in the Western hemisphere.

The Katastwof Karavan also addresses the history of slavery, and is placed at Algiers Point because enslaved peoples were held there before being sold at locations on the East Bank of the Mississippi. “Katastwof” is the Haitian Creole word for catastrophe, and it refers to the institution of slavery and its role in bringing Africans to European colonies. The wagon has figures in silhouette on its sides and a 32-note steam calliope that resembles those on Mississippi River steamboats. The wagon will be used for musical presentations Feb. 23 to Feb. 25. Some of the music is already programmed and includes songs by Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Sam Cooke, traditional jazz, hymns and protest songs. There also are live performances by pianist Jason Moran, who was commissioned to create music for Karavan. He performs at an invocation for the installation 4:30 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. There’s also music at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday; 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday; 11:30 a.m and 1:55 p.m. Sunday, the latter serving as a closing ceremony.

During its final weekend, Prospect.4 also has several lectures and panel discussions at other locations. Exhibits at more than 18 museums, galleries and installation sites are open through the weekend. Visit www.prospectneworleans.org for information.

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SUNDAY 25 Chinese New Year Celebration. 18th Street, Metairie — The block party takes place between N. Arnoult Road and Edenborn Avenue, and there’s food, a lion dance, kung fu demonstrations and Chinese traditional music performances.

Free admission. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Recycled Fashion Show. Rock ’n’ Bowl, 3000 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 861-1700; www.rocknbowl.com — Designers reinterpret clothes from Bridge House and Grace House’s thrift stores at this fashion show fundraiser. There’s food, drinks and auctions. Tickets $25-$35. 3 p.m.

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Jasiri Basel. Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road, (504) 948-7323; www. communitybookcenter.com — The entrepreneur and author discusses 101 Things I Wish My Father Taught Me. 3 p.m. Friday.

Zachary Lazar. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola.com — The author discusses his novel Vengeance and answers questions with performance group The Graduates, who were members of the drama club at the women’s prison in St. Gabriel.

7 p.m. Thursday.

FILM FILM FESTIVALS French Film Festival. Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., (504) 891-2787; www.theprytania.com — The fest showcases contemporary and classic French films. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for details. Friday-Monday.

Clayton Delery. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice. 7 p.m.

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George Saunders. The New Orleans Advocate, 840 St. Charles Ave. — The Lincoln in the Bardo author speaks. Tickets $10.

7 p.m. Tuesday.

Annihilation (R) — Alex Garland (Ex Machina) adapts Jeff VanderMeer’s trippy-sinister Southern Reach trilogy.

Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank

The Cage Fighter — One last fight is in store for a working-class man who had retired from cage fighting. Zeitgeist Every Day (PG-13) — Teen Rhiannon loves “A,” an amorphous creature who inhabits a different body every day. Elmwood, West Bank The Female Brain — A neuroscientist probes the mysteries of her own romantic impulses. Chalmette Game Night (R) — Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams attend a murder mystery night with a potentially dark twist. Clearview, Elmwood, West Bank, Chalmette Last Men in Aleppo — Three men try to save civil war victims in Syria in this Oscar-nominated documentary. Zeitgeist Pow Wow — In a documentary, country clubbers celebrate a Pow Wow party while a posse hunts a Native American man. Zeitgeist

NOW SHOWING 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated — The screening showcases animated shorts. Elmwood, Prytania, Cinebarre 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary — Documentary shorts are screened. Prytania 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action — The screening comprises live-action shorts. Elmwood, Prytania, Cinebarre Dunkirk (PG-13) — Christopher Nolan’s take on the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the beach at Dunkirk during World War II. Regal, Cinebarre Lady Bird (R) — A teen (Saoirse Ronan) navigates a fraught time of life in this mother-daughter dramedy.

Regal, Cinebarre The Shape of Water (R) — Guillermo del Toro directs the dark beautyand-the-beast fable about a mute woman who loves a weird creature. Regal, Cinebarre, Broad Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) — A woman uses unconventional tactics to draw attention to her daughter’s unsolved murder. Elmwood, Prytania, Regal, Cinebarre

ON STAGE 5 to 9. Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave., (504) 940-1130; www.cafeistanbulnola. com — Ryan Landry’s play parodies the movie 9 to 5 and imagines three secretaries to President Donald Trump. Tickets $30-$40. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Always ... Patsy Cline. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www. stagedoorcanteen.org — The musical is a tribute to Patsy Cline and features many of her hits. Tickets $24.99-$64.99. 6 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday.

The Color Purple. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The musical is adapted from Alice Walker’s novel and the award-winning film it inspired. Tickets start at $30.

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BY WILL COVIELLO THE NEW ORLEANS FILM SOCIETY’S FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL presents a slate of recent award-winning and Academy Award-shortlisted films from France and Francophone countries at The Prytania Theatre Feb. 23 to March 1. Before many screenings, there’s music by Helen Gillet, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Bart Ramsey and others.

The festival opens at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23 with Cesar-winning (France’s version of the Academy Awards) director Cedric Klapsich’s Back to Burgundy, in which three siblings reunite and reconcile their relationships after inheriting their father’s winery (also screening at noon Feb. 26). The festival includes three movies by French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda, including her 1965 film Le Bonheur, 2000 film The Gleaners and I about people who live as scavengers and her 2017 documentary project with photographer and muralist JR, Faces Places. There’s also a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.

Among this week’s screenings is director Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama (pictured), an at times tense and at times listless drama about disaffected young people lashing out in a violent plot. The diverse group ranges from cynical university students to people frustrated with social and economic stagnation. They carry out a meticulous plot and take refuge in an odd — but cinematically useful — space in Paris. As they wait out the aftermath of their strike — and we glimpse a burning statue of Joan of Arc in flashbacks — their minds wander and their discontent becomes more bizarre and unsettling. It screens at 7:45 p.m. Feb. 24.

Debauchery. Church of Yoga, 1480 N. Rocheblave St. — Southern Rep presents the live soap opera featuring an Uptown family with a downtown mom. Admission $10. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Jefferson Performing Arts Center, 6400 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-2000; www. jpas.org — The musical based on the Victor Hugo novel features songs from Disney’s animated adaptation. Tickets $40-$75. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

In Box Out; Can We Be Contained. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St., (504) 943-6565; www. artklub.org — The pop-up performance by artists St. Suzan Baltozer and Reese Johanson features an exploration of physical space and boxes. Free admission.

8 p.m. Wednesday.

The Other Black History. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — In this play, a formerly incarcerated educator teaches students about racial justice during Saturday detention. Tickets $15-20. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

Pop-Up Magazine. The Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www.civicnola.com — The live magazine features storytelling, adaptations of journalistic features, photography and a live score. Tickets $25. 7:30 p.m. Friday

ogdenmuseum.org — Ayo Scott discusses the work of his father, Prospect.4 artist John Scott. 1 p.m. Saturday Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. Citywide — Kara Walker’s The Katastwof Karavan installation features performances Feb. 23-25 at Algiers Point. The international arts exhibition features shows at area museums and installation sites, art walks, artist panels and more. Visit www.prospectneworleans.org for details. Through Sunday.

Uncommon Exchanges: Clay. Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 6823 St. Charles Ave., (504) 314-2200; www.tulane.edu — Tulane and Gulf South experts from different fields use clay to discuss their disciplines. 6 p.m.

Wednesday.

OPENING Angela King Gallery. 241 Royal St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery. com — “Inside Les Ballets des Monte-Carlo,” behind-the-scenes photographs of the dance company; opening reception 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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