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TUE. MARCH 20 | The SXSW exodus into eastern territories brings a double dose of Canadian pop to New Orleans. The Stereolabbed sonic swirls and gushy power pop on Faith Healer’s 2017 release Try ;-) pairs with Anemone’s ethereal Quebecois-core. New Orleans synth pop duo Video Age opens at 9 p.m. at Poor Boys.

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Men on Boats THU.-SUN. MARCH 22-APRIL 7 A one-armed captain leads a rugged bunch of explorers down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1859 in Jaclyn Backhaus’ drama for an all-female cast. Presented by The NOLA Project at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Lusher Charter School’s Lions Gate Theater.

Tennessee Williams’ plays fill local stages during literary festival

BY WILL COVIELLO

Hogs for the Cause

DENNIS MONN SAYS it’s only

fitting that he direct Vieux Carre, Tennessee Williams’ play about bohemians and hustlers in a French Quarter boarding house.

“When I landed in New Orleans in 2000, my first house was a squat in the Quarter,” he says. “I lived in these apartments with a mime, a fortune teller-slashprostitute, a vampire and Addie Hall, who is the girl who later got murdered by her boyfriend.”

A customer at a restaurant where he worked gave him a copy of Williams’ collected works.

“The first thing I turned to was Vieux Carre, because it was my new home,” Monn says. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I am living this play.’”

Vieux Carre is one of several productions of Williams’ plays that overlap with the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival (March 21-25). Several of the works are set in New Orleans and feature some of his best known characters and types of characters.

Le Petit Theatre du Viuex Carre is presenting A Streetcar Named Desire throughout March. In the brutish role of Stanley Kowalski, director Maxwell Williams cast Curtis Billings, a veteran of many Tennessee Williams productions at Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut.

Blanche DuBois is played by Beth Bartley, who starred as Catharine in Southern Rep’s 2015 production of Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer.

Zeb Hollins III and Troi Bechet play the Kowalskis’ rambunctious neighbors. Maxwell Williams is unflinching in letting the work dwell less on the smoldering desires that drive Blanche, Stanley and Stella, and more on the prices they pay for them. (7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday through March 31; www.lepetittheatre.com)

Southern Rep is presenting two of Williams’ one-act plays at Loyola University’s Marquette Theatre. The rarely produced And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens is the only play Williams wrote with multiple openly gay characters. It’s set in the French Quarter, where Candy (Evan Spigelman), who runs an antique shop, dresses in women’s clothes at home and picks up a visiting sailor during Mardi Gras. The sailor seeks her companionship, but he’s not kind to her. Candy’s neighbors, a gay couple, offer some solace. Director Ricky Graham uses Dixie’s Bar of Music, which Williams frequented, as the bar in the play. He notes that Candy is based on someone Williams knew personally. (7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m.

Sunday March 21-April 1; www. southernrep.com) Monn is producing Vieux Carre at AllWays Lounge, which he runs.

Much of the drama takes place in a disco, and he’s barely changed the lounge’s front room, where he also presented Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Threepenny Opera. In Vieux Carre, a lonely, gay, aspiring writer moves into a boarding house on Toulouse Street and meets a cantankerous proprietor, a lecherous older painter, a sick young society woman, her drug-addicted lover and others. (8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, March 22-25; www.theallwayslounge.net) Also playing during the festival is Moises Kaufman’s One Arm. It’s based on and uses language from a

Blanche DuBois (Beth Bartley) and Stanley Kowalski (Curtis Billings) celebrate her birthday in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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MARCH 21-25 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/ NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL VARIOUS LOCATIONS WWW.TENNESSEEWILLIAMS.NET

Williams short story and its screen adaptation. In it, a former boxer who lost an arm in an accident turns to hustling while struggling to get by. The drama is set against the backdrop of the French Quarter. The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (which will produce Vieux Carre in August) is staging it at Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, and Kaufman will participate in a discussion following the March 24 performance. (8 p.m. ThursdaySaturday and 6 p.m. Sunday March 22-April 7; www.twtheatrenola.com) The festival also features authors Richard Ford, Calvin Trillin, Rick Bragg, Donna Brazile, Nathaniel Rich and others participating in panel discussions and classes. There also are parties, concerts and walking tours, and the annual Stella and Stanley Shouting Contest concludes events in Jackson Square.

FRI.-SAT. MARCH 23-24 The annual barbecue and music festival features North Mississippi Osborne, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, The SteelDrivers, Son Little and other bands, an array of pork dishes from 85 barbecue teams, craft beer and more.

Gates open at 3:30 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday at UNO Lakefront Arena grounds.

Book of Love SAT. MARCH 24 | Synth pop firstwavers Book of Love flirted with reunions in 2000 and 2009 before falling back in for good in 2013.

Two rose-touching retrospectives followed: MMXVI — Book of Love — The 30th Anniversary Collection in 2016 and this year’s The Sire Years: 1985-1993 (Notefornote/ Rhino). DJ Sneauxball opens at 10 p.m. at One Eyed Jacks.

Caroline Rose with The Weeks SUN. MARCH 25 | There’s little resemblance between the protagonist of 2014 debut I Will Not Be Afraid and the thorny Caroline Rose that arrived on this month’s LONER (New West), a genre-sampling, chain-smoking, one-woman pop showcase drawing blood from her former country/rock persona.

The Weeks headlines at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

Record Raid SUN. MARCH 25 | Crate diggers, start your engines. More than two dozen collectors and vendors offer up vinyl records for sale at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the U.S. Mint. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down Evangeline Doulens won the 2018 Greater New Orleans Trust Your Crazy Ideas Challenge with a plan for an app called Artist’s Loft, which would connect artists to galleries. Sponsored by the Brees Dream Foundation and Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans, the award came with $5,000 of continuing education funds for Doulens, who is a senior at Lusher Charter School. She will compete in the state competition March 23, during New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.

WWOZ-FM was honored with

the 2018 Prestige Award for Station of the Year by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters.

New Orleans’ 24-hour, commercial-free jazz and heritage music station has more than 100 volunteer hosts and presented 185 live music sets last year, according to General Manager Beth Arroyo Utterback. The association also gave nods to the station for its “WWOZ in the Schools” program, its coverage of second lines and its online interactive New Orleans music history map.

The Hayride, the Baton Rouge-based conservative website, reacted to The Times-Picayune letting go its longtime freelance columnist Robert Mann by mocking up an image of Mann as a street beggar with a sign saying, “Will Work For Food.” Pure class. The Hayride also crowed that Mann had been “relegated to the flotsam and jetsam of the internet” — ironic for a website that advertises dubious diabetes “cures” and prints other sketchy claims.

# The Count $50 million The reported amount of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees’ twoyear contract extension.

Tom Benson: 1927-2018

P H OTO BY J O N AT H A N B AC H M A N

Tom Benson, the 7th Ward native who grew a car dealership into a billion-dollar business empire that included the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans, died March 15 at age 90. He had been hospitalized with the flu for a month.

Louisiana politicians and the NFL reacted to the news like the death of a statesman, and local TV stations pre-empted programming to salute Benson. Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued a statement calling Benson “a true champion for our city” and later gave a short speech outside Gallier Hall. On the steps of the Governor’s Mansion, Gov. John Bel Edwards called Benson a “Louisiana giant” and spoke of his philanthropy. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was among the many athletes who saluted Benson, saying “I will miss his presence, leadership and grandfatherly advice.” An impromptu second line snaked through the streets to the Superdome, and Who Dat fans laid flowers and beads at the base of the “Bronze Tom” statue of the Saints owner.

Benson bought the Saints in 1985, when it appeared the team would move to Jacksonville, Florida. In 2012, he purchased the New Orleans Hornets, renaming the team the Pelicans.

His most unpopular move came after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, when the Saints relocated to San Antonio, Texas and Benson was noncommittal about returning the team to New Orleans.

The controversy stretched on for months. In recent years, relatives raised questions about his competency, but Benson was firm that the teams would pass to his wife Gayle Benson. The Saints confirmed that plan, saying ownership “is not in flux but rather in solid standing.”

A public visitation will be held at Notre Dame Seminary (2901 S. Carrollton Ave.) March 21 and 22. Benson’s funeral, which will not be open to the public, will be March 23 at noon at St. Louis Cathedral, and the funeral Mass will be broadcast on WLAE-TV.

WITH JUST $27 MILLION OF THAT GUARANTEED, ESPN’s Mike Triplett

wrote that Brees “might be as much of a bargain as anyone who signs in free agency this year.” Still, not bad for a QB who will turn 40 in January. And, as Brees told ESPN, “I’ve made it very clear from day one that I was always gonna be a New Orleans Saint as long as they would have me.” — KEVIN ALLMAN

C’est What

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Whose fault was the collapse of the Louisiana legislature’s special session that was supposed to address the $1 billion state budget shortfall?

Quote of the week “I’m not so naive to believe staying here is going to be an easy task for me, but leaving would be cowardly. And Tom Schedler is not a coward.” — Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, announcing he would not step down from office in the wake of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by an employee. Schedler says the relationship was consensual. Nevertheless, he announced he would not seek another term as secretary of state; his current term ends in January 2020.

School walkout prelude to national ‘March for Our Lives’ Hundreds of New Orleans-area students joined a nationwide school walkout March 14, a prelude to a March 24 national March for Our

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Students from elementary, middle and high schools and several college campuses participated in the 17-minute walkout, from The Net Charter High School and Benjamin Franklin High School in Gentilly and George Washington Carver High School in Desire to Morris Jeff Community School in Mid-City to Lusher Charter School and its neighboring New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School in Uptown. The event — held one month after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — lasted 17 minutes, one minute for each victim.

New Orleans students largely were able to demonstrate without incident, though many schools held memorials or other services to discourage on-campus protests. Catholic schools under the Archdiocese of New Orleans held prayer sessions. At least one school told parents that students participating in the walkout could face up to five days of suspension.

In a letter sent to superintendents of Louisiana schools, the ACLU of Louisiana interim Executive Director Jane Johnson wrote that “rather than focus on discipline, schools should regard National School Walkout day as an opportunity for a practical lesson in participatory democracy.”

Rhonda Dale, principal of New Orleans East’s Abramson Sci Academy, wrote in a letter to students’ families that the school is “proud that our students are passionate about advocating for their beliefs. They have a powerful voice that can affect change, and it is our role as educators to support them as they learn to strengthen their communities.”

Students and allies will begin the New Orleans March for Our Lives March 24 with a rally at Washington Square Park in the Faubourg Marigny and a march to City Hall.

Meanwhile, several Louisiana legislators have filed measures to prevent the sales of so-called assault-style weapons or weapons with high-capacity magazines, or to limit their sales to people at least 21 years old.

Several other lawmakers are proposing to arm teachers on campus.

State Sen. John Milkovich’s Safe Schools Act proposes that schools can appoint “school personnel or private individuals who may possess firearms on the school grounds to protect students or other persons.”

Arming teachers and school staff also is proposed in House Bill 271 from state Rep. Ray Garofalo and House Bill 332 from state Rep. J. Rogers Pope.

State Sen. Mike Walsworth also proposes allowing students to wear “bulletproof backpacks.” His Senate Bill 178 aims to lift restrictions

on wearing body armor on school properties and gun-free zones so students can “carry, wear, or possess bullet-resistant backpacks on school property or a school bus.”

Bills on minimum wage, equal pay, workplace discrimination advance in state Senate A package of bills that aim to end gender-based pay disparities, establish a statewide minimum wage and combat workplace discrimination has cleared its first hurdle in the Louisiana Legislature. On March 15, the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations committee advanced seven bills from New Orleans Sens. J.P. Morrell and Troy Carter, who were joined by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The bills now head to the full Senate.

Carter’s Senate Bill 162 establishes an hourly minimum wage of $8 beginning in 2019, increasing to $8.50 in 2020. Louisiana is among five states that have not set a minimum wage above the federal minimum of $7.25.

Morrell’s Senate Bill 117 requires companies that contract with the state to follow the state’s Equal Pay Law, and his Senate Bill 149 prohibits employers from discriminating or retaliating against employees for discussing wages — an effort to promote wage transparency and highlight pay discrepancies that breach protections for equal pay for equal work.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Louisiana women on average make 65 cents for every dollar made by men — 14 percent below the national average. Edwards said those disparities are “truly offensive and we ought to do better than that.”

Carter admitted that raising the state’s minimum to $8.50 an hour doesn’t constitute a “living wage.” He added, “Our workers deserve more.

But the reality is we’ll take what we can get. Anything is better than where we are.”

Carter’s Senate Bill 159 also allows local governments to set their own minimum wages. Senate Bill 252 would put the proposal on the ballot via statewide constitutional referendum in November. The minimum wage increase passed along party lines by a 4-3 vote. It was opposed

by Republican Sens. Neil Riser, Barrow Peacock and Ronnie Johns.

Peacock and Johns also opposed the statewide referendum.

The committee also passed Carter’s Senate Bill 219, which adds sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in workplace discrimination laws. “It’s a bill of fairness,” he said. “It’s a bill that sends a message that everyone should be protected.” Passing the measure sends a message “to people who have been punished and abused because of discrimination,” he said.

Riser, Peacock and Johns also opposed that measure.

City Planning Commission rejects plan for St. Claude Avenue hotel In coming weeks, the New Orleans City Council will decide whether developers can open a 37-room hotel on St. Claude Avenue in Bywater.

Plans for the Sun Yard were rejected by the City Planning Commission (CPC) last week after months of debate among residents who fear changes to the commercial corridor will harm the neighborhood and their quality of life.

Squeezed inside City Hall’s Homeland Security conference room March 13, roughly 30 Bywater residents opposed the plans for the 3300 block of St. Claude Avenue, which call for a zoning change and conditional use permit on the site of the former Truck Farm space that held the annual music festival Chaz Fest.

Residents raised several concerns about the project — from noise, waste management and parking issues to its potential impact to property values and taxes and housing affordability. In his motion to deny the changes, City Planning Commissioner Kyle Wedberg said there are other properties in the neighborhood “where this would be an instant go.”

Wedberg added, “This is a neighborhood which cannot be dipped in amber. That said, this lot is problematic. ... The attempt to put that into these lots is a moment where it feels like it crosses a line to me.”

Over the last several weeks, developers Liz Solms and Giuliano Pignataro made several changes to their plans. In the CPC staff’s latest report, it recommended moving an outdoor bar and lounge area in the back into an enclosed space closer to the front; limiting amplification and hours of operation of events; moving off-street parking to the site itself; and moving a loading and unloading area to St. Claude Avenue away from nearby homes. Developers also would consider adding a maximum capacity limit, which neighbors said they’ve requested several times.

Solms and Pignataro spent the last several years “looking not just for a place to make an investment but a place to make home,” Pignataro told the CPC. He added the project would add positive growth to the Bywater corridor and provide full-time jobs with benefits.

Ultimately the CPC sided with residents who argued the hotel is largely out of character with their neighborhood. Now the issue goes to the City Council.

Dogging Kennedy When a puppy died on a United Airlines flight on March 12 after being placed in an overhead bin, U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy sprang into action, producing the cutely acronymed Welfare of Our Furry Friends (WOOFF) Act with Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. The bill

would outlaw the placement of animals into overhead bins on airplanes.

This did not go over well with a number of folks on social media, who noted Kennedy had yet to propose any legislation after a gunman killed 17 students at a Florida high school one month ago.

One Twitter user snarked, “1 dog dies on an airplane and you introduce legislation within 48 hours. 17 kids get gunned down in their school and a month later the best you can do is offer thoughts and prayers.

How do you sleep at night?” Others wrote, “Don’t worry. Pretty soon @ NRA will contact you about their plan to arm puppies,” “Today, I introduced the Welfare of Our Kids Act, also known as #BLAM, Our bill directs the #NRA to create regulations to prohibit the shooting of a live child in any public or private space and establish civil fines for violations” and “ITS TOO SOON TO TALK ABOUT OVERHEAD BIN PET CONTROL #ThoughtsAndPrayers.”

Kennedy also wrote to the head of United Airlines demanding an explanation and provided a copy of his letter to the media.

Five New Orleans mayors to appear at Loyola forum Four of New Orleans’ five living mayors, as well as Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell, will appear at the ninth annual Ed Renwick Lecture Series at Loyola University’s Roussel Hall April 5.

Mayors Moon Landrieu (19701978), Sidney Barthelemy (19861994), Marc Morial (1994-2002), Mitch Landrieu (2008-2018) and Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell will discuss “One New Orleans: Five Perspectives” with Gambit political editor Clancy DuBos. The event begins at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. A reception for Loyola Society members will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Paul Simon, Beyonce, Jay-Z all coming to New Orleans in September Paul Simon’s farewell “Homeward Bound” tour has added a New Orleans date. The singer-songwriter returns to the city to headline the Smoothie King Center on Sept. 5.

Tickets are on sale now. Simon will bring his live performance career to a close, promising a suite of songs spanning his work with Simon & Garfunkel and his acclaimed solo catalog.

Meanwhile, Beyonce and Jay-Z begin their “OTR II” international co-headlining tour this summer. They will touch down in New Orleans for a Superdome performance Sept. 13.

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Monday, March 19. Beyonce headlined the Dome during her Formation tour in 2016. Last year, Jay-Z performed at the Smoothie King Center in support of his 2017 album 4:44.

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Gridlock as a political cudgel LAST WEEK, ADDRESSING STATE LEGISLATORS’ RECENT FAILURE TO RENEW OR REPLACE AN EXPIRING “TEMPORARY” SALES TAX, Com-

missioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said, “I hope the Legislature doesn’t morph into the Professional Can-Kickers Association.”

Too late.

Year after year, state lawmakers have dealt with Louisiana’s fiscal problems by applying the budgetary equivalent of duct tape and baling wire, using one-time funds and other gimmicks to pay for recurring expenses — all to avoid addressing systemic, significant, recurring shortfalls in the state’s annual budget. Moody’s Investors Service years ago summed up our predicament by noting that then-Gov. Bobby Jindal’s fiscal policies had given Louisiana a “structural deficit.” That deficit remains today because Republican leaders in the state House of Representatives are hellbent on keeping Jindal’s disastrous policies in place — and because they don’t want to give Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, a “win.”

Edwards summoned lawmakers into a special session last month in an attempt to forge a compromise.

Nothing got done. Now a second special session appears likely in late May or early June. July 1 marks the beginning of the state’s fiscal year, and if nothing gets done in the coming special session, Louisiana’s colleges and universities, as well as hospitals and corrections facilities, will bear the brunt of nearly $700 million in cuts, possibly more. It will be the sixth special session in recent years.

Enough.

Lawmakers wouldn’t have to meet again in special session if they had done their jobs in the first special session. Meanwhile, House GOP leaders and U.S. Sen. John Neely Kennedy keep harping about a “spending problem” but still haven’t proposed a specific list of cuts. Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, said in a Facebook post last week that the Louisiana Department of Health is “cannibalizing” other agencies. If that’s true, Henry should be able to identify specific cuts to state health services that would eliminate the cannibalism.

Otherwise, he’s just grandstanding.

The one sign of hope is that some legislators are talking about forming a bipartisan centrist caucus to work across party lines rather than snipe at one another. In a show of genuine

State Rep. Cameron Henry has accused the Louisiana Department of Health of ‘cannibalizing’ other state agencies.

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courage and independence, Rep. Kenny Havard, R-Jackson, resigned his chairmanship of the House Transportation Committee to protest the gridlock, while Rep. Gene Reynolds, D-Minden, stepped down as chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Rep. Julie Stokes, R-Metairie and a CPA, is helping shape the new centrist group, which will include the handful of House “no-party” independents.

Voters should keep tabs on who’s grandstanding and who’s actually trying to solve Louisiana’s problems.

While all legislators have bemoaned the political standoffs (sometimes while gridlocking the system themselves), it’s encouraging to see some actually try to do something about it.

Statewide elections are next year — less than 20 months away. Voters should keep tabs on who’s grandstanding and who’s actually trying to solve Louisiana’s problems. There’s a significant national undercurrent against incumbents, particularly those who don’t get things done.

Louisiana remains mired at the bottom of every list of best states on issue after issue, and a big part of the blame should fall on state lawmakers who use gridlock as a political cudgel.

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Tom Benson and the deal that kept the Saints in New Orleans TOM BENSON ROSE FROM A WORKING-CLASS CHILDHOOD TO THE PINNACLE OF SPORTS ROYALTY

A free concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of New Orleans’s founding

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 • St. Louis Cathedral doors: 7 p.m. • concert: 7:30 p.m.

Over the centuries, waves of newcomers have joined their musical traditions with those of Louisiana’s indigenous populations to create a unique symphony of sound. This concert will celebrate the diverse influences that compose the city’s extensive musical legacy, from the 18th through the 20th century.

This project is sponsored in part by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

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as owner of the 2010 Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints. He left an indelible mark on the team, on his hometown, and on the NFL before his death last week at age 90.

Benson’s rise is an authentic (and legendary) ragsto-riches story, but it began with an old-fashioned Louisiana political deal: getting the state to help finance his 1985 purchase of the Saints. I covered that story as it unfolded in the Louisiana Legislature. It was as bumpy a ride as a pair of consecutive 7-9 football seasons — except it had a much happier ending.

The Saints were the laughingstocks of the NFL from their inaugural season in 1967 through 1984, going 18 seasons without a winning record. Original owner John Mecom Jr. was universally derided for meddling in team affairs, and by the end of the ’84 season the team appeared headed to another city.

Long-suffering Saints fans were beside themselves. Amid the uproar, Benson, a little-known businessman who had built his fortune on auto dealerships and bank holdings, quietly assembled a team of investors to buy the Saints. But his offer came with a catch: the state of Louisiana needed to ante up as well.

Rural lawmakers went berserk, setting off a wave of anti-New Orleans rhetoric not seen since the days of Huey and Earl Long. The state was just beginning to feel the impact of a slump in the oil patch, and conservative lawmakers (very few were Republicans back then) were of no mind to “bail out” a losing sports franchise.

New Orleans area lawmakers led the fight on the House and Senate floors, but the deal that kept the Saints in New Orleans could not have succeeded without the all-out support of then-Gov. Edwin W. Edwards,

Tom Benson (left) and former Gov. Edwin Edwards worked hard to make New Orleans the home of the Saints.

Benson: PHOTO BY DERICK HINGLE Edwards: PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER

who literally put all of his political capital on the line for the team.

Backing the first “Saints deal” may seem like an easy call today, but it was no easy task, not even for a political master like Edwards. It came at a time when the feds were putting together their first (and ultimately unsuccessful) criminal case against the wily governor. Over the years, I’ve been a frequent critic of Edwards, but give the man his due: He had a genuine love for New Orleans and an intuitive knack for putting together big deals — and no deal was bigger than that one, for the city as well as the state.

For his part, Benson helped pioneer the practice of marrying public money with popular support for NFL franchises. Keeping the Saints in town earned him Gambit’s 1985 New Orleanian of the Year honor, and in the ensuing decades he gave New Orleans all 13 of the Saints’ winning seasons — plus a Super Bowl championship. He also bought the NBA Hornets — now our beloved Pelicans — ensuring that franchise a permanent home here as well.

So long and thanks, Mister B. Like the Saints and Pelicans, you’ll always have a home in New Orleans — and in our hearts.

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Hey Blake, What is the big construction project going on at City Park behind the New Orleans Museum of Art? It looks like a massive building.

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Dear Oscar, The construction site you spotted in City Park soon will be home to the new $45.5 million, 56,000-square-foot Louisiana Children’s Museum, located on 8.5 acres of land behind the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

The current children’s museum at 420 Julia St. in the Warehouse District opened in October 1986 from an idea by Candy Weiss and Louise McIlhenny, New Orleanians and friends since childhood who both studied in Boston and became educators there. Both frequently brought their students to that city’s children’s museum. “We had access to a science museum, an aquarium and the Children’s Museum,” McIlhenny told The Times-Picayune in 1986. “When I came back to New Orleans (in 1979), I felt that New Or-

An artist’s rendering of the new Louisiana Children’s Museum scheduled to open in New Orleans City Park next year.

leans children deserve everything that Boston kids have.”

A museum board of directors was established in 1982. A fundraising campaign was launched and the facility opened four years later.

Debbie Bresler was its first director and led a staff of three employees and more than 70 volunteers.

Some of the early hands-on exhibits allowed children to play on a large wooden tugboat, step inside giant soap bubbles, “make groceries” at a mini-Schwegmann’s supermarket and anchor the news in a WWL-TV Eyewitness News Kidwatch studio.

Museum leaders have been raising funds for the new facility in City Park since 2006. Unlike the Julia Street building, the new museum will include outdoor exhibits and will sit on a lagoon, which will allow for decks, bridges, gardens, a floating classroom and a wetlands area.

There will be five new indoor exhibit galleries, a literacy center, parent and teacher resource center and full-service cafe. The museum is expected to open in summer 2019.

BLAKEVIEW WITH THE UPCOMING HOLIDAY IN MIND, this week we remember an Easter

tradition in New Orleans for 60 years: a display featuring live rabbits outside Scheinuk the Florist on St. Charles Avenue. “Bunny Town,” as the outdoor display at 2600 St. Charles Ave. was known, featured more than 125 Easter bunnies in a variety of hutches painted to look like a village, complete with a church, house, schoolhouse, barn, miniature greenhouse and florist. Max Scheinuk opened the florist business in 1919. His son Arthur came up with the Easter bunny idea around 1940, he said, “because city kiddies didn’t get to see rabbits very often.” He told The Times-Picayune in 2002 that over the years, generations of New Orleanians had come to see the display. “Grandparents bring their grandchildren because they remember the rabbits from their youth. Thousands of people come every year.” In 2003, the business, which was being run by Arthur Scheinuk’s son Ronald, closed. The location now is a luxury condominium complex.

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Cross (not his real name), 36, had finished his undergraduate studies debt-free, but had borrowed to attend law school in New Orleans on the advice of the financial aid office at his program. Yeah, I’m taking out loans, but I have forever to repay them, he thought.

Today, he calls this decision “naive” — made by a young person who didn’t understand compound interest or the arcane language of borrowing and forbearance plans. It also was a choice made well before he’d spend more than eight months looking for a job after being laid off, blowing most of the money he had saved for a house and feeling priced out of any position that doesn’t pay enough for him to make his student loan payments.

“My life isn’t over, but the path is set,” he says. “I’m on rails, at this point. No matter what I do for the rest of my life, barring winning the lottery or discovering a rich dead uncle, you know, I’m going to have debt.”

WHY STUDENTS ARE TAKING OUT LOANS

Loan-some Drudge Many college graduates now enter the workforce with five or six figures worth of student debt — but in New Orleans, most jobs pay less than $40,000 a year.

The squeeze is real and solutions hard to come by.

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In 2020, 65% of the economy’s jobs will require postsecondary education

THE IMPACT

According to one forecast, as many as 40% of student loan borrowers may default on their loans by 2023

THE PROBLEM

In Dec. 2017, Americans owed

$1.38 trillion

in student loan debt, up from $640 billion at the end of 2008

ECONOMISTS, ANALYSTS AND FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS are raising the alarm about

the state of student loan debt in America.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans collectively owed $1.38 trillion in student loan debt in December 2017 — up from $640 billion at the end of 2008 and more than they owe on any kind of household debt except for mortgages. Uneasy researchers have highlighted the speed at which student loan balances are growing, the way they seem to be impacting both home and car sales among younger people and a rising rate of borrower defaults. A Brookings Institution report released in February found the number of borrowers who are more than $50,000 in debt has more than tripled since the year 2000. In a separate forecast for Brookings, Columbia University economist Judith Scott-Clayton projected that as many as four in 10 borrowers may default on their loans by 2023, due in part to high default rates among people who attended for-profit colleges.

Researchers also have discovered the burden of student debt isn’t distributed equally. In 2017, the Center for American Progress looked at Department of Education data and found that 12 years after college, African-Americans with student loans were more likely to owe loan balances larger than what they originally had borrowed and more likely to default. An American Association of University Women report found that women’s initial student loan balances are 14 percent higher than men’s, and that women pay back their loans more slowly (which the PAGE 14

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organization attributed to the gender pay gap), creating a situation in which women hold more than $800 billion, or close to two-thirds, of the outstanding student debt in America. Thus, an already troubling increase in indebtedness is made more ominous by the way it seems to exacerbate existing inequalities.

What happened? Some theories point to the global financial crisis, when many younger people returned to school to wait things out or train for better jobs. Meanwhile, as the recession unfolded, many state governments — including Louisiana’s — slashed funding for higher education, triggering tuition increases and shifting costs to students.

By the numbers, one could say debtors — especially those who finished their degrees — made a good calculation. According to estimates by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 65 percent of the economy’s jobs in 2020 will require some post-secondary education, and bachelor’s degree holders will earn an average of $1 million more over the course of their careers than people without degrees.

But borrowers say those numbers don’t illustrate the painful realities of living in the debt trap — or fears that the job market won’t steady itself in time to make the numbers add up. “[Our parents] said if you want to take care of yourself, take care of a family, then you have to go to college,” one New Orleans borrower says. “That’s the only way to get jobs that will pay you enough to take care of all the things we think we want as American adults. But it turns out that there’s not as many well-paying positions as there are schools that give degrees. … So it’s not going to work for everybody.

“And yet somehow, we all believed it.”

LOUISIANA FALLS TOWARD THE MIDDLE, or

perhaps even the low end, of U.S. student loan distribution. According to The Institute for College Access and Success, the state is ranked 32nd in terms of debt held by borrowers. Half of Louisiana graduates in 2016 had student debt.

But in New Orleans, home to a surging millennial population (a group which, according to Pew Research Center, is significantly more likely to hold a degree than Gen Xers before it), the student debt story is more in line with other metropolitan areas and hints at the approaching national repayment crisis.

In a map created by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, loan balances in several central ZIP codes throughout the city are listed as “moderately high,” “very high” or “extremely high,” or in the case of the 70112 ZIP code (part of the CBD and upper French Quarter) “astronomical,” and trend higher when compared to much of the rest of the state.

When Gambit asked eight New Orleanians in their 20s, 30s and 40s to talk about their student loan debt, interviews filled in the ways debt has drained color from their lives. As they tell it, debt incurred in undergraduate and graduate programs has shelved plans for homeownership, kids’ college funds and even modest ambitions such as owning a car that’s less than 10 years old. While many are making their payments on time, in part thanks to

income-based repayment programs expanded under President Barack Obama’s administration, borrowers described a sense of futility: Many are making payments on a balance that never gets any smaller, and some said they don’t ever expect be able to pay off their loans.

“It is like a modern-day prison,” says adjunct instructor M.E. Riley. “I will not buy a home. I could probably qualify for a car loan, maybe, but I won’t do that. I’m afraid. The most dramatic thing is I got a $300 credit card line for my favorite clothing place, because I can’t afford clothes most paychecks. But I’m afraid of getting more debt.”

Bit by bit, borrowers have found their student loan debt is changing and even distorting their decision-making, where efforts to better themselves have to be weighed against the consequences. When Riley started a part-time job to accompany the full-time job she had last summer, she worried about how the additional income would change the payments on her loans. For people who are set to become eligible to have loans forgiven after a few decades of regular payments, the taxes associated with forgiven balances imply a future debt to the IRS. “I feel like no matter how much money I make, that everything’s just going to keep creeping up on me,” says Hannah Ligon, 37.

And anxieties are heightened by the ways student loan debt can spread through families, chipping away at wealth. Some people interviewed for this story absorbed the debt their partner brought to a marriage or are watching debt ping-pong through generations: in addition to her own loans, freelance writer Erin Guidry’s parents took out a PLUS loan for her to attend college at a New Orleans university. Now that they’ve stopped working, Guidry knows she and her husband may have to pick up the payments for her parents’ loan as well.

“They can barely afford to eat, much less have to pay for student loans,” she says. “I can’t allow that to be what bankrupts my parents.

“The idea of saving for [my son’s] college is not a reality," Ligon says. "It’s like, how?

And save for retirement? And pay off my student loans?”

THERE ALSO ARE FEARS THAT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS, where, according

to one 2011 Data Center report, 65 percent of jobs pay less than $39,996 a year, is making it more difficult to earn enough money to make a meaningful dent in one’s debt — undercutting a degree’s return-on-investment for college graduates who choose to live in this city.

This is true for Asher Griffith, 33, who has been working service industry jobs since moving back to New Orleans after finishing graduate school. He rarely talks to his student loan servicer about his debt, which he estimates has

Half

OF LOUISIANA GRADUATES IN 2016 HAD STUDENT DEBT. A Brookings Institution report

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hit $75,000. “Even if I did find a job and was making 35 or 40 grand a year with regularity, and not just during the [tourist] season, I’d be strapped with this probably gigantic bill,” he says. “I kind of wish I hadn’t gone to school.”

“You can’t tell me that I can afford to pay back 33 grand a year when I can’t find a job that pays more than $12 an hour,” Guidry says.

H. Jude Boudreaux, partner and senior financial planner at the New Orleans office of The Planning Center, says what’s important to remember is how student loan debt is both a present- and future-tense problem. Cash flow issues in the present lead to long-term problems with savings, crippling efforts to accumulate interest and assets over time and save for retirement. Every year that graduates spend being underpaid or underemployed eat away at their chances for future financial security.

For those already struggling locally, one major thunderhead is the national economy, which is in the midst of an unusually long expansion. Its inevitable contraction, paired with associated job-market effects (slowing job growth, layoffs, contracts that aren’t renewed, wage freezes) could further imperil borrowers, some of whom feel stretched thin by a cycle of payments that will last into their 50s and beyond.

A variety of bills attempting to provide student loan relief and reform the system has been circulating in Congress and around Washington

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D.C. Most recently, President Donald Trump’s proposed 2019 budget suggests a variety of changes, including a simplification of the repayment programs that could trim the number of years some debtors are obligated to make payments.

Among Louisiana Congressmen, U.S. Reps. Mike Johnson and Cedric Richmond are listed as co-sponsors on student loan-related bills, but neither bill offers solutions for people managing current student loan debt. Johnson is a co-sponsor for H.R. 4274, which would require schools to publish information about student outcomes and would phase out forgiveness programs for new loans. Richmond supports a volunteer service program that could help participants pay for college.

In some academic circles, one provocative idea making the rounds is a one-time total student loan amnesty, in which all debt held by the federal government would be wiped from the books. It’s a radical notion, but some academics say it could relieve floundering borrowers and help sustain the economic recovery.

Researchers at Bard College’s Levy Economics Institute who modeled widespread student debt cancellation found it could increase the

65%

OF ORLEANS PARISH JOBS PAY LESS THAN $39,996 PER YEAR

GDP by $861 billion to more than a trillion dollars over 10 years, while creating between 1.2 million to 1.5 million jobs.

Not every economist agrees.

Robert J. Newman, who chairs the economics department at Louisiana State University, says the economic effect of student loan amnesty would be negligible and runs the risk of creating a “moral hazard” problem — if there were some sort of debt cancellation, future borrowers might take out higher loans on the assumption that there’d be another forgiveness program, replicating the problem while leaving taxpayers on the hook for unpaid balances. “Somebody’s going to have to pay,” he says.

But others argue it’s unfair to compel borrowers to pay into a system that increasingly appears stacked against them. Alan Collinge, who heads advocacy organization Student Loan Justice, is working on garnering support for H.R. 2366, which would restore bankruptcy protections for student loans (unlike most other debts, both federal and private student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy). If that bill or one like it fails to pass, Collinge

thinks rising balances and default rates could someday compel an amnesty movement.

“As the numbers become just more and more insane, at what point does the entire lending system just vanish into a mist of illegitimacy?” he says. “I would argue that that time is coming sooner rather than later. It’s either bankruptcy today or it’s a jubilee tomorrow, you pick.”

What’s changed in recent years, Collinge adds, isn’t the students — it’s the ecosystem of lenders and universities surrounding them. It’s rising tuition; it’s the profitability of student loan debt for the U.S. government (which lends at interest rates as high as 7 percent); it’s lessstringent consumer protections — all swirling around young people who almost always lack experience in dealing with financial products.

And as some New Orleans borrowers expressed, it’s the fallout from a social imperative that stressed college at any price, just as the economy buckled and created potentially unpayable debts.

“That was always the answer from my parents — we’ll find [the money] somewhere,” Guidry says. “But we didn’t find it.”

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Big Easy Theater Award nominees announced

BY WILL COVIELLO THE FOUNDATION FOR ENTERTAINMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION (FEDE), or Big Easy

Awards, announced nominees for top theater performances in 2017. Special award recipients will be honored and winners announced at the Big Easy Awards Monday, April 23, at the Orpheum Theater.

David Raphel will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Raphel has worked in theater in New York and New Orleans, where he is currently an assistant technical director for Tulane University’s theater department. He has designed sets for New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, Southern Rep, Cripple Creek Theatre Co. and others. He is nominated for Best Set Design for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

Emilie Whelan will be honored as Theater Person of the Year. In 2017, Whelan directed productions of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Albert Camus’ Caligula and and

Special Awards Lifetime Achievement in Theater David Raphel Theater Person of the Year Emilie Whelan

Theater Nominations Best Musical Billy Elliot — The Musical, Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Caroline, or Change, Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS)/ Loyola University New Orleans Fun Home, Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Jelly’s Last Jam, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre

Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha.

Nominations for performances in 2017 were led by Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, which drew a total of 16 nominations for four shows. Its production of Jelly’s Last Jam has nine nominations. Southern Rep amassed 12 nominations, including eight for Fun Home.

Proceeds from the Big Easy Awards support FEDE, which provides annual grants to area artists and educators.

The gala includes awards for theater and music, and there are performances by some nominated performers. Not all awards will be presented at the event. Winners in some categories will be announced on www. bestofneworleans.com.

The gala is sponsored by Gambit, Adler’s, Hall Piano Co. and Orpheum Theater. General admission tickets are $45, floor seating is $100, and VIP tickets are $150. Call Jon Broder at (504) 483-3129 for tickets.

Best Play Biloxi Blues, BB’s Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum Camino Real, The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Hand to God, The Storyville Collective Titus Andronicus, See ’Em On Stage Best Director of a Musical Blake Coheley, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Kelly Fouchi, Billy Elliot — The Musical Rivertown Theaters for the

Marcel Cavaliere and Mike Harkins are nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, respectively, for Billy Elliot — The Musical.

Performing Arts Jackie Alexander, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Laura Hope, Caroline, or Change JPAS/Loyola University New Orleans Best Director of a Play Michael McKelvey, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Augustin J. Correro, Camino Real The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Emilie Whelan, Caligula Cripple Creek Theatre Co. Christopher Bentivegna, Titus Andronicus See ’Em On Stage Best Choreography Karen Hebert, Ashley Schmidt and Annie Taffaro, Billy Elliot — The Musical Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Polanco Jones Jr., Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Traci Tolmaire and Ted Louis Levy, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Jaune Buisson, Hairspray Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University Best Music Director Tom Hook, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Jefferson Turner, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Donna Clavijo, Caroline, or Change Jefferson Performing Arts Society/ Loyola University Ronald Joseph, Urinetown The NOLA Project/University of New Orleans (UNO)

Carol Sutton is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for Camino Real.

Best Set Design Eric Porter, Urinetown The NOLA Project/UNO Bill Walker, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Derek Blanco, The Little Mermaid Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts David Raphel, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Southern Rep Best Lighting Design Andrew F. Griffin, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Robert Camp, Urinetown The NOLA Project/UNO Missy Martinez, Camino Real The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Joshua Baker Courtney, Caligula Cripple Creek Theatre Co. Best Costume Design Hope Bennett, Tony Fuemmeler and Kenneth Thompson, The Spider Queen The NOLA Project/New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) Cecile Casey Covert, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Southern Rep Julie Winn, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Tony French, Urinetown The NOLA Project/UNO Best Sound Design Nick Shackleford, Not About Nightingales The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Jason Doyle, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Clare Marie Nemanich, The Birds

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Broken Habit Productions David Rigamer, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Idella Johnson, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Camille Burkey, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Leslie Castay, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Taylor Lewis, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Damien Moses, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Mike Harkins, Billy Elliot — The Musical Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Patrick Hunter, Urinetown The NOLA Project/UNO Bryan Demond Williams, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Best Actress in A Musical Troi Bechet, Caroline, or Change JPAS/Loyola University New Orleans Shangobunmi Durotimi, Once on This Island Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Sharon Martin, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Voices in the Dark Repertory Theatre Company/The Racine Foundation Katie Howe, Annie Get Your Gun Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane University

Kali Russell is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for Titus Andronicus.

Best Actor in a Musical Marcel Cavaliere, Billy Elliot — The Musical Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Ted Louis Levy, Jelly’s Last Jam Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Jason Dowies, Fun Home Southern Rep/NOCCA Stage Company John Fitzpatrick, Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story See ’Em On Stage Best Supporting Actress in a Play Carol Sutton, Camino Real The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Meredith Owens, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Kali Russell, Titus Andronicus See ’Em On Stage Jessica Lozano, The Taming of the Shrew Cripple Creek Theatre Company/ New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane Best Supporting Actor in a Play Keith Claverie, It’s Only a Play Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Kyle Daigrepont, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Stephen Stanley, Biloxi Blues BB’s Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum Kyle Woods, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Best Actress in a Play Becca Chapman, The Spider Queen The NOLA Project/NOMA

Shangobunmi Durotimi is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for Once on This Island.

Troi Bechet is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change.

Janet Shea, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Helen Jaksch, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Southern Rep Andrea Watson, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Best Actor in a Play John Fitzpatrick, Hand to God The Storyville Collective Zeb Hollins III, Not About Nightingales The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans Andrew Vaught, The Taming of t he Shrew Cripple Creek Theatre Company/ New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane Ian Hoch, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Southern Rep Best Ensemble Ain’t Misbehavin’, BB’s Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum Dividing the Estate, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Rockfire Theatre/The Radical Buffoon(s) Triassic Parq, See ’Em On Stage Best Original Work of Theater The Spider Queen, James Bartelle and Alex Martinez Wallace The NOLA Project/NOMA Grace & Igor, Jessie Strauss Generate INK The Way at Midnight, Hannah Pepper-Cunningham and Nick Slie

The Spider Queen is nominated for Best Costume Design by Hope Bennett, Tony Fuemmeler and Kenneth Thompson.

Mondo Bizarro Niagara Falls, Justin Maxwell Broken Habit Productions Best University Production The Christians, C. Patrick Gendusa, director Loyola University New Orleans Dancing at Lughnasa, Jenny Mercein, director Tulane University The Royale, Ryan M. Decker, director TheatreUNO Seascape, Michael Aaron Santos, director Delgado Community College

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Helen Jaksch and Ian Hoch are nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor in a Play for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2018 Embark on a daylong cultural journey at the 20th Children’s World’s Fair and celebrate the 300th birthday of the City of New Orleans. Discover the cultures and people that make New Orleans a unique cultural melting pot.

Experience crafts, activities, music, literature, food, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) experiments within exhibits that explore the African, Asian, European, Latin American / Caribbean, and Native American influences that have shaped New Orleans’ culture.

EARLY EXPLORER 10:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.

GENERAL ADMISSION 12:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Arrive early, beat the crowds,and receive a gift bag!

$16/person - LCM Member Admission $20/person - Non-Member Admission

$30/person - Early Explorer Packages also available.

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420 Julia Street | New Orleans

For tickets visit lcm.org or call 504-266-2415

The artistic visions of Bryan Batt, Tom Cianfichi and Katy Danos have made Hazelnut a go-to spot for uncommon gifts, housewares and accessories. For the approaching gala season, they’ve turned their attention to providing New Orleans fashionistas with handcrafted statement jewelry from Bounkit New York. The earrings have eyecatching settings and unusual pairings of popular stones including lemon quartz, aquamarine and moonstone. The earrings are convertible, offering two looks, and custom color combinations are available. Prices range from $180-$600.

Hazelnut New Orleans is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Email dining@gambitweekly.com

Daily grind

High on the hog THE ANNUAL BARBECUE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL HOGS FOR THE CAUSE

(www.hogsforthecause.org) is at the UNO Lakefront Arena grounds (6801 Franklin Ave.) March 23-24.

The festival’s main event is Saturday, March 24, when 85 teams of veteran pitmasters and backyard barbecuers compete for the Ben Sarrat Jr. High on the Hog Cook-Off Grand Championship title as well as in categories of whole hog, ribs, pork butt/shoulder and “porkpourri,” which highlights creative pork dishes. Other awards recognize the best sauce, best side dish, best sandwich, best bacon dish, top fundraiser, best Friday night party, fan favorite and more.

This year, Friday night highlights bacon–inspired dishes, which include

Paloma Cafe is an all-day cafe in Bywater

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund COFFEE AND PASTRIES kick off the day. There’s a mid-morning laptop crowd fueled by espresso drinks and maybe a breakfast taco or two. Lunch could be a roasted pork torta and a green salad, and as the day winds into the afternoon, patrons might opt for a glass of rose and something on which to nibble. When the space fills up in the evening, cocktail glasses replace the coffee mugs, and it feels like a full-blown restaurant instead of a corner cafe.

That’s how the day progresses at Paloma Cafe in Bywater.

The restaurant, from the owners behind the Birmingham, Alabama-based coffee chain Revelator Coffee Company, opened late last year in the space that previously housed Cafe Henri and Booty’s Street Food.

Chefs Danny Alas and Justin Rodriguez, from Venezuela and the Dominican Republic respectively, cut their teeth at chef Nina Compton’s Compere Lapin before taking over the kitchen here. Their backgrounds and culinary pedigree shape the creative menu, which has Caribbean and Latin influences throughout.

Sweet plantains, fried until brown and crispy, are served with Oaxacan crema and topped with salty nibs of queso fresco. A plate of fried yuca spears is complemented by a snappy garlic and cilantro aioli. More Spanish-leaning influence is found in the chorizo-stuffed datiles, where sugary dates are wrapped around spicy sausage and served in a creamy Manchego fonduta, a salty contrast to the date’s sweetness.

Small plates make up a large part of the cafe’s menu and are affordably priced for a snack — most cost between $5 and $7. The cafe’s all-day hours are

WHERE

800 Louisa St., (504) 304-3062; www.palomanola.com

appealing, but the prices are attractive as well, with entrees falling in the $12 to $14 range.

Restaurants that attempt to do too many things at once often lose track of quality control. Paloma sidesteps this by keeping its menu short, but more options are needed for dinner.

Of the dinner options, a roasted squash salad was one of the better dishes I’ve had in recent memory. It features feathery layers of barely-dressed greens interspersed with silky hunks of roasted squash, slivers of almonds and a nutty romesco sauce. The salad is hearty enough to serve as an entree and has ample body and character.

The chefs have an affinity for Spanish romesco, a warming mix of red peppers, tomatoes, garlic and almonds. It appears in a bowl of curried roasted cauliflower, in which the golden, buttery nuggets sit in a pool of the sauce, dusted with biscuit breadcrumbs and almonds.

Patacones, or fried green plantains, serve as the base for one of the menu’s best dishes. Golden-fried plantain cakes

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roasted squash salad, patacones, flan

Chefs Danny Alas and Justin Rodriguez serve Latin-inspired dishes at Paloma Cafe.

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are topped with tender pork shoulder roasted in a citrusy mojo sauce. A shower of pickled red onions, cilantro and thinly sliced Fresno chilies impart acid and heat.

In keeping with an overarching Latin theme, a simple and subtly sweet flan arrives with the burnt amber gloss that hints of rum and caramel, and is sweet but not cloyingly so.

Restaurants like Atla in New York and Sqirl in Los Angeles have made a name for themselves perfecting the all-day cafe model. Paloma Cafe might be the first local rendition to truly succeed at the concept.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

WHAT DOESN’T

dinner menu needs more options

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Latin and Caribbean influences fuel all-day cafe

Captain Porkenheimer’s bacon and pulled pork macaroni and cheese, Hoggystyle’s Buffalo bacon mofongo boulettes and March of the Pigs’ tandoori bacon and paneer samosas.

Musical performers include North Mississippi Osborne, The SteelDrivers, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Turnpike Troubadours, Son Little, Tyler Childers and others.

A fundraising gala on Thursday, March 22 is called Hoggyshack, inspired by the 1980 comedy Caddyshack. The dinner is by chefs from the Link Restaurant Group, Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman of Josephine Estelle, Mason Hereford of Turkey and the Wolf and Marcus Jacobs of Marjie’s Grill. Drinks are from Cure Co. and Neat Wines.

Tickets are $200 per person.

Festival ticket prices range from $25 for single-day admission to $349 for two-day Boss Hog passes, which include access to the Boss Hog tent with an open bar, private restrooms, private stage viewing and $90 toward food and drink.

The festival is cashless this year, and attendees can purchase food and drink via RFID wristbands.

The festival raises money to support families with children fighting

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pediatric brain cancer. Last year’s event drew roughly 30,000 people and raised more than $1.3 million.

— HELEN FREUND

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Beard Foundation names finalists

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(www.jamesbeard.org) announced finalists for its annual culinary and hospitality awards. The list includes nine New Orleans nominees. Winners will be announced May 7 in Chicago.

Donald Link (www.linkrestaurantgroup.com), the chef and owner behind Cochon, Herbsaint, Peche and other restaurants, is nominated for Outstanding Chef.

Kelly Fields of Willa Jean (611 O’Keefe Ave., 504-509-7334; www.willajean.com) is nominated for Outstanding Pastry Chef. Nominees for Best Chef: South include Nina Compton of Compere Lapin (Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery, 535 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-599-2119; www.comperelapin.com), Slade Rushing of Brennan’s (417 Royal St., 504-525-9711; www.brennansneworleans.com) and Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus of Coquette (2800 Magazine St., 504-2650421; www.coquettenola.com).

JoAnn Clevenger of Upperline Restaurant (1413 Upperline St., 504-891-9822; www.upperline. com) is nominated for Outstanding Restaurateur. Cure (4905 Freret St., 504-302-2357; www. curenola.com) is nominated for Outstanding Bar Program.

— HELEN FREUND

Caribbean Room checks out THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL’S

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(2031 St. Charles Ave., 800-7086652; www.thepontchartrainhotel. com) fine dining venue, The Caribbean Room, has closed. A new restaurant named Jack Rose will open in the space as early as April.

The Caribbean Room was reopened in June 2016 by John Besh, and its management was taken over earlier this year by QED Hospitality, a company founded by former Besh Restaurant Group executives Emery Whalen and Brian Landry in the wake of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct at the Besh Restaurant Group. Landry also is the executive chef at Borgne.

QED runs The Pontchartrain’s remaining restaurant and bars, including the Silver Whistle Cafe, Bayou Bar and the rooftop bar Hot Tin. The Silver Whistle Cafe’s hours have been extended to include dinner, and its menu features items from Bayou Bar and preview dishes from Jack Rose, according to a press release.

— HELEN FREUND

CULINARY EVENT ORGANIZER CHEFS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY join local

chefs at Grover Smith’s touring event, Indie Chefs Week (www.indiechefsweek.com), which comes to Tulane University’s Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine March 22-25. Smith talked to Gambit about the event.

What is Indie Chefs Week?

SMITH: We formed in 2013 around the time Twitter started exploding as a medium for independent chefs to promote their own restaurants.

There were a couple factors at play.

One of them was that we got tired of always seeing the same names in the press as far as “celebrity chefs” go. There was also a fatigue around food and wine fests — and they do have their place. But for most chefs at one of the “dine-around” events, you’re given a very limited stipend for food, you’re outside, maybe in a tent with a table, serving canapes to a cattle call of guests. You’re not really serving something that’s representative of what you would serve in your own kitchen. On top of it, you’re covering a lot of the expenses — for travel, food and accommodations — doing it for the publicity it’s supposed to garner.

In this industry, it’s backbreaking work with tight margins. We wanted to create something where you could shine a light or give publicity to some of these chefs who are just as good as any celebrity chef. We also wanted to create an environment where we would pay all the costs, so we pay for the airfare, the accommodations (and) the food cost. We keep it under 80 guests so that it’s still representative to what they could make in their restaurants. It’s a sit-down (meal) with really good, high-quality, small producer wines and an affordable cost. Thanks to our corporate sponsors, we’ve been able to make tickets more affordable. We always donate to No Kid Hungry (www. nokidhungry.org) for the state we’re in — it’s usually around 20 percent of the ticket sales. This year we’re doing New Orleans, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Richmond, Virginia.

How do you choose chefs?

S: We have the people that we know from travel or trying their

restaurants or (being) at media events, where we’re seeing the quality of their food. There’s an informal nomination process, too, where we allow the past participants to nominate people.

How does the event differ from other chef-driven, sit-down dining events?

S: We do 24 chefs every time — 18 chefs from out-of-town and six local chefs. We have three dinners (with wine pairings). The first dinner we have 12 chefs on Thursday and they’re cooking one course each. The other 12 chefs cook on Friday, and on Sunday, we have a collaboration dinner where all 24 chefs cook together and we pair them up; it’s 12 collaborative courses. We bring the chefs out with their dishes and I introduce them and we talk about the restaurant, where they’re from, why they cook what they do, their journey getting there.

We make sure that (the chefs) are doing as little work as possible while they’re here, and then we have these other things that go along with the event. On Thursday night, when all the Thursday chefs are cooking, the Friday chefs are off, and they go out on a tour of the city. Those 12 chefs will try a bunch of restaurants in New Orleans, and then we’ll all meet up for an after-party at the end of the night. The same thing happens Friday for the Thursday chefs. We set up the itinerary and pay for all the dinner costs. We take the chefs around to see a bunch of purveyors on Saturday, so that’s a day off where they get to have a fun time and learn about the local food community and build relationships. On Saturday, we have a party at Paradigm Gardens where we have this giant family meal with all of the chefs plus (hosts) Kristen (Essig) and Mike (Stoltzfus) from Coquette are cooking. — HELEN FREUND

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$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11 to $20 $$$ — $21 or more

BYWATER

FAUBOURG MARIGNY

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. $

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

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. $$

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. $$

FRENCH QUARTER

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Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St., (504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. L, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$$

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

Antoine’s Annex — 513 Royal St., (504) 525-8045; www.antoines.com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $

Bayona — 430 Dauphine St., (504) 525-4455; 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. $$

The Market Cafe — 1000 Decatur St., (504) 527-5000; www.marketcafenola. com — No reservations. B, L, 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. $$$ Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www.bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $ Ben’s Burgers — 2008 Clearview Parkway, Metairie, (504) 889-2837; www. eatatbens.com — No reservations. 24H $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$

Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$

Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; www.tableaufrenchquarter.com — Reservations accepted. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$

GENTILLY

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

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. $

KENNER The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Vista Buffet — Treasure Chest Casino, 5050 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 4438000; www.treasurechestcasino.com — No reservations. L Mon-Fri, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

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. $$ Riccobono’s Peppermill — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 455-2226; www.riccobonospeppermill.com — Reservations accepted. B and L daily, D Wed-Sun. $$ Rolls N Bowls — 605 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 309-0519; www.rollsnbowlsnola.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $ Sammy’s Po-boys & Catering — 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 835-0916; www.sammyspoboys.com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat, D daily. $ Short Stop Po-Boys — 119 Transcontinental Drive, Metairie, (504) 885-4572; www.shortstoppoboysno.com — No reservations. B, L, D Mon-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW

Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$

El Gato Negro — 300 Harrison Ave., (504) 488-0107; www.elgatonegronola. com — See No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$

Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001 — No reservations. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

NOLA Beans — 762 Harrison Ave., (504) 267-0783; www.nolabeans.com — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $$

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Mon-Sat. $$

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

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

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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. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — No reservations. L Mon-Sat. $$ Wit’s Inn — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1600; www.witsinn.com — Reservations accepted for large parties. L, D, late daily. $

NORTHSHORE 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. $$ Cafe Luna — 802 1/2 Nashville Ave., (504) 333-6833; www.facebook.com/ cafeluna504 — No reservations. B, L, early D daily. $ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise.com — L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$ Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$

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.

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WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Capdeville — 520 Capdeville St., (504) 371-5161; www.capdevillenola.com — Reservations accepted. L, D Mon-Sat. late Fri-Sat. $$ El Gato Negro — 800 S. Peters St., (504) 309-8864; www.elgatonegronola.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ 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 Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant. com — Reservations accepted. D TueSat. Cash only. $$$ Restaurant des Familles — 7163 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 689-7834; www. desfamilles.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; www.facebook. com/tavolinolounge — Reservations accepted for large parties. D daily, brunch Sun. $$

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TUESDAY 20 Bamboula’s — Damn Gina Trio, 3; Jan Marie & the Mean Reds, 6:30; Gentilly Stompers, 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 — Jelly Biscuit, 10 Circle Bar — Carl LeBlanc, 6; Hungover Tavern with DJ Pasta, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — The Nude Party, Cold Fronts, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Courtney Bryan, 11 a.m.

Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Yoshitaka Tsuji Trio, 7 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Phil the Tremolo King, Tiny Dinosaur, Dorian Greys, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck Orchestra, 2 Poor Boys Bar — Anemone, Faith Healer, Video Age, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Sidemen+1, 8 & 10 Ray’s — Bobby Love & Friends, 7 Santos Bar — Cold Fronts, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10

WEDNESDAY 21 Autocrat Social & Pleasure Club — TBC Brass Band, 9

Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11 BMC — Demi, 5; Yisrael Family Band, 8; Funk It All, 11 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; Jelly Biscuit, 10 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7; Sabine McCalla, Golden Ours, Erich Packner, 10 d.b.a. — Tin Men, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The George French Trio, 9:30 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — Reggae Night with DJ T-Roy, Bayou International Sound, 10 Gasa Gasa — Jared & the Mill, Anne Elise Hastings & Her Revolving Cast of Characters, 9 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Lafayette Square — Wednesday at the Square feat. Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 5 Little Gem Saloon — Anais St. John, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Cole Williams & Friends, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Andrew Woodruff, Henry & I, CIKADA, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Sarah Quintano Duo, 1 One Eyed Jacks — Hinds, Albert Hammond Jr., 7 Poor Boys Bar — Boytoy, Champagne Superchillin, Gools, Cicada, 8 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 The Sandbar at UNO — Jane Bunnett, Maqueque, 7 Santos Bar — Bones, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10

Hinds with Albert Hammond Jr.

BY NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS ALL-FEMALE GARAGE-POP BANDS don’t come roaring out of Madrid every year. (Or, maybe they do and just don’t make it west of Lisbon.)

That alone makes Hinds — hungover, BC Powdered singers Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote battling a scaffolded rhythm section in a ramshackle P H OTO B Y S A LVA LO P E Z Houdini act just to stay upright — an outfit worthy of your attention. Or not — they don’t seem to care. Their hair-of-theperro debut, 2016’s Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop), followed a cheeky compilation EP titled Very Best of Hinds So Far (it compiled all six of their singles). Several reappeared, like sniffed-and-shrugged second-day clothing, on Leave Me Alone, whose primary surprise was that less-polished demos could possibly exist. From the sound of 2018 follow-up I Don’t Run, practice has made them even more imperfect: shout-spoken K Records callback “New For You” is a bleary-voiced, boombox-in-the-air redemption song, and “The Club” evokes a Parquet Courts-scored Sadie Hawkins at which the girls leave all the boys on the sidelines. Sorry, Albert Hammond Jr. — your new solo album Francis Trouble (Red Bull) is catchier than anything you’ve done with The Strokes since Room on Fire, but you’re still dancing on your own. Tickets $16. At 9 p.m. Wednesday. One Eyed Jacks, 615 Toulouse St., (504) 569-8361; www.oneeyedjacks.net.

The Starlight — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 7

THURSDAY 22 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3 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, 8; Cip & the Black Lights, 11 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Revival, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — Voodoo Wagon, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; John “Papa” Gros Band, 8 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with Rik Slave, 7; DJs Howie and Panzer, 10 d.b.a. — The Bailsmen, 7; Soul Brass Band, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Loren Pickford Quartet, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Helen Gillet, The Quaalords, Light // Sound, 9

House of Blues — Eli Young Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Anette & Mark, 5; Roy Gele, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Monty Banks, 5; Deacon John & the Ivories, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Andre Bohren, 7; The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Old Point Bar — Sam Bohdi, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Shotgun Jazz Band, 1 Poor Boys Bar — Tar (femme dance party), 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Rusty Metoyer, 8:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Sarah McCoy, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 The Starlight — Linnzi Zaorski Trio, 7 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 23 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Bobby Ohler, 8 Bar Redux — Hook & Sink with DJ Shane Love (funk and soul dance party), 10 PAGE 29

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SATURDAY 24 Andrea’s Restaurant (Capri Blu Piano Bar) — Brogan, 8 Bamboula’s — G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7 Bar Redux — Dusky Waters, Tiny Dinosaur & the Gravity Wells, 8 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7:15; Big Sam’s Funky Nation, 11; House

Radar Upcoming concerts » LIONEL HAMPTON ORCHESTRA WITH ANTONIA BENNETT AND JASON MARSALIS, April 28,

New Orleans Jazz Market » BRENT COBB, May 2,

Gasa Gasa

» OF MONTREAL, May 10,

The Howlin’ Wolf

» THE BREVET, May 18,

Gasa Gasa

» BENT KNEE AND GATHERERS,

June 15, Gasa Gasa

» KATIE VON SCHLEICHER,

June 19, Gasa Gasa

» PARAMORE, July 10,

Champions Square

» THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER

AND WHITECHAPEL, June 27,

Southport Hall

» KEITH URBAN AND KELSEA

BALLERINI, Nov. 2, Smoothie King Center » PAUL SIMON, Sept. 5, Smoothie King Center » JAY Z AND BEYONCE, Sept. 13, Superdome

Paul Simon will perform at Smoothie King Center Sept. 5.

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Party with DJ Raj Smoove, 1 a.m.

Blue Nile Balcony Room — Marigny Street Brass Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 9; Yocho, midnight Cafe Negril — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 4; Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 7 Check Point Charlie — The Goods, 8; Sheiks of Arabi, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Sonia Tetlow, 8 Circle Bar — SINTH ’84 with DJ Shane Love, 9:30 d.b.a. — Eight Dice Cloth, 4; Roamin’ Jasmine, 7; Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk, The Fuel, 11 Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand, 6:30 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10 Gasa Gasa — The Crooked Vines, Miss Mojo, 9 Hi-Ho Lounge — Pink Room Project, 11 House of Blues (The Parish) — Bamboleo (Latin club night), midnight Jazz National Historical Park — West PAGE 30

1125 North Rampart St. Upper 1 Bd Rm, furn. Kitchen, lg. closets, mini blinds, freshly painted, water incl., steps to the VIEUX CARRE, no pets & smokers, $800/mo. + 1,373 Sq. Ft. Commercial, ground level, open floor plan on busy street car line, adjacent to the VIEUX CARRE, $1,975/mo.

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Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7:30; Ashton Hines & the Big Easy Brawlers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Strange Roux, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — Lifesavers, 3; Hyperphlyy, 9; La Tran-K Salsa, midnight Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 6 Cafe Negril — Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Check Point Charlie — Domenic, 4; River Dragon, 8; Cajun Rhythm, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; Paul Sanchez & Justin Molaison, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie, 7; Space Bass IV with DJs Obi-1 and Slick Leo, 10 d.b.a. — Tuba Skinny, 6; George Porter Jr. & His Runnin’ Pardners, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Antonio!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social (Latin dance party), 10 Gasa Gasa — Alfred Banks, Chase N. Cashe, Dappa, E.F. Cuttin’, 10 House of Blues — Strangelove (Depeche Mode tribute), The Gentlemen Commoners (Smiths tribute), 9 Howlin’ Wolf — Brass Bash feat. N’awlins Johnnys, Brass-A-Holics, 7 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Wes Williams Band, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Heritage High School Band and Choir, 11 a.m.

Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 5; One Tailed Three, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7 Little Gem Saloon — Lilli Lewis, 5; Deacon John & the Ivories, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Bad Oyster Band, 7; Richard Bienvenu, Gina Forsyth, 9 Poor Boys Bar — Filthy, Hiawatha, Missing, Cervix Couch, 9 Rivershack Tavern — CNG Band, 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Karma, 9:30 Santos Bar — Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals, No Money Down, 9 Siberia Lounge — Valparaiso Men’s Chorus, Malevitus, 10 SideBar — Running of the Bells feat.

Helen Gillet, Doug Garrison, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Contraflow, Adam Pearce, 8:30 Southport Hall (Deck Room) — Fighting for Frequency, One Time Jupiter, Vedas, 9 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6:30 Tipitina’s — Gravity A, The Quickening, 10 Twist of Lime — Choke, Hell Camino, Art of the Process, Holoverse, 10

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Kerry Irish Pub — Van Hudson, 5; Invisible Cowboy Band, 9 Little Gem Saloon — Deacon John & the Ivories, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Iceman Special, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Will Howard, Aleah Hyers, Blond Melon, 8 Old Point Bar — The Hounds, 9:30 Old U.S. Mint — Drummer & Smoke, 1 One Eyed Jacks — Book of Love, 9 Poor Boys Bar — DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap, Guitar Lightnin’ Lee & the Thunder Band, 9 Rivershack Tavern — Snake Oil, 10 Royal Brewery — The Unnaturals, 7 Santos Bar — Sedated (Ramones tribute), 9 Siberia Lounge — High, Lawn Chairs, Stacks, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Jason Marsalis (album release), 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Dark Effects, Fly Molo, Solunar, 8 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Panorama Jazz Band, 6 The Starlight — DJ Crushed Velvet, 10 Tipitina’s — Pine Leaf Boys, The Daiquiri Queens, 10

SUNDAY 25 Bamboula’s — NOLA Ragweeds, 1; Carl LeBlanc, 5:30; Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, 9 Bar Redux — Toby O’Brien, Dave Geare, 8 Blue Nile — Mykia Jovan, 7; Street Legends Brass Band, 11 BMC — Nicole & the Tempted, 3; Jazmarae, 7; Moments of Truth, 10 Bullet’s Sports Bar — John Pierre, 6 Cafe Negril — Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, 6; John Lisi, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 8 d.b.a. — Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; The Iguanas, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Piano Bob, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Church with Unicorn Fukr, 10 Gasa Gasa — The Weeks, Caroline Rose, 9 Howlin’ Wolf Den — Hot 8 Brass Band, 10 Kerry Irish Pub — Will Dickerson, 8 One Eyed Jacks — Patrick Shuttleswerth Plays You Records, 9 Rare Form — The Key Sound, 10 Santos Bar — Russell Welch Quartet, 10 Siberia Lounge — Sam Doores, 8 Smoothie King Center — Bon Jovi, 7:30 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Kristina Morales & the Inner Wild, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Tipitina’s — Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, 9 Trinity Episcopal Church — Charmaine Neville & Amasa Miller, 8 UNO Lakefront Arena — Justin Moore, Dylan Scott, 7:30

MONDAY 26 Bacchanal — Helen Gillet, 7:30 Bamboula’s — Co & Co Traveling Show, 2;

G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 5:30; John Lisi Band, 9 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray, 8 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7 d.b.a. — Big Sam & the Krewe, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — The Genial Orleanians, 10 SideBar — Dueling Electrons feat. Masakowski Family Electric Band, 9 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) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The organist’s plays selections from baroque to vintage rock. Free. 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Bach Around the Clock. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 522-0276; www.trinitynola.com — The 29-hour festival celebrates Bach’s birthday with performances, movies, dance and acro-yoga. Free. 7 p.m. Friday.

The Crucifixion. John Calvin Presbyterian Church, 4201 Transcontinental Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-1375 — Craig Hawkins provides new orchestration for John Stainer’s 1887 piece of music. Free. 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Dialogues of the Carmelites. St. George’s Episcopal Church, 4600 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-2811; www.sgec.org — Music from the Poulenc opera set during the French Revolution is performed. Visit www.loyno.edu for details. Tickets $15$30. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday.

Ilya Yakushev. University of New Orleans, Performing Arts Center, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 280-6381; www.uno.edu — The Russian pianist performs. Tickets $10-$35. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, 615 Pere Antoine Alley, (504) 525-9585; www. stlouiscathedral.org — The orchestra performs its annual “Music of the City” program. Free. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Shades. Ashe Power House, 1731 Baronne St., (504) 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — The Yale University a cappella group’s program celebrates music of the African diaspora and African-American traditions.

Free. 7 p.m. Friday.

Visions and Revisions: Music of Reflection and Refraction. Tulane University, Dixon Hall, (504) 865-5105; www.tulane. edu/~theatre — Music by Gyorgy Ligeti, Anton Webern, New Orleans Native Christopher Trapani and others is featured in the performance by pianist Adrian Blanco and the Ulysses String Quartet. Free. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Events, parties and panels salute New Orleans’ entrepreneurial community. Visit www.noew.org for details. Tuesday-Friday.

Valeisha Butterfield Jones. Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — The WEEN CEO and Google head of black community engagement speaks. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 21 Erik Kiesselweter. Loyola University New Orleans, Monroe Hall, Nunemaker Auditorium, 6363 St. Charles Ave., (504) 865-2011; www.loyno.edu — The multi-disciplinary designer speaks as part of the university’s “Design Forum” lecture series. Free admission. 5:30 p.m.

Ned Hallowell. Tulane University, Lavin-Bernick Center, Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, (504) 314-2188; www.tulane. edu — The author and physician’s talk is about the history of ADHD and his experiences at Tulane’s medical school. Free admission. 6 p.m.

The State of New Orleans Parks. St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, 8012 Oak St., (504) 861-3743; www.standrewsepiscopalschool.org — Panelists discuss upcoming changes at Audubon Park, New Orleans City Park and park developments and improvements on the riverfront and elsewhere. Free admission. 6 p.m.

Women of Courage. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org

EVENTS

PREVIEW Bach Around the Clock

BY WILL COVIELLO THE BACH AROUND THE CLOCK marathon celebrates Johann Sebastian Bach’s 332nd birthday (March 31) with more than 29 hours of music and performances. The festival also marks its 20th anniversary with a wide variety of music from the baroque period to contemporary jazz and Latin rhythms. Performers include Ellis Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Helen Gillet, Slow Danger Brass Band, OperaCreole, John Rankin, Chip Wilson, New Orleans Trombone Choir, the Grinnell Singers from Grinnell College in Iowa, Trendafilka, an all-women choir singing music from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region, and others. There are performances by Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre, Mardi Gras Indians and Micaela y Fiesta Flamenca. Various members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and visiting classical pianists perform.

Trinity Artist Series organizer and organist Albinas Prizgintas (pictured) leads a quartet playing original compositions, and there’s a screening of The Heart of the Organ, a documentary about the annual festival. Free admission. The marathon starts at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., (504) 670-2520; www.trinityartistsseries.com.

— Anne Levy and Nicole Spangenberg discuss their experiences living in Europe during World War II. Free admission, registration recommended. 5 p.m.

Women of Note: Performance Roundtables. Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/the-old-us-mint — Helen Gillet, Debbie Davis and Robin Barnes appear at the performance and conversation series in which musicians play and discuss works by women and talk about what it’s like to be a female performing artist. Free admission. 6 p.m.

An Edible Evening. Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, 3519 Trafalgar St., (504) 373-6251; www.langstonhughesacademy.org — The garden party with food from local restaurants benefits Edible Schoolyard. Tickets $60-$75. 7 p.m.

King of Crawfish. Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Drive, (504) 568-1702; www.generationshall.com — Several restaurants prepare and serve crawfish dishes to compete for the “King of Crawfish” title. Visit www.lra.org for details.

Tickets $35. 6 p.m.

Laine Kaplan-Levenson. University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, (504) 280-6355; www.library.uno.edu — The WWNO producer’s talk is “Haiti and New Orleans: Is the Feeling Mutual?” 12:30 p.m.

designers. Visit www.androfashionshow. com for details. Tickets $20. 7 p.m.

Bring Your Own. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — Laine Kaplan-Levenson hosts the storytelling evening of tales based on queens and female empowerment, and there are food trucks. Tickets $5. 6 p.m.

Hogs for the Cause. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., (504) 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — Teams compete to prepare the best barbecue dish, and a number of musical acts perform. The fest supports families affected by pediatric brain cancer. Visit www.hogsforthecause. org for details. Tickets $25-$500. 3:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

Keeping Our Promises. Messina’s at the Terminal, 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd., (504) 241-5300; www.facebook.com/ messinasterminal — Awards are presented at this gala benefiting Daughters of Charity Foundation of New Orleans. Visit www.501auctions.com/daughtersofcharitygala for details. Tickets $100. 8 p.m.

Rubarb Community Bike Shop Fundraising Party. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St., (504) 943-6565; www.artklub.org — There’s a puppet show and performances by DJ Electric Ghost and Leyla McCalla at a fundraiser for the volunteer-run bike shop. Tickets $10, kids free. 7 p.m.

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Big Bass Fishing Rodeo and Fishtival.

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 482-4888; www.neworleanscitypark.com — The annual freshwater bass rodeo includes the fishing competition plus exhibitors, vendors, raffles, sales of fishing tackle and more. Admission varies. 6 a.m. to noon.

The Bloody Mary Festival. Howlin’ Wolf, 907 S. Peters St., (504) 529-5844; www. thehowlinwolf.com — The festival features bloody marys and food from New Orleans restaurants and bars, plus competitions for best bloody mary. Tickets $45. Noon to 4:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Children’s World’s Fair. Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., (504) 5231357; www.lcm.org — Kid’s activities at the fair explore African, Asian, European, Latin American, Caribbean and Native American influences on New Orleans culture. Tickets $20. Noon.

Dance for Social Change Youth Festival.

Dancing Grounds, 3705 St. Claude Ave., (504) 535-5791; www.dancingrounds.org — Workshops, youth performances, art activities and a block party are part of this teen fest themed around mental health awareness. Free admission. Saturday-Sunday.

A Day of Prayer. Port of New Orleans, 1350 Port of New Orleans Place, (504) 522-2551; www.portno.com — Cyril Neville leads a discussion of New Orleans culture followed by a prayer service. A voodoo drumming and dance ceremony begins at 2 p.m. 11 a.m.

Deutsches Haus Craft Fair and Easter Egg Hunt. Deutsches Haus, 1023 Ridgewood St., Metairie, (504) 522-8014; www.deutscheshaus.org — Vendors sell handmade crafts at the fair, and an egg hunt begins at 11:30 a.m. There’s also story time and kid’s craft activities. RSVP to info@deutscheshaus. org. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Donna Brazile. Dillard University, Professional Schools Building, Georges Auditorium, 2601 Gentilly Blvd., (504) 283-8822; www.dillard.edu — The political strategist speaks about the history of black New Orleans politicians, including Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial and Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell. Free admission. 10 a.m.

Drag Queen Story Hour. Children’s Resource Center, 913 Napoleon Ave., (504) 596-2628; www.nolalibrary.org — Southern Rep presents the story hour featuring storytelling by Mz. Asa Metric and Dede Onassis, craft activities and a kid-friendly dance party. Free admission. 2 p.m.

Earth Fest. Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — There is live entertainment, food vendors, crafts and educational exhibits about conservation and saving the environment. Free with zoo admission.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Easter Egg Hunt. The Fly, behind Audubon Zoo (6500 Magazine St.) at the river — Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman hosts the annual egg hunt with games and activities for children ages 1-12. Participants can register for free admission to Audubon Zoo. Free admission. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Easter Eggstravaganza. Joe W. Brown Park, 5601 Read Blvd., (504) 355-7175; www.friendsofjoewbrownpark.org — Egg hunts at Joe W. Brown Park and a few other NORD parks feature inflatables,

carnival games and appearances by the Easter bunny. Visit www.nordc.com for details. Free admission. 11 a.m.

Jump Jive an’ Jazzin’. New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, 401 Barracks St., (800) 568-6968; www.nolajazzmuseum.org — Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Bon Bon Vivant perform at the gala for Louisiana Museum Foundation. Tickets $60-$75. 8 p.m.

Kickball Classic. Shrine on Airline, 6000 Airline Drive, Metairie, (504) 734-5155 — Former LSU football player Tyrann Mathieu hosts a celebrity kickball game to benefit his foundation, which serves financially disadvantaged youth. Visit www.tyrannmathieukickballclassic.com for details. Tickets $20-$500. 3 p.m.

Midnight in the Garden. Private residence — The gala benefits New Orleans Film Society and offers food, cocktails and entertainment. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for details. Tickets start at $250. 8 p.m.

NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — An egg hunt, petting zoo, inflatables, face painting, crafts and more are at the outdoor Easter festival. Tickets $12-$15. 10 a.m.

Open-Ended: A FUNdraiser for Artivism Dance Theatre. Art Klub, 1941 Arts St., (504) 943-6565; www.artklub.org — There are several performances at a family-friendly fundraiser for the socially conscious dance collective, and drinks are available for purchase. Tickets $15-$25. 7 p.m.

Slidell Spring Street Fair. First, Second and Erlanger streets, Slidell — More than 150 vendors sell antiques, collectibles, vintage items, metalware and jewelry at the fest. There’s also food and live music.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

Spring Social. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., (504) 522-9200; www.theshopsatcanalplace.com — Musicians play live music in the mall’s atrium throughout the day, and there’s free beer and wine from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

SUNDAY 25 Jamie Galloway Crawfish Boil. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., (504) 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar.com — New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Assistance Foundation, Dave Jordan and Seither’s Seafood present the boil and concert to celebrate the life of Jamie Galloway. Tickets $25, includes unlimited crawfish. 3 p.m.

Mimosas and Mediums. Maison du Lac, 7412 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 309-0700; www.lamaisondulacevents.com — Mediums Trenny Simmons and Sid Patrick give readings, and mimosas are served. Tickets $40. 1 p.m.

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

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

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

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REVIEW Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785-1802

BY D. ERIC BOOKHARDT NEW ORLEANS ALWAYS HAS BEEN COMPLICATED. Even parts of its history that once seemed straightforward often spiral off in odd directions under close examination. Josef de Salazar y Mendoza’s portraits of local socialites and grandees of all stripes reflect Spain’s cultural values during the latter 18th century, when New Orleans was a Spanish colony, but the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s biographical text panels reveal all sorts of quirks and surprises. Although his painting style was classically Spanish, Salazar was born in Merida, Mexico, and his sitters were a diverse lot. Colonial Attorney General Antonio Mendez was actually from Havana, Cuba, the Spanish Caribbean capital that governed New Orleans like a distant suburb. In his portrait, he appears to be interacting with his quietly animated children as his intently focused features suggest someone used to facing unpredictable events with a stoic, if wary, resolve.

Some of the figures on view provide us with faces to go with familiar local street names. Salazar’s portrait of philanthropist Don Andres Almonester reveals an imposing figure whose misspelled name (Almonaster) now graces a local avenue, and Joseph Montegut’s intriguing family portrait reveals the prominent doctor who was the namesake of a Marigny street. William Kenner looks every inch the proper Anglo-American planter that he was, but his wife, Mary Minor Kenner, conveys a European aura appropriate to the daughter of Louisiana’s last Spanish governor.

Ultimately, it was New Orleans’ international and often exotic citizenry that made it more interesting for portrait painters than any other city in America, and nowhere is that more evident than in Salazar’s portrait of Marianne Celeste Dragon (pictured), a Creole woman of French and Greek ancestry whose aristocratic demeanor epitomized the social and economic standing of this city’s large and prosperous mixed race community. Swathed in fashionable blue silk and pearls, she lives on as a kind of Louisiana Mona Lisa — mysterious not for her coyness but because she appears so completely at ease with who she is in a place and time unlike any other. Through Sept. 2. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9650; www.ogdenmuseum.org

SPORTS New Orleans Pelicans. Smoothie King Center, 1501 Girod St., (504) 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — New Orleans Pelicans play the Dallas Mavericks at 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Indiana Pacers at 7 p.m.

Wednesday and the Los Angeles Lakers at 7 p.m. Thursday.

WORDS Mitch Landrieu, Martha B. Boone, Jeffrey Round, Tom Sancton. Louisiana State Museum Presbytere, 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — The authors discuss recent releases.

Email faulkhouse@aol.com to register (required). 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Saints and Sinners LGBT Literary Festival. Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 523-3341; www.hotelmonteleone.com — Jericho Brown, Jaffe Cohen, Jewelle Gomez and other authors appear at the literary festival celebrating LGBT writers and themes. Visit www.sasfest.org for details. Friday-Sunday.

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St., (504) 523-3341; www.hotelmonteleone.com — Panels, master classes, performances and parties take place at the fest celebrating the works of Tennessee Williams and New Orleans’ literary

scene. Visit www.tennesseewilliams.net for details. Wednesday-Sunday.

FILM FILM FESTIVALS Big Easy International Film Festival.

Kerry Irish Pub, 331 Decatur St., (504) 527-5954; www.kerryirishpub.com — Documentaries, shorts and feature films are screened. 1 p.m. Saturday-Sunday.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND Bomb City — A small-town punks v. preppies showdown ends in murder. Chalmette In the Fade (R) — A woman seeks revenge after a neo-Nazi bombing kills her husband and child. Chalmette Unsane (R) — In a questionable effort to avoid her stalker, a woman signs herself into a mental institution. Kenner

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Dolores — Gloria Steinem, Luis Valdez, Angela Davis and others are interviewed in this film about activist Dolores Huerta.

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And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens and The Two-Character Play. Loyola University New Orleans, Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave. — Southern Rep presents the double bill of short Tennessee Williams Follow Gambit on plays. Visit www.southernrep.com for details.

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The Dumb Waiter. Fortress of Lushington, 2215 Burgundy St. — Radical Buffoon(s) presents Harold Pinter’s one-act play about two hit men awaiting instructions. Visit www.radicalbuffoons.

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14 One Arm. Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary FOOD : Review Grill ’s Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Marjie 27 Blvd. — Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans presents the play from a Tennessee Williams story about a damaged boxer. Visit www.twtheatrenola. com for details. Tickets $20-$25. 8 p.m.

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The Phantom of the Opera. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is about a figure who seems to haunt an opera house. Tickets start at $35. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

Steel Magnolias. Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, (504) 461-9475; www.rivertowntheaters.com — Ricky Graham directs the show about female friendship set in smalltown Louisiana. Tickets $41.50-$45.90. 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

A Streetcar Named Desire. Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, 616 St. Peter St., (504) 522-2081; www.lepetittheatre.com — Beth Bartley, Curtis Billings *AVERAGE ISSUE READERSHIP (THE MEDIA AUDIT / SPRING 2017) and Elizabeth McCoy star in Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans-set play. Tickets $15-$50. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

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Delgado Community College, Tim Baker Theater, 615 City Park Ave. — See ’Em On Stage and the Delgado Community College Theatre Department present the musical, which resets The Wizard of Oz within modern black culture. Tickets $15$28. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.

HAPPENINGS Conversations with Artists. Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, (504) 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — Sally Heller, Robin Levy, Maxx Sizeler and Babette Rittenberg discuss “L’dor V’dor: Jewish Women and their Impact on New Orleans.” 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Gallery Talk. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — Ogden photography curator Richard McCabe, The Do Good Fund founder Alan Rothschild and Atlanta Celebrates Photography director Amy Miller discuss “One Place Understood: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection.” Free with museum admission.

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6 : An Unbirth. One Love Community Art Space. 1502 N. Derbigny St. — The pop-up immersive installation is about womanhood, nature and healing. 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Ron Campbell. Boyd Satellite, 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery.com — The Yellow Submarine animator and Saturday Morning Beatles Cartoon director appears at an exhibition of his work in the gallery. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Spring Fling. Rhino Contemporary Crafts Gallery, 2028 Magazine St., (504) 5237945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Works by glass artist Jerry Hymel and clay artist Chris Menconi are displayed at a party fwith live music and more. 5 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — Drawings, paintings and film exploring myths of contemporary urban life by Sarah Morris; “Why Is Everything a Rag?,” works by Stockholm-based artist Jockum Nordstrom; opening reception 6 p.m.

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Mexican Cultural Institute. 901 Convention Center Blvd., (504) 528-3722; www. culturalagendaoftheconsulateofmexico. blogspot.com — “Decoding the Purity of an Icon,” paintings and installation by Mexican artist Belinda Flores-Shinshillas; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “One Place Understood: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection”; “The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction,” works by female abstract artists; opening reception 6 p.m. Thursday.

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1638 Dufossat St. #1638 • $399,000

Off street parking and a private courtyard for enjoying beautiful evenings under the oaks! This grand, Greek revival is just one block from St. Charles Avenue.

At 1300 square feet, it’s an oversized one bedroom condo that boasts beautiful wood floors throughout, lovely medallions and fire place mantels. Step back in time and enjoy a beverage on the spacious front porch…

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The Jazz Quarters hotel is just steps from the French Quarter and Armstrong Park in the Historic Treme. This unique property consists of eight beautifully restored cottages surrounded by parking for 15+ cars, intimate courtyards, and lush grounds hidden behind high walls and an iron gate. Currently configured with ten guest rooms and an innkeepers suite with the potential to add more. Sale includes hotel license, business name and website. www.jazzquarters.com

3721 St. Charles Ave. #B 3BR/4 BA • $939,000

Wonderful townhome, on the parade route!

These don’t come up often! Don’t miss out!

Over 2400 square feet of living area and a garage, with room for an elevator. This townhome is so well done, with beautiful crown moldings, fantastic living spaces and gourmet kitchen, complete with the finest of appliances and finishes. Too many amenities to list! This, second home has been cared for impeccably and is an entertainer’s delight, with a wonderful balcony on St. Charles!

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2833 ST. CHARLES AVE #11 2BR/2BA $335,000

Location, location! Wonderful 2BR on parade route!

Beautifully renov’d two yrs ago. New wd flrs throughout, new kit w/marble & stainless steel. Stackable W/D in unit and new central Air/Heat. Lg inground pool, fitness room, secure off-st pkg.

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UPSCALE double with 2 independent bedrooms on each side. 1.5 baths. Real hardwood floors, high ceilings. Open floor plan. Live in a high quality, tastefully done, maintenance free home, while tenant helps pay your mortgage.

All appliances including washer and dryer on both sides.

Front porch & private backyard for each unit. Centrally located with easy access to the French Quarter, CBD, I-10 and City Park. $399,000

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LEGAL NOTICES

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: Sale in the amount of $100,000 for the decedent’s interest in the property, to be sold “as is” without warranties and with full waiver of warranty and redhibition rights.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make an opposition which they may have or may have to such application at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgement authorizing, approving and homologating such application, and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of publication of such notice, in accordance with law.

By order of the Court Jon A. Gegenheimer, Clerk of Court Publish Once pursuant to LCCP art. 3282 Attorney: Mark Duncan (#29161), Duncan Law, L.L.C., 270 Garden Avenue, Mandeville, LA 70471 (985) 626-5770 Publication: Louisiana Weekly & Gambit

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Please apply online at: Craftcareers.net On spot Interviews Mon-Fri. 1:30 - 3:30

ONLINE ONLY AUCTION MONDAY, APRIL 9 - TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018 Bidding Begins April 9th at 8:00 AM CT Bidding Concludes April 10th between 12:00 noon & 5:25 PM CT

100± STRUCTURES & RESIDENTIAL LOTS THROUGHOUT NEW ORLEANS

ALL PROPERTIES WILL SELL SUBJECT TO MINIMUM BIDS STARTING AT $3,500!

Visit Our Website For Terms of Sale:

504.233.0063 HilcoRealEstate.com/NORA 1% Broker Co-op. Properties are being sold on an “As is, Where is” basis. Paul A. Lynn, CCIM Broker #76068-ACT; Steven Mathis, LA Auctioneer 1834.

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

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

MID CITY IN THE MID CITY

1 Bd Rm + Living Rm / Kitchen Combo.

Mini blinds, shower only, READY! Walking distance to Canal St. & Bayou St. John. $775 / Call: 504-583-5969

3122 PALMYRA STREET

Completely renov, 1/2 dbl w/ 1BR, 1BA, hdwd flrs, washer/dryer, refrigerator, stove, ceil fans, water pd. $900/mo+dep. Call 504-899-5544.

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1 & 2 Bedrooms available in ideal location and ROOMS BY THE WEEK. 1 BR, private bath. All utilities included. $180/week. Call (504) 202-0381 for appointment

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Ways to Volunteer: • Talk, listen, pray with, read to, or sit with patients • Support bereaved family members in their healing • Assist with clerical work, data entry, and mailings • Help with events like bingo nights, “Celebrations of Life,” and fundraisers • Use individual skills, creativity, and life experience to help in your own unique way

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NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas, the Administratrix of the above Estate has made application to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, CITY OF KENNER, in that part thereof known as GREATER HOLY HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, Section 1, said portion being designated as Lot 7 of SQUARE H. According to a plan of resubdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated February 24, 1970, approved by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen for the City of Kenner on June 8, 1970, by and through Ordinance No. 1227, a copy of which Ordinance is registered in COB 716, folio 833, and which plan of resubdivision is registered in Plan Book No. 69, folio 9 and in COB 713, folio 833 on June 12, 1970, by and through Ordinance 1227, a copy of which Ordinance is registered in COB 716, folio 833, and which plan of resubdivision is registered in Plan Book No. 69, folio 9 and COB 713, folio 833 on June 12, 1970, SQUARE H is bounded by Continental Drive, North Boundary of Subdivision, South Boundary of Subdivision, and East Boundary of Subdivision, (University City). Lot 7 forms the intersection of Continental Drive with the 20 foot Servitude bisecting Square H as shown on said plan, and measures 50 feet front on Continental Drive, the same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 100 feet, which said dimensions are also shown on a plan by J.J. Krebs & sons, Inc., dated July 30, 1970.

The improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 3361 Continental Drive, Kenner, Louisiana.

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