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JUNE 5 -11, 2018 VOLUME 39 || NUMBER 23 NEWS

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TUE. JUNE 5 | Clocking in under 30 minutes, Gentle Leader (Mint Records) from L.A. surf punks Peach Kelli Pop sprints through addictive Ramones earworms, a sugar rush of mega-hook powerpop anthems. Rob Craig and VLADRM duo: FR open at 9:30 p.m. at Circle Bar.

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POND TUE. JUNE 5 | Sprouting from the tie-dyed forehead of neopsychedelic Australians Tame Impala, POND shares a similar hazy cosmic pop sound, showcased on 2017’s The Weather, an extraterrestrial-inspired dance trip.

Internet explorer Fascinator opens at 9 p.m. at Gasa Gasa.

The New Orleans Pride parade, Pridefest and more.

BY WILL COVIELLO THERE ARE PRIDE PARADES in cities around the world in early June, including Saturday, June 9 in New Orleans. The events celebrating the LGBT community are held in June to commemorate the uprising following a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969, a landmark event considered the beginning of a LGBT rights movement. In New Orleans, there is a parade, Pridefest at the Phoenix bar, parties and a host of related events throughout the week.

There is information on official New Orleans Pride events and more at www.neworleanspridefestival.com and www.togetherwenola.com.

Pride: A Path to Self-Care The New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic’s You Got This Mental Health Initiative hosts an LGBT wellness program with panel discussions, health screenings, mental health counselors and more at 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Marigny Opera House. Free admission.

LGBT+ Archive Project meeting The group’s annual meeting will feature a keynote address by Robert Fieseler, author of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.

The book examines the 1973 arson at a French Quarter gay bar that left 32 people dead, the largest massacre of gay people until a shooting left 49 dead at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016.

The fire helped galvanize the LGBT movement in New Orleans. The Archives Project meeting is 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Marigny Opera House. Refreshments are served.

Free admission.

Dining Out for Life

More than 50 area restaurants are participating in the Thursday fundraiser in which businesses donate 20 to 50 percent of the day’s proceeds to the NO/AIDS Task

Force to support programs for people with HIV/ AIDS. Participating restaurants include 14 Parishes, Banana Blossom, Cafe Degas, Fausto’s Bistro, Jack Dempsey’s, Jamila’s Cafe, Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing, MoPho, Nacho Mama’s, Toups South and others. Visit www. diningoutforlife.com/neworleans/ restaurants for a list of restaurants and donation details.

Glow Pride kick-off party New York rapper and producer LE1F and New Orleans rappers Delish Da Goddess and Rica Shay perform at a party at 10 p.m. Friday at One Eyed Jacks.

There’s also music from DJs Bouffant Bouffant, Ryan Tiffin and Father Figure.

Pridefest There’s a daytime festival outside the Phoenix bar beginning at noon Saturday. The music stage will host Amanda Shaw (4:30 p.m.), soul singer and dance music artist Pepper MacShay (3:30 p.m.), To Be Continued Brass Band with Mardi Gras Indian guests (2:15 p.m.) and Fagadelics (1 p.m.). Laveau Contraire is the emcee, and festival performers include Marhsall Harris, Giselle Trivianni, Lana O’Day, Blaine Bextor and ChiChi Rodriguez.

There’s a dunk-tank fundraiser, food vendors and more. The Phoenix holds Pride parties and events throughout the weekend.

#MyQTPOCPride Following an address by transgender rights activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, there’s a panel discussion about people of color and youth of color in the LGBT rights movement. At 6 p.m.

Saturday at the LGBT Community Center of New Orleans (2727 S. Broad St.).

Sarah Quintana & Michael Doucet

A rider in the 2017 New Orleans Pride parade.

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TUE. JUNE 5 | Chanteuse, guitarist and jazz composer Sarah Quintana and BeauSoleil bandleader and Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet made reciprocal guest appearances with their respective bands at Jazz Fest in April. The two rendezvous to share the stage at Chickie Wah Wah at 8 p.m.

New Orleans Pride Parade The city’s official Pride parade begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Phoenix bar on Elysian Fields Avenue and circles the French Quarter on Decatur, Canal and N. Rampart streets. There are marching groups, floats, beads and more.

Queer as F*ck dance party The New Orleans Ladies Arm Wrestling (NO LAW) league and Last Call: Queer Histories/Queer Futures host a dance party at 9 p.m.

Saturday at One Eyed Jacks. There’s music by DJ Sneaks and burlesque dancing and drag performances by Gayle King Kong, LibeRaunchy the BeauxQueen, Laveau Contraire, Kat Snatch and others. Admission $10.

To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had defined marriage as being between one man and one woman. The case was based on the marriage of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, who after spending their lives as a couple were married in Canada in 2007. When Spyer died and left her estate to Windsor, the federal government imposed an estate tax. Windsor filed suit, claiming the government was denying her the benefits of married couples. Director Donna Zaccaro’s documentary about the case and marriage equality screens at 7 p.m.

Thursday at Chalmette Movies.

Hamid Drake WED. JUNE 6 | In this Scatterjazz series show, improvisational jazz drummer Hamid Drake is joined by rising star New York saxophonist James Brandon Lewis (currently in an artist residency at The New Quorum), guitarist Jonathan Freilich and Nate Lambertson.

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Creole Tomato Festival SAT.-SUN. JUNE 9-10 | There’s music by Little Freddie King, Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Storyville Stompers, Fredy Omar con su Banda and others as well as a bloody mary market, cooking demonstrations, kids’ activities and more at the free festival. From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the French Market.

Shania Twain SUN. JUNE 10 | Canadian singer Shania Twain became the queen of country pop in the 1990s with the albums The Woman in Me and Come on Over. After selling more than 100 million albums, she retired in 2004. Her return album Now debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart in September 2017.

Bastian Baker opens at 7:30 p.m. at Smoothie King Center.

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teacher at Warren Easton Senior High School, is one of nine finalists for the 2019 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, an annual award bestowed by the Louisiana Department of Education.

Goodly is the only metro area teacher on the list. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Baton Rouge July 27.

Jillian Mele, a host of the

morning TV show Fox and Friends, said former mayor Mitch Landrieu was being “awarded for tearing down history” — in reference to Landrieu receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his leadership in removing four Confederate monuments. Mele said Landrieu did so “despite legal challenges and arguments the Confederacy is an important part of New Orleans’ heritage” — ignoring the two years of court battles and multiple public hearings on the subject.

The Louisiana Legislature

did itself no favors last week when, in the midst of a special session called to address the state’s fiscal cliff, it chose to play a scheduled charity basketball game rather than continue to work on the budget. The last thing fed-up constituents want to see is public servants closing down shop early to shoot hoops, even for charity. Given the gravity of the situation in Baton Rouge, the game should have been rescheduled after legislators found some fiscal solutions.

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COUNCIL MEMBERS CALL FOR ‘COMMON SENSE’ GUN CONTROL MEASURES After a Louisiana legislative session that considered several measures to allow guns on school campuses, the New Orleans chapter of gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action (MDA) has renewed its call for stronger protections against gun violence in Louisiana.

Members of the New Orleans City Council joined MDA members outside City Hall May 31 to issue a call for “common sense” gun control measures to combat gun violence in tandem with National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 2.

The group testified against several proposals in Baton Rouge earlier this year, including a measure to allow people with concealed carry permits to carry weapons on school campuses and another that would allow retired teachers and military personnel to act as armed campus security. Those bills were defeated, but so were several bills that aimed to prevent people under age 21 from buying assault weapons, including the kinds that were legally purchased and used in several recent mass killings.

City Council President Jason Williams, who also chairs the Criminal Justice Committee, said MDA is “not so numb that [a shooting] isn’t just a number, the next killing isn’t just a number.”

At-Large Councilwoman Helena Moreno — who served in the state Legislature prior to winning her City Council seat last fall — was instrumental in passing several pieces of statewide legislation targeting domestic and partner-level violent offenders, including preventing abusers from possessing or carrying a firearm. This year, she helped pass a measure that creates an enforcement mechanism with sheriffs’ offices as a pass-through agency to take those firearms. Now, she says she plans to work with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office to ensure it’s following those laws.

New Orleans continues to face one of the highest rates of gun violence per capita in the country. There were 157 murders in 2017, and 176 in 2016. Seven or more people were shot on the same day on six days in 2017 in January, February, June and November. And on June 3 of last year, 12 people were shot in five separate events.

“The suffering has to stop,” Moreno said. “It’s long past time we face this problem head-on.”

Williams, who warned against lawmakers who are “more concerned with raising funds than raising children,” told Gambit that state laws effectively pre-empt some city action toward stricter rules for gun possession, though it’s up to the City Council to work with Gov. John Bel Edwards and navigate the Legislature to implement a gun control platform in sync with the council’s agenda.

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The number of days per month New Orleanians reported poor mental health NEW ORLEANS’ ACCESS to health care has improved over the last decade, but there remain significant gaps in coverage and racial disparities in the city’s health care system.

A May report from The Data Center found New Orleanians reported more poor mental health days than state and national averages of 4.3 days and 3.6 days, respectively, hospital emergency rooms frequently used to treat mental health crises and other challenges for un- and underinsured patients. — ALEX WOODWARD SOURCE: THE DATA CENTER

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dame of our industry and truly an extraordinary soul. It has been one of the greatest privileges of my life to call Miss Ella my mentor, friend and family. She was the embodiment of a class act whose vigor, passion and tenacity are unparalleled. I will miss her dearly.” — Chef Emeril Lagasse on restaurateur Ella Brennan, who died last week at 92. Brennan hired Lagasse as head chef at Commander’s Palace in 1982. Tributes to Brennan flowed in from around the world of food and politics. (Read Clancy DuBos’ remembrance of Brennan, p. 10.)

Edwards signs law banning abortion after 15 weeks Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a law last week banning abortions in Louisiana after 15 weeks of pregnancy — provided a similar law in Mississippi is upheld by federal courts.

The legislation, which was amended to go into effect only if the Mississippi law survives an ongoing legal challenge, creates one of the nation’s strictest restrictions on abortion. The law includes penalties for doctors who perform abortions after 15 weeks, including imprisonment and a minimum $10,000 fine.

Abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy already is illegal in Louisiana.

Along its road to legislative adoption, the bill by state Sen. John Milkovich drew criticism from women’s advocates who said it does not meet well-established legal standards, which generally are understood to prohibit restrictions on abortion before “viability” (or when a fetus would be able to survive outside the womb, thought to be around 24 weeks of pregnancy).

At a press conference May 18, advocates argued that 15 weeks may not be enough time for many women, more of whom live in poverty than men and make minimum wage in the state, to be able to collect enough money to afford an abortion.

Affordable housing advocates cheer Edwards’ veto Affordable housing advocates celebrated Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill prohibiting municipalities from setting their own rules for requiring affordable units in new developments. The bill from state Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner, removed provisions for “inclusionary zoning” in state law and replaced it with “voluntary economic incentive policies.”

Edwards noted in his veto announcement that the measure not only would take a “tool” away from cities looking to address the affordability crisis but also would threaten federal funding for affordable

housing programs. He also warned they could face consequences if they don’t adopt inclusionary zoning policies over the next year. “I will conclude that it is not in their will to utilize these strategies and I will be inclined to sign a similar piece of legislation” in 2019, the governor said.

In a follow-up editorial board meeting with The New Orleans Advocate, Edwards questioned whether it was a tool some cities and towns “really want to use.”

“And if you want to use it, why haven’t you done it already?” Edwards said. “You haven’t been prohibited from passing these zoning ordinances in the past, but you haven’t done it.”

The New Orleans City Planning Commission released its Smart Housing Mix policy report in 2017, but the City Council hasn’t yet adopted an inclusionary zoning ordinance.

Housing NOLA and Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance Director Andreanecia Morris said if Edwards had signed the bill, “it would have set us back years.”

Cashauna Hill, executive director at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, said the group will work with “local officials to pass and implement the Smart Housing Mix policy so that workers can continue to live and thrive in our cities.”

ACLU of Louisiana names new executive director Former Louisiana Supreme Court counsel Alanah Odoms Hebert has been named executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, whose former director Marjorie Esman retired last year after a decade at the helm of the civil rights organization. Jane Johnson served as interim executive director.

Hebert recently was director of the Division of Children and Families at the Louisiana Supreme Court, and she served for four years as the deputy general counsel for the court. She also is chair of a statewide program to reduce pretrial detention among youth offenders through the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. She moved to Louisiana to work at the New Orleans District Attorney’s office after graduating from Rutgers School of Law-Newark in 2008.

In 2016, Hebert was appointed liaison for the judicial arm of the state’s Justice Reinvestment Task Force, which she says helped her see “firsthand how the justice system often harms the very communities it ought to protect — fueling a mass incarceration crisis with staggering human costs and stark racial disparities.”

COMMENTARY

EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME WE URGE OUR READERS TO GET A HURRICANE GAME PLAN, and we offer sugges-

tions for preparing for storm season.

This year it’s more urgent than ever.

The floods on Aug. 5, 2017 exposed just how vulnerable New Orleans is to storms. The city’s pumps weren’t working, for the most part, and many storm drains were clogged with debris. Hundreds of jobs at the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) remained unfilled, and supervision of the S&WB under then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council had been lax. As residents swept water out of their homes and businesses, they had to wonder what would have happened in the face of a hurricane — or even a slow-moving tropical storm that could have dumped 20 inches of water on the city. Since then, improvements have been made — but a May 18 storm inundated much of New Orleans and caused Mayor LaToya Cantrell to state the obvious: “We are a city that floods.” Yes, but we do so far more often than in the past, and we have weaker defenses.

Worse, perhaps, is news that our levees likewise may not be up to snuff. The group Levees.org filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which designed and built the levee system, and found maintenance since Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures has been poor.

In a story about the report, NOLA. com’s Mark Schleifstein explained, “One of the reviews, completed in 2011, gave the 350-mile levee system the second worst classification — ‘Urgent (Unsafe or Potentially Unsafe)’ — in the corps’ Levee Safety Action Classification system. While preliminary because post-Katrina improvements were not finished, the classification remains accurate

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to this date, a corps New Orleans District spokesman confirmed recently.” That, after “reformers” pushed through regional levee board consolidation and promised things would improve. Instead, they seem to have gotten worse.

For years, conventional wisdom had it that New Orleanians should evacuate if a Category 3 or stronger hurricane was likely to hit the city. Given the warnings about the levees and the state of the city’s pumping system, that bar may have to be lowered considerably.

Emergency officials are going to have to make difficult choices between disrupting commerce and risking lives. Locals will have to decide how much risk they’re willing to face in a city with pumping problems, “unsafe or potentially unsafe” levees and the loss of many square miles of wetlands that in previous generations acted as a storm buffer.

With those increased risk factors in mind, we urge you to visit NOLA Ready (www.ready.nola. gov), the city’s official website for the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

There you’ll find a general hurricane guide as well as individual guides for seniors, people with special needs, New Orleans small business owners and more. It also has information about Evacuspots, locations around the city that provide evacuation assistance for those who need help getting out.

Storm preps always have been important. Given what we know now about New Orleans’ infrastructure, being ready is more vital than ever.

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Miss Ella THE WORD “LEGEND” HAS BECOME SO OVER-USED IT HAS LOST MUCH OF ITS MEANING, but Ella Brennan genu-

inely deserves that accolade.

As matriarch of Commander’s Palace restaurant, she blazed a trail for herself and other women in a field long dominated by men — and then dominated that field herself by revolutionizing New Orleans and American cuisine.

She did it with a unique combination of grit, “stickto-it-iveness,” authenticity, generosity and down-home hospitality. Ella didn’t just leave her mark on the local and national restaurant scenes; she changed the landscape entirely.

“Miss Ella” died May 31 at the age of 92. She was truly one of a kind.

I first met Ella in the 1980s, thanks to my wife Margo, who grew up knowing

Ella’s children, nieces and nephews. In addition to her passion for hospitality, Ella also had a passion for civic engagement and politics. We hit it off immediately. Over the years, I was privileged to spend many memorable hours with her, getting equal measures of great food and firm opinions. She made her case in a political discussion with the same zeal she brought to hosting diners at Commander’s Palace.

The rest of New Orleans got a dose of her political leanings in the 1990s when then-Gov. Edwin Edwards proposed a land-based casino in New Orleans. Ella thought it was a terrible idea that would do more harm than good. She didn’t just speak out; she put her money — a considerable amount of it, too — into efforts to convince lawmakers and voters

not to bring casino gambling to New Orleans.

She lost that fight, but she never regretted it. Nor did she look back on it with any bitterness. She was always one to look forward, not backward.

One of my favorite memories of Ella involves another of her passions — promoting

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women in the business world — as well as her incredible generosity. When Margo was named publisher of Gambit in June 1987, I phoned Ella to ask about renting a room at Commander’s Palace for an announcement party. When

I told her the purpose of the party, she said sharply, “No, you cannot rent a room.”

The phone went silent for a beat, and I was speechless.

Then she said, in her hallmark tone that was both loving and stern, “That’s because I’m going to host this party at my home — I’m so proud of Margo! And don’t you dare ask me for a bill. Just tell me how many people are coming.”

Ella’s home, located on Coliseum Street adjacent to Commander’s, was the site of many extraordinary gatherings. To Ella, entertaining in her home was an extension of her restaurant — and herself.

“I think my legacy is being absolutely, extremely happy in what I do every day. That’s the truth,” she told The Advocate in 2015. “I’m the luckiest person in the world to have lived in New Orleans and lived among so many characters all my life. I mean, when you look back at it, how lucky can you be?”

Not nearly as lucky as we who knew and loved you, Ella. So long, sweet friend.

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Hey Blake, I was watching a WYES-TV documentary on Tom Benson, which mentioned he went to St. Aloysius High School.

I know it merged with Cor Jesu to become Brother Martin High School, but what is the history of Cor Jesu?

Dear reader, Cor Jesu High School existed for only about 15 years before merging with St. Aloysius to become Brother Martin. All three high schools were operated by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, as Brother Martin High School is today.

According to Edward Branley’s book Brothers of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, the religious order first opened St. Aloysius Academy at the corner of Chartres and Barracks streets in 1869. In 1892 the high school moved to N. Rampart Street and Esplanade Avenue. In addition to Benson, who graduated in 1944, other notable alumni include U.S. Sen. Allen J. Ellender and

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former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Pascal F. Calogero Jr. In the 1950s, the Brothers of the Sacred Heart decided to open a second high school in New Orleans: Cor Jesu, Latin for “heart of Jesus.”

Construction began on a new campus on Elysian Fields Avenue near Gentilly Boulevard. An August 1953 New Orleans Item story reported the school opened that month, but its new building wasn’t complete, meaning some 140 Cor Jesu freshmen attended classes at St. Aloysius.

The Cor Jesu building opened in September 1954. For the next 15 years, more than 1,300 students attended Cor Jesu. Among them were

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Archbishop Gregory Aymond and exercise guru Richard Simmons.

St. Aloysius remained in operation as a separate school until the two institutions were merged in 1969 and St. Aloysius closed its Esplanade Avenue building to relocate to the Gentilly campus. Brother Martin High School was named in honor of Brother Martin Hernandez, who served as principal of St. Aloysius for 15 years and was president of Cor Jesu in 1965. He died in 1991.

Market, and nearby is Latrobe Park, a small pocket park on Decatur Street between St. Philip and Ursulines streets.

The park dates to the 1970s but is on the original site of the city’s first pumping station. Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, known as the country’s first professional architect, came to the city in 1812 to design the waterworks. He also was the architect of the U.S. Capitol, the Baltimore Cathedral and Philadelphia Waterworks. The waterworks on Decatur Street was completed in 1820, the year Latrobe died in New Orleans.

He is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, along with his son, who worked with him and died here during a yellow fever epidemic. In later years, the Decatur Street site became a row of shops and a fish market. It was demolished in 1937 and was a parking lot for many years before being turned into Latrobe Park in the mid-1970s, named to honor the architect. In July 1985 a fountain was added as a gift from the mayor of Paris. In 1989, the Vieux Carre Commission voted to add a 4-foot-high pyramid sculpture to the fountain.

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LL HE NEEDED WAS $500. In-

stead, he sat in jail for nearly two months. He got in a fight at his friend’s house, the cops arrived, he was booked on a $500 bond, but his friends and family didn’t have the cash to get him out.

By the time he was released, his case was dismissed.

But the damage already was done: He was separated from his family, his job, his life outside Orleans Parish Prison, without any criminal prosecution, for 53 days, “only to have this whole thing dismissed,” says Orleans Public Defender Chief of Trials Danny Engelberg. “No one would think this guy was a threat to anyone. The tears coming down his face as his case was dismissed — the whole thing had been so traumatic.”

Engelberg admits his client’s situation is rare, but it highlights a larger issue at the New Orleans jail, where nearly 600 people on any given day in 2015 were locked up only because they couldn’t afford bail of $12,000 or less, according to a May report from the Vera Institute of Justice. That year, more than 1,100 people facing misdemeanor charges were in jail an average of 29 days until their cases were resolved. The 1,275 people facing felony charges spent an average of 114 days in jail.

“Bail should mean a way to release, where the presumption is re-

lease, which is the definition of bail in common law and constitutionally,” Engelberg says. “And they’ve flipped it to, ‘OK, now you’ve got to give us a justification why we should let you out.’”

People continue to enter the city jail only to have their cases effectively end without any jail sentence, other than the “pre-punishment” they face for not having cash for bail, Engelberg says. Last year, roughly 64 percent of 5,308 people with cases in the city’s Criminal District Court were found not guilty, had their cases dismissed or received probation, according to the Vera Institute.

That burden largely falls on the city’s black working class — the jail population is 87 percent black and from low-income households, but the city and court collect roughly $6 million annually from bail fees, which represents an “enormous extraction of wealth” from a population that’s disparately impacted by the criminal justice system while also effectively funding its operation, says Vera Institute Director Jon Wool.

“The system is funded by people who are arrested, detained and convicted, largely, and that should stop,” Wool says. “It’s irrational from an economic perspective. …

The structures are bizarre in that they require the courts and others to collect these revenues for their

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Hundreds of people have sat in jail simply because they couldn’t afford to get out.

Can New Orleans bail out of its bail system?

BY ALEX WOODWARD

livelihoods, frankly. But the real loser is the city. It’s an imbalance of power with mostly state agencies … and yet the city bears the economic burden.”

That could change — the fresh New Orleans City Council and New Orleans mayoral administration are examining the costs of “money bail,” and criminal court judges now have a tool in place to prevent people from entering the city jail before they have to, if at all. But trimming down a multi-million dollar revenue stream — on which several agencies and an entire commercial industry rely — won’t happen overnight.

WHERE BAIL HITS HARDEST BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PEOPLE A MONTH HAVE THEIR CASES DISMISSED or are released on proba-

tion or with credit for time served, according to the Vera Institute, which works alongside the Public Defender’s Office to track cases.

“What that tells us is those people should never have been, in any remote sense [of the word], incarcerated,” Engelberg says.

“It’s one of those archaic things that doesn’t make any sense, and we see it every day. And we see from our perspective, the cases go worse — they plead to get out, whether they’re guilty or not guilty,

whether they get a better deal down the line,” he adds. “The whole deal is to get them out of jail. And if we can get them out of jail, a lot of those cases get dismissed, because they’re misdemeanors. … But if they’re sitting there for misdemeanors and can’t make the bond, they’re pleading to the charge.”

A recent report from court watchdog group Court Watch NOLA also found that in nearly half of all municipal court sessions observed by the group’s volunteers in 2017, defendants pleaded guilty without a defense attorney present.

Nearly one-quarter of New Orleans residents live below the poverty line. The median income among black residents is $26,819 — more than 50 percent lower than the median income among white residents. The cost of bail for many residents represents rent, utilities, groceries and family care.

“Those are people who can’t pay the bail,” Wool says, “but there’s just as stark consequences for people whose families manage to scrape together the money to put up bail to get them out.”

Every year, groups across the U.S. hold fundraisers as part

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of the National Bail Out campaign, an effort to raise bail money for incarcerated people in local jails. In May, groups converge for the National Black Mamas Bail Out, timed around Mother’s Day, in an effort to reunite incarcerated women with their families while highlighting the disparate impacts women face in local jails, from the the costs of separating mothers from children, families and jobs to their heightened risk of trauma and abuse behind bars.

Last summer, more than 14,000 people donated to the Nation Bail Out fund to help nearly 200 people across the U.S. get released on bond.

According to the Vera Institute, the number of women in local jails in the U.S. rocketed from fewer than 8,000 in 1970 to nearly 110,000 in 2016. Almost 80 percent of those women are mothers, and nearly 60 percent are women of color. More than 18,500 people are in local jails around Louisiana; 7.6 percent are women, according to the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

“When you take that mother out of the house, it’s a bigger burden on children and families in the state,” says Dolfinette Martin, statewide organizer for Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a New Orleans-based nonprofit founded by formerly incarcerated people.

Martin explains that children in single-parent households whose parent is incarcerated may end up in state custody or with relatives who then rely on state assistance to raise them, which, Martin says, “adds a bigger burden in the process.”

“There’s no other savings when you take the mother out of the household,” Martin says.

HOW IT WORKS AND WHERE IT ORIGINATED STATE LAW REQUIRES A JUDGE TO SET A MONETARY BAIL FOR EACH CHARGE. A defendant can pay

the court or purchase a commercial bond, set at 12 percent of the bail amount. So if bail is set at $100,000, for example, a bail bondsman would collect $12,000.

Commercial bondsmen keep a 9 percent, nonrefundable premium of that. About 97 percent of people facing felony charges in New Orleans purchase a commercial bond; 59 percent of people facing misdemeanor charges purchase one.

Bond fees are split among several agencies — 1.8 percent goes to Criminal District Court and the rest is split among the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, which operates the jail, and the New Orleans District Attorney and Public Defender offices.

“It’s unusual what we do in Louisiana,” Wool says. “Most striking, the court, which itself is empowered to

BREAKING DOWN

$6.4 MILLION

IN NON-REFUNDABLE BAIL COSTS:

FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT:

4.2 MILLION

$

TO COMMERCIAL BAIL BOND COMPANIES

&

1.4 MILLION

$ FROM MUNICIPAL COURT:

TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

580,000

$

TO COMMERCIAL BAIL BOND COMPANIES

&

$338,000 TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SOURCES: VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE AND THE DATA CENTER

determine release and detention, sets and secures money bail. … The courts gets more than $1 million in commercial bail bonds fees under state law.”

According to the Vera Institute’s analysis, more than $1 million in bail fees were sent to criminal court, with $227,000 each for the sheriff, district attorney and public defender offices, and $4.7 million went to commercial bail bond companies.

In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) delivered a complaint to the Louisiana Department of Insurance arguing that New

IN 2015,

1,275 PEOPLE FACING FELONY CHARGES WERE UNABLE

TO PAY BAIL AND WERE DETAINED AN AVERAGE OF 114 DAYS

UNTIL THEIR CASES

WERE RESOLVED;

1,100 PEOPLE FACING MISDEMEANOR CHARGES WERE DETAINED

AN AVERAGE OF 29 DAYS

UNTIL RESOLUTION.

ilies, particularly of color, get ahead economically, participating in the economy, participating in democracy and participating in building communities.’”

Orleans bail bond companies have charged defendants illegally high bond rates, resulting in roughly $5 million in excessive fees collected from nearly 50,000 people over 12 years.

“The SPLC believes most bail companies and their insurers operating in New Orleans are charging premiums in excess of what is permitted under law,” the complaint says. The organization claimed that bond companies were passing on to defendants the cost of a 1 percent bond license fee hike. That complaint is pending court action, though bail bondsmen have defended the practice or dismissed its intent.

A recent Data Center report (“From Bondage to Bail Bonds: Putting a Price on Freedom in New Orleans”), in collaboration with the Vera Institute and statewide nonprofit group Foundation for Louisiana, traces a disturbing history of Louisiana’s bail system to its roots in slavery and its subsequent manipulation under post-Reconstruction efforts, to the following decades of civil rights struggles against a lucrative prison system disproportionately impacting people of color.

“There’s racial bias, and systems [are] built that way, particularly the criminal justice system, and we wanted a fact-based platform to have that discussion,” says Foundation for Louisiana President Flozell Daniels, who co-authored the report.

“This invention of bail, the way it’s currently and has been happening for generations in New Orleans and across Louisiana, is undermining opportunities in a way that’s racially disparate and goes against every data point that tells us, ‘If you want New Orleans to be as amazing as it should be, we should be helping fam-

WHAT’S NEXT FOR CASH BAIL A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION AND THE PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE named

New Orleans one of its 19 Safety and Justice Challenge sites to help reduce the city jail population by strengthening pretrial services — the jail population decreased from 3,400 people in 2010 to 1,400 people in 2018. But the jail remains one of the largest local jails per capita in the U.S. That shrinking population largely was due to bail reforms at Magistrate Court, where the MacArthur grant helped place attorneys to negotiate lower bail, and commissioners agreed to work to release lower-risk defendants on their own recognizance and reduce the length of their time in jail pretrial.

An April 2018 progress report from the MacArthur Foundation found 41 percent of eligible defendants in 2017 were released on their own recognizance without a cash bail.

Nearly 90 percent of people return to court for their hearings after being released on their own recognizance without conditions before trial, Engelberg says.

In January 2017, the City Council unanimously passed an ordinance allowing some people charged with municipal offenses to be released without having to pay bail, then

3 OUT OF 10 PEOPLE ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN 2015 WERE HELD IN JAIL BECAUSE

THEY COULDN'T

MAKE BAIL OF LESS THAN $12,000.

64 PERCENT OF 5,308 PEOPLE WITH CASES IN

CRIMINAL

DISTRICT

COURT HAD THEIR CASES

DISMISSED, WERE FOUND

NOT GUILTY, OR RECEIVED

PROBATION. given a date to return to court.

And this summer, Criminal Court will implement a Public Safety Assessment (PSA) tool, a screening program and set of recommendations that effectively help judges and prosecutors gauge a person’s public safety risk before sending them to jail before trial. The tool will assess the risk a felony defendant poses for failing to appear in court, or the likelihood of the defendant getting arrested while awaiting trial. It’s an effort to reduce jail size, but its net effect likely will reduce the number of people who are jailed because they can’t make bail.

“Following the Rule of Law and applying fairness at all times is the right thing to do,” Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson said in a statement. “The implementation of the PSA tool will offer evidence-based data to assist judges and commissioners in determining whether release or detention is appropriate considering the charges faced by a defendant.”

Whether judges and prosecutors

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begin following those recommendations is crucial in determining the success of keeping people out of jail, criminal justice advocates say.

“What judges should be doing is making a careful decision about whether that person presents a degree of dangerousness, whether that can be mitigated by support and supervision if released, and then and only then if that person must be detained,” Wool says.

“Otherwise that person should be released with the appropriate support and supervision based on the person’s needs and circumstances. That’s a system that’s not pie in the sky.”

With more than 1,400 people in the city’s jail, “you’re talking about tens of millions of dollars in savings,” Engelberg says.

Former Mayor Mitch Landrieu set a goal of reducing the jail’s population to 1,277 by mid-2019. And in a lengthy report from Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s transition team, more than a dozen recommendations outline alternatives to holding people in jail who can’t make bail.

Those recommendations include making more crimes eligible for a summons rather than arrest; advocating for changes at the state legislative level that eliminate restrictions preventing people charged with certain crimes from release without bail; expanding community service eligibility; and a number of communication and payment tools to help people return to court to ensure defendants also aren’t facing charges for failing to appear for their court dates.

Daniels says ending the practice of money bail is the first step in addressing the irony of budgeting practices that aim to benefit the same communities hit hardest by the so-called “user-funded” criminal justice system. Though its human costs are significant, cash bail’s massive economic toll likely will be the motivating factor among state lawmakers to begin undoing the rules for setting bail.

“We don’t connect the dots,” Daniels says. “You have entire [city] departments investing in other things that are family-building opportunities. … What you end up having … is a system that is in a rotation, a constant loss. … There’s nothing keeping us from doing it other than making choices about how we spend millions of dollars in tax revenue so we can move those people ostensibly from the jail into more loving and caring environments.”

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MiD’z City dining

THE RESTAURANT FULLBLAST BRUNCH (139 S. Cortez St.) will open

as early as this week in the corner building that previously was the home of The Ruby Slipper Cafe’s flagship location. Ruby Slipper opened a new Mid-City location nearby on S. Broad Street early this year.

Chef D’z Cafe serves New Orleans favorites in Mid-City

BY H E L E N F R E U N D @helenfreund WHEN DONALD “CHEF D” SMITH re-

turned home to New Orleans a couple of years ago, he wanted to open a restaurant that spoke to the food he ate while growing up in the city.

Smith had plenty of experience doing that, having opened and run several restaurants in Oakland, California that specialized in the New Orleans-style home cooking of his mother.

Last year, after opening and closing restaurants in Gentilly and on the West Bank, Smith and his mother found a building on S. Broad Street to open Chef D’z Cafe.

At first glance, the restaurant’s menu reads like those of many traditional New Orleans eateries. There are fried oyster po-boys and bowls of gumbo bobbing with seafood. The walls are covered in colorful murals of Mardi Gras Indians, the Rebirth Brass Band, second-line parades and the Superdome.

Smith describes his food as “old school meets new school,” and that seems to fit some of the whimsical creations on the menu.

Bon Temp rolls include layers of fresh spinach, chunks of chicken, crawfish, crab dressing and pepper Jack and American cheeses rolled in a tortilla and fried until the exterior is crispy. It is cut into fat rings that ooze cheese and served with a tangy honey-mustard sauce.

The gumbo is a seafood-heavy medley made without okra, and the yakamein is about as classic a version as there is, with tender hunks of beef, thick spaghetti noodles, a hard-boiled egg and a generous shower of scallions in a salty and delicious broth.

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Just glancing at some of Smith’s generous portions can make a diner feel full. A large crab cake po-boy features four patties slathered with mayonnaise and dressed with thick slices of beefsteak tomato and pickles on French bread. The sandwich is big enough for two to share. The french fries that accompany it need seasoning. Fettuccine is topped with a creamy herb and Parmesan sauce and wedges of blackened chicken strips carry a slow heat that creeps up and leaves a lingering soft burn.

Chicken wings are available in 12 styles, and arrived crispy skinned with juicy, dark meat. A garlic-Parmesan version is lacquered in a savory, tangy gloss flecked with herbs, and there is plenty of garlic flavor and sharp, nutty notes from the cheese.

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$

WHERE

WHEN

424 S. Broad St., (504) 265-8091; www.facebook.com/ chefdzcafe

breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri

HOW MUCH

moderate

Chef Donald Smith serves platters of fried chicken wings and more at Chef D’z Cafe.

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There is a familiar lineup of desserts, including a comforting sweet peach cobbler and decadent bread pudding with rum-soaked raisins and plump clouds of custardy bread swimming in a buttery swamp of caramel.

These dishes are a reminder of Smith’s culinary trajectory, punctuated with creative sidesteps that speak to his tenure at restaurants on the West Coast. In the end, they speak strongest to his homecoming and are a tribute to hometown flavors.

Email Helen Freund at helensfreund@gmail.com

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Bon Temp rolls, crab cake po-boy

french fries need seasoning

classic New Orleans flavors with creative twists in Mid-City

Fullblast is run by former Ruby Slipper employee Christopher Belou, who worked as a chef at the Windsor Court Hotel during the 1990s under executive chef Rene Bajeux. He also has helmed brunch operations at the Ritz-Carlton’s restaurant and worked for several years at a restaurant in Yucatan, Mexico.

Fullblast will serve breakfast, lunch and brunch, and Belou says the menu will feature typical New Orleans brunch dishes and some Latin-inspired offerings stemming from his tenure in the Riviera Maya. More traditional dishes include poached eggs with hollandaise, Caesar salad with shrimp remoulade, a Caprese salad, crab cakes, steak frites and a daily Gulf fish special. A dish called The Yucatan features roasted pork with black beans and what Belou has dubbed “abuela’s avocado sauce,” made with a recipe from his wife’s family in Mexico.

In a spin on brandy milk punch, a Mexican-inspired eye-opener features Kahlua, vodka and coconut milk.

Early this year, The Advocate reported that Ruby Slipper Cafe owners had filed a federal lawsuit against Belou, claiming he used trade secrets from the company and urged them to vacate the building earlier than they originally planned. The lawsuit alleges that Belou did not disclose to them his plans to take over the space and open a competing restaurant. Belou declined to comment on the suit, but said the building has undergone a “complete renovation.”

Belou says the restaurant will be open 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday through Monday. — HELEN FREUND

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Shani Christopher FOUNDER, REPURPOSE FOOD CO. SHANI CHRISTOPHER RECENTLY LAUNCHED Re-

Purpose Food Co., a startup that aims to collect unused food and turn it into healthy baby food for low-income communities. Last month, Christopher was one of four finalists to split a $20,000 prize at local incubator Propeller’s PitchNOLA: Living Well competition. Christopher is working to launch a pilot program in fall. She spoke to Gambit about food waste and early childhood nutrition.

What is meant by “food waste”?

CHRISTOPHER: I think people think of food waste as what’s left on your plate, or ... what’s in the trash. They don’t realize that half of the food that’s grown is wasted.

This isn’t just half of the things that you didn’t eat; it’s half of the food that’s produced in this country.

What gave you the idea to repurpose wasted food for baby food?

C: I’ve worked in the [eco industry] for a long time and gone to a lot of conferences. In all of those [venues] there’s a lot of cool, innovative and exciting announcements, but often it’s about what’s cool and flashy, not about what actually will help people. You can go to justice summits and you can go to equity summits, but there isn’t that focus on justice or equity within the green spaces. I’ve always been bothered by that but not sure how to apply it. That’s how I got to the idea for RePurpose — by making something available to low-income communities and people who need it the most. The goal of RePurpose is to take wasted food and manufacture baby food while also creating jobs within the community and (providing) educational training.

One part is partnering with farmers, primarily at farmers markets. The goal is to source from farmers markets and what farmers (don’t sell) — finding a way to purchase that so it makes sense for the farmers and the business, as well as direct buying from farmers for whatever (food) they might (discard). Also, I would like to (purchase) byproducts from food processing (operations). If you’re buying prepared vegetables — maybe baby carrots — there are always byproducts that are thrown away but are still perfectly good food.

(For manufacturing) I’m working on an agreement with Liberty’s Kitchen to get their students some training. My goal is to create jobs not only as an employment opportunity but as a pathway to ownership. I’m hoping that Liberty’s will be the main source (for manufacturing), but there are a few commissary kitchens that I’ve contracted with as well.

Ideally it will be distributed through community groups, through drop boxes and in areas that need it the most. The cool thing about farmers markets is [consumers] can pay with [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps]. I’m also talking to mothers’ groups, local doulas and breastfeeding groups, so as they transition from breastfeeding to infant food, they’re already navigating that community.

Throughout the summer I’m doing little pop-ups at farmers markets testing the product and testing the name. The company’s name is RePurpose, but the brand name will be local.

How will RePurpose benefit low-income communities from a health standpoint?

C: The food is steamed and pureed. It’s an all-natural product with no preservatives or additives.

I think there are many factors that (affect) a child in the first 1,000 days, from pregnancy to age 2.

When there is malnutrition at that stage, there are long-term cognitive developmental delays and you can see the effect in educational outcomes, health outcomes and life expectancy. A lot of people in lower-income communities are living a shorter amount of time, and that really does start at that critical time period. Introducing healthy nutrition at that point is really important. I think that will have lifelong impacts.

— HELEN FREUND

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

CBD Public Service Restaurant — NOPSI Hotel, 311 Baronne St., (504) 962-6527; www. publicservicenola.com — Reservations recommended. B & D daily, L Mon-Fri, brunch Sat-Sun. $

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

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

(504) 581-4422; www.antoines.com — Reservations recommended. L, D MonSat, brunch Sun. $$$

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. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; www.dickiebrennansrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$

CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS

El Gato Negro — 81 French Market Place, (504) 525-9752; www.elgatonegronola. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

Chais Delachaise — 7708 Maple St., (504) 510-4509; www.chaisdelachaise. com — Reservations accepted. L SatSun, D daily, late Fri-Sat. $$

Gazebo Cafe — 1018 Decatur St., (504) 525-8899; www.gazebocafenola.com — No reservations. L, early dinner 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. $$

CITYWIDE

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

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

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

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

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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Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 523-1661; www.palacecafe.com — Reservations recommended. B, L, D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; www.kebabnola.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D WedMon, late Fri-Sat. $ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 947-8787 — No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. $

FRENCH QUARTER

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. $$$

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

Roux on Orleans — Bourbon Orleans, 717 Orleans Ave., (504) 571-4604; www. bourbonorleans.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, D Tue-Sun. $$

Antoine’s Restaurant — 713 St. Louis St.,

Salon Restaurant by Sucre — 622 Conti

Angelo Brocato (214 N. Carrollton Ave., 504-486-0078; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com) serves a gelatocinno.

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St., (504) 267-7098; www.restaurantsalon.com — Reservations accepted. brunch and early D Thu-Mon. $$

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

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. $$

Banh Mi Boys — 5001 Airline Drive, Suite B, Metairie, (504) 510-5360; www.bmbmetairie.com — Delivery available. No reservations. L and D Mon-Sat. $ Cafe B — 2700 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 934-4700; www.cafeb.com — Reservations recommended. L Mon-Fri, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Casablanca — 3030 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2209; www.casablancanola.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D Sun-Thu. $$ Chef Ron’s Gumbo Stop — 2309 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, (504) 8352022; www.gumbostop.com — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$

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

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

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

Marks Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — No reservations. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $

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Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$

The Landing Restaurant — Crowne Plaza, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 467-5611; www.neworleansairporthotel. com — No reservations. B, L, D daily. $$ Ted’s Smokehouse BBQ — 3809 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (504) 305-4393 — No reservations. L, D daily. $$

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

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Reservations recommended. L, D daily, 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. $ Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine — 923-C Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 836-6859 — Reservations recommended. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Tandoori Chicken — 2916 Cleary Ave., Metairie, (504) 889-7880 — No reservations. L, D Mon-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504)

510-4282; www.theospizza.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ 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. $ Cupcake Fairies — 2511 Bayou Road, (504) 333-9356; www.cupcakefairies.com — B and L Tue-Sat. $ 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. $$$ The Columns — 3811 St. Charles Ave., (504) 899-9308; www.thecolumns.com — Reservations accepted. B daily, L Fri-Sat, D Mon-Thu, brunch Sun. $$ The Delachaise — 3442 St. Charles Ave., (504) 895-0858; www.thedelachaise. com — No reservations. L Fri-Sun, D and late daily. $$

OUT TO EAT Dick & Jenny’s — 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 894-9880; www.dickandjennys. com — Reservations recommended. D Wed-Sun. $$$ Emeril’s Delmonico — 1300 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-4937; www.emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-delmonico — Reservations recommended. D daily. $$$

SUMMER SNOBALL CHOCOLATE COLLECTION a new take on a new orleans classic

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. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 2018 Magazine St., (504) 486-9950; 5538 Magazine St., (504) 897-4800; www.juansflyingburrito. com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Martin Wine Cellar — 3827 Baronne St., (504) 899-7411; www.martinwine.com — No reservations. B, L daily, early dinner Mon-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 4109997; www.japanesebistro.com — Reservations accepted. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Nirvana Indian Cuisine — 4308 Magazine St., (504) 894-9797 — Reservations accepted for five or more. L, D Tue-Sun. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria. com — No reservations. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Slice Pizzeria — 1513 St. Charles Ave., (504) 525-7437; www.slicepizzeria.com — No reservations. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www. theospizza.com — No reservations.

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

D Mon-Sat. $$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT 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. $$ Vyoone’s Restaurant — 412 Girod St., (504) 518-6007; www.vyoone.com — Reservations accepted. L Tue-Fri, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$

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

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C O M P L E T E L I S T I N G S AT W W W. B E S TO F N E W O R L E A N S . C O M = OUR PICKS

TUESDAY 5 Bamboula’s — Damn Gina, 3 Blue Nile — Water Seed, 9 BMC — Mojo Shakers, 5; Dapper Dandies, 8; Slick Skillet Serenaders, 11 Cafe Negril — 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, 6; Sierra Green & Soul Machine, 10 Check Point Charlie — Jamie Lynn Vessels, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Sarah Quintana & Michael Doucet, 8 Circle Bar — Peach Kelli Pop, Rob Craig, FR, 9:30 d.b.a. — DinosAurchestra, 7; Treme Brass Band, 10 DMac’s Bar & Grill — Kennedy Kuntz & Men of the Hour, 8 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Mark Coleman & Todd Duke, 9 Ellis Marsalis Center for Music — Jonte Mayon, 6 Gasa Gasa — Pond, Fascinator, 9 Jazz National Historical Park — Richard Scott, noon Kerry Irish Pub — Jason Bishop, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Seva Venet, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — Rebirth Brass Band, 10:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Tiny Dinosaur, 8 Old U.S. Mint — Down on Their Luck, 2 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 — The Coathangers, Babes, 9 Siberia Lounge — Deltaphonic, The Rayo Brothers, 9 SideBar — James Brandon Lewis Quartet feat. Simon Lott, Jesse Morrow, Jonathan Freilich, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Stanton Moore Trio, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Russell Welch, 6; Smoking Time Jazz Club, 10 The Starlight — Joe Welnick, 7; DJ Fayard, 10

WEDNESDAY 6 Autocrat Social & Pleasure Club — TBC Brass Band, 9 Bamboula’s — Bamboula’s Hot Trio feat.

Giselle Anguizola, 2; Mem Shannon, 6:30 Banks Street Bar — Major Bacon, 10; Period Bomb, Hairface, Devil’s Breath, Bad Bangs, 10 Blue Nile — New Orleans Rhythm Devils, 8; New Breed Brass Band, 11

BMC — Nicole & the Tempted, 5; Hyperphlyy, 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 — Alvin Youngblood Hart, 8 Circle Bar — The Iguanas, 7 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 East New Orleans Regional Library — Aziza & the Cure, 5 Gasa Gasa — Big Bill, Primpce, Skelatin, 9 George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center — The JazzPoetry Ensemble feat.

Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Marlon Jordan, 7:30 House of Blues (The Parish) — Jet Lounge, 11 Kerry Irish Pub — Patrick Cooper, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Anais St. John, 7:30 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Mike True & the Phantom Band, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Lerin Williams, 2 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman, Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Prime Example Jazz Club — Jesse McBride & the Next Generation, 8 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Creole String Beans, 8 Santos Bar — Chrome, Weather Warlock, 9 SideBar — Hamid Drake, James Brandon Lewis, Jonathan Freilich, Doug Garrison, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Chris Christy’s Band, 2; Shotgun Jazz Band, 6; Antoine Diel & the Misfit Power, 10 The Starlight — Amanda Walker & Lynn Drury, 8

THURSDAY 7 Armstrong Park — Jazz in the Park feat.

Darcy Malone & the Tangle, 6 Bamboula’s — Kala Chandra, 3 Bar Redux — Diako Diakoff, 9 Blue Nile — Musee Musique, 7:30; Bayou International Reggae Night feat. Higher Heights and DJ T-Roy, 11 BMC — Ainsley Matich & the Broken Blues, 5; Andre Lovett Band, 8; Chrishira, 11 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Kelley Dixson, Rebecca Zoe Leigh, Harry Mayronne

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Upcoming concerts » WALKER LUKENS , July 3, Gasa Gasa » BODEGA , Aug. 1, Gasa Gasa » JASON EADY, Sept. 15, Chickie Wah Wah » BOB MOSES , Oct. 17, Republic » ED SHEERAN AND SNOW PATROL , Oct. 31, Superdome

Ed Sheeran performs at the Superdome Oct. 31.

P H OTO B Y B E N WAT T S

(Gumbo Cabaret album release), 5; Tom McDermott & Marla Dixon, 8 Bullet’s Sports Bar — Kermit Ruffins, 6 Cafe Negril — Claude Bryant & the AllStars, 6; Soul Project, 9:30 Check Point Charlie — River Dragon, 8 Chickie Wah Wah — Phil DeGruy, 6; Jason Ricci, 9 Circle Bar — Dark Lounge with Rik Slave, 7; Bob & the Thunder, 9:30 d.b.a. — Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue, 7; Soul Brass Band (album relase), 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Todd Duke Trio, 9:30 Gasa Gasa — Sundressed, Northbound, Hey Thanks!, Kawaii AF, 9 Kerry Irish Pub — Will Dickerson, 8:30 Little Gem Saloon — Vivaz Trio, 7:30 Maple Leaf Bar — The Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich, 11 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — William Robison, 7; Mark Fernandez, 9 Ogden Museum of Southern Art — Kristin Diable, 6 Old Point Bar — Luna Mora, 9 Old U.S. Mint — Michael Watson, 2 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie, 8:30 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Amanda Ducorbier, 5:30 SideBar — Joel Willson, Michah Bluin, Bob King, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Steve Masakowski & Friends, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Up Up We Go!, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; Jumbo Shrimp, 10 The Starlight — Sam Friend Band, 9; DJ Mange, 10 Three Muses — Tom McDermott, 5; Arsene DeLay, 8 Vaughan’s Lounge — Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet, 10

FRIDAY 8 Bamboula’s — Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stompers, 1 Blue Nile — Caesar Brothers Funk Box, 7:30; Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Brass Flavor, 10 BMC — Lifesavers, 3; Roadside Glorious, 6; Hyperphlyy, 9; La Tran-K, midnight Bourbon O Bar — The Doyle Cooper Jazz Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Greg Schatz, 6; Margie Perez, 9 Bullet’s Sports Bar — The Pinettes Brass Band, 8:30 Cafe Negril — Shawn Williams, 4; Dana Abbott Band, 6:30; Higher Heights, 10 Casa Borrega — Nebula Rosa, 7 Check Point Charlie — Midnight Riders, 8; LA Hellbenders, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Michael Pearce, 6; The Golden Roses, 8 Circle Bar — Natalie Mae, 7; Killer Dale, The JimJims, Dot.s, Pucusana, 9 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Hot Club of New Orleans, 6; Ike Stubblefield’s Birthday Bash, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — Vivaz!, 10 Dragon’s Den (downstairs) — The Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, 10 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Buena Vista Social (Latin dance party), 10 Fulton Street — Mark Levron Trio, 7 Gasa Gasa — Midriff, Pollen Rx, Las Rosas, 10 The Jazz Playhouse — Shannon Powell, 7 Kerry Irish Pub — Beth Patterson, 5; Lynn Drury, 9 Le Bon Temps Roule — Joe Krown, 7; Tom Leggett Band, 11 Little Gem Saloon — Lilli Lewis, 5; Nayo Jones Experience, 8 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Jano Brindisi, Will Hemmings, John Parker, 8 Old Point Bar — Rick Trolsen, 5; Lakeshore Drivers, 9:30 One Eyed Jacks — Delish, LE1F, 9 Palm Court Jazz Cafe — Kevin Louis & Palm Court Jazz Band, 8 Poor Boys Bar — NO Eyes, AF THE NAYSAYER, Agonal Breath, 9 Preservation Hall — Preservation Legacy Band, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 Rock ’n’ Bowl — Groovy 7, 9:30 Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) — Sam Kuslan, 5:30; Amanda Ducorbier, 9 SideBar — Cyrille Aimee & Helen Gillet, 7; Trapper Keeper & Georgi Petrov, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Ellis Marsalis Quintet, 8 & 10 Southport Hall — Clifton Brown & the Rusty Bucket Band, 90 Degrees West, Bud Torres, Scott Innes, 6 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Andy Forest, 2; Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 6; Dr. Brice Miller & Buku NOLA, 10 The Standard — Phil Melancon, 8 The Starlight — Michael Watson & the Alchemy, 9; Afrodiziac’s Jazz, midnight PAGE 24

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PREVIEW Belle & Sebastian

BY ALEX WOODWARD P H OTO B Y S O R E N S O L K A R

BELLE & SEBASTIAN NAMING a three-volume run of EPs How to Solve Our Human Problems shouldn’t imply there’s a set of instructions buried within them. Maybe they’re in the warm-laundry-soft production, the buoyant pop and witty universe it invented more than two decades ago, or in the casts of characters and lovesick postcards tucked into the pages of its literary verses. It’s also just a joke, its latest on the ephemeral-but-grounded path of enlightenment the band carved on the way to its making. It’s a trilogy sequel of sorts, recalling a three-EP run in 1997; not as tidy as a 20-year anniversary but a nod to a prolific whirlpool spanning 1996 releases Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, followed by three EPs and 1998’s perennial mixtape-sourcing The Boy With the Arab Strap. Compiled as a single album earlier this year, Human Problems finds the Glasgow band embracing a renewed creative streak, as tender and cheeky as its Arab Strap heyday, still the kind of music for shy dancing in the corner, but bursting with a brighter, bigger sound, from its twinkling baroque pop to soft funk and lush glam, never losing its sense of humor. Men I Trust opens at 8 p.m. Monday, June 11. Tickets $37.50 in advance, $40 at the door. Civic Theatre, 510 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 272-0865; www.civicnola.com.

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Three Muses — Matt Johnson, 5:30; Doro Wat Jazz Band, 9 Tipitina’s — Foundation Free Fridays feat. Khris Royal & Dark Matter, Big Easy Brawlers, Berklee City Music, 10 Vaso — Bobby Love & Friends, 3

SATURDAY 9 Bamboula’s — G & Her Swinging Gypsies, 2:30; Johnny Mastro, 7 Blue Nile — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7:30; Stooges Brass Band, 11 Blue Nile Balcony Room — Marigny Street Brass Band, 10; DJ Black Pearl, 1 a.m.

BMC — The Jazzmen, 3; Willie Lockett, 5; Vance Orange, 9; New Thousand, midnight Bourbon O Bar — Marty Peters & the Party Meters, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Kyle Roussell, 6; Davis Rogan, 9 Cafe Negril — Joy Clark, 4; Claude Bryant & the All-Stars, 7; Another Day in Paradise, 10 Casa Borrega — Martin Moretto, 7

Check Point Charlie — Maggie & the Magitones, 8; Joy Stick, Hollowphonics, 11 Chickie Wah Wah — Wake of the Dead feat. Papa Mali, Reggie Scanlan, Dave Easley, Peter Bradish, 9 Circle Bar — The Sickness, Death Ed., The Grooxx, 9:30 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 Davenport Lounge — Jeremy Davenport, 9 d.b.a. — Little Freddie King, 11 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — The Betty Shirley Band, 10 Fulton Street — Antoine Diel Trio, 7 Gasa Gasa — Fighting for Frequency, Delta Revelry, Jesse Tripp, 10 Gattuso’s — Cypress, 7 George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center — Troy Sawyer & the Elementz, Calvin Johnson & Native Son, 8 & 9:30 Hi-Ho Lounge — Pink Room Project, 11 Jazz National Historical Park — Steel Pans feat. Reynold Kinsale, 2 The Jazz Playhouse — The Nayo Jones Experience, 8

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SUNDAY 10

Rare Form — The Key Sound, 10 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Carmela Rappazzo, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Jamey St. Pierre & the Honeycreepers, 2; Kristina Morales & the Inner Wild, 6; Pat Casey & the New Sound, 10 Three Muses — Raphael et Pascal, 5; Linnzi Zaorski, 8

MONDAY 11 BMC — LC Smoove, 5; Lil Red & Big Bad, 7; Paggy Prine & Southern Soul, 10 Bourbon O Bar — Shake It Break It Band, 8 Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant — Arsene DeLay, 5; Antoine Diel, 8 Cafe Negril — Noggin, 6; In Business, 9:30 Chickie Wah Wah — Justin Molaison, 5:30; Alex McMurray, 8 Circle Bar — Dem Roach Boyz, 7; Biglemoi, KLYPH, Solekai, 9 Crescent City Brewhouse — New Orleans Streetbeat, 6 d.b.a. — John Boutte, 7; Lil’ Glen & Backatown, 10 Dos Jefes Uptown Cigar Bar — John Fohl, 9 Dragon’s Den (upstairs) — Audiodope with DJ Ill Medina, 11 The Jazz Playhouse — Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, 8 Kerry Irish Pub — Kim Carson & Buckshot Willie, 8:30 Maple Leaf Bar — George Porter Jr. Trio, 10 Neutral Ground Coffeehouse — Paper Anthem, Stephen Pigman, Jeff Kujan, Jeff Ruby, 7 Poor Boys Bar — Sexy Dex & the Fresh, People Museum, Hu$hpuppy, 10 Preservation Hall — Preservation Jazz Masters, 5 & 6; Preservation All-Stars, 8, 9 & 10 SideBar — Songwriters’ Circle feat. Margi Cates, Joy Clark, George Wilde, Keith Burnstein, 9 Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro — Charmaine Neville Band, 8 & 10 The Spotted Cat Music Club — Royal Street Windin’ Boys, 2; Dominick Grillo & the Frenchmen Street All-Stars, 6; New Orleans Jazz Vipers, 10 The Starlight — Josh Benitez Band, 10 Three Muses — Joe Cabral, 8

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

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EVENTS TUESDAY 5 Joe Biden. Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., (504) 287-0351; www.saengernola.com — The former vice president is in conversation with journalist Cokie Roberts on his “American Promise” tour. Tickets $49-$119. 7:30 p.m.

Pride: A Path for Self Care. Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St., (504) 948-9998; www.marignyoperahouse.org — There’s a panel discussion, refreshments and health resources at this event for the LGBT community. Free admission. 6 p.m.

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American Spirit Awards. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum. org — A luncheon and leadership forum precede the annual gala. This year’s honorees include actor Gary Sinise, former AIG chairman Maurice Greenberg and U.S. Sen. John McCain. Tickets $750.

Thursday-Friday.

Dining Out for Life. Citywide — Over 50 participating restaurants donate of portion of proceeds to the NO/AIDS Task Force. Visit www.diningoutforlife.com/ neworleans for details.

Mid Mod NOLA. Private residence — The party at the architecturally significant Curtis House (6161 Marquette Place) includes recollections of people who grew up in the home. Visit www.prcno.org for details. Tickets $75. 6 p.m.

Pride and EQUAL Forum. Harrah’s Casino, Harrah’s Theatre, 1 Canal St., (504) 533-6600; www.harrahsneworleans.com — The panel discussion and networking event focuses on LGBT workplace inclusion and business development. Free admission. 5 p.m.

Soiree de Lumiere. Arnaud’s Restaurant, 813 Bienville St., (504) 523-5433; www. arnaudsrestaurant.com — The gala dinner benefits Lighthouse Louisiana’s programs for people with disabilities. Visit www. lighthouselouisiana.org for details. Tickets $150. 6:30 p.m.

Vino on the Bayou. Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., (504) 482-0312; www.louisianalandmarks.org — John Rankin performs at the social for Louisiana Landmarks Society. Tickets $5, includes two glasses of wine. 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 8 Drinks + Bites. New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres St., (504) 565-8027; www.pharmacymuseum.org — Steve Watson is the guest of honor at the benefit for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Visit www.lls.org for details.

Tickets $50. 7 p.m.

The Giving Table. Napoleon House Bar & Cafe, 500 Chartres St., (504) 524-9752; www.napoleonhouse.com — Participants enjoy a breakfast at Napoleon House before moving to Brennan’s New Orleans for an all-day seminar and luncheon about international influences on Creole cuisine. Tickets $100. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

June Under the Moon. Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504) 259-1509 — The adults-only party in the amusement park features unlimited rides, snacks and open beer bars. Tickets $30. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

New Orleans Pride Festival. Citywide — The three-day festival celebrating LGBT life includes a large parade through the French Quarter on Saturday, parties and a block party near The Phoenix on Elysian Fields Avenue. Visit www.togetherwenola.com for details. Friday-Sunday.

NOLA Gaming Festival. NOLA Motorsports Park, 11075 Nicolle Blvd., Avondale, (504) 302-4875; www.nolamotor.com — There’s a field day with STEM demonstrations, go-karting, rock climbing, obstacle courses and more at the three-day video gaming tournament. Visit www.nolagamingfest.org for details. Friday-Sunday.

SATURDAY 9 Pulp Facts: Celebrating Citrus. Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 5234662; www.hnoc.org — The culinary symposium offers presentations on citrus, from its history to vintage recipes and cocktails.

An optional dinner at Napoleon House follows. Tickets $70. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Creole Tomato Festival. French Market — This year’s festival honoring tomatoes features two live music stages, a cooking demo stage, kid’s activities and the return of Bloody Mary Market in Dutch Alley.

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

Family Fishing Day. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 6588 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 589-3882;

www.nps.gov/jela — During this event, no license is required for fishing at Twin Canals. Registration recommended, free admission. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Hawaii 610. Barcadia, 601 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 335-1740; www.barcadianeworleans.com — The Hawaiian-themed bar crawl benefits 610 Stompers. Costumes encouraged. Visit www.hawaii610. eventbrite.com for details. Tickets $25$45. Noon.

Ice Cream Social. St. Roch Community Church, 1738 St. Roch Ave., (504) 9405771; www.strochcc.org — The event hosted by New Orleans Loving Festival has frozen treats, kids’ crafts, face painting, a bone marrow donor registration drive and more. Free admission. 3 p.m.

Magnolia Ball. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The museum’s gala celebrates “The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction.”

Several DJs and brass bands perform.

Tickets $150. 9 p.m.

Pet Blessing. Gretna United Methodist Church, 1309 Whitney Ave., Gretna, (504) 366-6685; www.gretnaumc.org — Dogs, plus cats and other animals in carriers, are invited to the free pet blessing. Louisiana SPCA staff also will provide information about services. Noon.

Piety Street Market. The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., (504) 908-4741; www.

612piety.com — More than 50 vendors offer art, jewelry, crafts, vintage clothes, collectibles, used books and flea market treasures at this monthly market. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Yacht Rock on the Lake. New Canal Lighthouse, 8001 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 282-2134 — The event features live music, bars, food from local restaurants and food trucks and an arts and crafts marketplace. Tickets $8, kids free. 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

SUNDAY 10 ASA Fishing Rodeo. Hopedale Marina, 7600 Hopedale Highway, St. Bernard — The fishing tournament includes food and beer. Proceeds benefit Delgado Community College motor vehicle technology scholarships. Registration $45. Noon to 2 p.m.

Bayou Bridge Pipeline: Another Ongoing Louisiana Environmental Disaster.

Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., (504) 581-4629; www.auduboninstitute.org — A reception precedes Louisiana Bucket Brigade Director Anne Rolfes’ talk about the Bayou Bridge pipeline. Free admission. 6:30 p.m.

Cars and Crawfish. Smiley’s Grill, 3716 Downman Road, (504) 248-7270 — The car show features over 2,000 pounds of boiled crawfish. Free admission. Noon to 8 p.m.

El Dia de la Madre y Padre. Lion’s Club of Metairie, 1627 Metairie Road — A party hosted by Asociacion de Guatemala en Louisiana includes music, food and a

performance by DJ Gsoto. Tickets $15, kids free. 2 p.m.

SPORTS Black and Gold Softball Game. Turchin Stadium, 3000 Ben Weiner Drive, (504) 862-8000; www.tulanegreenwave. com — New Orleans Saints players Benjamin Watson and A.J. Klein host the celebrity softball game benefiting Son

of a Saint and Team Gleason programs.

6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

KSF-Kung Fu, Tai Chi & Kickboxing Competition. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2829 Williams Blvd., Kenner, (800) 850-3878 — The Shaolin Institute sponsors the U.S. Open martial arts championships in kung fu, tai chi and kickboxing. 9 a.m.

10 p.m. Saturday.

NOLA Gold. Archbishop Shaw High School, 1000 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, (504) 340-6727; www.archbishopshaw. org — The rugby team plays the San Diego Legion. 4 p.m. Saturday.

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BASILIO (Andrew Vaught), the King of Spain, doesn’t give his son much of a chance.

Before Segismundo (Cameron-Mitchell Ware) is born, astrologers forecast he will bring harm to the kingdom. When the queen dies in childbirth, Basilio declares the infant a murderer and has him imprisoned in Sueno, currently getting a dynamic production by Cripple Creek Theatre at the First Unitarian Universalist Church.

There’s an air of Greek tragedy in 17th-century Spanish playwright Calderon de la Barca’s play Life Is a Dream. Basilio is frightened by his fortunetellers and tries to avert what he sees as fate by removing his son from the kingdom. In Sueno, playwright Jose Rivera’s contemporary adaptation, Segismundo’s fate is less an issue of the stars than a consequence of the cruelty inflicted upon him. It’s a brilliant take on the story, as the future of the kingdom hangs in the balance.

The production is presented in the round, and the action, swordfighting and all, happens within reach of every seat. Nicole Boyd-Buckels’ choreography and Kevin Murphy’s stage-fighting direction are sharp. The set is bare, and there are few props.

Costumes also are spare, except for a few extravagant royal coats and robes.

Much of the drama takes place once Segismundo reaches adulthood. Clotaldo (Pamela Roberts), an attendant to the king, visits Segismundo and tries to counsel him, though the boy is unaware of his parentage and that he is an heir to the throne.

Meanwhile, Basilio decides to test if the astrologers were right and has Segismundo released. If the young man is as frightening as predicted, Basilio will throw him back in jail and tell him that everything he experienced on the outside was just a dream.

Meanwhile, a pair of royals, Astolfo (Rahim Glaspy) and Estrella (Jessica Lozano), eye the open path to the throne. They are hilariously vain, petty and solicitous, and various royals think nothing of their privilege and how their actions harm others.

Rosaura (Devyn Tyler) and her assistant Clarin (Ian Hoch) arrive in the kingdom from Poland. As outsiders, they come under instant suspicion. Hoch is funny as the powerless and hapless Clarin, whose vulnerability is played for comedy. The play’s dialogue is full of contemporary street slang, often candid and sometimes crass.

There are many excellent performances, including Vaught as the imperious and distraught king, whose wisdom has failed him. Roberts is unflappable as Clotaldo, who as a liaison to Segismundo is at pains not to betray the king’s unfairness. Tyler is fiery as Rosaura, who also is fighting for recognition.

Cameron-Mitchell Ware delivers a powerful performance as Segismundo, who smolders under his perpetual punishment and is unaware of the cause. When the young man is released and suddenly given power, he explodes with energy. But can Segismundo be expected to be kind or just?

The drama is intense and the humor is equally sharp. In 90 minutes without an intermission, not a word or movement is wasted under Emilie Whelan’s direction. In its next to final production, Cripple Creek Theatre has again presented an enthralling show that deftly engages social issues. Tickets $25. At 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday, June 8-10. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 2093 Jefferson Ave.; www.cripplecreektheatre.org.

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Patsy Burdine. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop. com — Accompanied by her dog Moe, the author discusses Miracle of Moe and Moe’s Big Adventure. 2 p.m. Sunday.

Black Cop — In Canada, an off-duty cop is racially profiled by other officers. Zeitgeist Filmworker — Leon Vitali, the actor who was right-hand man to Stanley Kubrick, is profiled in a documentary. Chalmette Hereditary (R) — This buzzy horror film starring Toni Collette is said to be a modern-day Exorcist. Elmwood, West Bank, Cinebarre, Broad Ocean’s 8 (PG-13) — An ensemble cast including RiRi stars in this all-gal heist movie. Clearview, Elmwood, Chalmette, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Mary Shelley (PG-13) — Elle Fanning is the Gothic author in this biopic. Chalmette The Misandrists — A man takes shelter with a lesbian quasi-terrorist organization, which wants to smash the patriarchy (hell yeah). Zeitgeist

Richard Rowley. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie, (504) 838-1190; www.jefferson.lib.la.us — The author discusses Keys and Keynotes.

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ALMOST LOST AMID the New Orleans Museum of Art’s (NOMA) current exhibitions is a mini-expo of 10 prints by one of this city’s most mysterious artists, E.J. Bellocq. An architectural and industrial photographer by trade, Bellocq attained legendary status as the result of a secret pursuit: his eerily compelling portraits of the women who worked in the Storyville bordello district in the early 20th century. Later discovered and first researched by local jazz historians Al Rose and Lorenz Borenstein, the glass plate negatives that eventually led to Bellocq’s 1970 landmark exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art took on a life of their own after being purchased and printed by American photographer Lee Friedlander. On view in the museum’s atrium and upstairs galleries, Friedlander’s work reveals his formative relationship with this city and its culture, especially jazz, Storyville’s enduring contribution to American music.

Over the years, the Bellocq legend inspired books and movies, most notably Pretty Baby by French filmmaker Louis Malle. Text panels attempt to provide a new perspective on the photos, but these haunting portraits seem imbued with a will of their own, as if Bellocq’s sitters still are insistently telling us how they saw themselves, or perhaps how they wanted to be seen. So a woman draped in pearls and white furs (pictured) conveys an aura of gaudy propriety, like a “good” girl who happens to be very available, while another far bolder personality in a black mask flashes a lascivious grin and a matching dark thatch of pubic hair. A seated figure in a full body stocking gazes imperiously at us, but another seated figure in bold striped stockings gazes euphorically at a glass, presumably containing rye whiskey from a bottle next to her. Whatever their intended purpose, these images hauntingly evoke the inner lives of their subjects. They are an essential component of this city’s profoundly psychological contribution to the history of photography — a history beautifully explored in NOMA photography curator Russell Lord’s imposing new book, Looking Again, featuring emblematic works selected from the museum’s massive international archive of more than 12,000 historic photographs. Through Aug. 12. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins C. Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org.

Romney Petite, Laurel Holden. Garden District Book Shop, The Rink, 2727 Prytania St., (504) 895-2266; www.gardendistrictbookshop.com — The authors discuss their children’s book Spiderella: The Girl Who Spoke With Spiders. 6 p.m. Friday.

GOING OUT All You Can Eat Buddha — A corpulent man begins performing miracles at a Caribbean resort. 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Bolshoi Ballet: Coppelia — A doll comes to life in this ballet. 11:55 a.m. Sunday. Elmwood Borg vs. McEnroe (R) — A famed tennis rivalry is dramatized. Shia LaBeouf plays McEnroe. 5 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Zeitgeist Casablanca (PG) — Of all the gin joints ...

10 a.m. Wednesday. Prytania Curious George (G) — An explorer accidentally brings an inquisitive monkey back from Africa. 10 a.m. Tuesday-Wednesday. Regal Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks — The film provides an origin story for one of the Doctor’s enemies. 7 p.m. Monday. Elmwood, West Bank, Slidell, Regal, Cinebarre Do You Believe? and Writer’s Block — Director Richard Tavernaro appears at Q&As after screenings of his movies. 9:15 p.m.

Friday-Saturday. Chalmette North by Northwest — An ad exec’s identity is mistaken for a killer’s. 10 a.m.

Sunday. Prytania The Incredibles — Pixar’s superhero film is screened. 7 p.m. Thursday. Orpheum In the Last Days of the City — In Cairo, a filmmaker collaborates with faraway friends from Berlin, Baghdad and Beirut.

8:45 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Zeitgeist Kiss Me Deadly — A doomed female hitchhiker is the center of this noir. 9 p.m.

Wednesday. Bar Redux The Princess Bride (PG) — A farmhand rescues his true love from an evil prince with the help of a motley crew. Noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Slidell The Producers — Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder scheme to put together Springtime for Hitler. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Elmwood, West Bank, Cinebarre Space Jam (PG) — Long live the ’90s.

Noon and 7 p.m. Sunday. Slidell To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor — This documentary examines a pivotal case in the marriage equality movement.

7 p.m. Thursday. Chalmette

ON STAGE Ain’t Always Been Saved. The City of Love, 8601 Palmetto St., (504) 895-5410; www.thecityoflove.com — The gospel musical comedy by Texas theatre company 1989 Dreams chronicles addiction and abuse. Visit www.1989dreams.com for details. Tickets $25. 6 p.m. Saturday.

All’s Well That Ends Well. Tulane University, Lupin Theatre, 16 Newcomb Place — New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane presents the Shakespeare comedy. Visit www.neworleansshakespeare.org for details. Tickets $20-$30.

7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

The Maids. Fortress of Lushington, 2215 Burgundy St., (504) 704-1393 — In Good Company presents the one-act play about two female servants conspiring against their mistress. Visit www.facebook. com/ingoodcompanytheatre for details.

Tickets $15. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 10 p.m. Saturday.

News With the Pist. Cello’s, 3401 N. Hullen St., (504) 456-5596; www.cellosrestau-

rant.com — Chris Champagne’s satirical show has political themes. Tickets $15.

8 p.m. Friday.

Nunsense. National World War II Museum, BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., (504) 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — Five nuns put on a talent show in this musical comedy. Tickets $29.52-$58.99. 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m. Sunday.

Sueno. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 5212 S. Claiborne Ave. — Cripple Creek Theatre Company’s show is Puerto Rican playwright Jose Rivera’s adaptation of a 1638 play about a king who imprisons his son. Visit www.cripplecreektheatre.org for details. Tickets $25. 2 p.m.

Saturday, 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.

Where Y’at Wild Things? Art Klub, 1941 Arts St., (504) 943-6565; www.artklub. org — A Burning Sensation Productions presents the queer variety show with Stanley Roy, Tsarina Hellfire, Dina Deville, Gayle King Kong and Barbra Wires. Tickets $10$15, includes one beer. 9 p.m. Thursday.

ART HAPPENINGS PoliticoPopUp. ArtSpace3116, 3116 St. Claude Ave. — The pop-up art show features photography, painting, sculpture, printmaking, video and more dealing with political or controversial subjects. 6 p.m.

Saturday, noon Sunday.

St. Claude Second Saturdays. St. Claude Arts District — Galleries surrounding St. Claude Avenue host receptions. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.

OPENING Antenna Gallery. 3718 St. Claude Ave., (504) 298-3161; www.press-street.com/ antenna — “The Republic of Dark,” work about the twilight of empires by Andrew Au; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

The Front. 4100 St. Claude Ave., (504) 301-8654; www.nolafront.org — “Little Berlin,” collaboration with Front gallery members and Philadelphia artists on the theme of exchange; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

New Orleans Art Center. 3330 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383-4765; www.theneworleansartcenter.com — “Expect Delight,” new work by Jim Sohr, Summer White, Ann Hornback, Kraig Richard and others; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

Staple Goods. 1340 St. Roch Ave., (504) 908-7331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods — “Signal and Noise,” images of functioning and abandoned objects in decay by Kaori Maeyama; opening reception 6 p.m. Saturday.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to Louisiana statutes Metro Storage LLC, as managing agent for Lessor, will sell by public auction (or otherwise dispose) personal property (in its entirety) belonging to the tenants listed below to the highest bidder to satisfy the lien of the Lessor for rental and other charges due.

The said property has been stored and is located at the respective address below.

Units up for auction will be listed for public bidding on-line at www.Storagestuff.bid beginning five days prior to the scheduled auction date and time. The terms of the sale will be cash only. A 10% buyer’s premium will be charged per unit. All sales are final.

Metro Storage LLC reserves the right to withdraw any or all units, partial or entire, from the sale at any time before the sale or to refuse any bids. The property to be sold is described as “general household items” unless otherwise noted. All contents must be removed completely from the property within 48 hours or sooner or are deemed abandoned by bidder/buyer. Sale rules and regulations are available at the time of sale.

Metro Self Storage-4320 Hessmer Ave., Metairie, LA 70002-(504) 455-3330-Bidding will close on the website www.

Storagestuff.bid on 06-22-2018 at 10:00am for the following units: Stacie Glapion unit 1207 : Mattress, sofa, clothes, chairs, pillows, speaker and dining room. Stedman Harris unit 3119: Box spring, headboard, mattress, sofa, chairs, pillows and tv. Martha Lowe unit 2083: desk, boxes, end table, pictures, dining chairs, and fan.

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