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On 30 years of giving New Orleans an alternative

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Blake Pontchartrain

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The First Commentary

Gambit’s first editorial — sadly, still timely

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The Politics

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The First Issue

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The News

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Clancy DuBos on 30 years of political heroes, zeroes, scoundrels and characters The news, the concerns, the arts and the ads from December 1980 30 years of New Orleans history from the pages of Gambit

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30 Years Young TO OUR READERS, ith this issue, Gambit celebrates 30 years of giving New Orleans an alternative voice. During those years, we’ve seen great changes in our city and at Gambit. We have survived hurricanes, floods, crooked politicians and hard economic times. We also have celebrated Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, a World’s Fair, a burgeoning artistic, culinary and cultural scene and, of course, a Super Bowl victory by our beloved New Orleans Saints. We’ve seen political reforms blossom and wilt and then blossom again, a coastline steadily disappear, and several new generations of talented musicians take their rightful place on the global music stage.

We have witnessed the rebirth of several historic neighborhoods (including the creation of a new neighborhood in the Warehouse Arts District), and then rolled up our sleeves along with our readers and advertisers to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. Through the years and in the face of many challenges, one thing has remained unshakable: Like our readers, we have always believed passionately in this city. That will never change.

Although we’re turning 30, we’re defnitely not getting old. Our dedicatewriters, editors, graphic artists, sales execs, and business and administrative support staff prove every day the efficacy of our company motto: Work hard, have fun, publish smart media.

Our colleagues work hard all year long to keep Gambit relevant by constantly reaching out to new audiences via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, event marketing and more — and our readers have rewarded our efforts by challenging and engaging us on many levels. And through it all, thanks to what we like to call “that Gambit spirit,” our colleagues have helped us have a helluva lot of fun along the way.

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Today more than ever, we are filled with hope for a city that will always be one of the world’s great treasures. why Gambit continues to sponsor the annual Big Easy Entertainment Awards, which celebrate the best in local theater and music, along with the annual Tribute to the Classical Arts honoring the best in local dance, classical music and opera.

We’ve written about all sorts of strange characters along the way, and even added a few of our own trademarked personae to the mix: Blake Pontchartrain reminds us of our city’s unique history each week; Rex Duke remains the world’s first and foremost Mardi Gras parade critic; and before every Jazz Fest, Count Basin previews the acts for Fest-goers. (Note to Gambit trivia fans: Blake and Rex are cousins, but we’re sworn to secrecy as to who’s the eldest.)

Five years ago, as we celebrated our 25th anniversary, we also noted the city’s daunting task of recovery. We looked forward to returning “home” to our Mid-City offices and found inspiration in the passion with which so many returning New Orleanians fought to

save their neighborhoods along with our city’s culture. That fight continues, as does our commitment to help preserve and celebrate all things uniquely New Orleans. Today more than ever, we are filled with hope for a city that will always be one of the world’s great treasures. We’re proud and grateful to be a part of it. As we turn 30 years young, our passion for New Orleans burns as brightly as ever.

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HEY BLAKE, YOU HAVE BEEN ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS ABOUT NEW ORLEANS FOR LONGER THAN SOME OF US HAVE BEEN ALIVE. I KNOW YOU ARE NEW ORLEANS’ KNOW-IT-ALL, BUT WHO IS BLAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, REALLY?

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DEAR GIRVINIA, You are right, I have been around for a long time. I joined Gambit as a young man in 1988, when I was in my formative stage (see my original picture, right). I matured over the years and became more refined, giving the pelican on my shoulder to Robert Blake as his sidekick on the hit TV series Baretta (though he went with a different bird when the pelican yearned for Gulf fish), and trading my striped pullover for a suit from Brooks Brothers and a bowler from Meyer the Hatter. Like any good New Orleans gentleman, in the summer I swap my black wool suit for seersucker and white linen.

But those are only superficial elements.

Like you, I revel in my first bite of king cake on Twelfth Night, trying to hide my tremendous joy when I get the baby hidden inside. I scrabble for plastic trinkets during Carnival parades and surreptitiously toss a few at the Boeuf Gras float in Rex and the King Kong float in Bacchus. I celebrate Mardi Gras in the French Quarter until the police clear the streets at midnight, then show up at church bright and early the next day to accept an ashen thumb on my forehead.

I hold an umbrella and do a high step at jazz funerals and tidy up gravesites on All Saints Day. I make for the Fair Grounds on the first Friday of Jazz Fest and stay until the Nevilles shut it down the last Sunday, and I place my first bet on the thoroughbreds after feasting on Thanksgiving turkey, oyster dressing and gumbo. I’ve ridden on the streetcar named Desire and the City of New Orleans railroad train. I roamed Storyville in its heyday (just for the music, mind you), and as a boy I heard Buddy Bolden play when he was little more than

scrawny kid with a beat-up cornet, and I danced the foxtrot to the piano rhythms of Jelly Roll Morton.

I’ve piloted rowboats and, later, paddle boats in the lagoon of City Park after trying my luck at the casino there, and I’ve caught fish for dinner out of Bayou St. John.

Through it all, I strive to tap into that collective consciousness of all New Orleanians who love our city and want to preserve its history and culture. My part

in that mission is to examine the artifacts large and small left by those who made the city what it is and to help my readers learn, or remember, why we are who we are.

I study the past to preserve the future for all of us. Your curiosity is my avocation, and I answer your questions in this space to give voice to the things we most love about our city, its history and the people who formed it, so we always will remember from whence we came.

As for my age, let’s just say that I am ancient but ageless — because you make me so. I’m young at heart but aged in the wisdom and experiences of this wonderful city.

Yes, Girvinia, there is a Blake Pontchartrain, and he will continue to be with you in the pages of Gambit as long as there are questions to be pondered and readers who want to know about the people, places and things that make up the city of New Orleans and the areas around it.

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THEN AND NOW Gambit’s first editorial is still relevant.

In Gambit’s first editorial, editor Gary Esolen took up his pen to address New Orleans’ violent crime problem and its attendant corollaries: poverty, inequality, race and economic divisions. Then, as now, there seemed to be few answers, but one thing was certain: Something had to be done. What that something could be was as elusive then as it is today.

We decided to reprint Esolen’s editorial in its entirety because it could just as easily have been written last week instead of 30 years ago.

ABOUT CRIME

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Times-Picayune demanding that police continuously patrol all shopping centers, inside and out.

All shopping centers, all alleys, all streets, all commercial areas, all bars, all homes, all highways, all wharves, indeed the entire city. There aren’t enough policemen and there isn’t enough money, and everybody knows that, which is one reason everybody gets so upset.

Which brings us to the one thing nobody wants to talk about: the question of poverty and race and what that has to do with crime. Several of the incidents which have terrified the Uptown community have involved black assailants and white victims, and those incidents present a kind of mirror-image to the police attacks on blacks which have outraged the black community. New Orleans is a city of contradictions, and one of the contradictions is that the tolerant city, the city where black and white people live in close proximity and harmony, is also a divided city, with a huge population of frustrated, angry, very poor people who are mostly black. It is comforting to be able to say familiar, reassuring sentences to ourselves; to say “New Orleans doesn’t have a serious racial problem because of our unique pattern of housing and our long tradition of tolerance.” It is comforting, but the comfort may soon be denied us; the sentences just don’t ring true now.

About two years ago I was talking with the news directors of a couple of local television stations about possible documentaries, and both of them — men of wide experience in New Orleans and men who love the city — began worrying out loud over pos-

sible racial tension, over the anger they sensed to be simmering in the housing projects and — the word will seem outrageous to some — the slums of New Orleans.

One reason the whole issue of poverty (which in New Orleans as in most of the country is linked to race) and crime is so hard to face is that it seems to arise always in individual cases — and in individual cases it seems as if such deterministic explanations are unfair to the victims of crime. If a man robs you at gunpoint, you may be excused for failing to sympathize with his poverty and deprivation; if someone commits a particularly gratuitous murder, the community can be excused for failing to look for what went wrong.

The thirst for justice or revenge is too strong at such moments.

But in the long run the thirst for justice and revenge won’t solve the problem. There aren’t enough police, there aren’t enough judges, there aren’t enough jails, there is no way a society can divide itself into wealth and poverty, into white and black, and solve the attendant problems with a mere display of power.

Think of it the way an insurance company would think of it. Think of it the way we’re beginning to learn to think about cigarettes and coffee drinking and fatty foods.

Think of it as a matter of probabilities. It’s not that every person who drinks five cups of coffee a day and eats eggs for breakfast seven days a week will drop dead of a heart attack at 45. But in a society where many of us do those things, some of us will die prematurely. Some cigarette smokers will be breathing deeply at age 80; some will have lung cancer at 50; and although nobody knows who gets which fate, the men who wield the calculators know the odds, the percentages.

It’s a cold-hearted way of looking at matters of life and death, but it makes for survival. It puts aside sympathy for the poor; it puts aside sympathy for the victims of crime; it puts aside anger and the thirst for justice or revenge. Very well. Maybe it is time for us to put all that aside, for a moment at least, and apply pure hardheaded rationality. In the long run, to save this city from terrible trials, we must do something about the problems of poverty and unemployment. If we don’t, the consequences will be as inevitable as a relentless column of figures in an actuarial table. To fail would be more than a failure of caring, more than a failure of imagination. It would be a failure of plain self-interest and common sense. — Dec. 8, 1980

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he city of New Orleans is in a near-panic over crime. Something has gone wrong. Crimes which people can almost dismiss from their minds when they happen in housing projects, or even in the French Quarter, are now happening in quiet Uptown neighborhoods, and it is terrifying.

That’s not simply a sign of class and racial prejudice. It really is terrifying, because it removes one psychological protection against fear: the feeling that if you use common sense, take certain precautions, are careful where you go and when, you can eliminate the risk of being victimized by thieves, rapists or armed robbers. If a man can be killed in the parking lot of the St. Charles Inn, why should I or anyone continue to feel safe coming out of a friend’s house after a late party a few blocks away? Some people who live in New Orleans never had that comfort; they knew all along that their neighborhoods presented certain dangers, and they acted accordingly. But for the Garden District it is in part at least a new feeling, one that has been growing in recent years, and it’s hard for people to deal with.

And it’s confusing. The first reaction of most people — including much of the press — to such incidents is to turn to the police for solutions. That makes sense, in a way. The police are supposed to catch criminals and put them in jail, and ideally the police should deter crime by their presence. But the unpredictable, random nature of some of the recent offenses is as baffling to the police as it is to the public. One frustrated victim — who said he was robbed at shotgun-point in a shopping center parking lot — wrote to The

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I got from Charlie in the late ’80s, after alcohol and drugs ruined his first stint as a lobbyist. “I’ve been arrested,” Smith growled into the phone, “for selling poetry in Jackson Square. Don’t we still have a First goddamn Amendment in this country?” We do, and Charlie beat the rap. Now he’s lobbying again — for the arts, charter boat captains and strippers.

If Charlie Smith didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.

Several other lawmakers deserve mention. When it comes to passion and cunning, no one could equal the legendary 9th Ward brawler, Sen. Nat Kiefer.

“No matter what the issue is, you want Nat on your side,” one of his colleagues told me. “If not, he’ll almost always find a way to beat you.” Kiefer’s crosstown rival in the 1977 mayor’s race, then-Rep. deLesseps S. “Toni” Morrison Jr., was equally colorful. The son of legendary Mayor Chep Morrison, Toni grew up in the world of Irish Channel politics but never lost his idealism. Like all great politicians, he loved people and never stopped campaigning.

The late Sen. Leonard Chabert, a Democrat from Chauvin, put on a convincing Cajun country-boy facade, but he was as crafty as anybody who ever served in the Upper Chamber. During Gov. Buddy Roemer’s tenure (198892), Chabert helped lead a coup that ousted Roemer’s hand-picked Senate President, Allen Bares. An hour before the vote to restore Sen. Sammy Nunez to the president’s chair, he sent me a note. It read, “Hey Neg, we fixin’ to kick ass.” Chabert never lived to see it, but he’s the only Louisiana senator ever to have two sons succeed him — former Sen. Marty Chabert and current Sen. Norby Chabert.

On the local front, no one could equal former Mayor Dutch Morial for generating good copy. A fierce competitor who never stopped thinking about politics, Morial dominated the landscape during his tenure by being tougher and smarter than anybody else in the game. “We both love the chess game aspect of politics,” Morial once told me, and I had to agree.

We had many great conversations over

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Dutch Morial / Photo by A.J. Sisco the years, most of them private, but the most public of them was the time he yelled at me, “Have you ever bought a building, Clancy?” (I was quizzing him about a controversial land swap that he had proposed, and he had grown tired of it.) The city’s first African-American mayor, Morial wanted more than anything to bridge New Orleans’ racial divide, but when white voters deserted him in his 1982 re-election, he rallied black voters to his cause. He later tried twice

to amend the City Charter to remove the two-term limit on mayors, failing by large margins both times. Still, he left an indelible imprint on local politics and was the first mayor to sire a future mayor. His eldest son, former Mayor Marc Morial, now serves as president of the National Urban League.

The New Orleans City Council likewise produced some memorable characters.

At-Large Councilman Joe Giarrusso Sr. was an old-school police chief who made

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f you’re going to write about politics for a living, there’s no better place in America to do it than Louisiana.

Individually and collectively, our politicians are the most colorful on the planet.

Folks often ask me why that’s the case, and I tell them to look in the mirror. Our politicians merely reflect who and what we tolerate, if not celebrate.

Looking back on the past 30 years, no political figure has been more tolerated and celebrated than Edwin Washington Edwards. The wisecracking, skirt-chasing former governor may be sitting in a jail cell today (he’ll be released in 2011), but he always was and always will be good copy. The wily Cajun populist served up many memorable quips during his four terms as governor, but his all-time greatest came in 1983, when he said of his imminent showdown against then-Gov. Dave Treen: “The only way I can lose this election is if I get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live boy.” Of Treen personally, he said, “He’s so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.”

Years later, despite those taunts, Treen worked harder than anyone to get EWE pardoned and released early from federal prison. Some politicians are great characters; others have great character.

While EWE was our most colorful governor, many could vie for the title of being our most colorful lawmaker. New Orleans’ own John Hainkel Jr. became the first person to preside over both the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Louisiana Senate during his career.

Hainkel was a fiery orator who also had a soft side, especially after a few drinks, and no politician (despite his professed conservatism) did more to help publicly fund the arts. His great friend and equally interesting character, lobbyist and poet Charlie Smith, wrote on these pages when Hainkel died in 2005: “John could beat you up, then turn on that smile and be laughing a few minutes later. He could put on a suit fresh from the cleaners and, a few moments later, look as if he’d just been in a brawl — and, at the same time, comment on everyone else’s clothes.”

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the transition to politics as deftly as anyone. A classic 1950s tough guy, “Da Chief” became one of Dutch Morial’s closest allies on the council. A fighter by nature, Giarrusso once punched out then-state Sen. Hank Braden when the two were arguing at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. For weeks afterward, the waitresses would ask regulars, “You wanna sit in the fighting section, or the nonfighting section?”

Equally tough was At-Large Councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor, who authored the controversial “Mardi Gras ordinance” to desegregate the city’s old-line Carnival krewes. The ordinance ultimately failed on legal grounds, but morally she had the high ground, and several krewes have since opened their memberships to blacks.

In a world dominated by white men, Taylor more than held her own.

Speaking of women who held their own, no discussion of local politics in the last 30 years would be complete without a mention of Iris Kelso, the late political reporter for WDSU-TV and The Times-Picayune. A native of Philadelphia, Miss., Iris became the queen of the local political scene. She came of age in a era when politics was truly a good old boys club, so she had to toughen up fast — and often — but when she took a politician to task, hers was the always the last word.

New Orleans assessors were once the kingpins of retail politics. My favorite was the late Larry Comiskey Sr., the scion of a legendary Mid-City political dynasty. Comiskey was the last assessor to keep his rolls in pencil, and his most important tool on the job was a large, rubber eraser.

When constituents came to quibble over assessments, he used that eraser often, and to great effect.

Speaking of assessors, how many recall that Sherman Copelin was Louisiana’s first black assessor? The sly political operative and former state lawmaker was appointed by the other assessors, not elected by the voters, after Third District Assessor Cy Hickey died in office in 1985. Copelin lost the subsequent special election to the guy who is now New Orleans’ only assessor, Erroll Williams. He later won a special election to the state House of Representatives and quickly established himself as one of the smoothest operators in the Legislature — but voters never quite forgave Copelin for his involvement in a bribery scheme during the Family Health Foundation scandal of the early 1970s. In his heyday, Copelin had a row of identical briefcases in the trunk of his huge

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Mercedes. Only he knew the contents of each one, and he kept them in meticulous order. Oh, the secrets those briefcases held. …

Politics produces many larger-thanlife characters, but the two largest (physically and otherwise) of the past three decades had to be Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee and political operative Maurice “Hippo” Katz, who were also great friends. Harry had a common touch that endeared him to everybody, but he also had a temper.

He used to call me up and chew me out whenever I wrote something critical, and sometimes he even threatened to sue. But I knew Harry’s soft spot. If he loved anything more than politics, it was fishing. I’d let him gnaw on me for a while, and then I’d say, “OK, Harry, you’re probably right … but have you caught any fish lately?” That was all it took. He’d talk fishing for at least half an hour, and by then he was in too good a mood to be angry.

Before he became Harry Lee’s close pal, Katz was an aide to Dutch Morial. It was during that time that he uttered one of my favorite political lines of all time. I introduced Hippo to then-NBC political correspondent Ken Bode, who was in town covering Morial’s bid to remove mayoral term limits from the City Charter. Hippo was waxing eloquent about Morial’s chances when Bode asked, “And what job will you get in the third Morial administration?” Hippo didn’t miss a beat. “I don’t want a job,” he said. “I want a position.”

Of all the political characters I’ve encountered, my favorite is the late pollster Joe Walker, who taught me most of what I’ve come to know about the game. Walker was a chain-smoking, hard-drinking, keenly insightful observer whose polls and analyses were always on the money. My favorite Joe Walker story was the time he left his home early on Election Day (always a Saturday) after an all-nighter with his candidate and various cronies. He walked briskly to his car with a cigarette in one hand and a briefcase in the other just as the sun was coming up. His wife called out to him from the front door: “Joe, what time will you be back?” He paused for half a second, then said with a straight face, “No later than Wednesday.”

I wish I had more space to include the dozens of other great characters I’ve known over the years. I guess I’ll just have to write that book some day.

I’ll get to it eventually … some time after Wednesday.

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civil rights violations against several in the NOPD, and an eventual federal trial in Dallas for the “Algiers 7.”

Gambit’s first issue came out Dec. 8 — the day the world was shocked by the murder of John Lennon in New York City. As was the style among newspapers then, the first issue was printed in a bigger page size than it is today — slightly larger than 11 by 14 inches — and featured 26 pages spread across two sections, all for just 25 cents. (A pair of optimistic little coupons inside offered a one-year U.S. mail subscription for the upstart paper for $10.) The office was at 1017 Pleasant Street, half a block off Magazine Street (behind where The Bulldog stands today; the first back-page advertiser was Turci’s restaurant at the corner of Pleasant and Magazine streets). And the first cover had no graphics, no gimmicks, not even page numbers — just purple and black type hinting at some of the stories inside: UPTOWN CRIME WORLD’S FAIR CABLE TV IN NEW ORLEANS TULANE: LAND VS. MONEY HEART ATTACK SURGERY PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE NEW TECHNOLOGY LOSING MONEY IN THE MONEYMARKETS WRESTLING IN THE SUPERDOME JAZZ IN THE CITY ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE IN TROUBLE

A drawing of writer and social critic Al Rose, whose barbed observations were featured in the fi rst issue of Gambit.

The “ordinary people” on the cover referred to the characters in the 1980 Robert Redford film of the same name (an unsigned review in that issue rated it a nine out of 10), but readers could have mistaken it as a headline for the paper’s very first commentary.

“The city of New Orleans is in a near panic over crime,” editor Gary Esolen wrote in the inaugural editorial (see page 13), referencing a recent shoot-

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he first issue of Gambit featured several antiquated but somewhat prescient stories.

Judge for yourself how well they predicted the future in New Orleans.

[Stocker] Fontelieu says he’s hopeful but skeptical of whether the community will support a full-time professional theater company like Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum or Minneapolis’ Tyrone Guthrie Theater or Houston’s Alley. “I’d like to believe New Orleans can support more theater, including a rep house, but I’d be leery,” he said.

— “Theater Boom,” Richard McKinney

ing in the Garden District, before going on to analyze the links between crime and poverty, crime and the racial divide, black-on-white street crime and “police attacks on blacks which have outraged the black community.”

The news briefs section contained a story about a proposed barge-mooring facility at the Napoleon Avenue wharf that would be echoed in 2009’s brouhaha over a proposed cold-storage plant

The New Orleans City Council will soon award a 15-year cable television franchise, and the resulting network should be the most advanced and sophisticated in the world. Properly planned, operated and regulated, it could be the standard by which cable technology is managed into the 21st century.

Take a deep breath and peruse the following partial list of proposed services: • Up-to-date movies, stage plays, Las Vegas shows and nightclub acts.

• Sports events live from all over the world, some announced in Spanish or French.

• A 24-hour satellite news service.

• Specialized programs for the elderly, minorities, children and others.

• Home computers, home banking, home shopping and university credit courses.

Not every franchise bidder is offering all these services to everyone initially, but these and more should be available throughout the city eventually.

— “Proposals and Promises,” Newton E. Renfro The computer age has arrived. George Lucas makes movies with them, paint stores mix paint with them, the Dallas Cowboys draft all-pros with them, and now, through the good graces of the Mattel Corporation, you can pick horses with them. Horses?

Yes, that’s right. Horses.

— “Computers at the Track,” Joe Bucher

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Democratic president beset by dissent in his own party; economic doldrums across America; and a racially charged federal trial for New Orleans police officers regarding a death in Algiers. It wasn’t 2010 — it was 1980, when the first issue of Gambit hit the streets, though it wouldn’t be followed by a weekly printing of the paper until February 1981.

1980 was a turbulent, transitional year in America, dominated by the ongoing hostage crisis in Iran, where dozens of U.S. citizens were being held captive by Islamic militants, a situation that would drag on for 14 months and help doom a once-popular president to one term in office. Inflation, wage stagnation and an energy crisis all figured into Jimmy Carter’s election loss to former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.

In May, the volcano Mt. St. Helens erupted in Washington, killing 57 people; November brought a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, which killed 85 people and injured hundreds more.

Meanwhile, in Louisiana, the state was transfixed by the Lake Peigneur accident in Iberia Parish, where an oil drill accidentally punctured a salt mine, causing the entire lake to drain away in a whirlpool. New Orleans was consumed by the ongoing tale of Gregory Neupert, a 23-year-old white New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer found shot to death in a predominantly black section of Algiers — which would result in the deaths of four suspects, charges of

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at Esplanade Avenue and the river.

The old Tulane Stadium had just been demolished, and an article speculated on whether Tulane University might turn the land into a housing development (it’s now the site of Brown Field and the Reily Student Recreation Center). There was also a story about the possible environmental impact of the World’s Fair (still four years away) and a brash prediction: “Watch for the States-Item to disappear entirely from the New Orleans newspaper scene in 1981.” (The Times-Picayune, merged with the States-Item, was then going by the awkward multi-hyphenate Times-Picayune/States-Item, a name it would keep until 1986.)

A full-page photo of a mustachioed boxing referee in the ring with Roberto Duran was titled “One Gesture is Worth Ten Million Dollars.”

It didn’t need a story, because everyone in town — if not the world — was familiar with it. The Nov. 25 boxing

match at the Superdome had been the most famous to date, a grudge fight between former welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, the upstart who had taken the crown from Sugar Ray at the “Brawl in Montreal” the previous June. After receiving a whipping and a taunting in the seventh round, Duran abruptly surrendered the match in the eighth and walked away, spawning chaos in the Dome as police rushed into the ring.

Elsewhere in Gambit, Ron Cuccia wrote up a wrestling match in the Superdome that had been attended by 21,000 people. “Killer Karl Kox” and “The Grappler” faced off on Thanksgiving Day for a crowd that was, in Cuccia’s words, “young, bluecollar, maybe 80 percent black, but these facts belie an unusual richness of variety. I have seen women attend wrestling matches in evening gowns.

I have seen a husband in a powder-

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Gambit’s first music feature was a profile of jazz saxophonist Tony Dagradi, who had moved to New Orleans three years earlier and formed Astral Project.

(It would be another 10 years before Dagradi would become a professor of jazz at Loyola University.) Elsewhere, University of New Orleans English professor Carol Gelderman contributed an essay not on William Faulkner or Lafcadio Hearn, but an investment column of sorts titled “A Stock Market Junkie Confesses.”

(Gelderman recommended no-load mutual funds.)

A story called “Theater Boom” traced the revival of the recently reopened Saenger Theater from opening night — Johnny Carson headlining a Lion’s

he very first issue of Gambit featured ads from such familiar local businesses as Adler’s, Tipitina’s, Le Bon Temps Roule, the Maple Leaf (“On Our Jukebox — Ragtime, Dixieland”), Rubenstein Brothers (now Rubensteins), Arnaud’s and some hippie-looking joint called the Whole Food Co. (which would be swallowed up by Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market in 1988). Even much of the music was familiar: For the month of December 1980, Tipitina’s featured Marcia Ball, Li’l Queenie, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, and the Radiators.

But some things have changed a lot in the last three decades. WWIW 1450 AM (now WBYU, Radio Disney) promised a lineup of “Sinatra • Streisand •

Club benefit — through performances of Annie, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady (with Rex Harrison) and Camelot (with Richard Burton). There was an ad for the Toulouse Theatre’s production of One Mo’ Time (“Exclusive New Orleans run of the New York hit show” — a musical that had begun in the French Quarter and transferred off-Broadway), as well as Roddy McDowall starring in Harvey at the Beverly Dinner Playhouse. A holiday guide to bookstores led off with profiles of two local institutions still very much in business — Maple Street Book Shop and Garden District Book Shop — before moving on to now-shuttered stores like Dolpen Bookshop, the Southern Bookmart and the Doubleday on Canal Street. The review section included appraisals of E.L. Doctorow’s latest novel, Loon Lake, as well as two highly-regarded movies: Ordinary People and The Great Santini.

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Basie • Manilow • Dorsey • Carpenters.” WGSO NewsTalk 1280 (now WODT, a gospel station), featured Dr. Jane Stennett, a precursor to radio shrinks like Dr. Laura. And Mushroom Records had five of-themoment recordings on sale, in your choice of “LP or tape”: Barbra Streisand’s Guilty, Bruce Springsteen’s The River, Rockpile’s Seconds of Pleasure, Cheap Trick’s All Shook Up and Boz Scaggs’ Hits!.

You want to talk cheap? Gambit had bargains galore. A Sony Trinitron TV at Alterman Audio was “only $533” for 19 inches of viewing pleasure, and Overseas Motors on Canal Street was offering the subcompact Le Car for the low, low price of $4,295.

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MOVIES: The top-grossing film of the year (more than doubling the take from the No. 2 movie of the year, 9 to 5) was The Empire Strikes Back, the second Star Wars movie in George Lucas’ original trilogy. Behind them were the Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor comedy Stir Crazy; the now-classic Airplane!; and Any Which Way You Can, starring Clint Eastwood and an orangutan.

With Hollywood South far, far in the future, the most notable New Orleans shot-and-set film of the year was Macabre, an Italian boobs-and-blood horror flick about a woman who keeps the severed head of her lover in her freezer (and makes out with it).

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New Orleans had begun the year with the death of its own music legend, Professor Longhair, whose career was on the ascendant after years of decline. The city closed 1980 with a one-year-old but fast-rising rock group attracting crowds in clubs like Jimmy’s Uptown and the Showboat in Metairie’s Fat City — The Cold’s New Wave single, “You,” was even getting regional airplay on stations like WTIX. TV: Two weeks before Gambit made its debut, Dallas scored the highest TV ratings ever when it revealed the answer to its “Who Shot J.R.?” cliffhanger. Other Top 10 shows included 60 Minutes, The Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat.

Locally, WWL-TV — then as now the No. 1 news station in town — had an all-time powerhouse lineup of anchors: Garland Robinette, Angela Hill, Jim Henderson and Nash Roberts, with the late Bill Elder on dayside.

Perhaps the most controversial feature was a lengthy Q&A with jazz and Storyville historian — and social critic — Al Rose on a variety of topics, including what Rose said was the extinction of jazz (“Everybody died.”). His opinions, which were both firm and numerous, straddled a line between the aesthetics of Tennessee Williams and Ignatius Reilly. On the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival: “A cultural catastrophe … which has had unbelievably destructive effects on the actual music of the city.” On New Orleans high society: “Tasteless; the things they hang on their walls, the music that they play or that they hire to be played is preposterous. They know about food, though.” On homosexuality: “It’s endemic to the area, and to me that represents generally a social decline in any society.”

A couple of items cringeworthy by contemporary standards: A photo taken at the Sugar Bowl featured a sea of college students waving Confederate flags, and a capsule review of Disney’s reissue of Song of the South noted, “Racial stereotypes abound in this film rendering of the Uncle Remus tales.

But perhaps it’s a case of no harm no foul. The blacks come off decidedly better than the whites. … As Uncle Remus might observe, ‘Dey jes doan mek em lak dat no mo.’” Ouch.

The one Crescent City institution not found in the first issue of Gambit: the then-hapless New Orleans Saints. In December 1980, the city was in the throes of baghead mania, with home game attendees donning decorated Schwegmann bags over their heads as a mark of shame. The week the paper was published, the team was 0-14 for the season.

See? Some things do change.

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n July 9, 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 crashed upon takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, killing 145 people on the airplane and eight in the Kenner neighborhood where the plane fell apart.

It was 4:13, Friday July 9, a quiet time when most people were preoccupied with winding down the work week.

At television stations around town newspeople were preparing to deliver an uneventful day’s worth of news — filing for the fall elections, a racketeering investigation, problems with the sale of Flint-Goodrich Hospital, a tenuous peace in the Middle East.

At the radio stations, gold-voiced announcers were guiding the early afternoon traffic home. It was a propitious time — work was over, the weekend was here.

Then the phones began to ring.

— July 17, 1982

The 1984 World’s Fair was plagued with problems from the start, including bad publicity and low attendance. Gambit’s Errol Laborde covered the last hour of the fair, which he termed “the Cuisinart of expositions.”

It was quite a scene — Lindy Boggs, Seymour D’Fair and Irma Thomas swaying arm in arm on the stage of the amphitheater singing in unison “Auld Lang Syne.” Around them stood a hundred or so other people all joining in as the fair reached its last moments.

Then suddenly the stage’s backdrop opened, revealing the river, from which bright flares were fired providing a curtain of sparkling red and yellow. The popping sound and the applause from the crowd was overcome by Thomas, who by then had moved towards the band and on cue began signing Lionel

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Richie’s “All Night Long,” just as Richie himself had done for the closing of the Olympics. Those on stage shuffled to the melody but the mood was mixed — the music suggested party, but the party was over.

— Nov. 17, 1984 We feel compelled to notice our own uneasiness about so well-spoken a candidate.

— Gambit’s editorial board on mayoral candidate Bill Jefferson, Jan. 25, 1986.

The paper endorsed his opponent, City Councilman Sidney Barthelemy.

Pope John Paul II made a pastoral visit to New Orleans in September 1987 on a blazingly hot weekend; New Orleans police estimated the crowd at the outdoor Mass at the University of New Orleans to be 130,000, half the expected number. Editor Errol Laborde was among them. (The New York Times noted: “The Pontiff also had the misfortune to schedule his PAGE 22

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Gambit adds The Urbane Gourmet food section.

1982 Aug. 8

Gambit announces its main competitor, Figaro, is out of business.

Dec. 12

Clancy DuBos’ first Politics column looks at Sherman Copelin’s bid for City Council in District E.

JAn. 9

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In the elections of November 1983, Gambit saw a bright future for an up-andcoming 27-year-old politician, endorsing her for re-election in the District 90 race for the state House of Representatives.

Mary Landrieu is understandably annoyed by constant reminders that she is her father’s daughter, but, after all, that is a small price to pay for the name recognition and political organization which helped to make

her one of our youngest state representatives. The question when one inherits so much is what she makes of it, and Landrieu impresses us as a tough, street-smart and a savvy politician who also understands her district, cares about its people and programs and wants to help. We think she makes a positive contribution by her presence in the legislature and her work in the district and we endorse her strongly.

— Oct. 18, 1983

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visit here on a triple-header athletic weekend: Tulane University, Louisiana State University and the New Orleans Saints professional team all had home games this weekend.”)

shuttles to Rome; after a lifetime of service they were finally seeing their Pope shuttling to them.

— Sept. 22, 1987

Already it had been a full day. By this time I had seen the Pope twice, once during his procession along Canal Street and again at the Youth Rally in the Dome. Both times my first impression was the same, sadness, real sadness at seeing this man seemingly caged in the Popemobile. I had seen pictures of the vehicle before, but pictures don’t provide the context of a cheering crowd, one in which people and the Pope want to touch each other. But there he was, this prelate in a glass booth. John Paul was freed from the vehicle as he climbed the platform in the Dome from which he could be seen in the flesh. He appeared to be happy, but the very happiest may have been two aged nuns near the front row. I will never forget the glows on their faces. They were not a part of the favored hierarchy that

On May 11, 1988, the third floor of the Cabildo, along with its trademark cupola, burned in a spectacular fire.

The Cabildo would not reopen to the public for six years.

We’ve seen big fires in the city before, but we don’t recall seeing one in which the possible loss of a building itself aroused so much emotion in so many people as the fire last week in the Cabildo. There is no building that is as representative of the city as the Cabildo.

History was made there; history was preserved there. The fire presented a cruel metaphor as a city ravaged by the economy saw its historic public building being ravaged by flames.

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away and saw what was coming … and they didn’t like it. One year later, they held their noses and urged readers to re-elect Edwards.

The prospect of an Edwin EdwardsDavid Duke runoff in next year’s race for governor has a lot of folks in both political parties scared stiff. Edwards is doing all he can to encourage (some would say “sucker”) Duke into the race because the former KKK leader might be the only candidate Edwards has a shot at beating. Pollsters tell Gambit that Edwards’ acceptability among voters hasn’t improved at all since he left office in 1988, but if the field for gov-

ernor next year is crowded, Louisiana’s open primary system will likely afford the two extremes — Edwards and Duke — a ticket to the runoff.

— Oct. 16, 1990 For many voters, the choice between Edwin Edwards and David Duke is not a pleasant one. We’ve heard many say they will sit this one out, refusing to choose between two candidates they dislike. But that would be the worst choice of all.

We must elect Edwin Edwards. David Duke paints himself as an alternative to the notion of “politics as usual,” but in truth he is the worst kind of menace:

he is a neo-Nazi. Electing Duke governor would mean a living death for Louisiana. It would make us the South Africa of the Western Hemisphere — a hellhole of racial and religious intolerance where no right-minded business leader would locate …

To all who would sit out this election, don’t. It has been said that for evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men and women to do nothing.

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1985 apr. 20

Count Basin joins Gambit as its Jazz Fest critic.

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— Sept. 1, 1992 Police had braced for potential trouble during Carnival 1992. Councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor had championed the passage of a nondiscrimination ordinance applied to the city’s “luncheon clubs,” which were the public faces of several old-line krewes. As a result, Comus and Momus, two of the city’s oldest krewes, gave up parading.

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— Oct. 29, 1991 1992’s Hurricane Andrew was the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. since Camille in 1969. It tore up southern Florida, re-entered the Gulf of Mexico and made a second landfall southwest of Morgan City — but not before giving metro New Orleans the jitters.

New Orleans got lucky last week.

Hurricane Andrew, which ravaged south Florida and much of south Louisiana, spared the Crescent City most of its fury. We got wet, we lost power, but for the most part the metropolitan area escaped the full force of

People expected trouble. The whole country had heard about racial tensions emanating from the dispute over the so-called Mardi Gras ordinance banning discrimination along racial and gender lines. Two krewes elected not to roll.

Some of their members privately cited fears for their safety in the wake of the controversy over the ordinance. …

So what happened in New Orleans in the wake of all this tension? …

Nothing. Nothing, that is, except another enjoyable — and racially harmonious — Mardi Gras.

— March 10, 1992 In 1994, New Orleans was wracked with crime and economic woes and people were looking for fresh solutions. Mitch Landrieu made his first bid for mayor that year. When Landrieu did not make it past the primary and the race came down to businessman Donald Mintz and then-state Sen. Marc Morial, Gambit endorsed Morial, who went on to two terms as mayor. Earlier, the paper offered this endorsement of the then-33-year-old Landrieu.

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1988 Jan. 12

Blake Pontchartrain joins the staff as New Orleans’ Know-It-All.

april 12

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the Riverwalk Mall, which was filled with pre-Christmas Saturday shoppers. It was perhaps the only thing that could distract the city from a particularly bloody Thanksgiving week. Fourteen people were slain in the city, including three young employees at the French Quarter branch of the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen, as people were shopping in the French Market just feet away from the restaurant. It was soon determined the robbery was led by a coworker of the three.

The savagery of the crime jolted the populace and galvanized a citizens’ march on City Hall, even as African Americans wondered aloud why there hadn’t been similar outrage for murders in black neighborhoods. On Dec. 10, Gambit addressed the violence in an editorial addressed to slain Pizza Kitchen workers Santana Meaux, Michael Witcoskie and Cara LoPiccolo.

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— Jan. 18, 1994 Harrah’s New Orleans opened its new “temporary casino” in the Municipal Auditorium in May 1995. Gambit noted

the opening in an editorial titled “A Wary Welcome”: Despite the obvious short-term benefits, we remain concerned about how the casino will play out over the long haul. Will it be the boom that revives New Orleans, or will it become a money drain that compounds our economic woes and social ills?

— Apr. 25, 1995 On May 8, 1995, New Orleans was hit with a freak rainstorm that flooded many parts of the city and the outlying suburbs with as much as 24 inches of water.

In New Orleans, five people died Monday

in storm-related incidents, including two found under the railroad underpass on the riverbound Pontchartrain Expressway. … Jefferson Parish was hit nearly as hard, particularly along Jefferson and Airline Highways. Some Kenner subdivisions had 90 percent of their homes flooded, and Harahan and Metairie reported widespread flooding, especially along Veterans Boulevard. … If there can be any good news, it is that the storm did not hit the city on Sunday or earlier — when thousands of people filled the Fair Grounds for the annual Jazz Fest.

— May 16, 1995 On Dec. 14, 1996, on a clear afternoon, the freighter Bright Field slammed into

To Santana, Cara and Michael, You will not be forgotten.

We promise. It is an unfortunate truism in our city today that the outrage of one heinous crime is too soon, too often forgotten by the jarring effect of another.

On Thanksgiving Eve, just days before you died, Molly Elliot, a 28-year-old advertising executive, was carjacked, robbed, raped and murdered, allegedly by a parking lot attendant at the downtown garage where she routinely parked her car for work.

The day after Thanksgiving, security guards Anaise Wheeler, 40, and Leroy Turner, 28, were both shot to death in the parking lot of an eastern New Orleans nightclub as they tried to stop thieves from breaking into a car.

The horror that you and other good people have suffered must not be in vain. We pray that we will have the dignity, courage and wisdom to face the crime crisis that felled you, for we are a more angry and frightened people since you left us.

— Dec. 10, 1996

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1988 sept. 13

Cartoonist Bunny Matthews joins the staff to draw Cayenne (and later Vic and Nat’ly).

1989 June 13

Ronnie Virgets premieres a new column, Razoo (called Virgets in the new millennium).

July 11

Pierre DeGruy is named editor.

1990 feb. 13

Gambit moves to 4141 Bienville St.

1991 Jan. 8

Real Astrology by Rob Brezsny premieres.

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Margo and Clancy DuBos, with two limited partners, buy Gambit from Landmark Communications, bringing the paper back to local ownership.

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In the 2002 mayoral race, Gambit bypassed familiar names like state Sen. Paulette Irons, police chief Richard Pennington and city councilman Jim Singleton, instead endorsing a littleknown longshot candidate.

As mayor, [Ray] Nagin will eliminate many of the mayor’s 300 unclassified appointees — and use the savings to raise salaries for those that remain to attract a better pool of applicants.

He also will cut waste, cronyism and patronage — because he owes no political debts. …

“I’m not the creature or the captive of any political organization,” he says.

“I’ll bring into city government the very best team imaginable. I don’t have an entourage of political dependents to support. I’m looking for people who are prepared to work hard in their public positions.”

— Jan. 22, 2002 New Orleans made national news headlines on April 14, 2003 — once again, for all the wrong reasons.

“BEST OF NEW ORLEANS — 2005” — The headline on the Aug. 30, 2005 issue of Gambit, which was printed but never distributed due to a Labor Day weekend evacuation for a hurricane named Katrina. The “lost issue” — with a cover featuring actor Sid Noel in his Morgus the Magnificent persona — was later sold as a souvenir.

“We’re Back.”

— Headline in the All Saints’ Day 2005 edition of Gambit, the first issue published in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. The staff had set up temporary headquarters at 2800 Veterans Memorial Blvd. in Metairie while the Mid-City offices of Gambit were rebuilt. The structure took on several feet of water, but was one of the first businesses in hard-hit Mid-City to reopen in 2006.

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On the morning of April 14, two teenaged “outsiders” — one armed with an SKS Chinese semi-automatic assault rifle, the other with a 9mm pistol — entered the gym. Guided by a third suspect who police believe communicated with them by cell phone, the gunmen brushed past a pair of coaches who tried to stop them.

In front of 200 kids who assembled for physical education classes, the killers then turned toward the bleachers and fatally shot a 15-year-old student before he could reach for a .45 caliber pistol concealed in his front pocket,

police say. Stray bullets wounded three innocent victims. Panicked students trampled a pregnant 16-year-old girl.

The pride of John McDonough that day may be measured by the reported heroics of Joshua Myers, a 15-year-old special education student on the school football team. As his classmates fled, Myers walked over to one of the girls who had been shot, picked her up and carried her to emergency responders.

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Sam should pick up the tab for rebuilding our infrastructure and helping property owners recover from the devastation. A good place to start would be dropping Congressional rhetoric about Louisiana politics, followed by an absolute ban on questions as to whether New Orleans should be rebuilt at all.

— Jan. 3, 2006 In 2007, Gambit endorsed Bobby Jindal for governor, partially because of his promise to institute ethics reforms in Baton Rouge. That story (in the parlance of journalism) quickly evolved.

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More than anything else, Bobby Jindal’s integrity is above reproach. Given Louisiana’s history of political corruption, that will be an immediate asset.

As soon as he is sworn in as governor, he promises to call a special session to enact sweeping ethics reforms. That means full financial disclosure for legislators and an end to self-dealing among politicians at all levels of government.

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Congress should resolve to rebuild hurricane-ravaged American communities with the same levels of generosity

accorded to foreign countries that have been ravaged by our nation’s military actions … Inasmuch as Louisiana’s flood was caused by the federal government — through defective levees designed by a federal agency (the Corps of Engineers) — it makes sense that Uncle

Louisiana’s got ethics now, yada, yada, yada. It’s a new day, blah, blah, blah.

If you haven’t heard the anthem by now, then you haven’t been paying attention. From India to New York to Washington, D.C., Gov. Bobby Jindal has garnered oodles of praise for his February special session on ethics reform. While some of the accolades are rightly placed (we’re finally going to learn how lawmakers make their money, thanks to new disclosure rules), few outside the Bayou State are aware of what slipped between the cracks during that special session.

For instance, the governor’s star-studded transition team, which is still in action in many respects, escaped scrutiny altogether. As a result, its members remain a gang of political shadows operating under flimsy guidelines.

Additionally, the Republican administration continues to dodge any proposals that would bring more of its own records into public view in a substantial way. Efforts to extend “reform” to the governor’s office have been avoided like a case of scurvy, which is why good government groups place Louisiana on the bottom of their lists when it comes to openness in the governor’s office.

— Jeremy Alford, Apr. 15, 2008 One year ago last week, Gov. Bobby Jindal stood outside the House chamber and fidgeted with his red tie just moments before his entrance was announced. On cue, he sprang onto the floor alongside his wife, Supriya, shook hands, gripped forearms and smiled.

It was his first special session, dedicated solely to ethics reform, which was Jindal’s top campaign promise. Within days, the governor got most of what he wanted, and he wouldn’t let us or Jay Leno or Fox News forget about it.

Then, three months ago, Jindal began concentrating on other priorities, like not running for president. Perhaps coincidentally, that was also when the Center for Public Integrity told Jindal to stop telling journalists that Louisiana had moved to the “top of the list” of the group’s annual rankings of ethics laws.

These days, Jindal’s “gold standard” looks more like a lead balloon.

— Jeremy Alford, Feb. 16, 2009 Gov. Bobby Jindal was named one of 11 governors “who champion their personal interests over their states” by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonpartisan ethics watchdog group. The “Worst Governors” list consisted of two Democrats and nine Republicans. It cited Jindal for weakening the state ethics board, fighting legislation to make his office more transparent and rewarding campaign donors with positions and contracts, among other things.

— “Bouquets & Brickbats,” Apr. 26, 2010 PAGE 32

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As we write these words, we don’t know if the New Orleans Saints will be getting fitted for their Super Bowl rings this week or if Drew Brees and company will have been defeated by the most worthy of opponents, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts. What we do know is that there will be a parade in the team’s honor this Tuesday (Feb. 9 — one week before Mardi Gras), the city will turn out for it as if it were Rex, and, win or lose, no team has ever deserved a parade more. ...

ESPN’s Gregg Easterbrook, in praising

the team’s joy and unpredictability on the field, called them “the wacky, laissez-faire Saints,” and added, “Watching New Orleans is like watching an outdoor cocktail party play football.” Wrong. You don’t go 13-0 without being smart and disciplined, and that comes from the top — particularly QB Drew Brees and head coach Sean Payton.

Truth be told, the team’s long-suffering fans supplied the wacky, and we did it with panache. When a local T-shirt artist got a letter from the National Football League with a cease and desist order regarding her “Who Dat” shirts, the league’s ham-fisted move grabbed the city’s attention and ignited statewide outrage. Politicians of both parties issued press releases defending “Who Dat,” and after a ruling from state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, the NFL cried uncle, saying it had been misunderstood.

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Gambit publishes its 25th anniversary issue.

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famously said he would walk down Bourbon Street in a dress should the Saints ever reach the Super Bowl. Buddy D died in 2005, but on Jan. 31, thousands of male Who Dats (led by former Saints QB Bobby Hebert) honored Diliberto’s memory by doing just that.

The nation seems amused by our enthusiasm. Everyone loves a good underdog story, and ESPN’s Rick Reilly summed up the mood of many reporters when he wrote, “You must either have had your heart removed by corn tongs or be in the Manning family if you’re not pulling for the Saints.”

Amen.

Of course, there were some who thought this magical season was just a fluke, that all the cheerleading reflected sentiment more than achievement.

“It’s a Katrina thing, isn’t it?” groused one Internet commenter, and to a lot of national sportswriters, the story was just that facile: A city, physically and psychically damaged by an unthinkable disaster, subsequently buoyed by a triumphant sports franchise. To them, we say: No, it’s not a “Katrina thing,” any more than the New York Yankees advancing to the 2001 World Series was a “9/11 thing.”

The 2009 Saints are a New Orleans thing — and this thing has been 43 years coming.

— Feb. 9, 2010

In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times said Landrieu’s overwhelming victory gave him “a mandate to push past the political and social barriers that have slowed the city’s recovery.” We think

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it also gave Landrieu the responsibility to push past those barriers. He has promised meaningful improvements in the quality of life for all citizens, and that’s how he’ll be judged. In reversing Nagin’s divisiveness, Landrieu must be careful to implement policies that help New Orleanians across the board, regardless of race or station. Blogger Clifton Harris (cliffscrib.blogspot.com) summed up that feeling when he wrote, “If all the things that supposedly haven’t happened because of Nagin’s incompetence don’t start happening real soon after Mitch is sworn in, there will be a bunch of people saying, ‘I told you so,’ and we will be going back the other way in division.”

Right now, Landrieu has the wind at his back. And, at least for this moment in time, New Orleans has more unity of purpose than it has ever known. This moment belongs to Mitch Landrieu ... and to all of us. Let’s not squander it.

footprint, volunteer. And then there was the collective voice — whether it was a release of anger and frustration, an inspiring voice, or an education.

Those voices ranged from Dr. John, Treme star Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, fishermen, nonprofit organizations, and locals with big enough voices to ring out in the crowd, over a brass band and the surreal irony of a steamboat calliope pumping out patriotic hymns.

“We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore” was embraced as the de facto chant.

“Louisiana did not land on BP,” LeBlanc said. “BP landed on Louisiana. ... Together we stand or divided we fall.

We have to stand together and bring their asses down.”

— May 30, 2010 On July 4, Alex Woodward went to Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish as a wildlife volunteer with the National Audubon Society.

1992: Councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor changed the face of Carnival forever. Photo by A.J. Sisco

The BP oil disaster consumed much of Gambit’s coverage in 2010, from daily “Today in BP” updates on blogofneworleans.com to reports from the Louisiana Gulf Coast. In May, Gambit covered a protest rally across from Jackson Square:

The boat arrives at 4 p.m. The crew hands off several bags — some of heavy brown paper, some of black plastic — to two of the transporters. A long, thin beak punctures through one of the black plastic bags. They’re loaded into the van, where the paperwork for each bag is checked before being driven to the Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center, about 20 miles from the marina. That’s where live birds are cleaned and dead birds are catalogued. If all the birds can’t fit in the vans, it’s the volunteers’ job to keep the live ones company and under the tent out of the heat, until another van arrives. Audubon leaves wildlife cleaning and handling duties to trained professionals; those eager to volunteer are limited to this.

There aren’t any more deliveries.

After the VOO crew drops off the 11 birds, it’s done for the day — and for the foreseeable future. The crew has been laid off.

VOO contracts have no end date;

BP decides when it needs to “deactivate” a vessel. There are so many applicants that BP has to “rotate, so everybody will be able to (participate),” says Valerie from BP’s command center in Houston. (Valerie could not provide her full name, she says, as “it’s against policy. That’s everything out of our manual.”)

“The ones that have been deactivated have been out there since the beginning, which is about eight weeks now,” she says. “You have to give everybody else the opportunity to get in. A lot of them aren’t seeing it that way, but it’s just the fair thing to do.”

Back on the dock, a Houma command center operator calls to thank me for volunteering. I’m free to go; have a good holiday.

And just down the road at the Lighthouse Lodge in Venice, La., BP celebrates Independence Day with a barbecue, beer and an inflatable castle.

BRASS BALLS NOT TAR BALLS (from a sign held by John “Spud” McConnell) In the face of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the weeks (now months) following the rig explosion and the deaths of 11 rig workers, everyone and everything are targets. Today, organizers for the BP Oil Floor Protest gave New Orleans a voice and a focus so its residents and the people of the Gulf coast do not remain hopeless against the powers that be. Hundreds gathered in the Jackson Square amphitheater and endured the rain. There were calls to action: write your representatives, demand action on all levels of government, invest in renewable energies, boycott, reduce your carbon

30 years of gambit

2007 March 27

CUE, a fashion, home and lifestyle magazine, debuts.

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Gambit’s blog, Blogofneworleans. com, is launched.

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Kevin Allman is named editor.

2009 July 7

Gambit debuts its new monthly Health + Wellness magazine. Noah Bonaparte Pais’ On the Record music column debuts.

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Gambit releases Ear to the Ground, its first local music compilation.

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Chris Rose joins Gambit with a weekly column, Rose Colored Glasses.

nov. 16

Gambit announces Clancy DuBos will begin Clancy’s Commentary on WWL-TV.

Dec. 28 Gambit publishes its 30th anniversary issue.

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By the next issue, the Saints had triumphed in the Super Bowl, crowds larger than Mardi Gras had packed downtown for the “Lombardi Gras” parade — and New Orleans had a new mayor-elect: Mitch Landrieu, who not only won his third bid for the mayoralty, but did so in the primary.

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COMPILED BY LAUREN LABORDE or the last 30 years, Gambit has served as the home for some of the city’s preeminent voices — everyone from true New Orleans Yats to Romanian expats to polarizing New Orleans Saints commentators. For our anniversary, we’ve rounded up excerpts from the columns of Bob Krieger, Buddy Diliberto, Errol Laborde, Ronnie Virgets, Andrei Codrescu, Clancy DuBos and Chris Rose. Their work spans the beginning of Gambit to today, but many of their messages are timeless. (Except those about the Saints. Everyone was wrong about that.)

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Bob Krieger helped start Gambit’s sports section in 1981. He also spent 23 years working as a TV reporter, anchorman and sportscaster at WVUE, WWL and WDSU. He died of a heart attack in 1996. In “Big Ben and Friends,” published in Gambit on Jan. 1, 1983, he discusses the origins of the long-standing rivalry between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons: Perhaps it all began as early as 1861.

That was the year the first president of LSU, William T. Sherman, left that post to lead the Union army that eventually burned down Atlanta.

Perhaps it was engendered during the early- to mid-20th century, when the professional baseball Southern Association was in full swing, and the New Orleans Pelicans went to war each year against the Atlanta Crackers.

Or perhaps it was only natural that two great southern cities would build a rivalry that makes the Hatfields and the McCoys look like bosom buddies.

Whatever it was, it has grown in leaps and bounds since both cities gained membership in the National Football League, and today there is no more emotional matchup anywhere than the one between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. ...

The NFL version of the Atlanta-New Orleans rivalry has been a bitter one — far more bitter for New Orleans fans than for those from Atlanta — but it wasn’t always so.

The first-ever meeting between the two was a pre-season affair in 1967. It

was the first year in existence for the Saints, and the game was the final of six pre-season games; it was also the first to be played in New Orleans. To the delight of the New Orleans crowd, the fledgling Saints, under Tom Fears, erased the Falcons that night, 27-14, running the pre-season record to 5-1, the best-ever for an NFL expansion team. It was a heady experience!

When they started playing for keeps that same year, reality set in on the rookies and retreads of Tom Fears, but they did manage to whip the Falcons, 27-21, before a Tulane Stadium crowd of 83,437. It was one of the only three New Orleans wins that season, and it was the last time the Saints would lead the regular season series with Atlanta.

Indeed, things have drifted rather steadily downhill since then.

Through the 1981 season, the two have met 26 times in all, and Atlanta has walked away with 19 victories. Some of those have been especially difficult for the folks from the bayou country. Of it all, the year 1978 lives in infamy.

That was the season that John Mecom Jr. replaced the ebullient Hank Stram with Dick Nolan, who was known affectionately as Mute Rockne.

By November 12 of that year, Nolan had lead his charges to an incredible precedent-setting win over the Rams in Los Angeles. One week previous, the Saints had lost a tough 20-14 game to the eventual Super Bowl champion Steelers in Pittsburgh. Hopes were running high in a city where hope was so often all there was.

The Superdome was its usual self November 12, about four parts black and gold and one part red, for Falcons fans, like Saints fans, tend to follow their team around and to wear their hearts on more than just their sleeves.

Hope was in high gear late in the game that day as the Saints led it 17-13. Then came the play that put the term “Big Ben” in the New Orleans lexicon of frustration forever. At least, some called it “Big Ben.” Others called it the “Hail Mary” pass. Many called it things that are quite unprintable.

What it was was a play in which Atlanta sent everybody but the equipment manager on a fly pattern down the right sidelines, while quarterback

Ronnie Virgets started writing for Gambit in 1989.

Steve Bartkowski was throwing the ball up where the people in the Terrace level could get a good look at it. When it came down, a crowd of Saints and Falcons played volleyball with it for awhile. Finally, Falcon receiver Alfred Jenkins tired of that, grabbed the ball, and danced off into the end zone. The Falcons won it, 20-17, and suddenly it seemed as if final retribution had been made for what Sherman had done to Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh at Tara House. But it wasn’t over yet.

Two weeks later, Nolan and the Saints went to Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, where the Falcons won again by — that’s right — 20-17. The Saints finished 7-9 that year, six points away from their first winning season ever.

On opening day in 1979, an NFL official named Grover Klemmer became Public Enemy Number One in New Orleans when he threw an ill-conceived flag on Saints defensive back Maurice Spencer for pass interference. The pictures said Glover Klemmer was wrong.

Maurice Spencer said Glover Klemmer was wrong. The biggest crowd in Superdome history (70,940) said it was wrong. Even some Atlanta people said Grover Klemmer was wrong. The official record book says Grover Klemmer was right. The Falcons used the flag to beat the Saints in overtime that day,

40-34. The Superdome was filled to its massive roof with frustration. ...

Still, for obvious reasons, New Orleanians don’t dwell on the past.

This is 1982 and the perennial flower of hope has blossomed once again, (Bum) Phillips’ team has been playing well, and there’s a chance that the meeting with Atlanta on Jan. 2 could determine whether the Saints will see the playoffs from the field level for the first time in history.

On the night before, many New Orleans fans will no doubt be pulling for the Georgia Red, the SEC champions, in their quest for a national title.

Certainly, the Dome will be flooded with red shirts in the stands.

In a matter of hours, those same red shirts will become the enemy.

And if Bum Phillips and Snake Stabler and Company can clip the black wings from the red helmets of Atlanta, New Orleanians will have forgotten who won the Sugar Bowl the night before.

And, for a few months at least, they will have forgotten the ghosts of Big Ben … and Grover Klemmer … and …

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who was both reviled (by coaches and owners) and beloved (by sports fans) as an authority on the New Orleans Saints. Besides writing a sports column for Gambit starting in 1981, Diliberto hosted a daily sports show on WWL after working as a sports anchor for WVUE and WDSU. He famously vowed to wear a dress if the Saints ever made it to the Super Bowl, but sadly he was not able to make good on that promise before he died of a heart attack in 2005, but a lot of other fans did in his honor.

Here is a portion of his first dispatch for Gambit from the Saints training camp before the 1982 season, titled “Vero Beach,” July 24, 1982:

ERROL LABORDE

Errol Laborde is editor-in-chief at Renaissance Publishing, which produces New Orleans Magazine and Louisiana Life, among others. He also has written books and is a regular panelist on the WYES-TV series Informed Sources. His

Errol Laborde served as editor of Gambit for several years. column Streetcar premiered in Gambit on Jan. 16, 1982. In “Here at Gambit” (May 15, 1982), he writes about what working at the newspaper was like.

(This staffer attests that besides the cardboard house and hammock, things are pretty much the same.)

People laugh here and they have fun.

During my second week on the job one person began moving furniture into a house she was making out of a cardboard box in the corner. The other day a fellow worker came by to discuss with me the dot pattern on a sheet of paper towel. (It’s really quite intricate.) Two of the production people have paper bag hats with the words “Staff Artist” emblazoned across the front which they wear occasionally. …

If ever there is to be a symbol of the Gambit office, it will probably be the fishnet hammock which divides the room. It is an incredibly comfortable sling that seems to have its most use on Fridays. That’s the big day around here — production day. There are few greater joys than to hand in the last of the week’s copy late on a Friday afternoon and then crash in the hammock.

Putting out a weekly newspaper is a different sort of occupation. The product is planted, it buds, and it flowers within a five-day period. Next week, it starts all over again. There are few professions where a person’s work goes through a life-cycle on a weekly basis.

Last week’s story is irrelevant; next week’s is premature. Pressure builds — pressure which a hammock helps release. ...

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I’ll be down at the Saints camp in Vero Beach this week as John Mecom’s team gets ready for its 16th season in the National Football League.

Sixteen years — and still a virgin. The Saints have never had a winning season. Someone asked me the other day, “How come every year in July all you guys go down to training camp and all I hear and read are glowing reports about how good the Saints players are and then when the regular season begins it’s business as usual — more losing than winning. How come?”

It’s like this, Joe. Training camp is an upbeat time. Everyone is 0-and-0 and it’s the only time the Saints are on a level in the record department with the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins and all the rest.

So why not upbeat? There’s plenty enough time once they start playing to evaluate. Anyway while the reports from training camp are always upbeat I’ve never lost perspective.

In 15 previous years I’ve never predicted the Saints to have a winning season. For example, in this space a year ago when many were talking about Bum Phillips as if he walked on water I came out of training camp evaluating the Saints as a 5-and-11 team. They finished 4-and-12. That’s close enough. I’ll save the 1982 prediction for later but my gut feeling at the moment is that it will not be a winning season.

(Diliberto was correct in his prediction. The Saints didn’t have a winning season until 1987.)

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which makes me want to believe that maybe one day someone will be writing about Gambit’s 20th — and they’ll be celebrating years, not issues.

The Superdome is the loudest place in the city on game day, but in “Opening Day” (Sept. 13, 1986), Laborde paints quite a different picture: “Probably the best news from the NFL’s opening day at the Superdome is that the Superdog is back for another season. The hotdog has had detractors over the years, its problem being inconsistency. This season, its colors seemed a little bolder, decorated with an extra splash of mustard yellow. Those who remember past Sundays when the Superdog was hot could relish its potential; unfortunately for opening day ’86 the dog was cold, leaving its fans only to hope for next week and that with the passing of time it might become better seasoned.

Perhaps better news was that the Superdome finally has a scoreboard system that is not an embarrassment. Two Diamond Vision screens give clear pictures of the action, assuming of course

there was any worth watching …

In fact, far more important than recording scores, the board has taken on the role of a computerized cupid, flashing messages of love and wooing to suspecting couples cuddled at the Dome. The Dome on opening day proved to be an appropriate place for such romance, there being no loud cheering to disturb the mood.

It was also a good day for the fan to test his skills as a hobbyist. New Orleanians who frequent the Dome have become quiet adept at the folding and sailing of paper airplanes. As the afternoon waned the planes became more frequent, like gliders sailing from the terrace’s cliffs to the 100-yard-long landing strip below. …

Other than the flying, the romance, and the eating, there wasn’t much else worthwile going in the Dome that day. There was some activity down on the field where the day’s best catch by guys in a hometown uniform was made by two local cops who apprehended Morganna, the buxom kissing bandit, who had trespassed onto the

field, no doubt aware of the hazard she was creating to amateur aviation.

Later that day the afternoon-long silence in the Dome was broken by the cleaning crew, its take made easier by the volume of would-be debris that had been converted instead to gliders. That evening I watched on television another NFL opening day in another city. The poor people in Denver were having their attention diverted by their team which rallied in the last quarter for a win. A night later, folks in Dallas underwent similar distractions as their team continually broke the solitude by scoring points. Those fans could have no time to contemplate the temperature of the proper hot dog, to experience quietness among the multitude, or to admire the grace of flight. Opening day at the Louisiana Superdome somehow remains just a little bit different.

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As I was swimming naked through the living room ...

You might say that lead is a dirty little trick, a deliberately distorted view of things worded like the start of a Lewis Carroll chapter.

The only thing arguing against the “dirty little trick” label is the mere and pitiful truth. I was swimming naked through the living room, here on the forenoon after the hurricane had left.

Left, but left behind the effects, with the time to ponder them, fear them, curse them. Here are some floating by now, a purple candle escaped from its candlestick, a Jean Harlow video, a wooden Javanese deity, a coffee table book, a coffee table.

All looked out of place, of course, like the illustration of a child’s book of the fantastic or absurd. All except the Javanese deity. It must have a role here, a role explaining the ways of God to man. In Greek tragedy, the audience was always being warned of the danger of self-security and forgetting the existence of powers who trump correctness and justice.

It would be hard to forget them today. They are everywhere up and down Hidalgo Street and as far as the eye can see. ...

The hurricane officially began the night before, when the electricity went out. The house shuddered without light and moaned its fear. Branches slashed the walls, and from time to time things heard but not seen crashed into them.

The winds would flex out the sound of a Wurlitzer organ for a half-minute at a time.

As dawn seeps into the world, everywhere is evidence to back the devoutest gambler’s faith in fate. Here the gasping taproots of the overturned shade tree, once the neighborhood’s pride and joy, and there its upright tiny neighbor. Here a peeled-back roof and wall showing the furniture inside like a dollhouse, and next door a bungalow serene in its intactness. Such unpredictability is why people bother to pray. ...

You don’t dare take the time to think of Death once he actually steps onto the stage with you. You do your best to push him offstage or get on with your role in the play. That way his presence can be set aside another day, while you make yourself readier.

But later, lying in bed, I stared out the window into electric-free darkness made even more complete by the regular flash of white light every half-minute or so, like a final holdout against the void.

Now there is the time and place to think about anything that troubles you. Yet all this leisure yields only this: Death is the certain loss that validates all your wins. And this storm with the silly-sounding name? The uncertain loss to better prepare you for the certain one. ...

From here you can only see the tops of trees — here a camphor, there a pecan — and they are all badly pocked.

Nature can be a horrific pruner of city foliage; block after block of treetops that seemed visited by the cutting crews of the high-wire public utilities.

Boys with horrible haircuts. ...

The saviors are named Eric and Johnny and they wait in their boat while clothes are grabbed. Your worldly possessions look surrealistically picturesque as they float by, one last appraisal before they are soaked and sad and shoveled out of your life forever. It was nice having you around. Maybe I should have paid more attention when I had the chance.

Outside, the water-shaped city will be part of the public memory, the collective recall of images. But these few, these sad, beautiful few will be mine alone. ...

A couple of rescue rides and a stuporwalk later, and all around Causeway and I-10 is the churning of people who look like colorized newsreels of those fleeing the guns of war.

We like to think, even those of us who have received or given great harm, that there is a sliver of innocence that remains, a hidden part of us that believes that although we are aware of even greater evil in the world, we won’t be called to witness or promote it.

After this — this wide circle where minute by minute planes and boats and trucks vomit up the ragged and the ruined — after this, it will be much, much harder to believe in all that.

After an unruly ride to refugeehood, the yellow school buses disgorged us at a basketball gym. After midnight some generators were located and the lights uncovered people lined against retractable bleachers like gulls on a

seawall. In the gym’s too-bright lights, everyone looked like figures from a wax museum, things pale and obsolete. Yesterday they might have looked at the world right in the face, with their shoulders back and their backs straight, but now and here, there is only sadness in this place of play, and everyone looks like lost ephemera in the white light.

There will be a great deal of healing due when all this is over. I hope to be around for some of it.

ANDREI CODRESCU

Novelist, poet and essayist Andrei Codrescu is the author of several books, founder of the online journal Exquisite Corpse, a former English professor at Louisiana State University and has been a National Public Radio commentator since 1983. His column Penny Post ran in Gambit from Nov. 3, 1998 until Jan. 1, 2008. In “Mardi Gras 2006: The First Salvo” Feb. 21, 2006) Codrescu, a former Krewe du Vieux king, writes about the parade’s run following Hurricane Katrina: “Buy us back, Chirac!” was one of the slogans of the Krewe du Vieux parade marching in the cold of night.

The taped refrigerators marched, the corpses floated by, the Krewe du Jieux rotated in a mad bearded hora like rabbis on speed, two huge naked papiermache women named Katrina and Rita were having lesbian sex, a sea of hard hats bobbed up and down under the balcony over Molly’s and a strand of medium-sized ruby red beads nearly ripped out my left eyeball. The balcony teetered perilously from the swarm of people on it and I was afraid to go too close to the edge just like in past years when I was sure we’d collapse into the street and flatten a float. It didn’t happen, but there were a lot of flattened people working hard to maintain an elusive high that came with the booze and went with the stories. Five people I talked to lived in emergency trailers, but two of them stayed away as much as possible even if it meant spending the night with somebody they just met if they had a regular house. A Loyola professor told me that Loyola had its own trailer camp but that there was nobody in it. The mystery of a New Orleans choked with traffic, though with just one-third of the people back in the city, was finally explained: cars are the only place you can be alone in.

Trailers and houses are full of folks and tensions are high, so people ride around in their cars just to be on their own. A young woman smiling sweetly into her

rum and coke explained that she had to leave her hotel by next week and had no idea where she was going to go. A girl from Boston, raised in a small religious community in New York, had come to New Orleans to help. She drank no alcohol, but she had gotten a job in a lingerie shop while pondering the best way to soothe us in our distress.

I kept snapping half-hearted pictures like I do every Mardi Gras and, just like every Mardi Gras, they were mostly of half heads, the glints of people’s eyeglasses, fuzzy flying beads and unidentifiable lights. My photos are so bad you can call them art and some people actually have. But that was about the only thing that was reassuringly the same. Too many stories of woe got me down so I went home early this first Mardi Gras parade after the storm and turned on the TV to that station that just shows images of devastation without comment. There it was, New Orleans, house by house in ruins, over and over, empty of life, full of tokens of lives gone. Then I watched the station that runs meetings of New Orleans citizens with various commissions 24/7 and I listened to an angry artist tell a faceless panel that culture is what the city is all about. He was followed by an angry woman who demanded more music and less tourism. Then a tourism marketing person got herself up on her high heels and over-articulated her gratitude to the faceless commission for something I couldn’t understand.

Meanwhile, the government is broken, the state is broken, and the city lies about in shards. The first public spasm of pleasure in the city since the storm was the Krewe du Vieux parade, but I just couldn’t get in the spirit. It must be the alcohol: they just don’t make it as strong as they used to.

CLANCY DUBOS

Clancy DuBos, co-owner and political editor of Gambit and political commentator and editorialist at WWL-TV, began writing the Politics column for the paper in 1981. In “Greg Meffert’s Hustle & Flow” (Oct. 5, 2009), he talks about former city technology chief Greg Meffert: To hear former City Hall technology guru Greg Meffert tell it, it’s hard out here for a pimp. A pimp for the city, that is.

That’s how Meffert described himself from the witness stand last week while testifying in a high-stakes civil trial. Two local firms initially hired by Meffert’s office are now suing Meffert,

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panies gorged themselves on city contracts — but there was absolutely no connection between the two?

Yeah, right.

If Meffert can’t come up with a better hustle and flow than that, it’s gonna get a lot harder out here for one pimp.

CHRIS ROSE

After more than 20 years with The Times-Picayune, Chris Rose jumped to Gambit in early 2010. He made a name for himself nationally with his postKatrina columns, which contained some of the most emotionally raw reportage from the wounded city and earned him a slot as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary. A collection of those columns, 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina, was published locally to much acclaim, and an expanded edition of the book, published by Simon & Schuster, was a national success.

I’ve gone on record with this before: Me like the beach. Very much. Even better, so do my kids. And I say that because, well — I wasn’t a very adept beach kid. Truth to tell: I was a complete wuss about it.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved going with my family. But that was more about the whole vacation endeavor: The upheaval, the overpacked car, staying up late, sleeping on screened-in porches, the smell of coconut oil, late night card games, hot dog omelets for breakfast and dinner, all the pinball I could play and nights on the boardwalk with all its flashing lights and Tilt-a-Whirl and softserve ice cream.

You’ll notice I didn’t say anything about the actual beach. And that’s the thing. It scared the hell out of me.

I never trusted water where I couldn’t see my feet. I grew up on the beaches of Maryland, Delaware and Jersey; once the water gets up to your knees, you can’t see your feet. And I knew there were lots of things down around my feet that I couldn’t see — stingrays, crabs, jellyfish and regular fish, in diminishing order of terror.

And up on those Northeast beaches, there’s a species of crustacean alien to Southern beaches, an alien called the horseshoe crab, a large, black primeval beast that looks like nothing more than Darth Vader’s helmet with a long stinger-like tail in the back.

They’re a clumsy lot, horseshoe crabs, having no control over their movements once they get near the surf, so they get picked up by waves and tossed into your legs and it feels like a hubcap smashing into you.

A hubcap with legs. And a tail. That looks like a stinger. Never mind that it wasn’t; at 9 years old, perception is everything. To me, deadly hubcaps lurked in the sea.

The World Book Encyclopedia I had as a kid said the horseshoe crab is not a true crab at all, but related to the scorpion family. ’Nuff said.

I hated going in the water. Absolutely dreaded it. I couldn’t bear the thought of unseen animal life lurking around me, things that pinch and sting and giant underwater scorpions that randomly slam into you.

So it is that, when I was finally coaxed, prodded or shamed into going into the water with my brothers or friends, I spent the whole time treading water — even at three feet deep — so my feet wouldn’t touch the bottom.

Like I said, pretty much of a wuss about it. And this was in the pre-Jaws era, mind you. That came out when I was 15 and, after that — forget it. I didn’t go in the water for years.

But I’ve come a long way since then.

This city boy learned to love the water.

Learned to love it in the 25 years I’ve lived in New Orleans, over on the Gulf Coast where, oddly enough, the water is clear enough to see everything around you and that eventually led me to the conclusion that the dark beach water of the Northeast might be better than the pristine Gulf waters because maybe — just maybe — I’d rather not know that there’s a school of stingrays right next to me.

But my kids, they know none of these irrational fears. Sure, they hate getting stung by jellyfish, and horseshoe crabs freak them out to the proper degree (they don’t know about the scorpion thing), but they love being in the water.

They go hard-charging in and stay until commanded to come out for food or rest or just because I’m ready to go.

They let their feet touch the bottom and everything. They fear nothing. To me, they’re brave, but to most people I guess they’re just normal. They even try to pick up crabs which, in my own personal psychological portfolio, is tantamount to grabbing a rattlesnake by its tail.

It’s just not something you do.

So we love the beach together and we go every summer. And, as I write this, I am in Maryland because the beaches we’ve been going to since my kids were born have been destroyed — at least, in my psychological portfolio.

I’m sure there are still beaches on the coast that haven’t been despoiled.

I just don’t know where they are. And I don’t want to be there the day the oil comes in.

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In a 2009 column, Clancy DuBos likened embattled city technology chief Greg Meffert to a pimp.

So I had to take my children 1,200 miles to go to the beach this summer.

And that makes me so angry that I feel like the Macondo well, ready to just blow my own damn top, spew my bad karma like thick black crude all over — not brown pelicans — but anyone and everyone who asks me my opinion on the state of affairs in the Gulf of Mexico, “my” Gulf of Mexico, my family retreat, our beach, our playground, the place we love best on this whole planet.

Ruined. Or damn near. Or gonna be.

And for God knows how long.

I possess an anger about this that I have never known before. Sometimes, I feel like I want to hurt these people who toyed so frivolously with our lives and marched along so cavalierly in their hunt for riches, seemingly unmoved by having destroyed an enormous body of water, just flat-out destroyed it.

The bastards. All of ’em.

And so to go to the beach, we had to travel 1,200 miles.

Hey, the great part is we get to spend some time with my parents, who live in Maryland. That’s a perk. And my kids are filled with the energy and abandon that accompanies the “endeavor” of travel — the flights, the chaos, the motel ice machines, sleeping on screen porches, late-night card games, the flashing lights of the boardwalk, the whole shebang.

And so it is I take my kids 1,200 miles from home this week to go to the beach, with playful mind, buoyant soul — and firmly grounded feet.

And murder in my heart.

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the city, Mayor Ray Nagin and computer giant Dell for allegedly conspiring to steal the companies’ crime camera technology.

So far, Meffert has been the star witness — but not necessarily for his own or his fellow defendants’ cause.

Asked to explain an email in which he told a favored contractor that an industry conference offered a “chance for me to pimp your guy’s stuff,” Meffert said he meant it as an opportunity to promote the city’s accomplishments — which seems equally galling in light of how little the Nagin Administration has accomplished post-Katrina. “I did a hell of a lot of pimping for the city,” he deadpanned.

Poor Meffert. He took a 50 percent pay cut to take a job that enabled him to help his friend and former business associate, Mark St. Pierre, score a multimillion-dollar crime camera contract from the city — but, like aspiring rapper DJay in the film Hustle & Flow, he’s still gotta get money for his Cadillacs — not to mention his yacht, strippers and some first-class vacations for himself and Nagin.

No problem. St. Pierre gave Meffert unfettered use of a company credit card, which Meffert used freely to live large during his days at City Hall — while St. Pierre held city contracts. Meffert ran up more than $130,000 in charges, including a 2004 trip to Hawaii with Nagin.

Technically, I’m not sure if Meffert’s relationship with St. Pierre makes him a pimp or a ho, but we’ll let the feds sort that out. Meffert’s attorney acknowledges that his client is a target of a federal criminal probe, and he predicted before the civil trial began that Meffert would take the Fifth on the stand.

Instead, Meffert spent seven hours last week giving jurors and the public a dose of his gigabyte-sized ego and microchip-sized judgment. He suggested that the pay cut he took when he joined Nagin’s team — at a salary of $150,000 a year — entitled him to lavish perks from St. Pierre. Then, with a straight face, he compared it to cops working overtime or paid details to supplement their meager incomes.

Asked about the Hawaii trip, which was paid for by St. Pierre, Meffert blithely answered, “Good, bad or indifferent, Hawaii definitely had nothing to do with crime cameras, nothing to do with the city of New Orleans. I had this business. I had the opportunity to give him (Nagin) a break. We went up there as friends. We barbecued.”

Let me get this straight: Meffert and Nagin sat around eating panipopos on St. Pierre’s dime while St. Pierre’s com-

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Many of New Orleans’ musical families have passed the torch. Most notably, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis went on to become the director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and when New Orleans was recovering from Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures, he became an early champion of the city, serving on the Bring New Orleans Back commission, and he debuted the suite Congo Square in its namesake location in spring 2006. Marsalis told Gambit that not just jazz, but and all genres of American popular music using a bass and drum owed a great debt to Congo Square.

A host of bands that used to make the rounds of popular clubs have become ambassadors for the city’s music scene. In early issues of Gambit, listings often included multiple weekly shows by the Radiators and Leigh “Li’l

Queenie” Harris and the Percolators.

They circulated from longtime Willow Street clubs Jed’s and Jimmy’s to the Maple Leaf Bar, Tipitina’s and the Dream Palace on Frenchmen Street.

Li’l Queenie’s popular tune “My Darlin’ New Orleans” resurfaced on HBO’s Treme soundtrack, and the Radiators say they will retire in June 2011. Other still-familiar names in the listings that first year included James Rivers, Deacon John, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and original Meter George Porter Jr.’s many projects, like Joyride.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has grown quite a bit in 30 years. Gambit’s first preview of the festival lamented that 1980’s event would be remembered as “The Year of Relentless Mud.” Instead, it has become one of many memorable mudslide years. In 1981, the festival featured four days of music at the Fair Grounds, and most of the stages were num-

bered instead of named or sponsored.

The entire schedule filled just two pages in Gambit. And though no less memorable, it was a far cry in size from the current festival, which in the last decade has grown to include new genres — from jam bands to rap — and stadium-filling rock acts like Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Bon Jovi.

Some once popular institutions faded or were lost over the years. In the early 1980s, New Orleanians headed to Pontchartrain Beach to ride the Zephyr and Ragin’ Cajun. The New Orleans Saints were coached by Bum Phillips and had yet to post a winning record. Gambit columnist Buddy Diliberto regularly lamented their loses and looked to the following year. (The first winning season came under Jim Mora in the strike-shortened 1987 campaign.) The riverboat President was a popular concert venue, and in 1980 it booked shows by Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and The Pointer Sisters. In Avondale, PAGE 53

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n an early issue of Gambit (July 25, 1981), publisher Gary Esolen penned a feature about the Neville Brothers’ then-new album Fiyo on the Bayou.

He opened by mentioning that Bunny Matthews offered to douse his cassette recorder in Tabasco and eat it if the album went anywhere.

The album was reviewed favorably in national publications including Billboard and The New York Times, and it increased the Nevilles’ national stature. When the band returned home from tour in August, Sesame Street’s Big Bird and local fans met the Nevilles at the airport.

But not a drop of Tabasco was spilled or bit of cassette recorder consumed. The album never charted with Billboard.

“Oh, of course, it didn’t,” Matthews says. He’s still proud of his willingness to voice his opinion about local arts and entertainment. “I was flying with the band to Houston to record,” he explains.

“I was arguing with Aaron Neville — he was saying that professional wrestling was real and I was trying to tell him it was more like theater. Anyway, in all of that, they called me ‘Hatchetman.’

They said you should never criticize anything local. And I said I should be the first to criticize something local.

And the nickname ‘Hatchetman’ stuck for a while.”

That was before Matthews joined Gambit, where he was best known for his long-running cartoon Vic and Nat’ly. But Gambit’s arts and entertainment pages were full of strong and colorful opinions and insightful coverage from the get go. Looking back at three decades of coverage including features, reviews and listings, Gambit’s pages have kept tabs on a host of familiar names and faces, many of whom have become local institutions. In those years, the city’s cultural scene has blossomed on many fronts besides music.

The Neville Brothers were well established 30 years ago, and in the intervening decades they became the iconic final act at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, taking over the mantle of closing the festival from Professor Longhair, who died in 1980.

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Many big changes were on the horizon at the beginning of the 1980s.

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) celebrated its fifth anniversary in 1981. It was the first seed of rebirth in the Warehouse District, which was plagued by skid row blocks and empty buildings. Former CAC director Don Marshall recalls when it was the only arts institution in the neighborhood.

“I can remember being in the building and watching a corner bar where a bunch of bikers took pipes and demolished a car,” he says.

But the CAC was a center of art, theater and music in a neighborhood about to be advertised to the world as the location for the 1984 World’s Fair.

Most of Gambit’s preview coverage of the World’s Fair focused on its financial problems, including a lastminute appeal to the legislature for a $10 million loan to finish construction.

Gambit urged organizers to ask for $25 million in order to ensure success. Instead, marketing efforts foundered, and national and international media arrived on opening day, before all the exhibits were completed and paint dry.

Gambit reviews highlighted the few successes and many miscues. Parade reviewer Rex Duke™ appeared out of season to pan the inauthentic Mardi Gras-style parade that offered advertising handbills to spectators instead of doubloons and beads. A video about commerce on the Mississippi named Memphis the “birthplace of jazz.” An aquarium tank in the petroleum expo held a creature identified as “Dutch the Moray Eel.” Though it was a financial failure,

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Ole Man River was a busy outpost for touring bands. Former local rock favorites The Cold opened for the Go-Gos there in September 1981.

In its first year, Gambit writers worried about the lack of an upscale local jazz club and paucity of professional theater venues. Former favorites Rosy’s, Lu and Charlie’s and LeClub had closed. When the Gallery Circle Theatre shut down, there were a handful of theaters, including the stalwart community playhouse Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, then run by the local legend Stocker Fontelieu. The biggest destination for theater was the Beverly Dinner Theater on Airline Highway, where many actors earned Actors Equity credit. In September 1981, the risque musical revue Nighttime Naughties featured the work of a soon-to-be prolific trio of entertainers: Becky Allen, musical director Fred Palmisano and Ricky Graham.

“That was the show that got me back to New Orleans,” Graham says.

“For me, that was a seminal experience. It was a big deal. … We had a budget for costumes. It was the first time I got to work with in Broadwaylevel professional theater.”

Many of the Beverly’s shows featured TV actors in touring productions.

Weeks after Nighttime Naughties, it hosted M*A*S*H’s Gary Burghoff (Radar O’Reilly) in A Good Look at Boney Kern. Graham and Allen took their talents downtown, to Bourbon Street and the Moulin Rouge, and later The Mint on the corner of Decatur and Esplanade. The Beverly closed, but the Jefferson Performing Arts Society (founded in 1978) grew steadily and operates theaters on both banks and is overseeing construction of a new

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the World’s Fair helped open the door to development in the Warehouse District. Art galleries filled Julia Street and warehouses were converted to condominiums and apartments. The Federal Fibre Mills housed Louisiana folk culture exhibits curated by Nick Spitzer during the fair, but the structure was later converted to housing.

By the early 1990s, restaurants and music clubs opened, and eventually the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the National World War II Museum opened major exhibition spaces in the Warehouse District.

Through the 1980s, New Orleans’ downtown revitalized. The French Quarter Festival was initiated to draw metro-area residents back to the historic district. In 1986, Southern Rep opened and the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival was founded. The New Orleans Film Festival premiered in 1989. Frenchmen Street had popular music clubs, including a couple of addresses serially occupied by similar businesses: the Dream Palace is now Blue Nile, Snug Harbor has replaced The Faubourg.

The strip became a locals’ alternative to Bourbon Street in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In January 1994, House of Blues opened with a concert featuring Dan Aykroyd in his Blues Brothers guise as well as Dr. John and John Mooney. The club shook up the music scene and grew into a multistory complex, which is now part of the global entertainment giant Live Nation. After prolonged construction and negotiations with state and local government, Harrah’s New Orleans casino moved into a massive site at the foot of Canal Street, replacing the Rivergate Convention Center.

Gambit also covered art and music on the margins and underground. There have been previews of the wildly eclectic films and bands of the 25-year-old Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center as it moved from Mid-City to Uptown, Bywater, the CBD and to Central City, where it has presented everything from the Sex Workers’ Art Show to European avant-garde jazz artists.

On the film front, longtime Gambit reviewer Rick Barton posted more than 1,500 reviews, marveling at everything from major studio shipwrecks to alternative gems. He championed David Lynch’s Blue Velvet when many critics listed it among the year’s worst. And he gave Blade Runner a rating of six out of 10, and he now notes that in the years since,

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Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures disrupted everything in the city, and recovery and rebirth have been Gambit’s focus for much of the last five years. The nation embraced local musicians, and initiatives like Habitat for Humanity’s Musicians’ Village began to address some of the preexisting issues musicians have wrestled with in housing and job security.

Five years after the storm, however, Sweet Home New Orleans reports many musicians still struggle with a scene that has not returned to preKatrina norms in terms of pay or quantity of gigs.

The Morris F.X. Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park and theaters including the Orpheum remain shuttered. Some organizations altered or expanded their missions, like the Ogden Museum, which successfully incorporated regular music programming.

Among the people who came to New Orleans to be part of rebuilding have been young musicians, artists and actors. The NOLA Project brought a crew of young actors from New York to New Orleans. Art curator Dan Cameron created the international art show Prospect.1, bringing top contemporary artists from around the world to display and install work in the city. The 2008 citywide event also helped spur activity and growth in Bywater and the St. Claude Avenue corridor, which now house a cluster of new art galleries, theater spaces, restaurants, bars and speakeasies. The 2010 New Orleans Fringe Festival included many offbeat neighborhood venues offering top quality performances.

As 2010 comes to a close, Gambit is reporting on changes for better and worse, just like it was in December 1980. While theater is thriving in the Marigny, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre has shut its doors — at least for the time being. There’s new leadership at several major visual art institutions. New Orleans has lost almost all of its neighborhood theaters, but there are more projects filming in the region than ever before.

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lip through back issues of Gambit and you’ll see, after sifting through a few decades-worth of pages, that the advertisements reflect the times just as much as the editorial content.

Here’s a roundup of what gadgets we coveted, where we shopped, what we wore and how much we paid for the privilege. Read it and laugh — or cringe — and remember that he who forgets the ill-advised purchases of the past is doomed to repeat them.

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This ad offers more questions than answers, among them: How do you explain the genuine ebullience exhibited by every sweatsuit model? Why isn’t the mustached guy wearing a shirt?

Does the flexible lady on the ground realize her right foot is inches away from somebody’s crotch, and that he looks entirely thrilled about this?

Ladies, turn off your crimping irons, cease your bang-teasing and still those cans of Aqua Net: Gladiatorinspired rhinestone headdresses are here to solve all your holiday hair woes. Buy the matching rhinestone slingbacks for an extra-festive look.

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Why join Premier Athletic Club?

Because doing so gives you the opportunity to stare at thong-leotard (thongatard?) clad female bottoms on the Stairmaster.

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March 13, 2001 Before the lucrative sponsorships, movie roles and famous ex-husband, burlesque star Dita Von Teese was just a feature dancer making the strip club circuit, which included stops at Westbank Cabaret and The Gold Club.

“Some people say what I do isn’t very liberating. I say it’s pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work,” Von Teese once famously said. You go, girl.

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Renaissance, Gambit’s Fashion Magazine: Holiday Fashion 1988 — Nov. 8, 1988 What was the de rigueur holiday look of 1988? Ruffles and a giant, terrifying baby to squire you and your twin about town. The chicest babies didn’t dare step out without lariat ties, Quaker hats and wristwatches (to keep on schedule for all those hot dates).

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St. Charles Vision — Feb. 6, 1982

Twenty-eight years later, while some things have stayed the same (St. Charles Vision is still a Gambit advertiser and still has a Riverbend location), the definition of “beautiful eyewear” has definitely changed.

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Spring Tease: Spring fashion explodes in a burst of color — April 2, 1996 The vivid hues in the floral hairpieces and baby-pink coif almost didn’t happen, says photographer Cheryl Gerber. “I accidentally developed these color photos in black and white chemicals. We had to re-shoot the whole thing. Ah, the good old days of film.”

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With the ’90s came the advent of the beefcakes (see Fabio and David Hasselhoff), but this model appears less than thrilled by the embrace of her shirtless, unshaved companion. Perhaps she misses the giant baby trend of ’88. Truly, those were simpler times.

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The New Orleans Man: Profiles in Fashion — Aug. 2, 1986 Of the nine men profiled in this 1986 roundup of local fashion plates, David Rubinstein wore the look with the most longevity. On any given night, iterations of his plaid shirt, crested wool cardigan and glasses combo can be seen on fashionable young men and women at venues ranging from Cure to Circle Bar.

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Catch a Break estled between a busy stretch of Veterans Memorial Boulevard and the medical district surrounding East Jefferson General Hospital, The Breakroom Cafe (3431 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 9417607; www.breakroomofmetairie.com) is a good place to pick up a quick cup of coffee and breakfast on the way to a doctor’s appointment or take a break from the bustle of nearby shopping centers.

“It kind of has a nice coffee shop/cafe feel to it,” says owner Dan Greenbaum. “During the day you can either grab-and-go or have a sit-down breakfast.”

Before opening the cafe in October, Greenbaum owned Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing in Old Metairie. Many items Greenbaum made at Mark Twain’s, such as traditional New Orleans muffulettas and roast beef po-boys, appear on Breakroom’s menu. Those sandwiches are made with house-made olive salad and roast beef, respectively. “We make our own roast,” Greenbaum says. “You would be surprised by how many places don’t make their own.”

The cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and offerings run the gamut from breakfast items to hearty sandwiches. Rounding out the menu are both sweet and savory specialties like Belgian waffles and breakfast burritos, deli-style sandwiches with highquality cuts of meat, soups and salads, and off-the-menu specials like chicken Parmesan.

Greenbaum says the cafe “started as a deli, but it seems like people wanted a little bit more.” A coffee lover

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himself, Greenbaum decided to include an expansive offering of coffee and espresso drinks from Coffee Roasters of New Orleans. Besides Ethiopian and Sumatran brews, Breakroom offers flavored blends like bananas Foster and double French vanilla. The cafe also serves cakes, pastries and other desserts from La Louisiane Bakery.

After working for Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing for 21 years and eventually owning the restaurant, Breakroom Cafe owner Dan Greenbaum is happy to Greenbaum serves cakes, cofget back into the food fee, sandwiches and more at his business with his new Metairie cafe. solo venture.

“For years, a lot of people would come up to me and say ‘Are you going to open up anything?’” he says. “Now I have an answer for them.”

On Wednesday, Dec. 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO presents a self-guided walking tour through five historic houses, including the 1850 House, Beauregard-Keyes House, Spring Fiesta House and Hermann-Grima and Gallier Houses.

Christmas decorations and snacks, as well as presentations about reveillon and other Creole traditions, are part of the tour. Tickets are $25 for the general public ($20 for Friends of the Cabildo members), and can be purchased online at www.friendsofthecabildo.org or by calling Rebecca Duckert at 523-3939.

Through Dec. 31, all hollow-core doors are 30 percent off at THE GREEN PROJECT (2831 Marais St., 945-0240; www.thegreenproject. org). Buy a membership for $25 and receive a 5 percent discount on purchases all year and 30 percent off sinks through Dec. 31.

Subscriptions for the NEW ORLEANS OPERA (1010 Common St., Suite 1820, 529-2278; www.neworleansopera.org) spring season are on sale now and start at $68. The series consists of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers and Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Season subscribers receive a 15 percent discount on ticket prices, priority seating and a flexible ticket exchange policy.

Student and group rates are available. Call 529-3000 or visit www.neworleansopera.org to purchase a subscription.

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NEW ORLEANS NOIR: THE RADIO PLAYS 7 P.M. THURSDAY, DEC. 30 SOUTHERN REP, THE SHOPS AT CANAL PLACE, 365 CANAL ST., THIRD FLOOR, 522-6545; WWW. SOUTHERNREP.COM FREE ADMISSION

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Southern Rep approached Smith to work on the project after it secured funds dedicated to developing a radio drama series. “I’m a radio virgin,” Smith says, but she can lay claim to expertise on all things NOLAnoirish. “The defining thing about New Orleans noir is its preoccupation with death,” she says. Beyond that, “We like our dark bars, and we like being out on the streets and being out all night.”

Those bars and dark streets gave the Faubourg Marigny resident inspiration for the character in her New Orleans Noir contribution. “In the back of my mind, I’ve always wanted to create a drag queen detective,” she says.

Enter Private Chick, aka Diva.

“And when it suits her, she’s Donald!” Smith says.

“In a way, I really backed myself into a corner. With a drag queen, everything that comes out of her mouth has to be funny. That’s a challenge.”

Even more challenging, she says, is the radio-drama format. “If you’re even writing a short story, you’ve got a lot of words to work with,” she says. With radio drama, “There just are not that many words on the page. Everything is done through dialogue and through sound effects.”

Smith credits the technical staff at Southern Rep for providing the necessary aural backdop through its use of the Foley sounds — clacking heels, creaking stairs, clinking ice cubes — that are so critical to successful radio drama. “Fiction writers work with the senses to make a scene come alive,” she says. “You want to work with all of the senses. But in this case, there’s just one sense: There’s just the hearing. It’s fascinating. I love the sound effects.”

Only 32, Raymond Usher IV hardly seems old enough to have notched No. 1 singles in three different decades. Following “Nice and Slow” (1998) and “Yeah!” (2004), the Gumbylimbed R&B heartthrob hit the trifecta with “OMG,” off March LP Raymond v. Raymond — the first of two chart-topping LaFace releases in 2010 (follow-up Versus arrived in August).

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Yale’s century-old male a cappella group is presented by Trinity Episcopal Church’s music ministries. One of the best known collegiate singing ensembles, the Whiffenpoofs’ repertoire includes a mix of Yale songs and popular tunes from each decade of their existence. Free admission. 7 p.m. Thursday.

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If all it took to get the 40s back together were copious amounts of malt liquor and amplifiers, we might never miss them. The Bywater band of brothers reconvenes at One Eyed Jacks to ring in Jan. 1 right, spreading cheer and drowning tomorrows with a soggy, cockeyed midnight toast. Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns opens.

Tickets $20 in advance, $25 day of show. 10 p.m. Friday.

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Brass Band Blowout Q93.3 FM DJ Wild Wayne hosts the fourth annual Dinerral Shavers Education Fund’s Brass Band Blowout. The lineup includes the Hot 8 (pictured), Free Agents, Stooges, TBC, Brass-A-Holics, Pinettes and Kinfolk brass bands. The former drummer for the Hot 8 was killed in December 2006, which sparked an anti-crime protest at City Hall. Tickets $15. 9 p.m.

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outhern Rep tests the airwaves with New Orleans Noir: The Radio Plays, a double-feature radio drama production that will be recorded during a live performance Thursday and broadcast later by NPR affiliate WWNO-FM. The show features pieces commissioned for the occasion

by New Orleans mystery writers Julie Smith and Greg Herren, creator of the Chanse MacLeod and Scotty Bradley series. It is Southern Rep’s first foray into the old world of radio voice-overs and Foley sounds.

The theater hopes local drama fans won’t touch that dial, says Southern Rep artistic director Aimée Hayes, who aims to tap in to the talent pool of local writers for future radio dramas. “We were asking, ‘What other ways are there to do theater?’” Hayes says, “We wanted to expand the vocabulary for local writers to include radio dramas. We want to see what could happen, see if there’s an audience for it.”

Hayes will join Smith and Herren onstage Thursday for a question-and-answer session after the performance. WWNO will also record interviews with both authors. The cast includes James Bartelle, Mandy Zirkenbach, Matthew Mickal, Vatican Lokey and others.

For the best-selling and prolific Smith, the project is a return to the mystery genre.

“I quit writing mystery after Katrina,” she says.

“Well, not so much quit as paused. I like to think I’ll start doing that again.” Since the storm, Smith edited New Orleans Noir, a 2007 compilation of locally grown noir fiction, she has been working on a digital publishing project and she completed her first young adult novel, Cursebusters, due out in May.

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etween column space, music previews and picks, I touched on roughly four shows a week in Gambitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pages in 2010. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a modest, manageable number â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until you multiply by 52. Examined in aggregate, the list reveals a lot about New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; year in live music. For example: 43 of the concerts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more than 20 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; occurred at a single venue, One Eyed Jacks, which wrested the kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crown from Tipitinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and the House of Blues soon after opening in 2004. More shocking is that there were as many as 43 other locales represented. They range from solo appearances by the underground Koenji and NOLA Art houses (the latter of which was raided after Gambitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s January cover story) to 26 by my secondfavorite place to see bands this year, the underdog Circle Bar, which more than doubled up Tipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and the House of Blues (12 apiece).

Those numbers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell the whole story, though. There were many memorable gigs: at Jacks, a genre-crossing June homage to Harold Battiste Jr. and burlesque dancers denuding during an October appearance by Portland, Ore., punk rockers the Thermals; at the Circle Bar, New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prodigal son Paul Caporino (aka M.O.T.O.) making a triumphant return in March and unseen knockouts from veterans (Dex Romweber), rookies (White Hinterland), locals (JeanEric) and visitors (The Love Language).

But it was in less-frequented corners of the city that the best happenings lurked.

Preservation Hall followed its superb February compilation, Preservation, by hosting a trio of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unexpected midnight gigs: Bonnie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princeâ&#x20AC;?

Billy, My Morning Jacket and Haitian legend Manno Charlemagne. Tulane University capped a strong fall (shows

by Local Natives, Ruby Suns, Ratatat and Dr. Dog) by welcoming the great Van Dyke Parks, who embarked on his first nationwide tour at age 67. The Motherin-Law Lounge, sadly K-Doe-less for the first year ever and now closed, embraced a younger, louder audience with recordrelease parties for decibel-busting acts Caddywhompus and the Pharmacy. And

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Carrollton Station and the Blue Nile were the delivery rooms for two heirs of New Orleansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nascent pop lineage, Big History and Empress Hotel.

All that said, this may have been the year in which our recorded output surpassed its live incarnation. Joining Preservation Hall in the compilation junket was Air Traffic Controlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dear New Orleans, an eclectic assemblage of 31 diverse local and national artists spanning Paul Sanchez to the Wrens. Brass icons Troy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trombone Shortyâ&#x20AC;? Andrews and Kermit Ruffins broke out in a big way, appearing on

HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Treme and My Morning climbing Billboard Jacket played Jazz charts with reFest, Voodoo and spective albums Preservation Hall Backatown (Verve in 2010.

Forecast) and Happy Talk (Basin Street). With Lil Wayne behind bars, underground hip-hop seized the national spotlight, from bounce queens Katey Red and Big Freedia to stoner-rap sensations Curren$y and Jay Electronica. Here are my picks for the top area releases of 2010: 10. Rough Seven, Give Up Your Dreams (Upper Ninth Records) 9. The Pharmacy, Weekend (Park the Van/Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stop Believinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) 8. Steve Eck & the Midnight Still, Drag It Out, Burn It Down (self-released) 7. Brass Bed, Melt White (Park the Van) 6. Hurray For the Riff Raff, Young Blood Blues (self-released) 5. Caddywhompus, Remainder (Community Records) 4. Lovey Dovies, self-titled (self-released) 3. Generationals, Trust (Park the Van) 2. Curren$y, Pilot Talk/Pilot Talk II (BluRoc) 1. Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program (Preservation Hall).

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Tuesday 28 BACCHANAL — Mark Weliky, 7:30 BANKS STREET BAR — Lynn Drury, 9 BAYOU PARK BAR — Parishioners, 9

BEACH HOUSE — Candy RiedlLowe, 7 BLUE NILE — Jeff Albert Quintet, 10

BMC — Abita Blues, 7; Jason Greenlaw & Groove, 9:30 BOURBON COWBOY TOO — MoonShyn, 7:30 CAFE NEGRIL — John Lisi & Delta Funk, 9

CARROLLTON STATION — Notes & Quotes Songwriters Night feat. Jimmy Sidewall, 9 CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Nervous Duane, 7; Jimmy Howell, 11 CHICKIE WAH WAH — John Mooney, 8

CIRCLE BAR — Tom Paines, 6; Jewel Yen, Pockets McCoy, 10 COLUMNS HOTEL — John Rankin & Friends, 8 D.B.A. — New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 9

OLD OPERA HOUSE — Charlie Cuccia & Old No. 7 Band, 7

OLD POINT BAR — West Bank Mike, 8

PRESERVATION HALL — Preservation Hall-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell, 8 RALPH’S ON THE PARK — Joe Krown, 5 ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Amanda Shaw, 8:30

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Donald Harrison Quintet, 8 & 10

SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; Smokin’ Time Jazz Club, 6; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 10 TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 5; T’Canaille, 9 TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Frank Fairbanks, 5; Damien Louviere, 9

TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Frank Fairbanks & Guest, 1; Butch Fields Band, 5; Radio Active, 9 YUKI IZAKAYA — Norbert Slama Trio, 8

Wednesday 29 BACCHANAL — Jazz Lab feat.

Jesse Morrow, 7:30 BANKS STREET BAR — Major Bacon, 10 BAYOU PARK BAR — Hooch Riders, 9

BEACH HOUSE — Poppa Stoppa Oldies Band, 8

THE FAMOUS DOOR — Darren Murphy & Big Soul, 3

BIG AL’S SALOON — Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone Blues Party, 7

GENNARO’S — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 8

BLUE NILE — United Postal Project, 8; Kris Royal & Dark Matter, 10

FUNKY PIRATE — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30

BISTREAUX — Paul Longstreth, 7

HOSTEL NEW ORLEANS — Soul School feat. Elliot Luv & the Abney Effect, 8

BMC — Lynn Drury, 7; Blues4Sale, 9:30

HOUSE OF BLUES (PARISH) — 100 Monkeys, Kissing Club, 8 HOWLIN’ WOLF (THE DEN) — The Big Busk: A Night of Burlesque & Music feat.

Dirty Bourbon River Show, 9 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Jason Marsalis, 8

JIMMY BUFFETT’S MARGARITAVILLE CAFE — Jimmy James, 2; Brint Anderson, 7

LAFITTE’S BLACKSMITH SHOP — Mike Hood, 9 LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Marc Stone, 4:30; Jay B Elston, 9 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Rebirth Brass Band, 10 MY BAR — Danny T, 8

NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — B-List AllStars, 9; Coofs, 10

NEW ORLEANS ARENA — Usher,

BOURBON COWBOY TOO — MoonShyn, 7:30 CANDLELIGHT LOUNGE — Treme Brass Band, 9

CAROUSEL PIANO BAR & LOUNGE — John Autin, 9

CHECK POINT CHARLIE — T-Bone Stone, 7; Mike Darby & the House of Cards, 11 CHICKIE WAH WAH — Asylum Street Spankers, 8:30

CIRCLE BAR — Jim O. & the No Shows feat. Mama Go-Go, 6; Stephanie Nilles, Denise Bonis, 10 COLUMNS HOTEL — Kristina Morales, 8

D.B.A. — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7; Walter “Wolfman” Washington & the Roadmasters, 10

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Bob Andrews, 9:30 THE FAMOUS DOOR — Darren Murphy & Big Soul, 3

FRAT HOUSE — Hip Hop Showcase feat. Underground Noize, Lyriqs Da Lyraciss, T. Jones, Big P, 10

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FUNKY PIRATE — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Sasha Masakowski, 5; Irvin Mayfield’s NOJO Jam, 8

JIMMY BUFFETT’S MARGARITAVILLE CAFE — Ched Reeves, 2; Joe Bennett, 7 KERRY IRISH PUB — Chip Wilson, 9

KRAZY KORNER — Death by Orgasm, 8:30 LACAVA’S SPORTS BAR — Crossfire, 9

LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Frank Fairbanks, 4:30 & 9 MAPLE LEAF BAR — Jenn Howard, 10

MOJO STATION — Ed Wills, Blues for Sale, 8 NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — Marc Saucier, 9; Shay, 10 OAK — Billy Iuso, 7

OLD FIREMEN’S HALL — Two Piece & a Biscuit feat.

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PRESERVATION HALL — Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Mark Braud, 8 RALPH’S ON THE PARK — Joe Krown, 5 ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Geno Delafose, 9

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Delfeayo Marsalis & Uptown Jazz Orchestra, 8 & 10 SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; Orleans 6, 6; St. Louis Slim & the Frenchmen Street Jug Band, 10 TIPITINA’S — Dr. John & the Lower 911, 9

TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 5; T’Canaille, 9 TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Damien Louviere, 5 & 9

TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Mark Penton, 1; Debbie & Deacons, 5; Late as Usual, 9

WINDSOR COURT HOTEL (POLO CLUB LOUNGE) — Zaza, 6 YUKI IZAKAYA — By and By, 8

Thursday 30 BACCHANAL — Courtyard Kings, 7; Vincent Marini, 9:30 BANKS STREET BAR — Dave Jordan & the Neighborhood Improvement Association, 10 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Armand St. Martin, 7 BAYOU PARK BAR — Ron

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BEACH HOUSE — Beach House All-Stars, 8 BIG AL’S SALOON — Danny Alexander’s Blues Jam, 8

BISTREAUX — Paul Longstreth, 7 BLUE NILE — Gravity A, 10

BMC — Low-Stress Quintet, 7; J.P. Carmody & the Micro Brues, 10

CAROUSEL PIANO BAR & LOUNGE — John Autin, 9 CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Domenic, 7; Clarence “Tadpole” Henry, 11

PRESERVATION HALL — New Birth Brass Band, 8

RALPH’S ON THE PARK — Joe Krown, 5

THE EMBERS “ORIGINAL” BOURBON HOUSE — Curtis Binder, 6

JIMMY BUFFETT’S MARGARITAVILLE CAFE — Jimmy James, 2; Truman Holland, 7

KERRY IRISH PUB — Crescent City Celtic Band, 9 KRAZY KORNER — Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, 4; Death by Orgasm, 8:30

LAFITTE’S BLACKSMITH SHOP — Mike Hood, 9 LE BON TEMPS ROULE — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Al Hebert, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9

THE MAISON — Influencia de Jazz, 7; Deja Vu Brass Band, 10 MAPLE LEAF BAR — The Trio, 10 NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE — Jetbaby, 9; Biff Rose, 10 OAK — Andrew Duhon, 7

OLD COFFEE POT RESTAURANT — Keiko Komaki, Robin Clabby & Erik Golson Trio, 6:30 OLD OPERA HOUSE — Bonoffs, 4; Vibe, 8:30

OLD POINT BAR — Blues Frenzy, 6:30; Ian Cunningham, 9

TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Butch Fields Band, 1; Big Feets, 5; Late as Usual, 9

VOILÀ — Mario Abney Quartet, 5 WINDSOR COURT HOTEL (POLO CLUB LOUNGE) — Zaza, 6; Anais St. John, 9

YELLOW MOON BAR — Michael James & His Lonesome, 9

WINDSOR COURT HOTEL (POLO CLUB LOUNGE) — Zaza, 6

YUKI IZAKAYA — Norbert Slama Trio, 8

ANDREA’S CAPRI BLU LOUNGE — Philip Melancon, 8 AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — Scott Kyser, 6:30 BANKS STREET BAR — PYMP, 10 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Armand St. Martin, 7

BEACH HOUSE — Bobby Cure & the Summertime Blues, 9

BISTREAUX — Paul Longstreth, 7

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The burlesque concerts produced by OpenHouse Music in the past year have been mostly undecorated, DIY endeavors, but the startup entertainment company led by New York transplant Zac Kushner has something else in store for The Throwdown!

New Year’s Eve. Part music festival, part Dick Clark Carnival hallucination, the shootfor-the-moon shindig earns its exclamation point with a ridiculous mashup of some of the top New Orleans pop makers of 2010: Newborn club rockers Big History (pictured) and Empress Hotel share a stage with bounce rap pioneers Partners-N-Crime; exhibitionist dance agitators Jean-Eric vie for the striptease crown with Northshore cabaret troupe Dames D’Lish. The lavish setting is a 10,000-square-foot warehouse/ staging area for local production company Studio 3, which specializes in parade floats, movie props and commercial sculpture — i.e., eye candy in bulk. Openers and Mod Dance Party DJs Kristen Zoller and Matty Uhlman can leave the rickety tables at the Saturn Bar. Their turntable station will be the life-size catapult from the Capital One Viking television ads. Tickets $15 in advance, $20 door (VIP $75/$100).

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BLUE NILE — Mykia Jovan & Jason Butler, 8; Kermit Ruffins, 10

BMC — By & By String Band, 3:30; Caroline Fourmy & Her Jazz Band, 7; Rue Fiya, 10; Young Pinstripe Brass Band, 1 a.m.

BOMBAY CLUB — Amanda Walker, 6; Luther Kent, 9:30

CAROUSEL PIANO BAR & LOUNGE — John Autin, 9 CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Unnaturals, Pallbearers, Suplecs, 8

CHICKIE WAH WAH — Subdudes, 10 CIRCLE BAR — Jim O. & Sporadic Fanatics, 6; Ballzack, Odoms, Lil Doogie, 10 CLUB 7140 — Michael Ward, 8 COACH’S CORNER — Black Magnolia, 10

COLUMNS HOTEL — Alex Bachari Trio, 5 DAVENPORT LOUNGE — Jeremy Davenport, 9 D.B.A. — Linnzi Zaorski, 6;

Honey Island Swamp Band, John Mooney, 10 THE EMBERS “ORIGINAL” BOURBON HOUSE — Curtis Binder, 6 EMERIL’S DELMONICO — Bob Andrews, 7 FELIPE’S TAQUERIA — Fredy Omar con su Banda, 10 FUNKY PIRATE — Mark Penton, 4:30; Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30 HOUSE OF BLUES — Better Than Ezra, Stooges Brass Band, 9 HOWLIN’ WOLF — Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Papa Grows Funk, 10 IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Joe Krown, 5; Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown, 8; Irvin Mayfield & the Jazz Playhouse Revue, 8

JIMMY BUFFETT’S MARGARITAVILLE CAFE — Colin Lake, 2; Irving Bannister’s All-Stars, 7 KERRY IRISH PUB — Damien Louviere & Friends, 4; Rites of Passage, 8:30

KRAZY KORNER — Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraisers, 1; Death by Orgasm, 8:30 LE BON TEMPS ROULE — Soul Rebels Brass Band, 11

LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE — Dwight Breland, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9 THE MAISON — Some Like it Hot!, 7; Soul Project, Yojimbo, midnight MAPLE LEAF BAR — Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Mia Borders, Khris Royal, 10 MARKET CAFE — Andy K. & Bobby Love, 4:30

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Keiko Komaki, Robin Clabby & Erik Golson Trio-31, 6:30

OLD OPERA HOUSE — Bonoffs, 1; Vibe, 8:30 OLD POINT BAR — Blue Frenzy, 9:30 OLIVE BRANCH CAFE — Jack Yoder, Greg “Lil G” Rosary, 6 ONE EYED JACKS — Morning 40 Federation, Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 9; Smoking Time Jazz Club, midnight

PALM COURT JAZZ CAFE — Lionel Ferbos & Palm Court Jazz Band feat. Topsy Chapman, 9 PELICAN CLUB — Sanford Hinderlie, 7

Saturday 1 ANDREA’S CAPRI BLU LOUNGE — Philip Melancon, 8 APPLE BARREL — Peter Orr, 7

AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — Scott Kyser, 6:30

BANKS STREET BAR — Clarence Trixzey Slaughter & the Funky People, 10 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Armand St. Martin, 7

BISTREAUX — Paul Longstreth, 7 BLUE NILE — Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, 7

BMC — New Orleans Jazz Series, 3; Jayna Morgan & the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band, 6:30; Space Heaters, 9:30; Ashton & the Big Easy Brawlers Brass Band, 12:30 a.m.

BOMBAY CLUB — Jeff Greenberg, 6; Philip Manual, 9:30 BOOMTOWN CASINO — Gashouse Gorillaz, 9:30

CAFE ATCHAFALAYA — Atchafalaya All Stars, 11 a.m.

CAFE ROSE NICAUD — Troy Sawyer, 8

CAROUSEL PIANO BAR & LOUNGE — John Autin, 9 CHECK POINT CHARLIE — Reason to Rebel, Very Short Shorts, 8 CIRCLE BAR — Jazzholes, 6; Alex McMurray Band, 10

COCONUT CLUB — Uncle Wayne Daigrepont, 7:30 COLUMNS HOTEL — Ryan Way & guest, 8

ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Tab Benoit, 9

DAVENPORT LOUNGE — Jeremy Davenport, 9

SPECKLED T’S — Band Camp, 10

DECKBAR & GRILLE — Miche & MixMavens, 8

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Astral Project, 8 & 10

SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; Washboard Chaz

D.B.A. — Eric Lindell, 11

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — WIlson & Moore, 10

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IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE — Roman Skakun, 5; Shamarr Allen, 8

TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Captain Leo, 1; Mojo Trio, 5; Debbie & the Deacons, 9

VAUGHAN’S — Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers, 8:30

ALLWAYS LOUNGE — LadyBabyMiss & the Tigermen, Ratty Scurvics & his Invisible Quartet, 10

HOUSE OF BLUES (PARISH) — Angry Banana, 6

TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — Can’t Hardly Play Boys, 1; Waylon or Jimmy Thibodeaux, 5; T’Canaille, 9

TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON — Mark Barrett, 5; Debbie & the Deacons, 9

FUNKY PIRATE — Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30

HOUSE OF BLUES — Better Than Ezra, Stooges Brass Band, 8

TOMMY’S WINE BAR — Tommy’s Latin Jazz Band feat. Matthew Shilling, 9

TIPITINA’S — Dr. John & the Lower 911, 9

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HI-HO LOUNGE — Stooges Brass Band, 9:30

TIPITINA’S — Galactic, Tea Leaf Green, 10

TELLO’S BISTRO — Jerry Nuccio, 5

EPIC CENTER — Higher Heights, 9 THE FAMOUS DOOR — Darren Murphy & Big Soul, 3

SWEET LORRAINE’S JAZZ CLUB — Chucky C. & Clearly Blue, Michael Ward, Angela Bell, 11

SPOTTED CAT — Brett Richardson, 4; Miss Sophie Lee, 6; New Orleans Moonshiners, 10

TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL — Mark Penton, 1; Butch Fields Band, 5; Late as Usual, 9

DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR — Eric Traub Trio, 9:30

ST. ROCH TAVERN — The Way, 9

SPECKLED T’S — Harvey Jesus & Fire, 7

DAVENPORT LOUNGE — Jeremy Davenport, 5:30

D.B.A. — Eric Lindell, 7; Grayson Capps, 10

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SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Herlin Riley, 8 & 10

TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB — T’Canaille, 9

COLUMNS HOTEL — Cristina Perez, 8

Blues Trio, 6:30; New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings, 10

ROCK ’N’ BOWL — Bucktown Allstars, 10

CIRCLE BAR — Sam and Boone, 6; Other Planets, DJ Maddie Ruthless, 10

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BOURBON HOUSE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Curtis Binder, 6 EMERILâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DELMONICO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bob Andrews, 7

FUNKY PIRATE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mark Penton, 4:30; Big Al Carson & the Blues Masters, 8:30 HERMES BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Leroy Jones Quartet, 9:30 & 11 HOUSE OF BLUES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zoso, 9

HOWLINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WOLF â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dinerral Shavers Education Fund Brass Band Blowout feat. Hot 8 Brass Band, Free Agents Brass Band, Stooges Brass Band and others, 8 IRVIN MAYFIELDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Don Vappie, 8; Brass-a-Holics, midnight JIMMY BUFFETTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARGARITAVILLE CAFE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joe Bennett, 2; Irving Bannisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All-Stars, 5

KRAZY KORNER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dwayne Dopsie & Zydeco Hellraisers, 1; Death by Orgasm, 8:30 LAFITTEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BLACKSMITH SHOP â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mike Hood, 9 LE BON TEMPS ROULE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Soul Project, 11

LITTLE TROPICAL ISLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jason Bishop, 4:30; Frank Fairbanks Duo, 9

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ONE EYED JACKS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Smoking Time Jazz Club, midnight

Band, O.L.D., Rik Slave & the Phantoms, Felix, 10

PELICAN CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sandford Hinderlie, 7

COLUMNS HOTEL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Chip Wilson, 11 a.m.

RITZ-CARLTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Catherine Anderson, 1

D.B.A. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Palmetto Bug Stompers, 6; World Be Freeman, 10

PRESERVATION HALL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joe Lastie & Friends, 8

COURT OF TWO SISTERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mary Flynn, 9:30 a.m.

ROCK â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; BOWL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kermit RufďŹ ns & the Barbecue Swingers, 9:30

SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ellis Marsalis Quartet, 8 & 10

SPOTTED CAT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Luke WinslowKing, 3; Meschiya Lake & the Little Big Horns, 6; Davis Rogan Band, 10 TOMMYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WINE BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Julio & Caesar, 10

TROPICAL ISLE BAYOU CLUB â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hardly Play Boys, 1; Waylon or Jimmy Thibodeaux, 5; Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Canaille, 9

TROPICAL ISLE BOURBON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Captain Leo, 1; Mark Barrett, 5; Debbie & the Deacons, 9 TROPICAL ISLE ORIGINAL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Butch Fields Band, 1; Rhythm & Rain, 5; Late as Usual, 9 WINDSOR COURT HOTEL (POLO CLUB LOUNGE) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zaza, 6; Anais St. John, 9

Sunday 2 12 BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fredy Omar con su Banda, 6

ARNAUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FRENCH 75 BAR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gumbo Trio, 10:30 a.m. & 6:30 BMC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nola Music Series, 1; Deluxe, 6; Janet Lynn, 9

BUFFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Some Like it Hot, 11 a.m.

CAFE ATCHAFALAYA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sam & Boone, 11 a.m.

NEUTRAL GROUND COFFEEHOUSE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Igor, 7; Ashley Beach, 8; Clyde Albert, 9; Devil Killing Moth, 10

CAFE RANI â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Courtyard Kings, 11 a.m.

OLD OPERA HOUSE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bonoffs, 1; Vibe, 8:30

CAFE NEGRIL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Smoky Greenwell & the Blues Gnus, 10

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DRAGONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DEN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Adolescents, Lower Class Brats, Lollies, 10

PRESERVATION HALL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Glen David Andrews, 8

FINNEGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EASY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Laissez Faire, 3

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NOW SHOWING BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (NR) — The museum screens a 4-D

film, bringing audiences into battle using archival footage and special effects. National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater

BLACK SWAN (R) — Darren Aronofsky directs Natalie Portman as a veteran ballerina whose psyche begins to crumble after nabbing the lead role in Swan Lake. AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Hollywood 14 BURLESQUE (PG-13) — A smalltown girl (Christina Aguilera) moves to Los Angeles and finds her place in an ailing burlesque theater run by a former dancer (Cher). AMC Palace 20 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) — The latest

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David Clark helms a CGI jaunt in a Jurassic park. Entergy IMAX, Kenner MegaDome DUE DATE (R) — Trying to make

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GRAND CANYON: RIVER AT RISK (NR) — Robert Redford

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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (PG) —

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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG-13) — The Hogwarts gang

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HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13) — A former athlete past her

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THE KING’S SPEECH (R) — Colin Firth stars as King

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LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13) — In

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MEGAMIND (PG) — Will

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David Fincher’s film follows the complicated ascent of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. AMC Palace 20 TANGLED (PG) — Mandy

Moore is the voice of Rapunzel, the princess with magical golden hair, in Disney’s animated musical comedy. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14

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UNSTOPPABLE (PG-13) — An

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OPENING FRIDAY STONE (R) — The lives of a

corrections officer and an inmate become entwined in the drama starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich.

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FOUR LIONS (R) — The satire

follows a group of British Muslim men who chase dreams of glory by becoming suicide bombers. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Saturday-Monday and Jan. 4, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net

MR. SKEFFINGTON (NR)—

Bette Davis stars as a beautiful socialite who, in order to recover her family’s squandered fortune, enters a loveless marriage with a rich older man. Tickets $5.50.

Noon Saturday-Sunday and Jan. 5, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com

NIGHT CATCHES US (R) —

After years of a mysterious absence, a young man returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 5:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, Saturday-Monday and Jan. 4, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS STORY (R) — After an archeo-

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Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R) — Tim Curry stars

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Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com VIEUX CARRE MATINEES —

The Historic New Orleans Collection screens short films on Louisiana history and culture. Visit www.hnoc.org for details. Free admission.

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St., 522-2081; www. lepetittheatre.com WHITE CHRISTMAS (NR) — A

pair of army veterans’ songand-dance team becomes romantically involved with a sister act, and they team up to save their former commanding general’s failing inn. Tickets $5.50. Noon Wednesday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www.theprytania.com

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he New Orleans art scene has On Dec. 10, Reed announced long appeared so stable and that longtime curator David cohesive it seemed immune to Houston had resigned. She ofthe wild ups and downs of major art fered no specifics, and Houston capitals like New York City — until this declined to comment. In the past, year. 2010 has been a doozy, at least at Ogden officials praised his abilthe institutional level, where there were ity to stage high-quality shows many leadership changes, some very sud- on a shoestring budget, and he den. As far as local artists and galleries is known for his comprehensive were concerned, the situation was much curatorial insight, so art lovers more normal as the scene continued to were left scratching their heads grow. As in years past, especially since and wondering what’s next at Hurricane Katrina, young artists have con- the Ogden. tinued to move here, and new art spaces, Joy Glidden resigned her including the deluxe Martine Chaisson post as director of Louisiana Gallery in the Warehouse District, opened ArtWorks, the large multipurtheir doors. The city’s best-known galler- pose art facility on Lee Circle. ies survived another year despite a bad Credited with successfully overeconomy nationally and the BP environ- seeing ArtWorks’ emergence as mental catastrophe locally. Chalk it up a force in the local art world, to New Orleans exceptionalism — the Glidden is now the director of intangibles of a culture based more on the public television series Art love than money.

Index TV. Louisiana ArtWorks’ Finances contributed to some top-level acting director Ariel Brumley says, “We changes at local arts institutions. When are open, but most of our resources are it comes to making news, the Ogden going toward completing construction on Museum of Southern Art has long been the upper floors that had been delayed, a leader. Late last year, longtime director after which we will conduct a search for a Richard Gruber resigned amid rumors full-time director. We have a PhotoNOLA the Ogden was in financial trouble, and a photography show in the gallery, and our 2009 state audit confirmed it. When the print workshop maintains its full schedaudit went public last month, board chair- ule of activities.” man Julia Reed said its findBy contrast, ings were old news, and the The Ogden Museum of Southern changes at the museum had balanced its Art has undergone changes in New Orleans books, restructured its debt leadership in the past two years. Museum of Art and its continued existence went of f like was no longer in question.

PHOTO BY D. ERIC clockwork.

BOOKHARDT John Bullard, the museum’s director since 1974, retired at age 67, and former Princeton University Art Museum director Susan Taylor took over in September. In retrospect, Bullard’s long tenure seems to have been about as smoothly productive as any director could have hoped. For her part, Taylor says, “I see a tremendous opportunity for the museum to respond to the city’s history and culture, and to be a catalyst for it.”

The changes at the Contemporary Arts Center were less predictable. Last March, the CAC’s top brass announced it wanted a full-time visual arts director for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.

That would have been difficult for Dan Cameron, who now holds the position on a part-time basis, given his status as director of the Prospect New Orleans Biennial. Cameron spent the year over-

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seeing shows he already had scheduled, and last month the CAC announced that Amy Mackie, currently an associate curator at the New Museum in New York, would take over as visual arts director next month.

At Prospect New Orleans, Cameron encountered turbulence in February when several board members resigned in a dispute about how much oversight the board of directors would have, an issue that arose as Prospect.1’s million-dollar cost overrun was being paid off. These and other factors caused Prospect.2 to be postponed. Prospect.1.5 filled the calendar void as a locally flavored expo, and some of its shows will remain up through Jan. 20, 2011. Cameron says he is “thrilled with the response to Prospect.1.5,” which he calls “the most thorough overview of contemporary New Orleans art” ever staged. He also says Prospect.2, slated to open Oct. 22, 2011, is on track, while noting that future Prospect expos will need better local financial support. The focus on a need for better funding was a recurring theme this year, and if the changes at some arts institutions sound like a wild ride, the silver lining may be that our art scene, like New Orleans itself, appears to be learning how to thrive on chaos.

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OPENING SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood. org — “Tout de Sweet,” an

exhibit exploring all aspects of the sugar industry in the South, ongoing. Opening reception 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

GALLERIES 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Blood Sport,”

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery. com — “Totally Bald,” works by Thomasine Bartlett in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 5.

DUTCH ALLEY ARTIST’S CO-OP GALLERY. 912 N. Peters St., 4129220; www.dutchalleyonline. com — Works by New Orleans

CALICHE & PAO GALLERY. 312 Royal St., 588-2846 — Oil paintings

ELLIOTT GALLERY. 540 Royal St., 523-3554; www.elliottgallery. com — Works by gallery artists

by Caliche and Pao, ongoing.

CALLAN FINE ART. 240 Chartres St., 524-0025; www.callanfineart. com — Works by Eugene de

Blass, Louis Valtat and other artists of the Barbizon, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist schools, ongoing.

CANARY GALLERY. 329 Julia St., 388-7746; www.thecanarycollective.com — “Silent Moan,”

silver gelatin prints by Michael Donnor in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday.

CARDINAL GALLERY. 541 Bourbon St., 522-3227 — Exhibition of Ital-

ian artists featuring works by Bruno Paoli and Andrea Stella, ongoing.

works by Stacy Kranitz; “Action/Reaction,” works by Erica Stavis; both in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday.

CARIBBEAN ARTS LTD. 720 Franklin Ave., 943-3858 — The gallery

A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Photo-

CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www. carolrobinsongallery.com — Annual Christmas exhibition, featuring works by Christina Goodman and gallery artists, through Friday.

graphs by Sebastião Salgado, through Jan. 1, 2011. Works by Michael Kenna in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Saturday.

ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 957-4255; www. antennagallery.org — “Color

Falls Down,” works by Priya Kambli in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Sunday.

ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings by Louise

Guidry, jewelry by Adriana Penco and mosaics by Christine Ledoux, through Thursday.

ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — Photo-

graphs by David Halliday in conjunction with PhotoNOLA; “Water, Water Everywhere So Let’s Have a Drink,” video installation by Okay Mountain Collective for Prospect.1.5; both through Jan. 29, 2011.

BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www. barristersgallery.com — “Like a

Prayer: Reflections of the 21st Century Feminine,” a group exhibition featuring 20 artists, through Friday.

BRUNNER GALLERY. 215 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 893-0444; www.brunnergallery. com — Paintings by Elizabeth L.

Noble; mixed-media drawings

by Dale Newkirk; both through Friday.

BRYANT GALLERIES. 316 Royal St., 525-5584; www.bryantgalleries.com — Paintings by Dean

Mitchell, ongoing.

BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St.

CASELL GALLERY. 818 Royal St., 524-0671; www.casellartgallery. com — Pastels by Joaquim

Casell; etchings by Sage; oils by Charles Ward; all ongoing.

COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “Field

Notes: Searching for Southern Mythology,” works by Leslie Addison and George Harvard Yerger in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday.

COLLECTIVE WORLD ART COMMUNITY. Poydras Center, 650 Poydras St., 339-5237 — Paintings

from the Blue Series by Joseph Pearson, ongoing.

COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium. com — Works by Grissel

Giuliano, Angela Martin Berry, Maggie Covert, Lisette de Boisblanc and Terry DeRoche in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday.

THE DARKROOM. 1927 Sophie Wright Place, 522-3211; www. neworleansdarkroom.com — “Newsworthy,” works by Colin Miller in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 31.

D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 5243936 — “Incidental Journey,”

abstract expressionist paintings

by Busch, through Feb. 3.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Denouement:

Exhibit Into the Flatlands and the Year of Believing,” works by Rachael Therese DePauw, Niki Fisk, Rebecca Rebouche and Kathleen Robbins in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 4.

Coignard, Engel, Papart, Petra, Tobiasse, Schneuer and Yrondi, ongoing.

FRAMIN’ PLACE & GALLERY. 3535 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-3311; www.nolaframing.com — Prints

by Tommy Thompson, Phillip Sage, James Michalopoulos and others, ongoing.

FREDRICK GUESS STUDIO. 910 Royal St., 581-4596; www.fredrickguessstudio.com — Paintings by

Fredrick Guess, ongoing.

THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront.org — “Black

Gold,” a group exhibition by artist collective Team Lump and gallery members, through Sunday.

GALERIE D’ART FRANCAIS. 541 Royal St., 581-6925 — Works by

Todd White, ongoing.

GALERIE PORCHE WEST. 3201 Burgundy St., 947-3880 — Pho-

tography by Christopher Porche West, ongoing.

GALLERIA BELLA. 319 Royal St., 581-5881 — Works by gallery

artists, ongoing.

GALLERY 421. 421 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 898-5858 — More than 500 pieces of art by more than 50 artists, ongoing.

exhibition for Prospect.1.5, through Jan. 27.

ISABELLA’S GALLERY. 3331 Severn Ave., Suite 105, Metairie, 779-3202; www.isabellasgallery. com — Hand-blown works by

Marc Rosenbaum; raku by Kate Tonguis and John Davis; all ongoing.

JAMIE HAYES GALLERY. 621 Chartres St., 592-4080; www.jamiehayes.com — New Orleans-style

art by Jamie Hayes, ongoing.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com —

“Only in New Orleans,” a group exhibition of paintings, through Friday.

JON SCHOOLER GALLERY. 8526 Oak St., 865-7032; www. jonschooler.com — “Sublimi-

nal WOWs,” paintings by Jon Schooler, ongoing.

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www. jonathanferraragallery.com —

“Vines and Lines,” works by Daisuke Shintani, through Tuesday. “Untimely Ruins,” works

by Kevin Levine in conjunction with PhotoNOLA; “Selections from the Past,” works

by Generic Art Solutions in conjunction with PhotoNOLA; both through Friday.

JULIE NEILL DESIGNS. 3908 Magazine St., 899-4201; www. julieneill.com — “Facade,”

GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu. com — “Twelve Anti-Portraits,” works by Jose-Maria Cundin, through Jan. 29.

photographs by Lesley Wells, ongoing.

THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery. com — “Eat, Drink & Be Merry,”

Stan Fontaine; “Raku” by Joy Gauss; 3-D wood sculpture by Joe Derr; all ongoing.

a group invitational exhibit featuring 14 artists, through Jan. 30.

GEORGE SCHMIDT GALLERY. 626 Julia St., 592-0206; www. georgeschmidt.com — Paintings

by George Schmidt, ongoing.

GRAPHITE GALLERIES. 936 Royal St., 565-3739 — “Sinners and

Saints,” works by Joe Hobbs, ongoing.

GUTHRIE CONTEMPORARY. 3815 Magazine St., 897-2688; www. guthriecontemporary.com — Works by Jennifer Shaw in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday. “Schemata,” works by Susan Dory, ongoing.

HAROUNI GALLERY. 829 Royal St., 299-8900 — Paintings by David

Harouni, ongoing.

HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www. heriardcimino.com — “Offerings,” monotypes by José Bedia, paintings by Margaret Evangeline and sculpture by Martin Payton; “Where Danger and Dishonor Lurks,” fiber sculpture by Loren Schwerd for Prospect.1.5; both through Friday.

KAKO GALLERY. 536 Royal St., 565-5445; www.kakogallery.com — Paintings by Don Picou and

KAWLIGA STUDIOS. 3331 St. Claude Ave., (225) 276-8159 — “Any Day Now,” works by

Amy Davis, Alleyn Evans and Benjamin Mortimer in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 7, 2011.

KEN KIRSCHMAN ARTSPACE. NOCCA|Riverfront, 2800 Chartres St. — “A Second of Your Time,” a

group exhibition of five artists for Prospect.1.5, through Jan. 7, 2011.

KEVIN GILLENTINE GALLERY. 39173919 Magazine St., 891-0509; www.kevingillentine.com —

“When Doors Become Walls,” wet plate collodion images by Euphus Ruth in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Friday.

L9 CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 539 Caffin Ave., 948-0056 — “Faces

OAK STREET GALLERY. 111 N. Oak St., Hammond, (985) 345-0521 — “12 x 12 Days of Christmas,” works presented in 12-inch by 12-inch format, through Friday.

LE PETIT SALON DE NEW ORLEANS. 906 Royal St., 524-5700 — Paintings by Holly Sarre,

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www. octaviaartgallery.com — “The Machine in the Garden,” a group exhibition of paintings, photographs and sculpture for Prospect.1.5, through Jan. 8.

of Treme,” works by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, ongoing.

ongoing.

LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Asteroids and

Other Heavenly Bodies,” works

by Alan Gerson; “Persistent, Transient Objects,” works by Brice Bischoff for Prospect.1.5; both through Friday.

LOUISIANA ARTWORKS. 818 Howard Ave., Suite 300, 571-7373; www.louisianaartworks.org — “Visions of Excellence,” an

exhibition by Pictures of the Year International in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Feb. 11.

LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD. 608 Julia St., 558-6198; www.louisianacrafts.org — Group show featuring works from guild members, ongoing.

M. FRANCIS GALLERY. 604 S. Julia St., 875-4888; www.mfrancisgallery.com — “La Vie en Rose: The Red Trumpet Series, a Tribute to Louis Armstrong,” paintings, mixed media and sculpture by Myesha Francis, through Friday.

Works by Jonathan M. Hicks for Prospect.1.5, through Jan. 8.

MAHALIA JACKSON EARLY CHILDHOOD & FAMILY LEARNING CENTER. 2405 Jackson Ave. — “The

Angola Project,” works by Bruce Davenport Jr., Deborah Luster, Jackie Sumell, Lori Waselchuk and Angola Prison artists for Prospect.1.5, through Friday.

MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 427-4759; www. martinechaissongallery.com — “Fragile Beauty,” works by Marjorie Brown Pierson in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 29.

METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL. 300 Park Road, Metairie, 837-5204; www.mpcds. com — “The Unconventional

Portrait,” works by Mark Bercier, David Halliday, Gina Phillips and Alexander Stolin, ongoing.

MICHALOPOULOS GALLERY. 617 Bienville St., 558-0505; www. michalopoulos.com — Paint-

ings by James Michalopoulos, ongoing.

MICHELLE Y WILLIAMS GALLERY. 835 Julia St., 585-1945; www.michelleywilliams.com — Works by

Michelle Y. Williams, ongoing.

KKPROJECTS. 2448 N. Villere St., 415-9880; www.kkprojects.org — “Knead,” works by Kristian

Hansen, Tora Lopez, John Oles and William Murphy, ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 — Sculptural works in metal by Jonathan Taube; participatory sidewalk art by Tish Douzart; glass rock sculpture by Curtiss Brock; all through Jan. 8.

KURT E. SCHON. 510-520 St. Louis St., 524-5462 — The gallery specializes in 18th and 19th century European oil paintings by artists from the French Salon and Royal Academy as well as French Impressionists.

NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan,” through Jan. 9.

ONE SUN GALLERY. 616 Royal St., (800) 501-1151 — Works by local and national artists, ongoing.

PARSE GALLERY. 134 Carondelet St. — “ ... And Beyond,” a multimedia group exhibition featuring nine artists, through Jan. 11, 2011.

POET’S GALLERY. 3113 Magazine St., 899-4100 — “Southern

Isolation,” photographs by Anna Hrnjak and E. Paul Julien, through Jan. 28, 2011.

RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS COMPANY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — Works by Lauren Thomas,

Ashley Beach, Sabine Chadborn, Denice Bizot and other New Orleans artists, ongoing.

RIVERSTONE GALLERIES. 719 Royal St., 412-9882; 729 Royal St., 581-3688; Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 36, 566-0588; 733 Royal St., 525-9988; www. riverstonegalleries.net — Multi-

media works by Ricardo Lozano, Michael Flohr, Henry Ascencio, Jaline Pol and others, ongoing.

ROBERE LORD GALLERY. 2375 Tchoupitoulas St., 267-5802; www.roberelordgallery.com —

“Assuming the Sublime,” works

by Bellavia, through Friday.

RODRIGUE STUDIO. 721 Royal St., 581-4244; www.georgerodrigue. com — Works by George Rodrigue, ongoing.

ROSETREE GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY. 446 Vallette St., Algiers Point, 366-3602; www.rosetreeglass.com — Hand-blown

glasswork, ongoing.

RUSTY PELICAN ART. 4031 St. Claude Ave., 218-5727; www. rustypelicanart.com — Works by

Travis and Lexi Linde, ongoing.

SALONE DELL’ARTES ARTEMISIA. 3000 Royal St., 481-5113 — “I

Genti H2O,” works by Shmuela Padnos, ongoing.

SHEILA’S FINE ART STUDIO. 1427 N. Johnson St., 473-3363; www. sheilaart.com — Works by Sheila

Phipps, ongoing.

SIBLEY GALLERY. 3427 Magazine St., 899-8182 — “Louisiana &

Trees: Life Entwined,” a group exhibition in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 11.

SLIDELL ART LEAGUE GALLERY. Historic Slidell Train Depot, 1827 Front St., Suite 201, (985) 847-9458 — “Out of the Blue,” a

group exhibition and competition, through Feb. 3.

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AORTA PROJECTS. Poland Avenue and N. Miro Street; www.aortaprojects.blogspot.com — “Blue Fence,” installation by Jennifer Odem, through Friday.

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artists, ongoing.

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STEVE MARTIN STUDIO. 624 Julia St., 566-1390; www.stevemartinfineart.com — Contemporary sculpture and paintings

by Steve Martin and other Louisiana artists, ongoing.

STUDIO BFG. 2627 Desoto St., 942-0200; www.studiobfg. com — “Peel Sessions: First STUDIO GALLERY. 338 Baronne St., Third Floor, 529-3306 — Works by YA/YA artists, ongoing.

TAYLOR BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 527-0072 — “A

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THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 581-2113; www.thomasmann.com — “Where’s the Money?” group exhibit interpreting the economy, ongoing.

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WESLEY UNITED CHURCH. 2517 Jackson Ave.; www.centralcityartistproject.org — “J. Fiber,” a

collaborative drawing project between Jane Fine and James Esber for Prospect.1.5, through Jan. 8, 2011.

WMSJR. 1061 Camp St., 2999455; www.wmsjr.com — Paintings by Will Smith, ongoing.

CALL FOR ARTISTS ELEMORE MORGAN AS MENTOR EXHIBIT. The Hillard University

Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette seeks artists who studied under Morgan between 1965 and 1998 to participate in an exhibition. Email lagray@louisiana. edu for details. Submission deadline is Friday.

FEMME FEST. The Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the Women’s Caucus for Art of Louisiana seek female artists living in Louisiana for a March exhibition. The exhibition is limited to the first 35 artists to register. Email phyllisparun@ yahoo.com for details.

sign,” textiles, jewelry, prints, linoleum blocks, drawings and glassware by the jewelry designer, through Sunday.

“Seventh Ward: People, Places and Traditions,” a group exhibition in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Feb. 28, 2011.

LAND, CURRENTS AND UNDERCURRENTS. The annual Grand

LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — “Untitled No. 6029,”

Isle juried exhibition to be held in April seeks entries. Visit www.gicdt.org for details.

Submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2011.

RECYCLED FASHION SHOW.

Local designers create fashions from thrift store purchases for the Feb. 4, 2011 event benefiting Bridge House. Call 821-7134 for details.

MUSEUMS AMERICAN-ITALIAN MUSEUM & RESEARCH LIBRARY. 537 S. Peters St., 522-7294 — Permanent

exhibits of jazz artists, a St. Joseph’s altar replica, the Louisiana Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and a research library.

ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac.org — “Ashe in Retrospect: 19982008,” photographs by Morris Jones Jr., Eric Waters, Jeffrey Cook and others, ongoing.

BACKSTREET CULTURAL MUSEUM. 1116 St. Claude Ave.; www.backstreetmuseum.org —

Permanent exhibits of Mardi Gras Indian suits, jazz funeral memorabilia and social aid and pleasure club artifacts, ongoing.

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — “Ephemera: River with Flowers,” installation by Brandon Graving, through Feb. 27, 2011. “As We See It: Youth Vision Quilt,” student-created quilt with more than 400 patches, ongoing.

GEORGE & LEAH MCKENNA MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART. 2003 Carondelet St., 586-7432; www.themckennamuseum.com — “Something Old,

Something New,” works by Letitia Huckaby in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, through Jan. 15, 2011.

GERMAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER. 519 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna, 363-4202; www.gaccnola.com — Museum exhibits

depict the colonial experience, work, culture and religion of German immigrants.

GOSH MUSEUM. 2065 Second St., Slidell, (985) 646-6118 —

“Waterways to Railways: A Bicentennial Exhibition,” rare photographs and artifacts depicting Slidell’s history, through Jan. 7, 2011.

HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Mignon

Faget: A Life in Art and De-

sculpture by Eric Dallimore, through Friday.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 5686968; www.lsm.crt.state.la.us — “LSU: Building an American

Renaissance,” a traveling exhibit about the university’s architectural history, through Saturday.

LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Living With Hur-

ricanes: Katrina and Beyond,” an exhibition of stories, artifacts and science displays, ongoing.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “Ours To Fight

For: American Jews in the Second World War,” an exhibit on loan from the Museum of Jewish Heritage, through April 24, 2011.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma. org — “Great Collectors/

Great Donors: The Making of the New Orleans Museum of Art, 1910-2010,” through Jan. 23, 2011. “Deja Vu All Over Again: Generic Art Solutions;” “Selections from Project 35” videos selected by Independent Curators International; both through Feb. 13, 2011, and more.

NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM. 514 Chartres St., 5658027; www.pharmacymuseum. org — Exhibits on 19th-cen-

tury pharmacy, medicine and health care, ongoing.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 5399600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Art of the Cup: Functional

Comfort,” a juried invitational exhibition; “One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds,” photographs by Dave Anderson; Paintings by Robert Julian Onderdonk; “Walker Evans’ Louisiana: Photographs from the Collection of Jessica Lange”; “The Michael Brown and Linda Green Collection”; all through Sunday.

TULANE UNIVERSITY. Joseph Merrick Jones Hall, 6823 St. Charles Ave. — “Treme: People and Places,” maps, architectural drawings and photographs celebrating the bicentennial of Faubourg Treme, through November, 2011.

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s 2010 draws to a close, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre has canceled the remainder of its season and closed its doors. It’s an abrupt and jarring end to a year full of memorable performances and great promise for local theater.

Le Petit had rebounded from financial problems in 2009. In 2010, it staged musicals including Grey Gardens, The Wedding Singer and Hairspray. In July, the theater presented Celebrity Autobiography, in which John Goodman channeled boy band ’N Sync and Bryan Batt read from Vanna White’s autobiography, describing the challenging parts of her career in letters. Le Petit revived its once popular Children’s Corner with a production of Chicken Little in October, but in November it announced that the theater and management company the Solomon Group were parting ways. Soon the holiday production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas was canceled, and the remainder of the season followed suit.

In contrast, several theaters and organizations blossomed in 2010. Southern Rep entered into a partnership with Le Chat Noir and now schedules productions at the cabaret. On its own mainstage, Southern Rep presented The Piano Teacher, new works like Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and the world premieres of Steve Yockey’s Afterlife: A Ghost Story and Peter McElligott’s With A Bang. Running With Scissors fluffed up its holidays with Snow Girls, a rambunctious parody of the already gratuitous Showgirls. In addition to many smaller-scale productions at Le Chat Noir, it created ongoing series there including 6x6, a monthly installment of six short plays by local authors, written around common themes.

Le Chat Noir presented some memorable shows including Ricky Graham and Varla Jean Merman in the madcap Charles Ludlam comedy The Mystery of Irma Vep. Cripple Creek Theater company took up residence at the AllWays Lounge and the venue came into its own as an eclectic and exciting font of creativity. Some of the highlights included a wickedly dark and funny production of Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders. But The December production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera was one of the year’s highlights as it combined veteran and young talents and a polished mix of raw energy and refined vision.

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Fringe Festival presented an array of new and original works ranging from comedy and puppetry to genre mashups and a rock opera. Some of the stellar shows included Du Fu, Mississippi, Our Man, Tale of Mephisto and the Lead Paint Libretto.

There was original work throughout the city. At the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, the prolific Jim Fitzmorris presented The Everlasting Bonfire, a blisteringly funny and erudite take on early 1800s New Orleans actor Edwin Forrest’s contemplation of the Bard.

ArtSpot Productions’ Kathy Randels and Rebecca Mwase used a home in Lakeview as a stage for Go Ye Therefore …, a collaborative work about both being the daughters of Baptist preachers.

Among the classic dramas staged was Our Town at Anthony Bean Community Theater, though it was reimagined as a colorblind generational saga. Anthony Bean also revived Lonnie Elder’s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men about changing times in Harlem in the 1960s.

Jefferson Performing Arts Society presented musicals including The Producers and muscial comedies like Scream Queens, an homage to B-actresses and horror films.

In a year in which adult puppet theater was everywhere, Arthur Mintz and Hi-Yah Productions’ Fantastic Mr. Fox was a treat for young audiences. The show used a massive cardboard catacomb to tell the story as an interactive odyssey.

2010 was a great year for original work, and offstage both Southern Rep and the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane strengthened themselves as institutions. There is much to look forward to in 2011— including, we hope, a revived Le Petit Theatre.

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THEATER AUNTIE MAME. Le Chat Noir,

715 St. Charles Ave., 581-5812 — Varla Jean Merman and Ricky Graham star in the campy adaptation of Patrick Dennis’ novel. Tickets $40 Friday, $34 Saturday-Sunday. Both ticket prices include $5 drink credit. 9 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday.

FANTASTIC MISTER FOX.

Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — Roald Dahl’s adventure comes to life with twisting cardboard tunnels, allowing audiences to crawl through the multi-media production’s sets. Tickets $20.

Runs through Feb. 20. Days and times vary; visit the CAC website for details.

NEW ORLEANS NOIR. Southern

Rep Theater, The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 522-6545; www. southernrep.com — The theater hosts a live recording of radio plays by Greg Herren and Julie Smith to be aired on WWNO. Free admission. 7 p.m.

Thursday.

BURLESQUE & CABARET BURLESQUE BALLROOM. Irvin

DANCE MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER. Ma-

halia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., 525-1052; www.mahaliajacksontheater.com — The ballet company’s performance benefits Kingsley House. Tickets start at $30. 8 p.m. Tuesday.

AUDITIONS BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY. Christ the King Lutheran

Church, 1001 W. Esplanade

Ave., Kenner, 469-4740; www. ctk-nola.org — The Greater New Orleans Chapter holds new member auditions for its Mardi Gras Chorus. Call 3639001 or visit www.mardigraschorus.org for details. 7:15 p.m. Tuesday.

CRESCENT CITY SOUND CHORUS. Delgado Community

College, City Park campus, Orleans Avenue, between City Park Avenue and Navarre Street; www.dcc.edu — The women’s chorus holds weekly auditions for new members.

Call 453-0858 or visit www. crescentcitysound.com for details. 7 p.m. Monday.

COMEDY

A.S.S.TRONOTS. La Nuit Com-

edy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy. com — Four androids improvise a space voyage based on audience suggestions. Tickets $6. 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

BASED ON REAL LIFE. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The weekly long-form improv comedy show features some guys, a girl and someone named John Stewart. Tickets $6. 8:30 p.m.

Saturday.

BROWN! IMPROV COMEDY.

City Bar, 3515 Hessmer Ave., 309-5325; www.citybarnola. com — The comedy troupe stars Johnathan Christiansen, Gant Laborde, Ken Lafrance, Bob Murrell and Kelli Rosher.

Visit www.brownimprovcomedy.com for details. 8:30 p.m.

Saturday.

COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 949-2009; www. lostlovelounge.com — The bar hosts a free weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

COMEDY GUMBEAUX. Howlin’ Wolf (The Den), 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.howlinwolf.com — Local comedians perform, and amateurs take the stage in the open mic portion. Tickets $5. 8 p.m.

Thursday.

COMEDY OPEN-MIC. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a weekly open-mic comedy night. (Sign-up time is 10:45 p.m.) Tickets $8. 11 p.m. Friday.

COMEDY SPORTZ NOLA. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts a safe-for-all-ages team comedy competition. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday.

DYKES OF HAZARD. Rubyfruit Jungle, 1135 Decatur St., 5711863; www.myspace.com/ rubyfruitjunglenola — Kristen Becker hosts a weekly comedy show with live music, sketch comedy, burlesque and more.

Admission $5. 9 p.m. Friday.

FEAR & LOATHING IN NEW ORLEANS. La Nuit Comedy The-

ater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300;

www.nolacomedy.com — The sketch comedy show boasts vampires, zombies, relationship advice and other horrors.

8:30 p.m. Friday.

GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy.com — Actors improvise a comedy based on audience suggestions. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Friday.

GROUND ZERO COMEDY. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 3715543; www.maisonfrenchmen. com — The show features local stand-up comedians.

Sign-up is 7:30 p.m; show is 8 p.m. Friday.

IVAN’S OPEN MIC NIGHT. Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St., 5255515; www.therustynail.org — The Rusty Nail hosts a weekly open-mic comedy and music night. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

LA NUIT STAND-UP OPEN MIC.

La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www. nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an open mic following the God’s Been Drinking show. 11 p.m. Friday.

LAUGH OUT LOUD. Bootleggers Bar and Grille, 209 Decatur St., 525-1087 — Simple Play presents a weekly comedy show.

10 p.m. Thursday.

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ROUNDHOUSE. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 644-4300; www.nolacomedy. com — Comedians perform a barefoot, long-form improvisation show. Tickets $10. 10 p.m. Friday.

SIDNEY’S STAND-UP OPEN MIC. Sidney’s, 1674 Barataria

Blvd., Marrero, 341-0103 — The show features professional, amateur and first-time comics. Free admission. Sign-up is 8 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m.

Thursday.

STUPID TIME MACHINE. The Factory, 8314 Oak St. — The improv group performs a weekly comedy show. Audiences are asked to bring their own chairs. Tickets $1-$6. 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow St., 865-9190; www.carrolltonstation.com — The weekly open-mic comedy showcase is open to all comics. Sign-up is 8:30 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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Yo Mama’s Bar & Grill, 727 St. Peter St., 522-1125 — The interactive improv comedy show features B97 radio personality Stevie G, Lynae LeBlanc, Jay Tombstone, Richard Mayer and others. Call 523-7469 or visit www.nationalcomedycompany.com for details. 10 p.m. Saturday.

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Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse, 300 Bourbon St., 553-2270; www. sonesta.com — Trixie Minx stars in the weekly burlesque show featuring the music of Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown.

Call 553-2331 for details. 11:50 p.m. Friday.

THE MIDNIGHT REVUE. Starlight by the Park, 834 N. Rampart St., 561-8939; www.starlightbythepark.com — Marcy Marcell directs a weekly femaleimpersonation jazz cabaret.

Call for ticket information.

Midnight Friday.

SLOW BURN BURLESQUE. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239 St. Claude Ave., 945-4446; www.hiholounge. net — The burlesque troupe performs with Debauche. Tickets $10. 11 p.m. Friday.

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FAMILY Tuesday 28 TODDLER TIME . Louisiana

Children’s Museum, 420 Julia St., 523-1357; www.lcm. org — The museum hosts special Tuesday and Thursday activities for children ages 3-under and their parents or caregivers. Admission $7.50, free for members. 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday 29 WINTER HOLIDAY CAMP: WHERE DO COLORS COME FROM? Ogden Museum of

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Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — Children ages 6 to 12 make their own paints from materials found in nature and then create original artwork.

Call 539-9608 or email kbarron@ogdenmuseum.org for details. Admission $35, $25 members, $10 each additional child. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Thursday 30 ART ACTIVITIES DURING AFTER HOURS. Ogden Museum of

Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden offers art activities for kids during the weekly After Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

EVENTS Tuesday 28 CASA NEW ORLEANS ORIENTATIONS. CASA New

Orleans, 1340 Poydras St., Suite 2120, 522-1962; www. casaneworleans.org — CASA holds orientations for those interested in becoming volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children in foster care. Call 522-1962 for details.

CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. Broadway Street

Market, 200 Broadway St., 861-5898; www.marketumbrella.org — The weekly market features fresh produce, kettle corn, Green Plate specials and flowers. 9 a.m.

BE THERE DO THAT to 1 p.m.

DEALING WITH LOSS. West

Jefferson Behavioral Medicine Center, 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Gretna, 391-2440 — The center offers a weekly support group. Call Doreen Fowler for details. 6 p.m.

EUCLID RECORDS TRIVIA NIGHT. Hi-Ho Lounge, 2239

St. Claude Ave., 945-4446; www.hiholounge.net — The game tests knowledge of New Orleans and non-New Orleans music trivia, and prizes include bar tabs, record store gift certificates and more. 8:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY TEA . Longue Vue

House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue.com — The tea service also provides an opportunity to take a tour of the house and gardens. Preregistration is recommended.

Call 488-5488 ext. 339 or email ajones@longuevue.com for details. Tickets $35 general admission, $30 members. 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

ROAD HOME ASSISTANCE .

Community Center of St. Bernard, 1107 LeBeau St., Arabi, 281-2512 — Representatives are available at the center to assist homeowners with questions and concerns. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday.

SCRABBLE NIGHT. St.

Tammany Parish Public Library, Mandeville Branch, 844 Girod St., (985) 626-4293; www.sttammany.lib.la.us — The library hosts a night of Scrabble playing for adults and teens. 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

THOMY LAFON COMMEMORATION . St.

Louis Cemetery No. 3, 3421 Esplanade Ave. — The event celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Creole philanthropist’s birthday. Call 669-6040 for details. 10 a.m.

Wednesday 29 COVINGTON FARMERS MARKET. Covington City

Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 892-1873 — The market offers fresh local goods every week. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

FRENCH MARKET FARMERS MARKET. French Market,

French Market Place, between Decatur and N. Peters streets, 522-2621; www.frenchmarket. org — The weekly market offers seasonal produce,

seafood, prepared foods, smoothies and more. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

GET TO KNOW GOD. Lost

& Found Center, 901 Independence St., 344-1234; www.lostandfoundcenter. org — The group meets every week to discuss Bible scripture. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP. East

Jefferson General Hospital, 4200 Houma Blvd., Metairie, 454-4000; www.ejgh.org — The American Cancer Society sponsors a group for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Call 4565000 for details. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

INFANCY TO INDEPENDENCE .

St. Matthew/Central United Church of Christ, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave., 861-8196; www.stmatthew-nola.org — The parent-child education and support group uses enriching activities in music, art and play. Visit www. infancytoindependence.org for details. 9:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday-Thursday.

SAVE OUR CEMETERIES CEMETERY TOURS. The group

conducts tours of New Orleans cemeteries. Call 5253377 for details.

TALENT SHOWCASE . Le Roux,

1700 Louisiana Ave. — Masse Media Consulting, KMP and Men of Business host a weekly “You’ve Got Talent” showcase open to all poets, singers, dancers and others. Call 899-4512 for details. General admission $10, performers $5.

9 p.m. to midnight.

WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT JW MARRIOTT. JW Marriott New

Orleans, 614 Canal St., Suite 4, 525-6500; www.marriott. com — The hotel showcases local music and art with spirit tastings and hors d’oeuvres.

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WESTWEGO FARMERS & FISHERIES MARKET. 484 Sala

Ave., Sala Avenue and Fourth Street, Westwego — The market offers organic produce, baked goods, jewelry, art and more, with live music and pony rides. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Wednesday and Saturday.

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CHANGES. Hey! Cafe, 4332

Magazine St., 891-8682 — The weekly meetings teach focusing, a method of directing attention outside one’s body to affect change. Call 232-9787 for details. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

FRESH MARKET. Circle Food

Store, 1522 St. Bernard Ave. — The Downtown Neighborhood Market Consortium market features fresh produce, dairy, seafood, baked goods and more. EBT and WIC accepted. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

IRON RAIL LADIES’ NIGHT. The Iron Rail, 511 Marigny St., 948-0963; www.ironrail.org — Iron Rail offers a weekly creative space for women.

Email ladiesnight.ironrail@ gmail.com for details. 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

SISTAHS MAKING A CHANGE .

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 569-9070; www.ashecac. org — The group offers lessons in African dance and more, along with nutrition, health and wellness seminars.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Monday.

Friday 31 ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLIC/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES. Fair Grinds

Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon Ave., 913-9073; www. fairgrinds.com — The weekly support group meets. Visit www.adultchildren.org for details. 6:15 p.m. Fridays.

MARKETPLACE AT ARMSTRONG PARK . Armstrong Park, North

Rampart and St. Ann streets — The weekly market features fresh produce, baked goods, Louisiana seafood, natural products, art, crafts and entertainment. 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays.

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY. W

Hotel (Whiskey Blue), 333 Poydras St., 207-5016; www. starwoodhotels.com/whotels — Event admission includes party favors, a premium open bar, midnight Champagne toast and music by DJ Spin.

Admission $99. 9 p.m.

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DIMENSIONS OF LIFE DIALOGUE . New Orleans

THE GREEN GIANT AWARD. The

Lyceum, 618 City Park Ave., 460-9049; www.lyceumproject.com — The nonreligious, holistic discussion group focuses on human behavior with the goal of finding fulfillment and enlightenment. Call 368-9770 for details. Free. 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

JAZZ FUNERAL FOR 2010. First

PROJECT HOMECOMING . The

faith-based nonprofit seeks homes still damaged (50 percent or more) by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt. Call 9420444, ext. 244 for details.

Unitarian Universalist Church, 5212 S. Claiborne Ave. — A jazz band leads a funeral procession for the old year and welcomes 2011 with a second line. Call 866-9010 for details.

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NEEDLE JUNKIES. 3 Ring Circus’

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY.

The Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — The knitting group meets every Sunday. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

PRIMITIVE WOODWORKING .

Fontainebleau State Park, 67825 Hwy. 190, Mandeville, (888) 677-3668 — Park rangers host a weekly demonstration of woodworking techniques. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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American Cancer Society, 2605 River Road, Westwego, 8334024 or (800) ACS-2345; www. cancer.org — The American Cancer Society needs volunteers for upcoming events and to facilitate patient service programs. Opportunities are available with Relay for Life, Look Good … Feel Better, Hope Lodge, Man to Man, Road to Recovery, Hope Gala and more. Call for information.

ANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION VOLUNTEERS. Another Life

TOASTMASTERS MEETING .

Milton H. Latter Memorial Library, 5120 St. Charles Ave. — New Orleans Toastmasters Club hosts an open weekly meeting (except holidays) to hone the skills of speaking, listening and thinking.

Call 251-8600 or visit www. notoast234.freetoasthost.org for details. 6 p.m.

Foundation seeks volunteers recovering from mental illness to help mentor others battling depression and suicidal behaviors. Free training provided. For details, contact Stephanie Green at (888) 5433480, anotherlifefoundation@ hotmail.com or visit www. anotherlifefoundation.org.

UNITED NONPROFITS OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS.

The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve seeks volunteers for the 196th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans at Chalmette Battlefield (Jan. 5-8) to set up and take down tents, distribute supplies, direct traffic and assist National Park Service staff. Call 589-3882 ext. 228 for details.

Nonprofit Central, 1824 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 895-2361; www.nonprofitcentral.org — Nonprofit Central hosts a weekly meeting for all leaders of nonprofit groups. 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1945. Stage

Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944 — The New Year’s Eve celebration features special three-course dinners

by John Besh and live entertainment. The Victory Belles perform at the 5 p.m. seating; the Victory Big Band performs at the 9 p.m. seating. Preregistration is required. Call 528-1943 or visit www.stagedoorcanteen.org for details.

Admission $100 early seating; $160 late seating ($150 for members).

award honors an individual who has made significant contributions to the environmental welfare of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana. Visit www.thegreenproject.org for details. Nomination deadline is Feb. 28.

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BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANS HORNETS. New

BAYOU REBIRTH WETLANDS EDUCATION . Bayou Rebirth

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS VOLUNTEERS. Big Brothers Big

Orleans Arena, 1501 Girod St., 587-3663; www.neworleansarena.com — The Hornets play the Los Angeles Lakers.

Visit www.nba.com/hornets for details. 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Louisiana Superdome, 1500 Poydras St., 587-3663; www. superdome.com — The Saints play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Visit www. neworleanssaints.com for details. Noon Sunday.

seeks volunteers for wetlands planting projects, nursery maintenance and other duties.

Visit www.bayourebirth.org for details.

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children. A volunteer meets two to three times a month with his or her Little Brother or Sister. You can play games, watch movies, bake cookies, play sports or plan any other outings you both would enjoy.

Call for information.

CASA NEW ORLEANS. The orga-

nization seeks volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused and neglected children in New Orleans. Thorough training and support is provided. Call Mike Madej at 522-1962 ext. 213 or email mmadej@casaneworleans.org for details.

CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET. CCFM and marketum-

brella.org seeks volunteers to field shopper questions, assist seniors, help with monthly children’s activities and more. Call 495-1459 or email latifia@marketumbrella.org for details.

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EDGAR DEGAS FOUNDATION .

The nonprofit seeks volunteers to contribute to the development of the foundation. Call 821-5009 or email info@ degashouse.com for details.

GREATER NEW ORLEANS FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER .

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

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HANDSON NEW ORLEANS. The

oysters/fried shrimp or catfish/shrimp & catfish/ calamari; served with house salad & choice of baked potato or fries

HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS.

Seafood Plates $7.15-$14.75

Hickory Smoked Barbecue $7.85-$12.25 (smoked in house) baby back ribs/pork ribs/ sliced beef/sausage/combo platter

Charbroiled Specialties $7.50-$16.00 t-bone/ribeye steak/new york strip/chicken breast/ pork chops/tuna steak/ hamburger steak; served with house salad & choice of baked potato or fries

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group holds orientations to connect locals with available volunteer opportunities in New Orleans. Call 483-7041 ext. 107 or email cho@handsonneworleans.org for details.

Harmony Hospice, 519 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8111 — Harmony Hospice seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through reading, playing cards and other activities. Call Jo-Ann Moore at 8328111 for details.

IRON RAIL . The Iron Rail, 511

Marigny St., 948-0963; www. ironrail.org — The bookstore and community space seeks volunteers. Weekly meetings are 8 p.m. Wednesday.

JACKSON BARRACKS MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS. The museum

seeks volunteers to work one day a week for the Louisiana National Guard Museum.

Volunteers prepare military aircraft, vehicles and equipment for display. Call David at

837-0175 or email daveharrell@ yahoo.com for details.

JEFFERSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL . The charter school

school program. Volunteers are needed in the arts, academics, technology, recreation and life skills. Email jenny@nooutreach. org or call 654-1060 for information.

that educates at-risk middle school students who have been expelled from Jefferson’s public schools seeks adult mentors for its students. Call 836-0808 for details.

SENIOR COMPANION VOLUNTEERS. New Orleans

LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS. Dorothy Dorsett Brown LA/ SPCA Campus, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., Algiers, 368-5191; www. la-spca.org — The Louisiana SPCA seeks volunteers to work with the animals and help with special events, education and more. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and complete a volunteer orientation to work directly with animals. Call or email Ginger Morvant at ginger@la-spca.org for details.

START THE ADVENTURE IN READING. The STAIR program

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

MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS. Jefferson Council on Aging seeks volunteers to deliver meals to homebound adults.

Gas/mileage expenses will be reimbursed. Call Gail at 8885880 for details.

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION . The MDA seeks

volunteers ages 16 and up for its weeklong summer camps around the country. Call (800) 572-1717 or visit www.mda.org/ summercamp for details.

NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM . National World War

II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The museum is accepting applications for volunteers to meet and greet visitors from around the world and familiarize them with its galleries, artifacts and expansion. Call 527-6012 ext. 233 or email janet.mauer@nationalww2museum.org for details.

OPERATION REACH VOLUNTEERS. Operation REACH

and Gulfsouth Youth Action Corps seek college student volunteers from all over the country to assist in providing recreation and education opportunities for New Orleansarea inner-city youth and their families. For information, visit www.thegyac.org and www. operationreach.org.

PUBLIC SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS.

New Orleans Outreach seeks volunteers to share their enthusiasm and expertise as part of the ARMS-Outreach after-

Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St., 821-4121; www.nocoa.org — The council seeks senior volunteers to assist with personal and other daily tasks to help seniors live independently. Call for details.

holds regular volunteer training sessions to work with public school students one-on-one in reading and language skills. Call 899-0820, email elizabeth@ scapc.org or visit www.stairnola.org for details.

TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION .

The Teen Suicide Prevention Program seeks volunteers to help teach middle- and upperschool New Orleans students.

Call 831-8475 for details.

TOURO VOLUNTEER SERVICES.

Touro Volunteer Services, 1401 Foucher St., 897-8107; www. touro.com/content/careercamp — The infirmary seeks adult volunteers to assist with the Family Surgery Lounge, Patient Information Desk, book and goody cart, hospital tours and health screenings. Call Volunteer Services at 897-8107 for information.

WORDS 17 POETS! LITERARY SERIES. Gold

Mine Saloon, 705 Dauphine St., 568-0745; www.goldminesaloon.net — The 17 Poets! series hosts a weekly poetry reading. An open mic follows. Free admission. 8 p.m. Thursday.

BARNES & NOBLE JR . Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The bookstore hosts regular free reading events for kids. Call for schedule information.

COOKBOOKS & COCKTAILS SERIES. Kitchen Witch

Cookbooks Shop, 631 Toulouse St., 528-8382 — The group meets weekly to discuss classic New Orleans cookbooks. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday.

DINKY TAO POETRY. Molly’s at

the Market, 1107 Decatur St., 525-5169; www.mollysatthemarket.net — The bar hosts a weekly free poetry reading with open mic. 9 p.m. Tuesday.

LATTER LIBRARY BOOK SALE .

Latter Library Carriage House, 5120 St. Charles Ave., 596-2625; www.nutrias.org — Friends of New Orleans Public Library holds its regular book sale. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.

LOCAL WRITERS’ GROUP.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 3721 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 455-5135 — The weekly group discusses and critiques fellow members’ writing.

All genres welcome. 7:30 p.m.

Monday.

MAPLE LEAF READING SERIES. Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak St., 866-9359; www.mapleleafbar. com — The weekly reading series presents featured writers followed by an open mic. Free admission. 3 p.m. Sunday.

OPEN MIC POETRY & SPOKEN WORD. Yellow Moon Bar, 800

France St., 944-0441; www. yellowmoonbar.com — Loren Murrell hosts a weekly poetry and spoken-word night with free food. Free admission. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

OPEN MIC POETRY JAM . La

Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com — The cafe invites writers to read their work. All styles welcome. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday.

OUTLOUD! . Rubyfruit Jungle, 1135 Decatur St., 571-1863; www. myspace.com/rubyfruitjunglenola — AR Productions presents a weekly spoken-word and music event. Admission $5. 7 p.m. Tuesday.

PASS IT ON . Red Star Gallery, 2513 Bayou Road — The gallery hosts a weekly spoken-word and music event. Admission $5.

9 p.m. Saturday.

POETRY MEETING . New Orleans Poetry Forum, 257 Bonnabel Blvd., Metairie, 835-8472 — The forum holds workshops every Wednesday. 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

SPOKEN WORD. Ebony Square, 4215 Magazine St. — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and open-mic event.

Tickets $7 general admission, $5 students. 11 p.m. Friday.

TAO POETRY. Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, 5110 Danneel St., 891-3381; www.neutralground. org — The coffeehouse hosts a weekly poetry reading. 9 p.m.

Wednesday.

UNIVERSES. Craige Cultural Center, 1800 Newton St., Algiers — The center hosts a weekly spoken-word, music and open-mic event. Tickets $5.

8 p.m. Sunday.

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Charlee Williamson, vice president of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, says the company continues to look for a new location to reopen Bacco and will open a different restaurant, yet to be named, in the former location of Old Metairie Bistro (2700 Metairie Road, Metairie) within the next few months.

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BURGERS UNDER THE OAKS

The local chain New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood Co. (4141 St. Charles Ave., 247-9753; www.nohsc.com) opened a new branch in the former location of Cannon’s, which closed last summer.

The new restaurant is the company’s first in New Orleans, and it includes a coffee shop serving beignets and gelato. A new Marrero location is expected to open early in 2011.

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SAMMY’S FOOD SERVICE & DELI 3000 ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE., 947-0675 www.sammysfood.com

The Ray Ray po-boy covers large fried chicken cutlets with ham and cheese.

COOTER BROWN’S TAVERN

A Resourceful Year

COMEBACKS AND NEW VENTURES FILLED THE YEAR IN DINING, DESPITE THE BP DISASTER.

In 2010, chef Susan Spicer opened Mondo in Lakeview and celebrated the 20th anniversary of Bayona.

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Ridge (10160 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-6464), and veteran local chef Guy Sockrider opened Roux on Orleans (717 Orleans Ave., 523-2222). Mike’s on the Avenue (628 St. Charles Ave., 523-7600), an emblem of 1990s New Orleans dining, returned as well.

Fans of small plates, craft cocktails and wine bars had a lot to celebrate this year with the openings of Three Muses (536 Frenchmen St., 298-8746), Oak (8118 Oak St., 302-1485), the Eiffel Society (2040 St. Charles Ave., 525-2951) and Lilette chef John Harris’ Bouligny Tavern (3641 Magazine St., 891-1810). Upscale comfort food saw new contenders with Sylvain (625 Chartres St., 265-8123) in the French Quarter and the addition just this month of chef Brack May’s Cowbell (8801 Oak St., 298-8689) in the Riverbend. Chef Susan Spicer opened Mondo (900 Harrison Ave., 224-2633) in Lakeview, and she also celebrated the 20th anniversary of her first restaurant, Bayona (430 Dauphine St., 525-4455). Emeril Lagasse toasted the same milestone at his flagship Emeril’s Restaurant (800 Tchoupitoulas St., 528-9393), while Herbsaint (701 St. Charles Ave., 524-4114) and Lilette (3637 Magazine St., 895-1636) each notched 10-year anniversaries.

Another milestone of sorts occurred at Upperline (1413 Upperline St., 891-9822), where chef Ken Smith resigned after nearly 20 years to train for the priesthood. He passed the torch to chef Nathan Winowich in September.

2010 also marked the passing of Myrtle Romano Baquet at age 88. Along with her late husband Edward Baquet Sr., she ran Eddie’s on Law Street in Gentilly and raised a family that would continue a tradition of Creole soul cuisine at a succession of restaurants across town, including today’s two locations of Lil’ Dizzy’s Cafe.

Fried meat pies are topped with provolone and gravy.

MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP 3454 MAGAZINE ST., 899-3374 www.mahonyspoboys.com

Order fried chicken livers with coleslaw.

CRABBY JACK’S

428 JEFFERSON HWY., JEFFERSON, 833-2722

The gravy-drenched duck debris po-boy is overstuffed and rich.

GUILLORY’S GROCERY

3708 DERBIGNY ST., METAIRIE, 833-1390

New Orleans-style tamales go into a loaf with onions and cheddar.

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NAPA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA / $16-$26 RETAIL Wine Spectator named this sparkler one of its top 100 wines of 2010 (No. 48). The blend of primarily Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes was sourced from more than 50 vineyards. The wine offers aromas of bread dough, strawberry and toasty notes. On the palate, taste complex flavors of citrus, baked apple, pear and yeast. Drink it with shellfish and other seafood, paté, mushrooms, grilled fowl and light meats. Buy it at: Available at a wide range of grocery and liquor stores. Drink it at: K-Paul’s, Antoine’s, Mr. B’s, Broussard’s, Courtyard by Marriott on St. Charles Avenue and P.F. Chang’s. — Brenda Maitland

Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > DECEMBER 28 > 2010

he biggest story for New Orleans food in 2010 didn’t happen in a kitchen or a dining room, but far out in the Gulf with BP’s oil disaster. We’ll be monitoring the impacts of the spill for years to come, but as the seafood supply struggled back in the second half of 2010, it was more deliberately celebrated by restaurateurs, fishermen’s advocates and diners.

In a way, this experience was similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when there was grave concern about the future of New Orleans’ culinary culture. Then, as now, we heard the call to more fully appreciate the delicate and vital resources that could be lost and to support them with renewed vigor.

This lesson surely came at a terrible cost, but 2010 offered plenty of evidence of the city’s culinary resurgence five years after Hurricane Katrina. Despite the BP disaster, the march of interesting new restaurants rolled right along.

At the high end came the adventurous, Anglocentric cuisine of Feast (200 Julia St., 304-6318), the debut of a jewel box of a cafe called Rue 127 (127 N. Carrollton Ave., 483-1571) and the entry of the extremely ambitious Meson 923 (923 S. Peters St., 5239200) — which also saw the abrupt departure of chef Christopher Lynch.

Two years after closing his namesake French Quarter restaurant, chef Dominique Macquet returned with Dominique’s on Magazine (4729 Magazine St., 894-8881). His comeback was hardly the only one this year. Katie’s (3701 Iberville St., 488-6582) and SidMar’s (3322 N. Turnbull Drive, Metairie, 831-9541) each reopened for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.

Pete Vazquez, chef of the Katrina-casualty Marisol, joined chef/owner David Whitmore at Mimi’s of River

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Dollar signs represent the average cost of a dinner entree: $ — under $10; $$ — $11 to $20; $$$ — $21 Credit cards. $ or more. To update information in the Out 2 Eat listings, email willc@gambitweekly.com, fax 483FIVE HAPPINESS — 3511 S. Carrollton 3116 or call Will Coviello at 483-3106. Deadline is 10 a.m. Monday.

AMERICAN CAMELLIA CAFE — 69455 Hwy.

59, Abita Springs, (985) 809-6313; www.thecamelliacafe.com — A family-friendly atmosphere and local flavors are calling cards of Camellia Cafe. The Riverbend platter is a feast of catfish, shrimp, oysters, crab fingers, soft shell crab and hushpuppies. The Monterey chicken is grilled and topped with onions, peppers, mushrooms and cheese. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

AMERICAN CON— TEMPORARY 5 Fifty 5 — 555 Canal St., 553-5638;

www.555canal.com — The lobster mac and cheese, combines lobster meat, elbow macaroni and mascarpone, boursin and white cheddar cheeses. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-

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4455; www.bayona.com — House favorites on Chef Susan Spicer’s menu include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ THE GREEN GODDESS — 307 Ex-

change Alley, 301-3347; www. greengoddessnola.com — At lunch, Big Cactus Chilaquiles feature poached eggs on homemade tortillas with salsa verde, queso fresca and nopalitos. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Thu.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE —

8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl.com — Chef Scott Snodgrass prepares refined dishes like char-grilled oysters topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette, seared scallops with roasted garlic and shiitake polenta cakes and a memorable cochon de lait. Reservations recommended. Lunch Thu.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

BAR & GRILL DINO’S BAR & GRILL — 1128 Tchoupi-

toulas St., 558-0900 — Dino’s kitchen serves burgers, chicken tenders, salads and wraps. Happy hour is from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays.

No reservations. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards and checks. $ RENDON INN BAR & GRILL — 4501

Eve St., 826-5605 — Try appetizers such as spinach and artichoke dip, hot wings or fried pickles. Off the grill there are burgers, chicken sandwiches or cheese quesadillas.

Other options include salads. No reservations. Lunch and dinner

daily. Credit cards. $

THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449

River Road, 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

ZACHARY’S BY THE LAKE — 7224

Pontchartrain Blvd., 872-9832; www.zacharysbythelake.com — Zachary’s serves seafood platters, po-boys, salads, barbecue shrimp and more. Jumbo Gulf shrimp with cane syrup are wrapped in bacon, fried crispy and served with pickled okra salad. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

BARBECUE ABITA BAR-B-Q — 69399 Hwy.

59, Abita Springs, (985) 892-0205 — Slow-cooked brisket and pork are specialty at this Northshore smokehouse. The half-slab rib plate contains six ribs served with a choice of two sides. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Tue.Sat. Credit cards. $ WALKER’S BAR-B-QUE — 10828

Hayne Blvd., 281-8227; www.cochondelaitpoboys.com — The makers of the Jazz Fest cochon de lait po-boy serve pork, ribs, chicken and more. The family feast includes a half-slab of ribs, half a chicken, half a pound of brisket, pork and sausage, two side orders, bread and sauce. No reservations.

Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Saturday.

Cash only. $

CAFE

THE BREAKROOM CAFÉ — 3431

Houma Blvd., Metairie, 941-7607 — Breakfasts of eggs, waffles or burritos are served any time at the Breakroom. The breakfast platter rounds up two eggs, bacon and a hashbrown patty. At lunch, the signature Breakroom sandwich is piled high with corned beef, pastrami, purple onion, lettuce and tomato. There’s also a selection of salads and a coffee bar. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

CAFE FRERET — 7329 Freret St., 861-7890; www.cafefreret.com — The cafe serves breakfast itemes like the Freret Egg Sandwich with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon or sausage served on toasted white or wheat bread or an English muffin.Signature sandwiches include the Chef’s Voodoo Burger, muffuletta and Cuban po-boy. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Fri.-Wed., dinner Mon.-Wed., Fri.Sat. Credit cards. $$

ELIZABETH’S RESTAURANT — 601 Gallier St., 944-9272; www.elizabeths-restaurant.com — Signature praline bacon sweetens brunch at

this Bywater spot. Dinner brings options like fish and scallop specials. Also enjoy homemade desserts. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE —

5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001 — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. Breakfast is available all day on weekends. No reservations.

Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARKVIEW CAFE AT CITY PARK —

City Park, 1 Palm Drive, 483-9474 — Located in the old Casino Building, the cafe serves gourmet coffee, sandwiches, salads and ice cream till early evening. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $

RICCOBONO’S PANOLA STREET CAFE — 7801 Panola St., 314-1810

— Specialties include crabcakes Benedict — two crabcakes and poached eggs topped with hollandaise sauce and potatoes — and the Sausalito omelet with spinach, mushrooms, shallots and mozzarella. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $

ST. JAMES CHEESE — 5004 Prytania St., 899-4737; www.stjamescheese. com — The cheese shop offers more than 100 varieties of cheese from around the world. A small menu includes creative sandwiches, salads and specials. The Radette cheese sandwich includes house-made pastrami and spicy pickles on rye. No reservations.

Lunch daily, dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun

St., 861-3615 — The signature Loto-Burger is as good as ever, or try the castle burgers. Fried seafood and plate lunches provide square meals, as do the sandwiches and salads. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ TERRAZU — 201 St. Charles Ave., 287-

0877; www.terrazu.net — Located in the lobby of Place St. Charles, Terrazu serves sandwiches like the Brie cheese press with turkey, Brie, spinach and sweet and spicy raspberry coulis in pita bread. The Terrazu shrimp salad combines boiled shrimp, hearts of palm, tomato and avocado with tarragon vinaigrette. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

VINE & DINE — 141 Delaronde St., 361-1402; www.vine-dine.com — The cafe serves cheese boards and charcuterie plates with pate and cured meats. There also is a menu of sandwiches, quesadillas, bruschettas, salads and dips. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

Ave., 482-3935 — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Delivery and banquest facilities available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

JUNG’S GOLDEN DRAGON — 3009

Magazine St., 891-8280; www. jungsgoldendragon2.com — Jung’s offers a mix of Chinese, Thai and Korean cuisine. Chinese specialties include Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan dishes. Grand Marnier shrimp are lightly battered and served with Grand Marnier sauce, broccoli and pecans. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

THREE HAPPINESS — 1900 Lafayette

St., Suite 4, Gretna, 368-1355; www. threehappiness.com — Three Happiness serves Chinese and Vietnames dishes and dim sum specials on weekends. Westlake duck features tender duck with snow peas, corn, straw mushrooms and napa cabbage. Vietnamese crepes are served with pork and shrimp.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

TREY YUEN CUISINE OF CHINA — 600 N. Causeway Approach.,

Mandeville, (985) 626-4476; 2100 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, (985) 345-6789; www.tryyuen.com — House specialties include fried soft-shell crab topped with Tong Cho sauce, and Cantonese-style stir-fried alligator and mushrooms in oyster sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

COFFEE/ DESSERT ANTOINE’S ANNEX — 513 Royal St.,

581-4422; www.antoines.com — The Annex is a coffee shop serving pastries, sandwiches, soups, salads and gelato. The Royal Street salad features baby spinach and mixed lettuces with carrots, red onion, red peppers, grapes, olives, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette.

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

BEN ’N JERRY’S — 3500 Veterans

Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 887-5656 — Ben ’n Jerry’s offers rich ice creams in signature flavors, ice cream cakes, frozen drinks, fruit smoothies and sundaes. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $

CREOLE ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St.

Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines. com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like, with a labyrinthine series of dining rooms. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat.,

brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

AUSTIN’S RESTAURANT — 5101 W.

Esplanade Ave., Metairie, 888-5533; www.austinsno.com — Austin’s cooks hearty Creole and Italian dishes like stuffed soft-shell crab and veal Austin, which is crowned with crabmeat. No reservations.

Dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

GUMBO SHOP — 640 St. Peter St., 525-1486; www.gumboshop.com — Gumbo and New Orleans classics such as crawfish etouffee dominate the menu. Their spicy flavors meld into a dish that represents the city’s best and redefines comfort food. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LE CITRON BISTRO — 1539 Religious

St., 566-9051; www.le-citronbistro. com — Located in a historic building, the quaint bistro serves starters like chicken and andouille gumbo and fried frogs legs. Entrees include choices like fried chicken, Gulf fish and burgers. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

MR. ED’S CREOLE GRILLE— 5241

Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 889-7992; www.mredsno.com — Mr. Ed’s offers seafood dishes and some Italian accents. Try shrimp beignets with sweet chili glaze or creamy blue crab dip. Eggplant Vincent is a fried eggplant cup filled with crawfish and shrimp and served with pasta. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N.

Peters St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Outdoor seating is adjacent to Dutch Alley and the French Market. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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2187 — American Pie serves breakfast around the clock and a menu of burgers and Americana classics.

The Reuben has melted Swiss over pastrami and sauerkraut and is served with fries or chips. Chicken quesadillas with provolone and sauteed onions and peppers are one of the changing daily specials.

No reservations. Open 24 hours daily. Credit cards. $

DAISY DUKES — 121 Chartres St., 5615171; www.daisydukesrestaurant. com — Daisy Dukes is known for its seafood omelet and serves a wide variety of Cajun spiced Louisiana favorites, burgers, po-boys and seafood, including boiled crawfish and oysters on the halfshell. Breakfast is served all day. No reservations. Open 24 hours daily.

Credit cards. $$ STEVE’S DINER — 201 St. Charles Ave.,

522-8198 — Located in the Place St. Charles food court, Steve’s serves hot breakfasts until 10 a.m. Lunch features sandwiches, salads and hot plate lunches such as fried catfish and baked chicken Parmesan.

No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $

FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St.,

895-0900; www.flamingtorchnola.com — Enjoy classic French dishes from escargot in garlic butter to veal liver or steak au poivre.

Other dishes include roasted duck and New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp. Reservations accepted.

Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Mag-

azine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has both a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try dishes such as Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and stone-ground goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended.

Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

CELLERS OF RIVER RIDGE — 1801

Dickory Ave., Harahan, 734-8455; www.cellersrr.com — 1801 Dickory Ave., Harahan, 734-8455; www.cellarsrr.com — The deli at this wine shop serves up hearty dishes and creative sandwiches like the “spicy bird” with smoked turkey, applewood-smoked bacon, pepper Jack cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayo on a croissant. The shrimp remoulade salad is served over romaine with cucumbers and tomatoes.

No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards and checks. $

KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave.,

Metairie, 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $

MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www. martinwine.com — Sandwiches piled high with cold cuts, salads, hot sandwiches, soups and lunch specials are available at the deli counter. The Cedric features chicken breast, spinach, Swiss, tomatoes and red onions on seven-grain bread. No reservations.

Lunch daily. Credit cards. $

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez,

Chalmette, 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart.com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

INDIAN JULIE’S LITTLE INDIA KITCHEN AT SCHIRO’S — 2483 Royal St., 944-

6666; www.schiroscafe.com — The cafe offers homemade Indian dishes prepared with freshly ground herbs and spices. Selections include chicken, lamb or shrimp curry or vegetarian saag paneer. Schiro’s also serves New Orleans cuisine.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $

NIRVANA INDIAN CUISINE — 4308

Magazine St., 894-9797 — Serving mostly northern Indian cuisine, the restaurant’s extensive menu ranges from chicken to vegetable dishes. Reservations accepted for five or more. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

TAJ MAHAL INDIAN CUISINE — 923-

DINER AMERICAN PIE DINER — 2244 Vet-

erans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 468-

C Metairie Road, Metairie, 836-6859 — The traditional menu features lamb, chicken and seafood served in a variety of ways, including cur-

Julie’s Little India Kitchen at

Out2Eat

2426; www.bacco.com — Bacco blends Italian and contemporary Creole cuisine. Chef Chris Montero artfully prepares homemade pastas and fresh seafood, including lobster and shrimp ravioli. Reservations recommended.

Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ RICCOBONO’S PEPPERMILL RES-

TAURANT — 3524 Severn Ave., Metairie, 455-2266 — This Italianstyle eatery serves New Orleans favorites like stuffed crabs with jumbo lump crabmeat with spaghetti bordelaise and trout meuniere with brabant potatoes. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wed.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ TONY MANDINA’S RESTAURANT — 1915 Pratt St., Gretna, 362-2010;

www.tonymandinas.com — Tony Mandina’s serves Italian and Creole cuisine such as veal parmigiana, veal Bordelasie, shrimp Mandina and battered eggplant topped with shrimp and crabmeat in cream sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

JaPaNESE KYOTO — 4920 Prytania St., 8913644 — Kyoto’s sushi chefs prepare rolls, sashimi and salads.

“Box” sushi is a favorite, with more than 25 rolls. Reservations recommended for parties of six or more. Lunch and dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$ MIKIMOTO — 3301 S. Carrollton

MIYAKO JAPANESE SEAFOOD & STEAKHOUSE — 1403 St. Charles

LOuISIaNa CON— tEMPORaRY ATCHAFALAYA RESTAURANT —

901 Louisiana Ave., 891-9626; www.cafeatchafalaya.com — Atchafalaya serves creative contemporary Creole cooking.

Shrimp and grits feature head-on Gulf shrimp in a smoked tomato and andouille broth over creamy grits. There’s a Bloody Mary bar at brunch. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$$

MEDItERRa— NEaN/MIDDLE EaStERN ATTIKI BAR & GRILL — 230 Decatur St., 587-3756; www.attikineworleans.com — Attiki features a range of Mediterranean cuisine including entrees of beef kebabs and chicken shawarma. Reservations recommended. Lunch, dinner and latenight daily. Credit cards. $$ PYRAMIDS CAFE — 3151 Calhoun

St., 861-9602 — Diners will find authentic, healthy and fresh Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as sharwarma prepared on a rotisserie. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily.

Credit cards. $$

MEXICaN & SOutHWEStERN CARLOS MENCIA’S MAGGIE RITAS MEXICAN BAR & GRILL — 200

Magazine St., 595-3211; www.maggieritas.com — Mexican favorites include sizzling fajita platters, quesdillas, enchiladas and a menu of margaritas. There also are Latin American dishes, paella and fried ice cream for dessert.

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

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7444 ST CHARLES AVE, #108 1st flr condo in great area! 2 bdrms, 2 ba, hdwd flrs, furn kit w/granite counters, cen a/h, pool, pkg, brick patio. $265,900.

Debbie Prejeant 504-952-0959 or 504-866-2785 dprejeant@latterblumpm.com LATTER & BLUM

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504.949.5400

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Next to Rouses Grocery Store, furn/ unfurn, studio/1 BR, $650-$1200. Call 504-919-3426 or 504-581-6350.

NEW RENTAL

Newly renov. 3 rms, kit, bath, washrm, fridge, mw, stove & washer. $650 wk/ neg. 504-905-9086, 504-717-7394.

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Newly tiled bath and tons of natural light! 1 bed / 1 bath. Owner agent

RENTALS 715 Royal 1 / 1 $700 421 BuRgundy #2 1/1 $1100 5224 Coliseum 2/1 $1100 1026 Bienville 1/1.5 $1500 712 st PhiliP 1/1 $1700

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1012 WASHINGTON AVE

Completely renov 2 bdrms, 2 ba, cen a/h, wood floors, w/d, new appls, lg rear yard. $1395/mo. O/A, 891-3180.

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1629 TOLEDANO #102

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3 br, 1 ba apt, lr, dr, furn kit, cen a/h, w/d, cble & wtr incl. Close to univ & stcar. $1035/mo. Call Cindy, 236-3278.

637St. Phillip

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269-9629 or 458-6509

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Jimbo is a 2-year-old, neutered, Retriever mix who already knows how to “sit” and “down.” He’s been at the shelter since Oct. and he’d love to attend an obedience class with his new family. To meet Jimbo any of the other wonderful pets at the LA/ SPCA, come to 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd. (Algiers), 10-4, Mon.-Sat. & 12-4 Sun. or call 368-5191.

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