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A conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown

BY WILL COVIELLO POETRY HAS MYSTERIOUS POWERS.

Poet and onetime New Orleanian Jericho Brown, who last week won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “The Tradition,” knows how they work.

“I’ll be on an airplane and one of the ways that I know I can get someone to stop talking to me if I don’t feel like talking to my neighbor is when they ask me what I do, or what do I do for a living: I say, ‘I am a poet.’ ” Brown says from his home in Georgia. “That usually gets a blank stare.”

Sometimes conversation continues.

“One reaction is for people to say, ‘I hate poetry,’ ” Brown says. “But it’s not true. I think our relationship to poetry is like it is to any art. Nobody ever says, ‘I hate music,’ but everybody only likes some songs. If I say, ‘You don’t have any poem you ever liked?’ then people will say, ‘Oh there’s this poem by Robert Frost or E.E. Cummings.”

Brown knows it’s not always easy to say one loves poetry. He grew up in Shreveport, and when he enrolled at Dillard University, his parents expected him to also go to law school.

He had a brush with politics instead.

After graduating, he worked as a staff writer for Mayor Marc Morial and eventually become his speechwriter.

Brown also enrolled in a graduate writing program at the University of New Orleans, which sealed his fate.

“I thought I would put my foot in the water,” he says, “and then I was like, there’s an ocean out there. I need to go swim in this.”

By the time Morial was term-limited out of office, Brown had been accepted into a doctoral program at the University of Houston.

He’s currently the director of the creative writing program at Emory University. He’s the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and he won awards for his previous two poetry collections.

“The Tradition” (Copper Canyon Press) is a powerful collection of poems, arranged with a sort of narrative arc, and it showcases Brown’s lyrical voice, skilled turns of phrase and creativity with poetic forms.

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Several poems in the book with related and developing themes are called “Duplex,” which is a form he improvised.

“Those couplets repeat the second line, with nine to 11 syllables per line,” he says. “It unites the blues, the sonnet and the ghazal. You understand that you’re reading all three at once. It’s 14 lines, so it approximates a sonnet. It repeats lines, so it’s blues, and it’s got lines that are together for juxtaposition, so thats a ghazal.”

The collection opens with Brown’s take on the mythological Greek tale of Ganymede, a boy considered so beautiful by the gods that they take him to serve them. Brown highlights the strange arrangement and how it masks enslavement and sexual assault. It sets up several of the collection’s unifying themes, and many of the poems subtly build to explosive revelations about violence against black people and sexual assault.

The collection takes its name from a short poem that begins with names of flowers and intersperses them throughout its 14 lines, including aster, nasturtium and stargazer While it notes their bright blooms and simple beauty, it also finds other meanings in their demise every season, punctuated with the names of black men killed by police.

The poems are varied, and there are references to New Orleans, including one invoking Tom Dent, the local playwright and poet whose father was president of Dillard University. “The Legend of Big and Fine” is a humorous poem about bragging and euphemism.

Brown says that often the poems reveal themselves to him as he works on them.

“You want to go somewhere that even you did not expect to go,” he says.

LIKE COUNTLESS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans (MASNO) had to postpone its plans for 2020.

The organization’s 28th New Orleans International Piano Competition (NOIPC) — which brings up-and-coming pianists, often from more than 20 countries, to New Orleans every two years — has been rescheduled to July 2021. MASNO’s solo performance program, the New Orleans Piano Institute, has been pushed back to fall next year.

Like many other performers and musical organizations without a venue, MASNO has turned to video performances to fill in for canceled plans.

The organization on April 28 launched MASNOtes, a series of short weekly videos featuring classical musicians and composers from around the country. All of the featured artists have been associated with MASNO in the past.

Six videos are planned for the first series, which will be released every Tuesday until June 2 on MASNO’s YouTube page and website (www.masno.org).

New York City-based pianist Spencer Myer, the gold medal winner of the 2008 NOIPC, performed Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne in D-flat Major for the first video.

And composer and pianist Courtney Bryan, an assistant professor of music at Tulane University, is featured in the second video, performing her work “Spirit,” recorded in 2017 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

“MASNOtes” will release performances by NOIPC 2006 winner Dustin Gledhill on May 12; Igor Resnianski, also a NOIPC winner, on May 19; the duo of pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine and violinist Chloe Kiffer on May 26; and Jep Epstein performing his composition “Our Home, Louisiana” on June 2.

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Jericho Brown, a graduate of

Dillard University and the University of New Orleans, won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize last week for his poetry collection “The Tradition,” an exploration of the cultural crisis of terror and humans’ reactions to it. The Shreveport native, who is director of the creative writing program at Emory University, also drew literary prizes for his first book “Please,” which won an American Book Award, followed by “The New Testament,” which drew an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.

Lil Wayne and the Edgar “Dooky” Jr. & Leah Chase Family Foundation, along

with Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, provided more than 4,500 meals to local schools, churches and food pantries to be distributed to residents in need. The meals were made possible through donations from rapper Lil Wayne and community partners.

The Urban League of Louisiana and Verizon have

established the Verizon Technology Loaner Program, which provides laptops, hotspots and digital tools to participants in Urban League programs, students trying to complete school work through distance learning, people trying to file for unemployment and those searching for a job. The program will officially begin in early June.

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A man packs up his belonging as the City of New Orleans relocates more than 150 homeless residents into temporary housing.

MORE HOMELESS RESIDENTS HOUSED IN HOTELS AN ADDITIONAL 150 HOMELESS New Orleanians were relocated to temporary housing at local hotels May 7 as part of officials’ ongoing efforts to help this at-risk community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

City and state officials facilitated the move, along with UNITY of Greater New Orleans, a nonprofit that works to provide housing and services to those without shelter in Jefferson and Orleans parishes.

According to a news release, most of the homeless residents were transported to hotels from three general locations: Calliope Street, New Orleans Public Library’s main branch and Duncan Plaza.

Martha Kegel, executive director of UNITY, told Gambit her organization will manage their cases and check on them regularly to provide additional resources. They also provided face coverings, donated by Masks for America.

The latest move means there are now 428 homeless people who have been moved off the streets since the coronavirus began to spread, Kegel said.

A spokesperson for Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the city has helped with 375 of these cases.

Kegel said, “We’ve also been moving people quietly — just lone individuals here and there, and we’re continuing to do that. But these big encampments require the city and the state and UNITY to all come together because it’s such a massive effort.”

The city’s first relocation event was March 26, when several people were taken to the Hilton Garden Inn. In April, many of the homeless were relocated to motel rooms in New Orleans East.

“It’s been a real struggle to come up with resources to do this, and I’m relieved that we were finally able to assist all these people today,” Kegel said.

Officials said the city will continue to provide temporary housing for residents moved from an encampment around the intersection of Claiborne and Cleveland avenues that became hazardous due in part to a rodent infestation following the closure of several downtown restaurants.

“We are committed to finding as many housing alternatives as possible — including both temporary and more permanent — for our more vulnerable residents who have become susceptible to the coronavirus,” said Ellen M. Lee, director of the city’s Office of Community and Economic Development. “We continue to respond as we successfully identify additional resources to make this happen.”

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Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser announced last week that the number of visitors increased in 2019 for an eighth consecutive year — up from 2018’s tally of 51.3 million. That’s a bittersweet figure as the state’s normally robust tourism and hospitality industries suffer fallout from shutdowns and temporary closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ve heard people say that recovering the tourism industry to its 2019 level as a result of COVID-19 will be virtually impossible,” Nungesser said in a news release. “But Louisiana makes it a habit to do what is said can’t be done.” Investing in tourism and promoting the region leads to thousands of direct and indirect jobs for the state. At the end of 2019, 242,200 people were employed in tourism-related jobs, a 2.3% increase over 2018, the release said.

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“There are some people who are still scattered around in smaller groups.”

The relocation process May 7 came just two days after Gov. John Bel edwards pledged to allocate $10.4 million in federal community block grant funds to help build nine affordable rental housing projects in new Orleans.

Plans for the developments initially were approved in January but were halted in March when the pandemic struck new Orleans and Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office used some of that funding to pay for more immediate needs for the city’s hundreds of homeless residents. — SARAH RAVITS

the difference between the amount a household can afford to pay for housing and actual rent. TBRA funds will be used specifically to assist individuals or households at risk of losing permanent housing or those in transitional housing who are able to move to permanent housing.

Funding also will support the shelter expansion and rehabilitation program, which is an effort to increase the number of beds in shelters to accommodate the nearly 400 individuals without shelter. The city says it expects to increase shelter capacity by 300 beds and will work to identify more permanent housing.

— SARAH RAVITS

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French Quarter Festival and Satchmo SummerFest canceled for 2020

Gov. John Bel edwards said on May 5 that he will allocate about $10.4 million in community block grant funds to benefit nine affordable rental housing projects in new Orleans that were halted after the city reprioritized its funding toward COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts.

The governor announced the funding May 5, restarting housing projects that originally were green-lighted in January. Community block grants are among the longest-running programs of the u.S. Department of Housing and urban Development. They provide funds for local community development activities with the goal of providing affordable housing, anti-poverty programs and infrastructure development.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office decided to divert local funding previously destined for long-term, multi-family housing projects to provide relief such as finding temporary housing for some homeless residents during the coronavirus outbreak. The allocation by edwards will allow the housing developments to continue on their scheduled timelines.

“I commend Mayor LaToya Cantrell for reprioritizing the city’s housing funds to help those at risk of homelessness, which is another critical step in mitigating the disproportionate suffering caused by this pandemic on housing-vulnerable populations,” edwards said in a news release. “By directing more [community development block grant] funds toward these projects, we are helping to ensure continuation of the City’s progress in addressing its longterm affordable housing challenges.”

The latest funding will allow the city to work on its rental assistance program as it provides rental and utility assistance to low-income households impacted by the pandemic. Another program, tenantbased rental assistance (TBRA), will provide payments to make up

It came as no surprise last week when French Quarter Festival and Satchmo SummerFest organizers announced the events were canceled for 2020. It had been a foregone conclusion since Mayor LaToya Cantrell said April 14 that all large events should be canceled for the rest of the year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

French Quarter Festivals Inc. initially postponed its April event to the fall. now both that festival and Satchmo SummerFest, which celebrates Louis Armstrong’s birthday in early August, are canceled.

“At the City’s direction and out of caution for the safety of fans, musicians, staff and partners, French Quarter Festival and Satchmo SummerFest 2020 have been canceled,” said a press statement from the organization.

Those events join other major music festivals that will not take place in 2020, including the new Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, essence Festival of Culture, Voodoo Music + Arts experience and BuKu Music + Art Project. — WILL COVIeLLO

Call for nominations: Gambit’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2020 It’s that time of year when we pay tribute to those among us who get things done, work for the community good, excel at their passions or just have extraordinary ideas and talents in Gambit’s annual 40 under 40 issue.

Tell us about your favorite do-gooders, over-achievers, unsung heroes and heroines or exceptionally proficient professionals. elected officials are not eligible for the honor, and nominees must be 39 years old or younger on June 9, 2020. Submission deadline is May 18. nominations can be submitted via email to kgraves@gambitweekly.com, or fill out a form at www.bestofneworleans.com/40under40nomination.

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Clockwise from far left: Jack Groh, Elisha Schiller, Benjamin Wilkins, Alexander Wilson, Kaylie Cross and Zachary Wilkins (front) are high school students involved with Remedy Ribbons, which was started by Zachary Wilkins. They are working to raise funds for health care workers in need of mental health support services. On Wednesday, they tied blue ribbons around trees on the neutral ground outside of Tulane Medical Center as a show of gratitude.

High schoolers raise funds for health workers coping with trauma Seven Lusher Charter High School students gathered May 6 to tie blue ribbons around trees on the neutral ground in front of Tulane Medical Center to show support for health care professionals working to save lives of COVID-19 patients.

Founding members of the newly launched nonprofit Remedy Ribbons (www.remedyribbons.org), the teenagers said their effort was part of a campaign to show gratitude and to raise awareness of the toll the pandemic has taken on the mental health of frontline workers at hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities. In conjunction with the Greater New Orleans Foundation, Remedy Ribbons also raises funds for the workers’ mental wellness.

The visit outside Tulane’s medical facility was one of several stops planned over the next few weeks. The group also has decorated lampposts in front of Children’s Hospital and Lambeth House.

Zachary Wilkins, a junior who spearheaded the organization, said he felt compelled to take action after his brother mentioned at a family dinner that the trauma experienced by health care workers during the pandemic could exceed that of first responders and health care workers in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Wilkins said he then read a BBC article that mentioned “moral injury,” which the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs defines as a “distressing psychological, behavioral, social and sometimes spiritual aftermath of exposure to such [traumatic] events.” The article also spotlighted trauma that health care workers may face after trying to care for patients with limited supplies and staffing.

“You can be the best doctor, the best nurse, the most favorite assistant, but you can’t save [all] these people. ... They keep witnessing people dying every single day, and then when they go home, they’re not going home and hugging their wife and husband or kids, they’re going into a secluded part of the house and isolating themselves,” Wilkins said. “So they’re alone at home, and then they have to repeat this process every day, and it’s awful.”

With encouragement from fellow students and his family, including his grandmother, Carol Wise, a prominent philanthropist and activist, Wilkins created Remedy Ribbons.

So far, the teenagers have raised more than $6,000 and invite high school students across the city to join their initiative. “The [health care workers] are remedying society right now,” he says. “So the least we can do is be a remedy for them when they need it most.” — SARAH RAVITS

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Instead of focusing on their constitutional duty to enact a balanced state budget by their June 1 adjournment date, a majority of state lawmakers are literally running roughshod over the public on several fronts.

This is happening thanks to the Republican legislative majority (not all Republican lawmakers, but most of them) bowing to pressure from Big Oil, Big Business and Big Insurance to hastily enact legislation that shields them from being held accountable for damages they inflict on the public.

They call such legislation “tort reform” and claim it will save jobs and reduce insurance rates. That is a lie.

Such bills will increase profits for insurance companies, reduce people’s ability to be made whole after being seriously injured in accidents, and allow polluters to escape responsibility for their role in destroying Louisiana’s coastal wetlands.

Right now people are preoccupied with the dangers posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s what makes the political machinations of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) and others so despicable. They know the vast majority of Louisiana citizens aren’t paying close attention to what they’re up to — so they’re pushing lawmakers to meet late into the evening to rush through bad legislation.

Here are just a two examples: • Senate Bill 359 by state Sen. Bob Hensgens, R-Gueydan, would kill lawsuits already filed against Big Oil by parish governments over the loss of coastal wetlands. Some of these lawsuits, including one brought by Jefferson Parish, already have been settled against one major defendant.

SB 359 would derail those settlements. The Senate Natural Resources Committee approved the bill on a 4-3 vote after 9 p.m. May 8. This bill, and others, are literally being passed in the dark of night. SB 359 could cost coastal parishes billions in

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The Louisiana Senate warns it may not be able to come up with a state budget by closing time June 1, but it has been busy debating bills to help big business.

coastal restoration funds. Apparently some lawmakers care more about taking care of Big Oil than restoring Louisiana’s vanishing coast.

• Senate Bill 471 by state Sen. Robert Mills, R-Minden, bears the Orwellian title “Louisiana Timber Transportation and Safety Act.” The only “safety” provided in the 35-page bill is protection for logging truck operators and their insurers. It caps general damages for people who are catastrophically injured or killed in logging truck accidents at $500,000, which won’t go far for anyone who winds up in a wheelchair after such an accident. Don’t be fooled into thinking this bill doesn’t affect you. It is a stalking horse. If it becomes law, other industries will insist in future years that they, too, need such “safety” measures.

Meanwhile, Senate President Page Cortez said lawmakers may not be able to get a budget done by June 1 — because the impact of COVID-19 has them on a tight timeline. Perhaps if lawmakers focused on their constitutional duty to pass a budget during this session — instead of helping Big Business and Big Insurance trample the rights of ordinary citizens and local governments — they’d have plenty of time for the budget.

Otherwise, citizens can only hope that Gov. John Bel Edwards will veto these and other bad bills — and that his vetoes will be sustained.

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FIFTY YEARS AGO LAST MONDAY

(May 4), 39-year-old Moon Landrieu and his wife Verna gathered their nine kids and left their home on South Prieur Street for a special Mass at St. Louis Cathedral, then to City Hall for his inauguration as New Orleans’ 56th mayor. A lot has happened since then, but some of the city’s most transformative events of the past half-century occurred during his eight-year administration.

As he stepped onto the family’s airy front porch that morning in 1970, his thoughts ran from “great satisfaction and pride” to nervousness and anxiety. “We were beginning, not ending a campaign,” he recalled, “beginning the administration of a city that needed help.”

Landrieu reflected back on that day and on his long political career during an extended interview with me on the morning of his inauguration’s 50th anniversary. That interview — the brainchild of WWL-TV Executive Producer Dominic Massa — took both of us back many years.

I began my career at The Times-Picayune in May 1973, three years after Landrieu became mayor, but I and others in my generation already knew him as an agent of change in one area in particular: race relations.

“It wasn’t just a question of racial justice, but from a practical standpoint, I recognized — as a politician, as a legislator and councilman — that we were wasting so much talent, wasting so much energy, by precluding blacks from participation in all matters,” he recalled. “And I was determined, as I became mayor, to revitalize this city and to bring about racial integration, so that the city could enjoy the full benefit of white and black participants.”

He encountered significant opposition and withstood withering criticism — critics called him “Moon the Coon” — but he pushed back.

“Nothing happens overnight,” he said. “It’s not a snap of the finger.

Things progress with an adjustment here, an adjustment there, and push, push, push. And finally, things work out.”

Decades before Mardi Gras krewes integrated, Landrieu integrated the Rex ball by bringing several African-American couples as his official guests. He credits his friend, the late Leon Irwin III, a member of Rex, with the idea. He gave Irwin the names of several black couples to invite, including Dr. Norman Francis, then-president of Xavier University, and his wife Blanche.

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“They were all issued invitations.

Some of them told me, ‘We don’t want to go to that ball.’ I said, ‘Look, if three little kids can get spit on walking to school over at Frantz School, you can put your tuxedo on and come to the ball.’ And they did.”

Landrieu has special words of praise for Francis. They became friends when both attended Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (where Landrieu’s daughter Madeleine now serves as dean) in the 1950s. He said Francis was “one of the people I spoke to often” for advice. “You can’t characterize his contributions in just a few words.

He’s been a counselor to so many people. When you look at what he’s accomplished at Xavier, it’s incredible. Then, during the civil rights movement, he housed many students who traveled here on buses [to register voters].”

Landrieu appointed Francis to the city’s Civil Service Commission — the first black person on that body — “because it was very difficult for blacks to get civil service jobs.” Some viewed that appointment with skepticism, but not long afterward, Landrieu said, “The head of Civil Service came to me and said, ‘Norman Francis is the best thing that’s ever happened to the Civil Service Commission.’ ” Landrieu also was a huge proponent of the Superdome, which opened to rave reviews but endured a difficult path toward completion, and of renovating the French Market, which had fallen into decline.

There were tragic moments during

his tenure as well — the Rault Center fire in 1972; the Howard Johnson’s sniper incident in early 1973; and, later that same year, the UpStairs Lounge fire, which claimed the lives of 32 people, most of them gay men.

In the wake of the UpStairs Lounge fire, New Orleans officialdom did little or nothing to acknowledge the gay community’s grief.

Landrieu recalled that he was out of town on an official trip when the fire occurred. “I regret that I didn’t get home quicker,” he said. “It’s one of my regrets that I have during the term of office I served.”

After his second term ended in 1978, Landrieu entered private life, but not for long. President Jimmy Carter asked him to become U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary in 1979. He recalls Carter as “a good, honorable, decent man” whose one term in office was beset by difficulties.

Landrieu served with two governors while mayor — John McKeithen and Edwin Edwards. He described McKeithen as “a very, good politician … an enlightened man … and a great governor.” Of Edwards, he said, “I admired him for his intelligence. He was very quick witted, very smart.”

Looking back over the past 50 years that morning on his front porch, Landrieu had no difficulty naming his proudest accomplishment: “My wife and my nine children,” he said. “I’m a very grateful man.”

Looking back 50 years, New Orleans has reason to be grateful, too.

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Hey Blake, After seeing TV footage of the potter’s field on New York’s Hart Island, I wondered whether we have such a cemetery in New Orleans.

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Since the city of New Orleans’ founding, several cemeteries have served as the final resting place for indigent residents, as well as unclaimed or unidentified bodies.

One so-called potter’s field is near Resthaven Memorial Park in the 10000 block of Old Gentilly Road in New Orleans East. Better-known is Holt Cemetery, in the 500 block of City Park Avenue near Delgado Community College.

Holt Cemetery was created in 1879. According to the group Save Our Cemeteries, it is named for Dr. Joseph Holt, the Board of Health president who pushed for its creation. It replaced two older and overcrowded cemeteries for the poor, Locust Grove No. 1 and No. 2 on Freret Street.

Over the years, the city conducted burials at Holt for the indigent or unidentified, but families also could purchase plots there. While many of the graves (all of which are below ground) are unmarked, others feature handmade signs, crosses and markers. Over the years, the cemetery often has fallen into disrepair, although in 2013 the city launched a $450,000 restoration.

“Here, in this obscure cemetery in a city that lists its graveyards in tourist guidebooks because of their beauty and history, the dead are housed not in ornate crypts but buried in the soil, the bones of generations — six, eight, more —

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Jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden’s grave at Holt Cemetery.

mingling in a single hole,” author Rick Bragg wrote in The New York Times in 1998. “If richer, older cemeteries are a record of New Orleans society, Holt Cemetery is a symbol of its potholed streets, its peeling shotgun houses, its un-air-conditioned churches, Bingo halls, blue-collar social clubs and beer joints.”

Two notable New Orleans musicians are buried in Holt Cemetery: pioneering jazzman Buddy Bolden and 1960s singer Jessie Hill, best known for his hit “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Not far from Holt, Charity Hospital Cemetery was for many years used to bury those who died at the hospital but whose bodies went unclaimed.

The cemetery, located near Canal Street and City Park Avenue, now is the site of a Hurricane Katrina memorial, which was unveiled in 2008. A mausoleum contains the unclaimed remains of about 80 people who died as a result of the storm and the federal levee failures.

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tration, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide jobs for millions of Americans left unemployed during the Great Depression. Created by executive order on May 6, 1935, the program employed some 8.5 million people over eight years, paying them with $4.9 billion in federal funds.

The WPA is best remembered for the thousands of streets, bridges and public facilities constructed by laborers nationwide. In New Orleans that includes City Park’s Tad Gormley Stadium, Botanical Garden and bridges over City Park waterways.

The garden and stadium feature the work of noted artist Enrique Alferez, who directed the local WPA sculpture program. The WPA also commissioned him to create the “Fountain of the Four Winds” sculpture at Lakefront Airport.

WPA workers also renovated Audubon Zoo, the Cabildo, Presbytere, Pontalba buildings and St. Roch Market, while also creating Pontchartrain Beach and Lincoln Beach along Lake Pontchartrain. The WPA employed artists and writers. Its Federal Writers’ Project, led by Lyle Saxon, produced the 1938 “New Orleans City Guide” as well as a folklore collection, “Gumbo Ya-Ya.” The WPA was disbanded in 1943.

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As we enter the final stretch of state- and city-mandated quarantine, you’re getting antsy to go outside, entertain yourself with something other than electronics and perhaps see human beings you haven’t been cloistered with for eight weeks.

We know you want to fling open the front door and run to freedom, but not so fast. There’s still a week left in state and local stay-at-home orders, and we’re told that if we pull the trigger too soon, we’re just shooting ourselves in the foot. Not only will it get you some finger-shaking from Gov. John Bel Edwards and Mayor LaToya Cantrell, it could reignite the spread of COVID-19 and cause officials to hit the reset button on restrictions.

For the love of New Orleans, please stay home for one more week.

We’re here to help with some diversions to get you through the coming days, when patience and toilet paper are in short supply and your font of creative ideas for self-entertainment are running dry. You can test your observation skills (on those essentials-only trips you’ve taken during the shutdown) with a COVID-19 Bingo card. We’ll also tell you about the latest in livestreaming events from your favorite entertainers, movies you should see, virtual tours to museums events and a couple of other suggestions. Hang in there, we’ve got you covered.

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Revamp your Monopoly game to be New Orleans-centric, with buildings and venues you love around the city. (Who wouldn’t want to own Mardi Gras World, New Orleans Museum of Art, Commander’s Palace or the Music Box?) Rewrite the penalty/reward cards with local experiences: Go to the back of the line at Hansen’s Sno-Bliz, lose a turn; or free tickets to Jazz Fest 2021, advance three spaces; or twerk-off with Big Freedia, win $50.

Take out your Scrabble game and set aside some of the rules (most of the rules, really) for things like proper nouns and play with New Orleans things (beignets), phrases (makin’ groceries), places (Treme), events (Jazz Fest) and names (Toussaint).

If you really need to get out of your house, grab a face mask and take a tour of the spectacular murals all over New Orleans. Gambit’s Will Coviello compiled slideshows of murals in different neighborhoods across the city, and the story “Wall to Wall” on www.bestofneworleans.com includes a map that shows you which are nearby.

Hold a decorate-your-facemask party with an exclusive guest list of those people with whom you’ve been sheltering in place for almost two months. Pull out the sequins, glitter, fringe, king cake babies, paint and whatever else floats your boat and fancy-up those masks. If you make a video of the resulting fashion show, please send it to us at response@gambitweekly.com.

You may not be able to wear them as personal protective gear later, but they’ll make a great souvenir of your time in lockdown.

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You have enough restrictions in your life. Here’s how you play. Mark the things you’ve seen around town during the shutdown and when you get one in each column — or challenge yourself and make it two in each column — you get to jump up, pump your fists and yell “BINGO!” You also can use the card as a scavenger hunt list and see what you can find on your daily walks, solitary recreation or essential trips outside your home.

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BY KANDACE POWER GRAVES Contemporary Arts Center‘s (www.cacno.org/covid19) ArtOrbit program includes short films, music performances, dance and interviews. The museum also has digital tours of its exhibits.

Historic New Orleans Collection (www.hnoc.org) has virtual tours of eight exhibits on subjects including money, Andrew Jackson, people and places in the French Quarter, New Orleans music, the Boswell Sisters, the slave trade, a history of shopping and “Voices of Progress: Twenty Women Who Changed New Orleans.”

Louisiana Children’s Museum (www.lcm.org) offers its “Connections at Home” library of YouTube videos that guide children through activities such as building a boat or birdhouse, making ink from onion skins, creating stencils, gardening and more.

National World War II Museum (www.nationalww2museum. org/events-programs) is offering hourlong webinars about World War II this week aired from 11 a.m. to noon through Zoom. On May 12, senior museum curator and restorations manager Tom Czekanski discusses the Germans’ deadly and highly accurate 88mm guns. “Jazz During World War II and Beyond,” on May 13 features a discussion about how making music helped soldiers get through the war. In this webinar, Jason Dawsey talks with Nick Spitzer, host of National Public Radio’s “American Routes” program, who also is an anthropology professor at Tulane University.

Newcomb Art Museum (www. newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu) has a host of resources, including curator-led tours of its holdings, guided meditation and movement videos, art activities and downloadable coloring pages featuring Newcomb pottery and images inspired by the current Studio BE exhibition of work by graffiti artist Brandan “BMike” Odums.

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The Ogden Museum of Southern Art has a host of activities to keep residents busy.

New Orleans Museum of Art (www.noma.org) is organizing content by weekly themes, with new digital exhibitions and virtual tours through its page on www. artsandculture.google.com, as well as object lessons, artist talks via Zoom, arts and crafts projects and more. Its YouTube channel includes curator spotlights, artist talks and tutorials and regularly updated tours of the museum and the sculpture garden are available through its mobile guides.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art (www.ogdenmuseum.org) has several virtual programs the public can access through its website, including a range of art activities and classes children can do at home.

On Wednesdays from noon to 12:30 p.m., Ogden educator Mikhayla Harrell, a yoga and meditation instructor, holds the live “Art + Zen” meditation program, with each session inspired by a different artwork in the museum. The program is held via Zoom.

Young Audiences of Louisiana’s Baby Artsplay at Home is a workshop for babies 12 months to 24 months old that teaches caregivers how to incorporate art experiences into everyday life to build cognitive and other skills. The workshop is 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday, May 14, and features an artwork by Minnie Evans from Ogden’s collection.

“Ogden Kids Art Break,” which airs a new episode weekly on Ogden’s blog, is a 15-minute video instructing youngsters how to use household items to create a work of art inspired by a featured Southern artwork. The next program is 2 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Thursday, May 14. Past episodes are available on the blog.

“Ogden After Hours At Home” takes the museum’s weekly Thursday night live music and gallery browsing event online, featuring Southern musicians and DJs performing from their homes. The event is 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 14 and can be viewed on Zoom or the museum’s Facebook page.

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Yeah, we miss packed music venues, performance spaces and bars a lot, too.

But many New Orleans musicians and artists have embraced live streaming their gigs, and there are plenty coming up this week.

If there’s a silver lining, it’s that the couch becomes the best seat in the house.

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Big Freedia performs with DJ Mannie Fresh during the inaugural Shorty Gras at Mardi Gras World on Feb. 15, 2020. The two New Orleans performers both have online gigs this week. Big Freedia performs on Friday and Mannie Fresh will DJ sets on Friday and Saturday.

Cooking in Quarantine.

Cooking show. Chefs at the New Orleans Culinary Hospitality Institute host an office-hours-meets-superclub class. 5 p.m. on Zoom.

For more information and to register, go to www. nochi.org/shop.

Virtual Jazz Funeral. New Orleans Brass/Tribute.

The Treme Brass Band will perform “A Closer Walk with Thee” in tribute to New Orleanians lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presented by the New Orleans Jazz Museum. 5 p.m. on www.facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum.

Casey Saba. Rock/Variety.

7 p.m. on www.facebook. com/caseysabamusic. Tip jar: @caseysabamusic on Venmo; paypal.me/caseysaba; and www.patreon.com/ caseysaba.

Sabrina Stone. Jazz/pop.

Part of “For the Culture, Live from the Heart of New Orleans” series from House of Blues. 7 p.m. on www. facebook.com/hobnew-orleans and Instagram, @ hobnola.

Clown Town TV. Sideshow performances. 8 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ clowntownnola. Tip jar: @ heathyre on Venmo and Cash App and paypal.me/ heathyre.

David Torkanowsky. Jazz.

Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 8 p.m. on www.sidebarnola.com.

Raj Smoove. DJ set. “Quiet Storm” R&B set at 9 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ rajsmoove and Instagram, @ rajsmoove.

Music, cooking shows, clowns, DJs, comedy and more are available online this week

Wednesday, May 13

The Rusty and Fanny Show. Music/comedy/variety show. 6 p.m. on www. facebook.com/therustyandfannyshow. Tip jar: russellwelch@me.com on PayPal and @Russell-Welch-1 on Venmo.

Joe Ashlar. Funk/rock. Presented by Maple Leaf Bar and Funky Bats. 6:30 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ joeashlarmusic. Tip jar: @ joeashlar on Venmo.

B Street Benny. Variety/ party. Presented by Rock ‘n’ Bowl. 7:30 p.m. on www. facebook.com/ therocknbowl.

Torsten Muller. Experimental jazz. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 8 p.m. on www.sidebarnola.com.

Thursday, May 14

Raj Smoove. DJ set. “You Gots to Chill” old school hip-hop at noon on www. facebook.com/rajsmoove and Instagram, @rajsmoove.

The Slick Skillet Serenaders. Blues/jazz. 4:30 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ slickskilletserenaders. Tip jar: @slickskilletserenaders on Venmo.

Author Happy Hour. Literature event. Garden District Book Shop will host a virtual happy hour with Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Morgan Babst. 5 p.m. on www. facebook.com/gardendistrictbookshop.

Cooking in Quarantine.

Cooking show. Chefs at the New Orleans Culinary Hospitality Institute host an office-hours-meets-superclub class. 5 p.m. on Zoom.

For more information and to register, go to www.nochi. org/shop.

Chicken on the Bone.

Variety/Party band. 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ chickenonthebone. Tip Jar: “Chicken on the Bone” on Venmo, Cash App and PayPal. Johnny Vidacovich.

Jazz. Presented by Maple

Leaf Bar. 8 p.m. on www. facebook.com/neworleansdrummer. Tip jar: @deborah-vidacovich on Venmo and jvidacovich@cox.net on PayPal. Will Thompson & Chris Alford. Jazz. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.”

8 p.m. on www.sidebarnola.com.

Friday, May 15

Simon Berz. Jazz. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 2 p.m. on www. sidebarnola.com.

David Doucet. Cajun/Americana. 5 p.m. on www.facebook.com/dfdoucet. Tip jar: paypal.me/dfdoucet.

Drag Queen Bingo. Game night. Hosted by Mother Tucker. 7 p.m. on Facebook (search ”Drag Queen Bingo Live”). $5 to play; proceeds benefit NOLA Art Walk.

Mannie Fresh. DJ set. 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ djmanniefresh and on Instagram, @manniefresh.

Raj Smoove. DJ set. “In Your House” live from House of Blues at 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ rajsmoove and Instagram, @ rajsmoove.

Big Freedia. Bounce.

“Friday Night Shakedown.”

8 p.m. on www.facebook. com/bigfreedia and Instagram, @bigfreedia. Tip jar: Encouraging donations to the New Orleans Disaster relief fund at www.gnof.org and Big Freedia’s touring crew at paypal.me/ big-freedia.

Ellis Marsalis Tribute Nights. Jazz. Snug Harbor will live stream tribute concerts to pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. at 8 p.m. on www. facebook.com/snugharborjazzbistro and Instagram, @ snugjazz_nola.

Freaky Fridays. Paranormal show. Ghost hunter, historian and storyteller James Corbyn hosts a Facebook Live session on various topics with Q&A at the end.

8 p.m. on www.facebook. com/nosecretstours.

Phil Degruy. Jazz. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 8 p.m. on www. sidebarnola.com.

Amy Trail: ”Stuck-home Syndrome — a piano bar experience.” Variety piano.

9 p.m. on www.facebook. com/amytrail. Tip jar: @ Amy-trail on Venmo.

Saturday, May 16

DJ faeriegothmother.

DJ set. Live from Sisters in Christ. 3 p.m. on www. twitch.tv/djfaeriegothmother.

Mike Dillon. Rock/funk. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 4 p.m. on www. sidebarnola.com.

Mannie Fresh. DJ set. 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ djmanniefresh and on Instagram, @manniefresh.

Sunday, May 17

Raj Smoove. DJ set. “Mimosa on Your Sofa” at 11 a.m. on www.facebook.com/ rajsmoove and Instagram, @rajsmoove.

“Sid’s Biz.” Jazz. Tribute to Sidney Bechet. 2 p.m. on www.facebook.com/artoftheduo504.

The Slick Skillet Serenaders. Blues/jazz. 4:30 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ slickskilletserenaders. Tip jar: @slickskilletserenaders on Venmo.

Drag Queen Bingo. Game night. Hosted by Mother Tucker. 5 p.m. on Facebook (search ”Drag Queen Bingo Live”). $5 to play; proceeds benefit NOLA Art Walk.

Burris. Rock/jazz. 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ burrismusic and Instagram, @ burris_music.

Under the Cyber Chandelier. Open mic. Virtual open mic series featuring poetry, fiction and nonfiction, multimedia and more.

A sign up Google form is available. 7 p.m. on Zoom.

Find more information at www.facebook.com/underthecreolechandelier.

Jason Marsalis. Jazz. Part of the “Sidebar Virtual Experience.” 8 p.m. on www. sidebarnola.com.

Monday, May 18

Storytime with puppeteer Karen Konnerth. Kids’ event. Part of the city’s “Embrace the Culture” series. 11:30 a.m. on www.

on Venmo and helengillet@gmail.com on PayPal. Robin Barnes and Pat Casey. Jazz/soul. #SongBirdAtHome series. 7 p.m. on www.facebook.com/ robinbarnesmusic. Tip jar: @neworleanssongbird on Venmo and Cash App and robin@robinmariebarnes.com on Zelle.

One last binge Streaming films that benefit local theaters and cultural organizations The pandemic has been

a perfect opportunity to catch up with backlogs of unwatched films or binge-watch new series.

It’s been a tough time for local cinemas, but some arthouse film distributors helped The Broad Theater and Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge by splitting $12 ticket fees with them if viewers used links from the theaters’ websites.

Both The Broad Theater and Zeitgeist air a special screening of “Up from the Streets,” a documentary about New Orleans’ music, and a portion of viewing fees goes to a fund set up by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation for musicians affected by the pandemic. The film is available May 15. The film’s executive producer is trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who will participate in a Q&A via Zoom on Saturday, May 16.

Also recently introduced by the New Orleans Film Society is a channel to view 40 films screened at the New Orleans Film Festival. Below are details about film screenings that benefit local theaters and cultural organizations.

“Bacurau.” When townspeople in a remote area of Brazil notice their village has disappeared from the internet, it sets up a modern Western as the town sits on the lawless frontier of global forces. The Broad and Zeitgeist.

“Corpus Christi.” Nominated for a Best International Feature Oscar in 2020, this thriller from Poland follows a young man from prison to the pulpit, as he is mistaken for

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Andre Bohren. Classical piano. Short “piano breaks” at 1 p.m. daily and hourlong concerts 6 p.m.

Wednesdays on www. facebook.com/andre. bohren. Tip jar: @ andre-bohren on Venmo and abohren14@ gmail.com on PayPal.

Blood Jet NOLA Poetry.

Facebook group featuring poetry performances from New Orleans based artists. Daily on Facebook (click here for link).

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a priest sent to help a town in need. Zeitgeist.

“Crescendo.” A famous director tries to build a youth orchestra of Israeli and Palestinian children. Zeitgeist.

“Extra Ordinary.” In this paranormal comedy, Will Forte plays a washed-up rock star who needs to find a virgin to make a deal with the devil for another hit. The Broad and Zeitgeist.

“From NOLA with Love.” The New Orleans Film Festival offers online screenings of 40 feature and short films by local filmmakers from its 2019 event via its website. Visit https://nolalove. eventive.org for details and a film guide.

“L’Innocente.” Director Luchino Visconti’s 1976 Italian film about libertine 19th-century aristocrats was restored and rereleased in 2020. Zeitgeist.

“The Hottest August.” This person-on-the-street documentary encounters New Yorkers talking about their daily lives and hopes and fears about the future. See page 25. Zeitgeist.

“Mossville — When Great Trees Fall.” The documentary follows the struggle for survival of a Louisiana community created by formerly enslaved people and free people of color that found itself surrounded by petrochemical plants. The Broad.

“New York International Children’s Film Festival.” There are two slates of short animated and live action films, one for children ages 3 to 7 and one for ages 8 and older. Zeitgeist.

“Once Were Brothers.” The documentary follows the rise and fall of Robbie Robertson and The Band. The Broad.

“Roar.” Anyone who bingewatched “Tiger King” may be

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“Up from the Streets.” Director Michael Murphy’s exploration of New Orleans musical traditions includes interviews with Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Robert Plant, Sting and others. The Broad and Zeitgeist.

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And the nominees are…

WHEN JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION

(www.jamesbeard.org) announced its 2020 culinary awards finalists May 4, many New Orleans restaurants and chefs were included. The winners will be announced Sept. 25 in Chicago. Media awards are set to be announced online May 27.

The James Beard Awards originally were slated to be presented May 4 at an event in Chicago. When restaurants began shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic, the James Beard Foundation started its Food and Beverage Industry Relief Fund, tapping

Restaurants reopen in New Orleans City Park and elsewhere

BY I A N M C N U LT Y NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK’S ROLE AS AN URBAN OASIS has been on display

through the coronavirus crisis as people seek restorative outdoor time.

Two of the park’s newest amenities have returned for visitors not looking for recreation, and they’re among restaurants that have reopened for takeout and curbside pickup service in recent weeks.

The City Park location of Cafe du Monde (56 Dreyfous Drive, 504766-0250; www.cafedumonde. com) reopened and serves beignets and coffee drinks from its takeout window. The cafe is boarded up, but there is walk-up service from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. On the covered patio, once filled with tables, tape now marks off 6-foot intervals as a guide for physical distancing.

Cafe du Monde’s historic French Market location remains closed, though it still operates a drive-through from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily at its Metairie location (4700 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 504-888-9770).

After the Dickie Brennan & Co. restaurant group opened The Commissary (634 Orange St., 504-2741850; www.thecommissarynola.com) for pickup meals recently, Acorn (15 Henry Thomas Drive, 504-218-5413; www.acornnola.com), its cafe inside the Louisiana Children’s Museum, reopened with takeout service.

The museum remains closed, but the restaurant was designed to operate independently. It has a broad covered deck jutting over a lagoon, and though outdoor tables are permitted by the state, service still is restricted by the city. Curbside service is from a tented station in the museum parking lot.

The menu has pizza (whole and by the slice), meat and veggie burgers, sandwiches, entree salads and a kids menu with grilled cheese, hot dogs and fried or grilled chicken tenders.

There also are cookies, brownies and ice pops from Pop Brothers. It also serves beer and bottles of wine, starting at $10.

Acorn also plans to serve “charcuterie rolls,” a selection of cured meats,cheese and extras all arranged

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on butcher paper that’s rolled up for easy picnic pickup.

Nearby in Mid-City, Parkway Bakery & Tavern (538 Hagan Ave., 504-4823047; www.parkwaypoorboys.com) reopens Tuesday, May 12. Orders must be called in to the restaurant, and food will be delivered to customers’ cars in numbered spaces in the the restaurant’s parking lot. Its hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Recent special events, such as Festing in Place during the weeks when the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival would have taken place, have helped entice some restaurants to resume at least partial operations. Chef Nina Compton reopened her Warehouse District restaurant Compere Lapin (535 Tchoupitoulas St., 504-599-2119; www. comperelapin.com) for pre-ordered Mother’s Day specials. It continues with curbside pickup. Special menus will be posted on the restaurant’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

Compton and her partners also have served a few special meals at Bywater American Bistro (2900 Chartres St., 504-605-3827; www.bywateramericanbistro.com), including a night featuring Caribbean-style jerk chicken and ribs and a Friday fish fry.

Ralph’s on the Park (900 City Park Ave., 504-488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com) has been the takeout hub for Ralph Brennan’s restaurants, offering family-style meal service for two or four diners for pickup Wednesday through Sunday. The restaurant group reopened Napoleon House (500 Chartres St., 504-5249752; www.napoleonhouse.com) at the end of April. The menu includes muffulettas, po-boys, jambalaya, red

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Customers queue up for the takeout window at Cafe du Monde in City Park while the rest of the beignet parlor and coffee shop remains closed.

beans and rice and drinks, including beer, wine and frozen Pimm’s cups.

Food is available for pickup 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

GW Fins (808 Bienville St., 504-5813467; www.gwfins.com) reopened in late April and has been offering familiar seafood dishes such as lobster dumplings, soft-shelled crabs, New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp, tempura-fried fish “wings,” and scalibut, it’s signature combination of halibut and scallops. It also offers uncooked fish, sauces by the pint and biscuit mix for diners to prepare their own meals. The biscuit mix and its Salty Malty ice cream also are available at some local stores.

Dooky Chase’s Restaurant (2301 Orleans Ave., 504-821-0600; dookychaserestaurant.com ) upheld its annual pre-Easter Holy Thursday tradition of serving gumbo z’herbes, this year via curbside pickup. The restaurant has been closed since Easter, suspending its takeout while the business focused on giving the community meals, providing 4,500 in conjunction with rapper Lil Wayne (See “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down” on page 6). But the Chase family resumed pickup service for Mother’s Day, and diners can visit the restaurant website for menus.

Will Coviello contributed to this article.

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The James Beard awards are an annual honor for the American hospitality industry.

support from partners to make grants of $1,500 each to several thousand restaurants. The fund has distributed $4 million in support so far.

The foundation also is a founding partner of the Independent Restaurant Coalition (www.saverestaurants. com), a lobbying group formed during the crisis to advocate for independent restaurants. A survey the two groups conducted in April found that almost 30% of independent restaurant owners doubt they’ll survive for another month. Only one in five feels certain he or she can keep their businesses alive until restrictions are lifted.

Mitchell Davis, chief strategy officer for the Beard Foundation, wrote in a statement that the organization is proceeding with the awards because balloting and judging had been completed.

“Those we consulted felt the awards could also offer a glimmer of hope to an industry looking for light in a very dark time,” Davis wrote.

Below are the New Orleans nominees.

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Outstanding Chef award. He and his restaurant group have won numerous James Beard awards, and he was named Best Chef: South in 2007.

Gianna (www.giannarestaurant. com), the latest from the Link Restaurant Group, is nominated for Best New Restaurant. Executive chef Rebecca Wilcomb won the group’s regional Best Chef: South award in 2017 for her work at Herbsaint.

Gianna currently is closed.

JoAnn Clevenger, the proprietor of Upperline Restaurant (www. upperline.com), received her seventh nomination for Outstanding Restaurateur, an award the James Beard Foundation gives to “a working restaurateur who sets high national standards in restaurant operations and entrepreneurship.” Upperline presently is shut down.

Brigtsen’s Restaurant (www.brigtsens.com), the Riverbend bistro from Marna and Frank Brigtsen, is nominated for Outstanding Hospitality.

Frank won the group’s regional best chef award in 1998, and Brigtsen’s has been nominated many times for this award. The restaurant is shut down, but its new online store offers the chef’s seasonal cookbook, spice blends and gift cards.

Graison Gill is nominated for Outstanding Baker (see page 21). He founded Bellgarde Bakery (8300 Apple St., 504-827-0008; www. bellegardebakery.com), which has helped give Old World baking a new pulse in New Orleans. The bakery is open for pre-ordered curbside pickups on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Bacchanal Wine (www.bacchanalwine.com), the wine shop that morphed into a wine bar, wine garden and unique oenophile oasis in the Bywater, is again in the running for Outstanding Wine Program alongside more traditional restaurants around the country. Bacchanal currently is closed.

There are several local nominees for Best Chef: South, and the only non-New Orleans finalist is Jose Enrique of Puerto Rico. Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus, co-chefs of Coquette (www.coquettenola.com) and Thalia (www.thalianola.com), are jointly nominated. The restaurants are open for takeout.

Michael Gulotta, chef of Maypop, (www.maypoprestaurant.com) and MoPho (www.mophonola.com), is nominated. The eateries currently are shut down.

Turkey and the Wolf (www. turkeyandthewolf.com) founder Mason Hereford is nominated. That restaurant is closed and Molly’s Rise and Shine (www.mollysriseandshine. com) offers takeout service.

Also nominated is Isaac Toups of Toups’ Meatery (www.toupsmeatery. com), which is open for takeout.

New Orleans-based writer Brett

Martin is a finalist for a media award in the profile category for a story in GQ magazine about chef Tunde Wey. Betsy Shepherd, a journalist with local NPR affiliate WWNO 88.9 FM, is a finalist for the Audio Reporting award for a podcast, “Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-Fried Chicken,” for the Southern Foodways Alliance podcast series Gravy. — IAN McNULTY/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

Second helpings FEED THE FRONT LINE NOLA (www.

feedthefrontlinenola.org) dropped off its last meals to some 2,300 heath care workers on May 3, as the stream of small donations that fed its budget trailed off.

Now, related project Feed the Second Line NOLA (www.feedthesecondline.org) is aimed at supporting musicians, social aid and pleasure clubs and Mardi Gras Indians, providing gigs

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A poster based on the work of Brent Houzenga sits in the window of Joey K’s Restaurant.

to younger people in these communities and supporting older, more vulnerable members through food.

Feed the Front Line NOLA was a volunteer-run effort started by the Krewe of Red Beans that drew funding for dozens of local restaurants to prepare meals for health care workers at hospitals and testing sites across the metro area.

Krewe of Red Beans founder Devin De Wulf, who led the effort, said his goal was to push an infusion of cash to local restaurants to help them stay afloat. In the span of seven weeks, the effort brought in approximately $1 million in donations, which paid for more than 100,000 meals and snacks for health care workers. At one point, the group was spending close to $30,000 a day at local restaurants, buying several thousand meals, snacks and coffees from a rotating collection of them each day.

Community contributions help fund the program. Visit www.feedthesecondlinenola.org for information.

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Graison Gill BAKER GRAISON GILL FOUNDED BELLEGARDE BAKERY (8300 Apple St.,

504-827-0008; www.bellegardebakery.com) to make a variety of Old World breads, but what sets his bakery apart is that it mills flour in house for breads and pastas.

Bellegarde was producing 8,000 loaves of bread and 2,000 pounds of flour a week when the coronavirus pandemic hit. He reopened for curbside pickup. On May 4, Gill was named a finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Baker award.

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How has the coronavirus pandemic affected the bakery?

and get a nice Instagram post on it. … It was nice to be recognized on a national level for something that’s completely against the grain.

GRAISON GILL: We closed down completely March 16. We had a pretty large outpouring of support, but most importantly, the staff members wanted to keep things going. We were selling flour and pasta nationally, which we did before. Now we’re doing Thursday and Saturday curbside pickup by pre-order only. We hired a full-time pasta maker in December, so he’s been coming out with new pastas.

He makes the pasta with the flour we mill in house, so that’s unique in the city, or really anywhere in the country.

We moved to the new building [last summer] on the premise of being a wholesale bakery. Now we have to redefine the bakery. We’re [now] a retail bakery with more than bread; we have pasta, heirloom grits and flours.

How does your approach work?

The James Beard Foundation baking category is dominated by pastry chefs. Were you surprised to be nominated?

GG: It was a surprise. The bakery turned 7 in March. We weren’t eligible for six years, because you have to have a retail component to be considered.

It’s been vindicating. I’ve been all over the world to speak about baking and what we do here. I don’t think people understand — not the value of what we do, but they don’t respect the undertaking. It would be easier to keep our mouths shut and just dump a bunch of sugar and unhealthy stuff into a beignet

GG: We’ve adapted the farm-to-table model for a bakery. Not only is it successful, but it’s delicious and it’s something we’ve committed our lives to do. We source ingredients the same way chefs do. We go to Avery Island to get our salt.

We get our olive oil from Texas. We have organic pecans from Breaux Bridge. Everything is directly from the producer. We have corn that’s been grown by the same family since 1875. Everything we use is from the people that grow it or produce it.

All our supply chains are in tact.

Commodity agriculture is suffocating right now because the commodity system is in shock, but I haven’t had a single issue with suppliers.

We’re not dealing with middlemen or brokers or stock markets. We’re dealing with people. We’re working with each other — the fiber that connects us to the food connects us to each other. There are many reasons we believe in the direct market.

You have a healthy food system that’s localized.

We’re encouraging people to come to the bakery to support staff and what we’re doing. I want people to understand not just the health benefits of eating things made with fresh flour but how unique it is to have that in their backyard. We want to support the value and integrity of doing something local. That’s not just paying taxes and payroll locally but something that works with regional farmers to make food.

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FAUBOURG MARIGNY Carnaval Lounge — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; www.carnavallounge.com — The menu of Brazilian street food includes feijoada, a traditional stew of black beans and pork served over rice. Curbside pickup is available. D daily. $$ Mardi Gras Zone — 2706 Royal., (504) 9478787 — The grocery and deli has a counter offering po-boys, sides such as macaroni and cheese and vegan and vegetarian dishes. Wood-oven baked pizza is available by the pie or slice. $

BYWATER Luna Libre — 3600 St. Claude Ave., (504) 237-1284 — Carnitas made with pork from Shank Charcuterie and citrus from Ben & Ben Becnel farm fills a taco topped with onion and cilantro. The menu combines Tex-Mex and dishes from Louisiana and Arkansas. Curbside pickup is available. B Sat-Sun. $ Polly’s Bywater Cafe — 3225 St. Claude Ave., (504) 459-4571; www.pollysbywatercafe.com — A grilled biscuit is topped with poached eggs, hog’s head cheese and Creole hollandaise and served with home fries or grits. $$

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L and D daily. $$ Eat Well — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; www.pythianmarket.com — Phoritto is a spinach tortilla filled with brisket, chicken or tofu, plus bean sprouts, jalapenos, onions and basil and is served with a cup of broth. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $ Kais — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (941) 481-9599; www.pythianmarket.com — A Sunshine bowl includes salmon, corn, mango, green onions, edamame, pickled ginger, ponzu spicy mayonnaise, cilantro, masago and nori strips. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $$ La Cocinita — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 309-5344; www.lacochinitafoodtruck.com — La Llanera is an arepa stuffed with carne asada, guasacasa, pico de gallo, grilled queso fresco and salsa verde. Curbside pickup and delivery available. B, L and D daily. $ Meribo Pizza — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 481-9599; www.meribopizza. com — A Meridionale pie is topped with pulled pork, chilies, ricotta, mozzarella,

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collard greens and red sauce. Delivery available. L and D daily. $$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 561-8844; www.redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with a chocolate drizzle. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. akeout available. Check website for hours. $$ Willie Mae’s — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; www.williemaesnola.com — The Creole soul food restaurant is known for its fried chicken, red beans and more. Takeout available. L and D Mon-Sat. $

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CARROLLTON/UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOODS Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi.com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked. The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Delivery available. Takeout and delivery available. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504) 861-9602 — Diners will find Mediterranean cuisine featuring such favorites as shawarma prepared on a rotisserie. Takeout and delivery available. L, D daily. $$

Bienvenue — 467 Hickory Ave., Harahan, (504) 305-4792; www.bienvenueharahan.com — A Marrone sandwich features smoked prime rib, provolone, horseradish aioli and jus on Gendusa’s French bread. The menu also includes po-boys, seafood platters, pasta and more. Drive-through pickup available. L daily, D Tue-Sat, brunch Sun. $$ The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern. com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Curbside pickup and delivery. L, D Tue-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001; www.lakeviewbrew. com — 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. For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses.

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Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza (citywide; www.theospizza.com) reopened area locations for takeout after a hiatus.

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METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce. Curbside pickup and delivery are available. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 8882010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. Takeout available. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www. marktwainpizza.com — Mark Twain’s serves salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. Takeout and curbside pickup are available. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, (504) 885-2984; www.vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Corn and crab bisque is served in a toasted bread cup.

Osso buco features a veal shank with angel hair pasta and veal demi-glace. Curbside pickup and delivery available. Tue-Sun. $$

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. Window and curbside pickup. L, D Fri-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant.com — Sample items have included smoked brisket served with smoked apple barbecue sauce, Alabama white barbecue sauce, smoked heirloom beans and vinegar slaw.

A Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$

Doson Noodle House — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283; www.facebook.com/ dosonnoodlehouse — Bun thit is Vietnamese-style grilled pork with cucumber, onions, lettuce, mint, cilantro and fish sauce served over rice or vermicelli. The menu includes rice and vermicelli dishes, pho, spring rolls and more. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$ Nonna Mia — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; www.nonnamianola.com — A Divine Portobello appetizer includes chicken breast, spinach in creamy red pepper sauce and crostini. The menu also includes salads, sandwiches, pasta, pizza and more.

Curbside pickup and delivery are available.

Service daily. $$

Ralph’s on the Park — 900 City Park Ave., (504) 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — The restaurant is known for dishes such as turtle soup finished with sherry and barbecue Gulf shrimp. Family-style dinner specials include Louisiana crawfish etouffee with rice, potato salad and garlic bread.

Curbside pickup available. Wed-Sun. $$$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola. com — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken.

Green beans come with rice and gravy.

There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations. L Mon-Fri. $$

NORTHSHORE Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

UPTOWN Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com ­— This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice. Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans

Carmo — 527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132; www.cafecarmo.com — Carmo salad includes smoked ham, avocado, pineapple, almonds, cashews, raisins, cucumber, green pepper, rice, lettuce, cilantro and citrus mango vinaigrette. The menu includes dishes inspired by many tropical cuisines. Takeout and delivery are available. Mon-Sat. $$ Provisions Grab-n-Go Marketplace — Higgins Hotel, 500 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; www.higgingshotelnola.com — The coffeeshop serves salads, sandwiches, pastries and more. Takeout available.

Service daily. $

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings.

Curbside pickup available. D Wed-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www. specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza. Chicken piccata is a paneed chicken breast topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread. Takeout and delivery available. Service daily. $$

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with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Miyako Japanese Seafood & Steakhouse — 1403 St. Charles Ave., (504) 410-9997; www.japanesebistro.com — Miyako offers a full range of Japanese cuisine, with specialties from the sushi or hibachi menus, chicken, beef or seafood teriyaki, and tempura.

Delivery available. $$ Piccola Gelateria — 4525 Freret St., (504) 493-5999; www.piccolagelateria.com — The cafe offers 18 rotating flavors of smallbatch Italian-style gelatos and sorbettos.

The menu also includes flatbreads on piadina, crepes and espresso drinks. Takeout and curbside pickup available. L and D Tue-Sun. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description.

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15. The band’s catalog of traditional jazz, blues and ragtime songs is impressively deep, and there is a lot of history buried in each tune — more than could be recounted in this space.

I recommend Joe Bebco’s dive into “Quarantine Album” for The Syncopated Times (www.syncopatedtimes. com), a publication dedicated to hot jazz, ragtime and swing music, in which he gives more context to each track included on Tuba Skinny’s compilation.

‘Quarantine Album: Unreleased B-Sides’ TUBA SKINNY Self-released

TRADITIONAL JAZZ BAND Tuba Skinny was set to go into the studio in April — until, you know, all this stuff happened. The band decided to postpone recording its new album, which would have been its 11th full-length release in as many years, and instead opted to release “Quarantine Album: Unreleased B-Sides.”

The 14-track compilation pulls from unreleased tracks recorded during the sessions for Tuba Skinny’s albums “Owl Call Blues” (released in 2014), “Blue Chime Stomp” (2016) and “Some Kind-a-Shake” (2019). While it might not be the album of freshly recorded material Tuba Skinny had planned, “Quarantine Album” is the next best thing, considering the compilation’s depth and the band’s usually tight performances.

Only one track on the compilation has appeared on a previous Tuba Skin-

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ny release, “Any Kind-A-Man,” a song written by Hattie McDaniel and recorded by Victoria Spivey in 1936. The track was recorded for 2011’s “Garbage Man,” and vocalist Erika Lewis does an excellent job reprising the song here.

Notably, all of Tuba Skinny’s releases have contained at least 12 tracks, often

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P H OTO P R OV I D E D B Y GRASSHOPPER FILM

THE AFRONAUT, WEARING AN IMPROVISED SPACE SUIT decorated with

feathers and colorful fabric patches, is one of the few identifiable people in director Brett Story’s “The Hottest August.” Performance artist Ayodamola Okunseinde walks the streets of New York and tells people he’s come back from the future to help them solve problems and discuss black people’s place in visions of the future.

While doing person-in-the-street interviews in August 2017 in New York City, Story’s film crew talked to many people, primarily asking them, “What do you think about the future and what are you going to do about it?”

The result is an enthralling collage of New Yorkers’ responses.

Very little of the film is shot in Manhattan or near familiar landmarks, save Coney Island beaches. Story combs the outer boroughs and meets Lrae (pronounced ‘lira,’ she says), who works in a financial services company’s call center while finishing college.

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A woman in an assertiveness training class is haunted by the memory of failing to stand up to a drunk man at the door of a bar who was yelling bigoted harassment at passersby.

“The Hottest August” is an unconventional documentary, which Story says is about considering climate change, and there are a few short narrated segments, such as Zadie Smith’s description of what the term “new normal” means. Most people in the film share their concerns about jobs, financial security, their neighborhoods and their neighbors, especially in light

of racial and ethnic differences — much of it in the idiosyncratic speech and personality of New Yorkers.

The film is visually stunning, artistically framing the window patterns of drab apartment buildings and the absurdity of a woman at a neighborhood softball game with a duck in her lap as she nimbly types on her smartphone. At times the movie slows as the camera allows one small thing to happen, like a speck of a helicopter crossing the sky high above two tall buildings, or a man far across the sand chasing an erratically tumbling beach umbrella caught in a breeze.

At night, street lights give an other-

worldly glow to an eel and a suckermouth fish slowly circling an aquarium in a store window.

Story juxtaposes the mundane and the urgent. It’s both a typical hot summer and a remarkable one. Children swim in the fountain at the Unisphere in Queens. A cluster of people with telescopes and homemade viewing masks prepares to watch a solar eclipse. Video of “Unite the Right” demonstrations at the University of Virginia’s Charlottesville campus is on the television in the background of a couple scenes, and one sequence captures a Black Lives Matter protest with black and white people chanting “Hands up! Don’t shoot.” Residents of a waterfront neighborhood are still rebuilding from 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Everyone juggles what they’re coping with in the present and what they expect of the future, and it’s a strangely revealing process.

“The Hottest August” is available from Grasshopper Film, and a link to the streaming platform on the Zeitgeist Theater & Lounge website (www.zeitgeistnola.org) allows the theater to share the viewing fee.

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