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DECEMBER 6 — DECEMBER 12, 2022 VOLUME 43 || NUMBER 49

CONTENTS

NEWS Opening Gambit ...............................6 Commentary.....................................7 Clancy DuBos....................................9 Blake Pontchartrain......................11

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FEATURES

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PhotoNOLA features shows and events throughout New Orleans Dec. 7-11 FLORESTINE PERRAULT COLLINS IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME in New Orleans.

She was one of the country’s first Black women professional photographers, and in the early 1900s, she was the first to have her own studio in New Orleans.

Collins is receiving some extra exposure this month as part of the PhotoNOLA photography festival.

There are a few of Collins’ images in “Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers,” which opened in September at the New Orleans Museum of Art. (That show closes Jan. 8, 2023.) Collins is at the center of “First Frame,” part of a project on Black photographers in New Orleans, which opened in October at the New Orleans African American Museum in Treme. It features an immersive installation that imagines Collins’ studio. PhotoNOLA has a panel discussion about Collins’ work at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Those and related shows are among the more than 40 exhibitions included in PhotoNOLA, which runs Dec. 7-11 at museums, galleries and other venues across the city. Subjects range from New Orleans street scenes to nature studies to nudes, and some shows feature multi-media works incorporating photography. Many shows open during the festival remain on display for a month or more.

PhotoNOLA also has several events for contemporary photographers, including portfolio reviews and workshops. There are speakers addressing photographers’ work and techniques, parties and receptions on most nights and more.

The work of photographers participating in the portfolio review is on view during the PhotoWALK at the Ogden Museum from 7-9 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 9. Also on view is the annual CURRENTS show, featuring work by 10 New Orleans Photo Alliance members. Admission to those events is free, as well as to the festival book fair at the museum from noon to 4:30 p.m.

NOMA’s “Called to the Camera” examines the history and impact of Black studio photographers around the country and highlights several New Orleans photographers. Most of the expo concerns work from the earliest studio photography through the early 1900s, but there is some work by contemporary

photographers. It includes Polaroid photos by Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell, who has chronicled New Orleans’ hip-hop scene via quick-posed portraits and party pics.

The museum also has an expo of his work, “Picture Man: Portraits

by Polo Silk,” on display through Jan. 8, 2023.

NOMA has two other photography shows, including pilot, photographer and educator Anne Noggle’s work.

The Ogden Museum opens “Black Alchemy: Remembering Fazendeville” by Aaron Turner on Friday, Dec. 9. The project explores the historic Black community in St. Bernard Parish that was razed in the mid-1960s when its land was appropriated to make way for the expansion of the national park for the Chalmette Battlefield. Turner is an Arkansas-based photographer who developed the show while in a residency at the museum. Ogden curator Richard McCabe will introduce Turner and his work at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9.

Also at the Ogden is a show of work by Kentucky photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, an optician who created enigmatic blackand-white photos, sometimes of friends and sometimes delving into abstraction. McCabe will discuss Meatyard’s work with photographer Emmet Gowin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Higgins Hotel, prior to the festival’s opening reception.

The festival also honors the previous year’s portfolio review prizewinner. Although that show typically is at the New Orleans Photo Alliance (NOPA) space, this year Gryder Gallery on Julia Street will present Diane Meyer’s hand-stitched photos taken along the 100-mile path formerly defined by the Berlin Wall.

Gryder also has a show of surrealist photos by women photographers.

The NOPA gallery on Oak Street will show 20 photos by Ruth Orkin, who is known for her landmark 1951 image “American Girl in Italy.” The show is curated by Natalie Cooney and Rebecca Rau, who have focused on Orkin’s cinematic style.

The show features images from New York, Europe and a cross-country bicycle trip Orkin made when she was 17. PhotoNOLA will screen a

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IN THE MARIGNY OPERA BALLET’S REIMAGINED ‘NUTCRACKER ,’ the

setting is the French Quarter, and Clara is a young woman who is swept up in a world of odd characters, including fortune tellers and tourists in Jackson Square.

The company has new costumes and an original score by Lawrence Sieberth, based on Tchaikovsky’s original, which he’ll perform with a seven-piece ensemble. At the Marigny Opera House at 7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 9, through Sunday, Dec. 11, and Dec. 16-18. Tickets $35$55 at marignyoperaballet.org.

PHOTO BY MORGAN AND MARVIN SMITH / COURTESY THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART

A 1940 shot of photographers Marvin and Morgan Smith at work in their studio is part of ‘Called to the Camera’ at the New Orleans Museum of Art. short film about Orkin at its official closing party on Saturday, Dec. 10 at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge and the adjoining St. Claude Arts Park.

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and the Louisiana Sunspots will perform.

The event is free for festival pass members and tickets are $40.

There are a couple of PhotoNOLA shows in the St. Bernard Arts District curated by NOPA member Christopher Ryan. Zeitgeist presents “Lord of the Flies — Thailand,” featuring movie poster prints of reenactments of the novel’s loss of civil order, depicted by a Thai scout troop. Ryan’s Arabi Visual Arts Gallery opens “Violated Metropolis” on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The group show explores the intersection of street art, blight and cityscapes.

Other museum shows include an expo about transgender and gender-nonconforming older adults at Newcomb Art Museum. The National World War II Museum presents a look at the use of photography in war, from reconnaissance to documentation to propaganda.

There also are photo expos at art galleries around town. A Gallery for Fine Photography presents blackand-white landscapes by British photographer Michael Kenna.

Arthur Roger Gallery presents two shows exploring opulence by New York photographer David Leventi.

For a full list of photo expos and events, visit photonola.org.

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A John Waters Christmas

CULT FAVORITE FILMMAKER JOHN WATERS’ “FEMALE TROUBLE” ISN’T A HOLIDAY CLASSIC, but the trouble

gets going early when delinquent teen Dawn Davenport doesn’t get the cha-cha heels she wants for Christmas. Waters loves the holidays, and his Christmas shows are an offbeat holiday treat of outrageous stories. He is at Civic Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11. Find tickets via civicnola.com.

Running of the Santas

THE HOLIDAY PUB CRAWL FEATURES COSTUMED REVELERS heading from

the South Pole at Manning’s to the North Pole at Generations Hall.

There’s a costume contest and music by Flow Tribe and Mannie Fresh. The festivities begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. Tickets $25.

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The Smile

THIS SIDE PROJECT OF RADIOHEAD’S THOM YORKE AND JONNY GREENWOOD,

along with drummer Tom Skinner, emerged during the pandemic.

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Jon Batiste, the Grammy-win-

ning pianist and Kenner native, performed last week at President Joe Biden’s first White House state dinner. The White House hosted French President Emmanuel Macron, who the next day went on to tour Batiste’s old stomping grounds in New Orleans. “An artist who transcends generations, Jon Batiste’s music inspires and brings people together,” a spokesperson for First Lady Jill Biden said.

Diageo, one of the world’s

largest spirits conglomerates, recently gave a collective $1 million to Louisiana HBCUs Southern University, Grambling State University and Xavier University, along with the New Orleans Culinary Institute, to underwrite financial aid programs. Each institute will use its $250,000 to create a permanent endowment for scholarships. The gifts are part of larger pledge by Diageo to donate $10 million to 25 HBCUs around the U.S.

Louisiana Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Neely Kennedy last week

both voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages. The Senate passed the legislation 61-36 — with 12 Republicans joining 49 Democrats — and it is now before the House of Representatives. Advocates have pushed for federal legislation protecting same-sex and interracial marriages since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year.

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Gordon Plaza residents.

Gordon Plaza relocation process takes a step forward, leaving behind its first appraiser RESIDENTS OF GORDON PLAZA, A NEW ORLEANS SUBDIVISION built atop

a former city dump, will decide who will assess the worth of their homes as the city prepares to transform the site and buy out its residents, the City Council announced last week.

The city will also cover residents’ moving costs through a partnership with a local nonprofit, council members said. It will also pay up to a year in rent for residents who have difficulty finding new homes.

The decisions come after residents spent weeks criticizing the firm the city initially hired to conduct appraisals in the Desirearea neighborhood, Thorns Consulting. They also come after legal issues dogged the council’s earlier plan to cover residents’ moving costs directly.

City Council President Helena Moreno told residents they could choose a new licensed appraiser to finish Thorns’ job. The city will then extend buyout offers to residents based on the new assessments.

To help with residents’ moves, the city will distribute funds to the nonprofit Total Community Action, which will then distribute that money to moving companies selected by residents, council Vice President JP Morrell said.

The city will also distribute rent payments directly to landlords chosen by residents.

Residents welcomed the announcement but said it should have come sooner.

“We just need to declare that each and every time we’ve been able to take a step forward, it’s fallen back on something that the residents have already demanded months or a year in advance,” said Angela Kinlaw, an organizer who spoke on residents’ behalf.

The new relocation plan comes with a caveat for the area’s homeowners: The city will not cover the costs of moving furniture from Gordon Plaza homes to temporary rental units, should residents decide to accept rent payments from the city, Morrell said. Instead, the city will only cover the cost of moving items to new homes that residents purchase.

“I’m not envisioning people moving their entire furniture into a temporary location,” Morrell said.

“Your previous house is not being bought by a person who needs your furniture out immediately.”

Gordon Plaza was built in the late ‘70s and marketed as affordable housing for low-income families. The neighborhood was built on top of the Agriculture Street landfill, operational from 1909 to 1957. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identified it as a toxic Superfund site in 1994.

The council and Mayor LaToya Cantrell agreed in June to set aside $35 million in bond proceeds to fund a relocation.

The next Gordon Plaza meeting is on Monday December 5 at 4 p.m. — ROSHAUN HIGGINS

Currently, workers are forced to use vacation days when they become ill. Rail worker unions have threatened to strike over this and other issues. In response, the Biden administration has proposed forcing the unions to accept a deal that does not include sick day provisions.

The House approved the Biden plan Nov. 30, followed by the Senate Dec.1, effectively blocking the upcoming strike.

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Gambit’s recommendations for the Dec. 10 ballot initiatives THE DEC. 10 BALLOT IS SMALL BUT IMPORTANT. It contains three proposed amendments to the Louisiana Constitution and a runoff for Public Service Commissioner in District 3, which includes most of New Orleans, much of Jefferson Parish and parts of the River Parishes and Baton Rouge.

Early voting is already underway and continues through Saturday, Dec. 3. December elections historically generate pitifully low turnouts, which means every vote counts more than ever. We urge all our readers to get out and vote. Herewith our recommendations on the proposed constitutional amendments.

AMENDMENT 1: NO — Citizenship is already required to vote in all federal elections, and Louisiana has a statute that expressly bans non-citizens from voting in state and local elections. This proposed amendment would merely add unnecessary verbiage to the state’s already bloated Constitution by requiring people to be U.S. citizens in order to vote in Louisiana elections.

We agree that citizenship should be a requirement to vote, but we oppose this unnecessary exercise in political flag-waving. It says more about the Legislature’s anti-immigrant fever than the integrity of Louisiana elections. The truth is Louisiana’s

elections are nationally recognized for their fairness, accuracy and integrity. There’s no need to clutter up our Constitution with “solutions” to problems that don’t exist. We recommend voting NO on Amendment 1.

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Voting booths in New Orleans in 2020.

AMENDMENTS 2 & 3: YES — We treat these two proposed amendments as one because they deal with virtually identical matters: membership on the State Civil Service Commission (Amendment #2) and the Louisiana State Police Commission (Amendment #3). Both commissions are constitutionally established with seven members each, six appointed by the governor from nominees submitted by the presidents of private universities, and one elected by members of the respective civil service system. These two commissions are very powerful. They oversee the state’s classified workforce — workers who are not political employees — and protect workers from political retribution or pressure to engage in political activities. They also make rules about state employment and can reinstate workers who are fired, overturn disciplinary actions, and enforce workplace policies in the agencies they cover.

Louisiana has scores of other constitutionally created oversight boards and commissions whose members are subject to Senate confirmation. Gubernatorial appointees to these two commissions are not confirmed by the Senate, making them outliers in that regard.

The proposed amendments would require Senate confirmation of the six members appointed to each commission by the governor, bringing these two commissions into line with other powerful state boards and commissions.

In its analysis of these two amendments, the Public Affairs Research Council (PAR), a nonpartisan government watchdog, said, “Giving state senators the chance to question and vet the qualifications of the six gubernatorial appointees to the commission offers a layer of checks and balances and provides more public oversight and accountability to the selection process. The change puts the commission in line with appointees to other major boards and with top-level staff in a governor’s administration, who require Senate confirmation.” We agree, and we urge our readers to vote YES on Amendments 2 and 3.

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THE DEC. 10 RUNOFF FOR THE DISTRICT 3 SEAT ON THE LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC) reflects

an interesting new trend in American politics: attempts by national progressives to sway — critics would say “buy” — local elections by pumping truckloads of “dark money” into contests that never before generated outside interest.

“Dark money” is the new mother’s milk of politics.

The term refers to massive spending by special interests to influence elections — without disclosing to voters where the money comes from. Typically, it comes from billionaires, corporations, unions or other associations with agendas that, like the money itself, are not revealed to voters.

Dark money has flooded the political landscape thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious Citizens United decision in 2010.

The decision allows unlimited “independent” campaign spending by certain nonprofits (typically with benign-sounding names) that don’t have to disclose the source of their moolah. Initially, dark money groups favored Republicans.

Nowadays, “progressives” are just as likely to ante up, and not just in federal elections. In 2020, District Attorney Jason Williams and several judicial candidates benefited from a huge tranche of out-of-state money that funded media attacks against their opponents. And last year, a late infusion of dark money against longtime Sheriff Marlin Gusman propelled new Sheriff Susan Hutson into office.

Now it’s happening in the local PSC race, which pits three-term incumbent Lambert Boissiere III of New Orleans against newcomer Davante Lewis of Baton Rouge. A group called Keep the Lights on PAC has blasted Boissiere in ubiquitous TV and digital ads.

Both men are Democrats. The five-member PSC regulates utilities, phone and cable companies, trucking companies and other common carriers outside New Orleans. District 3 is anchored by New Orleans but meanders up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge. It’s the PSC’s only majority-Black district.

Boissiere led the Nov. 8 primary with 43% of the vote to Lewis’ 18%, but Lewis has since picked

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Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Lambert Boissiere III speaks at a July 30 event in Baton Rouge. up endorsements from the thirdand fourth-place finishers, Rev. Gregory Manning and Willie Jones.

Boissiere is endorsed by fifth-place finisher Jesse Thompson.

Lewis, along with the Keep the Lights On PAC, blasts Boissiere for accepting campaign contributions from utilities regulated by the PSC. Such contributions are legal in Louisiana, but Lewis says they explain what he calls the PSC’s failure to hold utilities accountable.

He also says Boissiere hasn’t done enough to harden the state’s electrical grid or to bar utility shut-offs during hot summer months.

Boissiere says Lewis has benefitted from nearly $1 million in dark money spent by out-of-state special interests and will be their “puppet” on the PSC. Boissiere adds that he led the push for utilities to invest more in solar and other “green” energy sources, and that he has been honored as a consumer champion by the Alliance for Affordable Energy, a local advocacy group.

There’s a ton of irony in seeing progressives go after Boissiere. In previous local elections, they used dark money to attack candidates who opposed progressive policies. In this race, they’ve targeted Boissiere because, apparently, he’s not progressive enough. And, even if they succeed, things won’t change — the PSC will still have three conservative Republicans and two liberal Democrats.

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Is it true that 95-yearold Latin Grammy Award winner Angela Alvarez lives in or around New Orleans? I believe I heard her say something like that in an interview.

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Dear Peter,

ANGELA ALVAREZ IS A BATON ROUGE RESIDENT WHO, AT AGE 95, is the Latin

Grammy Awards’ oldest winner.

She was named best new artist at the Latin Grammys ceremony on Nov. 17.

Alvarez began writing songs as a teenager in the 1930s in her native Cuba. Her dreams of becoming a professional musician were dashed by her father, who kept her from pursuing music as a career. She never stopped composing, but the songs she wrote were known only to her family and close friends.

Many of the 40 or so songs chronicled her personal story, which included being separated from her children for almost two years while attempting to migrate to the United States after the Cuban revolution. Her late husband’s job in the sugar industry is what eventually brought the family to Baton Rouge.

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Angela Alvarez accepts the award for best new artist at the 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards.

It was there that her grandson, composer Carlos José Alvarez, flew to record her songs for posterity. With the help of actor Andy Garcia, a self-titled album followed, as well as a documentary, “Miss Angela: Dreams Do Come True.”

Both were released last year.

“To those who have yet to make their dreams come true, know that although life is hard, there’s always a way out and with faith and love everything can be achieved,” Alvarez said in her Latin Grammys acceptance speech. “I want to dedicate this award to God and to my beloved country Cuba, which I will never be able to forget.”

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Hill grew up in the 9th Ward and began playing music at a young age alongside members of his family. According to writer Jeff Hannusch, Hill befriended performers Eddie Bo and Oliver Morgan as a teenager and formed his own group, the House Rockers. In addition to singing, Hill was also a drummer for Professor Longhair and Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns.

According to Hannusch, Hill wrote “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” after borrowing the expression from a piano player named simply “Big Four.” With call and response lyrics promising to “create a disturbance in your mind,” Hill and his band recorded the song at Cosimo Matassa’s studio in January 1960. It was produced by Allen Toussaint for Minit Records.

The song reached No. 3 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. Hill followed up “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” with “Whip It On Me,” which also made the Billboard Hot 100. Some of his other less successful singles included “Oogsey Moo” (co-written with Longhair) and “Scoop Scoobie Doobie,” with a tune reminiscent of “Ooh Poo Pah Doo.” Hill later moved to Los Angeles where fellow New Orleans transplants Harold Battiste and Mac Rebennack helped him find songwriting jobs for artists such as Ike and Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher, Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson.

Hill died in 1996. Four of his grandsons followed him into the music business: Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, James Andrews, Glen David Andrews and the late Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill.

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Journalist and ‘Wizards’ author Brian Fairbanks

Brian Fairbanks’ new book, ‘Wizards,’ traces the GOP’s far-right devolution to David Duke’s rise in Louisiana

BY J A K E CL APP FOR UNINFORMED OBSERVERS TODAY, it could be easy to brush past Louisiana’s 1991 governor’s race between Edwin Edwards and David Duke as an aberration — another wild and surprising political development in a state known for its wild and surprising politics. Even for Louisianans, there’s a dangerous temptation to look back with rose-colored glasses and remember the race through a bumper sticker highlight: “Vote for the Crook: It’s Important.”

But, as New Orleans-based journalist and author Brian Fairbanks makes clear in his new book, “Wizards,” the race between Edwards, a corrupt former governor making a comeback run for an unprecedented fourth term, and Duke, a former Klu Klux Klan grand wizard and neo-Nazi, didn’t just have consequences for Louisiana. It can still be felt at the national level.

“The final tete-a-tete involving Duke and Edwards, held on November 17, 1991, would mark the end of ‘the New South’ and the birth of a darker yet more invigorated political era, one that ripples through our politics three decades later in ways both mysterious and deeply disturbing,” Fairbanks writes.

In “Wizards,” which was published in October

by Vanderbilt University Press, Fairbanks writes about both men’s rise to power, the landscape and politics leading up to the ’91 race, and how Duke’s run led to the eventual rise of today’s far right and the election of Donald Trump. And woven into the book is a third major figure: Beth Rickey, a Louisiana Republican who worked diligently to expose Duke’s racist history and views and to keep him away from power.

Gambit recently spoke with Fairbanks about “Wizards,” the effect the ’91 election had on national politics and what can be learned from that story ahead of 2024. An edited transcript follows.

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BRIAN FAIRBANKS: When I first moved here in ’99, there was a gubernatorial election that year, and everyone was talking about, “What’s David Duke gonna do?”

And I was like, “David Duke?

Who cares what he thinks?” But everyone was talking about — and they’re still talking about — the 1991 governor’s race. That planted it in my head: What happened then? Why has Duke been such a big influence on culture here, eight years after that election? I didn’t research it at the time — I was still a teenager. But it stuck in my head.

When I moved back in 2014, one of the first things I saw was a documentary on PBS about Edwin Edwards and Louisiana politics. I was riveted by the Edwin Edwards “character.” I was like, how was he never a national figure? It started with that — and then, “Oh, wait, he’s the guy who ran against David Duke.”

At some point after Charlottesville [the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally], I started thinking more about the David Duke effect on America. It wasn’t clear yet — was Charlottesville going to be just a blip?

Are we going to talk about it six months later? At some point, I got the gist of the book together: David Duke has been more influential than I think even he knows, and certainly more than anybody had given him credit for. So, I decided I would put together a book — and then the Capitol Riot happened.

Duke participated at Charlottesville, and he was online a lot afterward. Did that solidify, for you, the connection between him and today’s far right?

FAIRBANKS: Yeah, because up until Charlottesville, a lot of the

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Duke story had been his very public failures. From a reporter’s perspective, Charlottesville looked like another Duke failure, but it got him back in the spotlight, which is what he wants.

It made him look like he has political power, which he may or may not actually have. And it continued to tie him to Trump, especially when Trump gave his “very fine people on both sides” speech. That made me think, “Man, Duke is continually underestimated.”

I started researching: How did he end up almost governor?

How did he win the [1989] state House race? It was people constantly underestimating him — in polls and in general. I immediately thought of Trump.

Do you think people have forgotten the context and run-up to Louisiana’s 1991 governor’s race?

Do they not see the consequences of it?

FAIRBANKS: From the big picture view [of him running for office], Duke lost, lost, lost, lost, lost, won, lost, lost, lost, lost — maybe even more losses that we’re not factoring in. And some of those losses were tre-

mendous failures, like 32-point defeats, that make it look like he didn’t succeed. Whereas, I think, he got repeatedly closer and closer each time to having real power.

After he lost the governor’s race in ’91, everyone was sort of like, “OK, let’s move on to the presidential race,” where he was a total nonfactor.

But again, what’s missed is probably the key moment, which is Pat Buchanan taking his platform, incorporating it and then threatening to win the New Hampshire primary for the Republican nomination.

That was a big wake-up call to the Republican Party, the RNC and the President. [George H. W.] Bush shifted to the right, and the party went with him.

You can see it in the 1992 Republican National Convention.

It was all about Ice-T and this one song [“Cop Killer”]. Their entire platform was running against this guy who isn’t even a politician. We’re seeing that today: The House GOP is like, “Our first order of business is Hunter Biden.”

It’s now all about the boogeyman and waging culture wars, which Pat Buchanan talked about in ’92. So, I think Duke wins in the end. He took over

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the Republican Party and changed its message.

Then in ’94, a wave of conservatives got elected. You write in your book that that election seemed to be a turning point.

FAIRBANKS: Yeah. They ran hardright campaigns — anti-welfare, anti-Bill and Hillary Clinton, boogeyman campaigns — and took the House for the first time since 1952.

We’re still living the 1994 election’s fallout. Everything has been polarized since then.

But I think a lot of people have woken up. The far right can drive Democratic turnout now. Back then, it just drove Republican turnout.

In 2010, there was the Tea Party wave, which was another high point for Republicans, but I think people are now more awake to that threat, especially after Charlottesville and the Capitol Riot.

Klan members had run before in Louisiana and the South. What was it about Duke that made him successful in his 1989 state House win?

FAIRBANKS: He had run a couple of times [before 1989] as the sort of, “I’m currently a Klansman, I’m a Democrat, and I’m running against these other Democrats,” but the Democratic Party just had complete control [in Louisiana]. By the mid-’80s, we’d had Dave Treen as governor for four years. He was crushed in ’83, but I think people saw the Republican Party as an alternative to the state’s problems and the corruption. Duke saw that if he changed his registration and he entered this small special election, it would be at least something for him to piggyback off of and go on to bigger things.

In that state House race, there were a lot of factors: One, it was a small race people wouldn’t be paying attention to. The district had significant Republican registration.

The [Republican] Party picked a kind of — not a shoo-in, but almost like nepotism — John Treen, brother of the former governor. He worked in construction and was not really a politician. It just seemed like a sleepy, easy-to-win campaign for Duke.

And Duke was underestimated as a strategist. He said, “I could really drive turnout for myself because I don’t think people are going to show up. I think it will be a low-turnout election because [Treen] isn’t galvanizing the electorate, and it’s a special election.” So he switched his party registration and was an alternative to Treen. He also supported the homestead exemption [which Treen wanted to remove].

Just like Trump, before he ran, Duke sat there and said, “What will get me elected? I’m going to do that. I don’t care what the policy is. Let’s run for the homestead exemption.

That’s the winner.”

By that point, Duke also began masking his extremist views, relying instead on racial dog whistles like welfare reform and crime.

FAIRBANKS: He knew a lot of other

people have these sorts of racial resentments: affirmative action, welfare — despite the fact that white people benefit from welfare more than Black people. And, he knew that was a winning message.

He talked a lot about crime.

The state Republican party wouldn’t censure Duke in 1989.

Do you think that would have changed anything?

FAIRBANKS: No, I think it was

too late. The time to have done something about him was between the primary and the runoff. There wasn’t much time, and I think they just assumed there’s no way Duke could win. Again, underestimating him — over and over.

That sounds familiar 30 years later.

FAIRBANKS: Exactly. A lot of people believe in polls and believe in the essential goodness of the voting public, that people will always vote the right way, vote for their interests.

Beth Rickey is the third major figure in “Wizards.” Could you tell us more about her and why you wanted to feature her so prominently?

FAIRBANKS: When I started doing research, I read something that mentioned Beth as the one who had found all this supposed dirt on Duke that eventually brought him down. I was like, OK, who is this person? Her name kept coming up because she was on the Republican State Central Committee. This is where the story gets interesting. Why was a Republican state committee woman the one working the hardest to stop Duke? Oddly enough, until the general election in ’91, even Edwin Edwards wasn’t doing anything to stop Duke. In the primary, Edwards ran against Buddy Roemer because he just assumed it was going to be him and Roemer at the finish line. Again, Duke was completely underestimated in the polls, and everyone else was overestimated.

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In this photo from Nov. 10, 1991, Republican gubernatorial candidate David Duke, right, talks to his opponent, Democratic former Gov. Edwin Edwards after the two men appeared together on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

Do you feel Beth Rickey too often gets left out of this conversation?

FAIRBANKS: She is, to me, the most interesting person in here — and the most underreported — but I think it’s also because no one has done something solely focused on her whole life. In “Cross to Bear,” the John Maginnis book about the ’91 campaign, she’s in there a good bit, but I think other people get just as much credit.

She had been working for years to stop Duke. She went undercover to Chicago to secretly record his speech. I think it just shows that there’s a lot more here that hasn’t been covered. Tyler Bridges rightly talks a lot about her in his book [“The Rise and Fall of David Duke”], about Duke and the Populist Party convention — but these are all books about other things. If she were still alive, and if there was more public information, I think she would have been the only central character [in “Wizards”]. The book might have been about her evolution from this hardcore Republican — Ronald Reagan came to her birthday party as a kid, while he was still governor of California, and she idolized the guy — and then she ended up writing letters to Bill Clinton asking for a job in D.C.

Her story ends so tragically. You write about how she had been physically ill and financially unstable, but a philanthropist was going to meet with her. They knocked on her hotel door and found her collapsed but still gripping a pitcher of iced tea she had made.

FAIRBANKS: Presumably just [having made] a pitcher of iced tea for them, and [thinking] her life is going to change. In a sense, I think Beth was always on borrowed time, not just because of the death threats that she got in ‘89 to ’91, but she was sick soon after the campaign and didn’t take good care of herself. She had

trouble with money, which exacerbated her health problems. She ended up going off the radar not too long after the ‘91 campaign.

It’s hard to make a cohesive narrative because there’s so much we don’t know about her life and her inner thoughts.

In 1991, Duke lost with just under 39% of the vote, but he still got more than 50% of the white vote. Did the political mainstream just not see Duke’s impact?

FAIRBANKS: Yes, and that plays into 2016. In ’91, a lot of the polls changed in the last two weeks. People said, “Oh, no, I’m gonna have to actually vote for Edwards because he’s only two points ahead of Duke,” and they turned out. In 2016, Hillary was 10 points ahead — then the Comey thing happened. Comey motivated Trump voters and moved a lot of people who were on the fence into the Trump camp. And there was low Democratic turnout. So, yeah, they did not learn the lesson of the ‘91 campaign — which is that you have to work hard every single time to stop these people from getting power.

Buchanan in ’92 was the next inflection point, and then ’94 with Newt Gingrich and the Contract for America. The right-wing wave has continued to build. How did Duke’s ideology creep in so pervasively?

FAIRBANKS: The Republican Party didn’t have a platform. Their platform was big business, union busting, and a lot of things that do not motivate people to come out and vote. What motivates people to come out and vote is the culture wars — same sex marriage, feeling like the world is changing and you don’t have any control over it. Duke just happened to come along at the right time. It was the beginning of the Bush era. Reagan had been president because of his personal-

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Could you elaborate a little more about that nexus — from Duke to Buchanan?

FAIRBANKS: Buchanan — unlike Trump — is an ideologue. He believed the same things that Duke believed from the beginning, but he initially didn’t see a way to run for president. I believe he thought, “You know, I’ll get some support, but I’m a nobody … Hey, David Duke was a nobody too, and he’s doing well with my message right up until the end.”

I think Buchanan saw the big surge for Duke. He became a national figure, on TV every day in 1991, even though it was just a statewide race. Duke was on the front page of the New York Times.

So maybe Buchanan saw it as his moment. He jumped in [the race for president], and I think he wanted Bush to move farther to the right, because that was more important to him than being president — whereas Duke considered winning more important than the message.

Leading up to 2016, Duke obviously saw Trump’s rise as an opportunity to come back into public view and potentially run for office again.

Was that just his own grand delusion, or were people paying attention to him?

FAIRBANKS: I think he saw Trump’s nomination coming, but the Republican Party today is strong in Louisiana. It has good candidates, from their perspective: people that can beat Democrats and that are not toxic. Duke’s still toxic.

What is your sense of how Trump viewed Duke?

FAIRBANKS: Trump clearly knew who Duke was. That’s why I start the Trump chapter with his 1991 interview with Larry King, because it’s clear from the transcript that he knows who Duke is. People can say things like, “Oh, well, he’s just

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ity strengths, not a platform. And I think the party coasted on the Reagan thing for a long time.

Bush knew he was vulnerable in ’92 — certainly after Buchanan did so well in New Hampshire. I think Bush realized the best way to ensure a smooth ride to reelection was to unite the party behind him by moving hard to the right. Even though that didn’t work for Bush, it’s really hard for a party to pull back once it goes hard one way or the other. Today’s Republican Party started in New Hampshire in ’92 with Pat Buchanan.

going along with whatever Larry King is saying.” No, Trump knows it’s in Louisiana. He knows when the name Duke comes up who that is.

And he calls it “a shame” — not because Duke was in the running. It’s a shame that the Louisiana political landscape got to the point where people turned to this guy who’s clearly racist and toxic.

Then, we cut to 2016 where Trump is saying, “I don’t know who David Duke is, and I don’t repudiate him but I repudiate him,” and all this muddled messaging — because he is the David Duke candidate.

He took the lessons from ‘91 and turned them into a winning presidential campaign. Here we are in 2016, and he says, “It’s a shame it got to this point. It’s a shame this happened. But I’m the solution. I’m the solution to the elites and the Obama years.”

What place does Duke have in the far right today? Do people listen to him?

FAIRBANKS: I’ve been told by people that are involved with the Proud Boys that Duke is seen as kind of like, “OK, grandpa, thanks for everything, we got this. You’re not helping.” They don’t dislike him, but he’s a loser in their minds, just like Trump is going to become now for the far right. It’s like, “OK, we need to take the Trump message and find someone to replace it. We need to replace him with a winner.”

They appreciate what Duke has done and that he’s on their team.

This goes not just for the Proud Boys — I think that’s where Duke’s place is in the Republican Party.

Nobody’s going to acknowledge him because they know that he’s politically toxic even now. No one’s going to give a job to David Duke.

But the far-right movement continues to surge forward. I think Duke is content watching his message play out now, like Buchanan was in ’92.

What do you think America could learn, leading into 2024, from the ‘91 election?

FAIRBANKS: Republicans are going to continue to fight the culture wars from the House. They know they’re not going to get anything through, so they’re going to show the far right that they’re on their team and set up the 2024 presidential election as “These people want to change our culture.”

It’s going to take continued red flags and alarm bells going off from the left, just like it did in ’91, to get people to show up and vote. It’s going to take hammering the point home in the next two years.

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Skating through the dark spots The late Christy Lorio on life, cancer and the importance of a good Carnival costume

BY KAYLEE POCH E NEW ORLEANS WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER Christy Lorio used to

joke about wanting to be buried in a Carnival costume and roller skates.

It’d be on brand for Lorio, who liked to express herself through bright, often patterned clothing.

During Carnival, the Marrero native would take it up several notches, and she and her husband Thomas Fewer would coordinate multiple elaborate colorful costumes, complete with wigs and headpieces.

But after more than four years of living with stage-IV cancer and her doctor telling her in August that she had months to live, end of life plans became much more a reality. Lorio died at home surrounded by her loved ones Nov. 29 at the age of 42.

Before she passed, Lorio published a new chapbook, “Cold Comfort,” released on Nov. 15. In it she decided that although she’s serious about the costume, someone else should have her skates.

“They bring me so much joy; I’d like to think they are infused with good energy, something that will heal and comfort whoever needs them,” she wrote.

That same spirit and sense of humor runs through “Cold Comfort,” even though the essays are dealing with the unfunny and painful — both physically and mentally — subject of late-stage cancer.

Lorio wrote the essays in June but updated them after being diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease (LMD) — a rare condition where cancer spreads to the fluid circulating between the brain and spinal cord. With the diagnosis, doctors gave her a prognosis of six months to live.

The culmination is a raw look at the day-to-day life of living with cancer, including the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation impacting her, literally from head to toe.In the essays, Lorio also gave her thoughts on the lines people often say to people with cancer, the unpredictability of good and bad

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Christy Lorio

days and the loneliness of facing “your own mortality on a daily basis.”

Obviously, Carnival costumes are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to things that feel heavier after an advanced cancer diagnosis.

In 2001, Lorio’s father died from colorectal cancer just a year after he was diagnosed. She was 21 at the time and says she felt “blindsided” when it happened. She hadn’t accepted how advanced his illness had become because she worried doing so would “damn” him.

With her own diagnosis, Lorio tried to walk the fine line of not giving up while still preparing for death.

But happier moments carried more weight, too. And she wrote about finding joy wherever she

could, whether that was through photography, swimming, walking her dogs or FaceTiming with her now 3-year-old niece — just appreciating “the little things I thought were a given.”

Though people praise her for this mentality, she argued she didn’t have much of a choice.

“When your life exists in the dark spots, you need to interject brightness into your life as much as possible,” Lorio wrote.

Lorio was open about her experience with cancer in her writing, on social media and in interviews in hopes of removing the stigma that comes with talking about illness and bodily functions.

She was originally diagnosed with stage-IV colorectal cancer in June

2018. More than a year later the cancer spread to her lung. In November 2020, she was diagnosed with stage-0 melanoma.

In an interview with Belle Point Press Founder Casie Dodd, Lorio talked about how sharing her journey with others has even led them to go to the doctor themselves.

“Telling people you have rectal cancer is pretty demoralizing on its own, but I strongly believe I need to advocate for people to stop being embarrassed about their own bodies and see a doctor when necessary,” she said. “I’ve had countless people tell me I was the reason they decided to stop putting off getting a colonoscopy.”

Still, Lorio acknowledged in the essay “Shitty Situation” that even in

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and she roller-skated periodically throughout her life. She started skating again early in her cancer treatment and went on several hiking and rock-climbing trips throughout the years, though swimming eventually became her go-to as her illness progressed.

Through First Descents, a nonprofit that provides trips to cancer survivors, their caregivers and health care workers, she was able to travel to Estes Park, Colorado, in 2019 and the Adirondacks as a volunteer photographer in 2022.

Lorio graduated with a master’s degree in creative writing in May 2020 from University of New Orleans, balancing being both a full-time graduate student and part-time graduate assistant while undergoing cancer treatment, which she had to do to keep her student health insurance. She started a second master’s program in studio art in August 2020 but dropped out this semester given her LMD diagnosis.

She also took on various freelance writing and photography assignments in the last several years, including for Gambit, and kept up with her blog Slow Southern Style.

“I think about Christy and what she’s going through, what she’s gone through and how she’s persevered through it and still lived a very, very beautiful life and really got to see some things and do some things,” Banks said. “And I’m saying, shit, if she can grind through what she’s going through and still live life, the shit I’m going through ain’t even that important. We gonna knock this shit out.”

Lorio was one of his earliest fans, and Banks credits her for playing an instrumental role in his career.

She wrote an article about him in Antigravity in 2017 and another in Uptown Messenger in January, and helped connect him with BBC Russia for a 2016 interview.

In 2021, she even showed up to his first show since the start of the pandemic — masked and socially distant — to his album release party for “One Guy Standing by Himself,” even though she was immunocompromised. And she donated to his September GoFundMe after he had his car stolen, he said.

“She always championed me every chance she got, and that’s what I love about her ... I don’t have a lot of people like that in my life,” he said.

“Things like that I’ll just never forget.”

“Cold Comfort” is available at bellepointpress.com. With each copy sold, $5 goes directly to Lorio’s family.

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the process of encouraging people to talk about their experiences, she chose to leave out certain details she was too uncomfortable to share.

Instead, she joked that with regular doctor visits to check if her colorectal cancer resurfaced, she’s “had more cameras up my butt than most porn stars.”

But despite her candor, Lorio said it’s hard for a lot of people to truly understand the extent of her pain.

“Most people have no idea how much I suffer,” she wrote, later adding, “If I look fine then I must be fine, right?”In one essay about watching the finches in her yard, Lorio contemplated her own mortality.

Radiation to a brain tumor brought on Parinaud Syndrome, a condition causing blurry vision, which left her feeling vulnerable when she left the house. She wondered if what she saw was similar to what the baby finch saw looking out its nest.

She also missed the baby birds when it was time for them to leave the nest and fly away.

“I want to be remembered, just like those birds,” she concluded the essay.

New Orleans-based rapper Alfred Banks has more than a decade’s worth of memories with Lorio. They first met around 2008 while she was working at Buffalo Exchange and he was working at the nearby diner Slim Goodies. Over the years, they bonded over their creative endeavors and supported each other’s careers.

Banks was impressed with Lorio’s way with words and her photographic eye. “She’s an awesome photographer,” Banks told Gambit.

“She has an eye for shit, so she kind of knows what’s dope and what’s not.”

“She likes what she likes, and she doesn’t like what she doesn’t like,” he added. “(She’s) very passionate about what she likes.”

Lorio’s photos appear throughout “Cold Comfort,” all in black and white. There are iPhone shots of a hospital bag for personal belongings, the dirty linens bin, wires and other medical equipment and hospital selfies.

When Banks and Lorio met up for a photoshoot earlier this year, Banks said even though Lorio would lose her balance at times, she remained determined to get the shots she wanted.

“She was like, ‘Nah, nah, nah, we’ve got to get this shot right. I got this idea right quick,’” Banks said.

“She kind of gives me the energy of knowing that you can — no matter what’s going on — keep doing your thing. Nothing can stop (you).”An active person, Lorio was used to running 5Ks before her diagnosis

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FRENCH QUARTER | JULIA STREET | LOWER GARDEN 1. The National WWII Museum 945 Magazine Street | 70130 Daily, 9 am-5 pm Admission: �31.50 The Real Image of War Edward Steichen and John Ford Now - January 3, 2023 2. Ogden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp Street | 70130 Daily, 10 am-5 pm Admission: �13.50 Exhibition talks free to public* CURRENTS 2022 Various NOPA Members December 9, 2022 - January 29, 2023 Black Alchemy: Remembering Fazendeville Aaron Turner December 9, 2022 - January 29, 2023 *Exhibition talks: Friday, Dec 9, 6 pm Louisiana Contemporary presented by The Helis Foundation Various Louisiana Artists November 30, 2022 - January 30, 2023 The Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) Now- January 15, 2023 3. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery 400A Julia Street | 70130 Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm Image Value Tiffany Calvert Now – December 10, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 5-9 pm Cuba Revisited Various Artists December 15, 2022 – February 18, 2023 4. Arthur Roger Gallery 432 Julia Street | 70130 Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm Intermission/Succession David Leventi Now – December 14, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-9 pm 5. Gryder Gallery 615 Julia Street | 70130 Tues-Sat, 11 am-6 pm Diane Meyer: Berlin Diane Meyer, 2021 Photo Review Prize Winner December 9, 2022 - January 29, 2023 Artist talk: Thursday, Dec 8, 5:30 pm Convulsive Beauty - Surrealism in Photography:

A Woman's Perspective Brittany Markert & Alexis Martino December 9, 2022 - January 29, 2023

6. Claire Elizabeth Gallery 131 Decatur Street | 70130 Mon, Thur-Sat, 11 am-6 pm | Sun, 12-5 pm Horizons Ashleigh Coleman, Ben Depp, Robert Dutruch December 8, 2022 - January 16, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 12:30 - 3pm 7. A Gallery for Fine Photography 241 Chartres Street | 70130 Open by chance or by appointment (504) 568-1313 Michael Kenna Exhibition December 1, 2022 – February 28, 2023 Artist talk: Saturday, Dec 10, 1-2:30 pm

8. Toulouse Theater 615 Toulouse Street | 70130 Thurs-Sat, 12 pm-till Bodies of Silver and Light Wes Fowinkle December 1, 2022 – indefinitely CENTRAL CITY | IRISH CHANNEL 9. The Building 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd | 70113 Thurs-Fri, 11 am-5 pm | Sat, 10 am-3 pm Structure Out Of Chaos Mary Lou Uttermohlen December 10 - 24, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6:30 pm 10. Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald & The Honorary Consulate of Iceland 3308-B Magazine Street | 70130 Nudes in the Landscape Christopher Ryan November 30, 2022-January 15, 2023 By appointment for serious collectors 11. Gallery Huracan 3441 Magazine Street | 70115 Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm or by appointment Some Where No Where There, in Between James G. Barbee Now-January 31, 2023 Opening: Saturday Dec 3, 5-9pm 12. Carriage House Studio and Gallery 1203 Constantinople Street | 70115 Paris to Provence Paulo Francesco (Photographer), Zoe West (Model) Wednesday, Dec 7 11 am-2 pm Thursday, Dec 8, 11 am-1 pm Friday, Dec 9, 5-7 pm Saturday, Dec 10, 3-6 pm 13. Sullivan Gallery 3827 Magazine Street | 70115 Wed-Sat, 12-5 pm Return to Forever Owen Murphy Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 5-8 pm Dec 7-10, 12 pm-till 14. Cole Pratt Gallery 3800 Magazine Street | 70115 Tues-Sat, 10 am-5 pm Swan, Swan, Spiderweb Jennifer Shaw Now - December 31, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 2022 UPTOWN 15. New Orleans Photo Alliance 7800 Oak Street | 70117 Wed-Sun, 11 am-4 pm Ruth Orkin: In Motion Ruth Orkin (1921-1985) December 7, 2022 – January 31, 2023 Opening: Thursday, Dec 8, 6-8 pm 16. Chais Delachaise 7708 Maple Street | 70118 Wed, Thrus, Sun, 3-9 pm | Fri & Sat, 3-10 pm Upclose Amy James December 1 - 31, 2022 Opening: Thursday, Dec 8, 4-6 pm 17. Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University Corner of Newcomb Circle and Newcomb Place | 70118 Mon-Fri, 10 am-5 pm | Sat, 11 am-4 pm.

TO SURVIVE ON THIS SHORE: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults Jess T. Dugan, Vanessa Fabbre Now – December 10, 2022

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MID-CITY | BAYOU ST. JOHN 18. New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park | 70124 Tues–Sun, 10 am-5 pm Admission: �15 Anne Noggle: Herself Anne Noggle (1922-2005) Now – February 12, 2023 Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers Now – January 8, 2023 Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk Polo Silk Now – January 8, 2023 Robert Polidori: Recollections Robert Polidori Now – January 8, 2023 19. HEY Coffee Co. 2606 St. Louis Street | 70119 Daily, 7 am-3 pm Tell Her Nothing / She Tells All Ashley Gates December 7, 2022 - January 29, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 7-9 pm 20. Coffee Science 410 S. Broad Street | 70119 Daily, 7 am-4 pm Exhibition is one day only* Flip the Switch: IlLumenating the Power of Nature Natasha Sanchez *December 21, 2022, 4-9 pm BYWATER | MARIGNY | SEVENTH WARD 21. Bar Redux 925 Camp Street | 70130 Tues-Sun, 7 pm-2am Expressions of Identity Heidi Hickman, Nadia Borsch, Tomas Raul, Vincent Simmons December 7, 2022 - January 27, 2023 Opening: Wednesday, Dec 7, 7 pm-till 22. The Front 4100 St. Claude Avenue | 70117 Sat-Sun, 12–5 pm, except for opening* A Salty Salute | Rain Gage Made of Smokeless Fire Can’ t Stop Staring Elliott Stokes, Lily Brooks, Camille Farrah Lenain, Dani Leal December 10, 2022 - Jan 8, 2023 *Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-10 pm 23. Suis Generis 3219 Burgundy Street | 70117 Hours: Fri & Sat, 6-11 pm; Sun, 6-10 pm In Search Of ANTIGRAVITY contributors and staff December 9, 2022 — January 8, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6 pm 24. Second Story Gallery 2372 St. Claude Avenue, 2nd floor | 70117 Daily, 9 am-6 pm Charles Muir Lovell Archives Charles Muir Lovell December 10, 2022 – January 7, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9 pm 25. UNO St. Claude Art Gallery 2429 St. Claude Ave. | 70117 Sat & Sun, 12-5 pm and by appointment Jim Steg: Polaroids Jim Steg December 10, 2022 - January 8, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9 pm

26. Staple Goods 1340 St. Roch Ave | 70117 Sat & Sun, 12-5 pm Berhane Tendai Cole: Nameless Feeling Berhane Tendai Cole December 10, 2022 – January 8, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9 pm 27. ArteFuturo Studio / José Torres-Tama 1329 St. Roch Avenue | 70117 After opening, by appointment only (504) 232-2968 Latin American Immigrant Roofers Post-Ida José Torres-Tama December 10, 2022 - January 14, 2023 Public Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 4-8 pm TREME 28. New Orleans African American Museum 1418 Governor Nicholls Street | 70116 Thurs-Sun, 11 am-4 pm Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 & Beyond Various Artists, Installation centering the photography of Florestine Perrault Collins October 7, 2022 – June 4, 2023 29. Old Road Coffee Shop 2024 Bayou Road | 70116 Daily 6:30 am-5 pm Ways Around a Feeling Zoe Mariana Johnson & Benry Fauna December 9 - 30, 2022 Opening: Friday, Dec 9, 6-9 pm ARABI | LOWER NINTH WARD 30. Arabi Visual Arts 6707 St. Claude Avenue, Apt 208 | 70032 Wed-Sun, 11 am-7 pm Violated Metropolis Various Artists December 7, 2022 - January 27, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-10 pm 31. Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge 6621 St. Claude Avenue, Apt 208 | 70032 Hours vary pending movie schedule www.zeitgeistnola.org Lord of the Flies Thailand Christopher Ryan November 30, 2022 - January 30, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 2022; 6-9 pm 32. Art Conscious 6601 St Claude Ave | 70032 Mon–Fri, 10 am-6 pm Altered States Karen Bullock, Seth Cook, Michel Varisco, Meg Turner and Lana Guerra November 30, 2022 - January 30, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-10 pm 33. Old Arabi Lighthouse Records and Books 234 Mehle Street | 70032 Thurs-Sun, 11 am-7 pm Strange and Wonderful: The Photography of Louis Maistros Louis Maistros Now – January 31, 2023 34. Katrina National Memorial Museum 5400 Douglass Street | 70117 Mon-Sat, 11am - 5pm Suggested Donation: �20.00 Katrina Photo Essay 2005 Omar Casimire, Kalli Padgett, Jody Richardson, & Phyllis Goodnow 35. Tate, Etienne, Prevost Center 5909 St Claude Ave | 70117 Mon-Fri, 10 am-3 pm Metamorphosis: From Marginal to Magnificent Various Artists Now - January 15, 2023

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With the holidays upon us, we asked some of our staff for gift ideas for the bibliophile in your life. Here’s our list of new (and newish) books we’ve either enjoyed this year or are looking forward to digging into soon.

A longer list can be found on our website, bestofneworleans.com.

“Dreaming in the Bone Boat”

By Raymond “Moose” Jackson UNO Press

Poet Ray “Moose” Jackson often performs spoken word with live bands and has written dramatic scripts. In his latest collection, his poetry has a Beat Generation-type of lyricism that straddles his gritty, punk side and his intimate and spiritual contemplations. Long before arriving in New Orleans two decades ago, he served a tortured stint as a military cryptologist, and he still adeptly reads the signs before him, finding omens in benders stretching deep into Lent, in the detritus of Hurricane Katrina and in the pursuit of muses and epiphanies.

— WILL COVIELLO

“Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler”

By Frank Perez

University Press of Mississippi

enue home where Butler socialized and met with LGBTQ activists. The book paints a detailed, personal portrait of Butler as he became dedicated to a life of advocacy and fighting for civil rights.

— WILL COVIELLO

“An Immense World: How

Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us”

By Ed Yong

Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter and author Ed Yong explores animal behavior and the ways in which creatures communicate and evolve in his latest narrative nonfiction. But unlike a dry science periodical, Yong’s writing is riveting and easy to digest as he offers eye-opening information that will alter the way his readers view their non-human counterparts. By delving into the sophisticated yet often silent “languages” and other mechanisms by which creatures from insects to primates operate, Yong evokes a newfound respect for them and promotes curiosity about the natural world.

— SARAH RAVITS

“That Self-Same Metal”

The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1

By Brittany K. Williams

Amulet Books (pre-order from abramsbooks.com) P H O T O B Y J O H N S TA N T O N

A natural politician, Stewart Butler didn’t become an advocate on LGBTQ issues until after he and his partner Alfred Doolittle survived the arson fire at the UpStairs Lounge in June 1973, which left 32 people dead. In his biography, Frank Perez details Butler’s wandering path, growing up in Louisiana, traveling, his unsuccessful marriage in Alaska and his eventual return to New Orleans. Perez draws heavily on Butler’s letters and personal accounts of his life and work, including at the “Faerie Theatre,” the brightly colored Esplanade Av-

Local author, actor and director Brittany K. Williams is no stranger to readers of Gambit. The master Shakespearian actor wrote original fiction for our 2020 Halloween cover story “Rentre: A Story of Possession” and our 2021 story “The Holidaymaker: A Christmas Invasion Tale.” In her debut novel, Williams pits Joan Sands, a 16-year-old Black girl in Shakespearian London with a serious sword hand against an uprising of the Fae that threatens old London Town. Although her book won’t be out until the spring, you’ll want to pre-order this for all fans of fantasy and YA literature in your life.

— JOHN STANTON

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While his Tulane degree in architecture came in handy with the painstaking renovation of the 1860 Greek Revival townhouse that is now Margaret Place, Trenton Gauthier’s plan isn’t just about restoring the hotel and event space to glory.

With the opening of the hotel’s cheekily named Rising Sun cafe, Gauthier’s vision extends to creating a delightful space, where fresh ingredients come together for bites of nostalgic goodness.

The cafe’s team includes the father and son chef duo Matt and Jake Erickson in the kitchen. Pastry chef Violet Badflower provides baked goods with an emphasis on vegan options; and Rachel Blackstone is the lead barista behind the high-tech Decent Espresso machine. The coffee program hinges on small batch local roasters Mammoth, Cherry and Pretty Coffee.

Blackstone conjures some of her own beverages, like the spiced mocha, bright with notes of cayenne and cinnamon. Badflower, who also is a burlesque performer, bakes treats like guava cream cheese pastelitos, vegan bananas Foster muffins and brown butter chocolate chip cookies.

For now, the savory menu is compact and changes frequently with seasonal ingredients. The B.E.A.T. is Matt Erickson’s take on a BLT, combining bacon, egg, arugula and heirloom tomato on ciabatta with a schmear of house-made tomato onion jam.

The pulled-pork sloppy joe has a whisper of gochujang, the Korean chili pepper paste. The fried chicken sandwich is a winner, a juicy, Creole-seasoned, fried breast cutlet dressed with arugula, creamy basil aioli and, on the other side of the toasted ciabatta, a flavor-packed romesco sauce.

Beer-braised pork shoulder is used in the pulled pork breakfast hash served with eggs and cafeteria-style hash brown patties. Most

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dishes are $10 or under, including a diner plate with more of those crispy hash browns, toast, two eggs and andouille or bacon on the side. There’s a daily soup and a seasonal salad, currently a mix of arugula, house-marinated artichoke hearts, pickled peppers and shaved radishes tossed in a citrusy vinaigrette.

Entrees are served on pretty china, which underscores the eye-popping presentations.

“There’s a lot of prep that goes into our dishes, but they come together fast,” Matt Erickson says.

Matt Erickson, who has been in New Orleans for seven years, has cooked in kitchens including Suis Generis, Green Goddess and The Saint Hotel in the French Quarter.

This is only the second time he’s worked with his son, who came from Los Angeles a few months ago to join the operation.

Rising Sun channels some of Gauthier’s comfort food memories from places like Dante’s Kitchen and the Country Club. After hosting a dinner series with Dakar NOLA chef Serigne Mbaye during the pandemic, Gauthier saw how much potential the courtyard space could have for regular breakfast and lunch

Chefs Jake and Matt Erickson and owner Trenton Gauthier at Rising Sun. service. He plans to add a daily happy hour and pop-up burlesque entertainment in the near future.

There’s a small pool outside, and towel rental is a menu option for guests that want to take a dip.

Gauthier, whose family has a foundation that supports education, arts and culture in the region, says that running Margaret Place and Rising Sun isn’t his primary source of income.

“This a lifestyle business for me,” he says. “I’m not operating Rising Sun because it’s going to make a bunch of money. I live onsite and I like to look out my window to see a full courtyard of happy people.

My wife and I are alternative people who don’t feel entirely at home in some spaces. The culture is key here.”

While Gauthier’s onsite, he is letting other people lead. “The only person in charge here is our general manager, Kathleen Nagle,” he says.

“Everybody has expertise, and we take a team approach to everything we do.”

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restaurants. Though the annual promotion is named for the early Creole tradition of a midnight meal shared at home on Christmas Eve, the menus feature all sorts of restaurant dishes. Daube glace was a traditional reveillon dish, and a version of it is on Arnaud’s $65 dinner menu, which offers wild mushroom risotto and prosciutto-wrapped veal tenderloin among its entree choices.

The options range from the $45 menu of classic Greek dishes at Acropolis on Freret Street to the $135 six-course slate at Commander’s Palace. Many dinners are in the $60-$70 range, and some offer wine pairing options. Antoine’s offers a special brunch menu. Visit holiday.neworleans.com/food-and-drink for a list of participating restaurants and their menus. The website also includes a smattering of special holiday cocktails at participating restaurants.

A handful of local bars also offer special holiday cocktail menus, generally with tropical drink themes. At Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29 in the French Quarter, Jeff Berry offers a Sippin’ Santa menu of holiday drinks. The Jingle Bird combines bourbon, pineapple rum, Campari, lime and pineapple juice. There’s a preview of several drinks on its Instagram, @latitude29nola.

At Barrel Proof in the Lower Garden District, the Miracle on Magazine menu includes a couple of holiday shots and a cocktail list of holiday drinks such as the Christmapolitan, combining vodka, Elderflower liqueur, dry vermouth, spiced cranberry sauce, lime, rosemary and a touch of absinthe. The menu is posted at barrelproofnola.com.

At The Virgin Hotels’ rooftop bar, which is outfitted with heaters, there are special cocktails, some of which are available by the pitcher, as well as some mocktails. The Oaxacan Tobaggan combines mezcal, Cioco artichoke liqueur, lime and pomegranate. A special menu of drinks and food is posted at virginhotels.com/ new-orleans/dine-and-drink/ rooftop. — WILL COVIELLO

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Although he grew up in California and also worked in New York, the pop-up focused on his work in Spain. Out of the pop-up, he’s developed his Donostia Supper Club. But during the holiday season, he runs his Latke Daddy pop-up, which is focused on kosher-style (but not strictly kosher) food. Latke Daddy has upcoming events at holiday markets at Courtyard Brewery on Dec. 8 and 22, Zony Mash Beer Project on Dec. 10 and 17, and Miel Brewery on Dec. 19 and 26. For information, visit his Instagram, @txowtxowpintxos.

: When did you start Latke Daddy?

ADAM MAYER: Latke Daddy was my first ever pop-up. It wasn’t called Latke Daddy, but the concept was the same. I did my first pop-up in 2016 in Brooklyn, before I moved here. My sister used to be the executive director for a Jewish nonprofit. I did a fundraiser event for them. I cooked a couple of things that are still in the Latke Daddy rotation. I did a lamb sloppy joe. I had a waffle iron, so I did a fried chicken “waffka.” I don’t do those anymore since I don’t have an oven to keep them warm.

In 2020, I had been doing the Txow Txow pop-up for six months.

I basically knew once I was doing pop-ups full time that I wanted to do (Latke Daddy) as a more fully fleshed out concept and just do it during the holiday season. It’s a kitschy fun holiday concept.

I thought the food side was fairly well established, though I continue to evolve it every year. I wanted to give it its own branding that people could follow and get behind.

Part of why it’s fun for me is that I like to straddle the line of being really serious and really silly. I am serious about my food and putting out the best product that I can, but I want it to be fun.

: What’s on the Latke Daddy menu?

M: The backstory is that latkes are the first thing I learned to cook. When I was a little kid in the Bay Area, I had a friend who was the same age. Her mom did a big

Hanukkah party every year. We would spend the whole day before the party hanging out making latkes. Every year we would make more potatoes than we did the year before. By the time we graduated high school, we’d be doing a whole case of potatoes. We’d be there eight hours and spend the whole day cooking. It was very communal. I loved it. That is still the latke recipe I use. I also think it’s the greatest latke recipe out there. My only addition is that the recipe is fully regular potato and I add a little sweet potato.

I like to respect tradition, so I always do a classic with applesauce and labneh. The eternal debate for Jews at Hanukkah is are you a sour cream person or an applesauce person? I always want both, never just one. I want fatty, creamy, tangy sour cream, and you need that applesauce sweetness. So I always do a classic that comes with applesauce and labneh, which is a little fancier than sour cream.

The Latke Daddy concept allows every menu item to be a Daddy and take on its own identity. The Bayou Daddy is latkes smothered with harissa crawfish etouffee.

Part of the whole Latke Daddy fun is how much non-kosher stuff we can put on a latke. My all-time favorite menu item is the Monsieur Daddy, which is a croque monsieur between two latkes. It’s Chisesi ham and a nice Mornay Gruyere cheese sauce. It’s a ham and

cheese between two latkes smothered in cheese sauce.

I am going to bring back the U-Mami Daddy, which is grilled cheese on two latkes smothered with a miso-mushroom gravy. That one is kosher-style also. The Ruski Daddy is a beet and gin-cured salmon, or sometimes trout, with labneh and dill and maybe some salmon roe or Cajun Caviar.

I like to have some things that are classics and some things that are off the wall. It’s fun to see people’s reactions.

I get some people who have never heard of a latke, and I am like, have you ever had hash browns?

This year, I think I am going to do a Muffulatke. I am going to do a latke banh mi with pulled pork and banh mi fixings like carrot and daikon pickle, jalapeno and cilantro and maybe a little pate. That’s the new stuff.

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: How is the supper club doing?

M: I have a couple of private events this month, but everything else is on hold while I do Latke Daddy.

I want to focus on building the supper club. It’s an homage to fine dining culture interpreted through my culinary experiences. I spent six months in 2015 cooking in a restaurant in Spain in Basque country.

And I have done a lot of fine dining, tasting menu style restaurants. I like to cook like that. It lets you do a little more storytelling.

The supper club is about creating a unique vibe. I do a menu that’s four to six courses. I don’t announce it beforehand, so it’s a blind tasting menu. And I never repeat a dish, so it’s fun for me in menu planning and focused on what’s in season. It’s a modern, contemporary reflection of fine dining viewed through Louisiana and Gulf Coast agriculture and seafood. It reflects my journey growing up in California and working in New York and going to Spain and synthesizing it into this experience.

You’ll note fresh citrus, green apple and bright minerals on the palate, with a toasty nose and lively, crisp finish.

Try this with a dragon roll, sashimi, Thai-style mussels, lobster rolls and french fries!

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Acorn — 12 Henry Thomas Drive, (504) 218-5413; acornnola.com — The cafe a at the Louisiana Children’s Museum has kid- and adult-friendly menu. Blackened shrimp fill a trio of tacos topped with arugula, radish, pineapple-mango salsa and cilantro-lime sauce. No reservations. breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. $$ Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; andreasrestaurant.com — Chef Andrea Apuzzo’s speckled trout royale is topped with crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce.

Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, biscotti, fig cookies, tiramisu, macaroons and other treats. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant. com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes.

Gulf Drum Yvonne is served with brown butter sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Mon. $$$ The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985)

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11-$20 $$$ — $20-up

315-7001; 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — The menu includes sandwiches, fried seafood platters, boiled seafood and more.

Outdoor seating available. No reservations.

Lakeview: lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Slidell: lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — The menu includes Creole and creative contemporary dishes. Rainbow trout amandine is served with tasso and corn macque choux and Creole meuniere sauce. Reservations recommended. Outdoor seating available.

Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Cafe Normandie — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The menu combines classic French dishes and Louisiana items like Crab beignets with herb aioli. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Common Interest — Hotel Indigo, 705 Common St., (504) 595-5605; commoninterestnola.com — Shrimp remoulade Cobb salad comes with avocado, blue cheese, tomatoes, bacon, egg and corn relish. Slow roasted beef debris tops goat cheese and thyme grits.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night daily. $$

Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu higlights Gulf seafood in Creole dishes. Char-grilled oysters are topped with Parmesan and herbs.

Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; bourbonhouse.com — The seafood restaurant has a raw bar and a large selection of bourbon. Redfish on the Halfshell is cooked skin-on and served with lemon buerre blanc. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$$ Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 739 Iberville St., (504) 522-4440; 7400 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 304-4125; felixs. com — Louisiana oysters are served raw or char-grilled with garlic, Parmesan and breadcrumbs. The menu includes seafood platters, crawfish etouffee, po-boys and more. No reservations.

Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Frey Smoked Meat Co. — 4141 Bienville St., Suite 110, (504) 488-7427; freysmokedmeat.com — The barbecue restaurant serves pulled pork, St. Louis ribs, brisket, sausages and more. Fried pork belly poppers are tossed in pepperjelly glaze. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$

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Froot Orleans — 2438 Bell St., Suite B, (504) 233-3346; frootorleans.com — The shop serves fresh fruit in platters, smoothie bowls such as a strawberry shortcake smoothie and more using pineapple, various berries, citrus and more. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; joeyksrestaurant.com — The menu includes fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and red beans and rice.

Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes grilled steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar-jack cheese, black beans, yellow rice, guacamole and salsa. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — A Cajun Cuban has roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, and red onions. Delivery available. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Kilroy’s Bar — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The bar menu includes sandwiches, flatbreads, salads

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and more. A Louisiana peach flatbread has prosciutto, stracciatella cheese, arugula and pecans. No reservations. Dinner Wed.-Sat. $$ Legacy Kitchen’s Craft Tavern — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes oysters, flatbreads, burgers, sandwiches, salads and more. A NOLA Style Grits Bowl is topped with bacon, cheddar and a poached egg. Reservations accepted.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Legacy Kitchen Steak & Chop — 91 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, (504) 513-2606; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes filets mignons, bone-in rib-eyes and top sirloins, as well as burgers, salads and seafood dishes. Reservations accepted. Outdoor seating available.

Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 894-7444; martinwine.com — The spirits shop’s deli serves sandwiches, salads and more. The Sena salad includes roasted chicken, raisins, blue cheese, pecans and field greens with Tabasco pepperjelly vinaigrette. No reservations. Lunch daily. $$ Mid City Pizza — 6307 S. Miro St., (504) 509-6224; 4400 Banks St., (504) 483-8609; midcitypizza.com — Shrimp remoulade pizza includes spinach, red onion and garlic on an olive oil-brushed curst. Delivery available. No reservations.

Lunch Thu.-Sun., dinner Thu.-Mon. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki,

avocado and snow crab. The menu also has sushi, sashimi, noodle dishes, teriyaki and more. Reservations accepted.

Delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves Italian dishes and house specialties including shrimp Mosca and chicken a la grande. Baked oysters Mosca is made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant. net — This counter-service spot is known for po-boys dressed with cabbage and Creole favorites, such as jambalaya, crawfish etouffee and red beans and rice. Delivery available. No reservations.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Nephew’s Ristorante — 4445 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, (504) 533-9998; nephewsristorante.com — Chef Frank Catalanotto is the namesake “nephew” who ran the kitchen at Tony Angello’s restaurant. The Creole-Italian menu features dishes like veal, eggplant or chicken parmigiana. Reservations required. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as seafood platters, po-boys, char-grilled oysters, pasta, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$

Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola. com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with cheese. The menu also includes wings, quesadillas, burgers, sandwiches, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ Nonno’s Cajun Cuisine and Pastries — 1940 Dauphine St., (504) 354-1364; nonnoscajuncuisineandpastries.com — The menu includes Cajun and Creole dishes with some vegan options. Shrimp are sauteed with onions and peppers, topped with cheese and served with two eggs and toast. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Peacock Room — Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, 501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 324-3073; peacockroomnola.com — Black lentil vadouvan curry comes with roasted tomatoes, forest mushrooms and basmati rice. The menu includes small plates, a burger, salads and more. Reservations accepted.

Dinner Wed.-Mon., brunch Sun. $$ Rosie’s on the Roof — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The hotel’s rooftop bar has a menu of sandwiches, burgers and small plates. No reservations. Dinner daily. $$ Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 827-1651; legacykitchen.com — The seafood restaurant serves raw and char-grilled oysters, seafood, burgers, salads and more. Redfish St. Charles is served with garlic herb butter, asparagus, mushrooms and crawfish cornbread.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$

Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; tavolinonola.com — The menu features pizzas, salads, meatballs and more. A Behrman Hwy. pizza has pork belly, caramel, carrots, jalapenos and herbs. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; 70488 Highway 21, Covington, (985) 234-9420; theospizza.com — A Marilynn Pota Supreme pie is topped with mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, mushrooms, bell peppers and onions. Takeout and delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco. com — Peruvian lomo saltado is a traditional dish of beef sauteed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, soy sauce and pisco, and served with fried potatoes and rice.

Outdoor seating and delivery available.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Zhang Bistro — 1141 Decatur St., (504) 826-8888; zhangbistronola.com — The menu includes Chinese and Thai dishes.

The Szechuan Hot Wok offers a choice of chicken, beef, shrimp or tofu with onions, bell peppers, cauliflower, jalapenos, garlic and spicy Szechuan sauce.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$

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WEDNESDAY 7 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 7:30 pm BLUE NILE — New Breed Brass Band, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Jumpin' Johnny Sansone , 9 pm; Tin Men, 6 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard "Piano" Scott, 12:30 pm; Bourbon Street Stars, 5 pm GASA GASA — The Swell Fellas, Quarx, The Nancies, Sapna, 9 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Darianna Videaux Capitel, 2 pm NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSEUM — New Orleans Nightcrawlers, 2 pm ROGERS MEMORIAL CHAPEL AT TULANE UNIVERSITY — Newcomb Department of Music music students, 12 pm SANTOS — Wayfarer with Wake, 9 pm THE BOMBAY CLUB — Harry Mayronne and Yvette Voelker, 8 pm

THURSDAY 8 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Quartet, 8 pm BLUE NILE — Where Y'at Brass Band, 9 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Helen Gillet & Wazozo , 7 pm; Joy Clark Trio, 10 pm DOUBLE DEALER COCKTAIL BAR AT THE ORPHEUM THEATER — The Co & Co Travelin' Show, 9 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Doyle Cooper Band, 2:30 pm; John Saavedra Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 8 pm JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK — Simon Lott and Hunter Miles Davis, 3 pm

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FRIDAY 9 BAYOU BAR AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN HOTEL — Peter Harris Trio, 8 pm BLUE NILE — The Caesar Brothers, 7 pm; Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, 11 pm BLUE NILE BALCONY ROOM — Trumpet Slim & Brass Flavor, 10 pm D.B.A. NEW ORLEANS — Smoking Time Jazz Club, 5 pm; Lynn Drury + Dirt Reynolds, 10 pm FRITZEL'S EUROPEAN JAZZ CLUB — Richard “Piano” Scott, 12:30 pm; Sam Friend Band, 2:30 pm; Lee Floyd and Thunderbolt Trio, 6 pm; Fritzel's All Star Band, 9 pm GASA GASA — Caly Pearse with MPTY, Ben Heller , 9 pm GEORGE AND JOYCE WEIN JAZZ & HERITAGE CENTER — Detroit Brooks & the Syncopated Percolators, 8 pm HIDEAWAY DEN & ARCADE — Brian Jones, 8 pm MUSIC BOX VILLAGE — Emily Mikesell House Band, 5 pm ORPHEUM THEATER — "Home Alone" with LPO, 7:30 pm ROCK 'N' BOWL — Sugar Shaker, 8:30 pm SANTOS — Juno Duz Campos with Your Boy Phil, 9 pm SIBERIA — Joystick, Flying Raccoon Suit, Lo(u)ser, Diplocrats, 9 pm SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO — Alexey Marti & Afrogumbo (Alexey's big birthday bash show) , 8 & 10 pm THE DOMINO — Harry Mayronne and Chloe Marie, 7 pm TIPITINA'S — Dragon Smoke, 9 pm

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The small club initially closed in March 2020 when the COVID19 pandemic swept through New Orleans, and owner Dale Triguero’s sudden death in July 2021 threw the venue’s future into uncertainty. The club briefly reopened last fall, but the intention still was to ultimately sell the business, a plan Triguero had been working on before his death.

Then earlier this year, a group of partners, many of whom work in the music industry, stepped up to buy Chickie Wah Wah and maintain the listening room spirit cultivated by Triguero at his club. The roof was replaced, a new HVAC system was installed, and some needed repairs and upgrades were made, and now Chickie Wah Wah is ready to turn the lights back on.

Wednesday’s reopening event starts at 5 p.m. with a second line featuring the Keepin’ It Real Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the Big 6 Brass Band and Warren Easton Marching Band. Bluesman Johnny Sansone kicks off the night’s music at 7 p.m., with performances by Johnny Vidacovich with James Singleton and Rob Wagner, rock band Greazy Alice and hip-hop duo SaxKixAve. Tickets are $20 advance and $27 on the day of the show.

“For many, many years, it was the major music club in Mid-City,” says Patrick Templeman, one of the venue’s new owners. “I wanted it to remain a music club, it was important to me for that to happen, and my partners felt the same way. We said let’s make this happen and let it continue.”

Along with Templeman, a managing director at PS Business Management, which provides business management services to clients in the entertainment industry, the group of more than a dozen partners includes Civic Theatre owner Brian Bailey, Galactic manager Alex Brahl and Voodoo Fest founder Steve Rehage.

Triguero opened Chickie Wah Wah in 2006 and pushed for a listening room-esque atmosphere.

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Chickie Wah Wah reopens Wednesday, Dec. 7.

Templeman says they plan to continue that focus and book a diverse range of local musicians as well as more national and touring acts.

Michael Twillman, who co-founded Gasa Gasa and Simple Play Management, will book the venue.

Before Triguero died in 2021 — at the age of 68 from complications following heart surgery — he had planned to reopen Chickie Wah Wah around the time of the ill-fated fall Jazz Fest. Long-term, though, he wanted to sell the business and building. After he passed away, a friend Jacques Ferland and singer Meschiya Lake carried on with Triguero’s plan to reopen with the blessing of the estate. (Lake parted ways with the venue a couple of months later.)

Chickie Wah Wah went on the market last spring and sold for $910,000, The Times-Picayune reported. The deal was finalized almost exactly a year after Triguero’s death.

The kitchen, near the front of the building, was removed.

Templeman says they hope to build out a new kitchen in the back sometime in the future but will host food trucks and pop-ups until then. There also is new stage lighting, and a number of repairs and upgrades have been made.

“The room was always a listening room,” Templeman says.

“We wanted to make it the best listening room it possibly could be.

We think it’s going to hopefully be looked at as one of the best listening rooms in the southeast.”

Find tickets and more information about Wednesday’s reopening event at chickiewahwah.com.

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release of its full-length album “A Light for Attracting Attention.”

At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Orpheum Theater. Find tickets at ticketmaster.com.

Modest Mouse

SEATTLE INDIE ROCKERS MODEST MOUSE ARE ON TOUR CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY of its break-

through album “The Lonesome Crowded West.” The lineup has changed over the years, but singer/guitarist Isaac Brock and drummer Jeremiah Green remain the core of the band. Mattress opens at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at The Fillmore. Find tickets via modestmouse.com.

Alexey Marti & Afrogumbo

CUBAN-BORN PERCUSSIONIST ALEXEY MARTI LEADS HIS SEXTET featuring

pianist Oscar Rossignoli, guitarist Ari Teitel and saxophonist Ricardo Pascal, and vocalist Emeka Dibia joins the ensemble for these performances. At 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 9, at Snug Harbor.

Tickets $30 via snugjazz.com.

Krampus

THE NEW ORLEANS NIGHTMARE HAUNTED HOUSE OFFERS A “FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.” Inspired by

Krampus, the horrifying Alpine figure who comes out before Christmas to scare children, the attraction is populated with evil elves and other bah humbug types. Krampus is open Dec. 9-10.

Tickets $25 and up. Visit neworleansnightmare.com for information.

‘The Nutcracker’

NEW ORLEANS BALLET THEATRE COMBINES ITS PROFESSIONAL COMPANY

and more than 100 young dancers in its presentation of the holiday classic at the Orpheum Theater.

Performances are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, and 2 p.m.

Sunday, and the show also runs Dec. 17-18 and 21-22. Find tickets via orpheumnola.com.

‘Twilight’ Movie Night

BODY GLITTER AND FLANNEL SHIRTS ARE THE SUGGESTED ATTIRE for a

screening of “Twilight” at BJ’s Lounge Wednesday, Dec. 7. That’s a sartorial nod to emo teen Bella Swan and her sparkly vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen, the star-crossed lovers of the bestselling YA fiction series that were adapted into blockbuster films.

Co-curated by Gambit’s own Kaylee Poche and The TimesPicayune’s Chelsea Shannon, the evening will feature drinking games, specials and other surprises. The event is free to attend and starts at 8 p.m.

St. Lorelei

NEW ORLEANS INDIE ROCK BAND ST. LORELEI WEAVES DARK, GOTHIC COUNTRY INFLUENCES into its sound. The

band released its album “Beast” in 2020 but has played only a handful of shows in 2021 and 2022, so expect a special performance when St. Lorelei plays Siberia at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, with Regenerator and Theo Grizol. Admission is $8. Find more info at siberianola.com.

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Rod Wave

RAPPER ROD WAVE LEANS INTO WEARING HIS HEART ON HIS SLEEVE .

The Florida-born performer includes soulful and R&B influences that often tug at the heartstrings. He performs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Smoothie King Center. Tickets start at $45.50 via smoothiekingcenter.com.

Mighty Brother

NEW ORLEANS’ MIGHTY BROTHER ON DEC. 8 WILL RELEASE ITS FOURTH STUDIO RECORD, “Azimuth,” a con-

cept album that sets the classic hero’s journey in modern society and navigates loss and growth.

The indie rock band plays an album release show with Slow Rosary and Kelly Duplex at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Saturn Bar. Cover is $5 at the door.

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THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA WILL PERFORM John

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At 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets start at $25 via lpomusic.com.

Greenway Supernova

THERE ARE LIGHT INSTALLATIONS BY LOCAL ARTISTS, LIVE MUSIC AND MORE

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