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‘Chappelle’s Show’ cowriter Neal Brennan performs in New Orleans | by Will Coviello PLENTY OF COMEDIANS HAVE PODCASTS FEATURING EMBARRASSING STORIES and

riffs on dark thoughts. Neal Brennan’s Blocks Podcast is a little different. The comedian and writer started the series to ask other comedians and actors about the things they struggle with. David Letterman was his second guest, and he offered some rare candor about his personal life, like not being able to bluff his young son with humor and hiding from fans after show tapings he felt didn’t go well.

“He hated it,” Brennan says, with a laugh. “I am kind of kidding.

Generationally, he’s not from a squishy time. He was kind of uncomfortable, but his discomfort is our entertainment.

Isn’t that what America is all about?”

Brennan takes aim at all sorts of comfort zones in two of his Netflix specials, from people’s professed love for their pets to white privilege. He’s currently on tour with all new material, and he performs at the Joy Theater at 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 16.

Since launching the podcast in December last year, Brennan has done just over 20 episodes of his podcast, with guests including Bert Kreischer, Nick Kroll, Marc Maron, Nikki Glaser and New Orleans native Mark Normand.

Brennan has kept company with the best-known comedians since he dropped out of NYU film school and got a job working the door at a comedy club.

That’s where he met Dave Chappelle, and the two later wrote the movie “Half Baked” together. A few years later, they launched “Chappelle’s Show,” with Brennan co-writing and directing. The two have remained mostly silent about who wrote what for the show, despite outside speculation and inquiries.

Brennan also helped Seth Meyers with his White House Correspondents’ Dinner material in 2011. The night may be better remembered for President Barack Obama making fun of Donald Trump for who he fired on “The Apprentice” — and the raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden hours later. But Brennan attended the dinner, and he and John Mulaney met Obama, who made jokes about Chappelle quitting his own show.

Since the end of “Chappelle’s Show,” Brennan has focused more on standup and being the talent in front of the camera, though he still directs and writes for others.

In his 2022 special, “Blocks,” Brennan launches into what he warns is a “very name-droppy story” about a party

thrown by Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos. He reels off a list of attendees including Eddie Murphy, Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Hart, Trevor Noah, Aziz Ansari, Ali Wong and “Borat.”

Sarandos made opening remarks welcoming the finest comedians, and Chris Rock yelled out, “And Neal Brennan,” as Brennan tells the story.

Forthcoming podcast episodes feature Jay Leno and Howie Mandel, who opens up about what it’s like to cope with an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

“I like having these conversations,” Brennan says. “I am not that big on small talk. I don’t care.

When I meet a person, I am like, ‘Hey, what is it like to be you?’”

Nobody could accuse him of not subjecting himself to the same scrutiny. He spun the podcast off of “Blocks,” in which he explores why he often feels that something is wrong with him. He talks about being the last of 10 children and having an alcoholic father, and some of the odd ways his mother managed their home, like taking their unclaimed laundry and one time returning it as a gift at Christmas.

But along the way, he has some cryptically funny ideas. He proposes letting hard-core, anti-government Second Amendment supporters gather their weapons of choice and see if they could defeat a trained force. He imitates the hostage video speech of men in bad marriages talking about how happy they are with family life. He identifies the peak signs of white privilege.

He’s not talking about depression in the new show, though.

“The thing I am doing in New Orleans is not confessional at all,” he says. It’s material he’s working up for a new special. “Come see it live. Everything is better in person. Come and feel my bass in your chest.”

In the new show, there’s still trauma, but he’s talking more about the bogus sides.

“It’s reacting to ‘everyone needs to be mentally healthy.’” he says. “I am like, nah, I don’t know. Athletes I would kind of like to be psychos.”

Local audiences might have caught the spacy, danceable rock of Jupiter & Okwess at Jazz Fest in 2019.

Lead singer Jupiter Bokondji is from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the band was born. The nation’s civil war led some members to move to Europe, and some of the group’s albums were issued by European labels. Its latest, “Na Kozonga,” features an array of international guests. The band is on a tour of U.S. festivals this summer, and stops at The Broadside for a show at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 18. Find tickets at broadsidenola.com.

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Guitarist Jared Mattson is best known as half the Mattson 2, a band he shares with twin brother and drummer Jonathan Mattson. (That duo also is known for collaborations with Toro y Moi.) Jared Mattson released a solo project, “Peanut,” in March. At 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 15, at Santos. Tickets $15 at santosbar.com.

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Even stability might not be for everybody in his view.

“Certain people I want to have a good work-life balance. My mother’s brain surgeon? I don’t. I want that doctor to be obsessed with brain surgery. I don’t want to hear, ‘We lost your mom.

Having said that, my poetry has never been better.’ I don’t want to know about his poetry. I want him to have a horrible marriage. I want him to live at the hospital and constantly be reading white papers.”

He’s got more of a problem with the trivializing of concern.

“I want mental health for everyone, and then I see everyone on TikTok grifting folks — talking about trauma for likes and doing branded campaigns,” he says.

“Sacrificing is for other people, and posting on social media is for me,” he says. “Will I ever reap what I am sewing? No. By the time the chickens come home, I will have moved. These chickens are never going to find me.

That’s what most people are like. I am the exception. I am nothing like that.”

For tickets, visit thejoytheater.com.

For more on Brennan, visit nealbrennan.com.

In “The Music Man,” con man Harold Hill sweet talks the people of River City, Iowa, into funding a band, though he plans to skip town long before anyone hears a note. But when he falls in love, he tries to change his ways. The musical opens the season at Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane.

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 15, though Saturday, June 17, and 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 18, at Dixon Hall. Find tickets at liberalarts.tulane.edu/ summer-lyric-theatre.

Good Enough for Good Times Good Enough for Good Times is a side project of Galactic’s Robert Mercurio and Jeff Raines. The group performs in a free show at Tipitina’s. All That opens at 9 p.m. Friday, June 16. Visit tipitinas.com for details.

LMNL Lit Summer Fest

The local reading series hosts four days of readings, performances, a book fair, craft market and more at St. Claude Arts Park in Arabi. A screening of “Iron Sharpens Iron” and panel discussion on art and social justice opens the festival on Thursday, June 15, at Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge. There’s slam poetry on Friday, June 16, and the jamboree with performances and a market is from noon to midnight Saturday, June 17. Visit @lmnl_lit on Instagram for details.

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attending Young Audiences at Burmaster in Gretna, was one of five finalists for this year’s Doodle for Google competition. Tens of thousands of pieces were submitted to Google, answering the prompt “I am grateful for...” Annalise used her tablet to draw “The Quiet of My Room,” a picture of herself peacefully at home, which landed her in the top five and earned her a $5,000 college scholarship.

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE CITED BY POLICE FOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED LAST YEAR IN NEW ORLEANS.

Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, handled the gender-affirming care ban on the Senate side for Rep. Gabe Firment, R-Pollock.

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The New Orleans Museum of Art has made general admission

to the museum free for Louisiana residents participating in the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Louisiana Combined Application Project. Those who qualify can get two adult tickets to the museum with a Louisiana Purchase Card or digital EBT card.

NOMA also shifted its Wednesday hours — when the museum is free for all Louisiana residents — to noon-7 p.m. to give people working 9-5 jobs a chance to visit.

Louisiana cities lost a net 317,000 residents between 2005 and 2020. Many of those were young and college-educated, LSU’s Manship News Service reported.

The data, collected by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, highlights the state’s “brain drain” as young residents leave the state of better opportunities and a higher quality of life. About 56% of those who left went to Texas. Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia and Tennessee were other popular destinations.

Legislature marks Pride Month with flurry of anti-LGBTQ measures THE LOUISIANA SENATE LAST WEEK PASSED THREE ANTI-LGBTQ MEASURES, including a ban on gender-af-

firming health care for transgender youth. Senators passed 29-10 House Bill 648 by Rep. Gabe Firment, a Pollock Republican, which bans doctors from providing trans patients under 18 with hormones, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery. Doctors already don’t traditionally recommend such surgery to minors.

They also approved 29-9 the Louisiana version of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that forbids K-12 teachers and school staff from talking about their “gender identity or sexual orientation” or discussing either matter in a classroom “in a manner that deviates from state content standards or curricula.”

It would also require school staff to call students by the pronouns on their birth certificates unless parents give permission otherwise. Even with a note from the parents, the teacher could refuse to go by anything other than what’s on their birth certificate on “religious or moral” grounds.

When asked if teachers discussing these topics was an issue in Louisiana, Franklinton Republican Sen. Beth Mizell, who was handling

the bill in the Senate, could not point to a specific instance of this happening in the state but called it a “safeguard.”

“There’s a fear, whether it’s valid or not, that we think it’s necessary to protect the children in our classrooms from being exposed to that,” she said.

Democratic Sens. Regina Barrow of Baton Rouge, Katrina Jackson of Monroe and Gary Smith of Norco joined Republicans in voting for the bill.

Without debate, the Senate also passed on a 31-8 vote a similar bill

by Rep. Raymond Crews, a Bossier City Republican, regarding what names and pronouns teachers can use when referring to students. Four Democrats, Barrow, Monroe, Smith and Greg Tarver of Shreveport, voted for the measure.

The Senate Health and Welfare Committee, the original Senate committee to which the gender-affirming care bill was assigned, voted down the measure, with Sen. Fred Mills, a Parks Republican, broke from party lines to vote against it May 24.

Casting the tie-breaking vote, Mills, a pharmacist, said he trusted doctors and patients to make decisions about their health care.

The frequency has remained equally low in 2023 and is significantly down from 1,319 in 2011. These figures have been highlighted after WWL-TV and The Times-Picayune discovered police did not test former U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond for intoxication after he crashed into a tree earlier this spring. Last year, there were roughly 1,000 accidents where alcohol was thought to be a factor, but NOPD rarely tests for alcohol unless there are fatalities or serious injuries.

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But the Senate voted to go around that committee vote and move the bill to the Senate Judiciary A Committee, where it easily passed.

On the House floor, Mills said he didn’t regret his vote in committee.

He said he received a lot of hate for his vote on the bill, but that he also received “an outpouring of love” thanking him.

He read some of those messages on the floor, including one calling him “a true conservative” and another from a psychologist treating trans patients who told him his vote would save lives.

“I want to tell you this is probably one of the biggest blessings in my life, this controversy,” Mills said.

Senate Judiciary A Committee amended the bill to push back the effective dates six months. Should the bill pass, doctors would have until the end of the year to stop providing gender-affirming health care to any additional patients, and they’d have until Dec. 31, 2024, to end care given to minors already on puberty blockers, hormones or other gender-affirming treatments. The House will need to approve that amendment.

“I have never seen legislation where we’ve taken people off of medication that’s FDA approved,” Mills said.

Mills and Sen. Jay Luneau, an Alexandria Democrat, said they heard from doctors and legal experts who said the language in the bill was unclear.

Senate Republicans and Democrats Jackson, Tarver and Smith voted for the measure while the rest of the Democrats and Mills opposed it.

Sen. Jay Morris, a West Monroe Republican who carried the bill for Firment, in his defense of the bill attempted to discredit a report the Louisiana Department of Health prepared on gender-affirming care among Medicaid recipients. He also tried to discredit the numerous major medical associations that support gender-affirming care, claiming “they’ve been infiltrated by activists.”

“This bill is not out of hate. It’s out of love,” Morris said, as he choked up defending a bill that would deny forms of health care to a population of people that faces disproportionately high rates of suicide and depression.

Once the House approves any Senate amendments on the bill, they

will head to the governor’s desk before they can become law.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has not said whether he’d veto any of the antiLGBTQ measures. In 2021, he vetoed an anti-trans sports bill, and the Legislature failed to override it. But the Legislature just passed a similar bill the following year, which Edwards allowed to become law by not vetoing it.

Meanwhile, the Senate also sent House Bill 85 to Edwards’ desk.

Written by Pineville Republican Rep. Mike Johnson, the bill would require the public to stay 25 feet away from police while they are arresting people if an officer orders them to do so. It appears to be in response to the murder of George Floyd and would reduce public scrutiny of police, including the potential for police to be filmed while assaulting people or otherwise violating their civil rights.

As part of their anti-LGBTQ push, lawmakers at the 11th hour also approved a draconian library measure designed to limit access to “offensive” materials, which had been held up due to internal GOP squabbles.

Senate Bill 7 by Sen. Heather Cloud, a Turkey Creek Republican, requires libraries to set up a system allowing parents to choose a library card for their children or teens restricting them from checking out material their local library board determines to be “sexually explicit.”

Under the original bill, a library patron could challenge a book, and the library board of control would have to review that complaint. The House changed the bill so that the person challenging the book would have to be at least 18 years old and a resident of the parish. They also raised the threshold so that ten people would have to challenge a particular title before the board would have to review it.

Rep. Tanner Magee, a Houma Republican, proposed those changes, saying he wanted to prevent “a busybody who wants to cause problems” from challenging a bunch of titles in libraries across the state.

But House Republicans rejected that change and the Senate ultimately backed down, passing the bill.

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before they seek reelection (or higher office), their annual session should produce a bumper crop of happy winners. So ends the 2023 legislative session — though there’s no dearth of losers, either.

Time to crown the victors and grieve the vanquished, starting with …

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1. Gov. John Bel Edwards — The governor’s top priorities were giving teachers a pay raise, investing hundreds of millions in infrastructure improvements, and increasing state funding for early childhood education. Check. Check.

And check. He worked with GOP moderates, first in the Senate and later in the House, to rewrite the House’s lean budget bill by “busting the cap” on state spending. In the process, he humbled his far-right adversaries in the House. Now he can take a few weeks to decide which culture-war bills he will veto.

2. GOP Moderates — The center held this year, particularly in the Senate, which deep-sixed some of the most far-right bills promoted by the House Freedom Caucus. Moderates in both chambers ultimately got behind a budget compromise that “busted” the spending cap and still put hundreds of millions into a pair of “rainy day” funds.

3. The Next Governor — Thanks to budget compromises this year and throughout Edwards’ tenure, Louisiana’s next governor will inherit a huge surplus and the largest reserve funds in state history.

4. Port Consolidation Advocates — Mississippi River ports from Baton Rouge to the Gulf will begin coordinating their funding requests and assets under a bill by Sen. Pat Connick, R-Marrero, that creates the South Louisiana Port Authority Advisory Commission.

5. Petrochemical Companies — Louisiana’s corporate franchise tax will be phased out over four years under SB 1 by Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin. That will be a boon to

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6. Carbon Capturers — Lawmakers killed all measures seeking to give local governments authority to hold up carbon capture projects by studying their safety risks and potential environmental damage.

7. Teachers — They got another pay bump. At $2,000 a year, it’s less than the $3,000 Edwards proposed, but it’s far better than the goose egg that the House put in its version of the budget.

8. The Film Industry — Filmmakers secured an extension of their tax credits for six years beyond the credits’ scheduled 2025 expiration.

Lights. Camera. Money!

9. The Hemp Industry — House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, who authored the current law allowing the sale of hemp products throughout the state, persuaded his allies to kill all bills targeting hemp.

10. Trial Lawyers — HB 601 by Rep. Mike Huval, R-Breaux Bridge, sought to codify key legal terms and factors that arise in litigation against insurance companies — and are a boon to trial lawyers, who killed Huval’s bill in the Senate.

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2. Insurance Companies — Lawmakers outlawed insurance policy provisions that deny claimants a public adjuster; refused to strip the insurance commissioner of his authority to deny premium hikes; and shot down an industry-backed bill to repeal Louisiana’s unique “three-year rule,” which bars companies from dropping or raising deductibles on homeowners who’ve bought policies for three consecutive years.

3. Jeff Landry — The attorney general made Rep. Debbie Villio’s “truth and transparency” juvenile records bill his centerpiece and crusaded against librarians in the name of protecting kids from pornography, but senators choked Villio’s measure and shot down a bill to codify one of Landry’s opinions stating that local governing authorities could remove library board members at will. Landry also opposed breaking the spending cap. He did support anti-LGBTQ+ bills, but those would have passed anyway.

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allow anyone not barred from having a firearm to carry one, concealed or otherwise.

5. LGBTQ People — The far right passed a slew of cookie-cutter bills promoted by national GOPaffiliated groups and introduced in red-state legislatures across the country. The entire LGBTQ community, but especially transgender kids and their parents, were targeted by right-wing bullies precisely because they are vulnerable and different. All hope is not lost, however. Gov. John Bel Edwards has a chance to burnish his legacy by vetoing those bills.

6. The Working Poor — Lawmakers once again killed measures to increase the minimum wage, double the Earned Income Tax Credit, and establish an employer-funded state insurance program to provide paid family leave and medical leave for qualified employees.

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THAT PROPERTY HAS BEEN HOME TO THREE RESTAURANTS SINCE THE 1990S, but in the 1960s and ’70s it

was a service station and then the location of a Citizens Homestead. When the bank closed in 1991, Ronnie Boyd opened Gourmet Grill and Daiquiri Shoppe at 4101 Veterans Blvd. According to a Times-Picayune article, the menu included grilled chicken, steak and seafood and more than 30 flavors of frozen daiquiris.

The restaurant later called itself the Gourmet Grille, though it still served frozen drinks in addition to food.

In 1996, Carmine’s Italian and Seafood Grill opened at the spot. It was the second location of a restaurant owned

by Joseph Pacaccio. The original was in Bucktown on Old Hammond Highway. Pacaccio told Times-Picayune restaurant reviewer Gregory Roberts that he named the restaurants after Carmine Ragusa, a character from TV’s “Laverne & Shirley” because he “needed something with an Italian ring to it but didn’t want to use Pacaccio.”

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In an Aug. 1996 review, Roberts wrote that a “sturdy lineup of red-sauce Italian and New Orleans seafood standards anchors a menu with some rewarding hits and a few misses.” The hits included Carmine’s popular seafood stuffed artichoke, eggplant Parmesan and stuffed softshell crab.

Roberts said the Veterans location was “more polished than the Bucktown original…with lighting and music to match the mood.” Sometimes that entertainment came from noted jazzman James Rivers and the James Rivers Movement.

Carmine’s closed in 2012. In 2014, Bobby Hebert’s Cajun Cannon Restaurant and Bar opened in its place.

Hebert, the former Saints quarterback and WWL radio host, partnered with Oceana Grill operator Moe Bader to open his namesake restaurant. Filled with sports memorabilia, the restaurant’s menu is a mix of sports bar fare and Louisiana favorites.

amusement area which closed in 1964. Recently, the city announced that Lincoln Beach is a step closer to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which could be another step toward its redevelopment.

The former 17-acre amusement park and swimming area along Hayne Boulevard in the Little Woods area opened in 1954. During segregation, it welcomed Black residents who were barred from Pontchartrain Beach a few miles away.

Lincoln Beach was developed on the site of a smaller sand beach built on land donated by United Fruit Company president Samuel Zemurray in 1938. In the 1950s, the Orleans Parish Levee Board spent $1 million to enhance the area. Gov. Robert Kennon and Mayor deLesseps “Chep” Morrison spoke at the dedication ceremonies on May 8, 1954.

Lincoln Beach featured three swimming pools, a bathhouse, a restaurant and an amusement ride area. Musical artists such as Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Nat King Cole, The Ink Spots, Ernie K-Doe and others performed there.

In 1964, when the Civil Rights Bill became law and ended legal segregation, Lincoln Beach closed. Attempts to redevelop the abandoned site never succeeded, but City Hall says a new request for proposals for a master plan will soon go out for public bid.

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HE RUMBLE had not yet played a note in public, but a decent crowd had made it out to the Maple Leaf for their first show, especially for a Wednesday night in early February 2022.

The band had only officially announced their name a week prior, but friends, family, locals who’d gotten wind about the “new” funk band, and even actor Owen Wilson found their way to the Oak Street club to see what this next chapter for the seasoned musicians was all about.

And The Rumble — they were ready to go.

As the band leveled a horn-powered blast of sound at the eager crowd, trumpeter Aurelien Barnes became a latter-day Fred Wesley as he introduced The Rumble’s vocalist — “from wayyyy Uptown” — Second Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. of the Golden Eagles.

Boudreaux stepped up, and the band jumped in, roaring through two tight sets of hardboiled Mardi Gras Indian funk originals with a few traditionals thrown in. You could feel it in your hips and chest.

And not just the beat. The power of the music had the crowd moving from the start.

For The Rumble, this wasn’t a debut, per se. Until just a few months prior, they had made up the bulk of Grammy-nominated funk outfit Cha Wa. Rather, this show and the rest of their weekly residency at the Maple Leaf was a chance for The Rumble to plant their own flag — and to make a statement of intent.

This was their time, their music, their culture.

And that they were in control.

The Rumble is among a generation of young New Orleans artists and culture bearers — alongside Black Masking Indians like Flagboy Giz of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Bo

The Rumble is, from left, Second Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr., Andriu Yanovski, Trenton O’Neal, TJ Norris, Aurelien Barnes, Ari Teitel and Jose Maize Jr. P R OV I D E D P H O TO BY K AT H E R I N E ‘ S U N S H I N E ’ J O H N S O N

Dollis Jr. and Big Chief Brian Harrison Nelson — working to protect ownership over the traditions they’re now shepherding. They’re learning from the mistakes made by past generations in order to see the culture into the future.

“Ownership of what we do is very important in the creation of The Rumble,” Boudreaux says simply, “not only because you should own what you create — that’s only fair — but it’s been so many times that outside people have come

to New Orleans and capitalized on New Orleans music by New Orleans musicians.”

SEVEN OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE RUMBLE — Boudreaux, Barnes, trombonist Jose Maize Jr., bassist TJ Norris, saxophonist Gladney, guitarist Ari Teitel and keyboardist Andriu Yanovski — had all played together in Cha Wa for several years, making up the heart

of the acclaimed funk band. Soon after they left to form The Rumble, they were joined by drummer Trenton O’Neal, and late last year, Gladney decided to part ways with the band in order to pursue new projects.

Each is an accomplished musician in their own right, playing regularly with a range of other bands and artists — and each comes to the band with a unique perspective.

Boudreaux started performing with his father, Big Chief Monk

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From the 7th Ward, Maize is a founding member of To Be Continued Brass Band. Teitel has played with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Gabrielle Cavassa and Tony Hall, and last year released his second solo record. Norris grew up immersed in church music, and while he’s The Rumble’s bassist, he has played trombone in the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Yanovski is one-third of producer Boogie T’s funky, electro-infused group Boogie T.Rio. And O’Neal has drummed with the funk-soul group Deltaphonic as well as performing with Maggie Koerner and trumpeter Desmond Venable.

“Everybody has their own voice that they’ve cultivated and worked on really hard, and some may have a more jazz background, some may have a more funk background, some may have a more brass band background,” Yanovski says. “So when we all get together, we have so many musical influences to draw upon.

You’re not just seeing a funk band when you see The Rumble. You’re not just seeing a Mardi Gras Indian band. You’re seeing an amalgamation that can only really happen with this specific group of people.”

Students of the cultural traditions of which they’re a part, The Rumble

is a cross-section of New Orleans itself. Their name is inspired by the crowd noises, the tambourines, the singing and shouts — the rumble — that can be heard following the Big Chief coming down the street on Mardi Gras Day. “We’re bringing a full-on New Orleans experience,” Barnes told Gambit in February 2022. “It includes Mardi Gras Indians. It includes brass bands. It includes things like Skull and Bones Gang. It’s a holistic approach to New Orleans culture.”

IN LATE JANUARY 2022 Boudreaux, Barnes, Maize, Norris, Gladney, Teitel and Yanovski announced their decision to step away from Cha Wa through a post on social media.

“Irreconcilable internal differences have caused us to end our time with Cha Wa, and to commence a new journey,” they wrote.

Drummer Joe Gelini formed Cha Wa in 2014 after working with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and playing with the Wild Magnolias. Gelini has been the band’s one constant member while musicians would flow in and out of the lineup over the years. Their records also have featured guests like Haruka Kikuchi, Nigel Hall, Weedie Braimah, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph.

Cha Wa found acclaim with its Grammy-nominated second album, 2018’s “Spyboy” — which featured J’Wan Boudreaux, Monk Boudreaux’s grandson and Joseph Boudreaux’s nephew. By 2019, the lineup came to include Joseph Boudreaux, Gelini, Teitel (who also

The Rumble was photographed at Hotel Peter and Paul in early May ahead of their summer tour.

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served as musical director), Barnes, Maize, Norris, Yanovski and Gladney.

In April 2021, they released Cha Wa’s third album, “My People,” which earned another Grammy nomination for best regional roots music album. That year’s category also included albums by Monk Boudreaux, Corey Ledet and Sean Ardoin, but Hawaiian singer-songwriter Kalani Pe’a ultimately took home the trophy.

In many ways, members of the band were flying high. In addition to the Grammy nod, the pandemic was beginning to loosen its grip on public life, and there was the promise of being able to capitalize on their

accomplishments. But for the members of the band, things felt off.

According to band members, though the majority of the songs on “My People” are credited to the now-members of The Rumble, they didn’t feel ownership over the music they had created or that they had a say in the direction their sound could be taken. They started to look ahead, Norris says, and felt they were vulnerable to losing control of their art and goals.

“We are grateful that we were able to share our culture and make music for all of you, and for the time we spent in Cha Wa. We wish them well,” the 2022 message stated.

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pay, etc.) even when I had to go into debt to do that. The great musicians and singers who have recorded and performed with Cha Wa have always been free to leave the band, and to go with my best wishes for success in their future endeavors. That applies to the members of The Rumble who left in 2021.”

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“As for the future, we are excited to move forward as a majority Blackowned, and locally made Mardi Gras Indian collective.”

When asked about their split from Cha Wa, Norris is quick to clarify: There was never an issue with money during their time in the band. And, Yanovski adds, if they contributed to a song, they received publishing credit. But they felt more like hired guns than the owners of the music they had written.

“We found ourselves in a situation where you put your head down and you build and build and build, and you look up and, god damn, I built so much but you’re not owning any of

[it]. You’re renting,” Boudreaux says.

“So we looked up and once we realized where we were. We wanted to do what’s fair for everyone, but we couldn’t come to an agreement.”

Gelini declined to answer questions from Gambit. Instead, he provided a written statement: “I don’t wish to rehash the past except to say that since I started Cha Wa 10 years ago, I have always sought to treat the members fairly, including listening to their concerns and making sure they got paid.”

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THERE WAS A RISK TO LEAVING CHA WA — an outfit with name recognition, a record label behind them and established connections — and starting over. But the now-members of The Rumble bet on themselves.

“The Rumble doing what it’s done in this year, I feel like it’s been a testament to these guys,” O’Neal says.

“The confidence they have is proof, and just being able to witness that — I’ve seen it as both from the outside and the inside — it’s very unique.”

They’re learning from the mistakes made by the elders of the culture and music community. And given that no one in The Rumble has yet reached 40, they feel they have time to set an example for the musicians that will inevitably follow.

“I look at some of my own experiences,” Boudreaux says. “My dad started me off on stage when I was 10 years old, so I got an opportunity to watch the Wild Magnolias literally at their prime, and go through the ups and be a part of the downs. I was able to learn all those things as I’m watching it.”

“And, you know,” he adds, “being a kid and a teenager, most of the time you’re outside of the conversations when it comes down to business. But you also get a great

view from the outside. You get a lot of chances to say, ‘OK, this should be better.’ ‘This is unfair.’ And you can’t really voice those things when you’re a kid, but you keep all those things in that mental Rolodex. So when it was time with The Rumble, I can pull from all of those experiences. We’re literally picking up where they left off 30-40 years ago.”

Part of being good stewards of culture is helping educate others, and The Rumble hopes to host master classes in the future about New Orleans cultural traditions, like Mardi Gras Indians and Skull and Bones Gangs.

“It’s already a cultural presentation,” O’Neal says. “And we became aware of our responsibility” to educate others.

IN THE 16 MONTHS SINCE THE SHOW AT THE MAPLE LEAF, the band has been moving quickly. They’re regulars on the New Orleans venue circuit, played sets at the 2022 and 2023 Jazz Fests and were runners up in this year’s Big Easy Awards for Best New/Emerging Artist. They’re also in the first part for a summer tour that will take them out of town in June, July and August, and their next record, a studio album, is in the works.

In May, The Rumble dropped their first release, a live album recorded last December back at the Maple Leaf.

A few days before the release date, The Rumble could be found inside the Hotel Peter and Paul’s church-turned-event space taking new photos ahead of their summer tour. Appropriately, low rumbles from a passing storm occasionally

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“Although we’ve done a lot in the last year, we still are presenting The Rumble to the world,” Boudreaux says, “so you got to wrap that present up in a nice package to give it to them.”

The past year has gone by quickly, even for the band members. “We kind of got to remind ourselves that this group of people have been playing music together for years now,” Boudreaux says.

“It’s coming up on like five years,” Yanovski adds.

The Rumble’s “Live at the Maple Leaf” captures the irrepressible energy of the band’s live show and their robust sound. It’s music rooted in the New Orleans funk legacy of The Meters and the electrified Mardi Gras Indian music of Monk Boudreaux, Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias and set ablaze with Afro-Caribbean rhythms, deep bass grooves and brass that’s strong enough to knock down a wall. It’s joyful and immediately slides into your hips and feet.

The sound itself can be traced back to a sort of motto the band holds: The Rumble has a foot planted

in the foundation of the past — respectful and proud of the cultural traditions they represent — and a foot stepping into the future. There’s modern elements, like pedal effects on horns and new genres mixing into the sound, but The Rumble knows its roots and won’t leave them behind.

“There are no lines for us,” Norris says. “That’s why we use the analogy of our foot being planted, and as far as we got to stretch to the future, it’s fine. That [foundation] foot ain’t going nowhere. Now it’s just become a spectrum. There are no breaks. So us incorporating hip-hop is just like us incorporating ‘music.’ ” But you can only do that honestly, Norris adds, if you trust everybody musically.

“Being able to be vulnerable with each other in the music and in our lives, that’s what allows us to just keep going,” he says. Barnes “knows so much about so many different types of cultures and their music origins, that if he says something, I’m going to trust him. And I grew up in the Black church, so when talk about something church-wise, the guys default to me and they trust if I say, ‘Well that ain’t church, but we can still do this.’ My man, [Yanovski] is an amazing songwriter, so if he

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“And those long van rides,” Yanovski jumps in, “when everybody gets to DJ, you get exposed to so much — especially like [Barnes] comes in with some crazy underground Brazilian shit. But he knows we’re gonna like it.”

There’s a clear trust and comfort among the musicians that comes not only with time spent writing, recording and touring but also in shared experiences.

“We all went through a lot together,” Boudreaux says. “Those things build a bond, and that bond brings a lot of trust for the person to your left and to your right.”

One of the reasons The Rumble pursued a live album as their first release — along with trying to capture the energy of their live show and have an album in hand for the summer tour — is that the band members wanted to, in a way, reclaim the songs they wrote together while a part of Cha Wa. Six songs on the 14-track live record had appeared on “My People” — all but one written exclusively by the musicians now in The Rumble.

“By putting out a live record, we

were able to give a new presentation, an accurate presentation of what we want that music to sound like,” Yanovski says.

It also gives them more space for new music on their in-progress studio album, which will include many of the new songs that can now be heard on the live album.

One of the new songs is “Take It Back,” a soulful groove penned

by Barnes about respecting the weight of legacy — keeping that foot firmly planted in the past. It’s also about their decision to start The Rumble.

“When you’re looking for some guidance and you just can’t seem to find it / You gotta go back to where it started,” Barnes sings.

The Rumble is taking that sentiment on the road with the “Take it Back Tour.”

“We’ve come to the realization that we’ve got to leave it all out there,” Norris says. “The greats before us, that’s exactly what they did.”

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ONE OF THE ANNUAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JUST COMPLETED NEW ORLEANS WINE & FOOD EXPERIENCE is the Grand

Tasting. The idea is to showcase wines from around the world with food from top New Orleans chefs.

Among the talented group this year was chef Terrence “Twins” Carroll, 37.

The dish he submitted to the judges and served to hundreds of patrons at the event was his seafood gumbo, a savory simmer of Gulf shrimp, sausage and crab. He and wife and partner Krystal Carroll, 38, own Orleans Brothers, located in a shopping center in New Orleans East.

“Our customers told us about NOWFE,” Terrence Carroll says. “So we thought, why not? We aren’t thinking about winning the competition, but just to be included is exciting for us.”

The Carrolls, who first met as students at Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School in Hollygrove, didn’t exactly plan on opening a restaurant. But that’s how things worked out.

Although they went through school together, the pair didn’t start dating until they were in their twenties. “She was the smartest one in school,” Terrence says. “I was the one always being sent to the principal’s office.”

“I didn’t really see anything in him until we were older,” Krystal says. Now they’re married and have two sons.

Krystal started working at the convention center in 2011, moving her way up through the accounting department into management.

Terrence was a surveyor on river barges, also working his way up to a supervisor’s position. They loved to cook together and host family for holidays, serving their seafood gumbo and crawfish pie.

In 2018, the couple took a trip to New York City for their fifth anniversary. “After seeing that city, we realized that we weren’t really living,” Krystal says. “We were stuck going to work, coming home, not really doing anything new.”

So they both quit their jobs and moved to Houston, where Terrence’s twin brother Terry lives. Krystal found

a job in financial services, but Terrence didn’t want to get a job at the trucking company where his brother worked. “I didn’t want to feel stuck again,” he says.

They had the idea of making Krystal’s crawfish pies and selling them around town.

Rising at 5 a.m., she’d make them before going to work. Terrence would load the still warm pies and go to his brother’s job and walk the dock.

“Sometimes we’d make $400 in 30 minutes on crawfish pies,” he recalls. Between that and the money he was making driving for Uber Eats, “We were doing better than when I was on the river,” he says.

The pair came home to be close to family in early 2020. Then the pandemic hit. They doubled down, making large family-sized pies, along with pralines and the occasional special. “We’d post on Instagram and people would pre-order,” Terrence says. “Then I’d deliver them in our van all over — to Slidell, to hospitals downtown. I think people liked my attitude and kept supporting us.”

Since making that much food from a home kitchen isn’t sustainable, they started looking for a storefront location. When they spotted the space at 5941 Bullard Ave., they knew it was right for the business, which they dubbed Orleans Brothers. They made a video of Terrence in front the building, talking about their goal and crawfish pie, and sent it to the number on the sign. It turns out the building was owned by New Orleans native Jesseca “Judy” Harris-Dupart, also known as BB Judy, founder of Kaleidoscope Hair Products.

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Red Bird swaps burgers for chicken in new Lakeview locale

RED BIRD’S CHICKEN GIVES A LITTLE CRACKLE WHEN YOU BITE IN. That’s

Husband and wife duo Terrence and Krystal Carroll opened Orleans Brothers.

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“She told us, ‘Nobody ever roots for nobody. You can have it.’ We didn’t have to show financials, which is good since we didn’t have any,” Krystal says. “She gave us a chance.”

They opened their doors in early 2022 as a take-out only place. Their small space has bright red walls and a strong New Orleans vibe. The popular crawfish pies come from a recipe Krystal cobbled together using crawfish tails, onions, bell peppers, celery, breadcrumbs and garlic. They’re available in three sizes. The compact menu also includes seafood gumbo, beef yaka-mein, crawfish-stuffed baked potatoes and bell peppers and homemade pecan pralines in traditional or wedding cake flavors.

The word has been getting out.

New Orleans rapper Birdman heard about the pies and brought an entourage in, not once, but twice. “He put us on his social media,” Krystal says.

“I couldn’t even sleep that night, I was so excited.”

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CHECK IT OUT Crawfish pie and more Creole favorites in New Orleans East

the wet batter, fried to a gleaming shell. Underneath, the chicken is very moist and mildly seasoned, the result of an approach, focused more on the marinade than on spice.

The finished orders for bone-in chicken, multi-piece chicken boxes and sandwiches come flying out of the kitchen fast, through a format that aims to go beak-to-beak with the big chicken chains but adds its own character.

This new fried chicken brand took wing in Covington over the winter.

Now it has landed a second location in Lakeview.

Red Bird is the creation of the Bennett brothers, Blake and Brandon, and their cousin Jay Morris. They

The fried chicken at Red Bird has a crisp crust and either a mild or hot spice level.

PHOTO BY IAN MCNULTY / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

opened the first Red Bird in February along Highway 21.

Buoyed by the response on the north shore, they’ve now converted their former concept Three B’s Burger & Wine Bar on Harrison Avenue into a second Red Bird. It quietly opened this week.

The Covington Red Bird is set up in the spot that was previously home to Pyre Provisions, and Bacobar before that. Both spaces have been stripped down to basics, anticipating a lot of take-out business.

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There are also fried dinner rolls, which are like savory beignets.

The Lakeview switch from Three B’s to Red Bird changes up what was becoming a crowded burger market along Harrison Avenue, home to excellent examples at Junior’s, Lakeview Burgers & Seafood and the Backyard, all in close proximity.

It adds a chicken concept that the partners say they’re sticking with for possible future expansion as the brand develops.

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by Sarah Ravits SANGUICHE IS ALEX OVERBY’S POP-UP HOAGIE SANDWICH VENTURE. Overby

is a native of North Louisiana who spent summers on the East Coast as a child, learning to cook from his grandfather.

Overby passed the early days of the pandemic by making quarts of cold curry. He dubbed the endeavor “Curried Away” and distributed food mostly among friends. But that effort snowballed, and he realized he could do pop-up cooking full-time to make a living.

Like many, he binge-watched “The Sopranos” while stuck at home, and the fictional New Jersey mobsters — whose lives revolve around eating delicious food as much as committing felonies —inspired him to get back to his sandwich-making, ItalianAmerican roots.

He launched Sanguiche in October of last year, drawing from old family recipes. Sandwich offerings include a cold-cut combo, chicken parm, eggplant parm, meatball sub and others, in addition to garlic bread and fried goodies like mozzarella sticks and eggplant fries.

If Sopranos characters were to order from Sanguiche, he jokes, “Janice would have a Caprese sandwich and loudly talk about how she’s not eating meat this month, and then go and eat Bobby’s cold-cut hoagie behind everyone’s back.”

In the meantime, New Orleanians can try these hoagies out at Zony Mash, where Sanguiche is popping up Thursdays and Fridays, 3-9 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays 1-9 p.m.

Visit Instagram @sanguichenola for more information.

What’s the concept behind Sanguiche?

ALEX OVERBY: Sanguiche goes back to my Italian family roots and the first things I was introduced to that really got me excited about cooking — like, the first time learning to make red sauce; learning that bologna is a shadow of mortadella; learning to pickle peppers.

I spent my summers in Albany, New York, with my grandfather, which is where I learned all of my Italian recipes. My first summer out of high school I had a job at a place called

Castello di Albola Chianti Classico

Alex Overby of Sanguiche Cafe Capriccio, and I’ve been cooking professionally ever since.

We are also just trying to fill a bit of a void here. New Orleans has the po-boy thing on lock, but it’s like the only type of sandwich you can get around here. We use a hoagie roll. A very common thing at our popups is people will be like, ‘Hey, I’m from Jersey, you’re doing it right.’

Or, ‘I’m from Philly — you’re close, but you should do it like this.’ We actually took a man from Philly’s advice and sharpened up our provolones.

The chicken parm sandwich is, by a mile, our most popular. We filet it and pound it out by hand, then we do a breadcrumb coating, deep-fry it with our own red gravy, fresh mozzarella cheese and our secret blend of herbs and spices.

What do you like about being a part of the pop-up scene?

O: It’s fun to hop around town and see what other people are doing.

There’s a lot of creative young chefs

PHOTO BY BRITTANY THIERRY

doing a lot of fun stuff. The pop-up scene just gives people more opportunities. It’s more democratic. We probably wouldn’t be able to do it any other way ourselves. It gives us the chance to do it from the ground-up without any outside investment. Zony Mash gives us a good opportunity to practice these skills without having a mortgage. The plan is to eventually turn it into a brick-and-mortar, but not this year.

What else is on the menu this summer?

O: We have a couple items we’re adding to the menu this week. We had classics last year that we wanted to bring back, like a Caprese sandwich, a cold option for vegetarians in the summer. We’re also working on a couple specials, including a cold-cut sandwich named after the family dog called The Cassie. She’s a Pitbull mix, I call her a swamp dingo. I’ll bring home salami and throw her a couple a night. It makes sense that it would be stuff she would like.

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8 Fresh Food Assassin — 1900 N. Claiborne Ave., (504) 224-2628; Instagram, @8freshfoodassassin — Chef Manny January’s serves lamb chops, T-bone steaks, salmon, crab cakes, deep fried ribs, fried chicken and seafood-loaded oysters. No reservations.

Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $$ Acorn — 12 Henry Thomas Drive, (504) 218-5413; acornnola.com — The cafe at the Louisiana Children’s Museum has blackened shrimp tacos topped with arugula, radish, pineapple-mango salsa and cilantro-lime sauce. No reservations. breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. $$ 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 more.

Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant.com — Gulf Drum Yvonne is served with brown butter sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Mon. $$$ Banana Blossom — 500 9th St., Gretna, (504) 500-0997; 504bananablossom.com — Jimmy Cho’s Thai dishes include smoked pork belly and pork meatballs in lemon grass broth with egg, green onion, cilantro and garlic.

Reservations accepted for large parties except weekends. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — Basin barbecue shrimp are served over cheese grits with a cheese biscuit. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lakeview: lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Slidell: lunch Fri.-Sat., dinner Wed.-Sun. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — 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. $$$ Cafe Normandie — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The menu combines classic French dishes and Louisiana items like crab beignets with herb aioli. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ The Commissary — 634 Orange St., (504) 274-1850; thecommissarynola.com — The central kitchen for Dickie Brennan restaurants has a dine-in menu with a smoked turkey breast sandwich with bacon, tomato jam, herbed cream cheese, arugula and herb vinaigrette on honey oat bread. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Lunch Tue.-Sat. $$ Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300;

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11-$20 $$$ — $20-up sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu highlights 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 — There’s a seafood raw bar and dishes like redfish with lemon buerre blanc.

Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$$ Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com — A 6-ounce filet mignon is served with fried oysters, creamed spinach, potatoes and bearnaise. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ Dragonfly Cafe — 530 Jackson Ave., (504) 544-9530; dragonflynola.com — The casual cafe offers breakfast plates, waffles, salads, coffee drinks and more. Delivery available.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sat. $$ El Pavo Real — 4401 S. Broad Ave., (504) 266-2022; elpavorealnola.com — Pescado Vera Cruz is a sauteed Gulf fish topped with tomatoes, olives, onion and capers and served with rice and string beans. The menu also includes tacos, enchiladas and more.

Outdoor seating available. No reservations.

Lunch and early dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ Felix’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar — 739 Iberville St., (504) 522-4440; 7400 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 304-4125; felixs. com — Louisiana oysters are served raw or char-grilled with garlic, Parmesan and breadcrumbs. The menu includes seafood platters, po-boys and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Frey Smoked Meat Co. — 4141 Bienville St., Suite 110, (504) 488-7427; freysmokedmeat. com — The barbecue spot serves pulled pork, ribs, brisket, sausages and and items like fried pork belly tossed in pepperjelly glaze. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Froot Orleans — 2438 Bell St., Suite B, (504) 233-3346; frootorleans.com — There are fresh fruit platters and smoothie bowls such as a strawberry shortcake and more using pineapple, berries, citrus and more. No reservations. Outdoor seating available.

Breakfast and lunch daily. $$ Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; 8140 Oak St., (504) 897-4800; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar jack cheese, black beans, rice, guacamole and salsa. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — The eclectic menu includes a Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, ham, cheese and pickles on buttered bread. 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, salads and flatbreads,

including one topped with peach, 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 a NOLA Style Grits Bowl 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. $$ Luzianne Cafe — 481 Girod St., (504) 2651972; luziannecafe.com — Cajun Sunshine Beignets are stuffed with eggs, bacon, cheese and hot sauce. No reservations.

Delivery available. Breakfast and lunch Wed.-Sun. $$ Martin Wine Cellar — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie, (504) 896-7350; 3827 Baronne St., (504) 894-7444; martinwine.com — The deli serves sandwiches and salads such as the Sena, with chicken, raisins, blue cheese, pecans and Tabasco pepperjelly vinaigrette.

No reservations. Lunch daily. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. The menu also has noodle dishes, teriyaki and more. Reservations accepted. Delivery available. Lunch Sun.Fri., dinner daily. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves Italian dishes and specialties including chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca.

Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant.net — This counter-service spot serves po-boys, jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, red beans and rice and more. Delivery available.

No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes red beans with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as seafood platters, po-boys, char-grilled oysters, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ 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, salads, seafood pasta and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$ Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar & Bistro — 720 Orleans Ave., (504) 523-1930; orleansgrapevine.com — The wine bar’s menu includes Creole pasta with shrimp and andouille in tomato cream sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Outdoor seating available.

Dinner Thu.-Sun. $$ Palace Cafe — 605 Canal St., (504) 5231661; palacecafe.com — The contemporary Creole menu includes signature crabmeat cheesecake topped with mushrooms and Creole meuniere sauce. Outdoor seating

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Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. $$$ Peacock Room — Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, 501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 324-3073; peacockroomnola.com — Black lentil vadouvan curry comes with roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and basmati rice. 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 rooftop bar has a menu of sandwiches, burgers and small plates.

No reservations. Dinner daily. $$ Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; tableaufrenchquarter.com — Pasta bouillabaisse features squid ink mafaldine, littleneck clams, Gulf shrimp, squid, seafood broth, rouille and herbed breadcrumbs.

Outdoor seating available. Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Thu.-Sun. $$$ Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 827-1651; legacykitchen.com — The seafood restaurant serves oysters, and dishes like redfish St. Charles with garlic-herb butter, asparagus, mushrooms and crawfish cornbread.

Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Tavolino Pizza & Lounge — 141 Delaronde St., (504) 605-3365; tavolinonola.com — The menu features thin-crust pizzas, salads, meatballs and more. A Behrman Hwy. pizza is topped with pork belly, caramel, carrots, radishes, jalapenos and herbs. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Dinner Tue.-Sat. $$ 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. There also are salads, sandwiches and more. Delivery available.

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Celebrate Dad with a Throwdown at Stumpy’s Hatchet House SPECIAL EVENTS AVAILABLE MON, TUES AND DURING OFF HOURS

Prograis vs. Zorrilla

New Orleanian and WBC World SuperLightweight boxing champion Regis “Rougarou” Prograis defends his title against Puerto Rico’s Danielito Zorrilla.

At the Smoothie King Center at 4:05 p.m. Saturday, June 17. Find information at smoothiekingcenter.com.

‘Miss Rose, a Cabaret Play’

Salvage Art Productions presents the drama about Tennessee Williams and his sister Rose, who suffered from mental illness. At 8 p.m. Thursday, June 17, and June 2-25 and June 29-July 1, at the Marigny Opera House. Tickets $15-$40. Visit marignyoperahouse.org for details.

Da King in Da Parish

Bespoke sock collector and blues legend Little Freddie King is taking his show on the road (well, the avenue anyway) for a whirlwind one-stop tour of St. Bernard Parish. King will perform at Pirogue’s Whiskey Bayou down on St. Claude Ave. in Arabi Friday, June 16 at 8 p.m. If you haven’t caught a show at the Pirogue’s, this is definitely the show to do so. The bar is a hidden gem of the area’s outdoor music scene and some of the city’s best musicians have been making regular hops over the Industrial Canal to play there. For more information visit facebook.com/ pirogueswhiskeybayou.

SLAAP Cabaret

While the rest of the country (and most of Louisiana north of the I-10 for that matter) may have their gold lame thongs in a bunch over drag queens strutting their stuff, here in New Orleans our brains are thankfully not entirely Swiss cheese. Case in point: the monthly showcase at Saturn Bar SLAAP Cabaret, hosted by

The Daiquiri Queens will play at BJ’s Lounge June 17.

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Cajun and Zydeco at BJ’s

The Bywater gets a taste of Lafayette as BJ’s Lounge hosts artists Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, in addition to the Daiquiri Queens on Saturday, June 17, starting at 9 p.m. Broussard is a highly respected accordion player and a torchbearer for the zydeco traditions; meanwhile the all-female group Daiquiri Queens will sing traditional and modern Cajun tunes. For information, visit @bjslounge on Instagram.

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The Rabbit Hole welcomes James Bangura, a co-founder of the group Black Rave Culture. Bangura has been a fixture on the dance scene for a decade and will be joined by several other New Orleans DJ’s. The dance party starts at 11:30. Tickets are $10 presale; $15 before midnight and $20 after midnight. For information and tickets, visit rabbitholenola.com.

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That isn’t what Christopher Durang had in mind a decade ago when he wrote his Tony award-winning comedy about middle-aged siblings spending a weekend together. But it may affect audiences’ appreciation of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which Crescent City Stage opens this week at Loyola University’s Marquette Theater.

In the play, Vanya and Sonia live in their parents’ home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Neither of them has a job, and their bills are paid by their sister Masha. She’s a successful actress, and she’s coming to visit. It’s a chance to catch up, but some things never change.

“There is this stilted growing up that has happened,” says director Elizabeth Newcomer. “It’s like when you go back to your family home and you revert to childhood habits and patterns. All of the siblings know how to push each others’ buttons. Even though you’re older, you can’t help but act like a child.”

The trio’s parents were academics who loved theater, and that explains them taking Russian names from the works of Anton Chekhov for their children. It also may explain Masha’s leap into performing. Vanya and Sonia, who was adopted, took care of their parents and never left home.

Durang also uses themes that are common in Chekhov’s work, though this isn’t “Three Sisters” or “Uncle Vanya.”

It’s not “The Seagull,” though there is an ambitious young neighbor named Nina, who also wants to be an actress.

It’s not “The Cherry Orchard,” although there are nine cherry trees on the property, and Vanya and Sonia argue over whether that’s enough to call it an orchard.

“Chekhov describes his plays as comedies, but when you first read them, they feel really Debbie Downer,” Newcomer says. “So sad and so much longing and melancholy.”

Durang is known for comedy, including some of his short parodies, such as his takes on Tennessee Williams’ classics in

Left to right, Yvette Bourgeois, Jana Mestecky, Donya Asante, Doug Spearman, Lorene Chesley and Cody Evans appear in Crescent City Stage’s production of ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.’

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“Desire, Desire, Desire” and “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls,” both recently presented by the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans. But he isn’t parodying Chekhov.

“It’s akin to a remix of a song,” Newcomer says. “You have respect, and you love the beats of the original song, but you’re going to bring it up to date and have fun with it.”

She says she’s been thinking more along the lines of Christopher Guest movies than Russian writers. There also is some absurdity in “Vanya and Sonia,” including a maid named Cassandra who often offers grave predictions and practices Voodoo.

Durang also dug into rather accessible themes. In “Vanya and Sonia,” the siblings wonder if they missed their calling, but with no particular urgency.

And Masha is realizing that things are changing, as aging is beginning to affect her acting career.

But Masha has not been caught up in melancholy. She’s brought along her current boyfriend, Spike. He’s much younger, not particularly bright and maybe too proud of his body.

“Chekhov says all of his plays are about some kind of love,” Newcomer says. “This play is about familial love, unrequited love and all the longing of this midlife crisis of unrealized potential and unfulfilled destinies. Durang plays with it in a heightened comedic way.”

“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” runs June 15-30. For tickets and information, visit crescentcitystage.com.

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