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The Lumineers Sat. May 19 | Joining the charge of young Americans playing old Americana is Denver’s Lumineers, whose eponymous April debut hits its stride with “Submarines,” trading strummed acoustics for staccato piano and down-home knee slaps for wind-knocking drum triples. My Graveyard Jaw opens at the Circle Bar. PAGE 37.

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The Dictator | Lately, it’s been hard for dictators. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi and Kim Jong-il all had their reigns come to abrupt and permanent ends. Even Fidel Castro barely animates a sense of menace anymore. So into the role of global bad boy steps Admiral General Aladeen, from the nation of Wadiya. Working again with director Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno), Sacha Baron Cohen is on a mission to exceed low expectations of some obvious and crass jokes, this time with the tarnished brand of overblown tyrants. But who could better deliver gaudy and smug excess than Cohen? PAGE 40.

The Music of Led Zeppelin Sun. May 20 | Zebra frontman Randy Jackson was influenced by Led Zeppelin when he got into rock in the 1970s, but here he covers the band’s hits backed by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Expect covers of “Kasmir,” “Black Dog,” “All of My Love,” “Stairway to Heaven” and others. At the Mahalia Jackson Theater. PAGE 37. Rusko Mon. May 21 | A sort of electronica sampler from Mad Decent’s house populist, the new Songs by English DJ Rusko (Chris Mercer) island-hops from bass-drunk UK dubstep to blown-out Jamaican reggae and bright-lights New York City pop, hitting every requisite stop in between. At the Sugar Mill. PAGE 37.

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Wanda Jackson Sat. May 19 | The first lady of rockabilly and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, Wanda Jackson blended rock and country in the 1950s with songs like “Fujiyama Mama,” and she landed a Top 40 hit with 1960’s “Let’s Have a Party.” In 2011, she palled around with the White Stripes’ Jack White, and she’s still going strong. Hurray for the Riff Raff opens at Tipitina’s. Page 37.

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Louisiana state departments and cabinet agencies spend more than $5 million annually on press secretaries and media relations. Political overkill — or worth every penny?

which produces the annual Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament, donated $216,000 to nonprofit organizations Blessings in a Backpack, The St. Bernard Project and St. Michael Special School. Since 2005, Zurich and its partner organization, the Fore!Kids Foundation, have raised more than $8 million for more than 40 charities serving thousands of children in need throughout southeastern Louisiana.

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James C. “Jim” Brandt, ments and cabinet agencies will spend more than $4.4 million this year on 72 positions ranging from press secretary and public information officer to communication director and outreach coordinator. This includes departments run by statewide elected officials and all of the cabinet agencies in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive branch. While the average salary of the communications professionals weighs in at $61,646, salaries range from $25,000 on the low end up to six figures. The highest paid among them is Michael DiResto, assistant commissioner for policy and communications for the Division of Administration. This year he’ll make $118,792. When contacted for comment, DiResto referred to his job description, which contains a wide range of responsibilities that, in some respects, have little to do with managing requests from reporters — things like policy and research. DiResto, whose salary mirrors those of other assistant secretaries, also has an applicable background, having formerly served as a press aide to former U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge. Only four other communications professionals pull down sixfigure salaries for similar services. They include: • Amy David, deputy commissioner of public affairs for the Insurance Department, $117,811. • Jason Redmond, deputy state treasurer and communications director, $112,500. • Rene Greer, director of public affairs for the Department of Education, $110,999. • Lori Melancon, director of marketing and communications for PAGE 8

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he responsibilities of a Louisiana governmental press secretary extend far beyond fielding requests from reporters. Some duties aren’t in the job description, as Marsanne Golsby learned during her eight-year stint as former Gov. Mike Foster’s top media liaison. In March 2009, Greenpeace activists were shadowing Foster’s every move and complaining about polluted waters along the Mississippi River, where chemical plants are as iconic as Mark Twain on a steamboat. During one protest at the Governor’s Mansion, Greenpeace reps had prepared and delivered a “toxic lunch” for Foster — a meal of pan-fried catfish harvested from an allegedly tainted bayou. With television crews in tow, the activists insisted that the meal be brought to Foster. They wanted him to eat it in front of reporters. They prodded. They pleaded. Golsby stood between them and her boss. “Foster told me to do whatever I wanted to do,” she recalls. “So I decided to pop the B.S. balloon. I stuck a fork in it.” Literally. Golsby wolfed down two mouthfuls of supposedly toxic fish while staring down the protestors. At the end of the day, the story was about Golsby — and how she didn’t grow a third eye — rather than Foster’s environmental policies. Golsby, a former TV reporter in Baton Rouge, had to swallow much more than that as Foster’s press secretary. On more than one occasion, she found herself walking a fine line between a duty to give the public information and affording her boss political cover. “It was never about squashing a story,” she says. “It was more about giving us time to get the answers we needed. And sometimes it was about the spin.” To get a press secretary to speak so candidly on the record, you typically have to wait until they leave the bright lights of public service. While many public information officers and media affairs professionals are drawn to their jobs by a sense of patriotism or wanting to get “close to the action,” they learn all too quickly that tap dancing and providing cover become just as important as writing press releases. Which brings into question their real value to citizens — not to mention the role they play in influencing the media. To be sure, flacking for politicians has become a mini-industry in the public sector, a refuge for former reporters and campaign staffers, a training ground for managing crises by managing the flow of information. (“Flack” is part of the journalist vernacular, although reporters generally refrain from using the term in the presence of press secretaries — just as media aides toss around “hacks” to describe the press pool.) A department head without a flack nowadays is like a 4-year-old on the beach without sunscreen. And for that protection, our state officials often pay top dollar. According to responses to two dozen public records requests filed over the past two months, Louisiana state depart-

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Louisiana economic Development, $103,768. when it comes to total spending on flacks’ salaries, insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon leads the pack. He will shell out roughly $281,423 of taxpayers’ money this year to support David (noted in the list above) and three other public information officers. Donelon says his department supports 271 other employees as well, adding that it has shrunk over the past five years while maintaining a monthly $1 million surplus due largely to fees paid for by the insurance industry. He said it takes a large public information team to prepare residents for hurricane season, publish information on laws as they change and to update his department’s website with relevant data. “what we regulate is very challenging, expensive and complicated,” Donelon says. “it’s a part of everyone’s life.” The state Police probably can lay claim to being unique among the state agencies with big public information needs. The agency requires a 13-person communications staff to cover every corner of the state, including most of the 12 troops. The Department of wildlife and Fisheries (DwF) has the nextlargest team around. it includes seven public information officers (PiO) and one marketing specialist. DwF secretary Robert Barham says he couldn’t do his job without them, and that all of the positions are funded through self-generated revenues, such as hunting and fishing licenses. Barham notes that each PiO specializes in a certain area — fisheries, marketing, enforcement and so on — and that all have been kept “extremely busy” in the wake of the BP oil spill, international trade fights, record flooding and devastating hurricanes. “There’s no department that has been more at the forefront of these historic events than we have” he says. Asked if he could maintain services with fewer hands, Barham fiercely defended the positions. “i’m very comfortable that it’s a great value,” he says. “Could we cut some? sure. But we wouldn’t have the expertise that we have now. ... That’s my story and i’m sticking to it.” Author and LsU Professor Bob Mann is all too familiar with this landscape. He currently chairs LsU’s Manship school of Mass Communications and directs the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs. Before that, he served as communications director for Gov. Kathleen Blanco and press secretary for thenU.s. sen. John Breaux. when he worked for Blanco, Mann says he held regular meetings with all of the communications professionals from the various cabinet agencies. “what was kind of frustrating to me was wildlife and Fisheries and [the Department of Transportation and Development],” he recalls. “They had five, six, seven, eight people doing media relations, and we had two people. we were drowning trying to deal with media requests coming in for the chief executive of the state and there they were. it seemed like a crazy allocation of resources for dealing with the press.” Today, Jindal’s office spends $262,000 a year on four press-related positions, including a communications director (Kyle Plotkin, $90,000), deputy communications director (Aaron Baer, $72,000), press secretary (Frank Collins, $65,000) and press assistant (Greg Dupuis, $35,000). in many ways, Jindal’s team has rewritten the book on gubernatorial press relations. Jindal is tightly guarded, and one-on-one interviews are rarely granted — and never to reporters who might ask probing questions. Responses to press inquiries are terse and sometimes vague, and almost always reflect Team Jindal talking points.

Often, press conferences are announced only an hour or two in advance. Press releases often are issued for the sole purpose of critiquing published reports. it’s akin to a D.C. management style that, at least at first, shook the Baton Rouge press corps to its foundation. A few stories were written about this approach when Jindal took office in 2008, but now it’s just accepted as the status quo, while still drawing the quiet ire of reporters on the Capitol beat. Plotkin provided information in a timely manner for this story and agreed to be interviewed, but said he would only discuss the governor’s policies — not internal management. Jindal’s setup stands in stark contrast to the media operation of Treasurer John Kennedy’s office. His press coverage is stuff of legend, largely because he and his team are skilled — and unapologetic — opportunists. They also respond quickly to reporters’ requests — and, unlike Jindal, their boss is almost always available either in person or via phone, and he is always quotable. if reporters need a unique angle on a story or a critical voice on just about anything, they know they can bring a herd of sacred cows to Kennedy, who is only too willing to slaughter them. No doubt those two styles reflect the preferences (and perhaps the relative strengths and weaknesses) of the two men. Jindal avoids the press as much as possible and is loath to face a pack of reporters. Kennedy welcomes the challenge, and the spotlight. Redmond, deputy state treasurer and communications director for Kennedy, serves as a gatekeeper and is a favorite among the press corps. He and his boss have a knack for inserting themselves in the debates of the day. As the budget debate heated up this legislative session and lawmakers complained about fund sweeps and possible cuts, Kennedy grabbed headlines by pointing out an increase in overall salary costs. Redmond says the strategy echoes Kennedy’s willingness to work with reporters. “we often are described as an aggressive press operation, and i won’t dispute that a bit,” he says. “This is the information age, and information is power. But the speed and ease of access to that information by the public and the press is just as important as the information itself, and that’s what we strive to provide. At the end of the day, however, any degree of message crafting or execution is pointless without a good message and especially a good messenger with vision. And all the credit there has to go to one guy and one guy only: Treasurer John Kennedy.” Obviously, every department and agency is different. That much was evident in the responses to the 24 public records requests filed in advance of this story. The lieutenant governor’s office provided all information over the phone within minutes of being asked. Flacks for the Department of Revenue demanded that a request be mailed or faxed, and then requested that all information be put in a certain context. The Department of environmental Quality requested that a form be filled out on its website. Most responded within two weeks — sooner in many cases. Mann, a former reporter, says it’s understandable that reporters sometimes become frustrated with press secretaries. He says he can see it clearly in terms of the governor’s operations. “i think the problem is a lot of these people have never been journalists. They’ve never been on the other side,” Mann says. Roy Fletcher, a Louisiana consultant who managed part of John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign, suggests that hard-nosed flacks, the kind Jindal and

others employ, are simply doing their job. And a good job at that. “when i hire a press secretary, i’m looking for someone with a unique skill. That would be the ability to get along with the press,” Fletcher says. “But when it comes to game time, they need to be able to push back and fight.” Fletcher says veteran hacks and flacks share a relationship that’s best defined as, “You know what i’m doing and i know what you’re doing; you know what i’m flacking, so let’s do it.” As for the often-uneasy working relationships, reporters aren’t alone in their vexation, says Jacques Berry, the press secretary for Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne. After following Dardenne through the state senate and the secretary of state’s office, Berry says it’s still difficult to figure out what will grab the media’s attention. Notably, he says he’s tired of seeing solid policy stories overlooked for sexier accounts of Capitol politics. “it’s a constant source of frustration seeing what’s not being covered out of this office,” Berry says. Fletcher adds that some reporters arrive for an interview with their story already written. when the press secretary doesn’t respond as predicted in such cases, it creates an element in the story that helps no one. “They’ll go around the beanie pole to get me to say what i don’t want to say,” he says. “it ends up being a ‘gotcha’ game.” That’s among the reasons why many government press teams are finding ways to circumvent the mainstream media to get information out to their stakeholders. Our public records requests revealed that statewide departments and cabinet agencies will spend more than $640,000 this year on such operations. The Treasury Department, for example, will spend $15,000 on video productions. The Department of Agriculture will put up roughly $100,000 publishing what it calls “Market Bulletins.” Outside players factor into this equation as well. Louisiana economic Development has contracted with companies like Peter Mayer Advertising to help carry the load. (Locally, Orleans sheriff Marlin Gusman has followed this trend, hiring the ehrhardt Group to handle press inquiries.) Despite having more than $5 million invested in press operations, flack teams seldom catch the watchful eye of legislative budget committees — despite a $211 million shortfall in the current budget year and a $303 million projected deficit for the next. Maybe that’s because leges have flacks, too, both for the campaigns and for their respective legislative bodies. The campaign aides are paid by individual candidates’ campaign war chests; the legislative media liaisons are paid by taxpayers. The state senate has communications officer Brenda Hodge, a former Baton Rouge Tv reporter who earns $92,813 a year, plus two other employees who pull down a combined $68,000. The House has PiO sheila McCant, who reaps an annual salary of $122,285 (more than any other press official reviewed for this story). Four other House communications employees collectively earn $156,872. Together, the House and senate will spend $439,970 this year on salaries for media liaisons. At the end of the day, there’s no denying the fact that public information often gets spun before it reaches the public. Golsby, who served as Foster’s press secretary, agrees with Mann that it’s an innocent part of the game — a game that has been played for centuries and will probably continue for generations. “i’m sure Hamilton did the same thing for George washington,” Mann says. “it’s a little naive to expect it to be any other way.”

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In the Zone significantly — we think for the better. A series of amendments, which could be considered in committee this Thursday (May 17), would split the 1.75 percent hotel tax revenues evenly among the CVB, the TMC and the city. Marigny has been removed from the zone, which now stops at Esplanade Avenue. And the appointed commissioners would become an Advisory Committee to help the city decide how to spend its share of the funds. The new board would grow from 10 to 14; instead of four mayoral appointees, it would have three — a deputy mayor, a French Quarter resident and a hotelier. Equally important, the committee would be subject to the state’s open meetings and public records laws. One part of the plan that has not changed is the immediate infusion of $40 million in improvements between now and Super Bowl Sunday. Threefourths of that $40 million would come from the Ernest N. Morial Convention

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s it passed both chambers, House Bill 783 would direct $325 million to rural road construction. Which roads? No one knows. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration, which is backing the bill, hasn’t given lawmakers a list. The bill’s sponsor, Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin, D-Jonesboro, can’t even speak generally about the projects. Here’s an easy prediction: lawmakers who consistently voted against the administration this session won’t be seeing any steamrollers pressing fresh asphalt in their districts. So remember House Bill 783 if your summer travels take you down any of Louisiana’s scenic — but often bumpy — back roads. There’s more bad news. HB 783 will get its funding from a new batch of 20-year loans. While Treasurer John Kennedy and others rightly note that interest rates are in the cellar right now, does it really make sense for a state that’s broke to go deeper into debt? Louisiana faces a $211 million budget shortfall for the current fiscal year (which ends June 30). One strategy being floated by Fannin involves doing nothing. He’s not joking. Budget leaders are seriously considering carrying a deficit and addressing it next fiscal year — and taking out 20-year

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prioritizing and that the 10 percent goal wouldn’t be realized without impacting larger contracts for services like health care. As for smaller ones, Rainwater contends that if every contract under $50,000 were eliminated, it would reduce related costs by only 1 percent. Rep. John Schroder, R-Covington, practically growled at Rainwater during the hearing. He complained that other areas of government spending have had to be reduced in recent years because of budget shortfalls. “Would it not be reasonable that some of these current contracts ought to get the same kind of attention?” Schroder asked. Good question. The Senate stopped similar bills last year, and it may do the same again. Even if Richard’s bills both pass, Jindal surely will veto them. With one eye always on his national ambitions, the governor no doubt would prefer not to have to do that. After all, it would not look good on his resume if he vetoed bills intended to rein in spending. No, he’d much prefer the House or Senate do his dirty work for him. All it will cost him is a few more country roads — and 20 years of debt that the rest of us will have to pay.

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comports with existing zoning laws and requires no variances. Neighbors answer that the stadium does not comply with a proposed Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (CZO), which syncs with the city’s new master plan. The CZO is expected to be adopted in the coming months, but it is not yet the law. Given the years of work that went into the master plan and the zoning ordinance, neighbors feel Tulane should try to comply with the forthcoming standards. The differences in the standards are stark. The current zoning requires a mere 20-foot setback from the stately homes on Audubon Boulevard, whereas the new zoning ordinance would require a 100-foot setback. Tulane’s plan reflects current standards. Other issues include noise levels, lights, traffic and parking congestion, and uses other than football that might create traffic. Most of all, neighbors complain that Tulane has kept them in the dark about its plans. They want a seat at the table, or at least a chance to air their concerns and get them addressed.

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t a store specializing in duck calls and similar sundries, spring and summer are usually slow — duck-hunting season is winter. But things are different when you’re a duck-call retailer with a reality show on a major cable network. “I wasn’t sure that a guy would buy a duck call just because he liked the show,” says Willie Robertson, CEO of The Duck Commander, the West Monroe sporting goods empire featured on the A&E series Duck Dynasty. Since the show premiered March 21, Robertson says, orders have been pouring in from all over the U.S. and Canada. “Don’t know if they’re using them or not, but they’re certainly buying them.” Promoted as a rags-to-riches story, the show depicts Robertson and his thickly bearded and heavily accented brother, father and uncle — along with the men’s wives and children — as they run the family business started by patriarch Phil, who went from humble beginnings to small-town fame with his handmade duck calls. The family is wealthy but still has the kind of backwoods sensibility that makes for good television. In one episode, Willie — who has no experience as a vintner — decides to buy an out-of-use vineyard, and the men earnestly attempt to make a batch of wine using crates of store-bought grapes

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Duck Dynasty is set in West Monroe, while Tough Love New Orleans takes place in a French Quarter house.

still popular. The premieres of CMT’s Bayou Billionaires, a Beverly Hillbillies-esque story of a Shreveport family that became instantly wealthy after discovering their home sits on a natural gas well, along with My Big Redneck Vacation, which followed Louisiana swamp folks on a jaunt to the Hamptons, brought strong ratings for the network. Like sister networks VH1 and MTV, CMT originally started as a music-focused channel (it stands for Country Music Television) but has drifted into reality programming, with its two Louisiana shows being its biggest hits so far in that category. Over on A&E, the 2009 premiere of Steven Seagal: Lawman, set in Jefferson Parish, was the most-watched series launch in that network’s history at that time. In the same vein of shows geared toward men, Spike TV now has Big Easy Justice, produced by Al Roker and starring local bounty hunter Tat-2 (Eugene Thacker). Others include the Discovery Channel’s Ragin’ Cajuns, History’s Cajun Pawn Stars and the Travel Channel’s Girls, Guns and Gators. While shows set in Louisiana’s bayous and swamps became popular, others depicting New Orleans through the lens of Carnival beads and artificially colored Bourbon Street cocktails began to crop up. In 2010, MTV brought its flagship The Real World back to the city for its 24th season (the ninth season of the series also was set in New Orleans). Much to the chagrin of Kenner residents, Oxygen filmed the 2011 season of its popular series Bad Girls Club in a mansion in Kenner’s Chateau Estates (but, of course, called the season Bad Girls Club: New Orleans). The AMC-owned network WeTV debuted Big Easy Brides in August 2011, depicting the colorful marriage ceremonies at a French Quarter wedding chapel, like a Hand Grenade-soaked version of Say Yes to the Dress. VH1 currently is airing Tough Love, a dating show that was filmed in a house on the edge of the French Quarter. At this point, reality shows set in Louisiana represent all the major reality show categories, aside from shows about cakes — although Haydel’s Bakery, purveyor of king cakes, produced its own reality show, Piece of Cake, that aired locally on WVUE. Bayou Billionaires executive producer Brian Flanagan, who was instrumental in the creation of Swamp People and whose Magilla Entertainment is responsible for

Moonshiners, Long Island Medium and other nonscripted series, believes reality shows have helped improve their scripted counterparts. “With scripted television, every year there’d be 150 pilots, and maybe two of them would turn into series and most of them would die, or go a season and they would die, and it was a lot of bad scripted TV,” he says. “And all of the sudden networks realized they could spend a lot less money on nonscripted and get a lot more product for it, and these things are becoming successful, and scripted actually got better because of it. And here we now find only a handful of scripted shows coming out a year that are all really, really great and we all really love to watch. I like it because I like the immediacy of it,” Flanagan added. “You can have an idea, go meet somebody if you find the right character, get them into a TV show within a few months and can get it on the air, and you can have a hit on your hands.” Besides being an economical choice for networks, the voyeuristic nature of reality TV also speaks to the ultradocumented ethos of our times. “There are a lot of technological changes that happened in the last decade,” says Lily Neumeyer, A&E’s vice president of nonfiction and alternative programming and executive producer of Duck Dynasty. “Everyone has a camera, everyone has YouTube. So it’s like we, as individuals, are all in our own reality TV show all the time. It’s something that we as individuals in 2012 see as normal. “We are all wired, so that’s part of why it’s not a trend, it’s about a genre that’s not going anywhere.”

reality TV is to convince people ... looking for authenticity and adventure that Louisiana has that to offer.” Filmmaker Melissa Caudle, who has written a number of books on reality TV and whose film and television company On the Lot Productions is working on three unscripted projects set in Louisiana — River Kings, The Baker Girls: Sealed with a Kiss and Reel Um In — says the tax credits have been an incentive for production companies. “There’s an interest in our diversity of culture that Louisiana has to offer,” Caudle says, adding that the recovery after Hurricane Katrina “has become a story in itself of people surviving and overcoming all of the adversity and hardships, and people are naturally attracted to those types of people. When the Louisiana tax structure started, that opened up the floodgates for reality shows.” But Chris Stelly, who oversees the tax credit program in his job as executive director of Louisiana Entertainment in the department of Louisiana Economic Development, says reality TV shows constitute a relatively small percentage of projects taking advantage of the tax credits — less than 10 percent since the program’s inception. “The reality TV phenomenon is more driven by the story than anything else,” Stelly says. “Typically when (shows) first come into the state, they fall below the minimum threshold, $300,000. We have seen some reality shows — Billy the Exterminator, Swamp People — as they progress and start realizing they’re spending money over the minimums required, then they will apply and ultimately take advantage of the tax credits. “This is purely a genre of television that’s being driven by Part of Louisiana’s reality TV boom can be attributed to the popularity and subject matter.” Louisiana Motion Picture Tax Incentive Act, which offers tax A&E’s Neumeyer says it’s a combination of both factors: breaks to filmmakers who shoot movies in Louisiana. the tax credits are an incentive and viewers react positively In 2002, when he was a state senator, Lt. Gov. Jay to Louisiana personalities. “They feel that it’s very relatable, Dardenne authored the legislation in hopes of creating a even though they don’t live in Louisiana,” she says. sustainable moviemaking workforce. “There’s a culture, there’s a food, there’s a flavor, there’s When it comes to reality TV, Dardenne says he worries a music, there’s all those things that are Louisiana-centric about some of the tawdrier programming (though he admits that don’t necessarily exist when you go to the other states,” to being a fan of Swamp People), but sees the shows says Flanagan of Magilla Entertainment. “It opens itself up as a whole to be positive advertisement for the state and into a really vibrant culture to tap into with regards to reality spotlights cultures and habitats that are a draw for tourists. TV and documentaries.” “These shows are going to happen because of tax credits, because of the public’s apparent thirst for these Bad Girls Club, Oxygen’s reality show that’s sort of like kind of shows,” he says. “They’re commercially successful. The Real World but with eight of the same person (the two ... What we’re trying to take advantage of in this heyday of shows share a production company, Bunim/Murray), filmed page 19

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seems to have fizzled out. The SSS Entertainment website, however, lists a number of projects in development — most notably a series called Wanks, which is described as a reality program “that follows the party-fueled lives of young guys and girls living on the West Bank of New Orleans, where every weekend is Mardi Gras.” The description also says the show was sold to Oxygen in 2011. (Company founder and executive producer Shaun Sanghani could not be reached for an interview.) It’s difficult to tell what shows are coming up, since reality shows seem to be conceived and shelved all the time. But in April, A&E announced a new show, Cajun Justice, which follows the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office (“a world where the sheriff is like a king, voodoo is a common practice and no police call is routine”). Cajun Justice premieres June 7. Animal Planet currently is filming its fourth season of the series Pitbulls and Parolees at the 9th Ward branch of the Villalobos Rescue Center; it is set to air sometime this fall. In a strange nexus of Louisiana reality TV, Pitbulls cast member Heidi Ziegler was carjacked and the case was featured on WGNO-TV’s “Wheel of Justice,” a news segment on which Tat-2 of Big Easy Justice used to be a frequent guest. Local boxing promoter Mike Tata says his Friday Night Fights boxing event/variety show will be featured on TruTV; the event’s Facebook page has a rough trailer for the show. And there’s always hope that SSS Productions’ Wanks will make it on the air. Whatever happens, it’s safe to say there’s plenty more Louisiana reality TV to come. “I think now everyone knows about (Louisiana), and it’s not a secret anymore,” Neumeyer says. “But I think it’s definitely a place where we haven’t run out of stories.”

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its seventh season at ex-New Orleans Hornets coach Byron Scott’s former Chateau Estates mansion. Production of the show encountered resistance from residents of the upscale neighborhood, who initially were upset by the production company painting the house’s columns a girly purple. Kenner Mayor Mike Yenni pulled the plug on taping, citing a neighborhood zoning law. The show eventually went on, however, premiering in August 2011. Kenner adopted new filming regulations as a result of Bad Girls Club. “Basically the city could not prove that the production company was violating any city codes, mainly the code provision that prohibits how many people may reside in a residence who are not related by blood or marriage,” Kenner city attorney Keith Conley wrote in an email to Gambit. “We had an open line of communication with the production company, who assured us that only the legal amount of people were staying at the residence, while the rest were staying at a hotel and transported in daily to shoot the segments.” Mike Quigley, Yenni’s chief administrative officer, thinks Bad Girls Club didn’t make much of a splash in Kenner, despite fears about the debauchery the show would depict. “The series was on the Oxygen Channel, and it is a channel I do not have,” Quigley wrote in an email response. “I was curious to see it, but I never did view it. Furthermore, I don’t know of anyone that watched it. It seems like Swamp People is more interesting.” Around this time, some speculative projects began to emerge. After his release from prison, former Gov. Edwin Edwards was in talks with local production company SSS Entertainment to create a reality show focusing on his post-incarceration life with his new (and much younger) wife Trina Grimes Scott. That project

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FORk + center By IAN MCNULTy mcnulty@cox.net | @louisianaramble

putting everything on the table what

The Milk Bar

where

1514 Delachaise St., 891-9361

when

breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri.

how much inexpensive

reservations not accepted

what works

sandwiches with novel fillings and big buns

what doesn’t

breakfast is efficient but seems an afterthought

check, please

a colorful, offbeat spot for excellent sandwiches and frozen drinks

Rene Bistrot returns

The second rendition of Rene Bistrot (700 Tchoupitoulas St., 613-2350) is set to open Tuesday, May 15. It’s the return of a restaurant that had a loyal following prior to Hurricane Katrina and the latest move from a chef, Rene Bajeux, who has made a lot of them lately. This new Rene Bistrot will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, with a French bistro cuisine menu with contemporary updates and Louisiana influences. In March, the chef announced Rene Bistrot would open inside the Renaissance Arts Hotel, taking over the hotel’s LaCote Brasserie space and spelling the end of that restaurant after nine years. The Renaissance Arts Hotel is related to the Pere Marquette Hotel in the CBD where the original Rene Bistrot had been located from 2001 until it was shuttered after Katrina. A native of Alsace, Bajeux has earned many culinary plaudits during his career, and is recognized as one of just 55 French Master Chefs in America. He built his local reputation as chef at Windsor Court’s Grill Room. After Katrina, he had a brief stint as chef at John Besh’s La Provence restaurant in Lacombe and later worked at restaurants in the Caribbean and in page 23

WinE OF THE week

Lactose irreverent By Ian McNulty

or most visitors, the only thing overtly Australian about the Milk Bar is an accent occasionally emanating from its kitchen. That belongs to Inta Phayer, the Australian who runs this Uptown sandwich shop with her husband Kevin, a native of England. At their tiny, charmingly off-kilter place, they make enormous and generally excellent sandwiches that don’t seem to hail from anywhere in particular, except perhaps a fertile imagination. How else to explain a po-boy of roasted lamb slathered with Thai chili, dabbed with sour cream and held together with melted mozzarella — joined in the take-out bag by a curious little lollipop? But to an Australian, a lunch like that bears several hallmarks of home. The lamb, sliced thin in the manner of deli meat, follows a tradition Aussies call “Sunday roast,” a custom as ingrained as Monday red beans here. Thai chili — a chunky, candy-apple-red, sweet-and-spicy spread — is the condiment of choice for gastropub grub Down Under. And that lollipop? The brand, Chupa Chups, hails from Spain but is Australia’s de facto national sucker. Those touches may hit nostalgic notes for Aussies, but for the rest of us the Milk Bar offers an original and idiosyncratic approach to a quick lunch or early dinner (it closes at 8 p.m.). The seasonal soups are reliably good, as are the busy salads, the best of which is topped with Indonesian-style chicken satay. Cappuccino milk shakes and slushy lemon-lime drinks can take the edge

By BRENDA MAITLAND winediva1@earthlink.net

PHOTO By CHERyL GERBER

2010 Lamadrid Torrontes Mendoza, argentina

off a hot day. Sandwiches are the Milk Bar’s calling card, and as with any serious sandwich it all starts with the bread. Po-boys are assembled on short, soft-crumbed pistolettes, and sandwiches are made on over-sized round loaves of ciabatta, a standing custom order from La Boulangerie. One called the “wolf me down” has roasted lamb, hummus and spinach. Eggplant and the better part of a Greek salad go into the “I dream of aubergenie.” There must be some ardent fans of the “speared pig,” though I couldn’t get over the texture of asparagus mixed with ham and hollandaise. But I concur with the name of a relatively recent addition called “shrimply the best.” Pull its halves apart and a stretchy curtain of mozzarella reveals a seafood-platter’s-worth of sauteed shrimp dressed with pesto and lemony mayonnaise. The ciabatta contains it all as snugly as a calzone, and like a good calzone these sandwiches resurrect well in the toaster for second helpings. Many are big enough for two meals. In Australia, a milk bar is a neighborhood institution somewhere between a snack bar and an old-fashioned soda fountain, and during the lunch rush it’s clear this Milk Bar fills that role for kids from nearby schools and the scrubs-clad staff from neighboring Touro Infirmary. The location isn’t easy to spot, but when you see people twirling lollipop sticks on their way back from lunch you know you’re getting close.

$13-$15 retail

Lamadrid was made from 100 percent torrontes grapes from Argentina’s La Rioja, a sub-region of Mendoza. It was unfiltered, unfined and aged 5 months in cement vats to preserve its characteristic style. The result is a light, crisp and versatile wine that offers aromas of melon, lemon peel, a touch of ginger and floral notes. On the palate, taste zesty citrus, a stony minerality, hints of pear and apricot and a balanced finish. Sip it as an aperitif or pair it with salads, light soups, smoked salmon, shellfish, sushi, grilled fish, soft cheeses, roasted almonds and dried or fresh fruit. Buy it at: Cork & Bottle, W.I.N.O., Breaux Mart in Uptown and Dorignac’s. Drink it at: Mike’s on the Avenue, Clever and W.I.N.O.

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A sandwich shop offers a taste of Down Under.

The Milk Bar serves original sandwiches like lamb with Thai chili and sauteed shrimp with mozzarella and pesto.

EAT dRink

FORk + center By IAN MCNULTy mcnulty@cox.net | @louisianaramble

putting everything on the table what

The Milk Bar

where

1514 Delachaise St., 891-9361

when

breakfast, lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri.

how much inexpensive

reservations not accepted

what works

sandwiches with novel fillings and big buns

what doesn’t

breakfast is efficient but seems an afterthought

check, please

a colorful, offbeat spot for excellent sandwiches and frozen drinks

Rene Bistrot returns

WinE OF THE week

Lactose irreverent By Ian McNulty

By BRENDA MAITLAND winediva1@earthlink.net

PHOTO By CHERyL GERBER

2010 Lamadrid Torrontes Mendoza, argentina

$13-$15 retail

Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > may 15 > 2012

A sandwich shop offers a taste of Down Under.

The Milk Bar serves original sandwiches like lamb with Thai chili and sauteed shrimp with mozzarella and pesto.

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interview San Antonio, Texas. He surfaced again in New Orleans last spring to lead the kitchen of the Rib Room, but left there earlier this year.

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Burgers and beignets

The local chain New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood Co. had been grilling burgers and frying catfish for 26 years without a location actually in New Orleans proper. But two of the three new locations the company has added in the last 16 months alone are in Orleans Parish, and more are in the works. The latest opened May 1 in the French Quarter (541 Decatur St., 309-7902; www.nohsc.com), taking over the historic building that had long been Ristorante Carmelo and was more recently the Riverfront Restaurant. “We always wanted to have New Orleans locations, but it was always just a question of real estate,” says Paul McGoey, an owner and managing partner of New Orleans Hamburger & Seafood Co. The company was founded in 1984 and now has nine locations around the metro area. Its first New Orleans expansion came in November 2010 at 4141 St. Charles Ave. The new French Quarter location is the company’s first with a full-service format rather than counter service, and its menu adds new entrees and appetizers, plus there’s an oyster bar. These service changes are partly in response to the French Quarter building’s floor plan, which rises five stories and now has dining rooms on the first three floors. But McGoey says the format here also is a test case for how the company may design new locations or remodel some of its existing restaurants. “We’ve been working on this model for some time, and this location really lends itself to that model,” he says. The company is planning to expand further in New Orleans and the region, McGoey says, and it also will expand its New Orleans Coffee & Beignet Co., a coffee and sweet shop concept first introduced as part of its Uptown location. “We have three locations for New Orleans Coffee & Beignet Co. planned in the next six months,” he says.

Cider studies

The apple was a leading American crop in colonial days, and fermented — or hard — cider reigned as the young country’s most common drink through the early 19th century, as New Orleans-based drinks writer Wayne Curtis has documented in And a Bottle of Rum, his book on New World spirits. It was easy to produce, it kept well and – then, as now — it takes the edge off. It all but disappeared in later years but, as the growing availability and variety at local bars and grocery stores shows, there is a cider revival underway. On Tuesday, one of the newer American cider brands, Crispin Cider Co., will be in town for a special tasting dinner

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f you have a craving for — or perhaps a curiosity about — Philippinestyle chicken adobo, pancit noodles, lumpia egg rolls or chocolate rice porridge, Cristina Quackenbush has your number. A native of the Philippines, she grew up in Indiana and moved to New Orleans in 1999 after a Mardi Gras visit sold her on the city. Today she works at both RioMar and High Hat Cafe, two restaurants co-owned by chef Adolfo Garcia, who earlier this year encouraged her to introduce her own Filipino cooking through a series of pop-up stints at his restaurants. On May 13, she was scheduled to introduce Milkfish (2483 Burgundy St., 327-0635), which is planned as a semi-permanent pop-up inside Marie’s Bar in the Marigny. Her goal is to develop Milkfish as a standalone restaurant. For now, Milkfish serves on Sundays from noon to 2 a.m. and offers delivery in the Marigny/Bywater area. For the uninitiated, what is Filipino food like? quackenbush: Its influences are primarily Latin, Chinese, Indonesian and Malaya, so it’s a mixture of all of those. There is a lot of pork, but one of the things I’ve been doing is converting some of the recipes to be vegetarian because I eat meat but my boyfriend is vegetarian and I want him to be able to taste it too. Where did you learn to cook like this? q: My mother cooked this food all the time when I was growing up and made sure we knew all about it. Every time we had a party, I was there cooking. It really is something you usually have at home and at parties. It’s very rare to find it in restaurants and that’s always been surprising to me because whenever people try it they usually have a positive response. You’ve run pop-ups in a few locations. How do you find the pop-up format for a new eatery? q: Taking over different people’s kitchens is something to get used to, because everyone has their kitchen set up a different way. But it’s been a great way to meet different people and see their reactions and that just motivates you more to do it. I didn’t think it would be so successful until we tried. — IAN MCNULTY

at Calcasieu (930 Tchoupitoulas St., 588-2188; www.calcasieurooms.com), the private dining venue from the Link Restaurant Group. This Crispin Cider Dinner will pair five cider varieties — inlcuding a classic English style, a pear cider and one made with Irish stout yeast — with five courses from the Calcasieu kitchen, which includes a main course of suckling pig three ways. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. and costs $65 per person, plus tax and tip. For reservations call 588-2188.

Beardless in New Orleans

The smart money surely would have been on at least one New Orleanian coming home with a top honor from this year’s James Beard Foundation Awards, which were held in New York on May 7. The culinary foundation’s five nominees for “Best Chef: South” included four New Orleans chefs: Justin Devillier of La Petite Grocery, John Harris of Lilette, Tory McPhail

of Commander’s Palace and Alon Shaya of Domenica. But the award went to Chris Hastings, chef of Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Ala., and none of the five other New Orleans people or restaurants nominated across the awards categories this year won. The smart money was with the handicapping advice from Bret Thorn, a writer for the industry publication Nation’s Restaurant News. The winners he picked when finalists were announced back in March proved accurate in many categories, including those of Best Chef: South, Outstanding Restaurant, Best New Restaurant and Outstanding Bar Program. “These predictions are based, as they are every year, on the notion that the best nominees are not necessarily selected; the most popular ones are,” Thorn wrote in March. “(T)he winners will be the ones about whom there is the most buzz, about whom the media, nationally and, more importantly, in their own regions, feel good about.”

Borgne Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., 613-3860 www.borgnerestaurant.com Spicy sambal dressing adds Asian kick to Cajun-style boulettes.

Charlie’s Seafood 8311 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan, 737-3700 www.charliesseafoodrestaurant.com Shrimp calas put a savory spin on traditional Creole rice fritters.

Magasin 4201 Magazine St., 896-7611 www.magasincafe.com Coin-sized fritters of mashed up shrimp are panko-coated.

Mat & Naddie’s Restaurant 937 Leonidas St., 861-9600 www.matandnaddies.com Blended shrimp and crawfish croquettes are topped with pickled fennel.

Royal China Restaurant 600 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 831-9633 The daily dim sum menu includes chopped shrimp in creamy batter.

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Trends, notes, quirks and quotes from the world of food. “There’s nothing inauthentic about American-Chinese dishes. The bulk of them were created by Chinese people for Chinese people. These Chinese people just happened to be living outside of the mother country … Chop suey and many of the other AmericanChinese basics that we know today weren’t created to satisfy the supposedly inferior palates of white Americans. They were made to satisfy the cravings of ‘real’ Chinese people.” — Clarissa Wei, writing in a column for CNN International in defense of dishes such as orange chicken and General Tso’s chicken.

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interview San Antonio, Texas. He surfaced again in New Orleans last spring to lead the kitchen of the Rib Room, but left there earlier this year.

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Burgers and beignets

Cider studies

CrIstINa quaCkENBush

FIVE in FIVE spOts FOr shrImp CrOquEttEs

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Borgne Hyatt Regency New Orleans, 601 Loyola Ave., 613-3860 www.borgnerestaurant.com Spicy sambal dressing adds Asian kick to Cajun-style boulettes.

Charlie’s Seafood 8311 Jefferson Hwy., Harahan, 737-3700 www.charliesseafoodrestaurant.com Shrimp calas put a savory spin on traditional Creole rice fritters.

Magasin 4201 Magazine St., 896-7611 www.magasincafe.com Coin-sized fritters of mashed up shrimp are panko-coated.

Mat & Naddie’s Restaurant 937 Leonidas St., 861-9600 www.matandnaddies.com Blended shrimp and crawfish croquettes are topped with pickled fennel.

Royal China Restaurant 600 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 831-9633 The daily dim sum menu includes chopped shrimp in creamy batter.

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AMERICAN CAFE BEIGNET — 311 Bourbon St., 525-2611; 334B Royal St., 524-5530; www.cafebeignet.com — The Western omelet combines ham, bell peppers, red onion and white cheddar, and is served with grits and French bread. No reservations. Bourbon Street: Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Royal Street: Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ O’HENRY’S FOOD & SPIRITS — 634 S. Carrollton Ave., 8669741; 8859 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 461-9840; www. ohenrys.com — The menu includes burgers, steaks, ribs, pasta, fried seafood, salads and more. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

TED’S FROSTOP — 3100 Calhoun St., 861-3615 — The Lotto burger is a 6-oz. patty served with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and Frostop’s secret sauce and cheese is optional. There are waffle fries and house-made root beer. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

BAR & GRILL BAYOU BEER GARDEN — 326 N. Jefferson Davis Pwky., 302-9357 — Head to Bayou Beer Garden for a 10-oz. Bayou burger served on a sesame bun. Disco fries are french fries topped with cheese and debris gravy. No reservations. Lunch and dinner, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $ DMAC’S BAR & GRILL — 542 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., 3045757; www.dmacsbarandgrill. com — Stop in for daily lunch specials or regular items such as gumbo, seafood-stuffed po-boys or pulled-pork sliders topped with barbecue sauce. No reservations. Lunch and dinner

DOWN THE HATCH — 1921 Sophie Wright Place, 522-0909; www.downthehatchnola.com — This casual restaurant offers a mix of burgers, salads, hot wings and cheese fries and the menu is updated frequently. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THE RIVERSHACK TAVERN — 3449 River Road, 834-4938; www.therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of burgers, sandwiches overflowing with deli meats and changing lunch specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ SHAMROCK BAR & GRILL — 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938 — Shamrock serves burgers, shrimp or roast beef po-boys, Reuben sandwiches, cheese sticks and fries with cheese or gravy. No reservations. Dinner and late night daily. Credit cards. $ ZADDIE’S TAVERN — 1200 Jefferson Hwy., Jefferson, 8320830 — Zaddie’s serves burgers, alligator sausage, boudin, tamales and meat or crawfish pies. Thursday’s steak night special features a filet mignon, buttergarlic potatoes, salad, grilled French bread and a soft drink for $15. No reservations. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $

BARBECUE BOO KOO BBQ — 3701 Banks St., 202-4741; www.bookoobbq. com — The Boo Koo burger is a ground brisket patty topped with pepper Jack cheese, boudin and sweet chile aioli. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., latenight Fri.-Sat. Cash only. $ SAUCY’S BBQ GRILL — 3244 Severn Ave., Metairie, 322-2544; www.saucysbbqgrill.com — Saucy’s serves slow-smoked St. Louis-style pork ribs, pulled pork, brisket, smoked sausage and grilled or jerk chicken. Side items include smoked beans, mac and cheese, coleslaw and Caribbean rice. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

BURGERS BEACHCORNER BAR & GRILL — 4905 Canal St., 4887357; www.beachcornerbarandgrill.com — Top a 10-oz. Beach burger with cheddar, blue, Swiss or pepper Jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms or house-made hickory sauce. Other options include a grilled chicken sandwich. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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CONTEMPORARY BAYONA — 430 Dauphine St., 525-4455; www.bayona. com — House favorites include sauteed Pacific salmon with choucroute and Gewurztraminer sauce and the appetizer of grilled shrimp with black-bean cake and coriander sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch Wed.-Sat., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ OAK — 8118 Oak St., 3021485; www.oaknola.com — This wine bar offers small plates and live musical entertainment. Gulf shrimp fill tacos assembled in house-made corn tortillas with pickled vegetables, avocado and lime crema. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ ONE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE — 8132 Hampson St., 301-9061; www.one-sl.com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

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MELANGE — 2106 Chartres St., 309-7335; www.melangenola.com — Dine on FrenchCreole cuisine. Lapin au vin is a farm raised rabbit cooked served with demi-glace, oven-roasted shallots, tomatoes, potatoes and pancetta. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Credit cards. $$ MONTREL’S BISTRO — 1000 N. Peters St., 524-4747 — This casual restaurant serves Creole favorites. The menu includes crawfish etouffee, boiled crawfish, red beans and rice and bread pudding for dessert. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ REDEMPTION — 3835 Iberville St., 309-3570; www. redemption-nola.com — Chef Greg Piccolo’s menu includes dishes such as the crispy avocado cup filled with Louisiana crawfish remoulade. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ STEAMBOAT NATCHEZ

CUBAN/CARIBBEAN MOJITOS RUM BAR & GRILL — 437 Esplanade Ave., 2524800; www.mojitosnola.com — Mojitos serves a mix of Caribbean, Cuban and Creole dishes. Aruba scallops are seared and served with white chocolate chipotle sauce with jalapeno grits and seasonal vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch Sat.-Sun., dinner and late-night daily. Credit cards. $$

DELI KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come straight from the Bronx. No reservations. Lunch Sun.-Thu., dinner Mon.-Thu. Credit cards. $ MARTIN WINE CELLAR — 714 Elmeer Ave., Metairie , 896-7350; www.martinwine. com — The wine emporium offers gourmet sandwiches and deli items. The Reuben combines corned beef, melted Swiss, sauerkraut and Russian dressing on rye bread. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Fri., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$

FRENCH FLAMING TORCH — 737 Octavia St., 895-0900; www.flamingtorchnola.com — Chef Nathan Gile’s menu includes pan-seared Maine diver scallops with chimichurri sauce and smoked bacon and corn hash. Reservations recommended. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner daily, brunch Sat.-Sun. Credit cards. $$ MARTINIQUE BISTRO — 5908 Magazine St., 891-8495; www.martiniquebistro.com — This French bistro has a cozy dining room and a pretty courtyard. Try Steen’s-cured duck breast with satsuma and ginger demi-glace and goat cheese grits. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun., brunch Sat.Sun. Credit cards. $$$

GOURMET TO GO BREAUX MART — 315 E. Judge Perez, Chalmette, 262-0750; 605 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna, 433-0333; 2904 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-5565; 9647 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, 737-8146; www.breauxmart. com — Breaux Mart prides itself on its “Deli to Geaux” as well as weekday specials. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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ITALIAN ANDREA’S RESTAURANT — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie 834-8583; www.andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$ CAFE GIOVANNI — 117 Decatur St., 529-2154; www. cafegiovanni.com — Chef Duke LoCicero serves inventive Italian cuisine and Italian accented contemporary Louisiana cooking. Belli Baci is the restaurant’s cocktail lounge. Reservations accepted. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ MOSCA’S — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, 436-8950; www. moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tue.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ RED GRAVY — 125 Camp St., 561-8844; www.redgravycafe. com — At lunch, try meatballs, lasagna and other Italian specialties, panini, wraps, soups and salads. Reservations accepted for large parties. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ VINCENT’S ITALIAN CUISINE — 4411 Chastant St., Metairie, 885-2984; 7839 St. Charles Ave., 866-9313; www. vincentsitaliancuisine.com — Try house specialties like veal- and spinach-stuffed canneloni. Reservations accepted. Chastant Street: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat. St. Charles Avenue: lunch Tue.-Fri., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

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ANTOINE’S RESTAURANT — 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422; www.antoines.com — The city’s oldest restaurant offers a glimpse of what 19th century French Creole dining might have been like. Signature dishes include oysters Rockefeller, crawfish Cardinal and baked Alaska. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$$

— Toulouse Street Wharf, 569-1401; www.steamboatnatchez.com — The Natchez serves Creole cuisine while cruising the Mississippi River. At dinner, the Paddlewheel porkloin is blackened pork served with Creole mustard sauce or Caribbean butter spiked with Steen’s cane syrup. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$

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BOUCHE — 840 Tchoupitoulas St., 267-7485; www.bouchenola.com — This wine bar and restaurant serves creative dishes like tasso truffle mac and cheese with three cheeses and Mornay sauce. Reservations accepted. Dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN — 416 Chartres St., 596-2530; www.chefpaul. com — At chef Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant, signature dishes include blackened Louisiana drum, Cajun jambalaya and the blackened stuffed pork chop. Reservations recommended. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Mon.Sat. Credit cards. $$$ MANNING’S — 519 Fulton St., 593-8118; www.harrahsneworleans.com — Named for former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, this restaurant’s game plan sticks to Louisiana flavors. A cast iron skillet-fried filet is served with two-potato hash, fried onions and Southern Comfort pan sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$$ RALPH’S ON THE PARK — 900 City Park Ave., 488-1000; www.ralphsonthepark.com — Popular dishes include baked oysters Ralph, turtle soup and the Niman Ranch New York strip. There also are brunch specials. Reservations recommended. Lunch Fri., dinner daily, brunch

Sun. Credit cards. $$$ TOMAS BISTRO — 755 Tchoupitoulas St., 527-0942 — Tomas serves dishes like semi-boneless Louisiana quail stuffed with applewood-smoked bacon dirty popcorn rice, Swiss chard and Madeira sauce. No reservations. Dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ TOMMY’S WINE BAR — 752 Tchoupitoulas St., 525-4790 — Tommy’s Wine Bar offers cheese and charcuterie plates as well as a menu of appetizers and salads from the neighboring kitchen of Tommy’s Cuisine. No reservations. Lite dinner daily. Credit cards. $$

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MEXICAN & SOUTHWESTERN COUNTRY FLAME — 620 Iberville St., 522-1138 — Country Flame serves a mix of popular Mexican and Cuban dishes. Come in for fajitas, pressed Cuban sandwiches made with hickory-smoked pork and charbroiled steaks or pork chops. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ JUAN’S FLYING BURRITO — 2018 Magazine St., 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., 4869950; www.juansflyingburrito. com — Mardi Gras Indian tacos are stuffed with roasted corn, pinto beans, grilled summer squash, Jack cheese and spicy slaw. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS’ BAR & RESTAURANT — 701 Tchoupitoulas St., 523-8995; www.lucysretiredsurders.com — This surf shack serves CaliforniaMexican cuisine and the bar has a menu of tropical cocktails. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily, late night Thu.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ SANTA FE — 3201 Esplanade Ave., 948-0077 — Bolinos de Bacalau are Portuguese-style fish cakes made with dried, salted codfish, mashed potatoes, cilantro, lemon juice, green onions and egg and served with smoked paprika aioli. Outdoor seating is available. Reservations recommended. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $$

MUSIC AND FOOD BOMBAY CLUB — 830 Conti St., 586-0972; www. thebombayclub.com — Mull the menu at this French Quarter hideaway while sipping a well made martini. Reservations recommended. Dinner daily, late-night Fri.-Sat. Credit cards. $$$ GAZEBO CAFE — 1018 Decatur St., 525-8899; www. gazebocafenola.com — The New Orleans sampler rounds up jambalaya, red beans and rice and gumbo. Other options include salads, seafood poboys and burgers. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ HOUSE OF BLUES — 225 Decatur St., 310-4999; www. hob.com/neworleans — Try the pan-seared Voodoo Shrimp with rosemary cornbread. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ THE MARKET CAFE — 1000 Decatur St., 527-5000; www. marketcafenola.com — Dine on fried seafood on platters or poboys or highlighted in dishes such as crawfish etouffee or shrimp Creole. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ SIBERIA — 2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855 — This music clubs serves dishes like fish and chips, spicy hot wings, tacos and more. There are weekly specials and vegetarian and vegan options. No reservations. Dinner and late-night Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTZ BAGELZ — 3138 Magzine St., 309-7557; www. artzbagelz.com — Artz bakes its bagels in house and options include onion, garlic, honey whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin, salt and others. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily. Credit cards. $ BRAXTON’S RESTAURANT — 636 Franklin St., Gretna, 301-3166; www.braxtonsnola.com — Braxton’s serves a mix of salads, po-boys, deli sandwiches and entrees. The seafood platter includes fried shrimp, oysters, catfish strips, french fries, potato salad and vegetables. Reservations accepted. Lunch Mon.-Fri., dinner Mon.-Sat., late-night Fri.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ KATIE’S RESTAURANT — 3701 Iberville St., 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. Reservations accepted. Lunch daily, Dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch Sun. Credit cards. $$ OLIVE BRANCH CAFE — 1995 Barataria Blvd., Marrero, 348-2008; 5145 Gen. de Gaulle Drive, 393-1107; www.olivebranchcafe.com — These cafes serve soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and entrees. Chicken and artichoke pasta is tossed with penne in garlic and olive oil. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

OUT to EAT PIZZA MARKS TWAIN’S PIZZA LANDING — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-8032; www.marktwainspizza.com — Disembark at Mark Twain’s for salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. No reservations. Lunch Tue.-Sat., dinner Tue.-Sun. Credit cards. $ NEW YORK PIZZA — 4418 Magazine St., 891-2376; www. newyorkpizzanola.com — Choose from pizza by the slice or whole pie, calzones, pasta, sandwiches, salads and more. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ NONNA MIA CAFE & PIZZERIA — 3125 Esplanade Ave., 948-1717 — Nonna Mia uses homemade dough for pizza served by the slice or whole pie and offers salads, pasta dishes and panini. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ THEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA — 4218 Magazine St., 894-8554; 4024 Canal St., 302-1133; www.theospizza. com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies or build your own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $ WIT’S INN — 141 N. Carrollton Ave., 888-4004 — This Mid-City bar and restaurant features pizzas, calzones, toasted subs, salads and appetizers for snacking. No reservations. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $

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MAGAZINE PO-BOY SHOP — 2368 Magazine St., 522-3107 — Choose from a long list of poboys filled with everything from fried seafood to corned beef to hot sausage to veal. There are breakfast burritos in the morning and daily lunch specials. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat. Cash only. $ MAHONY’S PO-BOY SHOP — 3454 Magazine St., 899-3374; www.mahonyspoboys.com — Mahoney’s serves traditional favorites and original po-boys like the Peacemaker, which is filled with fried oysters, bacon and cheddar cheese. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $ PARRAN’S PO-BOYS — 3939 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 885-3416; www. parranspoboy.com — Parran’s offers a long list of po-boys plus muffulettas, club sandwiches, pizzas, burgers, salads, fried seafood plates and CreoleItalian entrees. No reservations. Lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Thu.Sat. Credit cards. $ SLICE — 1513 St. Charles Ave., 525-7437; 5538 Magazine St., 897-4800; www.slicepizzeria. com — Slice is known for pizza

THE STORE — 814 Gravier St., 322-2446; www.thestoreneworleans.com — The Store serves sandwiches, salads and hot plates, and there is a taco bar where patrons can choose their own toppings. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Mon.-Fri. Credit cards. $$

SEAFOOD GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT — 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie, 832-0955 — Galley serves Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened redfish is served with shrimp and lump crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new potatoes. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$ GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention Center Blvd., 520-8530; www.grandislerestaurant.com — The Isle sampler, available as a half or full dozen, is a combination of three varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso, Havarti and jalapeno; house-made bacon, white cheddar and carmelized onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and garlic. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ RED FISH GRILL — 115 Bourbon St., 598-1200; www. redfishgrill.com — Seafood favorites include hickory-grilled redfish, pecan-crusted catfish, alligator sausage and seafood gumbo. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. Credit cards. $$ VILLAGE INN — 9201 Jefferson Hwy., 737-4610 — Check into Village Inn for seasonal boiled seafood or raw oysters. Other options include fried seafood platters, po-boys, pasta and pizza. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat. Credit cards. $$

SOUL FOOD BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd., 241-2548; www. bigmommaschickenandwaffles. com — Big Momma’s serves hearty combinations like the sixpiece which includes a waffle and six fried wings served crispy or dipped in sauce. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. Credit cards. $

STEAKHOUSE CHOPHOUSE NEW ORLEANS — 322 Magazine St., 522-7902; www.centraarchy. com — This traditional steakhouse serves USDA prime beef, and a selection of super-sized cuts includes a 40-oz. Porterhouse for two. Reservations recommended. Diner daily. Credit cards. $$$ CRESCENT CITY STEAKS — 1001 N. Broad St., 821-3271; www.crescentcitysteaks. com — Order USDA prime beef dry-aged and hand-cut in house. There are porterhouse steaks

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Stand Out Stand-up comic and actor Todd Barry visits New Orleans. By Alex Woodward

“I’ve had a good time in the South. I like the South. I feel like the people who show up are people familiar with me. I do some New York stuff but it’s not like you have to live here to understand,” Barry tells Gambit. “I still hear people, when they’re talking politics, they just trash the South in a way that seems sort of bigoted, or stupid. (New Orleans) is probably less maligned.” What about Alabama? “I like it there, too, so I dunno.” A New York native, Barry grew up in Florida’s Broward County, first taking the stage in Miami, then West Palm Beach. “I think I went on three nights in a row. I kind of had a weird love for it,” he says. “When I first started, I did it as a goof, and I was like, ‘Oh, I like doing this,’ but I felt weird because I didn’t know I ever wanted to do it before.” (His jokes were “about McDonald’s and circumcision — but we don’t have to try and remember those,” he says.) Barry made a dozen appearances on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, and currently appears with C.K. on his acclaimed FX series Louie. Most recently, he starred in David Wain’s Wanderlust opposite Paul Rudd as lunkhead co-worker “Sherm.” He also starred as dirtbag manager Wayne in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar-nabbing The Wrestler. “Most of my comedy friends now I met in New York. … I’ve been lucky, some people ask me to do little bit parts on their shows. I don’t know if I’m a good actor or not,” he says. “I’ve never played a soldier or anything. It’s usually a wiseass.” Improv school and comedy conservatory The New Movement opened in March and runs several recurring weekly shows, like its flagship series, The Megaphone Show, and improv troupe Stupid Time Machine’s showcase. Founders Chris Trew and Tami Nelson perform long-form improv as Chris & Tami, and the theater has developed new showcases like the half-scripted, half-improvised You Don’t

Know the Half of It, the storytelling series Shipwrecked!, and faux-expert talk series Motivational Mayhem. Comics Kyle Kinane and Sean Patton headlined at the theater during the inaugural comedy installation of the foburg music festival, and Hannibal Buress will headline the space for two sets June 6. Barry, who also has dropped in to play drums with bands like Mates of State, Superchunk and Yo La Tengo, hasn’t counted out returning next time with a band, though it’s unlikely. “I’ve considered doing some goofy band, but I don’t know,” he says, sighing. “I can’t do everything.”

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ouis C.K. surprised a massive crowd at the Mahalia Jackon Theater when he introduced, offstage and with little fanfare, his unannounced opener: Todd Barry, a longtime presence in comedy circles and master of timing — particularly in his long pauses and low, measured voice. “That crowd was unbelievable,” Barry says in his characteristic sigh-speech. Barry, whose credits include more than two decades as a stand-up comic and numerous film and TV appearances, was asked by C.K. to open some of his 2011 dates. (After the show, their driver took them to Cooter Brown’s Tavern for oysters.) Though familiar with performing at Mahalia-sized auditoriums, Barry now is on a more intimate tour preceding the release of a new Comedy Central stand-up special (airing July 21) and corresponding DVD and album. On Saturday, May 19, Barry performs two sets at The New Movement theater. Before his 2011 performance, Barry last performed in New Orleans in 2006, a big show (thanks to local comic Bill Dykes) in the comedy-dry days following the 2005 floods. “I was on tour and I barely had any time to check it out,” Barry says. “Now I won’t really this time, now that I think about it. When we were walking around (last year), it was like, ‘Wow, this is a really great city and I want to come back here soon.’” It would be easy to mistake the arid declaration of his enthusiasm as sarcasm if not for his stand-up persona — dry, deadpan and sharp as hell. A regular on late-night TV and on series as diverse as Flight of the Conchords and Sex and the City, Barry’s stage presence (slouchy, quiet, bald) and self-deprecation hide his subtle but sour commentary that’s anything but observational humor. His stand-up albums Falling Off the Bone, Medium Energy and From Heaven offer 60-second bursts of low-key commentary (UPS having the hours of an “East Village trance record shop,” a punchline made better by the several preceding it), carefully dropped slayers (to a guy with a neck tattoo: “Hey man, you forgot to not do that”) and moments of absurdity. On From Heaven, he takes on comics “afraid of” performing in the South through a biting, over-the-top retelling of what it’s like performing in Alabama.

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Nine lives Based solely on the hard-driving roadhouse blues of Henry Gray and the Cats, you wouldn’t suspect that Gray performed at the very first Jazz Fest 43 years ago. Early sound issues were resolved at the Blues Tent’s opening set for 2012, with Gray’s four-piece band rocking their way through classics like Lonnie Johnson’s “I Got the Blues So Bad.” Honky tonking Opening with “I-10 Westbound Blues” — about temporarily leaving Louisiana for Texas — Kim Carson and her crack band, featuring lead guitarist Ron Hotstream, transformed the afternoon Lagniappe Stage into a rowdy honky tonk. Mid-set the emphasis turned to the country archetypes of Carson’s Classic Twang with songs like Loretta Lynn’s “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” Footnotes Ragtime piano master Butch Thompson celebrated the life and work of his hero, Jelly Roll Morton, with a professorial presentation of the New Orleans jazz pioneer’s music. Prior to each song, Thompson walked to the mic and delivered a few notes of historical context. Before tackling “Jelly Roll Blues” — the first published jazz composition in history — Thompson spoke of the women Morton loved best in his life and how they inspired the classic tune.

Keys to the city With his stellar playing in the clubs at night, two days in a row with The Absolute Monster Gentlemen and Dr. John on the Acura Stage, and with Bonnie Raitt on the Gentilly Stage, Jon Cleary proved he simply is the funkiest Englishman on the planet, and almost as smooth as James Bond.

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ount Basin™ remembers an era when the banjo was the stringed instrument of choice in local music, but the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival found plenty of room for the guitar, and festival crowds seemed quite pleased. Headliners and guitar slingers included Bruce Springsteen, the Foo Fighters, the Beach Boys, The Eagles, Zac Brown Band, Glen Hansard, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle, Cheik Hamala Diabate and many others. But there was no shortage of trumpets, trombones and tambourines or any genre of Louisiana music, from Mardi Gras Indian chants to Bounce acts. So let me recount a grand year at the Fair Grounds.

British invasion After opening with “Get Miles,” the first song from its classic debut album Bring it On, British indie rockers Gomez went on to explain, “It’s weird playing New Orleans during the day.” The band’s three singer/ songwriters’ attack peaked with a brilliant cover of Junior Kimbrough’s “Meet Me in the City.” After the song, then band waited to see if their version of the North Mississippi blues classic went over with the Jazz Fest crowd. It did. Bon temps Bon Iver’s front man Justin Vernon conceived its debut record For Emma, Forever Ago in an isolated cabin and it’s characterized by eerie, restrained parts. But the band’s set was certainly not quiet. Its self-titled follow-up has a fuller sound with to an expanded band, and the band, which included horns, violin and two drum kits, had an amplified Jazz Fest set befitting a stadium show. The band frequently built up to big moments and then broke down into noisy extended jams, especially on “Beth/Rest” which was heavy on 1980s sax and Vernon’s vocal processor. The set included stand-outs from the latest release including “Perth,” “Holocene” and “Calgary” plus cuts from the debut album, and “Skinny Love” prompted an audience sing-along.

Road show Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road show celebrated National Jazz Appreciation Month (April). The band played “The King of Treme,” which Christopher wrote in honor of drummer Shannon Powell, who finished the song with a very long tambourine solo. Christopher also wished him a belated happy birthday, which was earlier in April. The rest of the set ranged from Duke Ellington compositions to originals such as “Creole Wild West,” which included a spoken-word interlude by Chuck Perkins in homage to the spirit of the Mardi Gras Indians and New Orleans. And though it was Christopher’s set, one had to wait until the following New Orleans Jazz Orchestra set to hear him really sizzle on clarinet solos. Chocolate city In a fantastic set, the Carolina Chocolate Drops revealed a deep reverence for country and old-time music befitting the band’s Fais Do-Do appearance with covers of Johnny Cash’s “Jackson” and the traditional “Cornbread and Butter

Beans,” both highlighted by the soulful, classically trained vocal harmonies of Rhiannon Giddens and Dom Flemons.

Beach house Did you know John Lindy Stamos is presiconditions dent of the Beach Meschiya Lake & Boys fan club? The the Little Big Horns Full House heartbrought a pair of throb said so in his expert swinging, lindyintroduction to the hopping dancers to Beach Boys, whom dress up the modest he called “part Lagniappe Stage as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street of our country’s Lake and the band Band entertain the Acura Stage crowd. musical DNA” and performed their “representative of revival jazz from acPHOTO BY SCOTT SALTZMAN America at time claimed album Lucky when the world Devil. During a band wanted to be Ameribreak, Lake performed alongside pianist can.” Stamos has performed with the band Tom McDermott for “Just a Closer Walk with since the 1980s and appeared in the video Thee” and “Cupid.” for “Kokomo.” At the Acura Stage, he played drums and guitar. Stomping grounds On the Jazz & Heritage Stage, traditional Early check-in brass band The Storyville Stompers played Featuring a new, still-in-progress lineup, “The Old Rugged Cross” before the band Empress Hotel opened to a large crowd at presented its Big Easy Music Award, won the Acura Stage. Singer-songwriter Julie several nights earlier, to band director and Odell, formerly of folk outfit Giant Cloud, tuba player Woody Penouilh. As if a passing accompanied vocalist Micah McKee, of the baton, the band brought out a roster dueting on sunny, power-pop and neo-soul of younger musicians to perform alongside tracks from the group’s brief but expressive the already stacked brass lineup. The band, catalog. “Bells Ring” evoked 1970s AM now several trumpeters, saxophones and vocal pop, while “Search Lights” offered a trombones deep, powered crowd-pleasing brooding dose of soul — McKee said it was numbers like Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya” his shout out to Al Green. and a solo-studded “When the Saints Go

Marching In.” Sign of the times Sound problems plagued rapper-turnedsinger Cee Lo Green’s set, with one side of the thick Congo Square Stage’s crowd unable to hear well. Making the situation worse, the audience frequently chanted “turn it up,” but that didn’t seem to work. Apparently unaware of the sound issues, Green sang songs from his 2010 album The Lady Killer and from his Gnarls Barkley project. Late in the set, there was a reunion of his Atlanta hip-hop act Goodie Mob, who is releasing a new album soon. The crew performed hits like “Soul Food” from its eponymous debut, and World Party’s banger “Get Rich To This.” Although Cee Le mellowed for the all ages crowd — he left out some key words of closing number “F—k You,” the sign language interpreter on stage left didn’t get the memo and proceeded to flip off the crowd. Damn the torpedoes While his set offered FM sing-along gold such as “Free Falling” and “American Girl,” Tom Petty gave hardcore fans of his gritty blues and up-tempo rock plenty to appreciate in several numbers, all highlighted by Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, who simply shredded on “Lover’s Touch” (a deep track from Petty’s often-overlooked 2010 album, Mojo), “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and a cover of J.J. Cale’s “Traveling Light.”

He is experienced Less than a year removed from a gig at The Parish at House of Blues and just a few months after performing at the White House during President Barack Obama’s blues concert in honor of Black History Month, Gary Clark Jr., a twenty-something Texas native whose considerable hype has drawn comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, lived up to weighty expectations with a thrilling, skilled take on Hendrix’s killer instrumental “Third Stone from the Sun,” during which Clark wove in an improvised vocal jam preaching love. Saxman All hail Herb Hardesty, one of the few remaining alums of the J&M Studio Band whose talents helped create so many hits and classic songs for Fats Domino, Little Richard, Shirley and Lee, and so many others. His presence and fine soloing in Dr.

Still in love with you, sorta A cheesy call-and-response shouting of his name — set to the groove of a mediocre backing band — introduced Al Green’s Congo Square set, eliciting little from the audience. Adding to an unfortunate appearance by an R&B legend who has nothing to prove, Green’s voice, though capable as it moved through a medley of hits and covers, frequently hit piercingly shrill notes, detracting from such classics as “I Can’t Get Next to You.” Iron & whine Iron & Wine’s Samuel Beam started his set by saying “I’m going to start with the best ones on top because I know you’ll disappear in a half hour.” The audience did thin out some when Bruce Springsteen started at the Acura Stage, but Beam and his band sang through his catalog for a small but captivated crowd, starting with favorites like “Naked As We Came” and “Tree By the River.” He paid tribute to the recently deceased Levon Helm with a cover of The Band’s “Long Black Veil,” and his encore was his popular cover of The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights.” The Boss, Part I During “Out in the Street,” E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren tripped over a wire and went sprawling to the ground, actually falling out of the frame on the giant screens at Acura. “It’s dangerous up here,” Bruce Springsteen said after the song ended, and gave Lofgren a hug. A couple of songs later, Springsteen almost tripped as well. “We’re used to playing in the dark. Seeing everything is completely f—king us up,” he said. The Boss, Part II After welcoming Dr. John to the stage, Springsteen said, “We played together in Santa Monica back in the early ’70s. That was in the middle of your gris-gris days, and you really scared me.” The band then played a smoldering version of “Something You Got.” “We can’t make that groove back in New Jersey,” Springsteen said. “Everybody says, ‘It’s too slow, it’s too slow!’” The Boss, Part III Not a dry eye watched the band as it recalled its 2006 Jazz Fest appearance, playing “When the Saints Go Marching In” in the middle of Wrecking Ball ballad “Rocky Ground.” Springsteen took a long pause while holding a sign reading “New Orleans Loves Clarence” during the closer, a jubilant “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” a tribute to the late “Big Man” Clarence Clemons. Squatters Anyone who remembers neo-soul singer Janelle Monae’s set at the 2010 Voodoo Experience would have recognized her performance at the Gentilly Stage. Depsite the deja vu, Monae put on an energetic show replete with covers like Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” and Prince’s “Take Me With U.” With her The ArchAndroid track “Come Alive,” her instruction for the crowd to “get low” had everyone squatting for quite a long time, prompting some audience members to complain about sore calves.

Big stars A locals-studded Tribute to Alex Chilton featured trips through the late songwriter’s excellent catalog, from The Box Tops’ “Neon Rainbow” through late-career pop tracks like “Hey! Little Child,” which guitarist Alex McMurray admitted was his favorite Chilton song. (He also said it reminds him of driving on Esplanade Avenue toward City Park — could Chilton’s line about “a pretty little thing … coming back from the Catholic school” be a nod to Cabrini High School.) A Neil Younglike Dave Pirner took lead on Big Star classics “Back of a Car” and “Down the Street,” and the band, with solid vocals from Susan Cowsill, rocked a closing duo of that band’s hits “Thirteen” and “September Gurls.” Once and only Known for his band The Frames and acoustic duo Swell Season, and for starring in the film Once (for which he also won a Best Original Song Oscar), Irish singer/ songwriter Glen Hansard was going to appear with Eddie Vedder, who canceled his Jazz Fest gig due to nerve damage. But Hansard’s rousing early set on the Acura Stage turned out be a major highlight of the second weekend. He repeatedly and endearingly expressed his terror at being alone with a guitar in front of such a large crowd, but he easily won over the audience with a passionate mix of songs from all phases of his career. He had an early omen that things would work out. On the way into Jazz Fest, he stopped at a nearby coffee shop. “I saw Aaron Neville in the queue and I thought, ‘It’s a good f—king day,’” Hansard said.

piece horn section. He dedicated “That’s Why I Play the Blues” to his grandfather, legendary New Orleans bass player “Luscious” Lloyd Lambert, who played with the great Guitar Slim, among many others. Sound Cheik Cheik Hamala Diabate plays a small woodbodied stringed instrument known as the ngoni, which has an animal skin stretched over the body like a drum. For his set on the Jazz & Heritage Stage, Diabate switched between ngoni and acoustic guitar and ran both through a wah-wah pedal, fuzz box and other rock guitarists’ gizmos. His six-piece band laid down a percussive yet hypnotic groove that was clearly connected to the North Mississippi blues of R.L. Burnside, Fred McDowell and others. Improvisation Cheik Hamala Diabate followed up his Jazz & Heritage Stage set with another full set on the Lagniappe Stage, and jammed with Little Freddie King during an interview with Larry Blumenfeld on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage. After the duo tackled King’s “I Used to Be Down,” Diabate explained that where he grew up in Africa, guitars were scarce and precious. That’s how the left-handed Diabate wound up playing a right-handed guitar flipped upside down, with the bass strings toward the bottom, giving him his own unique sound. The queen of jazz Jazz violinist Regina Carter was awarded entrance to the MacArthur Fellows Program (aka a genius grant) to explore African music in a jazz context, and her set was one of Thursday’s finest. Plenty of jazz artists have explored African music; Carter’s performance established why she was worthy of the grant.

Drum buddy Before Hansard began his setclosing cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Drive All Night,” he asked for some help from Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews the audience. “I performs at Jazz Fest. need a drummer PHOTO BY CHERYL GERBER and a bass player,” Bass camp he said. “C’mon, it’s “You took half my voice,” New Orleans, everybody plays.” A member said Esperanza Spalding to the sound of the Acura Stage crew, who identified technicians. The set by the latest ambashimself only as “Joe,” sat down behind the sador of jazz was plagued with technical drum kit that was set up for the Honey Island problems and her trademark upright bass Swamp Band’s upcoming set. Joe raised never hooked into the sound system. So his arms triumphantly and hit the skins with Spalding played her electric bass through John Bonham-esque authority. “Easy, you’re the entire set. As an intellectual exercise, it playing the end of the song at the beginwas fascinating hearing how different songs ning!” Hansard said with a laugh. The pair sounded with an electric bass. Some songs eventually left the stage to chants of “Joe! lost the authoritative baroque touch in what Joe! Joe!” would otherwise be stereotypical jazz-light improvisations. Suddenly the choices Biting blues Spalding made for her songs became more It took guitarist Kipori “Baby Wolf” Woods pronounced, and even through the sound 12 years to follow up his 2000 debut album problems listeners were left with a greater with the recent Blues Gone Wild!, but his respect for Spalding’s musicianship. flashy chops haven’t suffered at all. Woods opened the Blues Tent on Thursday with a PAGE 35 no-nonsense big band that featured a three-

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Don’t do me like that Saying she appreciated her audience at the Gentilly Stage since, “If we weren’t playing, we’d be over there watching Tom (Petty),” Canadian singer Leslie Feist performed her set with a trio of backup singers resembling escapees from a Martha Marcy May Marlene-esque cult (they are the Vermont band Mountain Man). Feist performed most of 2011’s Metals, and some tracks from older albums had new arrangements more befitting the dark qualities of that album (the poppy “Mushaboom” had a moody tribal arrangement). Perhaps because the live band lacked a horn section, Feist didn’t play her hit “1234” even during her encore, instead opting for an electric guitar-heavy version of the Texas Gladden spiritual “When I Was a Young Girl.” Or perhaps the band was in a hurry to “go eat some shellfish,” as Feist said near the end of the set.

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Hit parade Allen Toussaint arrived on the Acura Stage in a bold black, yellow, baby blue and red jacket with purple and black pants and played a medley of hits, from “A Certain Girl” to “Working in a Coal Mine.” He also resurrected Chris Kenner’s “Something You Got,” which Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed with Dr. John a week before. Guitarist Renard Poche got funky with a talk box for “Cissy Strut,” and Toussaint’s impressive band and backup singers took over as he made his exit during “Southern Nights.” At the helm There were several tributes to Levon Helm, who was scheduled to perform at the

Front row seats In the Gospel Tent, Mavis Staples didn’t stick to just gospel, but she did preach a little. At one point she invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and not long afterward, she delved into contemporary politics. During an extended version of “Freedom Highway,” she said, “They passed around the Kool Aid and called it tea!” She stopped in the middle of The Impressions song “This Is My Country” to ask, “What’s with all these people disrespecting the president. Saying he isn’t a resident. You see the president’s face painted like a clown. You hear people saying ‘We’re gonna take our country back.’ Back to where? The ’50s and the ’60s. No. No. No. I ain’t never going back to the back of the bus.” Zac de la Rocha? Country sensation Zac Brown is an excellent guitarist, blending both Appalachian and Flemenco lines into his guitar solos. He and his band launched into a peculiarly masculine version of “America the Beautiful.” But the band finished with an aggressive cover of Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” Full metal jacket My Morning Jacket opened its set with the pulsing “Victory Dance” from its 2011 album Circuital, the first of several long, heavy and down-tempo extended cuts from the band’s recent output. “This is very beautiful,” said singer Jim James. “Like I’m inside a painting,” and noting, several times, how the crowd looks “pastel.” Preservation Hall’s Clint Maedgen joined for experimental saxophone riffing, and trumpeter Mark Braud was game to keep up. The rest of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band followed on stage for “Holdin’ on to Black Metal.” Good signs Known for his gentle R&B pop like “So Sick” and “Sexy Love,” it makes sense that Ne-Yo’s sign language interpreter looked like a male model (it turns out “sex your body” is pretty easy to understand in American Sign Language). Before singing his hit “Miss Independent,” he asked women in the crowd to “make some noise” if they could pay their own rent and car note. “Men,” he said, “take note of the women not making noise. They’re not the ones you want.”

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Walter Isaacson was in town recently to discuss his biography of Steve Jobs, the cofounder and guru of Apple. His take on Jobs is that the entrepreneur was able to combine a vision of the art and science of computers, someone who understood both the technology and the need to make a product desirable and useful to consumers. Isaacson has much more to say in his 656 page book. In Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, Jobs sums it up simply: asked if he is a nerd, he responds that he’s a hippie, an experimenting dreamer. Not so much a documentary as the full run of an hour-long interview (by Robert Cringely for a series about the birth of the PC), the film presents a remarkably concise and compelling look at the world that made Jobs and the way he changed it. Given Jobs’ amazing insight into both the technology of computers and software and the functioning of a large company, it almost comes off like a thriller. Perhaps most remarkable is that the interview took place in 1995, 10 years after Jobs left Apple following a bitter battle with CEO John Sculley, who he brought into the company. It’s also shortly before Jobs sold his company NeXt to Apple and rejoined the company, when it was within 90 days of bankruptcy. there’s no doubt about what he contributed to Apple, but the interview ends with his forecast about how important the Internet would become, then in its commercial infancy. In hindsight, he was right about a lot of things, but it’s amazing to watch him predict computing and market developments long before any of Apple’s iproducts were developed. — WILL COvIELLO

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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG-13) — the museum screens the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s quirky novel, in which a precocious boy whose father died during 9/11 embarks on an ambitious journey that takes him through New York. the screening is in conjunction with the museum’s September 11, 2001: A Global Moment exhibit. Free admission. 7 p.m. Tuesday, Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org

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Director Mark Meatto’s first stroke of luck with his documentary How to Grow a Band came when producer Mike Bohlmann asked him to do a test shoot of a new band at a tiny club in New York City. A childhood friend of Bohlmann’s named Gabe Witcher was playing fiddle in the band, which turned out to be the Punch Brothers — led by young mandolin virtuoso Chris thile, formerly of the platinum-selling neo-bluegrass band Nickel Creek. Anyone who has heard Nickel Creek cover Radiohead or the Jackson 5 knows that thile is unconcerned with adhering to tradition. As the Punch Brothers, thile and company were about to push the boundaries associated with American roots music. the artistic leap captured in How to Grow a Band was tied to upheaval in both thile’s personal and professional lives. He went through a difficult divorce before departing from Nickel Creek, a band he co-founded when he was 8 years old. thile responded to the turmoil by writing a 40-minute suite in four movements called “the Blind Leaving the Blind” that fuses folk and classical music. It became the centerpiece of the Punch Brothers’ first album Punch and the primary focus of the documentary as the band goes on tour before the album comes out and faces audiences (and concert promoters) who aren’t necessarily ready for something new. the film is divided into four sections to reflect the structure of thile’s ambitious piece, but the emphasis throughout is on the mystery of band dynamics. thile rounded up some of the finest young acoustic musicians in the world for the Punch Brothers. In the film, guitarist Chris Eldridge likens the experience of the band’s first practice to “falling in love with a girl” and “finding your soul mate.” But how does a band maintain creative democracy when its leader, still in his twenties, may already be the finest mandolin player of all time — and has the drive and vision to match? Over the course of the film, Meatto fades into the background just enough to deliver a fly-on-the-wall portrait of that conflict from all points of view. Meatto’s unobtrusive presence came in part from his decision to shoot and record sound mostly by himself with minimal gear, which also gives the film a nice homespun feel. And it sets up the film’s dramatic peak — a hugely successful Punch Brothers show at Lincoln Center’s the Allen Room in New York, for which Meatto switches to a six-camera HD shoot and state-of-the-art sound. Suddenly there’s no question why thile, the Punch Brothers and other creative artists live with all the strife and uncertainty. “I’m trying to be more than I am naturally,” thile says at the end of the film. Exactly. — KEN KORMAN

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THE BEAUTY SHOP. 3828 Dryades St. — works by rebecca rebouche, ongoing. BEE GALLERIES. 319 Chartres St., 587-7117; www.beegalleries. com — works by 15 local and regional artists including martin laborde, ongoing.

graphs and other works by tom everhart, gordon parks, al Hirschfeld, stanley mouse, anja, patrick mcDonnell and other artists, ongoing.

THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront.org — works by ariya martin, philippe landry and rachel avena brown, through June 3.

JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbragg. com — “Close to Home,” paintings by Charles g. smith, through may.

GALERIE ROYALE. 3648 Magazine St., 894-1588; www. galerieroyale.com — “new orleans,” ink and watercolor on paper by lee Kessler, through may.

BENEITO’S ART. 3618 Magazine St., 891-9170; www. bernardbeneito.com — “geishas and Courtesans,” oil paintings by bernard beneito, ongoing. CAFE BABY. 237 Chartres St., 310-4004; www.markbercier.com — paintings and works on paper by mark bercier, ongoing. CALLAN CONTEMPORARY. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www. callancontemporary.com — “Undercurrents,” works on incised aluminium panel by mitchell lonas, through may 25. CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www.carolrobinsongallery.com — “mind-scrape,” works by masahiro arai, through may 26. CASELL GALLERY. 818 Royal St., 524-0671; www.casellartgallery.com — works by Joachim Casell, rene ragi, phillip sage and Jack miller, ongoing. COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — paintings by phil sandusky, through may 26. COURTYARD GALLERY. 1129 Decatur St., 330-0134; www. woodartandmarketing.com — Hand-carved woodworks by Daniel garcia, ongoing. D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 5243936 — “iconic inspiration,” paintings by Cheryl Cabrera, through may.

GALLERY 3954. 3954 Magazine St., 400-9032; www. gallery3954.com — works by fifi laughlin, george marks, Julie silvers, Kathy slater and neirmann weeks, ongoing. GALLERY VERIDITAS. 3822 Magazine St., 267-5991; www. gvnola.com — “a little old, a little new,” works by J. renee and luis Colmenares, through June. GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY. 4037 St. Claude Ave., 616-7427; www.goodchildrengallery.com — “that passes between Us,” a group exhibition of installation, photography, print and video, through June 3. GUY LYMAN FINE ART. 3645 Magazine St., 899-4687; www.guylymanfineart.com — mixed media with mechanical light sculpture by Jimmy block, ongoing. HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www.heriardcimino.com — “intrinsic systems,” paintings by andree Carter, through may 30. HOMESPACE GALLERY. 1128 St. Roch Ave., (917) 584-9867 — “structure for landscape: exploring the built environment,” a group exhibition of artists and architects curated by maria levitsky, through June 3. JACK GALLERY. 900 Royal St., 588-1777 — paintings, litho-

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., 522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — “game room,” works by michael Combs: “the sleeping water,” video and mixed-media works by Ken matsubara; both through saturday. LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www. lemieuxgalleries.com — “made in louisiana,” paintings and drawings by shirley rabe masinter, through may 26. MARTINE CHAISSON GALLERY. 727 Camp St., 3047942; www.martinechaissongallery.com — “parallel,” works by J.t. blatty, through June 29. MUSIC BOX. 1027 Piety St., (347) 784-5226; www.dithyrambalina.com — “the music box: a shantytown sound laboratory,” an interactive installation, through June 2. NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 — “printemps,” glass sculpture by Curtiss brock, glass torch-worked jewelry by tucker Kelley and gyotaku prints by scott Johnson, through may. NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — “patricia Cronin: all is not lost,” through June. NOUVELLE LUNE. 938 Royal St., 908-1016 — works using reclaimed, repurposed or salvaged materials by linda berman, georgette fortino, David bergeron, Kelly guidry and

tress turner, ongoing.

OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “order/Chaos,” paintings by Jeffrey pitt, through may 26. PETER O’NEILL STUDIOS. 721 Royal St., 527-0703; www. oneillgallery.com — works by peter o’neill, ongoing. REYNOLDS-RYAN ART GALLERY. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., 8966369; www.newmanschool.org — works by ron bechet, through wednesday. RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS GALLERY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., second floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts.com — works by Cathy Cooper-stratton, margo manning, Chad ridgeway and teri walker and others, ongoing. SCOTT EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY. 2109 Decatur St., 610-0581 — “photosmith’s Quintet,” music photographs by Zack smith, Chris felver, barry Kaiser, greg miles and bob Compton, through June. SOREN CHRISTENSEN GALLERY. 400 Julia St., 5699501; www.sorengallery.com — “reveille,” paintings by melissa Herrington, through may. STAPLE GOODS. 1340 St. Roch Ave., 908-7331; www. postmedium.org/staplegoods — “sculptures i wish i Had made,” photography-based mixed media by Cynthia scott, through June 3. STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 568-9050 — “louisiana roots,” paintings by ed Clark; sculture by Harold Cousins, through June 29. STUDIO 831. 532 Royal St., 304-4392; www.studio831royal.

com — “in a mind’s eye,” sculpture by Jason robert griego, ongoing.

THOMAS MANN GALLERY I/O. 1812 Magazine St., 5812113; www.thomasmann.com — “wire world,” wall pieces, jewelry and wearable art by thomas mann, Cathy Cooper and steve lohman, through June.

caLL for artIStS ART MELT. forum 35 accepts art submissions and marketplace entries for the annual art melt, an arts market and juried show to be held at the louisiana state museum in baton rouge on July 14. Visit www.artmelt.org or www.forum35.org for details. submissions deadline is June 1. COLD DRINK PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL. Du Mois Gallery, 4921 Freret St., 818-6032; www.dumoisgallery. com — the gallery seeks printmakers for its annual exhibition. Visit the gallery’s website for details. submissions deadline is tuesday. NEW ORLEANS LOVING FESTIVAL. Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy St., 298-3161; www.press-street.com — the festival seeks original artwork and films with themes concerning the multiracial experience for the exhibition “mixed messages 2.” email mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org for details. submissions deadline is may 28.

SparE SpacES DOS JEFES UPTOWN CIGAR BAR. 5535 Tchoupitoulas St., 891-8500; www. dosjefescigarbar.com — works by mario ortiz, ongoing. THREE MUSES. 536 Frenchmen St., 252-4801; www. thethreemuses.com — portraits by Zack smith, ongoing. page 47

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BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Visions of the Unnatural world,” paintings by nikki Crook, amy guidry and monique ligons, through June 2.

DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032; www. dumoisgallery.com — “Visages,” works by Devin meyers and fat Kids, through June.

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MusEuMs CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 5283800; www.cacno.org — “NOLA NOW Part ii: Abstraction in Louisiana”; “Spaces,” works from artist co-ops Antenna, The Front and Good children Gallery; both through June 10. HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “Furnishing Louisiana, 1735–1835,” an exhibition exploring early Louisiana furniture and woodworking, through June 17. LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM CABILDO. 701 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “New Orleans Bound 1812: The Steamboat That changed America,” through January 2013. LOUISIANA STATE MUSEUM PRESBYTERE. 751 Chartres St., 568-6968; www.lsm.crt. state.la.us — “The Louisiana Plantation Photos of Robert Tebbs,” 60 gelatin silver prints by the architecture photographer, through November. “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond”; “it’s carnival Time in Louisiana,” carnival artifacts, costumes, jewelry and other items; both ongoing.

NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” through Sunday. “Mass Produced: Technology in 19th-century English Design,” through June 24. “Leah chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache iii,” through Sept. 9.

“Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues,” through Sept. 16. “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through Oct. 7.

OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Maximalist and Naturalist,” paintings by Merk Messersmith; “Remedies,” oil paintings by Alexa Kleinbard; “Duck Blinds: Louisiana,” photographs by Nell campbell; “Elysium,” photographs by colleen Mullins; “Field Work,” photograms by Woody Woodroof, through July 23. Photographs by cc Lockwood; “Plastic Gulf,” video by Lee Deigaard, through July 23. SOUTHEASTERN ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE. Jones Hall, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St., 865-5699; seaa. tulane.edu — “Following Wright,” an exhibit highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence with drawings by architects Edward Sporl, Albert c. Ledner, Philip Roach Jr. and Leonard Reese Spangenberg, through Dec. 7. SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE MUSEUM. Riverwalk Marketplace, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — “illuminEATing,” photographs by Meredith Beau, through June 10. “Tanqueray Olive” and “Guinness Pint,” prints by Tom Gianfagna, through Jan. 21, 2013. “Lena Richard: Pioneer in Food TV,” an exhibit curated by Ashley Young; “Then and Now: The Story of coffee”; both ongoing. TULANE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ROOM. Jones Hall, room 205, Tulane University, 6801 Freret St., 8655000; www.tulane.edu — “The Art of Proteus,” an exhibition showcasing the krewe’s costume and float designs from 1882-1907, through May 30.

Paintings and Drawings by Shirley Rabe Masinter

Aesthetics is a complicated topic by almost any measure, but the aesthetics of distressed architecture — ratty old buildings — is a profoundly nuanced specialty. Most Americans don’t get it. To them, blight is blight and nothing more. To more fully appreciate surfaces that threaten to collapse under the weight of a prolonged gaze it helps to be, if not a native, then at least a long-term resident of Orleans Parish, and preferably a practicing artist or would-be artist — someone who understands that certain kinds of decay are actually signs of character. Local photorealist Shirley Rabe Masinter has been an accomplished connoisseur and painterly interpreter of urban blight for decades, and her current series of seedy commercial structures Made in Louisiana in various stages of decay reflects a profound understanding of the rich THRu inner life of grotty old buildings. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “every LeMieux Galleries, MAY wall is a door,” but for Masinter every wall is a palimpsest, a homely Ro332 Julia St., 522-5988; setta Stone where the elemental histories of structures and their inhabitwww.lemieuxgalleries.com ants are deeply etched into blistered and distressed surfaces. Walter Patrolia’s Beer Parlor (pictured) is emblematic, a rotting two-story Faubourg Marigny wreck on which a recently exposed sign, revealed under layers of old siding, advertising both the bar and Jax Beer appears like an elegant East Asian tattoo on a gnarly old seafarer. The six-digit telephone number indicates it dates from at least the 1950s if not before, and we are left contemplating a scabrous heap of history that doubles as a time machine, a portal to another age. Masinter’s densely textured St. Roch Market, while gloriously ruinous, is less hopeful, a Hurricane Katrina casualty that has yet to be reborn. Others like the painting of the Shamrock Tavern, another excavation with a faded “Dixie 45” beer sign, or the dilapidated deco husk of the Standard Life building, are memento mori within the architectural still life that is New Orleans, reminders that darkness and death are what give meaning to light and life. — D. ERic BOOKHARDT

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NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM. 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — “September 11, 2001: A Global Moment,” through Sunday. “Turning Point: The Doolittle Raid, Battle of coral Sea and Battle of Midway,” through July 8.

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ThEATER AS YOU LIKE IT. Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park, 658-4100; www.noma. org — sam Dudley directs the nola project’s production of the shakespeare comedy. tickets $16 general admission, $8 students, noma members and children 17 and under. show at 7 p.m. wednesdayfriday and sunday. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). Dubuisson Gallery, 300 Robert St., Slidell, (985) 6490555 — the 97-minute romp through the bard’s 37 plays benefits the Voices of louisiana foundation’s scholarships. tickets $20. Call 666-1220 or email rose@voicesoflouisiana. org for reservations. 8 p.m. friday-saturday.

LYSISTRATA. AllWays Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave., 218-5778; www.theallwayslounge.com — Cripple Creek theatre Co. performs the aristophanes comedy about a woman’s mission to end the peloponnesian war by persuading the women of greece to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers. Visit www.cripplecreekplayers.org for reservations. tickets $10 opening weekend, $15 genera admission. 8 p.m. fridaysunday through June 3. THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES. Rivertown Repertory Theatre, 325 Minor St., Kenner, 468-7221 — in roger bean’s jukebox musical, an all-

ON THE AIR. Stage Door Canteen at The National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 528-1944; www.stagedoorcanteen.org — bob edes Jr., troi bechet, gary rucker and others star in the musical that pays tribute to the heyday of radio broadcasts. 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 11 a.m. p.m. sunday. PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. Mid-City Theater, 3540 Toulouse St., 488-1460; www.midcitytheatre.com — fred nuccio directs Charles busch’s dark comedy set in 1962 malibu beach that lampoons surf movies, psychodramas and horror movie moms. tickets $25. 9 p.m. thursday-saturday and 7 p.m. sunday, then 8 p.m. thursday-saturday and 6 p.m. sunday, may 25-26. SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www.cacno.org — in willy russell’s one-woman show, ricky graham is a middleaged, working class liverpool housewife who contemplates life before and after a trip to greece. Call 522-6545 or visit www.southernrep.com for reservations. tickets $25. 7:30 p.m. wednesday-saturday, 3 p.m. sunday, through may 25. 7 p.m. may 27. THREE BY TENNESSEE. Playmakers Theater, 19106 Playmakers Road (off Lee Road), Covington, (985) 8931671; www.playmakersinc. com — the theater presents a trio of tennessee williams plays that includes The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot and The Case of the Crushed Petunias. tickets $15 general admission, $10 students. 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, through may 27. XANADU. Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave., Westwego, 885-2000; www.jpas.org — Dane rhodes

FAMILY VELVETEEN RABBIT. Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — ann mahoney Kadar directs southern rep’s reimagining of the classic children’s story. Visit www.southernrep. com for details. tickets $10. noon and 3 p.m. saturday.

STAGE EVENTS FRINGE FEST PILLOW TALK AND A SHOT. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 944-0099; www.lostlovelounge. com — Kathy randels facilitates a talk with guests gregory bright and lara naughton discussing “amplifying the Voice: theater as social Justice.” Visit www.nofringe.org for details. free admission. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. tuesday.

AUDITIONS NEW ORLEANS BURLESQUE FESTIVAL. the festival, held in september, seeks burlesque dancers (men and women), singers, comics, magicians, contortionists, duos, troupes, novelty and other variety acts. email neworleansburlesque@yahoo.com or visit www.neworleansburlesquefest. com for details. there is a $15 application fee. application deadline is may 27.

COMEDY ALLSTAR COMEDY REVUE. House of Blues Voodoo Garden, 225 Decatur St. — leon blanda hosts a comedy show featuring special guests. 8 p.m. thursday. COMEDY BEAST. Howlin’ Wolf Den, 828 S. Peters St., 522-9653; www.thehowlinwolf. com — the new movement presents a stand-up comedy showcase. tickets $5. 8:30 p.m. tuesday. COMEDY CATASTROPHE. Lost Love Lounge, 2529 Dauphine St., 944-0099; www. lostlovelounge.com — Cassidy Henehan hosts the weekly comedy showcase. free admission. 9 p.m. tuesday. COMEDY FUSION REVIVAL TOUR. Lakeview Harbor, 911 Harrison Ave., 486-4887; www. lakeview-harbor.com — tom gregory, James Cusimano and nature boy perform. tickets $15. 8:30 p.m. saturday. page 51

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KISS KISS JULIE. Joan Mitchell Center, 2275 Bayou Road — based on the august strindberg play Miss Julie, artspot productions’ interactive performance takes the audience on a sensory experience. the show contains nudity. no one under 18 is admitted. Call 826-7783 or visit www.artspotproductions. org for reservations. tickets $20 general admission, $15 students/seniors. 8 p.m. friday-sunday.

girl quartet in the 1950s sings the hits of the era. tickets $35 general admission, $33 seniors, $17 children ages 6-12. 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 2:30 p.m. sunday, through may 27.

directs the musical based on the cult-classic olivia newton-John movie about a greek muse who descends to earth to help a struggling artist create a roller disco. tickets $30 general admission, $27 seniors and military, $20 students. 7:30 p.m. friday-saturday and 2 p.m. sunday.

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COMEDY OPEN-MIC. 12 Bar, 608 Fulton St., 212-6476; www.12barnola.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts the weekly event. Free admission. 8 p.m. Tuesday. COMEDY SPORTZ. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www.nolacomedy.com — The theater hosts an all-ages improv comedy show. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Saturday. FEAR & LOATHING WITH GOD’S BEEN DRINKING. La Nuit Comedy Theater, 5039 Freret St., 231-7011; www. nolacomedy.com — A double bill of sketch and improv comedy. Tickets $10, $5 with drink purchase. 8:30 p.m. Friday. FRIDAY NIGHT COMEDY SHOWCASE. The Maison, 508 Frenchmen St., 371-5543; www.maisonfrenchmen.com — Jackie Jenkins Jr. hosts a

stand-up showcase featuring New Orleans comedians. Free admission. 8 p.m. Friday. KEVIN LEPINE. Hard Rock Cafe, 415 N. Peters St., 5295617; www.hardrock.com — Lepine presents his R-rated comedic hypnotism show that he’s performed in Las Vegas. Tickets $25, or two tickets for one with a local I.D. 8 p.m. Friday. LAUGH & SIP. Therapy Wine Lounge, 3001 Tulane Ave., 784-0054; www.therapynola. com — A weekly event featuring Louisiana comedians and live music. Visit www.pissyopants. com for details. Tickets $7. 8 p.m. Thursday. THE MEGAPHONE SHOW. The New Movement, 1919 Burgundy St.; www.newmovementtheater.com — Each show features a guest sharing true stories, the details of which

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Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by shows us the great and tragic vocalist Billie Holiday in the final days of her career. The show is simple but by no means easy to do. It’s basically a monologue woven around some of Holiday’s famous hits. Director Tommye Myrick staged an excellent production of this biography at JuJu Bag Cafe, an attractive little cabaret space on Franklin Avenue. John Grimsley designed the 1950s nightclub with a standup microphone, flanked by a bar and a three-piece band. After the band plays a few numbers, Buster the Emcee (Bobbie Johnson) announces Lady Day, who does not appear. Finally, he goes backstage to get her. Holiday (Sharon Martin) is drunk. She goes to the onstage bar, where club owner Emerson (Alton Smith) fills her glass. Playing a drunk is a fine line and Martin walked it with assurance. She was simultaneously charming and pitiful. She sang beautifully and she has an unusual timbre in her voice that suggests Billie’s distinct, haunting lilt. Holiday says she’s glad to be back in Philadelphia. We later learn her New York cabaret license was revoked, preventing her from performing in any Big Apple bar. The once-wealthy star has fallen on hard times, but she had already survived hard times. She started poor, spent time working in a brothel and got her first singing gig by luck. She went into a joint that had a sign looking for a dancer. When the owners saw how pathetic Holiday was as a dancer, they asked her to sing. Then they gave her a job. She spent time in prison because of a problem with heroin, and she blamed the hard drugs on her first husband. She often laughs as she tells her tales, caught between amusement and hysteria. This tragicomic mood pervades her story of touring with Artie Shaw’s band. Shaw and the band members were white. Southerners did not like to see a black woman on stage with white men, but Shaw and his musicians sympathized with Holiday. If she had to go in the back door of a hotel, they went in the back door too. Everything came to a head one evening when Billie had to use the bathroom. The manager said there was no bathroom for black women. After considerable squabbling, Holiday urinated on the floor. Humiliation was not the only thing African Americans had to face. Holiday underlines racial terrorism in the South by singing “Strange Fruit.” Myrick kept the show entertaining and involving. She may extend the run and it’s well worth a trip. — DALT WONK

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THURSDAY 17 ART ACTIVITIES DURING AFTER HOURS. Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www. ogdenmuseum.org — The Ogden offers art activities for kids during weekly After Hours concerts. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

EVENTS WEDNESDAY 16 LUNCHBOX LECTURE. National World War II Museum, 945 Magazine St., 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The semi-monthly lecture series focuses on an array of World War II-related topics. Call 528-1944 ext. 229 for details. noon.

THURSDAY 17 SYMPHONY BOOK FAIR. Delgado Community College, Student Life Center, 615 City Park Ave., 671-5000; www.dcc.edu — The sale of books, artwork and music benefits the Louisiana philharmonic Orchestra. Call 861-2004 or visit www.symphonyvolunteers.org or www. lpomusic.org for details. There is a $10 admission on Thursday only. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday-friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Children’s sale 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. TASTINGS AT THE TRACK: SPRINGTIME SIPPERS. Fair Grounds

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fRIDAY 18 BITE THE TAIL OFF HOMELESSNESS CRAWFISH BOIL. Lakeview Presbyterian Church, 5914 Canal Blvd., 482-7892; www.lpcno.org — John rankin, phil Melancon, Steve and Sasha Masakowski and Johnny Angel perform at the crawfish boil benefiting new Orleans homeless. Admission $8 in advance, $10 at the door. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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SWING BALL. Museum of the American Cocktail, 1 Poydras St., Suite 169, 569-0405; www.museumoftheamericancocktail.org — The fundraiser features locally and nationally recognized bartenders, music by Meschiya Lake and the Little big Quartet, swing dancing lessons, a silent auction and costume contest. Admission $30 in advance online, $40 at the door. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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CRIMESTOPPERS TEEN PEACE SUMMIT. UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Ave., 280-7171; www.arena.uno.edu — national and local music guests and other speakers discuss crime prevention and conflict resolution at the second annual event. Visit www.crimestoppersgno.org for details. free admission. 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE Y’ART. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www. noma.org — The museum’s weekly event features music, performances, lectures, film screenings, familyfriendly activities and more. 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Tile Grout Cleaning, Color Sealing, Grout repair, Shower Restoration, Natural Stone Care, Tile Replacement, Recaulking. Commercial & Residential. Free Estimates. Jay Broadwell, 504-309-2509. www.grout-works.com

GENERAL CONTRACTORS MIKE’S REMODELING

Small & Big Jobs - We Do It All Custom cabinets, carpentry, painting, sheetrock, ceramic, roofs, kitchen & baths. Call (504) 324-9585

HANDYMAN HARRY’S HOUSE HELPERS

* Small Jobs *Repairs *Carpentry *Painting *Install AND MORE! Insured & Priced-Right Harry’s Helpful Ace Hardware Uptown * 504-896-1500 Metairie * 504-896-1550

HOUSE WASHING CC PRESSURE WASHING

“For results you can see, call C&C.” www.candcpressurewashing.com 504-231-3935

LAWN/LANDSCAPE DELTA SOD

Certified Grade “A” Turf St. Augustine, Tifway Bermuda Centipede, Zoysia. WE BEAT ALL COMPETITORS! 504-733-0471

JEFFERSON FEED PET & GARDEN CENTER GREEN GRASS - REAL FAST Grade “A” St. Augustine Sods. Immediate pickup or delivery. Lawn experts since 1950. jefffeed.com 504-733-8572

THE CRACKED POT GARDEN CENTER

FREE LANDSCAPE ESTIMATES 2 mi west of Airport on Airline Hwy Mon - Sat, 9-5 504-466-8813

Warren Raymond Lawn Care Uptown Specialist www.warrenraymond.com 504-831-7411

PEST CONTROL TERMINIX

Home of the $650 Termite Damage Repair Guarantee! WE DO IT ALL... Termites, Roaches, Rats & Ants Too. New Orleans Metro - 504-834-7330 2329 Edenborn, Metairie www.terminixno.com

PLUMBING ROOTER MAN

Sewer & Drain Cleaning Specialists Plumbing Repair Specialists New Orleans 504-522-9536. Kenner-Jefferson 504-466-8581. Westbank 504-368-4070. Laplace 985-652-0084. Mandeville 985-6265045. Slidell 985-641-3525. www. RooterManCan.com MENTION GAMBIT FOR A DISCOUNT

POOL SERVICES MAGNOLIA POOLS

Specializing in Saltwater Systerms Service, Maintenance, Repair 504-270-7307 www.magnoliapools.org

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JOB GURU

Dear Job Guru, “I just spent two great weeks in New Orleans staying with friends and going to Jazz Fest and parties, and I’m hooked! I want to move there, but people are telling me jobs are hard to get in New Orleans. I’ve been working as a paralegal at a law firm in Atlanta, and I think I’ve got enough money saved to do this, but I’ll need something in a couple of months. Any ideas?” — Erika C., Atlanta, GA Dear Erika, Wow Erika! Some of our favorite New Orleanians are folks who came here years ago for Jazz Fest, Mardi Gras, to pitch in after Katrina or just visit, fell in love with our Crescent City, and decided to move here for good! While New Orleans certainly doesn’t have the economy of an Atlanta or other giant metropolises, the economy here is actually on the upswing and is currently faring better than the national average in Grant Cooper terms of unemployment and the job market. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate is 8.1%, whereas New Orleans’ rate is at 7.1%. One thing in your favor… New Orleans has a ton of attorneys, so as a paralegal you should be able to find opportunities. According to Salary.com, a mid-level paralegal in New Orleans can expect about the same salary as a similarly experienced paralegal in Atlanta, about $53,000 per year. The cost of living here is actually a bit higher than Atlanta, primarily due to higher costs for housing and insurance. My nephew and his friend moved to New Orleans several years ago. Although my nephew quickly landed a job in the movie industry, his friend and roommate, who had paralegal training, was searching for a paralegal position for weeks using his basic résumé, with no luck. I reinvented his résumé and since he was fairly desperate, he faxed it to a local firm advertising for a legal office assistant position paying only $10 an hour. Apparently, one of the partners was passing near the fax machine, picked up his résumé, liked what he saw, and invited him to interview for a paralegal position paying $25 per hour, which he accepted.

Here are a few pointers I can give you that should make your transition more practical: 1) You mentioned that you were staying with friends. Use an address of one of your friends on the top of your résumé. At first impression, even though your job clearly shows you now work in Atlanta, this will make you seem “more local” and indicate that no relocation expenditures are likely to be requested. 2) Consider applying for a part-time evening or weekend job waiting tables or similar position until you get an offer from a law firm. This will allow you to have daytime hours available for interviews and continue networking while not depleting your savings too soon. 3) Once you arrive, join a local gym, volunteer at one of our great non-profits, and check out Gambit for the many events and activities that New Orleans is famous for. That way you can get to know more people here, network, and have local contacts who may just know someone at a law firm to provide an introduction. New Orleans Job Guru is New Orleans native Grant Cooper. President of Strategic Resumes®, Grant is currently ranked in the Top 2% of 340 LinkedIn National Resume Writing Experts and has fulfilled contracts for the U.S. Air Force, Kinko’s, the Louisiana Dept. of Labor, the City of New Orleans, the NFL, the NBA, as well as universities, regional banks, celebrities, and major corporations throughout the nation.

BEAUTY SALONS/SPAS Booth Rental

Hairstylist Booth Rental in Harahan. 2 stations available. Call (504) 458-8518

EXP HAIRSTYLIST

Uptown/Riverbend area. Booth rental. All calls confidential. Call Randy (504) 865-1044

PROFESSIONAL Intl Marketing Analyst

International Marketing Analyst - Research market conditions for company products, primarily in Latin American market; track Central & South American markets for new customer opportunities & present findings; negotiate with vendors & manufacturers to establish contracts & purchasing terms; extensive travel to Latin America required. MBA; strong analytical, problem solving, project management, sales, writing & communication skills; knowledge of sales management software & industrial products; ability to read, write, & speak fluent business Spanish & English. Send resume & qualifications to: Carlos Hidalgo, Tech-Sales, Inc., 4505 Zenith St., Metairie, LA 70001. Must respond w/in 30 days & refer to Job#12033.

RESTAURANT/HOTEL/BAR Miyako Hibachi & Sushi Bar

Is seeking a part-time Hostess for evening & weekends. Please apply in person between 11-2:30pm, 1403 St. Charles Ave.

TWO TONY’S RESTAURANT

Seeks Experienced FRONT OF HOUSE Servers - Host/Hostess - Bussers Line Cook . Apply in person Tue-Sat 10am-noon or 3-5pm 8536 Pontchartrain Bl. Lakeview area

LINE COOK Dinner Service, Tues-Sat Closed Sundays and Mondays Fax or email resume to Chef Frank Brigtsen FAX: 504-866-7397 Email: brigtsen@gmail.com

Contact New Orleans Job Guru at: grant@resupro.com or 504-891-7222

BEST PRICE IN TOWN!

DOUBLE INSULATED WINDOWS $99 (up to 90 U.I.) HURRICANE PROTECTION Shutters, Bahamas, Panels Roll Downs, Accordian, Colonial Allstate Window & Siding Co. 504469-0066; 985-649-1330 www.allstatewindowandsiding.com

ASSISTANT BISTRO-DELI MANAGER FT position w/ excellent salary & benefits. 5-day workweek, rotating schedule includes evenings & weekends with occasional days. Culinary education, fine dining, & mgmt experience a plus.

Fax resume to Sophie Wegmann @ 896-7370 or mail to 714 Elmeer Ave Metairie 70005

WELLNESS & GENERAL MERCHANDISE MANAGER

EMPLOYMENT Are you a service oriented food and beverage professional looking for a new opportunity at a top New Orleans restaurant?

We have the following openings available:

To oversee all aspects of the Wellness department including selecting, ordering, pricing, and promoting vitamins/supplements, body care, & general merchandise items in accordance with the Co-op’s mission and product selection guidelines to meet objectives for sales, margin, inventory turns, labor and customer service.

Duties include: • Purchasing wellness and general merchandise products. • Stocking, merchandising, & ensuring product movement. • Meeting department financial goals for sales, margin, inventory turns, and labor. • Researching local products & supporting the development of the co-op’s product selection. • Supervising department staff as needed. • Providing a welcoming environment, excellent customer service, and prompt, accurate check out for our owners and community members.

GROCERY ASSISTANT MANAGER

Servers • Cooks

To purchase, price and promote products and to ensure adequate receiving and stocking of grocery items to meet objectives for sales, margin, inventory turns, labor, product selection guidelines and customer service.

If you are interested, please email your resume to Ja’net Torrance at ja’net.torrance@renaissancehotels.com.

Duties include: • Purchasing bulk & refrigerated grocery, as well as other items as required by Grocery Manager. • Stocking, merchandising, & ensuring product freshness in: packaged, refrigerated, frozen, bulk, & non-food grocery. • Researching local products & supporting the development of the co-op’s product selection. • Supervising department staff in Grocery Manager’s absence. • Providing a welcoming environment, excellent customer service, and prompt, accurate check out for our owners and community members.

Marriott is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. EEO/M/F/V/D/AA

Benefits include: • Wages based on experience • 15% discount on groceries • Medical insurance • Paid time off • Other benefits

Are you an energetic and service oriented food and beverage professional looking for a new and exciting opportunity?

Apply online at www.nolafood.coop or pick up an application at the store, 2372 St. Claude. No phone calls please. Position open until filled.

We are now hiring for the opening team of René Bistrot! We have the following openings available:

Good food, real people, meaningful jobs make a living cooperatively!

HOST/HOSTESSES • SERVERS BARTENDERS • COOKS If you are interested, please stop by between 3pm and 5pm to submit your resume. Marriott is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. EEO/M/F/V/D/AA EARN $600/ MONTH. VOLUNTEER BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

New Orleans Health Magazine-For Sale

Offers Volunteer Opportunities. Make a difference in the lives of the terminally ill & their families. Services include: friendly visits to patients & their families, provide rest time to caretaker, bereavement & office assistance. School service hours avail. Call Volunteer Coordinator @ 504-818-2723 #3016

RETAIL STORE

Rock Star - Men & Women’s Clothing Store. Specializing in Clothing Boots & Accessories, Jewelry, Gifts, Makeup, More. Uptown area. $236K. 504-861-3777. rockstarofnola@gmail.com

TUBING BUSINESS FOR SALE On the beautiful Bogue Chitto River North of Covington Owner financing avail with 50% down Call Wayne at 985-515-7836

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Only $18,000 with no royalties. Nice profit potential. Call Greg for all the details, (985) 966-7777

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SHOWCaSe FRENCH QUARTER

BILOXI, MS NOTICE:

922-24 Dauphine St. $875K Four 1 bedroom apartments. Parking for 5+ cars.

938 Royal St. A $215K Great location for this condo. Perfect for your weekend getaways! Quaint & comfortable. 1 br, great kit & bath.

835 Royal St. $349.5K Great location, secluded hideaway! Spac 2 br, 2 marble tile baths. Small rear balc overlooking garden.

617 Duphine St. $268K Spacious light filled condo. Great floor plan. Fabulous pool and courtyard. Being sold furnished. In the heart of the quarter.

Paula Bowler, Agent • French Quarter Realty o:504-949-5400 • c:504-952-3131 • www.frenchquarterrealty.com

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

CORPORATE RENTALS

CARROLLTON GREAT RIVERBEND COTTAGE

With $800 upper revenue: 2478 sq ft total, tropical setting, 1/2 blk streetcar, 2 blks river. 8129 Maple St. $440,000. 504-314-1455. MUST SEE!

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN WALK TO CITY PARK - $29K

Vacant lot 50 x100, Castine St great neighborhood Re/Max Partners 888-9900. Each office independently owned and operated. Phyllis Seely 236-6464

MISSISSIPPI

INCLUDING UTILITIES

CALL 899-RENT

NEW ORLEANS RIVERFRONT

2 BR, 2.5 BA. Furn, healthclub, pool, parking. All util incl, wifi. Minimum 1 month. $3000/mo. Also 3 BR Penthouse $3800/mo. 781-608-6115.

SUBURBAN NEW ORLEANS

Diversity. Cultural Competence. CONDO. 2 BR, 1.5 BA, offstreet parking. Quiet area. 1 month minimum. $2800. For more info, call 225-281-9875

METAIRIE 1 MONTH FREE RENT!

COMMERCIAL RENTALS

Modern 1 BR Apt. $775/mo incl free wifi & assigned pkg. 1 yr lease. $400 sec dep & rental application. 2325 Pasadena Ave. (nr Clearview & I-10). 504-366-7374 or 781-608-6115.

MARRERO - WESTBANK

A HIDDEN GEM

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

2273 Barataria Blvd. 900 sq ft office + half bath. 2 rms, prof’l mgmt. Easy free parking. Desks avail. $800/month. 781-608-6115

1929 Hickory Ave., Harahan.

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1 & 2 Br Apts, 1 Ba, furn. Qn bed, WiFi, Cbl. Pkg.Util Incl. Lndry Fac. Sec Cameras From $1200/mth. 1 mth min. 2200 Pasadena, Met. 781-608-6115..

1, 2, 3 & 4 ROOM OFFICES STARTING AT $495

Completely furn 2BR/2.5BA TH on Cardinal Course, 17th green. Diamondhead, MS (45 min to NO) $125,000. Century 21, Betsy, 1-800-221-2423

Great Weekend Home

New Orleans Area (Metairie) 10 Min to Downtown N.O.

GARDEN DISTRICT

Two-story office building approx. 2,160sf. REDUCED price of $249,000. Can also be for lease $1,900/mo., triple net. Emily Kramer, Corporate Realty 581-5005

New Orleans Office Condo

$100,000 or best offer. Motivated Seller. 1,200 sf. Ample parking. Picturesque office park. Emily Kramer, Corporate Realty 504-581-5005

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REAL ESTATE Call (504) 483-3100

MID CITY RETAIL, OFFICE & FLEX SPACE

MULTI-USE FACILITY LOCATED 1995 GENTILLY BLVD. AT DESAIX CIRCLE CAN ACCOMMODATE A RETAIL USER & 1 OR MORE OFFICE TENANTS W/WHSE SPACE ADJACENT. TOTAL OF 8,625 SQ. FT. CALL 504583-5969

Near heart of Metairie, dead end street. 1br + bonus room from $750. Rsvd pkg;1 car, water pd. No smoking/ pet s. Call 504-780-1706 or visit us at orrislaneapts.com

FOR RENT OR SALE

2511 Metairie Lawn. 2BR/2BA, w/d, pool, security. No pets. Rent $950/ mo. Sale $149,000. Call 427-1087

OLD METAIRIE

Professional Office Space

Near Causeway & Vets. Rent includes use of 2 conference rooms, kitchen & reception area. Ground floor space, hardwood floors, crown moldings, drive up parking. Call Albert 504-837-1304.

SPARKLING POOL HARDWOOD FLOORS

Renovated, large 2 BR apt with 12 x 24’ liv room plus sep dining room, furn kit. Sunset deck, bike path, laundry on premises, offst pkg. No pets. Avail 6/1. $824. 504-236-5776

Ann de Montluzin Farmer

broker

80 FONTAINEBLEAU DR. - $399,999

Fabulous Home-ideal for entertaining.4 br, 2 1/2 bA. 3512 sf living. Large entertainment space includes formal living,dining,den and sun room. beautiful hardwood floors and architectural details. Wonderful front porch. ready for new owner to add their renovation touches. The Historic House, Luxury Home Specialist. residential/Commercial Sales, Leasing & Appraisals

(504) 895-1493 (504) 430-8737 farmeran@gmail.com www.demontluzinrealtors.com Licensed in Louisiana for 32 years, building on a real estate heritage since 1905

WEST BANK METROWIDE APARTMENTS

NOLA * Gretna * Metairie * Kenner. Affordable Luxury Living, 1, 2, 3 BDs, $545 & up! Gtd. Pkng, Lndry, Courtyards, FREE WI FI. 504-304-4687 www.BrunoInc.com

ALGIERS POINT HISTORIC ALGIERS POINT

High end 1-4BR. Near ferry, clean, many x-tras, hrdwd flrs, cen a/h, no dogs, no sec 8, some O/S prkng $750$1200/mo. 504-362-7487

CARROLLTON ART STUDIOS AVAILABLE

Carrollton area. Live/Work spaces. $550 per month. Call 504-570-9539

2 LUXURY BEACHSIDE CONDOS 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath FORECLOSURES. Call Janine 228-313-1352 FIDELIS REALTY

CITY PARK/BAYOU ST. JOHN 3324 DESOTO

Living room, large bedroom, tile bath, furnished kitchen. Private fenced backyard. No pets. $800/month + deposit. 504-494-0970

4012A ORLEANS AVE

1 BR Newly renovated. Hi ceil, granite countertops, wd flrs, w/d on site, , walk to Park or Bayou. On Canal St Car line. $800/mo. 713/204-5342

FRESHLY RENOV’T VICTORIAN 1BR/1BA. 775 sq feet. Furn kit with w&d, window unit. Pets ok. 1 year lease, $675. (504) 296-7267 To Advertise in

EMPLOYMENT Call (504) 483-3100

All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act and the Louisiana Open Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. For more information, call the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-273-5718

ESPLANADE RIDGE BIG COMFY HOUSES GREAT LOCATIONS

3BR/1BA, Big Yard - $1100 Cute Bayou Road: 1BR - $600; 3 BR - $975 nathannola@yahoo.com Phone: 504- 432-5104

FRENCH QUARTER/ FAUBOURG MARIGNY FR QTR RESIDENTIAL EDGE

Elegnt 2 brm - 3 mrbl mntls - dbl lvrm studio apt - fireplc - lvly patio -both apts furn - sec,gate - No pets. (504) 861-3141

CLASSIFIEDS REAL ESTATE LAKEVIEW/LAKESHORE 6233 CATINA

3/2, completely furn kit, w/d, all appl . included,ca/h, carport w/storage in back alley. All renov’t. Sm dog negotiable, no smoking. $1200 + $1200 sec. dep. 1 yr lease, refs. 455-2674.

UPTOWN/GARDEN DISTRICT

3222 Napoleon Rooms For Rent

1023 UPPERLINE

1 bdrm upper, furn kit, cen a/h, wd flrs, hi ceil, w/d hkps, off st pkg. $750/mo. ASC Real Estate. Call between 10am & 4pm. 504-421-6473.

1205 ST CHARLES/$1075

Fully Furn’d studio/effy/secure bldg/ gtd pkg/pool/gym/wifi/laundry. Avail NOW. 985-871-4324, 504-442-0573.

LAKEFRONT Beautiful Marina Living

128 N. Roadway, In a boathouse $1700/mo, 1 bed, 350 sq ft 40 ft slip Jennifer LaNasa Evans HGI Realty 504 207-7575

MID CITY 4320 HAMILTON

2BR/1BA upper, 1000 + sf, hdwd flrs, furn kit, w/d, porch, fen yd, off st pkg, no smokers, pet negot. $985/mo + dep. 488-2969

Spacious house, 6 large private bedrooms. Large equipped kitchen, 3 baths, dining room, front porch. Central heat & air. $625 each includes all utilities & internet, cable & laundry facilities. No Pets + Deposit 504-376-4676. Grad students welcome.

8130 JEANETTE

1508 CARONDELET ST- 2 APTS Studio, newly remodeled kit & ba, hdwd flrs. $750 mo. Huge 2 BR Apt. Bright, spacious,, high ceilings, hdwd flrs, $1095. Both have Cent a/h, laundry facility avail 24 hrs. Walk 1 blk to St. Charles St Car, easy access to I-10, CBD & FQ. No pets/No smokers. 1-888-239-6566. mballier@yahoo.com

1100 sf, 2 br, 2 ba camelback apt. Cent air, hi ceilings, newly refinished hardwood floors, appliances. Ceiling fans thruout, w/d in unit, offst pkg. Small back yard.1 blk to streetcar line. 3 blks to Oak St. $1400/mo. Water pd. Ref required. No pets, no smoking. Lease. 504-812-4242

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5300 FRERET

By Jefferson. Raised cottage, upper. Deluxe 2br, lux bath/jacuzzi. W&D, hrdwd flrs, ceil fans, 1400sf, $1450/ mo incl gas & water. 504-899-3668.

French Quarter Realty Wayne • Nicole • Sam • Jennifer • Brett • Robert • George • Baxter • Kaysie • Billy • Andrew

504-949-5400

222 London #224 2/1.5 409 Rosa 1/1 928 Conti #1 1/1 1112 Dauphine LSQ studio 517 Dumaine 2R 2/3 814 Lafayette A 1/1 2162 Esplanade 1/1 618 Fern 1/1

DORIAN M. BENNETT • 504-236-7688 dorian.bennett@sothebysrealty.com

pets ok, pool, offst pkg, twnhse style $875 Old Met. offst prkng, Balc. Huge backyard $1200 Large crtyrd, w/d on site, on 1st flr $925 charming, lots of natural light $825 Newly Renov. Jaccuzzi tub. Pool $2500 crtyrd off of bd! UTILITIES INCL! $1000 Updated, storage, great loc w/ pkng $900 updatedkitch,w/dinunit,greatlocation! $1250

RESIDENTIAL RENTALS 824 Royal - 2 bd/ 2 ba ...................... $3500 830 St. Philip - 1 bd/ 1ba pkg ............. $3000 539 Dumaine - Studio/1ba ..................... $1100 823 Ursulines - 1 bd/ 1 ba ..................... $850 718 Frenchmen - 1 bd/ 1ba pkg ............. $750

CONDOS FOR SALE fab renov condo with class. $425,000 grndflrw/hiceils&pool.SHORTSALE$169,000 Sngl fam home w/rear dependency $495,000 Twnhouse style w/prkg,pool&more $145,000 Single fam renov Near fairgrounds $82,500 Double Esp Ridge. Walk to Jazzfest! $175,000 Twnhse style, pool, parking&more! $329,000 Renov Arts dist. Furn, prkng inc. $259,000 UpdatedcondoWHdist.pool&more$199,000 Twnhs. 2 balcs. prkng pool & more $365,000 3rd fl. exp beams, storage! crtyrd $269,000 Ground floor updated. Courtyard $105,000 Pied-a-terre effic in heart of Fr Qtr $106,500 Charming. HUGE 2nd FLR BALCONY. $259,000 Fully furn. exp brick & glossy wd fls $225,000 pets ok, pool, offst pkg, twnhse style $98,500

CALL ME TODAY.

Carl Mixon, Agent

4716 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70119 504-482-7897 carl.mixon.gxo3@statefarm.com

COMMERICAL

The gauntlet has fallen! Seller & Lender want to sell! Ground floor front in Victorian style building. 1 bed 1 bath with grand rooms, large windows, 12ft ceilings & original wood floors. Granite counters & stainless appliances in the kitchen. A whirlpool tub gives the bath a bubbly luxury. The pool is cool! Located in the trendy Treme. Bank must approve short sale, make any offer!

2212-14 Kerlerec $175,000

Cul-de-sac Cute with no through traffic.Traditional New Orleans Shotgun Style Double with mirror imaged sides. Located one block off Esplanade in the Ridge. Each unit has 2 bed 1 bath. Each have central HVAV, WD Hookups, 12’ celings and fireplace mantles in almost every room. One side outfitted for owner with wood floors, crown molding and new appliances. Nice back yard is accessible to both units & convenient parking in front. Walk to Jazzfest!

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936 Conti #15 $329,000

Park your ride & take a plunge. This lovely complex offers beautiful common areas featuring a swimming pool, hot tub & covered parking. 2 bed/ 1 .5 bath condo located on the second floor in townhouse style. Hardwood floors down & carpet up. Spacious kitchen featuring a breakfast bar. Interior laundry room with stacked washer/ dryer. Balcony off master bedroom overlooks courtyard. Take a look!

Samara D. Poché sampochesells.com

1233 Esplanade #16 $145,000

Just a stones throw away from the FQ. This 2 bed/ 1 bath condo with kitchen and living on the first level, bedrooms and bath on the second level. Features stainless appliances, ventless washer and dryer hookups, reasonable condo fees. One assigned covered garage parking space included. Nice pool area and more!

504.319.6226 • sam@fqr.com 504.949.5400

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2340 Dauphine Street • New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 944-3605

512 Wilkinson Row Comm Commercial condo quaint st in FQ. $465,00 840 N Rampart Comm Laundromat~business, not bldg$299,000 We have qualified tenants for your rentals. Call us!

1323 Esplanade A $169,000

Just pennies a day.

CALL FOR MORE LISTINGS!

455 Phillip Street, $ 239,000

817 Amelia Street, $239,900 SOLD

Was gutted to the studs in 2004/05 and underwent a high quality renovation. 3 independent bedrooms, 2 full baths, master with whirlpool plus nice walk-in closet, off street parking in a great close to town location.

Rustic charm on this unique home fashioned from joining two separate cottages. Great flowing floor plan and with a second front door that’s great for working from home. Off street parking.

Michael L. Baker, ABR/M, CRB, HHS President Realty Resources, Inc. 504-523-5555 • cell 504-606-6226

Licensed by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission for more than 28 years with offices in New Orleans, LA 70130

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(4BDRM/2.5BA) ..................... $469,000 Grand Mansion.......................$2,100,000 (3 bdrm/3.5ba w/pkg) ............$1,559,000 Commercial ............................. $349,000 (2 bdrm/2ba w/pkg).................. $229,000 (1 bdrm/1ba) ............................ $139,000 (Only 3 Left!) ............starting at $149,000 TOO LATE! ................................ $169,000 TOO LATE! ..............................$2,495,000 TOO LATE!.............................. $1,300,000 TOO LATE! ................................ $429,000 TOO LATE! ................................ $315,000 TOO LATE! ................................ $159,000

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4850 MAGAZINE

1208/1210 S. GENOIS

Newly renovated 1bedroom, 1 bath, open floor plan. Beautiful original hardwood floors, 12ft ceilings, updated kitchen - everything new! Hardwood floors. On a quiet block of Magazine, close to everything. EASY TO PARK. $135,000

IMMEDIATE CASH FLOW. Property is currently getting $1800 rent, potentially more. Gutted after Katrina, renovations completed in 2006 include new roof, dry wall, and wiring, 2 new central heaters installed since 2006. Long term tenants, excellent return on investment. Close to the Blue Plate Mayonnaise Building. $119,000

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SATURDAY, MAY 19TH ROUSES MARKET 4500 TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. ROUSES MARKET 6600 FRANKLIN AVE. 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

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