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Shana griffin’s ‘DISPLACING Blackness’ show is now open at the CAC

Strung out ANDRE BOHREN SPLITS HIS ATTENTION BETWEEN CLASSICAL MUSIC, such as a recent celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, and Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes.

He joins the Electric Yat Quartet, a string ensemble of three violins and a cellist, for a program of Bach, Schubert, Gershwin, the Beatles and more. At 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at Broadside. Find tickets on Broadsidenola.com.

BY WILL COVIELLO AT HER NEW SHOW AT THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER , Shana

griffin positioned installations of found objects, photos and new artwork facing each other in ways that often juxtapose personal and institutional and social focuses. One array of found objects includes mailboxes and bricks from the Iberville Public Housing Development as well as the address number of her childhood home there. That faces an installation imagining a bureaucratic office representing the U.S. Housing Authority, the Federal Housing Administration and Home Owners Loan Corporation.

There’s an old phone, brochures, redlining maps and a stark housing agency poster warning “Slums Breed Crime,” an example of displacement propaganda, griffin says.

The expo also has a wall of photos of New Orleans homes. They’re the former addresses of her mother, Irene B. Griffin, who died in September.

“My mother passed away a month before the residency started and I used this to center her experiences,” griffin says.

Griffin’s mother had moved often, living in many neighborhoods from the Lower 9th Ward to Hollygrove and Treme. She found stable housing at Iberville and was a member of the Iberville Public Housing Resident Council for 14 years, and served as its president, before eventually buying her own home in the Upper 9th Ward. She grew up in Donaldsonville and moved to New Orleans when she was in high school. The set of photos includes her 15 addresses in New Orleans.

“When I look at the wall, I don’t see housing displacement,” griffin says.

“I see erasure. I see disposability. I see neglect. I see blame. I see neighborhoods that no longer exist. Those neighborhoods have been replaced, without those who remember and document. I see pain and suffering.

When you experience all of this movement, nonstop, I understand why my mom was tired. She was done. That was the discrimination she experienced. That was the substandard housing conditions she was living in.

Evictions were scary because they had small children.”

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Griffin has been working on her “DISPLACED” project for nine years.

The phase that just opened at the CAC is titled “DISPLACING Blackness: Cartographies of Violence, Extraction and Disposability.” It’s part of “SOLOS,” featuring works by three artists who were in residencies at the CAC in the fall. The three galleries and a resource section will be open through April 25.

“SOLOS” also features Sarah Hill’s “To the Farmhouse” and Ana Hernandez’s “MATTER out of time.”

In her residency, griffin worked to visualize a full-scale exhibition. In early 2020, she was recognized by Junebug Productions with a John O’Neal Cultural Arts Fellowship. In December, she was awarded a $50,000 grant by New York-based Creative Capital to develop an atlas of displacement, a website for her ongoing DISPLACED project and to explore a full exhibition.

With degrees in sociology and history, griffin’s interdisciplinary work draws heavily on research and source documents, including maps, housing policy guides and regulations, and more. In its conceptualization, “DISPLACING Blackness” begins with slavery, invoking its violence in the visualization of screams in a series of acrylic paintings on wood. In another piece, griffin used data from a mapping of recorded slave trading sites in the city. An expo at the Historic New Orleans Collection displayed the locations on a Google map.

Griffin has plotted the points using

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Shana griffin created her “DISPLACING Blackness” show in an artist residency at the CAC.

handmade nails from the 1800s on rough-hewn boards.

All of the artwork and most of the photography in the show are from 2020. Griffin’s mother appears in a historic photo in an area of the exhibit honoring local women activists.

The expo also includes photos documenting housing evictions during the pandemic, executed while there was a moratorium on such actions.

There also are elements of DISPLACED that are ongoing. An early version of the DISPLACED timeline that was part of Exhibit BE, organized by muralist and painter Brandan “BMike” Odums. She also created a walking tour. Much of the material will be included on an interactive website.

Griffin is the interim director of the arts organization Antenna, and her other projects include PUNCTUATE, a feminist research, art and activist initiative.

The DISPLACED project grew out of work griffin was doing in 2012.

“I conducted a workshop on reproductive violence in housing policies,” griffin says, “ways in which violence manifests itself in different types of policies, housing policies being one of them. When I think about reproductive violence, I take research and try to make it easily digestible.”

THE DANNY BARKER FESTIVAL IS A VIRTUAL EVENT WITH MUSIC, interviews and video from the New Orleans Jazz Museum this year. The festival opens Thursday, Jan. 14, with music by Charmaine Neville and others, as well as a video tour of the Barker collection at Tulane’s Hogan Jazz Archive led by Melissa Weber.

Friday, Jan. 15, features music by John Boutte, Dee Dee Bridgewater and more. Saturday, Jan. 16, features Layla McCalla, Don Vappie’s Grio Trio and Treme Brass Band. Visit nolajazzmuseum.org for info and facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/ free for livestreams.

Acadiana connection MICHOT’S MELODY MAKERS, led by Lost Bayou Rambler frontman Louis Michot and joined by cellist Leyla McCalla, headline this live-streaming performance from d.b.a. Accordionist Corey Ledet opens to celebrate the release of his 14th album, “Corey Ledet Zydeco,” which is on Michot’s Nouveau Electric Records label. The show is at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15. Find tickets on Stageit.com/dbalive.

Motor’s still running THE RADIATORS ANNOUNCED THEIR RETIREMENT ALMOST A DECADE AGO. But the band is gasing up the engine for an annual January reunion jam at Tipitina’s. Shows are at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, through Sunday, Jan. 17. Visit tiptinas.com for tickets.

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COVID-19 vaccine. The Louisiana Department of Health last week expanded the pool of people who can now receive a vaccine to cover those who receive and provide home health care services, other medical professionals and persons over the age of 70. The list of people covered also includes those who are incarcerated if they fall into this age group or have endstage renal disease. Still, demand for the vaccine in Louisiana far outstrips the supply.

The number of Congressional Republicans from Louisiana — out of six — who voted to certify the electoral votes for President-elect Joe Biden.

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Jefferson Parish teachers slammed the school board at its Jan. 6 meeting for continuing in-person classes as COVID-19 cases skyrocket.

Jefferson Parish teachers slam in-person schooling Judge Janice Clark, a state

district court judge in Baton Rouge, has ruled that LSU must release records without most redactions concerning the investigation of former LSU football player Derrius Guice, the Louisiana Illuminator reported. The order was a win for USA Today and Samantha Brennan, the former student who spoke with the paper for its investigation into sexual assault and LSU’s record of ignoring it.

Gov. John Bel Edwards named his nephew and former law partner Bradley A. Stevens to the University of Louisiana System’s board of supervisors. Each of the 16 members serve a six-year term.

Stevens is a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, and his appointment doesn’t technically violate state ethics rules against nepotism. However, he’s a close family member and his appointment smacks of good ol’ boy politics.

JEFFERSON PARISH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS showed up early to Wednesday night’s school board meeting, convening outside the district office to voice their frustration that the district continues to hold in-person classes even as the area experiences a massive spike in COVID-19 cases.

NOLA Public Schools’ announcement last week that it would be moving to online-only classes beginning Jan. 7 (with a few exceptions) only added fuel to the Jefferson Parish teachers’ fire. Teachers before and during the meeting said they were upset Jefferson Parish had not followed Orleans Parish’s lead in moving to virtual classes, especially because Jefferson has a higher COVID-19 positivity rate than Orleans (14.7% compared to 8.9% as of Jan. 5).

“I never thought I’d see the day where ReNEW and KIPP employees in Orleans are treated with more basic dignity and respect than unionized public school employees,” said Chris Salerno, who works at Young Audiences Charter School in Gretna, at the meeting.

Last month, the president of Jefferson Federation of Teachers, the local teachers’ union, sent a letter to parish Superintendent James Gray Dec. 18 asking for a move to 100% virtual classes. Since then, cases have continued to skyrocket, and Mayor LaToya Cantrell has moved New Orleans into a set of modified phase one restrictions aimed at curbing the rapid spread of the disease.

When asked by teachers which specific criteria the district is using to decide whether to keep schools open, Chief of Schools Ajit “AJ” Pethe refused to give a concrete answer, instead saying the decision is “complex” and made on “a case-by-case basis.” He said the district works with the Louisiana Department of Health to examine the rate of transmission within a school and determine whether cases can be contained, but he did not specify what rate of transmission the district would deem too high to keep a school open.

The school board spent much of the first half of the meeting complimenting each other, voting on its new mascot, giving out awards and on other housekeeping items, while a dozen teachers waited an hour to get their two minutes to address the board directly. When that opportunity did come, almost all seized the chance to slam

Biden will be sworn in on Jan. 20 following legal battles and amid a disinformation campaign perpetuated by President Donald J. Trump, who falsely claims the election was fraudulent. Only Sen. Bill Cassidy voted to certify the presidentelect. Sen. John Neely Kennedy and Reps.

Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson, Clay Higgins and Garret Graves voted instead to undermine democracy in fealty to Trump.

The vote occurred hours after Trump’s supporters launched a deadly attack on Washington, D.C. and briefly occupied the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.

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OPENING GAMBIT Beloved Broad Street club Prime Example won’t reopen Prime Example, the North Broad Street jazz club and a Black-owned, neighborhood fixture, has closed — another fatality in the music industry of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unbeknownst to longtime owner Julius Kimbrough Sr. at the time, the last show was March 18, a performance by the Arthur Mitchell Quintet and trumpeter Percy Williams following a lucrative Carnival season. After making the difficult decision to sell the beloved club, Kimbrough told Gambit last week that he is “heartbroken.”

“I’ve been out of business for 10 months,” he said. “I decided with no end in sight, I couldn’t keep on maintaining the building.”

Kimbrough, who turns 80 years old this week, sold the assets to the business last month. He declined to give the names of the new owners.

Kimbrough said the new owners have no interest in hosting live music, and it will open as a bar under a different name once they go through the permitting process.

“That’s the end of that,” he said. “It’s the end of music on that corner.”

Over the years, Kimbrough hired New Orleans-based luminaries to perform at almost nightly concerts, which drew a regular crowd of neighbors as well as in-the-know visiting music enthusiasts. Most of the musical Marsalis Family played there, along with trumpeter Nicholas Payton, singer Sharon Martin and drummer Herlin Riley.

Kimbrough recalls friends from Colorado visiting three or four times a year, mainly so they could hang out at the bar for most of their stay, smitten by the music.

Prime Example also will be remembered for its Creole comfort food from chef Germaine Gaines and its unpretentious drink menu. “It was nothing fancy,” Kimbrough said.

The most popular orders were Jack and Cokes or straight bourbon.

Kimbrough moved to New Orleans from Selma, Alabama, in the late 1950s to get his pharmacy degree from Xavier University. But music, especially jazz, was always his passion, and after working as a pharmacist for 30 years he decided to open a club called the Showcase Jazz Club in 1992, also on North Broad Street. He

purchased Prime Example across the street in 2000, originally operating it mostly as a special events venue.

The venue also helped boost morale post-Katrina. When it opened, the area was still mostly blighted. “We still didn’t have lights on the street,” he recalled of its debut as a jazz venue. It quickly became a popular spot and an alternative to the tourist-filled Frenchmen Street clubs and was one of just a handful of Blackowned live music venues.

It was especially packed on evenings after Jazz Fest would end for the day and crowds would spill over to the bar, seeking to keep the party going. “We did music every night after Jazz Fest,” he said. “We had our own Jazz Fest.”

For years, it hosted three shows a day, including a midnight show and even a “breakfast show.”

“I’m sad to go,” he said. “Quite frankly, I’m sad. For the birthplace of [jazz] music, there aren’t a lot of places you can go anymore and just hear straight jazz. I will miss all of my jazz-loving friends, people from all over the world and the locals who sustained it.” — SARAH RAVITS

WE CARRY EACH OTHER It’s how we do things in Louisiana during times of challenge. We’re stronger together and we know our strength lies in the helping hands of our neighbors.

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board members, the majority of whom were unmasked throughout the meeting.

“This is a great metaphor when we see you put on a mask for a picture,” said Ann Marie Coviello, a librarian at Green Park Elementary in Metairie. “That’s exactly what’s happening with this board meeting when Dr. Gray talks about how wonderful everything is and how great we’re doing and how proud he is of the teachers — when in fact, it is not great. There is a real crisis.”

“When are y’all going to get to the point and realize that history will not be too kind to those who gaslight and posture instead of actually doing their f-ing jobs?” another teacher asked the board.

Several teachers said they are going to work each day in fear that they’ll contract the disease and waking up each morning worried they’ll find out one of their coworkers died from it.

“The irony that you tell us that you’re going to offer us life insurance,” Coviello said, in reference to a $10,000 employee life insurance policy the board touted earlier in the meeting. “It’s just a matter of time before we’re going to need it.”

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Generations before us strove — and oftentimes died — trying to make ours “a more perfect union.” We must continue that work.

The first step is obvious: Trump must be removed from power immediately. Ultimately, he must answer for his crimes, which have been on full display with impunity for far too long. Sadly, Trump did not act alone. That’s why the House and Senate should censure if not remove members who have encouraged Trump and his violent supporters for years — starting with Louisiana’s own Rep. Clay Higgins and Sen. John Kennedy.

History doubtless will regard Trump as a deranged and dangerous aberration, but in truth he is the end product of decades of hatred, division and lies sown by the Republican Party. He may have lit the match, but GOP leaders and consultants for 40 years gathered the political kindling, piled it into a bonfire tower and poured gasoline all over it. A direct line runs from Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” and Ronald Reagan’s racist “law and order” policies through Newt Gingrich’s culture wars, Karl Rove’s anti-LGBTQ propaganda and the modern GOP’s embrace of birtherism and Black voter suppression — straight to Trump’s armed mob parading the Confederate Flag through the Capitol Building.

For decades, the Republican Party encouraged some of the darkest elements of American society.

Rather than do the hard work of building coalitions with Black voters,

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the LGBTQ community or simply the disaffected masses of Americans who’ve dropped out of the process altogether, the party welcomed racists, xenophobes, and violent, angry conspiracy theorists.

Privately, many GOP leaders — including our own Rep. Steve Scalise, one of the GOP’s most powerful Congressmen — would say that of course they don’t agree with such “fringe” elements. They would whisper that such yahoos were small in number, with no real power. While it may be tempting to believe the party didn’t know what would happen or lost control, we are reminded of the maxim often attributed to Maya Angelou: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

Men and women of conscience would walk away in droves from such a party. Some have already done so. Unfortunately, only one member of Louisiana’s Republican congressional delegation — Sen. Bill Cassidy — could muster the courage to publicly oppose the performative, anti-democratic effort by some grandstanding House and Senate members to block Joe Biden from taking office. Scalise, himself a victim of a violent terrorist attack, has not only refused to denounce Trump and his many outrageous acts and pronouncements, but he also actively supported the effort to block Biden’s election.

We recognize that Louisiana is largely a “red” state, but ours is also an American state. It’s time for GOP leaders at all levels to put country and Constitution before party and personal ambitions. What happened in Georgia on Jan. 5 — one day before the Insurrection of 2021 — should send a clear message: Clean your mess, or voters will do it for you.

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NOW THAT GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS has set

the date of the special election to succeed U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, look for the field of candidates to narrow — at least among the notables initially mentioned as potential contenders.

Qualifying is Jan. 20-22, which doesn’t give unannounced candidates much time to get A DVO C AT E S TA F F F I L E P H OTO up to speed.

State Sens. Troy Carter and Karen Carter Richmond will vacate his Peterson, both New Orleans Democrats, are seat on Jan. 20 to join the likely front runners in the 2nd Congressional administration of PresidentDistrict race. elect Joe Biden after serving 10 years in Congress representing make a runoff were she to run.

Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District.

She ran for Congress more than a The district runs from New Orleans decade ago, so she may yet have to Baton Rouge. It includes most some interest in that path. of the city, Algiers, much of West On the other hand, Moreno may Jefferson and the River Parishes, have adjusted her ambitions since and parts of East Baton Rouge then. She has emerged as a citywide Parish. Politically, New Orleans and leader in the fight for criminal justice West Jefferson anchor the district reform and for tougher laws against with 68% of the electorate. Equally domestic violence. She was the only important, the district is 61% Black council member to support Jason and 63% Democrat. It was drawn Williams, the city’s new district to create a Black voting majority, attorney, and she is believed to have and Richmond is Louisiana’s highher political sights on the mayor’s est-ranking Black elected official. office (after Cantrell, not against When Richmond announced his Cantrell later this year). decision in November to join the “I will announce my decision soon,” Biden Administration (he co-chaired is all that Moreno would say about Biden’s presidential campaign), a Congress. My guess is she will not run, bevy of local politicos expressed which sets up a showdown between interest in succeeding him. Since Peterson and Carter — and between then, only two have formally rival political factions in New Orleans. announced their candidacies: state Peterson is a leader in the Black Sens. Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Organization for Leadership Carter, both of New Orleans. With the Development (BOLD), the Central clock ticking down to qualifying, the City-based political group once led by field is beginning to appear set. her late father, Ken Carter, who was Last week Baton Rouge-based the city’s first Black elected assessor. civil rights activist Gary Chambers Jr. Carter is an ally of Richmond and announced he’d also be running for will have his full-throated support if the seat. Chambers rose to national Moreno doesn’t run (she, too, is an prominence last summer after a clip ally of Richmond). State Sen. Cleo from an East Baton Rouge Parish Fields, another ally of Richmond, School Board meeting went viral. officially declared he will not run and In the video, Chambers called out is expected to help Carter. board member Connie Bernard for Both Peterson and Carter have online shopping while the board sought the seat before. They ran and community members discussed against each other — and against renaming then-Lee High School, a then-incumbent Bill Jefferson — in majority-Black school named after 2006 (Peterson lost to Jefferson in Confederate Robert E. Lee. The school the runoff), and Carter ran again in board voted to rename the school 2008, when Anh “Joseph” Gao upset Liberty High the following month.

Jefferson in the general election.

Only one high-profile potential Peterson and Carter were less candidate remains officially undeknown then. This time they are the cided: City Council President Helena front runners, and the battle lines Moreno. Ironically, Moreno leads are already taking shape. most if not all polls and would likely

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BY JAKE CLAPP KUWAISIANA OPENS ITS SONG “BARA7A” with an

immediately relatable line for anyone who found themselves outside the cliques or dared to do something true to themselves when growing up.

“The initial chapter of my teenagehood / Was tainted by the bullies of my neighborhood.”

Singer-guitarist and songwriter +Aziz delivers those lyrics in English, floating over light indie pop and a tight brass line, and imperceptibly slides into Arabic on the next verse — “They said, why are you dressed in allblack? / Your fingernails are painted, you’re like a girl!” +Aziz bobs between English and Arabic throughout the song, subtly building bridges any listener could cross into the universal experience. “‘Bara7a’ means sandlot,” +Aziz (pronounced as spelled, “plus-Aziz”) said in a statement about the track when it was released in November. “This is a song about adolescence and dealing with bullies from different social classes.

While most people’s culture shock happens when they

travel from one culture to another, I had my first major culture shock when I moved from public school to private school in Kuwait, so I wrote a song about it. It exposed me to different types of Kuwaitis and expats of all sorts.”

“Bara7a” was one of two initial singles for Kuwaisiana’s upcoming EP “Chapter 2,” out Friday, Jan. 15. +Aziz leads the New Orleans-based rock band, which also features the mononymous drummer Matthieu, bassist Sam Levine, trumpeter Dehan Elçin, saxophonist Nick Ferreirae and percussionist Patrick Driscoll. “‘Bara7a’ gave me a chance to open up a little bit more about my childhood,” says +Aziz, who grew up in Kuwait. “I don’t know if I’ve heard a song in Arabic that was about bullying, so it’s kind of novel in that sense.

Bullying for the most part is very much normalized over there — it at least was normalized when I was growing up. I’m always trying to take these ideas and kind of build a little scaffolding around it so that the ideas are more universal.”

KUWAISIANA FORMED AROUND 2016 and has been

a steady presence gigging in New Orleans’ indie rock community. Khaleeji influences — the regional identity shared among people in the Arabian Peninsula — swirl at the center of the band, displayed through +Aziz’s lyrical themes and subtle musical touches.

But Kuwaisiana has always

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Kuwaisiana is, from left, Dehan Elçin, +Aziz, Matthieu, Nick Ferreirae, Patrick Driscoll and Sam Levine.

found success in its true mixing of genres. Drummer Matthieu was born in France and trumpeter Elçin is from Turkey, while Levine, Ferreirae and Driscoll all came to New Orleans from other parts of the U.S. Several of the musicians landed in New Orleans explicitly because of the city’s jazz history — Ferreirae and Elçin both studied at Tulane University.

The band’s debut album “Chapter 1,” released in 2018, is firmly planted in indie rock with heavy influences from ska, funk and New Orleans jazz and rhythm and blues. Middle Eastern pop and folk rhythm and melodies are a bubbling constant, and the album succeeds in how well Kuwaisiana sensitively makes it all its own.

On the 22-minute “Chapter 2,” Kuwaisiana sounds like it’s settling into its own genre. The band members are ignoring the “concept” and playing more based on instinct. “‘Chapter 1,’ I always describe it as a shotgun approach, where you have a lot of different ideas,” +Aziz says. “As the band chemistry started to settle, and we built a rapport and a little more of a process, that’s where the cohesion comes from. There’s a lot of give and take.”

“Chapter 2” was recorded at Marigny Studios, with work by

Paul McDonald, Michael Stalios and Bruce Barielle. Stalios and John McCloskey also appear as musicians on two tracks, “Bara7a” and “Cymbal of this City.”

Artist and illustrator Shelby Criswell created the artwork that accompanies “Chapter 2” as well as the singles “Cymbal of This City” and “Bara7a.” You can see hints to the band’s life as you examine the comics-style panel: black-painted fingernails; cancelled shows due to the coronavirus pandemic; a Patreon launched by +Aziz; and the singer-songwriter’s attempts during the lockdowns to work with other artists for remixes of Kuwaisiana songs.

Kuwaisiana used “Chapter 1” — which was split between a “side” of songs sung in Arabic and a side in English — to plant its flag and introduce +Aziz’s Khaleeji influences, including the kinds of alternative rock music that can be found on the Arabian Peninsula. Genres that are more beat-oriented, like electronic dance music and hip-hop, are in high demand in the region, +Aziz says, but “there are a lot of bands that are making guitar cool. And I don’t think guitar music is going anywhere.”

On a grander scale, +Aziz says, he also wants to introduce listeners to “alternative mindsets and

thinking found in the Arabian Peninsula. I want to challenge notions people have about Arabs, Muslims and Khaleejis specifically.”

WITH “CHAPTER 2,” +AZIZ WANTED TO EXPLORE the par-

allels between American and Khaleeji cultures. The album “deepens the band’s exploration of the day-to-day experiences of Arab-American youth and the evolving viewpoints of Khaleejis living in the Arabian Peninsula,” the band says.

Like on “Bara7a,” other tracks on “Chapter 2” build on relatable imagery and experiences — plus, there’s a rip current of joy and danceability among the seriousness that will pull in anyone.

“The exploration happens a lot in terms of the lyrical content,” +Aziz says. “For [the track] ‘Guwwa,’ it’s about overcoming a flaw in myself and trying to reach a higher place. ‘Say Yea’ [on ‘Chapter 1’] is a little bit more on the nose about marrying into a conservative family or trying to connect with someone, but because of their cultural background or my cultural background, it doesn’t really fit. Like dealing with parents that you would get a little bit more in a Middle Eastern-oriented family.

“When I look at Khaleejis and Arab Americans, I see a lot of these tensions play out in the most direct kind of way,” he says.

“I try to explore that parallel.”

The “Chapter 2” track “3arees” is almost a continuation of “Say Yea.” The new song is about the invisible moment when a married couple moves from the honeymoon phase into the more routine flow of marriage, +Aziz says.

The EP “has a more intimate quality than the first record, which was more sprawling and jubilant, but also has a new intensity,” says Sam Levine, who joined Kuwaisiana in 2019.

“The lyrics, whether in Arabic and English, deal with intersecting personal and political themes that are both universal and really timely.”

The most explicitly political track on “Chapter 2” is “Orange Klan” which attacks regressive U.S. immigration policy. The song largely takes the perspective of refugees crossing the U.S. southern border and includes references to immigrants making the dangerous passage across the Mediterranean Sea as well as ICE raids on homes, businesses and places of worship.

“Happy hurricane season / Eat away my human rights / Sluggin’ through another year / to the bottom of the bowl with a racist douche,” +Aziz sings in English.

For some reason, the singer told Gambit, he finds it easier to use English when getting political.

“Cymbal of this City,” another early track released from “Chapter 2,” was written at a time +Aziz was feeling isolated, and “I wanted to tell myself that I matter.”

Kuwaisiana’s music, with its blend of genres both regional and far-reaching and relatable themes, is filled with cultural bridges from here to there and back again.

Kuwaisiana “is about reaching out to others and striving to create a collective experience,” Levine says. “This band is definitely not meant to intellectualize certain musical genres or tendencies. There are loads of bands that have a ‘world music’ angle going, but I think this band tries to make the point that all music is world music, and you can get into it without being an expert listener or having a ton of context.”

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After graduating college and spending another year in Kuwait, +Aziz moved to New York City in 2009 and pursued a solo recording project. In time, he found it difficult to develop a band in New York, so he began considering another move and eventually came to New Orleans in 2014. He soon started working with a few musicians — Matthieu, the drummer, was an early collaborator — and Kuwaisiana came together. +Aziz is part of New Orleans’ Arab-American community, and Kuwaisiana has performed at functions next to a mosque and at a Syrian refugee benefit organized by Loyola’s Middle East Peace Studies Program.

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His personal background and beliefs, +Aziz says, also mean he doesn’t see himself as the “average” Kuwaiti. But he believes he’s able to share insight into Khaleeji culture and share that lens with a wide audience through music.

“Because I’m in that position, it’s been important for me to reach out to” the Arabian Peninsula region to stay in tune, he says. +Aziz will share lyrics — his Patreon has allowed him to connect with other Arabic speakers — for help with finding the right words and phrases in Arabic in order to make sure a song really lands. He has also been busy during the lockdown reaching out to media outlets and artists in the region to spread Kuwaisiana’s music.

Kuwaisiana isn’t just bringing Khaleeji influences and a perspective into New Orleans and the U.S., it’s sending the resulting music back into other parts of the world.

“You amplify the place that you’re coming from,” +Aziz says. “I’m amplifying Kuwait. I’m amplifying New Orleans. And I’m amplifying this message that globalization can work. We need more inclusivity in our world and that’s a good thing to focus on.”

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The airy outdoor restaurant opened in September at 4327 Bienville St. in Mid-City, but it was conceived exactly as it is long before COVID-19 appeared on the scene. Sidney Torres IV, one of four business partners, bought the former garage two years ago, always with the idea of creating a family- and pet-friendly outdoor dining spot.

When he approached his friends Jerry Mixon and Danny Akers, a local couple who for the past 15 years worked as chef and general manager, respectively, at Cafe Amelie in the French Quarter, the prospect was intriguing. Builder David Carimi rounds out the team.

“We had learned to create rooms within outdoor spaces at Cafe Amelie to set a mood,” Mixon says. “The idea of doing that in a more casual space, in a neighborhood for locals, was exciting.”

It was difficult for Mixon to leave Cafe Amelie behind. “We were like family,” he says. But the chance to create something new and to have ownership sealed the deal. The fact that he and Akers live in the area is another bonus.

The former garage, named for the family who ran it, has been ingeniously renovated to keep as many of the contours of the vintage service station as possible. The open kitchen was built inside two shipping containers, air-conditioned and prepped for the weather. The outdoor dining spaces are, if not climate controlled, climate moderated, with misters, fans and heaters. There are many flatscreen TVs throughout the space.

The spacious dining areas offer plenty of elbow room with tables situated six-to-10 feet apart. A central patio, with two 12-year-old oak trees, can seat 75, and it’s bracketed by two covered spaces with room for

about 50 people each. There is an inside bar area with tables for 20, under current physical distancing and Covid restrictions.

Mixon has had fun with the menu.

While Cafe Amelie focused on more formal dining, composed plates and satisfying tourists, Trep’s serves global comfort food with sly riffs on traditional dishes. Egg rolls are stuffed with local boudin and lacquered with satsuma pepper glaze. Creamy spinach and artichoke dip tops freshly grilled oysters, which also are available raw on weekends.

During crawfish season, Mixon uses his mother’s recipe for crawfish spaghetti, a saute of Louisiana mudbugs with a touch of heavy cream, fresh tomatoes and herbs over pasta.

Satisfying sloppy Joes, available in a kid’s portion too, are made from a blend of house-roasted brisket, short rib and chuck, simmered in spiced tomato sauce and topped with housemade jalapeno pimiento cheese. It’s a fun alternative to a burger, although there’s a good one of those on the menu, as well.

Mixon traveled extensively while serving in the military, and Asian food and cultures became favorites.

“Other than Vietnamese food, New Orleans didn’t have a lot of other options back then,” he says. “A whole world opened up to me.”

His nachos feature a base of crispy wontons instead of tortilla chips, with pearls of ahi tuna, Asian slaw and wasabi mayo on top. Tacos stuffed with either zippy bang bang shrimp or roast lamb are wrapped in housemade puffy roti, not tortillas. Seasonal salads and sandwiches round out the menu, along with bowls of shrimp and grits, seared ahi over coconut rice and Prince Edward Island mussels in lemon grass curry served family style.

For dessert, there is a rotating menu of cakes inspired by the snacks often

Trep’s

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Baquet in business WHEN WAYNE BAQUET SR. decided last fall to retire, he knew he was closing the book on both a career and a long family history in Creole food in New Orleans. But he also left the door open for his last restaurant, Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe, to return with new owners.

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Patrons eat burgers and drinks at Trep’s.

sold at gas stations. Mixon’s take on the Hostess cupcake was dark chocolate cake and ganache, complete with the white frosting squiggle. His version of the Twinkie and coconut-covered Sno Balls are also in the mix.

The bar program is creative. The menu draws inspiration from its setting, with cocktails deemed “lubrications,” “frozen stabilizers” and mocktails under the category of “designated drivers.” Beers are either under draft “pumps” or “roadies.”

“We really wanted the kind of place that was affordable, fun and accessible,” Mixon says. While opening a restaurant in the midst of a pandemic has its challenges, from staffing to managing restrictions, he remains upbeat.

“There is so much we are learning now that we’ll use in the future,” he says.

In the near future, the partners plan to open a fried-chicken-andbiscuit restaurant called Nola Chick on Tulane Avenue in a former Burger King space.

“People call us crazy to open not one but two restaurants, but we are paying attention to what our customers want,” he says. “We are listening.”

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Wayne Baquet Jr., Wayne Baquet Sr. and Arkesha Baquet at Li’l Dizzy’s Cafe.

The people who walked through that door are not only out to reopen the restaurant but also revive the Baquet family story.

Baquet and his wife, Janet, have sold Li’l Dizzy’s to their son, Wayne Baquet Jr., and their daughter-inlaw, Arkesha Baquet. The couple expect to begin a gradual return to business in late January, starting with takeout and catering.

Baquet Sr. says he will remain retired as he intended, while the next generation steps up to continue the family business.

“It means we’re able to continue his legacy, to carry it on so that our children will be part of that legacy, too,” Arkesha Baquet says.

This is a development none of the Baquets had foreseen as late as November, when Baquet Sr. said he would not reopen the restaurant and was seeking a buyer. Though raised in their family’s restaurants, Janet and Wayne Baquet’s children pursued different careers. There was no succession plan for them to take over the restaurant business.

(Wayne Baquet Jr. is CEO of Imperial Trading, the grocery distributor owned by John Georges, who also owns Gambit.)

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News of the restaurant’s closing brought an outpouring of gratitude for all the memories through the years, but also grief. It was not just the loss of another restaurant in a year that has claimed many but also seemed like the end of a family tradition in New Orleans hospitality that dates from the 1940s and stands as one of the city’s longest-running Black business legacies.

“After that story, that’s when the floodgates opened,” Wayne Baquet Jr. says. “We heard from so many people. That’s when it really hit us.

That’s when we had to ask ourselves, is this really the way we want the family’s story to end?”

Li’l Dizzy’s has been closed since the pandemic struck in March.

Baquet Sr. kept the kitchen going with some contract work for community feeding efforts, but when those jobs were completed he said it was time to move on. At 73, he considered the health risks of the pandemic too great to reopen the restaurant himself. He spoke with potential buyers throughout the summer and fall but never arrived at a deal.

Arkesha Baquet has been helping her father-in-law with sales of his family cookbook and packaged gumbo seasoning. The messages from longtime customers that accompanied some incoming orders reaffirmed just how much the restaurant and the Baquet family’s story meant to people.

“It was around this time I had an emotional moment. My husband had his emotional moment, too,” she says. “We looked at each other and knew what we should do. We met with my in-laws after that and started talking about how we could do it.”

Wayne Baquet Sr.’s great aunt, Ada Baquet Gross, opened the family’s first restaurant in 1947. That was Paul Gross Chicken Coop at Bienville and North Roman streets, a 24-hour operation with fried chicken cooked in cast iron skillets. The next generation was led by Wayne Baquet’s father, Edward Baquet. He left his job at the U.S. Postal Service, sold his home and drew on his pension to buy a neighborhood bar on Law Street, tucked off Elysian Fields Avenue. This became Eddie’s, which from its start in 1966 would eventually earn wide renown for its Creole food. More iterations of Eddie’s would follow at different locations across the city. Wayne Baquet Sr. opened Li’l Dizzy’s in 2005.

Like her husband, Arkesha Baquet is a New Orleans native. She’s worked in business administration and as an educator for special needs students. She also managed an earlier incarnation of Li’l Dizzy’s, a spinoff the family opened in

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Fried chicken is a staple dish at Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House in Metairie.

Coming home to roost based around Creole-Italian flavor, steakhouse standards and the traditional New Orleans oyster bar. For his next project, he’s going back to a dish that’s been part of his repertoire from the beginning: fried chicken.

Mr. Ed’s Southern Fried Chicken is taking shape at 3544 W. Esplanade Ave. in Metairie, in a former Puccino’s Coffee location.

The new restaurant is slated to open in February. McIntyre says there may be additional locations soon.

The concept is focused on one of the most popular dishes at his other restaurants, including Mr. Ed’s Seafood & Italian Restaurant and Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House.

It will have table service and a full bar, though it will be more causal than its sister restaurants.

Diners will be able to get chicken plates for dine-in, or large orders by the box to go. McIntyre says his crew has fielded orders for hundreds of pieces at a time for catered events in the past.

“Over the years, chicken has just been one of our go-to dishes, we do real well with it so this is a way to give it its own place, and one we can expand,” McIntyre says.

His son Austin McIntyre, namesake for his Austin’s Seafood & Steakhouse, is now joining the family business and will take the helm at the new fried chicken spot.

The menu at Mr. Ed’s Southern Fried Chicken will also have fried seafood plates and po-boys, and homey sides. One specialty will be boneless “chicken chunks,” the kitchen’s own take on chicken tenders, cut from the breast.

Fried chicken was the specialty at Mr. Ed’s Deli, which McIntyre first opened at 901 Veterans Memorial Blvd. in Metairie in 1989 (it closed years ago). McIntrye says the new restaurant will serve a recipe based on the original, which was itself inspired by Jim’s Famous Fried Chicken, a longgone local restaurant McIntrye once favored. — IAN McNULTY/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

the Whitney Hotel in the Central Business District years ago. She has now stepped into a main management role for Li’l Dizzy’s.

The restaurant will begin serving signature dishes such as Creole gumbo, fried chicken, red beans and trout Baquet for takeout. Arkesha Baquet said they plan to expand service as New Orleans’ coronavirus safety protocols dictate, eventually returning to full service.

Baquet Jr. said they plan to reach deeper into the family’s restaurant

past to bring back more dishes, such as hot sausage po-boys.

“There’s a lot of dishes we’ve done as a family over the years that have been put on the shelf. We can dip back into those,” he said.

Li’l Dizzy’s has been a longtime food vendor at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The new owners plan to resume that role when Jazz Fest returns. — IAN McNULTY/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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New Orleans three years ago to work in the restaurant industry and explore Gulf seafood. In the end of 2019, he launched his pop-up Nuna NOLA (@nuna_nola on Instagram), which primarily focuses on Mexican food but sometimes does special menus. He offers Mexican menus at pop-ups at Palm & Pine from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12 and Jan. 19.

How did you get interested in cooking?

JONATHAN CASHATT: I am originally from Portland. Both of my parents didn’t know how to cook, so it was simple food all of the time. A lot of times, I would cook food for myself or figure it out, so food was always there in the back of my head.

Out of high school, I went to culinary school for a semester in Eugene, Oregon, where a lot of high school buddies were going, but it felt like high school again. After a year, I decided to get serious and moved back to Portland. I started working at Clyde Common in downtown in the Ace Hotel. I started working with this one chef, Johnny Leach, who was at Momofuku with David Chang. He was a mentor to me. I also worked at Bar Casa Vale, Biwa and Kachka.

I moved here and wanted to do something new. I worked at Peche for a bit, and then the chef de cuisine of Peche opened Costera and I ended up going over there. Then I was like, “I am going to do my own pop-up.” I started that at Barrel Proof, and things kind of took off for a bit before Mardi Gras, and then Covid happened.

How did you get interested in Mexican food?

C: I have always enjoyed Hispanic food. I spent time in Mexico when I was a kid. Right after my parents’ divorce, my dad was like, “We’re going to Mexico.” We spent a couple weeks in old Mazatlan and other places. One of the biggest memories that stands out to me is one of the outdoor butcher shops. It was a massive meat market.

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I rub them and let them sit for 24 hours. Then I will braise them in kombucha with garlic, onion, orange slices and a little bit of stock. I braise those until they’re tender, then you can throw them in a smoker or in the oven and roast them pretty hard and get that char on it.

I take the braising liquid and make a reduction sauce. I take the braised oranges and heat them and put them on the plate with some pickled red onions and some microgreens.

I am going to do a ceviche crudo.

Probably with satsuma and snapper of some sort.

Everything is completely from scratch. I do a pollo verde pozole.

I want to get as much rich chicken flavor as I can in the stock. Then I take a bunch of tomatillos, poblanos, serranos, white onion and garlic and cook them in the chicken stock. Half of the vegetables I’ll burn and char and fold them in and cook them down. Then you combine the chicken stock, the vegetables, hominy and cook that a tiny bit. Top it with some thin sliced cabbage, radish and some avocado. — WILL COVIELLO

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Notice: Due to COVID-19, dining at restaurants is impacted, with limited indoor seating and other recommended restrictions. All information is subject to change. Contact the restaurant to confirm service options.

BYWATER Luna Libre — 3600 St. Claude Ave., (504) 237-1284 — Roasted chicken enchiladas verde are filled with cheese and served with house-made cheese dip. The menu combines Tex-Mex and dishes from Louisiana and Arkansas. Curbside pickup is available. B Sat-Sun, D Wed-Sun. $

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

CITYWIDE Breaux Mart — Citywide; breauxmart.com — The deli counter’s changing specials include dishes such as baked catfish and red beans and rice. L, D daily. $

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Carnaval — 2227 St. Claude Ave., (504) 265-8855; carnavallounge.com — The Cozinha de Carnaval kitchen serves Brazilian street food. Frango is chicken cooked with thyme, rosemary and cumin and served with rosemary-garlic aioli. No reservations.

Takeout available. D Sat-Mon. $ Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 3834328; kebabnola.com — The sandwich shop offers doner kebabs and Belgian fries.

A falafel sandwich comes with pickled cucumbers, arugula, spinach, red onions, beets, hummus and Spanish garlic sauce.

No reservations. Takeout and delivery available Thu-Mon. $

FRENCH QUARTER Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — The menu features Gulf seafood in traditional and contemporary Creole dishes, po-boys and more. Char-grilled oysters are topped with Parmesan, herbs and butter. Reservations recommended. Takeout available. B, L and D daily. $$

HARAHAN/JEFFERSON/ RIVER RIDGE The Rivershack Tavern — 3449 River Road, (504) 834-4938; therivershacktavern.com — This bar and music spot offers a menu of

B — breakfast L — lunch D — dinner late — late 24H — 24 hours

$ — average dinner entrée under $10 $$ — $11 to $20 $$$ — $21 or more

burgers, sandwiches and changing lunch specials. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 7333803; theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and toppings to build your own pizza. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D Tue-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001; lakeviewbrew.com — This casual cafe offers coffee, pastries, desserts, sandwiches and salads. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with Monterey Jack and Parmesan.

Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. B, L daily. $ Lotus Bistro — 203 W. Harrison Ave., (504) 533-9879; lotusbistronola.com — A Mineko Iwasaki roll includes spicy snow crab, tuna, avocado and cucumber topped with salmon, chef’s sauce, masago, green onion and tempura crunchy flakes. The menu also includes bento box lunches, teriyaki dishes, fried rice and more. Takeout and delivery are available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$

METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; andreasrestaurant.com — Chef Andrea Apuzzo’s speckled trout royale is topped with crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in cream sauce. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. Takeout available. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; marktwainpizza.com — Mark Twain’s serves salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil. Takeout and curbside pickup are available. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream. com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. Window and curbside pickup. L, D Tue-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 6093871; brownbutterrestaurant.com — Sample items include smoked brisket served with

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Kebab (2315 St. Claude Ave., 504-383-4328; kebabnola.com) serves doner kebab sandwiches. smoked apple barbecue sauce, smoked heirloom beans and vinegar slaw. A Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. Dine-in, takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Wed-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $$ Doson Noodle House — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283; facebook.com/dosonnoodlehouse — Bun thit is Vietnamese-style grilled pork with cucumber, onions, lettuce, mint, cilantro and fish sauce served over rice or vermicelli. The menu includes pho, spring rolls and more. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; fivehappiness.com — The large menu of Chinese dishes includes wonton soup, sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate, sizzling Go-Ba and lo mein dishes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic and scallions. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$ Nonna Mia — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; nonnamianola.com — A Divine Portobello appetizer features chicken breast, spinach in red pepper sauce and crostini.

The menu includes salads, sandwiches, pasta, pizza and more. Curbside pickup and delivery are available. Service daily. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

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

UPTOWN Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 8910997; joeyksrestaurant.com — ­ The menu includes fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and red beans and rice. Sauteed trout Tchoupitoulas is topped with shrimp and crabmeat and served with vegetables and potatoes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Red Gravy — 4206 Magazine St., (504) 561-8844; redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with chocolate. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. Takeout available. $$

Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; theospizza. com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco — 5015 Magazine St., (504) 267-7612; titoscevichepisco.com — The Peruvian menu includes a version of the traditional dish lomo saltado, featuring beef tenderloin tips sauteed with onions, tomatoes, cilantro, soy sauce and pisco, and served with fried potatoes and rice.

Dine-in, outdoor seating and delivery available. L and D Mon-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant.com — The menu highlights Gulf seafood in Creole, Cajun and Southern dishes. Fried oysters and skewered bacon are served with meuniere sauce and toasted French bread. Reservations required. D Thu-Sun. $$$ Carmo — 527 Julia St., (504) 875-4132; cafecarmo.com — Carmo salad includes smoked ham, avocado, pineapple, almonds, cashews, raisins, cucumber, green pepper, rice, lettuce, cilantro and citrus mango vinaigrette. The menu includes dishes inspired by tropical cuisines. Takeout and delivery are available. Mon-Sat. $$ NOLA Caye — 898 Baronne St., (504) 302-1302; nolacaye.com — The menu features Caribbean-inspired dishes and Gulf seafood. Seared ahi tuna is served with mango, avocado, mixed greens, citrus vinaigrette and sesame seeds. Takeout, delivery and outdoor seating available. D daily, brunch Sat-Sun. $$$ Provisions Grab-n-Go Marketplace — Higgins Hotel, 500 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higgingshotelnola.com — The coffeeshop serves salads, sandwiches, pastries and more. Takeout available.

Service daily. $

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumbs and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available. D Wed-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza.

Paneed chicken piccata is topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread. Takeout and delivery available.

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ON CHRISTMAS DAY, Dirty Bourbon

River Show released “XII” with a straightforward and firm note: “The 12th and final studio album by the Dirty Bourbon River Show.”

The New Orleans band threw a 10th anniversary show in March 2019 at Tipitina’s, where it had performed its first show. Songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Noah Adams formed the band while a student at Loyola and that initial lineup included other university students.

Over its 10-year run, DBRS released 10 records, played more than 1,200 shows and toured extensively both nationally and in Europe. But with this anniversary show with Bon Bon Vivant and “their friends, DBRS was ready to close out the chapter where it began, and so DBRS turned an anniversary show into a “see ya later” celebration.

Still, while DBRS effectively called it the end, the band had a couple of final recordings to wrap up. In September 2019, DBRS released “Stuck in the Desert with You,” its 11th full-length album and the only release featuring songs recorded outside of New Orleans (the band recorded in Tucson, Arizona). And Adams released a solo album, “The Mental Health Mixtape.”

“XII” is the last boisterous hoorah.

“It’s tough,” Adams says. “We closed out a great chapter and went out with a bang, but then you’ve got all this stuff. You want to move on, but you can’t because you have all of this love for [music] that you’ve made and there are all of these people who deserve to have it.”

“XII” was recorded about three years ago, Adams says, adding that he felt people needed the record after the slog of 2020.

The nine-track album was recorded

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The Dirty Bourbon River Show played its farewell concert in March 2019 at Tipitina’s. The band’s final album ‘XII’ is now out.

at Esplanade Studios and produced

by Adams and studio owner Misha Kachkachishvili.

Along with Adams singing and playing piano, guitar, trumpet and other instruments, “XII” features Jimmy Williams on tuba and bass; Matt Thomas on saxophone and clarinet; trombonist Nick Garrison; and vocalist Charlie Skinner. Sweet Crude’s Sam and Jack Craft also appear on the album.

If “XII” has to be the end, it’s a satisfying exclamation point to DBRS’ vigorous string of studio albums.

The band’s big top of Romani rock, barroom jazz, New Orleans brass and Carnival wildness is as sharp, enthusiastic and comfortably worn as anyone who’s followed the band’s career could hope.

Adams says he considers “XII” to be the counterpart to the band’s 2017 release “The Flying Musical Circus.” The records were recorded around the same time.

“It’s some of that last, classic Dirty Bourbon energy that’s been captured and bottled up,” Adams says.

Adams doesn’t discount the possibility of anything. There is more unreleased DBRS material “in the vault,” but it’s not up to the quality of “XII” or any of the band’s releases, he says. For now, the circus really is going dark.

“It’s been a shit year and I want [listeners] to just have some good music and a good time with Dirty Bourbon,” Adam says.

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that the FBI kept civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. under heavy surveillance. The agency tapped phones he used, bugged his hotel rooms, paid numerous informants and infiltrated civil rights groups. It’s also not a secret that the FBI sent a tape recording of King’s extramarital affairs to King and his wife, Coretta Scott King. But information from unsealed FBI documents detailing the agency’s actions provide some of the starkest details in director Sam Pollard’s Pollard’s probing documentary “MLK/FBI.” The film makes clear that the FBI didn’t just spy on King, it agitated to discredit him and end his public activism. The government learned that King had extramarital affairs and taped activities in his hotel rooms. That it didn’t release those recordings directly seems like an unusual point of restraint by the agency, but another issue raised in the movie is that the FBI’s array of surveillance recordings of King will become public documents in 2027.

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Pollard has produced, directed and edited many films and TV projects about civil rights. He also worked on Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary series “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”

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But the agency’s opposition to King was specific. Following the March on Washington, King was referred to in an FBI document as “the most dangerous Negro” in America. There was a distinct personal animosity to King by Hoover, and the film notes the FBI director’s own sexual secret life.

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“MLK/FBI” was the closing night film at the New Orleans Film Festival in November and opens at Prytania Theatres at Canal Place Jan. 15.

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