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Roadside tune-up Piano on a Truck concerts bring live music to small crowds of New Orleanians

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PIANIST JOE KROWN AND HIS TRIO,

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along with guitarist Walter “Wolfman” Washington, were regulars on the schedule at the Maple Leaf Bar before the pandemic shut down New Orleans music clubs. It was one of the last bands to perform inside the club in March.

Krown recently performed at the Leaf, but outside — on a white grand piano mounted in the bed of a pickup truck.

“I had a lot of fun,” Krown says. “It was great because people come and sit outside, and they bring their chairs and coolers and some people brought watermelon. It was downhome and everyone was in masks. It was sweet.”

The Maple Leaf Bar has been presenting pianists in the truck as a continuation of its pre-pandemic Thursday night tributes to James Booker, the bar’s patron saint. The bar rents the truck from Piano on a Truck (www. pianoonatruck.com), a project started by piano repairman Jacques Ferland.

Pianists including Tom McDermott, Dave Torkanowsky, Andre Bohren and Josh Paxton have played Piano on a Truck concerts. The shows are small, but they’re one way locals can enjoy live music again.

“It’s nice getting out in front of a crowd and actually hearing some people clap,” Krown says. “Or they walk up and say, ‘Hey, can you play this song?’ ” Krown has kept in touch with audiences through livestreaming shows. When the shutdown began, he streamed weekly shows, with sessions devoted to Professor Longhair, boogie-woogie music, a New Orleans piano history set and an all-request day. One early installment drew 15,000 views.

“It’s a little strange talking into my iPhone,” he says. “But I know people are out there because they’re commenting. And it’s worldwide. I get a hello from Germany or D.C., or ‘Chicago’s in the house.’ ” While he has plenty of time, Krown delayed plans to record a new album of songs by Allen Toussaint, Booker,

THE AQUARIUM OF THE AMERICAS REOPENED JULY 16, and visitors can meet Zion, an African penguin hatched Feb. 17 and named for New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson. Exhibits such as the Stingray Touchpool and Shark Discovery are not open. Admission is by online reservation and limited to allow for physical distancing.

Patrons must wear masks.

Running without the pack Dr. John, Professor Longhair and Art Neville. He has made money off the dozen albums he’s recorded, but since people don’t buy CDs and he can’t play many live gigs, he decided to wait.

Krown holds down the keys in blues rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s band, and a mid-August concert in South Dakota is the only gig he currently has scheduled outside of New Orleans.

Here, he’s also a regular on the Frenchmen Street Dat Dog’s balcony piano.

The piano at Dat Dog was supplied

by Ferland. While he doesn’t play piano himself, Ferland made a business out of repairing and restoring them. He’s supplied pianos to many local venues, including clubs and churches. He first put a piano on a truck to have fun busking. Since the pandemic started, it’s become a popular novelty.

The piano is a 1948 Knabe — the same version Elvis kept in his living room at Graceland. It’s painted white (instead of black) to keep it from absorbing heat, which puts it out of tune faster, Ferland says. But with two-tofour Piano on a Truck events per week, he still tunes it as many as five times a week. Wear and tear from the truck also makes it hard to stay in tune.

“I live in Lakeview, and the roads are horrible,” he says.

Andre Bohren, a classically trained pianist and member of Johnny Sketch &

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Joe Krown plays a show in the Piano on a Truck outside the Maple Leaf Bar.

the Dirty Notes, has performed in the truck several times.

“It’s a better instrument than the one at my house and most barrooms,” he says. “And I get to play in front of people.”

The truck was parked in his mother’s driveway in Faubourg St. John for two shows meant for a small crowd of invited guests and neighbors.

During the pandemic, Bohren has livestreamed various performances, including a daily short classical music piece, but shows from the truck have garnered extra clicks because of the novelty, he says.

The only Johnny Sketch show during the pandemic was a livestream from Esplanade Studios for the virtual Creole Tomato Festival in June.

Bohren has appreciated being able to be at home with his eight-month-old baby, and he’s been busy working on songs with Johnny Sketch. He says he’ll keep playing a couple of monthly Piano on a Truck gigs to get to play for live audiences.

“It’s like a sneak attack piano concert,” he says. “Playing in front of a live audience is powerful.”

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Lone wolf WALTER “WOLFMAN” WASHINGTON RECORDED HIS LATEST ALBUM IN 2018, “My Future is My Past,” with a parade of guests and minimal accompaniment instead of the Roadmasters, his band of three decades. He performs a set on the balcony of the New Orleans Jazz Museum at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Concert revival THE REVIVALISTS PERFORM THE FINAL SHOW of The NOLA Drivein Summer Concert Series on the grounds of the UNO Lakefront Arena at 6 p.m. Saturday. Parking/tailgating slots at the physically distanced event are officially sold out, but there’s time to make friends.

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Louisiana’s ranking among states in terms of COVID-19 testing rates.

to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office for use by incarcerated people in local jails. The New Orleans rapper worked with Pastor Mike McBride and his PPE campaign Masks for the People to supply masks and boxes of hand sanitizer for the Orleans Justice Center and Juvenile Justice Intervention Center. The majority of the donated masks will go to the adult prison, and 500 will go to the juvenile detention center.

Gov. John Bel Edwards on July 15 announced Louisiana’s second-place ranking and a milestone of the state administering more than one million tests.

As of press time, more than 957,000 tests were completed by commercial labs, while state labs oversaw almost 44,000.

With soaring case numbers linked to community spread, longer turnaround times for results and an overall demand for tests that far outnumbers the supplies, there’s not much to celebrate. Meanwhile, health officials scramble for more resources and face struggles in figuring out guidelines for reopening some of the state’s schools.

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Cam Jordan and UnitedHealthcare gave out 70 laptops

last week to students participating in the city’s Pathways program, a timely gift as schools assess how to teach kids in the fall amid the pandemic.

The Pathways Youth Internship Program places systems-involved New Orleans youth with partner businesses to give them paid work experience throughout the year. The Saints defensive end and UnitedHealthcare made a combined $25,000 donation to purchase the computers.

Attorney General Jeff Landry, who in March backed Gov.

John Bel Edwards’ order to close bars and limit the size of gatherings as a way to curb the spread of COVID-19, this week called Edwards’ latest order limiting the size of gatherings, closing bars and mandating face masks in public “likely unconstitutional and unenforceable.” The Republican AG is quarantined after a COVID-19 diagnosis that prevented him from welcoming Vice President Mike Pence to the state on July 14. Pence, meanwhile, praised the

CITY COUNCIL PUSHES BACK NEW ORLEANS FACIAL RECOGNITION BAN VOTE, SEEKING MORE PUBLIC INPUT THE NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL JULY 16 postponed a vote to ban

the use of facial recognition technology by the police and all other city agencies, a move that would make New Orleans one of only a handful of cities in the U.S., and the only city in the South, to ban the controversial technology.

According to Micah Ince, Council President Jason Williams’ legislative director, the vote will now occur during the council’s August 6 meeting. Officials decided to put off the vote to give neighborhood groups additional time to comment. Williams sponsored the legislation.

The ban would also apply to other controversial surveillance technologies including automated license plate readers, cell-site simulators and characteristic tracking systems, and would impose new oversight rules and limits on data collected by approved surveillance technologies.

The new changes would also require the city to seek the City Council’s approval before acquiring any new surveillance technology or changing the way any existing surveillance is used.

Although popular with law enforcement agencies across the country, these surveillance technologies have become of increasing concern, not only to civil libertarians but also local governments.

In fact, a small but growing number of municipalities across the country have started to address their use of public surveillance, which has come under renewed scrutiny following their use to target activists at recent racial justice protests.

In May 2019 San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban facial recognition, and since then a number of coastal cities have followed suit, including Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley in California, and Cambridge, Brookline, Somerville and Northampton in Massachusetts. — JAKE CLAPP PAGE 7

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WWL-TV TO AIR MOON LANDRIEU SPECIAL ON FORMER MAYOR’S 90TH BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu will celebrate his 90th birthday on Thursday, July 23, and to mark the occasion, WWL-TV is set to air a halfhour special pulling from an extended interview between Landrieu and Gambit Political Editor Clancy DuBos. The special airs 6:30 p.m. Thursday on Channel 4 and wwltv.com.

DuBos interviewed Landrieu in May around the 50th anniversary of Landrieu’s inauguration as New Orleans’ 56th mayor. The Channel 4 special, “Moon at 90: Landrieu Looks Back,” is a retrospective of the two-term mayor’s lifetime of public service and his noted work during the Civil Rights Movement.

“I was determined, as I became mayor, to revitalize this city and to bring about racial integration, so that the city could enjoy the full benefit of white and black participants,” Landrieu said to DuBos in May. After Landrieu left office in 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter appointed him to become U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary. Several of his nine children, including Mary Landrieu and Mitch Landrieu, have followed him into public service. — JAKE CLAPP

‘NAME LEE CIRCLE FOR MY DOG’: STREET RENAMING COMMISSION HEARS SOME OF THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS, ELECTS LONGTIME CIVIL SERVANT KARL CONNOR AS CHAIR

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The Street Renaming Commission, appointed by officials at City Hall, listened to some of the initial public comments from residents eager to rename certain streets and reexamine some landmarks, as officials have expressed support for shedding tributes to Confederates and white supremacists.

One resident wrote in to suggest, “Name Lee Circle after my dog,” another called for the city to install a giant fleur-de-lis statue where the likeness of Robert E. Lee once towered, and one simply complained, “This commission is run by politicians and the Mob.” Others suggested commissioners act quickly so the city can also prioritize pandemic response, fixing potholes, cleaning up the collapsed PAGE 8

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Hard Rock Hotel site and dealing with the Sewerage and Water Board during what promises to be an active hurricane season.

Officials surely have their hands full, but that doesn’t mean they won’t multi-task.

Councilwoman Kristin Gisleson Palmer, who oversees the commission with Councilman Jay Banks, said she hopes to see, and help guide, robust conversation among residents and officials as the renaming process takes steps toward healing a painful history.

She also urges residents to weigh in with “constructive” feedback by emailing commissioners directly or by submitting public comments — under two minutes long. They’ll read suggestions out loud during a series of remote, live-streamed meetings the public can access through the Council’s website at www.council.nola.gov.

Palmer emphasized the word “constructive,” she said, “because I know without a doubt that there will be those who are unwilling to accept the harm that honoring people who fought to uphold slavery and white supremacy have done to our city. They will try and distract from that fact in a myriad of ways.” The process, she said, will be “driven by facts and reason.”

The commission has already begun working with researchers from both the New Orleans Public Library as well as the Historic New Orleans Collection to identify problematic streets and landmarks, and provide context for the public to guide them in their decision-making.

They also elected Karl Connor as committee chair. Connor has a long history of leadership and has worked with the New Orleans Civil Service Commission and as Vice Chair of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. He also serves on the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum Advisory Board and the World Council of the International House New York.

“Every day we walk, bike and drive by streets, monuments and public places which overtly and subliminally reinforce in some a sense of nostalgia and superiority, and in others inferiority, systematically attempting to engrain itself in their very beings,” Connor said in a follow-up interview with Gambit. “This is why we’re meeting at this moment, with a movement to be a better, more inclusive New Orleans.”

Banks acknowledged it won’t be an easy process, but said the “proposed changes would be a

result of a collective will of our citizens” and “all New Orleanians who have an interest should have the opportunity to have their voices heard.”

He also advised the commission to “Keep an open heart and an open mind and listen to all sides.”

After they host at least another three required meetings and do further outreach in neighborhoods, the commission will give its final report to the City Council, which will work with the City Planning Commission to implement the changes.

“The work we are about to embark on will not be easy, but it is long overdue,” Palmer said. “Our city must reflect our values.”

The next meeting will take place August 5 and will be accessible through the Council’s website.

— SARAH RAVITS

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Noted Twitter author and wholesale book purchasing magnate Donald Trump Jr. was arrested in the early hours of Feb. 21, 2001 in Uptown New Orleans and charged with public intoxication by members of the local constabulary, according to a copy of the arrest report recently obtained by AMERICAblog.

Feb. 21, 2001 was the Sunday before Mardi Gras. New Orleans police tend to take a handsoff approach to public revelry during this time of year due to its ubiquity. According to the report, the then-unemployed Trump was arrested at 6:15 a.m. on the 900 block of Hillary Street.

The arrest report gives no hint as to why the namesake of the current commander-in-chief was out at such an early hour, or what exactly transpired between Trump Jr. and Officer Louis Labat that led to his incarceration. Like his father, Trump is fond of vaguely pointing to Christianity as his faith of choice, and with several churches in the area he could, in theory, have simply been seeking sanctuary in a local house of worship.

On the other hand, Trump’s arrest was also a few blocks from The Boot, a late-night provider of affordable libations and good cheer popular with students from nearby Tulane University. Gambit has not independently verified the authenticity of the documents.

Whatever happened that fateful morning, it was enough for Labat to take the wealthy young Trump into custody and secure him an overnight spot in the custody of the Orleans Parish Prison until his release on Lundi Gras. It’s a rare experience for locals and visitors alike to spend just part of Mardi Gras weekend in Central Lockup, since regular court work doesn’t resume until Ash Wednesday. — JOHN STANTON

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ON JULY 13, THE WORST PANDEMIC TO STRIKE NEW ORLEANS

stole the life of nine-year-old Devante Bryant. “D Man,” as his friends and family called him, was murdered as he sat on the stoop of his house on the 2100 block of Pauger Street in the Seventh Ward. He was the latest in a long, terrible string of victims taken by our city’s violent plague of racism, poverty and purposeful neglect.

Devante’s death is an unimaginable trauma for his family and our community. The anger runs deep, and rightfully so. For decades, city leaders have promised a new day, a city of yes that would end the violence and despair, if only everybody played by the rules. Let the process work. Reform is coming.

Just wait.

And so people waited. After former NOPD officer Len Davis had Kim Groves murdered in 1994 just blocks from where Devante lived and died, officials held yet another “crime summit” and promised reforms across a wide social and political spectrum, including expanded economic opportunities.

And yet, after decades of promises, what do the Seventh Ward, the Lower Ninth, Central City and other neglected neighborhoods have to show for it but crumbling streets, floodwaters after each rain, and few if any economic benefits — but there is a growing list of dead friends and neighbors?

Our city’s leaders know this.

They know that on Devante’s block alone, at least seven people have been murdered since 2009, as have four others two blocks over on Annette Street. They know that the neighborhood has flooded at least four times in the last three years — not from hurricanes but from a lack of infrastructure investment.

They know a lack of mental health services and job training inevitably turns some children first hard and then into killers.

After each death, the police — conspicuously absent most of the time — come in force, temporarily patrolling the neighborhood with floodlights and slowly creeping patrol cars. It only lasts a few days.

The media occasionally come ‘round as well, carefully locking their car doors before dutifully knocking on doors for a quote or setting up for a shot of a particularly telegenic stretch of blight.

Politicians, too, come when a particularly innocent soul is lost. They make solemn promises of reform, standing with us in front of the me-

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Family members grieve over the loss of 9-year-old Devante Bryant on July 13.

dia and pledging that help is on the way, just you wait. The titans of New Orleans business never come at all.

And so it has gone since Devante’s tragic death on July 13. Within an hour of his murder, police had secured a huge swath of the neighborhood, bringing the needed peace and security for the mayor and police chief to make an appearance. Mayor LaToya Cantrell expressed outrage and promised change; Police superintendent Shaun Ferguson lamented that New Orleanians are “better than this.”

Yet, no matter how righteous their anger and frustration are, the reality is everyone within earshot had heard it all before.

It’s long past time for politicians, community leaders and the media — including this paper — to acknowledge the truth: We have failed our city, our neighbors, our children. Polite, piecemeal reform is not enough. It never was. A system that spends hundreds of millions of dollars turning neighborhoods into holding pens, that lock tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters in jail while ignoring our communities’ basic needs, needs top-to-bottom systemic change — and now.

To our elected leaders, your power and our comfort was never worth the life of Devante Bryant and the lives of too many other children. If we keep going down the same path, there will be others.

The old adage, “Justice delayed is justice denied” also posits for tens of thousands of New Orleanians, “A life delayed is a life denied.”

Devante’s life was not just delayed — he never got the chance to live it. Real change, real justice, and young lives must not be denied any longer.

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election is a unique event, but this COVID-era election cycle promises to be one for the history books. No contest on the Nov. 3 ballot proves that more than the race for district attorney in New Orleans.

The pandemic challenges candidates on multiple fronts. Fundraising will be extremely difficult, and candidates will find few (if any) opportunities to engage significant numbers of voters face to face.

Social media will be more important than ever, but so will direct mail and old-fashioned door hangers and push cards.

Then there’s embattled DA Leon Cannizzaro’s uncharacteristic silence as to whether he’ll seek a third term. With qualifying (July 22-24) now just days away, the political landscape has shifted almost hourly as candidates jockey for position.

Based on conversations with a number of sources, I believe Cannizzaro will not run. He has taken a beating in the polls in the wake of his office’s “fake subpoena” scandal and his (now discontinued) policy of arresting material witnesses in domestic abuse cases. Polls show him losing to every major challenger in a runoff. He is expected to formally announce his intentions this week. Don’t look for him to make any endorsements.

If I’m wrong about Cannizzaro not running, see my Gambit cover story of July 7 for my take on the race with the incumbent in it. If I’m right, his decision not to run turns the race upside down. Every announced — and potential — candidate had planned to run against the DA. Now most of them will train their sights on City Council President Jason Williams, who had emerged as Cannizzaro’s chief opponent. And with Cannizzaro out, others may still jump in.

Like Cannizzaro, Williams is hobbled by controversy. He’s under federal criminal indictment for tax fraud, and his trial is set to begin Sept. 14 — in the middle of the election. Standing on the steps of the federal courthouse as a felony de-

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fendant is not exactly a candidate’s fondest idea of earned media.

In addition to Williams, who was first to announce his candidacy, former Criminal Court judges Arthur Hunter and Keva Landrum have announced their candidacies.

Hunter staked out his claim on the “left” side of the field with a full-throated embrace of criminal justice reform and a platform that tracks many progressives’ agenda. Landrum is expected to steer a more moderate course — embracing reforms in the office and in the system but still emphasizing prosecution of violent offenders.

Both Hunter and Landrum will have significant political backing.

Former state Sen. JP Morrell, who authored many of Louisiana’s recently enacted criminal justice reform measures, considered entering the fray but opted not to run. In a statement, he blasted Cannizzaro and added, “I will be advocating for change this fall and I’ll be voting for new leadership in this important office.”

Perhaps the most sought-after endorsement of all will be that of Mayor LaToya Cantrell. In recent election cycles, Herroner has shown coattails that are both long and wide. If she gets behind a candidate in this race, she could be the game changer every candidate covets — even, or perhaps especially, under the suffocating pall of a pandemic.

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The oldest is the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History and Culture (www.noaam.org). Opened in 1996, its Gov. Nicholls Street campus consists of five historic Treme buildings, including the Meilleur-Goldthwaite House, a Creole villa built in 1828.

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A few blocks away at 1116 Henriette Delille St., across from St. Augustine Catholic Church, is the Backstreet Cultural Museum (www.backstreetmuseum.org), the creation of Sylvester Francis. Its exhibits celebrate the Mardi Gras Indians, Skull and Bone gangs, Baby Dolls, jazz funerals, and social aid and pleasure clubs.

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Recent Lusher graduate Domonique Tolliver speaks at a protest on July 4.

Lusher students demand to rename their top-ranking school that pays tribute to a Confederate. During a summer of nationwide protests against systemic racism, will they finally get their way?

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DOMONIQUE TOLLIVER’S PARENTS DROPPED HER OFF AT A MID-CITY COFFEE SHOP on July 12 and hesitated to drive away until she arrived inside safely to

order an iced chai latte.

The college-bound aspiring journalist, who graduated with honors in May from New Orleans’ top-ranking Lusher Charter School, also recently obtained her driver’s license. She would later reveal a reluctance to drive alone, even in broad daylight, citing fears of police brutality.

Besides, over the weekend, her father caught wind that a group of white supremacists would be flocking in from out of town to harm Black residents and protesters, and he wanted to assure her safety while escorting her across town from New Orleans East.

Thankfully, the rumor proved false, but it served as a reminder: Black lives are constantly under threat.

Not that Tolliver needed a reminder. For her and the rest of New Orleans’ more than 233,000 Black residents, tributes to white supremacy are everywhere, from the streets they live on to the schools they attend and the parks they play at.

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Lusher students, past and present, have reached a tipping point in calling for change.

“I am on high alert every single day,” Tolliver says. “It’s debilitating.”

But that is not stopping Tolliver and her peers. Far from it: After years of organizing and work, Tolliver and a group of other current and former Lusher students have finally convinced the administration and the Orleans Parish School Board, which oversees the school, to finally reckon with this racist history later this month.

A Painful History

Robert Mills Lusher’s “life’s work was propping up this idea of white supremacy through education” — MICHAEL TISSERAND, HISTORIAN AND FORMER LUSHER PARENT

In the midst of a seemingly endless pandemic disproportionately killing their relatives while civic leaders continue to fail them, young New Orleanians of color and their allies are demanding change in symbolic and literal forms.

And during a summer of packed protests against systemic racism, yet to yield real results, one of the goals — if the adults in charge will finally listen — is to rename Lusher and fix what students call institutionalized discrimination within its halls and community.

With campuses Uptown near some of the city’s most stately houses, private universities and in one of the most expensive ZIP codes, Lusher is one of the city’s premier charter schools and a household name. According to its mission statement, the school, which educates children from kindergarten to 12th grade, seeks to “provide a developmentally appropriate learning environment in which high academics, comprehensive arts education and the celebration of individuality and diversity enable each child to achieve, as a learner, a person and a valuable member of our society.”

Despite an excellent academic reputation, students say its name, along with some of the school’s policies and a predominantly white teaching staff and ad-

ministration, are demoralizing for Black students — and for good reason. “Lusher [the person] didn’t want Black people to read,” Ishoke Bolden, an incoming senior and member of the school’s Black Student Union, says bluntly.

Originally just an elementary school, Lusher was named after Robert Mills Lusher, a Confederate tax collector-turned-school superintendent in the city. The school was given the name in the early 1900s during the so-called Lost Cause movement when white nationalists began a rebranding of the Confederate era to paint it as a heroic, glorified and romanticized time period.

But that doesn’t change the fact that throughout his life, Lusher upheld white supremacist beliefs and urged the Louisiana government to exclusively support the education of white children so “they would be properly prepared to maintain the supremacy of the white race,” according to his own autobiography.

Says Michael Tisserand, a former Lusher parent, historian and former Gambit editor who conducted extensive research on the problematic historical figure, “His life’s work was propping up this idea of white supremacy through education. He had a hand in some of the absolute worst moments in our city’s history...I’d love to see the history of education and activism be something taught and embraced at a school formerly known as Lusher.”

That painful history is always present, not only in the name on the physical buildings, but also in the curriculum and how Black students are treated, according to Tolliver and several of her peers.

Walking through a Confederatenamed institution feels like “walking back in time. They have to have me there for diversity. But they don’t want me here; they don’t want my experi-

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Daniel Porea, an incoming senior at Lusher

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Jessica Eugene graduated from Lusher in 2014. ences. They don’t want my language.

They don’t want my opinions. They don’t care,” she told Gambit.

Lusher’s CEO Kathy Riedlinger did not respond directly to complaints that Black students have faced hostility, microaggressions and indifference from some of the administrators and teachers. But she said the school is committed to “examining practices and procedures” and has “identified important steps, including student and staff recruitment, staff training and curriculum analysis.” She furthermore added that she hopes to maintain a “safe, supportive and inclusive environment for all students.”

Racial Bias in School

Current and former students paint a far more complicated and discriminatory picture of life at Lusher.

Jessica Eugene, a 2014 graduate, says her experience as a Black student often made her “extremely uncomfortable” and she thinks the school’s curriculum indicates racial bias.

“There were some teachers that would throw in Black history or African history, but there wasn’t a universal push to be centered around multiple peoples’ experiences ... It’s very ‘other-ing’,” she says. Meanwhile, she adds, addressing concerns about racial sensitivity to authority figures “makes you feel like you are asking too much.”

According to Eugene, disciplinary action at Lusher Charter disproportionately impacts students of color, often facing more severe consequences than white students for relatively small infractions like “eating chips and talking — normal kid stuff …

Black girls get policed for dress codes and in ways that are more strict than their white peers. So there’s a very clear racial bias.”

Another organizer, Corinne Williams, a graduate of 2014, says she felt “tokenized” after winning theater awards and seeing her face gracing posters

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Newfound Momentum

The push to give the school a more inclusive moniker isn’t new, particularly after the school opened its high school in early 2006 at its Alcee Fortier campus on Freret Street, and since then it’s bubbled up several times over the years before reaching its current boiling point.

In 2017, as then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu celebrated the removal of three Confederate monuments and the Battle of Liberty Place memorial, students at Lusher began another effort when former student Tamir Bryant circulated a petition to give to Riedlinger, requesting a name change.

“We tried to get a movement going,” says Tolliver, who signed the petition as a sophomore. “But there wasn’t as much outcry.”

Tolliver says the movement to rename Lusher back in 2017 would have been a public relations disaster for the prestigious school, and consequently, “We were pretty much silenced by the administration,” she says. “They found out who started the petition and tried to intimidate them and said it doesn’t look good for our school.”

Riedlinger points out that in 1976 the school dropped “Robert Mills” from the name, a change initiated by Dr. Everett Williams, the first Black superintendent.

And in 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, she says, “a diverse group of community leaders led the effort to charter the [high] school as Lusher Charter School.”

Although the 2017 effort to rename the school failed, students and alumni

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Corinne Williams graduated from Lusher in 2014. continued to organize. On June 10 a new petition, authored by another alumnus Vasy McCoy (who now works in education) was circulated through change.org, garnering more than 6,300 signatures as of press time.

In it, the current and former students asked for a new name honoring “the diverse experiences, hopes and dreams of the children who they purport to care for and educate every day.”

On June 22, members of the Lusher community also launched an Instagram account, @prideoflusher, through which alumni and students could organize, anonymously share memories without fear of retaliation about the school, and air their grievances.

By that time, momentum was clearly growing, and as the nation spasmed in grief from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and held hundreds of protests seeking justice for other people of

color, the Lusher students planned their own protest for the 4th of July.

Organized by incoming senior Nia Talbott and recent graduate Bahiy Watson, the protest drew significant media attention and hundreds of supporters — including staff members — who marched several blocks in solidarity from Lusher’s lower school to its high school campus. There, current students and alumni delivered passionate speeches, waved handmade signs, chanted in unison and ended the afternoon by singing the Black National Anthem.

“What the students have done, which is amazing,” says Tisserand, “is to connect the culture of a place that would maintain a name like that to other issues of how race and racism is performed in the school.”

On July 30 the Orleans Parish School Board, which oversees charter boards including Lusher’s, will meet to further address the issue of renaming it.

According to a recent story in The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, the school board currently prohibits charter boards from renaming schools per a 2015 policy — but several school board members have expressed support for Lusher’s initiative.

“We want our schools to be welcoming, inclusive, and inspiring environments for our students each day,” wrote Ethan Ashley, school board president, in a letter. “A key part of that is ensuring that the names of our schools and the people that we honor through naming are reflective of the values of our district.”

Whether or not Riedlinger will support them on the name change, however, is unclear. She has thus far not explicitly said where she stands on the name change, though in a June 25 email

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The July 4 protest brought hundreds of students and community members together to call for a renaming of the school.

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promoting the school. “The school should be a service to the students,” she says, “not the other way around.”

Current student Daniel Porea, an incoming senior, says since he arrived at the school in eighth grade, he has experienced “microaggressions galore” along with “tone deaf and racist” correctional methods to behavior.

“I am a physically larger young Black man,” he says. “[I] may look like I should be on a football team, and when a teacher makes a remark about how surprising it is to see that I am an articulate creative with a knack for singing well, I am taken aback. Microaggressions that point out my intelligence despite my race are beyond insulting.”

This type of treatment has left many feeling not only insulted but isolated, they say, which can have a significant emotional and psychological toll they hope to spare future students from. “I could only hope that they don’t have to feel isolated,” incoming senior Ebube Agwaramgbo says. “I want them to feel like every other student that goes to school there and be free to express themselves however they please.”

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Haiden Hunter and Joule Lee, with the help of protest organizer and incoming Lusher senior Nia Talbott, read a list of demands in front of the school at the protest. to parents she acknowledged there was a problem and said she was “examining how to increase our school’s racial and academic diversity.”

Riedlinger also told Gambit that she “has always supported many different ways for our students to lift their voice and enact change” and added she’s “conferring with our Board President Richard Cortizas to formulate a process in accordance with NOLA Public Schools’ policy to consider changing the name of the school. We are listening to our school community and will be communicating what this process will look like.”

But even as a name change is within their sights, students and alumni say they are already looking ahead to a broader fight to fundamentally restructure the school’s curriculum to more directly include Black history and experience.

“I think there are enough new open-minded individuals at power in the school to bring about the change the school needs,” Agwaramgbo says. “I want students to walk through those front gates and be as happy as a teenager can be going to school at eight in the morning. I want for future Black students to be a part of the community, not just used as props in photos and reports to show off Lusher’s ‘amazing diversity.’ ” Porea agrees. “Changing the name should be a subordinate action alongside a major push for inclusivity, equity, and understanding,” he says. “There should be uncomfortable conversations that work to address the prejudices of faculty members and eliminate

implicit biases belonging to students. I do not want younger Black and Brown students to grow up racially profiled in the manner that I was in my Lusher experience.”

Indeed, Riedlinger seems to see the writing on the wall: In her statement to Gambit, she said the school will also expand a wellness project, a partnership with Louisiana State University to collect data on metrics, including “feelings of belonging, experiences with bias and many others among our school community members.”

Additionally, an online plan drafted by administrators acknowledges the educational landscape has “presented some unique obstacles that may challenge Lusher’s ongoing legacy of dreaming and advancing,” a clear signal that the students have gotten their attention, at least for now.

What’s ahead Preparing to enter Loyola University in the fall, just blocks away from her alma mater, Tolliver says she will continue to fight for structural change and support current Lusher students. And over the next four years and beyond, she hopes to amplify more Black voices as a student of media.

“I want the kids to know that I’m down the street,” she says. “There are people within the school who will fight, but at the end of the day, they won’t say anything too out of line because they need to keep their jobs. “[But] they gave me my education. I have my diploma,” she says. “They can’t take that away from me.”

Window of opportunity New Orleans bars try to get by on to-go drinks and takeout food

BY I A N M C N ULT Y WITH INDOOR SERVICE NOW OFF THE TABLE for bars across Louisiana, all the

drinks at the tiny French Quarter spot Erin Rose go out the window.

On a steamy Tuesday afternoon, manager Jordan Nash filled a plastic cup with frozen Irish coffee and handed it through the open shutters to a customer waiting on the sidewalk.

“It’s not much to work with, but at least it’s something,” Nash says behind his face mask, between working a handheld payment device and applying sanitizer.

Drinks to go, long a fixture of New Orleans bar culture, are now a last resort for many.

As Louisiana faces rising coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, Gov. John Bel Edwards last week ordered all bars to close, while also mandating face mask use and reducing the size of gatherings statewide. While most other types of businesses are allowed to remain open, bars have come under new scrutiny from public health experts as high-risk environments for virus spread. Some bars have reopened with special licenses that allow them to operate as restaurants, while following the same coronavirus restrictions as restaurants.

For others, the governor’s order left open the option for bars to continue takeout and curbside pickup, which health authorities deem the lowest-risk way for business to continue.

Many bars closed up shop when the order took effect July 13. In the tourism hub of the French Quarter, only a handful of bars like Erin Rose (811 Conti St., 504-522-3573; www.erinrosebar.com) were trying takeout-only service, joining a few Bourbon Street spots that have long offered walk-up go drinks from niches and service windows. Killer Poboys, which runs a sandwich counter in the back of the bar remains closed (but its Dauphine Street location reopened in July).

In other neighborhoods, a smattering of small bars are serving to-go drinks and takeout food from makeshift counters, staffed by skeleton crews.

A folding table under a pop-up tent now constitutes the service counter at Mid-City Yacht Club (440 S. St. Patrick St., 504483-2517; www. midcityyachtclub. com), a neighborhood corner bar facing a ballpark.

On July 14, bartender Clint Kuss ferried longnecks between the bar inside and the occasional customer waiting at that table, and filled delivery orders for sliders, crawfish fries and nachos.

“We don’t expect to make any money at this point, but we hope to keep people working if we can,” says Mid-City Yacht Club co-owner Jeremy Sauer.

“Really, our biggest goal is for everyone to get healthy, so that we can fully open safely,” he says.

Many bars are staying closed. In downtown New Orleans, when Daniel Victory got word of the new rules, he held one last happy hour and then shut down his Victory Bar for the second time since March.

“If they’re saying shut it down, they have their reasons, and it’s not just to lose out on tax dollars,” Victory says.

“On the spectrum on safety, I think we were doing it right, but now we’ll stay closed for a while and let things settle down.”

Bars with tavern kitchens have been turning to food throughout the pandemic to keep some business coming.

The new restrictions have essentially made them takeout eateries.

In Mid-City, the Beachcorner Bar & Grill (4905 Canal St., 504-488-7357; www.beachcornerbarandgrill.com) is cooking its full menu of burgers and sandwiches, and it’s running its usual happy hour specials to preserve some semblance of normal times.

But on what normally would have been a busy lunch shift, Ron Galloway and Brittany Tanzini were working the Beachcorner by themselves, waiting for the phone to ring. Some business has returned as more regulars learn the bar is open, Galloway says.

Vinnie’s Caddyshack Bar & Grill (3217 Ridgelake, Metairie, 504-827-1540; www.facebook.com/vinniesbarandgrillmetairie) managed the first few rounds of changes, reopening with limited capacity and building a tented patio for outdoor tables. Now it’s stay-

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K-Paul’s won’t reopen K-PAUL’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN closed in May due to the coronavirus pandemic. It will not reopen, says chef Paul Miller and Brenda Prudhomme, a niece of Paul Prodhomme. They have run the restaurant since Paul Prudhomme died in 2015.

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At the Erin Rose bar, Jordan Nash serves a frozen Irish coffee through the window as coronavirus restrictions limit bars to takeout and curbside service.

ing open for takeout and to-go drinks, like its sibling spot Vinnie’s Sports Bar (2766 Belle Chasse Highway, Gretna, 504-393-0155; www.vinniesgretna. com) on the West Bank.

The change of pace was dramatic.

Caddyshack bartender Sarah Meadows says that regulars who normally stayed for a few rounds now just drop by for food and perhaps a drink to go.

“Hopefully, people will keep wanting takeout,” Meadows says. “You do get bored with cooking at home.”

The governor’s executive order is in place until July 24 and could be extended. Bar owners are not banking on a quick change to the policy, but instead trying to reorganize business models yet again.

“We all have operating costs, and they can get deep,” said Angie Koehlar, co-owner of Erin Rose. “What we’re most concerned about is being able to bring back our whole crew at some point. They’ve all been through a lot already, and it’s hard, but we have to try.”

The Erin Rose’s interior is long and narrow like a streetcar. Under previous rules, limiting bar occupancy to 25% capacity, it could seat only a handful of patrons at a time. Working the walkup window, Nash says business now comes from the few tourists wandering the Quarter, from regulars still working nearby and from friends coming out of solidarity to support them.

“For three months we had no income at all when the bars were shut down,” he said. “At least we’re not back to that.”

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Brenda Prudhomme, niece of Paul Prudhomme, and K-Paul’s executive chef Paul Miller took over K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen following Paul Prudhomme’s death. The legendary New Orleans restaurant announced that it had closed on July 13.

tional acclaim. Prudhomme had built his reputation as the executive chef at Commander’s Palace.

At K-Paul’s, Prudhomme created dishes like his signature blackened redfish. For years, the restaurant had community seating in its groundfloor dining room, and lines for seats extended down the block.

Over time, the restaurant expanded, adding dining space on the second floor. Prudhomme branched out into selling seasonings and doing cooking shows. He also is credited with creating the turducken.

At K-Paul’s, Prudhomme mentored a generation of chefs who went on to run restaurants, including Frank Brigtsen of Brigtsen’s, Greg Sonnier of Gabrielle and Miller. Aaron Sanchez also worked at K-Paul’s.

— WILL COVIELLO

Beignet Fest reconfigured THE SUGAR-DUSTED CLASSIC BEIGNET is always up for reinterpretation

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Organizers of the event are promoting “Beignet Fest at Their Place.”

Instead of convening at a festival ground, people are encouraged to seek out vendors’ specialty beignets at their individual locations, and maybe make a tour of it.

Beignet Fest at Their Place runs July 24-26 for a weekend full of food promotions at the participating spots.

Normally held in October in City Park, Beignet Fest is a project of the Tres Doux Foundation, a nonprofit that supports local programs for people with autism. Proceeds from the festival help fund its grants.

Participating vendors include Loretta’s Authentic Pralines, Cafe Beignet, Coffee Rani, Da’crabbie Lady Shack, The Howlin’ Wolf Den, Luca Eats, Off Da Hook Catering, Patton’s Caterers, Ruby Slipper Cafe, Sno-La Snowballs, Sweet Legacy and The Vintage, including its New Orleans and Baton Rouge locations.

Some plan to do more for the ersatz festival weekend. Patton’s Caterers will have live music and a full bar set up outside its Slidell facility. It will serve crawfish beignets and also the full combo plate of oyster patties and crawfish sacks that it famously serves at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival each year.

Menus, prices and map links to each are listed at the festival website.

People can make contributions at the individual venues, where they can also pick up “beignet logo dolls.”

Patrons can write tribute messages on these, which will be displayed at each location for the weekend. Contributions are also collected online.

The public can vote for their favorite dishes online at beignetfest.com.

— IAN McNULTY/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

Des Familles blaze YET ANOTHER LOCAL RESTAURANT HAS BEEN KNOCKED OUT OF BUSINESS by fire. Restaurant des Fa-

milles, a destination for Louisiana flavors perched on the bayou in Crown Point, went up in flames July 13.

Lafitte mayor-elect Tim Kerner Jr. said no one was injured in the blaze but that it caused heavy damage to the restaurant.

“It’s so disheartening, it’s just one of the most beautiful restaurants around,” he says.

A message on the restaurant’s social media accounts thanked firefighters for their efforts to save the restaurant, and indicated that the fire was mostly contained to the attic and office.

“We anticipate we will be closed for a few months, but we have every intention of reopening, better and stronger,” the message read.

Restaurant des Familles served a mix of Cajun and Creole dishes. Built in a handsome country home, it sits

along Bayou de Familles, just outside the National Park Service Barataria Preserve, en route to the fishing camps and swamp tours of Lafitte.

The restaurant can feel like an extension of the Barataria Preserve.

From the window-lined dining room, visitors can see alligators cruise past, egrets take wing and turtles basking in the sun just outside. The restaurant’s bar, built from gleaming swamp cypress, is a cozy nook just off to the side.

The restaurant was first opened in 1993 by Pat Morrow, a schoolteacher.

Bryan Zar, who owns the restaurant with Brooke Zar, worked at Restaurant des Familles, starting as a busboy in high school in the mid1990s. The Zars bought the restaurant in 2009.

The restaurant shut down in March during the coronavirus pandemic, but resumed limited dine-in service when the state’s Phase 1 reopening began on May 15.

A number of New Orleans-area restaurants and bars have been damaged by overnight fires in recent weeks. A June 16 fire destroyed Gendusa’s Italian Market in Kenner; that restaurant is now slated to reopen in an adjacent address, 325 Williams Blvd., in the coming weeks.

The day after Gendusa’s fire, on June 17, fire ripped through Parlay’s Bar in Lakeview. That fire also damaged three adjacent restaurants: Lakeview Burgers & Seafood, Reginelli’s Pizzeria and the Steak Knife. All four Lakeview businesses expect to reopen. Reginelli’s has resumed takeout and delivery. — IAN McNULTY/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

Bellegarde to close BAKER GRAISON GILL ANNOUNCED BELLEGARDE BAKERY (8300 Apple

St., 504-827-0008; www.bellegardebakery.com) will close “for the time being” after service on July 25 due to the pandemic. In a post on social media, Gill wrote, “The financial and emotional toll of COVID-19 has made it impossible to bake bread and mill four. We have been losing money since March 19, and there is simply no more left to lose.”

He also referenced the business climate described last week in an open letter by chef Eric Cook, who closed his Lower Garden District restaurant Gris-Gris due to health and financial problems created by the pandemic.

Since the pandemic shutdowns began, Gill shut and reopened the bakery, tried to run Bellegarde as an online shop and as a retail bakery for curbside pickup and walkup business.

He switched from focusing on mainly supplying 120 restaurants and grocery stores to primarily consumers.

Gill is nominated for a James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Baker. Beard award winners will be announced Sept. 25.

The bakery is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday through July 25. — WILL COVIELLO

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Big Freedia Musician/cooking show host BIG FREEDIA DURING THE PANDEMIC has alternated

live-streaming ass-shaking home concerts with cooking segments from her kitchen, demonstrating how to make dishes such as “wobble wings,” “booty poppin’ potatoes” and “bendova biscuit Benedict.” The New Orleans bounce queen usually streams two segments a week, “Whatcha Cooking Wednesdays” and a Sunday gospel brunch, on her social media and YouTube. In July, Freedia began hosting a weekly outdoor cooking demonstration and dinner, “Garden Cookout with Big Freedia,” at City Park.

The series — which has put her Wednesday segment on hiatus — continues at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 27. Tickets are $75 and include a three-course meal, a cocktail in a souvenir cup and a meet-and-greet ession. The cooking segment is also streamed on Freedia’s social media.

What has it been like showing people how to cook, especially during the pandemic? Do you like teaching?

BIG FREEDIA: It’s been fun. I get to really just have fun in my own kitchen and do what I want and it’s really authentic and real.

People just really get a chance to see me on another level. They’re used to seeing me on a stage or on a red carpet or something of that sort, but now they’re getting the chance to see me in a whole different light.

Could you tell us more about the City Park series?

BF: Every Thursday we are doing a new menu and it’s a chance for 32 people to come and sit and eat with me and get to see me also demonstrate what I’m cooking for that day.

This week it’s steak and the booty poppin’ potatoes with string beans. And the appetizer is a cucumber, tomato, red onion salad.

And dessert is a yellow cake with

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Every week has been sold out so far, and that’s been super exciting. We’re also going to push the numbers up to 48 real soon. So I’m excited about that too, where I’ll see more people and they’ll get a chance to come and sit down and talk and eat with me.

It’s a three-course meal, so I’m just changing each week — the appetizer, the entree and the dessert.

I just want to give them a chance to see me on another level, open it up even a little bit larger, because at home, I was just doing the meal, so now they get an appetizer and dessert with it as well. They also get to take pictures with me and they get to ask questions.

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Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $ Kais — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (941) 481-9599; www.pythianmarket.com — A Sunshine bowl includes salmon, corn, mango, green onions, edamame, pickled ginger, ponzu spicy mayonnaise, cilantro, masago and nori strips.

Curbside pickup and delivery available.

L and D daily. $$ La Cocinita — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 309-5344; www. lacochinitafoodtruck.com — La Llanera is an arepa stuffed with carne asada, guasacasa, pico de gallo, grilled queso fresco and salsa verde. Curbside pickup and delivery available. B, L and D daily. $ Meribo Pizza — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (504) 481-9599; www. meribopizza.com — A Meridionale pie is topped with pulled pork, chilies, ricotta, mozzarella, collard greens and red sauce. Delivery available. L and D daily. $$ Willie Mae’s — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; www.williemaesnola.com — The Creole soul food restaurant is known for its fried chicken, red beans and more. Takeout available. L and D Mon-Sat. $

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Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; www.mikimotosushi. com — Sushi choices include new and old favorites, both raw and cooked.

The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado and snow crab. Takeout and delivery available. L Sun-Fri, D daily. $$ Pyramids Cafe — 3151 Calhoun St., (504)

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

L, D daily. $

FAUBOURG MARIGNY Kebab — 2315 St. Claude Ave., (504) 383-4328; www.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. $

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

Curbside pickup and delivery available.

L, D daily. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 1212 S. Clearview Parkway, Elmwood, (504) 733-3803; www.theospizza.com — There is a wide variety of specialty pies and diners can build their own from the selection of more than two-dozen toppings. The menu also includes salads and sandwiches. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L, D Tue-Sat. $

LAKEVIEW Lakeview Brew Coffee Cafe — 5606 Canal Blvd., (504) 483-7001; www.lakeviewbrew.com — This casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a wide range of pastries and desserts baked in house, plus a menu of specialty sandwiches and salads. For breakfast, an omelet is filled with marinated mushrooms, bacon, spinach and goat cheese. Tuna salad or chicken salad avocado melts are topped with melted Monterey Jack and shredded Parmesan cheeses. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. B, L daily, D Mon-Sat, brunch Sat-Sun. $ Lotus Bistro — 203 W. Harrison Ave., (504) 533-9879; www.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

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METAIRIE Andrea’s Restaurant — 3100 N. 19th St., Metairie, (504) 834-8583; www. andreasrestaurant.com — Chef/owner Andrea Apuzzo’s specialties include speckled trout royale which is topped with lump crabmeat and lemon-cream sauce. Capelli D’Andrea combines house-made angel hair pasta and smoked salmon in light cream sauce.

Curbside pickup and delivery are available. L, D daily, brunch Sun. $$$ Kosher Cajun New York Deli & Grocery — 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie, (504) 888-2010; www.koshercajun.com — This New York-style deli specializes in sandwiches, including corned beef and pastrami that come from the Bronx. Takeout available. L Sun-Thu, D Mon-Thu. $ Mark Twain’s Pizza Landing — 2035 Metairie Road, Metairie, (504) 832-8032; www.marktwainpizza.com — Mark Twain’s serves salads, po-boys and pies like the Italian pizza with salami, tomato, artichoke, sausage and basil.

Takeout and curbside pickup are available. L Tue-Sat, D Tue-Sun. $ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 2125 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, (504) 510-4282; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

MID-CITY/TREME Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; www.angelobrocatoicecream.com — This sweet shop serves its own gelato, spumoni, Italian ice, cannolis, fig cookies and other treats. Window and curbside pickup.

L, D Wed-Sun. $ Brown Butter Southern Kitchen & Bar — 231 N. Carrollton Ave., Suite C, (504) 609-3871; www.brownbutterrestaurant. com — Sample items have included smoked brisket served with smoked apple barbecue sauce, Alabama white barbecue sauce, smoked heirloom beans and vinegar slaw. A Brunch burger features a brisket and short rib patty topped with bacon, brie, a fried egg, onion jam and arugula on a brioche bun. Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Doson Noodle House — 135 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 309-7283; www.facebook. com/dosonnoodlehouse — Bun thit is Vietnamese-style grilled pork with cucumber, onions, lettuce, mint, cilantro and fish sauce served over rice or vermicelli. The menu includes rice and vermicelli dishes, pho, spring rolls and more.

Takeout, curbside pickup and delivery are available. $$ Five Happiness — 3511 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 482-3935; www.fivehappiness.com — The large menu at Five Happiness offers a range of dishes from wonton soup to sizzling seafood combinations served on a hot plate to sizzling Go-Ba to lo mein dishes. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Katie’s Restaurant — 3701 Iberville St., (504) 488-6582; www.katiesinmidcity.com — Favorites at this Mid-City restaurant include the Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, grilled ham, cheese and pickles pressed on buttered bread. The Boudreaux pizza is topped with cochon de lait, spinach, red onions, roasted garlic, scallions and olive oil. There also are salads, burgers and Italian dishes. Takeout, curbside

pickup and delivery available. L and D Tue-Sun. $$ Nonna Mia — 3125 Esplanade Ave., (504) 948-1717; www.nonnamianola. com — A Divine Portobello appetizer includes chicken breast, spinach in creamy red pepper sauce and crostini.

The menu also includes salads, sandwiches, pasta, pizza and more. Curbside pickup and delivery are available.

Service daily. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4024 Canal St., (504) 302-1133; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/Jefferson section for restaurant description. $ Willie Mae’s Scotch House — 2401 St. Ann St., (504) 822-9503; www.williemaesnola.com — This neighborhood restaurant is known for its wet-battered fried chicken. Green beans come with rice and gravy. There’s bread pudding for dessert. No reservations.

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

UPTOWN Joey K’s — 3001 Magazine St., (504) 891-0997; www.joeyksrestaurant.com ­— This casual eatery serves fried seafood platters, salads, sandwiches and Creole favorites such as red beans and rice.

Daily specials include braised lamb shank, lima beans with a ham hock and chicken fried steak served with macaroni and cheese. Takeout and delivery available. $$ Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza — 4218 Magazine St., (504) 894-8554; www.theospizza.com — See Harahan/ Jefferson section for restaurant description. $

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT Carmo — 527 Julia St., (504) 8754132; www.cafecarmo.com — Carmo salad includes smoked ham, avocado, pineapple, almonds, cashews, raisins, cucumber, green pepper, rice, lettuce, cilantro and citrus mango vinaigrette.

The menu includes dishes inspired by many tropical cuisines. Takeout and delivery are available. Mon-Sat. $$ Provisions Grab-n-Go Marketplace — Higgins Hotel, 500 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; www.higgingshotelnola. com — The coffeeshop serves salads, sandwiches, pastries and more. Takeout available. Service daily. $

WEST BANK Mosca’s — 4137 Hwy. 90 W., Westwego, (504) 436-8950; www.moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery has changed little since opening in 1946.

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Hitting roots Amanda Shaw looks at her foundations on new Cajun album

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Amanda Shaw felt the best way to mark 2020, a year that includes her 30th birthday on Aug. 2 and is her 20th year as a working musician, would be to celebrate the roots of her roots-based music. So Shaw and her band spent time at Esplanade Studios last November to record an album of Cajun staples.

“I knew I wanted to call it ‘Joie,’ which is French for joy,” she says.

“Little did I know that 2020 was going to be an interesting time to have a record called ‘Joie.’ But I don’t regret it at all. I feel like everyone could use a little joy.”

“Joie” is out July 29 on CD and streaming platforms, or as a download on July 24 for those who pre-order the album.

Shaw and her band — guitarist Tim Robertson, bassist Ronnie Falgout and drummer Mike Barras — put some kick into eight songs that will be familiar to south Louisianans and Cajun music fans. Zak Loy, who produced her “Please, Call me Miss Shaw” album, produced this new record.

“Joie” opens with a pedal-to-thefloor take on “Bosco Stomp” and “Grand Mamou,” for which Shaw just released a sweet, homemade music video. The band take staples like “Ossun Two-Step” and “Johnny Can’t Dance” for uptempo spins across the hardwood, while the slower, more sentimental “Les Petits Yeux Noire,” “Jolie Blonde,” and “J’ai vu le Loup” give “Joie” a soft break. Shaw sings in both Cajun French and English on the album.

Shaw has made her career in American roots and country music.

She’s incorporated Cajun tunes into her live shows, but “Joie” is the first time she’s recorded what has been foundational music to her.

When she was a kid, Shaw says, her mom would take her to places like Mulate’s and Michaul’s and “I fell in love with Cajun-style fiddle music.

And [fiddler] Mitch Reed, I credit him. At Mulate’s he used to play on Sundays with his band, and while the band was setting up for an hour before, he would teach me Cajun songs in the little hallway between the stage and the bathroom. So my first audience really had to go.”

Shaw has come to appreciate those songs even more as an adult, she says.

“I’ve never done a traditional album. I’ve never considered myself a traditional artist, but I felt it was important that as someone that has carried these songs for the last 20 years … it felt important to do my job as this generation. There’s always talk of the need to preserve this music.”

The songs on “Joie” are traditional, but Shaw and her band’s arrangements — along with the use of electric guitar and pedal steel — give them an upbeat, modern kick. It’s clearly an Amanda Shaw record.

“The only way to make those types of songs, traditional songs, unique, is really just to be true to who you are,” Shaw says. “My sets always have been high energy, and that’s something I love doing. I didn’t want to get far away from who I am, but I did want to stay true to the core of what these songs are and where they come from.”

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BY WILL COVIELLO WHILE PSYCHOANALYSTS DEBATE whether

a cigar is ever just a cigar, one thing most people agree on is that a Nazi invasion and the backdrop of the Holocaust really aren’t the best setting for a coming of age story.

And yet here we are, thanks to Austrian director Nikolaus Leytner’s film “The Tabocconist,” which follows a horny Austrian teenager’s efforts to use prized Cuban smokes as a friendly inducement for dating advice from Sigmund Freud. During the Nazi occupation.

The film is based on a novel of the same name by Robert Seethaler, but Leytner seems to have made the movie primarily to indulge in dream sequences and projections of desire. Franz, the horny teen at the film’s heart, has surreal visions of boats on treacherous waters and bizarre puppet shows. Some scenes’ quick escalation to sexual expression are driven by Franz’s imagination, and others depict Nazis using their power to force themselves upon women.

The 17-year-old Franz (Simon Morze) arrives in Vienna where his mother has arranged a job with one of her former lovers, Otto (Johannes Krisch), who runs a tobacco shop. Otto teaches him the business, which he says depends upon knowing his customers’ interests, whether they be the political journals of the day, as Nazism is on the rise in Germany, or pornography, which is discreetly stashed under the counter. In the case of Freud, it’s his taste for fine cigars.

Set up by a few lusty diversions in the opening scenes, it’s no surprise that Franz wants to explore beyond the tiny tobacco shop. He meets the alluring young Anezka (Emma Drogunova) at a street fair, but after sharing a few beers and close dances, she slips away. Franz is smitten but has no idea how to find her. He describes the “beautiful gap in her teeth” to Freud as he seeks advice.

From what little Otto has told him of Freud’s fame as a psychoanalyst, Franz seems to think a few minutes on the couch will help him find the girl. The dynamic is

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Though capably acted by Ganz, Morze and Drogunova, the relationship between Franz and Anezka doesn’t develop any depth and never seems to require Freud’s insights.

When asked about love, Freud says that one doesn’t need to understand water to jump into a lake.

In the end, neither Otto, Freud, Franz or Anezka can avoid the fascist takeover of Austria, and that ends up supplying most of the dramatic weight in the film.

Which brings us to the Nazis, which Leytner portrays as a villainous, libidinous force super imposed upon Austria. The streets of Vienna are depicted in muted, neutral colors, which Leytner contrasts with red and black Nazi flags and armbands, and blood thrown on the walls of stores accused of being friendly to Jews. Intimate indoor spaces are richly imagined and seductive, such as the cabaret, where an act with a scantily clad showgirl treating Adolf Hitler like a dog disappears, replaced by anti-Semitic fare.

While the premise of Freud helping Franz overcome his innocence sets up what would seem like a light, risque drama, the encroaching backdrop of a Nazi invasion is hard to reconcile with the teenager’s search for a mysterious dancing girl.

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