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Love songs Jeffery Miller honors the women in his life on ‘Songs About Women’

BY JAKE CLAPP JEFFERY MILLER DOESN’T LEAVE ANY AMBIGUITY about his first record,

“Songs About Women.”

When the 24-year-old trombonist and singer thought it was time to write new music for a weeklong residency at Dizzy’s Club in New York, he started with a period of self-reflection, he says.

“I just had the revelation that being raised by women really was what made me who I am,” Miller says. “I wanted to compose a song for each of those women in my life.”

Miller recorded the original version of “Songs About Women” live, mostly at Dizzy’s Club, a venue run by Jazz at Lincoln Center. He was joined by tenor saxophonist Christopher Bittner, pianist Sean Mason, bassist Philip Norris and drummer Brian Richburg. The final cut on the five-track record was recorded live at The Juilliard School, where Miller graduated in May with a master’s degree in jazz studies. “Songs About Women” was released in late May, and he released a new version on Juneteenth.

Miller was born in New Orleans and grew up in Algiers. His jazz career started early and already has been eventful: He caught the ear of Delfeayo Marsalis and Terrance Taplin, became a regular player in the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, gigged at Snug Harbor, and at 15 performed at Carnegie Hall as part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s 50th anniversary celebration. Miller has played with Wynton Marsalis, Donald Harrison Jr., Leo Nocentelli and Jon Batiste (before the pandemic, he sat in with Batiste’s band on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”). And Miller appears on the Grammy-nominated albums “A Legendary Christmas” with John Legend and Batiste’s “Hollywood Africans.”

Miller put a loose chronology to the original song order on “Songs About Women.” The album opens with “Marie” for Miller’s mother, Dominey Marie Miller, who died when Jeffery and his twin sister, Justice, were just a year and three months old. The album’s cover is a sweet photo of the small family.

“I felt like it was a more genuine way and honest way to start the project, sort of as an open letter to her,” Miller says.

The next track, “Justice,” is dedicated to Miller’s sister and “Patricia” is for their maternal grandmother, Patricia Jackson, who raised them in her and her husband’s Algiers home after the passing of Dominey Marie.

“Patricia Jackson, she’s my hero, I say it whenever I get the chance to,” Miller says. “She was born and raised here. She used to be a seamstress and sewed for Mardi Gras balls and stuff like that, so we grew up with people coming in and out of our house and going in and out of Hancock’s Fabrics just like every week.

She is a really sweet, really talented lady, everybody loves her.

She’s really passionate about people.

She’s always praying for everybody, even strangers on the street.”

Jackson in 2018 also opened a dom-estic violence shelter and women’s resource center, Beyond the Veil, in the New Orleans area.

Miller composed “The Queen” around a woman he was dating at the time — but the relationship didn’t last, so he shifted the focus of the song to be “about the raw power that I feel women possess that they don’t get credit for,” Miller says.

On Juneteenth, Miller re-released “Songs About Women” with a reordered track listing and an additional song, “black and blue.” Bandcamp commemorated Juneteenth by donating its portion of album sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and many musicians and labels matched donations to other Black-led and community-focused organizations.

Miller dedicated “Songs About Women (Black Lives Matter Version)” to another Black woman: Breonna Taylor, the Louisville, Kentucky, woman who was killed by police in March during a no-knock search warrant on the wrong address. Taylor has been one of the many names remembered during recent nationwide protests against police brutality and white supremacy.

“With this new track list, I match the emotions and colors that I feel

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Strange days THE TONY AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL “Passing Strange” follows Stew’s journey, from being an angsty Black teenager in Los Angeles to heading out on his own and arriving at rock stardom. Spike Lee was enthralled by the musical and created a concert film version, originally released in 2009. It opens at 5 p.m.

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reflected in these songs to my experience being a black man in America,” Miller says in the album’s notes on Bandcamp. He composed “black and blue” in 2017, and the track that leads off the Black Lives Matter version is a well-recorded demo (Miller says he hopes to re-record the track for a future project).

The song “was a response to how I was feeling with all of the police brutality that was at the forefront of the media at the time,” Miller says.

“Literally the melody and the bass line came to me at the same time. I was sitting at the piano in a classroom at Juilliard after class one day. I’d been feeling this urge to just sit down at the piano and play and see what comes out. I sat down and the melody and the bass line just spilled out.

“I recorded it to my voice memos on my phone and I was like, this is different, this is special. I knew right away what it was about.”

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to Dancing Grounds, the Bywater dance center that offers dance classes for all ages. The award notes its work to create a safe, active space for the city’s youth.

Dancing Grounds is one of 10 organizations receiving funding as part of Durant and Degree’s $1 million #keepmoving campaign.

The number of new COVID-19 cases reported by the Louisiana Department of Health on June 23 — the highest number of reported cases since April 7.

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recognized the first graduating class of its master’s degree program in public health. It’s the first historically Black university (HBCU) in Louisiana to offer the program. Eight graduates received the degree during Xavier’s spring commencement after beginning studies in fall 2018. The program, Xavier said in a press release, “exposes enrollees to advanced public health policy and advanced epidemiology as well as a host of other health promotion and behavioral sciences framed around the advancement of health equity.”

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration locked the gates to Congo Square and Louis Armstrong Park on Juneteenth, blocking a rally for reparations from gathering in a site important to Black New Orleanians on a day commemorating the end of slavery.

A spokesperson for Cantrell said the closure was “in the interest of public health” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The rally (with most people wearing masks) still took place at the gates of the park on North Rampart Street.

RISING NUMBERS OF CORONAVIRUS CASES KEEP LOUISIANA IN PHASE 2 LOUISIANA WILL REMAIN IN PHASE 2 of reopening its economy due to a

steep increase in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations that indicate a “trend in the wrong direction,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said June 22.

A day later, the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) announced the largest spike in new cases — more than 1,300 — since April 7.

Numbers surged throughout last week and on June 26, the health department reported another high number of cases (1,354), with 700 Louisianans hospitalized.

Edwards signed an executive order on June 25 to officially extend the state’s Phase 2 guidelines for an additional 28 days.

Edwards and LDH officials expected numbers to rise amid increased testing, but the latest data gives cause for concern, especially as contact tracing indicates that the new infections stem from community spread and not from isolated incidents at congregate settings, such as nursing homes.

“Our case growth is more than can be fairly attributed to the growth in testing,” Edwards said.

The data also shows cases on the rise among young people — 18 to 29 years old — who are not as susceptible to dying from the virus but can still spread it with deadly efficacy to older family members and others vulnerable to serious complications.

As of press time on June 26, more than 53,000 cases of the novel coronavirus had been reported in Louisiana, with more than 3,000 reported deaths, which Edwards called “very grim milestones.” The governor added that increased hospitalizations are “what concerns me the most.”

Cases are surging across the South. Major spikes have been seen in Texas, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas. “That should put an end to the theory that the summer, with its increased heat and humidity would sort of cause the virus to disappear,” Edwards said. “That’s not happening in our country, and that’s certainly not happening in the hottest and most humid part of our country.”

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Currently the age range with the highest number of cases is 18 to 29. More than 8,000 in this range have been infected since March. Both Gov. John Bel Edwards and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell have warned that irresponsible behavior — such as not wearing a mask in public, participating in large gatherings, and lowering inhibitions by getting intoxicated at bars — have contributed to increased numbers. A high school graduation party in New Orleans as well as a large group’s evening of patronizing bars in Baton Rouge have been identified as “super spreaders” of the virus.

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A youth-led movement to rename a top school in New Orleans After weeks of protests condemning systemic racism and a push by the New Orleans City Council to consider renaming streets that commemorate Confederate officers and other white supremacy figures, Lusher Charter School’s top official said June 24 that she will begin the process of considering a name change for one of the city’s most in-demand public schools.

The announcement by CEO Kathy Riedlinger comes as thousands of students, parents, teachers and alumni have urged school administrators to find a new school name that is more inclusive of all students. The campus currently memorializes Robert Mills Lusher, a Confederate figure and former Louisiana schools superintendent who fought desegregation and stated that he believed in “the supremacy of the Caucasian race.”

“We are listening to our school community and will be communicating soon on what this process will look like,” Riedlinger said in an emailed statement, adding that she was conferring with the school’s board of directors and NOLA Public Schools.

Lusher, one of the city’s few Arated K-12 schools, served more than 1,700 students last year. It has two campuses in Uptown.

One campaign for a name change, which came in the form of a Change. org petition, garnered more than 2,060 signatures by midday June 24, less than two days after the appeal was published. It was written by Vasy McCoy, a school director at Schaumburg Elementary, run by a separate charter organization, ReNEW Schools.

Another was organized by former Lusher students, including Jamal Encalade, a charter program manager in Washington, D.C. He and nearly a dozen other alumni call themselves the “Lusher Renaming Committee.”

Like others, Encalade is conflicted about his alma mater. He boasts of the soaring test scores that make it one of the best-performing public schools in the state, but is equally frustrated that he, as a Black student, was made to walk past a building on the lower school campus that had Robert Mills Lusher’s name etched in stone.

And, like others, he has complained of implicit bias and more explicit racism at the school over the years.

His group invited alumni to share experiences with other students and teachers, and he has published them on social media in the hopes of bettering school environments.

“This is about love,” Encalade said.

“It’s also about preserving New Orleans culture.” — DELLA HASSELLE/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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avoiding large gatherings and staying home if they exhibit symptoms.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, under the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the New Orleans Department of Health, had a slightly different opinion than Edwards.

Avegno and Cantrell warned on June 24 that the city may need to tighten its restrictions if New Orleans’ numbers continue to climb. They also launched a task force that includes the Department of Code Enforcement, the New Orleans Police Department and state agencies to oversee business and safety regulations.

“If the city has to shut down, we will do that without any hesitation at all because the public health will always be the top priority,” Cantrell said.

That warning arrived on the heels of news that a local graduation party earlier this month and a recent Juneteenth celebration served as “superspreaders” of the illness in New Orleans. Super-spreader events are large gatherings where the chances are high that coronavirus could infect many people at once, who then in turn could take the virus back into their communities.

Community spread in the region has also been attributed to Baton Rouge’s Tigerland, a bar area near Louisiana State University, where the governor suggested patrons — the majority of them young — were not acting responsibly. More than 100 positive cases of COVID-19 have been traced back to Tigerland.

Notably, a series of protests against racism and white supremacy over the past few weeks, where nearly all participants wore face coverings, have not been linked by contact tracers to the uptick in cases of COVID-19.

“I would say that is a very strong case for the effectiveness of wearing masks, as the vast majority of folks that I saw in those pictures were wearing masks and trying to physical distance,” Avegno said. “Across the country, in protests where masks were widespread, we are not seeing clusters.”

Meanwhile, in Jefferson Parish, Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng on June 25 also warned business and restaurant industry leaders that the increase in cases could trigger the return of tighter restrictions as she urged them to follow safety measures like wearing masks and distancing.

Edwards’ official extension of the Phase 2 order will expire July 24 and continues to restrict occupancy to 50% at stores, barber shops, restaurants and bars with food permits.

Bars without food permits and places like the Louisiana Children’s Museum will be limited to 25%.

“If we were doing a better job, as a state, collectively, we would not be seeing the growth we are seeing today,” Edwards said. “A lot of people out there are saying they’re done

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Here in Louisiana and across the American South, the dreaded pandemic is on the rise again as bad leaders tell beguiled followers that wearing a mask and practicing physical distancing violate their constitutional rights.

Good leaders and people who care about others know that such talk is worse than a lie. It is, literally, a death sentence.

Yet, there it was on full display June 25 on the steps of the State Capitol. More than 20 Republican lawmakers gathered, shoulder to shoulder and without masks, for a photo op to show their support for a truly asinine idea: a petition that, if signed by a majority in either legislative chamber, would revoke Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ COVID-19 emergency declaration, which put restrictions in place to limit the spread of the virus.

The consequences of such a revocation are so severe that it failed to gain enough backers even among the Legislature’s large Republican majority, which typically marches lock-step against virtually anything Edwards supports. In addition to the obvious reason for rejecting the petition — namely, that thousands more Louisianans would be dead by now if Edwards had not imposed the restrictions and kept them in place — adopting it likely would cost the state billions in federal aid.

Equally important, the limitations imposed by Edwards have worked.

While the restrictions remained in place, the number of COVID-19 cases declined in parishes where local officials enforced or promoted them and citizens followed them.

Unfortunately, too many elected officials — Republicans in particular — have blindly followed President Trump’s toxic prescription of mindless bluster, pretending things are not that bad, ignoring the experts, and flat-out lying about the pandemic.

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That tactic has had disastrous consequences at the State Capitol, where many (again, mostly Republicans) continue not to wear masks or practice physical distancing — even as some of their colleagues fall victim to the scourge. Before the annual session began, freshman state Rep. Reggie Bagala, a Republican from Cut Off, died of COVID-19. More recently, a number of legislators and their spouses, as well as Capitol staffers, have contracted the disease. Still, the Kool-Aid Caucus persists.

To his credit, Edwards has stayed the course, guided by the numbers and the experts. On June 25, after more than a week of increased COVID-19 cases, he officially extended Phase 2 of the state’s reopening for another 28 days.

Locally, New Orleans (once a hot spot) saw relatively modest increases after several weeks of large anti-racism protests; it’s noteworthy that almost all protesters wore masks. Meanwhile, Jefferson Parish, where most people still don’t wear masks, saw a significant uptick. The lesson is obvious: Wear a mask; people’s lives depend on it.

Local data analyst Jeff Asher, who tracks the numbers daily, put it best: “People need to stop seeing it as a political issue. It’s a public health issue. You wear pants into a restaurant for public health reasons.

You should also wear a mask.”

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reelection last November, pundits predicted all-out war between the returning governor and legislative Republicans, whose majorities grew significantly in both the House and Senate.

To be sure, Edwards and GOP lawmakers have locked horns on many issues, but expectations of contentious veto overrides have failed to materialize. What we have instead, to put it in Cold War terms, is a fragile detente based on mutually assured destruction.

Just as the world benefitted from the United States and the Soviet Union keeping their missiles safely inside their respective silos, Louisiana is better off with Edwards and GOP legislators talking things through rather than going to war over every philosophical disagreement.

The most obvious example of this development is the fight over tort reform. The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) and insurance companies salivated at the prospect of passing a veto-proof rewrite of the rules governing personal injury lawsuits.

But, as happens with most things inside the legislative rails, it all boils down to numbers.

It takes a two-thirds majority in each chamber to override a gubernatorial veto. That’s 26 votes in the 39-member Senate, 70 votes in the 105-member House. Republicans hold 27 Senate seats, but they’re several votes shy of 70 in the House.

Moreover, not every Republican legislator sides against plaintiff lawyers all the time.

On top of that, Louisiana governors can always pick off a few votes in a close veto fight.

Legislators may control the purse strings, but governors have lineitem veto power — and governors can slow walk projects that don’t get vetoed. Veteran lawmakers know this, and rookies learn it fast — often the hard way.

Which brings us back to tort reform. State Sen. Kirk Talbot, R-Harahan, has led the charge on that front for several years. He finally appeared to succeed in the final hour of the annual session, only to see the governor veto his bill after a last-minute amendment

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inadvertently created a glitch that undercut a significant part of Talbot’s original intent.

Rather than try to override Edwards’ veto and fix the glitch in the special session, the GOP leadership opted to start over. The reason: They didn’t have the votes to override.

The bigger story, in my opinion: ongoing tort reform negotiations between Talbot, LABI and Edwards.

While GOP legislators knew they didn’t have the votes to override the governor, Edwards knew he couldn’t afford to overplay his hand.

In the final week of the special session, the Republicans considered passing “concurrent resolutions” suspending objectionable portions of Louisiana tort law. Such resolutions aren’t permanent, but they also cannot be vetoed.

That’s what mutually assured destruction looks like at the Capitol, and it’s why negotiations continued.

Both sides know that giving a little can stave off a whole lot of potential down side.

On another front, Edwards recently settled his lawsuit against Republican state Treasurer John Schroder over the disposition of unclaimed property funds. The settlement gave both men a win of sorts, and it allows the governor and lawmakers to spend millions that Schroder had held back. Here again, detente.

It’s not exactly kumbaya, but it sure beats thermonuclear war.

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There are actually two buildings known as Perseverance Hall and — like Preservation Hall on St. Peter Street — both have played a role in local jazz history.

The older of the two buildings was constructed in 1820 in what is now Louis Armstrong Park. It was built as a Scottish Rite lodge, called Perseverance Masonic Lodge No. 4 or Perseverance Hall.

According to a history of the building on WWOZ’s website, www. acloserwalknola.com, the first floor was often rented out for public events while the second floor was used for lodge rites and dances, often featuring jazz bands. Clarinetist Sidney Bechet performed here, for example. From 1999 until 2018, the city granted a free lease of the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, to the National Park Service. The federal agency planned to incorporate the building into the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park.

Those plans failed to materialize, however, and the city has not yet unveiled plans for redevelopment.

A different building with a similar name, Perseverance Society Hall, is located at 1644 N. Villere St. It was built in the 1880s by La Societe de la Perseverance, a mutual aid association formed by Creoles of color. Music historians call it one of

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the dance halls that fostered the early development of jazz.

Many future jazz greats performed at dances there, such as Bechet, Joe “King” Oliver, Freddie Keppard and Isidore Barbarin. Barbarin’s son Paul, a well-known drummer, composer and bandleader, said his mother shared memories of Buddy Bolden playing at the hall — so loud he’d “blow his brains out,” Barbarin recounted in an interview for Tulane University’s Hogan Jazz Archive.

The Holy Aid and Comfort Spiritual Church bought the building in 1949.

Though it is still standing, in 2007, the Louisiana Landmarks Society put the property on its list of most endangered sites.

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After their deaths, The Historic New Orleans Collection was established in 1966 by the Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation. THNOC owns several other historic buildings surrounding the property on Toulouse Street. In addition, since 1993 the Collection has operated the Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres St. It is in a 1915 building that originally served as Second City Criminal Court and the Third District police station. During the pandemic, THNOC has greatly enhanced its online offerings at www.hnoc.org.

Its buildings’ courtyards are now open to the public and feature interpretative displays enhanced through the use of a free app.

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Pet adoptions and fostering have surged during the pandemic

An adoptable dog named Stella meets visitors to the Louisiana SPCA before the pandemic began.

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Robilotta, the vice president of Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO), grappled with the onset of what she described as an animal crisis: Shelters across the state closed to the public and lacked the resources to adequately care for their stock.

In an effort to save 50 animals in Pointe Coupee Parish, she pleaded for help on Facebook.

“The response was incredible,” Robilotta says. “We literally got hundreds of foster applications.”

From one social media post, ARNO was able to save the Pointe Coupee animals and reduce its shelter population to four dogs. Although ARNO has continued to pull animals from around the state and secure them with new homes, the organization has barely been able to meet the demand for fosters.

“We’ve had more requests for fosters than we have animals,” Robilotta says.

Between March 11 and June 11, ARNO adopted out 135 dogs and 82 cats.

During this same three-month period in 2019, ARNO adopted out 83 dogs and 31 cats. The increase in pet adoptions has become an unexpected silver lining of the pandemic.

“Many of those animals would not have survived, had it not been for COVID-19, and instead they have great homes,” Robilotta says. “And they’re helping the people, too. Your life is so enriched when you’re stuck at home and you have animals to interact with, to take for walks and to bond with.”

ARNO isn’t the only animal shelter handling a surge in adoptions and fosters.

“When coronavirus started hitting, we had a tremendous amount of fosters step up to the plate,” says Tiffanie Stinson, the adoption/foster coordinator of Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter. “I believe they thought that we were going to just euthanize everything if we had to close. That’s

not the case, but a lot of people said, ‘Hey, I want to go ahead and foster.’ ” At the Louisiana SPCA (LA-SPCA), the amount of animals that have found foster homes in April and May 2020 is more than double the amount of fosters finding homes in April and May 2019. The group adopted out 97% of the animals it admitted in March 2020, which is double the amount from March 2019.

Ana Zorrilla, the chief executive officer of LA-SPCA, says the foster-to-adopt model is unique to the coronavirus pandemic.

“A lot of people opened their homes, opened their hearts, and took a cat or a dog initially as a short-term commitment,” Zorrilla says. “But then they realized that it was a great fit, and that they enjoyed having that cat or dog in their home. It gave them something to focus on — particularly people that were living alone, or people with children in their homes. It really did assist with the anxiety and the loneliness of the quarantine period.”

Throughout the year, regional PetSmart stores showcase LA-SPCA’s adoptable cats. Zorrilla says “they have not been able to keep cats in the stores” since the pandemic began spreading in the region.

“My guess is that people have been going to buy their supplies, or maybe even just get out of the house for a little bit, and realized that there are great adoptable cats out there,” she says. “Cats don’t do well in sheltering or confined environments, so being able to move them quickly into a home is a win.”

When comparing this year’s COVID-afflicted months to the same months in 2019, the Northshore Humane Society has seen a 46% average increase in adoptions.

Susie Kaznowitz, the organization’s director of marketing, partially attributes the rise in numbers to children being home from school.

“It was good for the kids, because it’s something to occupy their time,” she says.

The Northshore Humane Society has

experienced an escalation in visits to its full-service veterinary clinic, likely because people have more time to set aside for appointments, she adds.

Although animal lovers are emerging from quarantine and resuming their work responsibilities — and realizing that owning a pet requires a financial commitment — shelters haven’t noticed an increase in animal returns.

“I think it’s hard for somebody to bring an animal into their home and then bring them back, even if they do go back to work,” she says. “Nine out of 10 times they fall in love.”

Shelters often help with the expense of fostering or adopting a pet by handling the necessary medical care and hosting food pantries. They counsel prospective pet owners and keep in touch with them after they’ve taken their pet home.

“We’ve been in close contact with our fosters throughout this,” Zorrilla says.

“We’ve asked the question: ‘When you go back to work, will you be able to keep your foster?’ And … ‘[I]t’s hurricane season. If something happens, are you equipped to evacuate with your foster?’ Overwhelmingly, the fosters have said, ‘We’re fine.

We can evacuate with our fosters.’ Returning to work, at least so far, has not been an issue.”

Zorrilla emphasizes that although the number of adoptions and fosters have jumped over the past few months, there still are many animals that need a home.

Interested candidates should contact a shelter or an animal rescue group and remain patient when waiting for a response, she says.

“We’ve got about two months of work that we’re still catching up on, in addition to all the new stuff coming in,” Zorrilla says. “If you reach out to us or another group and you don’t get a call right back, just shoot us an email. Give us a minute to catch up, because certainly we want to reach out to everybody.”

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Here is a pet travel kit checklist and some tips gathered from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Humane Society of the United States and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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• Don’t let your pet roam in the vehicle. Dogs and cats are most safe in a crate anchored by a seat belt. There also are other restraints that keep dogs in place, but they don’t provide safety in a crash.

• Pets should be placed in the back seat. Even when crated, pets in the front seat can be injured by airbags if there’s an accident.

• Never let a pet ride in the back of an open pickup truck.

• It’s dangerous to let an animal hang its head out of a vehicle window; it can be hurt by flying debris, and air rushing into their lungs can be harmful.

• Stop regularly to allow your pet to move around, drink water and eliminate waste. (Cats may need a litter box.)

• Never leave your pet alone in a vehicle — even for a short period of time. Temperatures inside a car rise above 100 degrees quickly on a warm day and can seriously injure or kill an animal in just a few minutes.

• Keep your pet close (and on a leash) when walking around an unfamiliar area, and keep them a safe distance from other pets and wildlife. Being in a place they don’t recognize can be disorienting or frightening for some animals and can cause them to react differently than they normally do.

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Hess says the best way to help your pet’s nerves is to do less, not more.

“When it’s time to leave, don’t make it a big deal. They will feed into your fear of being fearful — don’t indulge them,” she says.

Coddling your pets and talking to them as if you are worried when walking out the door can actually make the situation worse.

“It is important to give your dog a good walk and playtime in the morning before leaving,” she says.

When you need to leave, “the best thing to do is to just walk out the door.”

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There are products to reduce your pet’s fear and anxiety when they are suddenly left alone, which can provide entertainment and prevent destructive behavior. “If your pet goes bonkers when you leave, use distraction toys,” says Hess.

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Puzzle toys, or toys that take your pet a long time to figure out, can provide hours of distraction: Some offer hiding spots for treats, or even have fun, attractive sounds. Hess recommends adding peanut butter to a lick mat for dogs, which can take two hours or more to complete — by which time the dog may be exhausted and take a nap. (If you freeze the peanut butter beforehand, it takes even longer to finish the lick mat).

Hess says these types of toys are available for both dogs and cats, and they can help distract and hold your pet’s attention for enough time to forget the initial source of their stress. It is important to note, however, “the distraction toys are not substitutes for exercise and attention.”

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Technology has adapted to serve our own anxiety about our pets. In particular, two-way cameras allow us to check in on our furry friends. Hess, says the success of this method really depends on your pet, and can sometimes be counterproductive.

“When people visit their pet when the animal is hospitalized, it can be more stressful when their owner

leaves without them. With the twoway camera, it can be the same panic when they hear your voice and don’t know where you are.” The key, she says, is to know your animal and how they will react — but the tool may be more comforting for you than for your pet.

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“Animals are always happier in pairs, with the rare exception of the only dog,” says Hess. A bonded pair may be well-adjusted when their human is not around — so if your pet doesn’t already have a furry friend, it may actually help you and your pet to adopt another.

Don’t be afraid to seek professional help

If your animal has severe stress such as risk of harming themselves or others, exhibits destructive behavior or will not stop howling and crying, it may be necessary for expert intervention.

“If it’s really bad, call your veterinarian,” Hess says. “Make sure your pets are protected and not vulnerable.”

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Thai blossoming Cho Thai opens for takeout and delivery in Uptown

BY B E T H D ’A D D O N O THE WAY JIMMY CHO SEES IT, he’s just a

guy who sells fried rice.

But Cho, 44, made quite the impression on BRG Hospitality, which partnered with the self-effacing restaurateur to create Cho Thai, which opened June 18 in Uptown. Cho, who founded the Banana Blossom Thai Cafe in Gretna in 2009, inked a deal in January with Octavio Mantilla of BRG, formerly known as the Besh Restaurant Group.

“I was surprised really, somebody as big as BRG came to me,” Cho says. “I have already learned a lot from them, about systems and consistency.”

Mantilla is always looking for potential partners and fell in love with Banana Blossom last fall. ““The food is so creative, so good,” Mantilla says. “I know we’re not the first to ask Jimmy to open a restaurant together, but I think he and I just bonded.”

Cho Thai is located in the building that formerly housed Warbucks, which also was a BRG restaurant, and before that Amici Restaurant and Bar and Byblos. The renovated space was set for an April opening, but that was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cho Thai currently is offering takeout and delivery and will add in-house dining in mid July.

Cho Thai uses Banana Blossom’s menu as a jumping off point, elevating homestyle and traditional Thai dishes with classic technique and elegant presentation.

“At Banana Blossom, our menu lets customers build their curries, noodle dishes and fried rice bowls with different proteins, like coconut shrimp and crispy chicken,” Cho says. “Cho Thai will just offer one really elevated version of fried rice made with Louisiana crab; one green curry made with soft-shell crab. The menus are similar,

but I’m not used to French technique.

We use sous vide to cook the short rib for the Chiang Mai noodles — I never did that before. This team measures everything out by gram — I’m used to just using a teaspoon.”

Starters include spicy clams, fried calamari with serrano chilies and Malaysian-style roti, a buttery, puffy bread that Cho fell in love while traveling.

Signature dishes include grilled shrimp pad thai and traditional ka pao gai, a stir fry of basil, ground chicken and green beans with rice. For dessert, there is mango sticky rice and fried banana.

Working with chef de cuisine Kevin Dragon, most recently the sous chef at Shaya, Cho is in the kitchen, tweaking and making sure the sticky rice is just so. Bowls of shrimp tom yum are layered with seafood flavor and bright with lemon grass. A section of the menu called Night Market highlights Thai street food items such as papaya salad and fried chicken spiked with Thai chilies and garlic-chili fish sauce.

Cho, who hails from a village north of Chiang Mai, came to New Orleans to attend Delgado Community College.

He studied to be a surgical technician but quickly realized that wasn’t for him. Raised helping out at his mother’s combination noodle shop and grocery — she’s 70 and is still at it — he switched to hospitality, working at a sushi restaurant before opening his own place.

The new 120-seat restaurant is a beautiful, airy space, with exposed brick, an original plaster ceiling and a handsome royal blue and gold bar.

Traditional gold headpieces, bought on his annual trip home, flank the bar.

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Big box of wine TOTAL WINE & MORE (www.total-

wine.com), the country’s largest independent retailer of wine, opened its first Louisiana location at 3780 Veterans Memorial Blvd. in Metairie on June 27.

The store is approximately 30,000 square feet and will carry more than 8,000 wines, 3,000 beers and

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Jimmy Cho opened Cho Thai in Uptown on June 18.

A back wall with muted blue and green wallpaper reminds him of silk magnate Jim Thompson’s fabric designs.

The space is illuminated by eight shimmering crystal chandeliers.

“I think this restaurant will make Banana Blossom even stronger, as more people get to know about us,” Cho says. “My idea is to partner with a strong player. I use barbecue from the guys at Blue Oak BBQ, and I get my gelato from Piccolo Gelateria. So, working with BRG makes sense to me.

There’s a big learning curve working with a big company, and I’m used to just talking to my staff and making a decision. We have a lot of meetings at BRG. But I’m a team player and I have a very open mind. I’m open to suggestions. It’s a good partnership.

I’m excited to keep learning and moving forward.”

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3,000 spirits. It will feature products made locally and regionally.

“Customers can look for Louisiana-based products on our displays and shelves by looking for the Louisiana state flag,” says Ed Cooper, Total Wine’s vice president of public affairs and community relations.

Cooper says Total Wine & More typically caters to customers who want to try new things, including through tasting stations, consumer classes, in-person experiential tasting and virtual tastings conducted by winemakers, brewers, distillers and producers from across the globe.

During the pandemic, Total Wine & More will implement safety protocols at the Metairie store, such as signage on proper physical distancing and limiting the number of people in the store at one time.

Customers also can shop online for in-store pickup or delivery.

Total Wine, founded in Delaware in 1991, has roughly 200 stores nationwide. — MICHAELA BECHLER

Service station OUTDOOR SPACE WAS DESIGNED TO BE A KEY PART OF VALS (4632

Freret St., 504-356-0006; www.valsnola.com), the Mexican restaurant that opened in a former service station space in Uptown on June 23. The walk-up window for takeout was planned as more of a sideline component, but during the pandemic, it’s helping the restaurant begin service. Vals’ menu of tacos,

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Vals is the latest project from CureCo, the local company behind the nearby cocktail lounge Cure (4905 Freret St., 504-302-2357; www.curenola.com) and Cane & Table (1113 Decatur St., 504-581-1112; www.caneandtablenola.com) in the French Quarter.

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The patio at Vals on Freret Street.

American roots but is more casual, focused on street food and snacks.

Corn tortillas are made in house for tacos filled with pork shoulder, suadero (chopped beef belly), green mole chicken, sweet potato with salsa macha and fried fish.

Vals currently has seating on a covered portion of its patio. Eventually, it will open a full bar inside.

For now, there’s a short selection of beer, micheladas and frozen margaritas by the cup or gallon. The plan is to add bar service as a next step, then counter service inside and, finally, full service across the dining room, bar and patio.

Vals’ building was a gas station going back to the 1930s and was most recently Freret Service Station, which closed in 2015.

“We’ve stared at this property for years,” says Turk Dietrich, a partner in Vals. “We always thought it would be the perfect place for an indoor-outdoor space, where you can bring the energy of Freret right up to the street.”

Another new restaurant also is taking shape on Freret Street. Mr. Tequila is a Mexican eatery slated to open at 5018 Freret St., in what had been the Freret Beer Room, which closed last summer.

Vals is open 4 p.m.-10 p.m.

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

Dropping anchor IN MADISONVILLE, SIBLING RESTAURANTS will share the same roof

and view along a bend in the Tchefuncte River.

The open-air dockside restau-

rant and bar The Anchor (407 St. Tammany St., 985-323-4800; www. theanchorla.com) opened June 26.

Upstairs from The Anchor will be Tchefuncte’s (www.tchefunctes. com), an upscale restaurant with a bar and a collection of private dining rooms. It is slated to open July 18.

“The goal is to be approachable to everyone, whether they’re hanging with the kids downstairs, coming up for a weeknight meal at the bar or coming back on Friday for date night to really do it up,” says Michael Gottlieb, executive chef and operations director for the two restaurants.

The Anchor looks like a family-friendly riverfront tavern. There’s a playground for kids, a bar for the adults fitted with rigging and ship cleats and various counters and clusters of deck chairs with views of the river. A deck leads to a dock for boaters to pull up to the restaurant.

The Anchor serves sandwiches, barbecue, shrimp po-boys with brown butter, deviled crab with jambalaya, broiled or fried seafood platters and smoked beef short ribs.

At Tchefuncte’s, Gottlieb’s culinary approach will blend regional American dishes with global influences and Louisiana flavors. That will play out in dishes like Louisiana sweet potato ravioli gratin; fried oysters with red rice and andouille sabayon; herb- and Dijon-crusted chicken with shaved country ham and raclette cheese; roasted scallops with black garlic; and steaks and a changing roasted meat special.

For decades, this address was home to the casual restaurant Friends. It was badly damaged by storm surge from Hurricane Isaac in 2012, and the following summer a fire wiped out all that was left.

Another business faltered in the spot, and the building sat empty until local businessmen Greg Lala and Stephen Guidry, owners of Dixie RV SuperStores, bought the property in 2018. The owners brought in Gottlieb to steer Tchefunte’s and The Anchor.

Gottlieb is originally from Savannah, Georgia, where for a century his family ran Gottlieb’s Bakery. He came to New Orleans in 2009 to work for the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group and later was chef at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, leading the Rib Room. He went on to consult and develop more restaurants for the hotel group.

The Anchor is open from 10:30 a.m. to sunset Thursday through Sunday. — IAN McNULTY/ THE TIMES-PICAYUNE | NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE

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T. Cole Newton Bar owner T. COLE NEWTON WORKED AS A BARTENDER AT COMMANDER’S PALACE and was the bar manager

at Coquette before he opened the cocktail bar Twelve Mile Limit (500 S. Telemachus St., 504-488-8114; www.twelvemilelimit.com) in MidCity in 2010. Last year, he opened the Bywater wine bar The Domino (3044 St. Claude Ave., 504-3548737; www.dominola.com).

How were you able to reopen your bars during Phase 1 of pandemic restrictions?

T. COLE NEWTON: We got a temporary restaurant certificate.

If you’re a bar with a kitchen, the city said you couldn’t open unless you got a permit from the state saying that you temporarily would be certified as a restaurant with a bar. Restaurants with bars were allowed to open with takeout food and also certain narrowly defined beverages — packaged drinks and frozen drinks. We did that. Whatever bars are allowed to do, we’re one step ahead of that. During Phase 1, we were allowed to open for indoor seating at 25% capacity. But we said, we’re going to just do patio seating, go drinks and takeout food. In Phase 2, we’re staying one step behind. We’re able to open at 50% capacity, but we’re staying at 25% at both bars.

We have a log book for contact tracing; we have hand sanitizer everywhere; we put the tables as far apart as we could. We have plastic shields for point-of-sale so there’s a barrier for face-to-face interactions. These are all the recommendations from the state and city that we’re following to the letter. Out of an abundance of caution, we’re staying one step behind. It’s for our customers and our staff and the world at large.

The bars are only open two and three days a week.

Is that viable?

N: We’re not at a point where we’re getting slammed, but it’s still worth opening. Our bar draws a lot of educators and grad students and people involved in nonprofit work,

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poverty remediation and criminal justice reform — the people who abide by public safety recommendations. I think a lot of our guests are not ready to go to a bar right now. We can do drinks to go, and that’s how some people want to engage right now.

We offer food, but the [pop-up] is a separate business unto itself. The cost of labor for the kitchen doesn’t affect our bottom line for the front of the house. So I can open the bar and run a night of service with two people, whose income is almost entirely tip-based. People have been tipping very generously, and we’re grateful for that. But even if we open up and only do $200 in sales, it’s better than not having opened.

The nature of the bar business is a lot more forgiving than a traditional restaurant.

Does it feel like a bar with all of the physical distancing precautions?

N: Just having rules at all! There are fancy cocktail bars that have codes of conduct for their guests. We’ll police the space as needed to make sure people aren’t doing anything toxic, but we’re pretty loosey goosey when it comes to rules.

At Twelve Mile Limit, the whole theme of our bar is scofflaw. It feels out of character, but as much as I like the idea of the law being advisory, this feels like the time to take that advice.

Some people want tasty drinks that someone else made. There’s some level of normalcy to that.

You could make a pretty good old fashioned in your kitchen. But to be served is part of it, people want to participate in the community that is facilitating that service. I think people miss that. — WILL COVIELLO

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CBD 14 Parishes — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; www.14parishes.com — Jamaican-style jerk chicken is served with two sides such as plantains, jasmine rice, cabbage or rice and peas. Delivery available. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $$ Eat Well — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave.; www.pythianmarket.com — Phoritto is a spinach tortilla filled with brisket, chicken or tofu, plus bean sprouts, jalapenos, onions and basil and is served with a cup of broth. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $ Kais — Pythian Market, 234 Loyola Ave., (941) 481-9599; www.pythianmarket. com — A Sunshine bowl includes salmon, corn, mango, green onions, edamame, pickled ginger, ponzu spicy mayonnaise, cilantro, masago and nori strips. Curbside pickup and delivery available. L and D daily. $$ 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. $$ Red Gravy — 125 Camp St., (504) 5618844; www.redgravycafe.com — Thin cannoli pancakes are filled with cannoli cream and topped with a chocolate drizzle. The menu includes brunch items, pasta dishes, sandwiches, baked goods and more. Takeout available. Check website for hours. $$ 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. $

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

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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; 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) 7333803; 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

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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) 8882010; 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 WedSun. $ 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,

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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. L Mon-Fri. $$

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) 875-4132; 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. Popular dishes include shrimp Mosca, chicken a la grande and baked oysters Mosca, made with breadcrumps and Italian seasonings. Curbside pickup available.

D Wed-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Specialty Italian Bistro — 2330 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, (504) 391-1090; www.specialtyitalianbistro.com — The menu combines Old World Italian favorites and pizza. Chicken piccata is a paneed chicken breast topped with lemon-caper piccata sauce served with angel hair pasta, salad and garlic cheese bread.

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BY KEITH SPERA RICKIE LEE JONES HAS LIVED IN NEW ORLEANS LONG ENOUGH to realize

she needs to leave, at least occasionally.

“I like it here a lot. If I can travel, it’s just fine,” the singer-songwriter said last week. “Not being able to go anywhere, I start looking at those potholes in the street and get really mad about them.”

After more than three months of being a coronavirus shut-in, Jones, a lifelong wanderer, finds herself going a bit stir-crazy.

“Not only can I not go do normal things, but I’m used to touring and traveling,” she says. “At first, I didn’t mind, because I like just sitting and gardening. But it’s getting harder now.”

Jones planned a livestream performance with an emphasis on her C O N T R I B U T E D P H OTO B Y A S TO R M O R G A N self-titled 1979 debut on her Jazz-pop singer Rickie Lee Jones.

Facebook page from her home in the Marigny on June 28.

The rights to that album — which 1989 album), so I was still up on top, featured the hit “Chuck E.’s in but he wasn’t. (Producer) Tommy Love” and Dr. John on keyboards LiPuma and I helped him get back — recently reverted to her. She in the hit parade. Once he was plans to release a remastered there, he never really fell again. He version later this year. kept his foot in the game.”

The “Rickie Lee Jones” re-release She didn’t get to see Rebennack will preface what she hopes will much after she moved to New be a big 2021. Her long-awaited Orleans in the early 2010s. He was autobiography will be published in poor health and living on the early next year. She’ll celebrate the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

40th anniversary of her landmark Dr. John appears in the pages of second album, 1981’s “Pirates,” her forthcoming autobiography, and if all goes well, she’ll release which she started writing years ago. a new album, the follow-up to “It’s an emotional thing, to hold a 2019’s “Kicks.” mirror up” to your life, Jones said.

She also hopes her contribution “My book is about my family’s life to Dr. John’s final recordings finally long before you get to me.” sees the light of day. As his health Her ancestors “had cinematic declined ahead of his death in June lives,” she says. “My grandmother 2019, Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack running off with my mother in her recorded a collection of country arms through the cornfields so the songs and stripped-down versions social worker couldn’t get ’em. My of some earlier works. Jones sang 14-year-old dad jumping freight on a remake of his early standard trains during the Depression. These “I Walk on Guilded Splinters” and are icons in American history, and other tracks. the family is there for all of ‘em.

She became involved with the She opted for a broader story project via producer/guitarist Shane rather than a kiss-and-tell compenTheriot, who produced “Kicks.” dium of salacious details.

Thirty years prior, she and Dr. John “I gave ‘em some Tom Waits (a won a Grammy Award for their long-ago boyfriend), because they “Makin’ Whoopee!” duet, from his like Tom Waits,” she says.

“In a Sentimental Mood,” the album “Whatever I said that was perthat revived his career. sonal, to be honest, I don’t go in “He hadn’t had a hit in a long too deep, because it’s nobody’s time,” she says. “I was working on business. I said as much as I was ‘Flying Cowboys’ (her gold-certified comfortable saying.”

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BY WILL COVIELLO FROM THE ANCHOR DESK OF “THE DAILY SHOW,” Jon Stewart, the co-

median and host, delivered rapid-fire jokes and withering takedowns of politicians and people in the news. In the writer and director’s new comedy, “Irresistible,” political jousting drives scenes between rival political operatives played by Steve Carell, a “Daily Show” veteran, and Rose Byrne. They erupt in a shouting match in the middle of a Wisconsin county fair, screaming about their respective uses of shame and fear as political tools.

The comedy starts on the morning after the 2016 presidential election, and Gary Zimmer (Carell) is a big money, Democratic party strategist wallowing in defeat. He dedicates himself to figuring out how Democrats can reach rural America and is shown a YouTube clip of a Wisconsin man confronting the mayor of his small town at a city council meeting.

That animated figure is Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper), a Marine Corps veteran and farmer who opposes the scapegoating of immigrants. Gary thinks that if he can convince Hastings to run for mayor as a Democrat,

he’ll have figured out a way for the Democratic party to reach voters it lost in 2016.

As Gary, Carell sometimes channels Michael Scott, the annoying boss he played on TV’s “The Office.” Some scenes in his campaign headquarters are shot in a similar fashion, and while Gary can be condescending and crude, he isn’t oblivious. A group of young staffers and local volunteers roll their eyes at him, but Gary’s missteps are never as funny as Scott’s.

A few campaign blunders put him in awkward situations, but they tend to highlight the crassness of his political calculations.

Small-town, middle America feels strange to Gary, no matter how much he knows about its demographics.

Stewart overworks an outdated portrayal of main street USA. Jokes about the lack of Wi-Fi connections or even business-class accommodations feel rote. Gary’s horror at seeing Hasting’s daughter Diana (Mackenzie Davis) with her arm deep inside a cow is better. Gary says to Jack Hastings that he wants to know if the two of them essentially believe the same

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things, even if they have little else in common. But Hastings just wants to solve his small town’s problems.

It’s not going to be a political boot camp for Hastings or an easy comeback victory for Gary though, because as soon as GOP groups get wind of what he’s up to, political operative Faith Brewster (Byrne) arrives to support the town’s current Republican mayor. Their ongoing love/ hate relationship yields the movie’s funniest scenes.

Gary and Faith’s escalating battle over the minor post of mayor of Deerlaken, Wisconsin, is part of Stewart’s point. They have more in common as opposing power players than D.C. has in common with small-town America.

Both are complicated relationships but are defined more by the divides between them. Stewart takes good jabs at pollsters and analysts of personal data mined from internet usage. The PAC and Astroturf political groups that pop up to tip the small-town election are funny, but the desired circus never reaches the full three rings of action Stewart tries to conjure.

While Gary and Faith get into foulmouthed spats, the townsfolk are kinder and more compassionate. The movie’s overall humor is gentler, and while the set-up follows a slow pace, the last laughs are satisfying and hard to predict.

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99 Small, as Abner 100 End of the riddle 105 Guy 106 Give a new hue to 107 Rock producer Brian 108 Hit the sack 109 Affront, to a hip-hopper 110 Java is one 112 Riddleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s answer 117 Money in the form of coins 118 Author Wiesel 119 Player of multiple records, of sorts 120 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madâ&#x20AC;? one in Wonderland 121 Star studierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sci.

122 Figure skater Lipinski 123 Leisure tops DOWN 1 Wall Street index 2 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yecch!â&#x20AC;?

3 Gradually accepts 4 Release upon to attack 5 Lieut.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subordinate 6 Bit of body art, in brief 7 Waste barrel 8 Wheat bundle 9 Move as an eddy does 10 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sorry, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in a hurryâ&#x20AC;?

11 â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Orchid Thiefâ&#x20AC;? novelist Susan 12 Pint-size 13 Ten squared 14 Transplant, as a perennial 15 Of yore 16 Knighted actor Derek 17 Of national origins 18 Alain-RenĂŠ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gil Blasâ&#x20AC;? author) 20 None at all 24 Lead-in to lateral 28 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orlandoâ&#x20AC;? novelist Virginia 30 Actress Helgenberger 31 Certain steel girder 32 Taiwan tea 33 Feudal estate

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34 2010 Super Bowl MVP Drew 35 French for â&#x20AC;&#x153;stopâ&#x20AC;?

37 Horse, when running 41 Organic part of soil 42 With 63-Across, boomerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kid 43 Mile High Center architect 44 Some Christians 46 Austrian â&#x20AC;&#x153;aâ&#x20AC;?

48 New Age pianist John 49 In a frenzy 50 Stare stupidly 51 37th president 52 Abject fear 53 Feudal laborers 57 Former baseball boss Bud 58 Brand of pasta sauce 59 One of the boxing Alis 60 Meadow mother 62 Meadow mother 66 Guess qualifier 67 Petty of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tank Girlâ&#x20AC;?

68 Cookie bar from Mars 69 Lariat 71 Pillage 72 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uncle!â&#x20AC;?

75 Collegiately stylish 76 Tilt weapon

78 44th president 79 Pocatelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state 80 Psyche part 81 Went first 84 Have a link with 85 Horseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gait 86 Mistreatment 87 Nullify 88 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stanley Gardner 92 A bit weird 93 Place to be pampered 94 Egg-based dish 96 They follow Marches 97 Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum 98 With 115-Down, she sang â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Alone Am Iâ&#x20AC;?

101 Lamp spirit 102 Frisky water animal 103 Bakery buy 104 Put up, as a tent 105 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I â&#x20AC;&#x201D; think so!â&#x20AC;?

109 Cloning stuff 111 Make believe 112 Briny deep 113 Outmoded TV accessory 114 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I solved it!â&#x20AC;?

115 See 98-Down 116 Soon-to-be grads: Abbr.

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28 U.N. medical agcy. based in Geneva 29 Words before roll or tear 30 Hockey glove

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