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CONTENTS Features 6 2016 Saints Season Preview 8 One to Watch: Michael Thomas 10 Saints 50 12

All About Satchmo w/ Fest Preview

14 Hurricane Season 2016 15 You May Be Wrong About NOLA 16 NOLA Fitness Boutiques 18 6 Unusual NOLA Sites 37 Living Paintings in NOLA

Events & Nightlife 20 Lakeside 2 Riverside 36 Bar Guide

Dining 28 Food News 29 $20 and Under 31 Probably Baking 32 Restaurant Guide

Extras 38 Film Reviews

August 2016 Vol. 19 No. 14 Publisher/Editor-in-Chief: Josh Danzig Creative Director: Michael Fulkerson Assistant Editor: Kathy Bradshaw Movie Editor: David Vicari Copy Editor: Burke Bischoff Contributing Writers: Kathy Bradshaw, Beau Ciolino, Cassandra Damascus, Fritz Esker, Emily Hingle, Phil LaMancusa, Debbie Lindsey, Kim Ranjbar, Greg Roques, Celeste Turner, Leigh Wright, Emil Flemmon, Andrew Alexander, Clay Curry, Mike Perry, Dean Shapiro Director of Sales: Stephen Romero Cover Photo by Jonathan Bachman Photographers: Kathy Bradshaw, Scott Chernis, Gus Escanelle, Jason Hall, Steve Hatley, Romney, Jorge Menes, Lenore Seal, Frenchy, Kelly Boyett, Louis Armstrong House Museum, New Orleans Saints Interns: Paul Bentley, Anna Young, Noah Stokes-Raab, Paul Meunier, Austin Sylvest, Zachary Brien, Taylor Lust Subscribe: Receive 1 year (14 issues) for $30 and get a FREE Where Y’at CD. Subscribe today at WhereYat.com.

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46 Where Y'at Chat Congratulations to the staff of Where Y’at after our website was awarded “1st Place – News Website: Digital Media” by the New Orleans Press Club. Special thanks to our designers at Dynamix Web Design for their incredible work and dedication.

After the dull winter and long hot summer, football is finally back as the New Orleans Saints celebrate 50 years in the Big Easy. Andrew Alexander takes you down memory lane with his rundown of the 10 greatest plays in WhoDat history.

Also check out Emil Flemmon’s profile of wide receiver Michael Thomas and his great preview of the upcoming Saints season that takes you from training camp all the way to Super Bowl LI. Satchmo SummerFest is getting bigger and better this year with its move to Jackson Square. Take a peek at our profile of this fantastic festival, as well as Phil LaMancusa’s look at New Orleans’ favorite son, Louis Armstrong.

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2016 Saints Season Preview

By Emil Flemmon

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s we near the upcoming season of NFL football, the Saints are looking good this year. With veterans such as Drew Brees and Zach Strief, the return of Roman Harper, and a more diverse cast of younger players like wide receiver Michael Thomas and running back Marcus Murphy, head Coach Sean Payton seems pleased.

While fans, of course, will be eager to see how the 2009 Super Bowl-winning team will fare, one component to consider is how Brees and the younger players will perform on field. Still trying to emulate much of the 2009 season, which can arguably be considered one of their better years, the question remains—can a new formulaic momentum be created for an even greater year?

For Special Teams: • Kicker Kai Forbath and punter Thomas Morstead showed consistency in their performances during minicamp, which was held back in June. Forbath has had a successful run with the Saints since he took over for Zach Hocker.

• Morstead re-signed with the team in March. He was solid then, so the expectation is for that to continue. He was picked as a special teams captain back in 2014, a position he still holds today.

• Morstead holds a record for the most touchbacks in a single season. During minicamp, he showed fans why that record is worth remembering, if and when our backs seem up against a tight wall.

On Defense: • Outside linebacker Hau’oil Kikaha’s ACL tear isn’t “career-ending”, according to head coach Sean Payton. He did state that he has taken into consideration replacements for the projected starter such as Kasin Edebali and Obum Gwachum.

Payton gave praise to Kikaha’s will power, saying, “To his credit, man, he's been unbelievable in regards to his mindset. You think you might get someone who was extremely disappointed. And I'm sure that was the case. And yet the night he got his first diagnosis, he sent me a three-page-long text about how this has just motivated him more.”

• Edebali has been questionable due to injuries, but Payton believes that by training camp ( July 28-August 16), he’ll be healthy enough to be considered an alternate in the games.

• The Saints need a good defensive lineup, and though Gwachum doesn’t have the “strongest” of stats, Payton is still confident that his backups can make the grade.

• We need to obtain small pass rushers who can perform full time. Edebali may be the one to watch if he’s given the chance to start during the opening game.

• Sheldon Rankins joined the free agency before signing with the team. This rookie defensive tackle, dubbed “Mr. Boring”, will be good at making plays in three different positions (three technique plays) with the ability to affect the pass and the run.

• Payton praised the 6'1" Rankins, who weighs around 300 pounds, in regards to his shape, during an Organized Team Activities (OTAs) interview.

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Rankins’ frame is what Payton believes will be useful for defense. During his last two seasons at Louisville, Rankins had an impressive 26.5 tackles and 14 sacks. Add that to strong NFL numbers and it’s no wonder he was one of the top players during the draft. Rankins is only 22 years old, which adds to the list of young players this season.

The dichotomy proved effective during OTAs, but again, fans are going to want to see that magic consistently active for game time.

Projected starters on defense haven’t been named yet, and even though Payton has his picks, will he use the “right” ones needed to fill the gaps for what’s lacking?

In addition to Rankins, safety Vonn Bell was projected as a possible roster add-on for the Panthers. However, he was traded during the second round of the draft to the Saints. Bell will have to concern himself with Jairus Byrd and Kenny Vaccaro. Though Byrd shined tremendously while playing for the Buffalo Bills, that all changed when he joined the Saints roster. Byrd started in 12 of 13 games despite questions about his knee last season.

Could Bell be a good starter? Can he exercise what’s needed as a safety outside Harper’s contribution? Depending on what’s said behind closed doors and the decisions that work best for the team, Bell should definitely get some PT to prove why he was traded during the second round of the NFL draft.

On Offense: • Since franchise quarterback Brees will always be a heavy reliant, a question to ponder—can Garrett Grayson carry the torch? The second string QB is in his second year with the Saints and had some great practices during OTAs. • Payton did voice the challenge concerning Grayson when he stated, “He’s been real attentive. He’s in good shape. And I think the biggest thing is just the mental element of the process happening quicker and him knowing where to go and not spending so much time worrying on how to call it.”

Summary Do fans want to see Brees take the lead, as he’s expected to do, or are they willing to see Grayson step up for more

Tim Hightower makes a dash during Saints training camp. playing time? Will it matter, and, if so, when? Even the greats have to ultimately relinquish their spot to someone else.

Speaking of Brees, when asked about how he felt towards this year’s roster of younger players and how that may affect the upcoming season, he stated, “I think we have a good balance between veteran players like myself and the younger ones. Their hunger makes up for any inexperience because they’re learning." Brees doesn't consider the current roster age gap as problematic. During OTAs, Brees was still in good standing and health with throws, while rookie wide receiver Michael Thomas and running back Marcus Murphy showed nothing less than 100 percent of completed catches during the fan-inspired practice.

As far as Harper goes, some fans may not agree that he needed to come back after his stint with Carolina.

An arguable weakness that needs improving is his pass coverage despite his established skills. Sure, he can add some much-needed depth to Vaccaro and go big on blitzing, but will that be enough?

Overall, there’s a good mixture of what can be done to revive some glory years and what’s needed to create new ones. It’s the defense that specifically needs shaping to help get through the season and hopefully the playoff s.

Offensively, the Saints will have that relationship between vets and rookies, which should make for some potential wins.

Training camp goes through August 16, and the first regular season home game will be against the Raiders on September 11 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints face the Steelers during the preseason on August 26.

Photo by Zach Brien

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Michael Thomas is One to Watch

By Emil Flemmon

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ichael Thomas was regarded as the top receiver out of Ohio State. During the 2016 NFL draft, he was the 47th overall pick by the New Orleans Saints during the second round.

The 6’3” wide receiver hails from Los Angeles, California, and is one fans will need to familiarize themselves with this season.

His uncle, NFL great Keyshawn Johnson, played receiver for 11 seasons in the NFL. With that pedigree added to Thomas’ name, expectations remain high for the rookie.

The hope is that he will be a projected starter, alongside quarterback Drew Brees, during the opening preseason home game on August 11 against the Oakland Raiders.

When asked how he felt regarding his uncle’s NFL career, Thomas simply said, “I want to be better than my uncle. I just want to make everyone proud.” Thomas’ humility is incredibly transparent when giving interviews and he has the skills to match.

During the second day of Organized Team Activities at the practice facility in Metairie, Brees called a play during a third-down simulation in which Thomas needed to run an 18-yard route. What was obvious for the completion was how his connection with Brees on the field was quickly adjusted. Thomas, while in shotgun formation, faked the defender into believing he was going to run on the outside near the line of scrimmage, but instead, found an open slot and ran freely in a clear path.

We know the quarterback-wide receiver

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relationship is imperative for wins—being able to read last-minute play calls and making quick decisions, but most importantly, having communication and comradeship. Brees spoke on how Thomas was able to handle the play well, with as little as a nod to go off his instincts.

“I gave him a route that we have literally never repped before together … I don’t think we’d ever even talked about it. But I was just in the moment, and he’s my guy at that position, so I gave him the signal. He goes and makes the play and ran the route just like I imagined.”

Thomas’ former Buckeye coach, Urban Meyer, has even stated that he thinks Thomas is one of the most competitive players he’s ever had. Thomas showed up, showed out and will be ready this season with confidence.

During his college football career, Thomas was redshirted in 2013 with problematic areas due to his grades and inefficiency to learn offensive plays. However, he changed that with due diligence in 2014, the year the Buckeyes won the National Championship after defeating Oregon 42-20.

He finished his 2015 season leading in receptions with 56 catches for 781 yards and nine touchdowns. Not bad for a guy who was once a backup and ended up as an on-top starter, helping his team finish out as winners.

During his draft class, Thomas was considered a top-tier wide receiver. After he proved himself during the Combine, including running a 4.55-second 40-yard dash, a three-drill cone at 6.8 seconds and, a vertical jump at 35 inches, he was able to “Throw It in the Bag” as quickly as rappers Fabolous and The Dream’s hit single.

Shortly after his move to New Orleans, Thomas admitted that he hadn’t had time to enjoy the city because of his priorities regarding his advanced career as an NFL player. That focus is probably what drives Thomas to want to be a good team player to his veteran franchise quarterback.

“He's given back so much to this organization and this program. With a pro like that who's up there in his career, I just want to give back to him and add value and help him get to that Super 10/23 @Chiefs Pre-Season 10/30 Seahawks 8/11 @Patriots Bowl again,” Thomas said about Brees’ legacy.

11/06 @49ers 8/20 @Texans My take is that Thomas will be one of the 11/13 Broncos 8/26 Steelers better wide receivers alongside Brees. The 11/17 @Panthers 9/01 Ravens 11/27 Rams Saints have been taking major hits regarding 12/04 Lions Regular Season the D-line for quite a while and ultimately, 12/11 @Buccaneers 9/11 Panthers defense doesn’t really win championships. It’s 12/18 @Cardinals 9/18 @Chiefs 12/24 Buccaneers 9/26 Falcons the chemistry between the vets and rookies 1/01 @Falcons 10/02 @Chargers on offense that will help set the precedent for a 2/05 Super Bowl 10/16 Panthers great outcome.

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When the Saints Go Marching In: 50 Years of Black and Gold Memories

By Andrew Alexander

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s a kid of the 1990s, I never understood how my father could root for a perennial loser like the New Orleans Saints. The Crescent City’s lone professional franchise’s futility was legendary, having never achieved a single playoff victory at that point. And yet, my father, along with legions of the Black and Gold faithful, continued to support the Saints.

My favorite professional sports teams in those days were Michael Jordan’s six NBA championship-winning Chicago Bulls, John Elway’s backto-back Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, and the tried and true division-winning Atlanta Braves. I loved winners, and the Saints were the antithesis of winners.

The New Orleans Saints’ history began with a bang, a 94-yard opening kickoff return by John Gilliam against the Los Angeles Rams, but quickly shrank to a whimper. Though the Saints brought pride to their fans in the early years of the franchise, the franchise failed to accumulate many wins.

My father attended the very first Saints game in franchise history at Tulane Stadium in 1967, selling souvenir programs with his family, and rarely missed a home game until he left for college at LSU. The Saints were an integral part of my father’s childhood and teenage years, and because of his passion, those same feelings were always present somewhere deep inside of me.

My father loves the Saints with every fiber of his being, and it was always a Sunday tradition during the fall to come home after church and watch the Black and Gold battle on the gridiron. In the true New Orleans spirit, my father always muted the television and turned on the radio to listen to the Saints broadcast team of Jim Henderson and Hokie Gajan.

I watched my father beam with pride when the Saints won the first playoff game in franchise history against the St. Louis Rams in 2000, as Henderson screamed, “There is a God after all!” when Rams wide receiver AzZahir Hakim muffed a punt near the end of the game, essentially sealing the victory for New Orleans.

The Saints would not return to the playoffs

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until the 2006 season, the first year of the current “Golden Era” marked by the arrivals of head coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees.

I remember the nomadic season the Saints endured in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the franchise embodying the displaced nature of a city in crisis. Watching the Saints playing in Baton Rouge’s Tiger Stadium seemed unnatural, and fans wondered if their beloved franchise would ever return to the Superdome again.

But the Saints did return and in triumphant fashion, resurrecting a city from its darkest days.

Many in this city shed tears of joy when the Saints returned to the Superdome in 2006, and those tears turned to roars of euphoria when Steve Gleason blocked the Atlanta Falcons’ punt that evening on the fourth play of the Saints’ “Dome-coming”.

Subsequent tears of sorrow have been shed as our city has watched Gleason’s body deteriorate the past five years during his battle with the debilitating disease ALS. The prayers of an entire fan base were finally answered in 2009 when the Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win Super Bowl XLIV. Jubilation rang throughout the city, as Saints fans danced through the streets in celebration. Skin color, religious affiliation, and social status flew out the window as people embraced strangers and rejoiced until the wee hours of the morning.

I am not a native son of New Orleans, but as the son of two parents who grew up on each of this illustrious city’s two shores, I know what the Saints mean to the people of New Orleans.

The Saints represent resiliency, rising from perennial cellar-dweller status to reach the apex of professional sports.

For 50 years, the Saints have been New Orleans’ team and will continue to bring joy (and sometimes frustration) to the countless members of the Who Dat Nation.

May the next half-century be filled with many more triumphs and many less tragedies, both on and off the field.

We are New Orleans. We are the Saints. We are united.

The history of the New Orleans Saints is fraught with heartbreaking memories and breathtaking triumphs. From blocked punts to game-winning interceptions, here are the best 10 plays in franchise history:

^^ 1. The Pick-Six – Tracy Porter’s perfectly timed interception late in the fourth quarter sealed the Saints’ first Super Bowl victory. The amazing defensive play signaled much more than a monumental victory for a professional franchise, it marked the near restoration of a city still in rebuilding mode.

2. The Field Goal – Garrett Hartley etched his name in New Orleans Saints lore with his game-winning 40-yard field goal in overtime of the NFC Championship, sending the Black and Gold to their first Super Bowl in franchise history.

^^ 3. Gleason’s Blocked Punt – A broken city was reborn on Monday Night Football when special teams’ demon Steve Gleason burst through the Atlanta Falcons’ line and blocked Michael Koenen’s punt, elating the home crowd in New Orleans, and restoring some sense of normalcy to an ailing city for one night.

4. The Muffed Punt – It took over three decades, but when Brian Milne recovered AzZahir Hakim’s muffed punt in 2000, securing the Saints’ first playoff win in franchise history, the win over the St. Louis Rams felt symbolic for the brighter days that were to come.

5. The Kickoff Return – The franchise was born in 1967 with one of the most exciting plays in sports. John Gilliam’s 94-yard opening kickoff return in front of over 80,000 fans in Tulane Stadium galvanized a fan base … until the Saints lost the game to the Los Angeles Rams 13-27.

^^ 6. Ambush – Trailing at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV, New Orleans shifted the momentum in their favor by recovering a surprise onside kick to open the second half.

Chris Reis’ recovery of Thomas Morstead’s perfectly aimed kick led to a Saints go-ahead touchdown a few plays later, further justifying New Orleans as a team of destiny in the 2009 season.

7. Deuce’s Dimes – On the cusp of the franchise’s first NFC Championship Game berth in 2006, Deuce McAllister carried the Saints to victory with two third-quarter touchdowns. McAllister bulldozed five yards through the heart of the Philadelphia Eagles’ defense for the first score, then caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Brees later that quarter. The touchdowns propelled the Saints to their first ever NFC Championship Game appearance, in the inaugural year of the Payton-Brees era.

^^ 8. Meachem’s Strip – Saints wide receiver Robert Meachem prevented a possible Washington Redskins pick-six and helped preserve the Saints undefeated season in 2009 with his strip-and-score touchdown to spur a monumental comeback by the Black and Gold.

^^ 9. The River City Relay – The Saints pulled off one of the most entertaining (but ultimately insignificant) plays in 2003 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. New Orleans channeled its inner Cal Berkley, ripping off a three-lateral, 75-yard gonzo touchdown. John Carney missed the game-tying extra point attempt, but that did little to diminish the chaotic excitement of the previous play in the minds of many Saints’ fans.

^^ 10. Dempsey’s Kick – No toes? No problem. Tom Dempsey booted a then NFLrecord 63-yard field goal to beat the Detroit Lions as time expired. Dempsey’s kick was one of a handful of positive achievements Saints’ fans could hang their hats on in the first couple decades of the franchise’s existence.

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All About Satchmo

By Phil LaMancusa

“Of course Pops toms, but he toms from the heart!” -Billie Holiday

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told a tourist the other day that St. Louis Street, as well as the cathedral at Jackson Square, are both named for Louis Armstrong: “After all,” I said, “we have Armstrong Park, Louis Armstrong International Airport—he is our city’s favorite son—so naturally we have canonized him!”

Not really, but it’s not a stretch. We’ve literally put Saint Satchmo on a pedestal. Too bad—even though he deserves it, he never wanted it. Let’s start at the beginning: the grandson of slaves, the illegitimate son of a part-time hooker and an absentee laborer, raised mostly by a local Jewish family when he wasn’t being shuffled from pillar to post for a pallet. He was reared in a dirt poor slum, selling buckets of coal to the Storyville prostitutes (and listening to his musical hero, Joe “King” Oliver), picking up scrap from the back of a drawn wagon and cacophonously blowing a tin horn—“he played it every day, all day”—to attract business. It was while working and tootling “one of them long tin horns that they celebrate Christmas with” that he spotted a beat-up cornet in Jake Fink’s Loan Office (Pawn Shop) on Perdido and South Rampart Streets. Morris Karnofsky, the rag, bone, bottle and metal (junk) collector that he worked for, lent him the $2 down payment on the $5 instrument. The rest he paid on time from his hard-earned pay.

The Karnofsky family, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, took little Louis in and even welcomed him at their table, what they called "cupboard love" back then. “Mother Tillie” would make sure that he was fed and even taught him Russian lullabies, because he also had a good voice.

The Karnofskys were the first to encourage Louis’ playing and singing; nurturing him in his early life, this kid from a broken family. Louis forever wore a Star of David, relished Jewish food, and praised his adopted traditions, giving full expression to this double helix of cultures—Jewish and African American—all of his days.

The solidarity that he felt was wellearned and given freely. It seems that New Orleans has perpetually had an element of haves and have-nots, and, like it or not, Africans and immigrants have generally had to go through periods of exclusion and prejudice until they come into their own. The Africans, Irish, Germans, Sicilians and Eastern European Jews all were looked down upon and left to hard scrabble—basically because they were poor—until they created a prosperity of their own making.

One of the things that united them was music.

That music is called jazz. Jazz is the people’s music and, at the time of Louis Armstrong’s childhood, jazz was demanding attention.

Singing/scatting in street spasm bands by age 10, Louis fit into music like a hand into a glove. A

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performer from an early age, he never tired of wanting—and getting—attention, eating it up like chicken on Sunday and, as we all know, is now called forward for his “prodigious virtuosity and extraordinary talent”. It is not enough to say that he got very very good on his horn; he was, simply put, a musical god.

A god that was treated unfairly enough by his city from day one. It was unfair to the extent that he lived out his life away from here and is buried in Queens, New York, not far from where the house that his wife bought in 1943 is located, which he called home until his death in 1971.

The fact is that Louis Armstrong grew up poor and powerless and he never forgot that. The neighborhood that he grew up in was called “The Battlefield” (AKA Black Storyville) because of the gambling, drunkenness, whoring, fighting and shootings that occurred there. He dropped out of school in the fifth grade and started working. Louis had to hustle because he was the wage earner of his family, which included his mother and his sister. He was sent to the Waif’s Home at age 11 for firing his stepfather’s pistol on New Year’s Eve and spent three years locked up. It was there that the band director Peter Davis recognized his talent and potential—as did Louis—and when he was released, his musical muse called and he followed. He played in New Orleans bands in his early teens, riverboats at 18, up to Chicago, over to New York and back, bringing jazz and blues to appreciative audiences and making money before he was 21. Between 1925 and 1928, Armstrong cut more than 60 records with his band The Hot Five. It was then that Armstrong single-handedly transformed jazz into a soloist’s art.

Louis Armstrong was married four times and was reputed to have taken many lovers. He regularly smoked marijuana and kept in good health (according to him) by taking routine intestinal purges. He publicly boycotted New Orleans since its banning of integrated bands in 1956. He was raised with prostitutes, pimps, and prejudice and, with his immense musical ability, he escaped that and became an international celebrity.

But he soon found, whenever revisiting the South, that not much had changed since his childhood, even into the 1960s. Segregation of restaurants, hotels, theaters and performing venues disgusted him. Viciousness, discrimination and violence aimed at blacks by whites scared him.

Explaining a resistance to demonstrate publically, he stated, “They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched!” He had already been the target of a bombing in Knoxville at an integrated performance in 1957. He cancelled a trip to Russia in the same year protesting the Alabama guardsmen’s anti-integration military occupation of a Little Rock high school. “They’re going to ask me what’s wrong with my country and what am I supposed to tell them?” He spoke out against it and President Eisenhower’s inaction and was reviled by blacks and whites alike for his actions and words. It was as if stepping out of the role of an affable, jolly, horn-playing minstrel was an affront.

In 1964, he won a Grammy in Beverly Hills for best song (“Hello Dolly!”). The next year when he returned to New Orleans, it was on the heels of the killing of Malcolm X on February 21 and Bloody Sunday (March 7), when state troopers, armed with tear gas, bull whips and billy clubs, attacked nearly 600 marchers in Selma who were protesting the police shooting of a voter registration activist. He was able to see different sides of our country’s prides and prejudices.

Because of his talent he was loved and revered, because of his color he was disparaged.

If Louis Armstrong was alive today, would he find New Orleans very much different than the New Orleans that he knew? Sure, the streets have been paved (kind of), most everybody has electricity and running water. There’s gentrification and the white-washing and green-washing of our city infrastructure, but have we really advanced? Why is it that the majority of successful African Americans leave their New Orleans neighborhoods and even the city as a whole to find security and peace for themselves and their loved ones elsewhere?

In Louisiana, teen pregnancy, infant mortality, child poverty, violent crime, obesity, unemployment and neglect of the environment are still among, (if not) the highest in the country.

Add to this the bleak futures for the 73 percent of young blacks graduating high school (the lowest percentage in the country), the income disparity, and low-paying jobs for our workforce minorities—it can be depressing and oppressing.

It’s true that we have come a long way, but things are far from perfect. Any person living here needs to prove his or her worth, same as everywhere else. It’s just that some segments of our population have to work harder than others to make that point or else be beaten down by the powers that be, who act, in their own interests, with impunity.

It was talent that let Louis escape and the hatred of Jim Crow that kept him away. There can be no doubt that he knew what it meant to miss New Orleans or the sleepy time down here in the South; and he knew what it was like to be black and blue in America.

Photos by Louis Armstrong House Museum

Previewing Satchmo SummerFest

By Taylor Lust

A CAC Fundraiser

Saturday, August 6, 2016

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n 2001, Satchmo SummerFest began.

In celebration of Louis Armstrong’s birthday, the people of New Orleans decided to pay tribute to him in the best and most New Orleanian way possible: with music.

Since it first began 15 years ago, Satchmo SummerFest has become a mecca for New Orleanians and tourists alike to come together and celebrate the great Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong.

The festival is something of beauty. It combines everything great about New Orleans into one get-together. Jazz bands and other musical artists keep your ears content, while food vendors selling New Orleans delicacies keep your stomach full. Not to mention, there are a variety of seminars to keep you interested and out of the heat.

Satchmo SummerFest has been a hub for traditional and contemporary jazz, as well as brass bands and big band jazz, for the last 15 years. For three days, the French Quarter Festival Inc.-sponsored event plays the music of New Orleans and Louis Armstrong loud and proud on stages all around the festival. This year, for the first time, the fest will take place at a new location in Jackson Square.

There’s no question as to why New Orleans dedicates such a huge event to just one musician. Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901. He made famous songs such as “When the Saints Go Marching In”, and his renowned, raspy voice

and incredible trumpet talent brought him to the top of the music world in no time.

Dozens upon dozens of bands line up to pay their tribute to the great Satchmo, and this year is no exception. The first day of the festival alone consists of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Tornado Brass Band and the Shotgun Jazz Band, among many others. And to finish out the festival, special guest James Andrews will be providing festival goers with a trumpet tribute to Louis Armstrong, as keeping up with the tradition begun during past festivals.

In addition to the wonderful music, Satchmo SummerFest is also an excellent spot to find the best of the best of New Orleans fare. This year, the festival is host to some of the most quintessential New Orleans dishes. Vendors such as Antoine’s, Muriel’s Jackson Square, Henry’s Original Buttermilk Drop, Lasyone’s Meat Pie Restaurant, and Plum Street Snowballs will all be in attendance, serving festival attendees delicious morsels and tastes of New Orleans.

With only a $5 entry fee, all day wristbands, and free entrance for children 12 and under, there really is no reason not to attend Satchmo SummerFest this year.

So go, explore your hidden love of jazz and New Orleans food, have a few drinks, and celebrate the birthday of one of the greatest musicians in New Orleans history.

For the complete Satchmo Summerfest Schedule, log onto WhereYat.com

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tips for a Hurricane Evacuation

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hould I stay or should I go? Every year since Katrina, we have this same discussion. Right up to and through Katrina, I acted a fool and never even considered an evacuation. Being a bit of a dramatic weather freak, I would just get giddy as storms approached. Well, the levee failures of 2005 showed us all what happens when a force of nature meets up with the ineptitude of man. New Orleans was nearly destroyed by government (federal and regional) and corporate (oil, gas and shipping) greed, carelessness, and indifference. And our city is still at risk—serious risk.

But, will we want to contra-flow with our six pets in a 1994 Lincoln with no A/C and 234,500 miles on the engine? No. Did we learn from Katrina? Yes. So, we were so prepared when Hurricane Gustav threatened us. We had a van that we purchased with the understanding that we could not live in New Orleans without an evacuation clunker. We had AAA, were fully gassed up, our mechanic had given it the onceover; every pet (four) had a carrier and was micro-chipped; battery-operated fans packed, ice chest filled … we were ready. We even printed out an evacuation “rules of the road” for any friends who might need a ride out of town with us (no takers—too many rules). We thought we were golden with our planning, but all it took was a hairline crack in the radiator that went berserk from contra-flow and then the steep hills of northern Alabama. Of course, New Orleans was blessed with no fallout from Gustav—and we still added $1000.00 to our personal debt.

I suspect that we’re not the only ones out there who spent too much money and time off from work trying to avoid Gustav. And I know we have all now been lured into a comfort zone after 11 years of relatively calm summers. Our city’s remarkable comeback has repaired and replaced much of the devastation. The oily

By Debbie Lindsay

blackish water lines that circled and weaved throughout our city lie faded under fresh coats of paint. But they were a reminder for years of just how quickly lives and dreams can drown.

Even those of us who lived here during Katrina and learned firsthand that those worst-case scenarios do come true, tend to look about and think, “Well, my current neighborhood only took six inches of water or none at all.” So we still need to realize that every storm is different. What if that barge that

"Even those of us who lived here during Katrina and learned firsthand that those worst-case scenarios do come true, tend to look about and think, “Well, my current neighborhood only took six inches of water or none at all.”

So we still need to realize that every storm is different." broke through the levee during Katrina, landing on a school bus, had hit on the Upper Ninth Ward side? What if Katrina had maintained her original path and pushed, with all her might, the Mississippi River up and over—there would have been no dry high ground, no “Sliver by the River”, and the soup bowl effect would have taken out our business district and the French Quarter, and our rebound in these areas would have been quite different. I survived my foolish “ridin’ out the storm” relatively dry. But next time …?

So let’s review the options available to those who choose to evacuate. As we know, many people died during Katrina because they could not, would not, leave without their pets. Now

there are measures in place for our beloved critters.

The City of New Orleans has a website for pet safety and evacuation—just Google NOLA READY. Go to it today, read it and take the advice. The city will assist those without cars to get them and their pets out of harm’s way. But one needs to pre-read, pre-plan.

For both you and your pets, have all medical records, prescriptions, insurance papers, IDs, bank and credit stuff, addresses, and phone numbers of family and such (log or memorize all important phone numbers—don’t rely upon your cell as your only phone number directory).

Follow the check list provided by NOLA READY. Also, if your pets are not micro-chipped, take care of that today. When we finally got out of the city six days after Katrina, we had already sewn money into our clothing, written all numbers and credit card info inside our tote bag with a Sharpie because we had to travel light, and on Day 2 of flooding, we weren’t sure if water or looters would visit us. We came out fine—but we had our stuff ready and secured so when our escape came, we jumped. Get your ducks in a row and prepare not to swim!

If evacuating, remember to “lock it down” before leaving. Secure all things that might become airborne: lawn chairs, pots, bikes, pink flamingoes (those dear little plastic birds can fly under hurricane conditions). Definitely secure trash and recycle bins in a garage, or bungeecord them to a tree or fence. Duct tape the lids down (you don’t want coffee grinds, crawfish shells and little Johnny’s dirty diapers strewn across the neighborhood). Oh, and this is big— empty that refrigerator or take all frozen food, put it in a plastic bag, and leave it in the freezer.

Hope for the best, and if necessary, you can at least remove the thawed mess quickly without a hazmat suit (same goes for refrigerated items). Want an idea of how long, if at all, your power failed your freezer? Freeze an eightounce plastic cup of water; put a penny on top and you’ll have a bit of a gauge upon return as to how much defrosting went on. Err on the side of caution before assuming food is safe.

Also, duct tape the freezer and refrigerator doors shut tight.

If you’re staying put, on the other hand, be sure to plan for power outages and have your flashlights, battery-operated fans, and instead of candles (I nearly burned the house down during Katrina), load up on solar-powered yard/ walkway lights. They deliver a lot of light inside and can be recharged outside during the day (assuming you and your yard did not blow away). We found some great ones at Home Depot and Big Lots. We always fill up plenty of water bottles for drinking and buckets for flushing toilets. Items to have on hand? Bleach, heavy duty garbage bags, paper towels, hand sanitizer, zip lock baggies, a first aid kit, baby wipes (assume you may not have bathwater)— think “camping”. Be sure to stock up on nonperishable food and drinks (I prefer drinking white wine at room temp over warm beer!).

Let us all remember Katrina and take a lesson from her.

10 Things You’re Probably Wrong

About When it Comes to New Orleans

By Noah Stokes-Raab

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f you’re coming to visit New Orleans, and you haven’t spent an extensive amount of time here, you should probably brush up a bit on your knowledge of the city before you arrive. Native New Orleanians often interact with tourists, as the city is a big destination for them. In order to make these interactions more pleasant and friendly for both parties involved, visitors should try to learn a bit about the city before asking questions and making assumptions that could easily be avoided. Here are just a few of these things that people often assume about the city of New Orleans that can genuinely annoy natives.

1. The Simple Pronunciation of the City 6. New Orleans is Old-Fashioned and Slow It’s noo-OAR-linz, not noo-oar-LEANS. And please do yourself a favor and don’t try to call it the infamous N’awlins, you’ll sound dumb.

New Orleans is actually known as one of the fastest-growing cities in the country in many respects. Although the people of New Orleans are proud of their roots and their nearly 300-year past, they aren’t scared to try new things either. Sure, we like to take it easy at times and have a good time, and we don't mind if you call us laid-back. But we also have as much cutting-edge culture as the next city. And New Orleans has slowly but surely become one of the biggest destinations for the music industry and for medical care.

7. Everyone is Drunk All of the Time 2. You Can Drink Whatever You Want, Wherever You Want Not quite. You better not get caught with a glass vessel, that’s illegal as long as you’re outside. And although you’re technically allowed to drink in the street as long as it’s out of a plastic bottle or cup, public intoxication, drunk and disorderly, and of course drunk driving are all still absolutely illegal.

3. Crawfish, not Crawdads.

It’s that simple. Don’t call them crawdads.

4. Everybody Has That Signature New Orleans Accent Nope. Some people here in New Orleans do have a recognizable Southern accent, but a lot of them have distinctive twists, as New Orleans is a super diverse city. There are people here from all over the South, and from places other than the South, believe it or not. Even Northerners live here! And plenty of people who are born and raised here don't have much of an accent at all.

Okay, yes we like to drink. That's not really up for debate. And drinking is a big part of our culture—our festivals, our events, even our athletic endeavors. But believe it or not, we do have families, we do have obligations, and we do have work to show up to the next day. Although, to be fair, we might show up a little bit hungover.

8. You Are Constantly in Danger in New Orleans Every city has instances of crime, and New Orleans is no exception, but it’s not some cesspool of violent crime. As long as you don’t act like a drunken fool for the duration of your stay, you will most likely be just fine and safe and have a blast during your stay here.

9. All People Eat Here are Po-Boys, Beignets, Crawfish and Gumbo You’re right in assuming that people from New Orleans enjoy these objectively fantastic cuisine choices, but we don’t only feast on these. We are in America, after all.

We still enjoy the usual burger or pizza, and we actually have more and more great ethnic restaurants opening all the time as well.

5. Po-Boys are "Just Sandwiches"

10. Mardi Gras is Basically Year-Round

Don’t get me started. Actually, please do. Not only are po-boys not just sandwiches, they’re better than whatever your hometown calls their signature sandwich-type abomination.

From the delicious, usually fried filling (oysters, catfish, shrimp, etc.) all the way down to the ridiculously flaky French bread, every part of a real, authentic New Orleanian po-boy is too good to be called part of “just a sandwich.”

While this may have some inkling of being the tiniest bit near the truth if you happen to be talking about Bourbon Street, it couldn’t be further from the truth for anywhere else in the city. Since Mardi Gras is such a momentous event in New Orleans, and it is in fact not only for tourists, New Orleans wouldn’t be able to function if this were actually true. Believe it or not, people here actually have jobs they have to go to!

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Big Easy Fitness Boutiques

By Celeste Turner

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ove over mighty, big-box health clubs! More people are signing up for the petite-sized fitness boutiques, or personalized fitness studios, ranging from cycling and yoga to surfing classes. Research conducted by the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association, better known as IHRSA, found that boutique-style studios now account for 42 percent of the American health club market. The average gym membership costs about $57 per month, while a class at a boutique studio can be somewhere between $25 and $40. Fitness fans pay up because they like the group experience. The gym is now considered more than a place to sweat, it has become a social phenomenon. More and more, these boutique fitness studios are hot, new places to hang out with friends. Of course, technology has created easy access to these specialized studios, from booking classes to advertising. Websites can reduce

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work for employees and drive new customers to try a new class. In addition, with the heart rate monitor, for example, a client can see his pace during his workout and receive an email displaying his results following his workout. These data-driven workouts are popular and provide the customer with the opportunity to know exactly what they are doing in the class as well as their progress after each workout. With the help of social media, boutique-style fitness studios are reaching new people and building connections with existing clients. Today, more and more consumers are not just interested in a product, but an experience—a “boutique experience”. Listed below are five fabulous fitness boutiques around town: 1. Tour Cycle Studio (pictured on the left) - located in the Warehouse District at 860 Tchoupitoulas between Julia and St. Joseph Streets. They offer daily cycling classes from 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tour Cycle Studio is a dedicated indoor cycling studio with 35 Schwinn bikes on stadium-style seating, with heart-pumping beats and LED lights, all of which contribute to the fun atmosphere. Tour offers indoor group cycling classes led by TOURguides (instructors), including intense interval cardio workouts as well as TOUR50 classes, which add toning exercises for the upper body by using free weights for a full body workout. Actually, cycling participants or TOURists can burn 400-600 calories during each ride! More importantly, the Tour Studio provides SPD clip cycling shoes with the cost of the class. They also offer spa-like amenities, such as sparkling water, towels, and stocked washrooms to make those before/ post-work and lunch-hour workouts possible. There are no membership options as it is on a pay-per-class basis, with additional discounts given if multi-class packs are purchased.

Tour Cycling Studio appeals to everyone because it is a low-impact workout with a customer base ranging in age from 10-75 years old. At Tour, each instructor has their own personality that shines through during class and it also keeps each class fun and fresh.

Madeline Spears, the owner of Tour Cycle Studio, said, “Over the past few years, the New Orleans market has seen a surge in boutique fitness studios. These studios have long been popular in other major cities such as New York, L.A. and Chicago. Boutique fitness allows a studio to do one thing and do it well. With all your focus and energy on one type of activity, it allows you to become the best you can be in that area, a 'specialist' of sorts.”

2. Higherpower Cycle/Yoga - 514 City Park Ave. and its new location to open soon at 1000 Girod in the South Market District. Hours of operation are from 5:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. everyday.

They offer yoga, cycling and TRX classes, including fusion classes which combine all three disciplines. It is geared to all fitness levels from competitive athletes to beginners. Clients can purchase a drop-in class, a package of multiple classes, or buy a monthly membership with unlimited access. They have discounts for teachers and students and also have corporate packages. The studio is equipped with showers so clients can shower and go directly to work or whatever they have planned for the day.

“Higherpower is unique,” Mark Berger, owner of Higherpower Cycle/Yoga, said. “We are very diverse in our instructors, clientele and exercise programs. We are a strong community that supports each other, and we do things together inside the studio and outside the studio and also do many philanthropic things for our city.”

3. City Surf Fitness New Orleans (pictured below) - 5924 Magazine St. offering classes seven days a week at varied times. The target market is 18-35 years old, but their clients vary from 16 to 65 years old.

City Surf provides six different classes, ranging from yoga to barre, bootcamp and circuit training. They have 14 surf boards available for clients to book, which maintains a small group-training vibe. They have two full bathrooms with showers, as well as a big backyard for events and outdoor classes.

City Surf prices are as follows: a new client introductory monthly membership is only $59, which gives you unlimited classes for 30 days. There is a 12-month ($85 per month) and a 6-month ($95 per month) auto-draft package. These include unlimited classes at all locations (Dallas, Austin & NOLA), a free tank or tee, nutritional consultation, and early bird invites to meetups and events. The full list of pricing can be found on their website at www.citysurffitness.com City Surf is a friendly, no-pressure studio where all levels of fitness are welcomed. They strive to be a community-based place where you can meet people and get a great workout in a unique setting. They have 10 different trainers from a variety of fitness backgrounds, giving a different experience in each class. “You will never get the same class twice and will always be challenged,” Becky Hardin, owner of City Surf Fitness New Orleans, said. “Everyone is super-friendly and many have become friends from the studio.”

4. Orangetheory Fitness - 4141 Bienville St. (#107) Mid-City. They are open everyday with a list of 60-minute workout sessions split into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training. Orangetheory Fitness encourages their clients to train with heart rate monitors to track intensity and maximize the metabolic burn.

“I started as a client,” Elle Mahoney, owner of Orangetheory Fitness, said. “The main thing is that you are working in a small group with a personal trainer for the one-hour workout. Everybody is wearing heart rate monitors, which show up on the screen, displaying your name and heart rate. So, you can see if you’re working out in the green, orange or red zone.”

According to Mahoney, the green zone indicates a fat-burning zone working at 71-83 percent of the maximal heart rate. While the orange zone denotes a conditioning phase of building muscle working at 84-91 percent of the maximal heart rate. And the red zone is called the “all-out” phase where you are working at 93 percent or above of your maximal heart rate.

The cost of membership is contingent on the frequency of attended classes with no contracts. So, if you take two sessions per week for one month, then the price is about $13 per class, or if you attend three or four sessions per week for one month, then it breaks down to about $9-$11 per class. There are private showers and lockers for clients to put their belongings. However, towels are not provided. The modern design of the studio features 12 treadmills, 12 rowing machines, 12 Suspension Unit systems and plenty of free weights for sessions for 10 to 25 people. The upbeat music and motivational trainers, combined with the individualized post-workout results which are emailed to each client, keep up the strong momentum of the “Orangetheory experience”.

5. Yoga at the Cabildo (pictured to the right) with Nina R. Boasso, located at the Cabildo, a Louisiana state museum at Jackson Square in the French Quarter. (701 Chartres St.). Class is held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. There is a $12 drop-in fee.

Classes are $8 when you become a member of Friends of the Cabildo, a non-profit organization. Mats are available at no cost.

Yoga at the Cabildo classes are designed for all levels of practice. “I focus on proper alignment, quality of the breath and I try bringing a calmness to the mind,” said Nina Boasso, yoga instructor at the Cabildo for the past seven years. "It is a very intermediate class with modifications. Most people are comfortable walking into class because they know no one and it is not intimidating.”

Boasso uses the technique of breath for staying calm during the yoga class while the body is being stressed.

She said, “Breath is vital throughout the practice to prepare your body for meditation.”

The Cabildo management decided to develop yoga classes in the Spring of 2009 as part of a marketing program to increase membership for Friends of the Cabildo. A single membership to join Friends of the Cabildo is $40.

Boasso pointed out that Yoga at the Cabildo is unique, with its amazing space and mixed group of participants. The class is located in a light-filled gallery looking over Jackson Square in the French Quarter, where on most days, live local jazz music can be heard from below. The class attendance is composed of many travelers from around the world, along with local residents from the city. For Boasso and those repeat clients, the location of the yoga class stands as the key attraction, mainly because it is located in the heart of the French Quarter and it is always festive.

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6 Unusual Sites in New Orleans That You Probably Didn't Know Existed

By Paul Bentley

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ven if you’ve visited, dined or partied in every corner of New Orleans, there are still plenty of sites to see that you probably never heard of. Even the NOLA natives don’t know about some of the gems hiding in plain sight in this city. Here are six of the most intriguing locations that go unnoticed by tourists and natives alike.

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Piazza d'Italia Considered one of the most innovative architectural designs of the 20th century, the Piazza d’Italia is a New Orleans landmark that goes unvisited by most city residents and tourists. Designed in 1978 by architect Charles Moore, this artistic masterpiece was considered a groundbreaking achievement in postmodern architecture. The landmark blends many classical forms and designs — including a fountain, colonnades and a Roman Temple—with modern mediums and styles of the time. Piazza d’Italia is free to the public, so check out this historical landmark at the corner of Lafayette Street and Commerce Street!

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Abandoned Six Flags

Historic Voodoo Museum

Located at 3011 Michoud St., the ruins of the Abandoned Six Flags Amusement Park lie deserted, spooky and more intriguing than ever. The theme park was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, leaving a decaying, apocalyptic landscape that has not been renovated since. The 150-acre ghost town, splayed with smashed Mardi Gras figures, rusting roller coasters, and supposed alligators swimming in the water slide section, is probably more of an urban explorer attraction than a tourist attraction, but for anyone planning on entering this place, I’d advise you to enter at your own risk. The park is private property and there is a chance of running into an alligator.

Voodoo has been a part of New Orleans culture since the city was first established, adding a mysterious and fascinating allure to the city. But most tourists and residents don’t actually have any knowledge of the religion. The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum, located at 724 Dumaine Street, may be able to change that. Focusing mostly on Louisiana Voodoo—a combination of African and European influences, the small museum displays many artifacts and objects used during Voodoo practices, but also offers fortune telling and cemetery tours. John T., the museum’s Voodoo priest, performs psychic readings, which start at $40, and standard museum entry starts at $4.50.

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NOLA's Own Eiffel Tower

Nicolas Cage’s Pyramid Tomb

Labyrinth at Audubon Park

Among the historic, pillared mansions on St. Charles Avenue, there is one odd building out. Resembling an exoskeleton, with long steel beams extending in all directions from the ground, the Eiffel Society at 2040 St. Charles Ave. hosts events during the week and operates as a cocktail lounge and night club. Why is it called the Eiffel Society? Because the structure is literally a rebuilt chunk of the Eiffel tower. Up until 1981, the Restaurant de La Tour was a famous restaurant located at the top of the Eiffel Tower, but was taken down due to its weight. A famous French chef then bought the deconstructed restaurant and shipped it to New Orleans, giving it a new start in the Big Easy.

Nicolas Cage, the once acclaimed actor-turned-meme, has prepared for death in an unusual and excessive manor. He purchased a nameless pyramid-shaped tomb in the beloved St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. The monolithic grave stands at nine feet tall and the Latin maxim “Omnia Ab Uno” is carved into it, stylistically contrasting all of the surrounding burial stones. A tradition has started since it was constructed where women kiss the tomb while wearing bright lipstick. Locals are furious about his empty grave in the already crowded cemetery, but Cage has refused to comment.

Hidden in the beautiful Uptown park, there is a labyrinth that is free and open to the public. The intricate walkway is housed in a less populated section of the park, located near Laurel Street and the Tree of Life. Marty Kermeen, one of the most acclaimed labyrinth creators, was hired to construct New Orleans’ first labyrinth. The labyrinth’s archetypal symbol of the spiral is the universal representation of transformation. It's a tool that provides a sacred place for meditation, centering and healing. Today, the labyrinth stands as a symbol of hope and will offer our New Orleans community a place to heal, to walk together and to celebrate new life.

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Lakeside2Riverside U P C O M I N G F E S T I VA L S & E V E N T S

DINING COOLinary New Orleans August 1 -- August 31 Multiple Locations Times Vary coolinaryneworleans.com For the entire month of August, over 80 restaurants all around the New Orleans area will be participating in the annual COOLinary New Orleans celebration. This event celebrates the famously delicious and versatile culinary culture that New Orleans has to offer. All participating restaurants will have prixfixe lunch and dinner specials at prices that you won’t be able to take advantage of any other time of year. Check out their website for participating restaurants and even some of their recipes.

pulled chicken and Texas toast, and rides and games. It’s essentially a day for adults to be kids again by going to a carnival made for people 21 and up who enjoy a cold drink during the hot New Orleans summer.

PARADES National Underwear Day Parade Friday, August 5 6 p.m.

Washington Square Park facebook.com/events/1152523641429549/ Hosted by multiple experienced parade aficionados, the National Underwear Day Parade will surely be a great time.

This joyful celebration is open to all, and promotes bodypositivity and fun for everyone. Beginning in Washington Square Park, the parade will then march through the Marigny/ Bywater, ending at the Castillo Blanco Art Studio for a “Free Ball” for all participants to join. The march and the ball are both entirely free, so don’t miss out on NOLA’s first Underwear Day Parade!

FESTIVALS

White Linen Night August 6 Moonshine Fever Friday, August 19 7:30 p.m.

City Park neworleanscitypark.com/events/moonshine-fever Come out to the Carousel Gardens Amusement Park in City Park for this fun-filled adult party! With your $30 ticket, you will receive access to a fully open beer bar, free food like BBQ

White Linen Night Saturday, August 6 5:30 p.m.

Julia St. (300-600 Blocks) cacno.org/wwln2016 White Linen Night is essentially a huge block party hosted on Julia Street in the Warehouse District. The Warehouse District is an epicenter of art and artistic culture in New Orleans, and all of the art galleries on Julia Street will be open, allowing shoppers and walkers alike to peruse their art. There is live music, food and drink available for purchase, but it’s completely free to participate in the fun! Once the three hours are over, the fun will continue at the Contemporary Arts Center with even more art, food and music to enjoy.

Dirty Linen Night Saturday, August 13 6 p.m.

100-1400 Royal St. dirtylinennola.com Dirty Linen Night is an annual event that’s only been going on for about four years, but it has been gaining momentum

Pelicanpalooza August 14 rapidly. It’s a five or six block stretch of art galleries, shops, antique stores, and artisans from all over New Orleans showcasing their work, all while drink specials and dishes like dirty rice are being served up. Come out and support your local New Orleans art scene!

Pelicanpalooza Sunday, August 14 12 p.m.

Southport Hall camppelican.org/pelicanpalooza Pelicanpalooza is a true family event that lasts all day with live musical entertainment from a number of bands and artists, a silent auction, a live auction, a kids’ room filled with fun activities, and an extensive, delicious food selection.

Pelicanpalooza raises money that goes to the Louisiana Pulmonary Disease Camp, Inc., a camp for those whose medical needs often keep them from going to most other camps.

MUSIC Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Sunday, August 14 7:30 p.m.

Saenger Theatre saengernola.com Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, one of the first famous rock ’n’ roll groups whose career led to the award-winning Broadway hit Jersey Boys, will be performing some of their classic songs at the Saenger Theatre. The group has sold over 175 million records worldwide and continue to thrill fans of multiple generations.

Red Dress Run Saturday, August 13 All Day Armstrong Park/French Quarter nolareddress.com

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he annual Red Dress Run, put on by the New Orleans Hash House Harriers, is the most fun you’ll have in hot August sun. Put on your favorite red dress and head to Armstrong Park for food, beer and entertainment in the park, along with a 2-mile walk/run around the French Quarter. The money paid to get in to the event goes to various local charities. Last year, the Hash House Harriers raised over $169,000, and they are hoping to bring in even more this year.

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LynyrdSkynyrd&PeterFrampton These two iconic figures of classic rock join each other to create a night of pure 1970’s fun and rock ’n’ roll. Fri., August 5, $46-$319, 7:00 p.m., Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square, champions-square.com Monday, August 1 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Bamboula’s – Mark Rubin and Chip Wilson, Singing Gypsies, Smoky’s Blues Monday Jam with Jeremy Joyce Banks Street Bar – Lauren Sturm’s Piano Showcase, Jake Hickey Jazz Jam Buffa’s – Arsene Delay, Antoine Diel Circle Bar – White Night Columns Hotel – David Doucet Crazy Lobster – the Insta-Gators D.b.a. – Glen David Andrews Dmac’s – Danny Alexander Blues Jam Session Dos Jefes – John Fohl Dragons Den – Hot Club of Barbacoa Funky Pirate –Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge – Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, Instant Opus Improvised Series Kerry Irish Pub – Patrick Cooper Maison – Chicken and Waffles, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Organized Crime Maple Leaf – George Porter Jr, Trio Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar – James Andrews and the Crescent City Allstars Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones RF’s – David Bach, Jamie Lynn Vessels The Saint – Motown Mondays with DJ Shane Love Snug Harbour – Charmaine Neville Band Spotted Cat Music Club – Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, Dominick Grillo & The Frenchmen St. All-Stars, Jazz Vipers Three Muses – Bart Ramsey, Joe Cabral Tropical Isle Original – Graham Robinson Band, Trop Rock Express Vaso – Krawdaddy’s Band, Somerton Suitecase Band Tuesday, August 2 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Geoff Clapp Trio Blue Nile – Open Ears Music Series feat. Think Less Hear More Chickie Wah Wah – Nyce Circle Bar – Carl LeBlanc, Day Creeper Columns Hotel – Chip Wilson and Mark Carroll Crazy Lobster – AC and the Heat D.b.a. – Treme Brass Band Dmac’s – The Last Honkey Tonk Music Series hosted by Bridgette London Funky Pirate – Blues Masters feat. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Grass Mud Horse, Marshland Kerry Irish Pub – Jason Bishop Little Tropical Isle – Mark Pentone, Frank Fairbanks Maison – Swinging Gypsies, Gregory Agid, Sam Price and the True Believers Maple Leaf – Rebirth Brass Band Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon

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Powell Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Vincent Marini, Lucas Davenport Snug Harbor – Stanton Moore Trio Spitfire – Dick Deluxe’s Wheel of Misfortune Spotted Cat Music Club – Andy Forest, Meschiya Lake& the Little Big Horns, Smokin’ Time Jazz Club The Old Arabi Bar – Randy Cohen Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Cajun Drifters Wednesday, August 3 Bacchanal – Jesse Morrow trio Banks Street Bar – Stone Cold Hippies, Major Bacon Bombay Club - Kris Tokarski Buffa’s – Open Mic Night with Nattie Sanchez Chickie Wah Wah – Dave Hickey and Jacon Tanner Circle Bar – the Geraniums, Get Married Columns Hotel – Andy Rogers Crazy Lobster – Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin D.b.a. – Tin Men, Chris Mule and the Perpetrators Davenport Lounge (Ritz Carlton) – Jeremy Davenport Dos Jefes – George French Trio Dragon’s Den – Reggae Night Funky Pirate – Blues Masters feat. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Shamarr Allen, DJ Chicken Howlin’ Wolf (the Den) – Daryl Hance Kermit’s Mother-In-Law Lounge – Spodie and the Big Shots Kerry’s Irish Pub – Chip Wilson Little Tropical Isle – Jay B. Elston, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Noah Young Trio, Jazz Vipers, Mutiny Squad Maple Leaf – Gravity A Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall All-Stars Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Rock ‘n’ Bowl – G and the Swinging 3 Snug Harbor – Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel and the New Orleans Power Misfits Spotted Cat Music Club – Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel & The New Orleans Misfit Power The Old Arabi Bar – Sam Price The Pour House Saloon – Oscar & The BluesCats Three Muses – Leslie Martin, Hot Club of New Orleans Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Cajungrass Tropical Isle Original – Debi and the Deacons, Late as Usual Vaso – The Budz, Wednesday Night Blues Thursday, August 4 30/90 – Andy J. Forest, Smoke N Bones Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, the Courtyard Kings Banks Street Bar – the Groove Orient BMC – Blind Tiger Burlesque feat. Xena Zeit-Geist and the Dapper Dandies Bombay Club – Kris Tokarski Duo Buffa’s – Simon Burke, Tom McDermott

Bullet’s – Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Chiba – Charlie Wooton Chickie Wah Wah – Phil Degruy and Emily Robertson Circle Bar – Jeremy Joyce, Die Rotzz, An Invitation, Manatees Columns hotel – Ted Long Crazy Lobster – the Spanish Plaza 3 D.b.a. – CC Adcock and the Lafayette Marquis, Michael Juan Nunez and the American Electric Dragon’s Den – the Ill Vibe with DJ Matt Scott Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Kerry Irish Pub – Mark Parsons Le Bon Temps Roule – The Soul Rebels Little Tropical Isle – Allen Herbert, Frank Fairbanks Loa Bar – Kathyrn Rose Wood and Jordan Gonzalez Maison – Good For Nothin’ Band, Sweet Substitute, Dysfunktional Bone Maple Leaf – the Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich and special guests.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art – After Hours feat. Little Freddie King Old Point Bar – Gregg Martinez Ooh Pooh Pah Doo – Margie Perez and Muevelo Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hll All-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, James Martin Band Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Horace Trahan Snug Harbor – Craig Klein and Donna’s Revisited feat. Leroy Jones Spotted Cat – Sarah McCoy & the Oopsie Daisies, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp The Old Arabi Bar – Hallelujah Hatrack Three Muses – Brett Richardson, Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Cajun Drifters, Nonc Nu and Da Wild Matous Vaso – Bobby Love & Friends, Ed Wills & Blues 4 Sale, Jason Neville Band Vaughan’s Lounge – Treme Brass Band W XYZ Bar (Aloft) – Coyotes Friday, August 5 Bacchanal – the Tangiers Combo, Harmonouche, Willie Green Banks Street Bar – Retrofit Blue Nile – Stooges Brass Band Bombay Club – Larry Scala Buffa’s – Stuart McNair, Davis Rogan, Ben Fox Trio, Trad Jazz Camp Band Bullet’s – Original Pinettes Champion’s Square – Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton Chickie Wah Wah – Michael Pearce, Margie Perez Does Motown, Jack Broadbent Circle Bar – Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion, Alligator Chomp Chomp Crazy Lobster – Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin D.b.a. – Hot Club of New Orleans, Wild Magnolias Davenport Lounge (Ritz Carlton) – Jeremy Davenport Dixon Hall (Tulane University) – New Orleans Chamber Orchestra feat. Amy Pfrimmer and Phillip Larroque Dos Jefes – Joe Krown Trio Dragon;s Den – Loose Marbles, the Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Gasa Gasa – Muuy Bien, Black Abba Hi-Ho Lounge – Relapse with Matt Scott House of Blues (the Parish) – Chuck Inglish, Choo Jackson,

DarcyMalone&TheTangle Local band Darcy Malone and the Tangle will be performing their New Orleans blend of jazz, rock, and soul at the beloved music bar Tipitina’s. Sat., August 6, $10-$12, 9:00 p.m., Tipitina’s, tipitinas.com

Reese Kermit’s Mother-In-Law Lounge – Guitar Slim Jr. Kerry Irish Pub – Mark Appleford, Beth Patterson Le Bon Temps Roule – Tom Worrell Little Gem Saloon – Shamarr Allen and Jarrel Allen Quintet Maison – Broadmoor Jazz Band, Shotgun Jazz Band Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Old Point Bar – Rick Trolsen, Jamie Lynn Vessels Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Sturmlandia Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat.

Wendell Brunious, Preservation Hall Brass Band feat. Daniel Farrow Republic – Juvenile, Doon RF’s – John Marcey and Steve Mignano, Broadmoor Brass Band Rivershack - ColdShot Rivershack Gretna – Big Al and the Heavyweights Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Contraflow Snug Harbor – Ellis Marsalis Quartet Southport Hall – DJ Jubilee, Partners N Crime Spotted Cat – Andy Forest, Washboard Chaz Trio, Cottonmouth Kings The Old Arabi Bar – 19 Street Red Three Muses – Royal Roses Tipitina’s – IKO Allstars Ugly Dog Saloon – Hotel Romeo Vaso – Bobby Love & Friends W XYZ (aloft) – Walker Lukens Saturday, August 6 Ace Hotel – White Linen Night feat. the Viberian Experience Bacchanal – the Tangiers Combo, Red Organ Trio, Miles Berry Banks Street Bar – Elephants Gerald Blue Nile – Brass-A-Holics Bombay Club - Kris Tokarski Trio Buffa’s – Perdido Jazz Band, Shotgun Jazz Band, Gentilly Stompers, Vexed Perspective Chickie Wah Wah – Jack Broadbent, Happy Talk Band Circle Bar – Circle on the Circle, Secret Prostitutes, Hiss, Heavy Sleeper, Glut Contemporary Arts Center – White Linen Night feat. DJ Matty Crazy Lobster – the River Gang Creole Cookery – Trad Stars Jazz Band Davenport Lounge (Ritz Carlton) – Jeremy Davenport Dmac’s – the 2 Pistols Jam Session Dos Jefes – Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots Dragon’s Den – Studio 504, Talk Nerdy to Me, Sexy Back with DJ G French Market – Abita Springs Opry Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Close Me Out, Hustle feat. DJ Soul Sister House of Blues – Diary of an Ozzman: Tribute to Ozzy, the Cybin Project, Spacemental Howlin’ Wolf – The Wild Magnolias Kerry Irish Pub – Van Hudson, Mark Hessler and friends Little Gem Saloon – Dr. Michael White Little Tropical Isle – Jay B, Elston, Reed Lightfoot Lucky’s – Hallelujah Hatrack Maison – Chance Bushman and the Ibervillainaires, Roamin’ Jasmine, Smoking Time Jazz Club, Big Esy Brawlers, No Good Deed Maple Leaf – Dead 27s Morning Call City Park – Bily D. Chaman Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Kristina Morales and Inner Organ Trio Preservation Hall – Joint Chiefs of Jazz feat. Jamie Wight, Preservation Hall All-Stars RF’s – Lucas Davenport, Hyperphlly Rivershack - Joe Krown, John Fohl & Walter Wolfman Rivershack Gretna – Ched Reeves Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Category 6 Shamrock - The American Kids Siberia – Wayne “the Train” Hancock Snug Harbor – Catherine Russell Quartet Spotted Cat – Antoine Diel & Arsene DeLay, Panorama Jazz Band, Davis Rogan The Old Arabi Bar – The Melatauns Three Muses – Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band Time Out – Andre Bouvier and the Royal Bohemians Tipitina’s – Darcy Malone & The Tangle, South Jones Tropical Isle Original – Down River, the Hangovers, Late as Usual Ugly Dog Saloon – Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Honey Island Swamp Band, Gal Holiday Sunday, August 7 Allways Lounge – Kris Tokarski Bacchanal – the Tangiers Combo, the Tradsters, Maddy and her Jazz Friends Banks Street Bar – 17 Sisters Bombay Club - Tom Hook Buffa’s – Jazz Brunch with Some Like it Hot, Sweet Substitute, Antoine Diel and The Misfit Power Circle Bar – Micah McKee $ Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, Dress Bessy, The Junior League Columns hotel – Chip Wilson Crazy Lobster – the Neon Shadows D.b.a. – Palmetto Bugs Stompers, Smokers World Dragon’s Den – Konfession, Church Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Willie Lockett Band

Hi-Ho Lounge – NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic, Crooked Vines, KP and the Boom Booms House of Blues – Riff Raff, Dollabillgates, Trill Sammy, Dice SoHo Howlin’ Wolf – The Hot 8 Brass Band Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lunge : Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub – Irish Session, Patrick Cooper Little Tropical Isle ,v Frank Fairbanks, Mark Parsons Maison – Chance Bushman and the NOLA Jitterbugs, Swinging Gypsies, Leah Rucker Maple Leaf – Joe Krown Trio feat. Russell Batiste and Walter “Wolfman” Washington Morning Call City Park – Billy D. Chapman Old Point Bar – Isla Nola Ooh Poo Pah Doo – South Jones Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hall All-Stars Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Summer Blood Drive feat. the Guardians of the Flame, Soul Brass Band, Jeremy Thomas Trio, Bo Dollis Jr. and the Wild Magnolias, DJ Fayard Lindsay Snug Harbor – Victor Goines Quartet with Don Vappie Spotted Cat – Pfister Sisters, Kristina Morales and Bayou Shufflers, Pat Casey and the New Sound Superior Seafood – The Superior Jazz Trio Three Muses – Raphael et Pascal, Linnzi Zaorski Tipitina’s – Sunday Youth Music Workshop feat. Johnny Vidacovich Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Brandon Moreau and Cajungrass, Bayou Cajun Swamp Band Tropical Isle Bourbon – BC and Company, 1p, Rhythm and Rain, Debi and the Deacons Vaso – Joe-Joe-and Mo’ Blues Band Monday, August 8 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Banks Street Bar – Lauren Sturm’s Piano Showcase, Jake Hickey Jazz Jam Buffa’s – Arsene Delay, Antoine Diel Chickie Wah Wah – Alexis and the Samurai Circle Bar – Roselit Bone, Guts Club, Mr. Universe, Phil the Tremelo King Columns Hotel – David Doucet Crazy Lobster – the Insta-Gators D.b.a. – Glen David Andrews Dmac’s – Danny Alexander Blues Jam Session Dragon’s Den – Jazz Potluck feat. Albanie Falletta and the Southern Gentlemen, Hangover Mondays with DJ Ill Medina Funky Pirate – Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge – Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, Instant Opus Improvised Series Kerry Irish Pub – Mark Appleford

Maison – Chicken and Waffles, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Resident Aliens Maple Leaf – George Porter Jr. Trio Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar – James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones RF’s – David Bach, Jamie Lynn Vessels Snug Harbor – Charmaine Neville Band Spotted Cat – Sarah McCoy and the Oopsie Daisies, Dominick Grillo and the Frenchmen St. All-Stars, Jazz Vipers Three Muses – Andre Bohren, Meschiya Lake Tropical Isle Bourbon – Rhythm and Rain, Beach Combers Tropical Isle Original – Graham Robinson Band, Trop Rock Express Tuesday, August 9 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Geoff Clapp Trio Banks Street Bar – See Bright Lights Blue Nile– Open Ears Music Series feat. Cuccia/Zielinski Frame Drum Group Chickie Wah Wah – Nyce Circle Bar – Carl LeBlanc Columns Hotel – Todd Duke and John Rankin Crazy Lobster – AC and the Heat D.b.a. – Treme Brass Band Hi-Ho Lounge – Grass Mud Horse, Marshland Kerry Irish Pub – Jason Bishop Little Tropical Isle – Mark Pentone, Frank Fairbanks Maison – Swinging Gypsies, Gregory Agid, Swamp Kitchen Maple Leaf – Rebirth Brass Band Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall-Stars feat. Shannon Powell Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Vincent Marini, Lucas Davenport Snug Harbor – Tom McDermott and Mazz Smith Southport Hall – Audiotopsy Spitfire – Dick Deluxe’s Wheel of Misfortune Spotted Cat – Andy J. Forest, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Smoking Time Jazz Club Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Cajun Drifters Tropical Isle Original – the Hangovers, Jay B. Elston Band Wednesday, August 10 Bacchanal – Jesse Morrow trio Banks Street Bar – Major Bacon Bombay Club - Kris Tokarski Buffa’s – World’s Most Open Mic Night w/ Nattie Sanchez Chickie Wah Wah – Dave Hickey and Jacob Tanner, Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake Circle Bar – Jeremy Joyce, Bango Skank Columns Hotel – Andy Rogers Crazy Lobster – Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin

AliceCooper Also known as the “Godfather of Shock Rock”, Alice Cooper hits the stage in New Orleans to perform his famously theatrical and unusual hard-rock show. Wed., August 7, $45-$85, 8:30 p.m., Saenger Theatre, saengernola.com D.b.a. – Tin Men, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and the Roadmasters Dragon’s Den – Reggae Night Funky Pirate – Blues Masters feat. Big Al Gasa Gasa – The Kickback Hi-Ho Lounge – Shamarr Allen, DJ Chicken Howlin’ Wolf – Lifted Deezie Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge – Spodie and the Big Shots Kerry Irish Pub – One Tailed Three Little Tropical Isle – Jay B. Elston, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Jazz Vipers, WillFunk Maple Leaf – Gravity A Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras, Krewe du Two Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall All-Stars Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Rock ‘n’ Bowl – the Boogie Men

Snug Harbor – Uptown Jazz Orchestra Spotted Cat – Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel and the New Orleans Power Misfits The Pour House Saloon – Oscar & the Bluescats Three Muses – Leslie Martin, Hot Club of New Orleans Tropical Isle Bourbon – Jezebel’s Chill’n, Debi and teh Deacons Tropical Isle Original – Debi and the Deacons, Late as Usual Thursday ,August 11 30/90 – Andy J. Forest, Smoke N Bones Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, the Courtyard Kings Banks Street Bar – Vanessa Silberman BMC – Blind Tiger Burlesque feat. Xena Zeit-Geist and the Dapper Dandies Bombay Club – Kris Tokarski Duo Buffa’s – Gumbo Cabaret, Tom McDermott and James Evans Bullet’s – Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers

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Mark Hessler & Friends 9 pm Irish Session 5 pm Patrick Cooper 8 pm Van Hudson 5 pm 5 pm Patrick Cooper Hurricane Refugees 9 pm Hurricane Refugees 9 pm Will Dickerson 5 pm Mark Parsons 5 pm MisfitThe Toys w/ Chris Roux Day! 9 pm Pylant & Mark Carson 9 pm Sun. 3/13 Traditional Irish Session 5 pm Sun. 8/14 Chip Wilson 8 pm Mon. 3/14 Kim Carson 8:30 pm Wed. 8/17 Tim Robertson 8:30 pm Thurs. 8/18 The One Tailed Three 8:30 pm Happy Day!! Live Irish Music w/ Fri. 8/19 St. Patrick’s Mark Appleford 5 pm Ruby Ross 9 pm

Foot & Friends 9 pm

Fri. 8/19 3/17 Rubin/Wilson Folk-Blues Thurs.

Van Hudson 12:00 pm (Noon) Explosion 9 pm Thurs. 3/17 Speed The Mule 3:30 pm Sat. 8/20 Mark Parsons 5 pm Thurs. 3/17 Roux The Day! 7:30 pm – til the Sat. 8/20 Lonestar Stout 9 pm wee hours Sun. 8/21 Patrick Cooper 8 pm Thurs. 8/25 Will Dickerson 8:30 pm Fri. Patrick Cooper 5 pm Fri.3/18 8/26 Paul Ferguson 5 pm Fri. 8/26 Hurricane Refugees One Tailed Three 9 pm 9 pm Sat.3/19 8/27 SpeedThe TheMule Mule5 pm 5 pm Sat. Speed Sat. 8/27 Roux The Day! 9 pm Frank Sautier & Friends 9 pm Sun. 8/28 **Pineville Haints** 8pm (On Tour) Mon. 3/21

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Chickie Wah Wah – Phil Degruy and Emily Robertson, Alvin Youngblood Hart Circle Bar – Aziza & The Cure, The Landing, Psychic Temple Columns Hotel – Ted Long Crazy Lobster – the Spanish Plaza 3 D.b.a. – Mississippi Rail Company Dragon’s Den – The Ill Vine with DJ Matt Scott, Soundclash Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Stripped Into Submission Kerry Irish Pub – Chip Wilson Le Bon Temps Roule – The Soul Rebels Little Tropical Isle – Allen Hebert, Frank Fairbanks Loa Bar – Kathryn Rose Wood and Alexis Marceux Maison – Good For Nothin’ Band, Swamp Donkeys, Dysfunktional Bone Maple Leaf – the Trio feat. Johnny Vidacovich and special guests Ogden Museum of Southern Art – After Hours feat. Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott Old Point Bar – Sweet Jones Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Margie Perez and Muevelo Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Lucien Barbarin Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, James Martin Band Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Geno Delafose Snug Harbor – Mark Brooks Quintet Spitfire – James Jordan and the Bo Slims Spotted Cat – Sarah McCoy and the Oopsie Daisies, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp The Old Arabi Bar – Whipper Wills, Chapter Soul Three Muses – Loose Marbles Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Cajun Drifters, Nonc Nu and Da Wild Matous Tropical Isle Bourbon – Beach Combers, Debi and hte Deacons Vaso – Bobby Love & Friends Vaughan’s Lounge – Treme Brass Band W XYZ Bar (Aloft) – Paul P of Earphunk Friday, August 12 Bacchanal – the Tangiers Combo Banks Street Bar – Tangerine Dreams Blue Nile – Main Line Bombay Club – Wendell Brunious Buffa’s – Alan Bailey and Friends, Arsene Delay and Friends, Offensive Jazz Quartet Bullet’s – Original Pinettes Chickie Wah Wah – Michael Pearce, Paul Sanchez Song Swap Circle Bar – Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion Crazy Lobster – Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin D.b.a. – Chubby Carrier Davenport Lounge (Ritz Carlton) – Jeremy Davenport

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Dmac’s – JT Lewis Dragon’s Den – Loose Marbles, the Tipping Point with DJ RQ Away, Comedy Fuck Yeah, Latin Night Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – the No Shows, Handsome Scoundrels, Rushmore, Relapse with Matt Scott Howlin Wolf – The 9 Songwriter Series Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge – Guitar Slim Jr. Kerry Irish Pub – Patrick Cooper, Hurricane Refugees Le Bon Temps Roule – Steve Detroy Maison – Shotgun Jazz Band, Resident Aliens, Big Easy Brawlers Maple Leaf – Tank and the Bangas Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras New Orleans Museum of Art – Phil the Tremelo King Old Point Bar – Rick Trolsen, the Business Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Sturmlandia Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat.

Wendell Brunious, Preservation Hall Brass Band feat. Daniel Farrow RF’s – John Marcey and Steve Mignano, Meghan Stewart Band Rivershack - Big Daddy O Rivershack Gretna – Refried Confuzion Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Groovy 7 Saenger Theatre – Ron White Snug Harbor – Ellis Marsalis Quartet Spotted Cat – Andy J. Forest, Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings The Old Arabi Bar – Chapter:SOUL Three Muses – Matt Johnson Tipitina’s – Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue, Hill Country Hounds, Idlewild String Confederation Tropical Isle Original – Down River, The Hangovers, Late As Usual Ugly Dog Saloon – Ron Hotstream and the Mid-City Drifters Vaso – Bobby Love & Friends W XYZ Bar (Aloft) – Noah Young Trio

Deerhoof Deerhoof, the experimental rock group known for their distinct DIY aesthetic and animated live shows, are stopping in New Orleans on their nationwide tour to perform their weird and catchy tunes. Sat., August 13, $14, 9:00 p.m., Gasa Gasa, gasagasa.com

Saturday, August 13 30/90 – Maggie Belle Band Bacchanal – the Tangiers Combo, Red Organ Trio, Miles Berry Banks Street Bar – On a Fox Hunt Blue Nile – Washboard Chaz Blues Trio BMC – Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band Bombay Club – Kitt Lough Buffa’s – Al Farrell, The Royal Rounders, Gettin It Chickie Wah Wah – Song Dogs Circle Bar – Circle on the Circle Crazy Lobster – the River Gang Creole Cookery – Trad Stars Jazz Band d.b.a. – The Soul Rebels Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton) – Jeremy Davenport Dragon’s Den – Talk Nerdy to Me

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Sunday, August 14 Allways Lounge – Trad Stars Banks Street Bar – Kyle Smith, Kenny Triche Band Bombay Club - David Boeddinghaus Buffa’s – Jazz Brunch with Some Like it Hot, NOLAsynchronicity Circle Bar – Micah McKee & Friends, Blind Texas Marlin, Country Night Feat. DJ Pasta Crazy Lobster – the Neon Shadows Columns Hotel – Chip Wilson D.b.a. – Palmetto Bugs Stompers, Soul Brass Band Dragon’s Den – Konfession, Church Hi-Ho Lounge – NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic Howlin’ Wolf – The Hot 8 Brass Band Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge – Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub –Chip Wilson

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French Market - Abita Springs Opry Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters feat.

Big Al Gasa Gasa – Deerhoof, Blank Spell Hi-Ho Lounge – Brown Improv, Hustle feat DJ Soul Sister House of Blues – Heart Shaped Box: a Tribute to Nirvana, Colossal Heads Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge – Neisha Ruffins Kerry Irish Pub – Will Dickerson, Misfit Toys with Chris Pylant and Mark Carson Little Gem Saloon – Little Freddie King Little Tropical Isle – Jay B. Elston, Reed Lightfoot Mahalia Jackson Theater – Gipsy Kings, Galen Weston Band Maison – Chance Bushman and the Ibervillainaires, Roman’ Jasmine, Swinging Gypsies, Kumasi, Street Legends Maple Leaf – BrasiNOLA Morning Call City Park – Billy D. Chapman Ooh Poo Pah doo – Kristina Morales and Inner Organ Trio Preservation Hall – Joint chiefs of Jazz feat. Jamie Wight, Preservation Hall All-Stars RF’s – Lucas Davenport, Hyperphlly Rivershack - John Lisi and Delta Funk Rivershack Gretna – Paul Molinario Rock ‘n’ Bowl – the Wiseguys Shamrock - ClustaFunk Snug Harbor – Topsy Chapman and Solid Harmony Spotted Cat – Shotgun Jazz Band, Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, Jazz Vipers The Old Arabi Bar – 30x90 Three Muses – Chris Peters, Debbie Davis, Shotun Jazz Band Time Out – Andre Bouvier and the Royal Bohemians Tipitina’s – Lost Bayou Ramblers & Poguetry Tropical Isle Bourbon – Rhythm and Rain, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original – Down River, the Hangovers, Late As Usual

11AM Trad Jazz Brunch 5PM Sweet Substitute 7PM Antoine Diel & Misfit Power

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DefLeppardw/REOSpeedwagon&Tesla Don’t miss your chance to see three hair metal icons: Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, and Tesla hit the stage in New Orleans to create a night of ‘80s nostalgia and head-banging. Sat., Aug. 20, $25-$315, 7:00 p.m., Smoothie King Center, smoothiekingcenter.com Little Tropical Isle – Frank Fairbanks, Mark Parsons Maison – Chance Bushman and the NOLA Jitterbugs, Higher Heights Maple Leaf – Joe Krown Trio feat Russell Batiste and Walter “Wolfman” Washington Morning Call City Park – Billy D. Chapman Old Point Bar – Amanda Walker Ooh Poo Pah Doo – South Jones Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band feat. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Rock ‘n’ Bowl – Paul Varisco and the Milestones Saenger Theatre – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Snug Harbor – John Mahoney Big Band Southport Hall - Pelicanpalooza Benefit Concert Spotted Cat – Yvette Voelker and the Swinging Heathens, Kristina Morales and Bayou Shufflers, Pat Casey and the New Sound Superior Seafood – The Superior Jazz Trio Three Muses – Raphael et Pascal, Linnzi Zaorski Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Brandon Moreau and Cajungrass, Bayou Cajun Swamp Band Vaso – Joe-Joe-And Mo’ Blues Band Monday, August 15 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Banks Street Bar – Lauren Sturm’s Piano Showcase, Jake Hickey Jazz Jam Buffa’s – Arsene Delay, Antoine Diel Chickie Wah Wah – Alexis and the Samurai Circle Bar – Black Pussy Columns hotel – David Doucet Crazy Lobster – the Insta-Gators D.b.a. – Glen David Andrews Dmac’s – Danny Alexander Blues Jam Session Dos Jefes – John Fohl Dragon’s Den – Jazz Potluck, Hangover Mondays with DJ Ill Medina Funky Pirate – Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge – Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, Instant Opus Improvized Series Kerry Irish Pub – Patrick Cooper Little Tropical Isle – Frank Fairbanks, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Chicken and Waffles, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, Organami Maple Leaf – George Porter Jr. Trio Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar – James Andrews & The Crescent City Allstars Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones RF’s – David Bach, Jamie Lynn Vessels Snug Harbor – Charmaine NEville Band Southport Hall – Whitney Peyton Spotted Cat – Sarah McCoy and the Oopsie Daisies, Dominick Grillo and the Frenchmen St. All-Stars, Jazz Vipers Three Muses – Bart Ramsey, Washboard Rodeo Tropical Isle Bourbon – Rhythm and Rain, Beach Combers Tropical Isle Original – Graham Robertson, Trop Rock Express Tuesday, August 16 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Geoff Clapp Trio Banks Street Bar and Grill – All Changes Apply, My Hero the

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Villain, Surfwax Blue Nile – Open Ears Music Series ft. Outer Core Chickie Wah Wah – Nyce Circle Bar – Carl LeBlanc, Tight Genes Columns Hotel – Alex McMurray and John Rankin Crazy Lobster – AC and the Heat D.b.a. – Treme Brass Band Dmac’s – The Last Honkey Tonk Music Series hosted by Bridgette London Funky Pirate – Blues Masters ft. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Grass Mud Horse, Marshland House of Blues – Jared and the Mill, Edison Kerry’s Irish Pub – Jason Bishop Little Tropical Isle – Mark Pentone, Frank Fairbanks Maison – Swinging Gypsies, Gregory Agid, Cool Nasty Maple Leaf Bar – Rebirth Brass Band Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall-Stars ft. Shannon Powell Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Vincent Marini, Lucas Davenport Snug Harbor – Bill Evans Birthday Tribute with Michael Pellera Trio Spitfire – Dick Deluxe’s Wheel of Misfortune Spotted Cat – Andy J Forest, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Smoking Time Jazz Club Tropical Isle Bourbon – Jay B. Elston Band, Jezebels Chill’n Tropical Isle Original – the Hangovers, Jay B Elston Band Wednesday, August 17 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Jesse Morrow trio Banks Strees Bar and Grill – Major Bacon Bombay Club – Kris Tokarski Buffa’s – World’s Most Open Mic Night w/ Nattie Sanchez Chickie Wah Wah – David Hickey and Jacob Tanner, Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake Circle Bar – Thyroids, Matthew J. & Ray, Charles Mancini Columns Hotel – Andy Rogers Crazy Lobster – the Spanish Plaza 3 D.b.a. – Blake Amos Dos Jefes – Loren PIckford Quartet Dragon’s Den – The Ill Vibe with DJ Matt Scott Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters ft. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Shamarr Allen, DJ Chicken House of Blues – I Prevail, the White Noise, My Enemies and I, Bad Seed Rising Kermit’s Mother in Law Lounge – Spodie and the Big Shots Kerry’s Irish Pub – Tim Robertson Little Tropical Isle – Jay B Elston, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Jazz Vipers, Josh Kagler and the Music Factory Maple Leaf Bar – Gravity A Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras, Krewe du Two Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall All-Stars Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Rock n’ Bowl – Clockwork Elvis and the 39th Death Anniversary Remembrance Saenger Theater – Alice Cooper Snug Harbor – Uptown Jazz Orchestra Spotted Cat – Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel and the New Orleans Power Misfits The Pour House Saloon – Oscar & the Bluescats Three Muses – Leslie Martin Tipitina’s – Lee Scratch Perry, Subatomic Sound System Tropical Isle Bourbon – Jezebels Chill’n, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original – Debi and the Deacons, Late as Usual

Thursday, August 18 Banks Street Bar and Grill – Josh Benitez BMC – Blind Tiger Burlesque ft. Zena Zeit-Geist and the Dapper Dandies Bombay Club – Kris Tokarski Duo Buffa’s – Dave Hull, Marla Dixon Trio Bullet’s – Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Chickie Wah Wah – PHil Degruy and Emily Robertson, Greazy Alice, Jerry Jeff Walker’s Viva Terlingua Circle Bar – Jeremy Joyce, Big Eater, Keeping, Rudy Stone Columns Hotel – Ted Long Crazy Lobster – the Spanish Plaza 3 D.b.a. – Blake Amos Dos Jefes – Loren Pickford Quartet Dragon’s Den – the Ill Vibe with DJ Matt Scott Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters ft. Big Al Kerry’s Irish Pub – The One Tailed Three Little Tropical Isle – Allen Hebert, Frank Fairbanks Loa Bar – Kathryn Rose Wood and Tarriona Tank Ball Maison – Good For Nothin’ Band, Asylum Chorus, Dysfunktional Bone Maple Leaf Bar – The Trio ft. Johnny Vidacovich and special guests Ogden Museum of Southern Art – After Hours ft. Kristin Diable Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Margie Perez and Muevelo Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall LEgacy band ft. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hall All-Stars ft. Lucien Barbarin Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, James Martin Band Rock n Bowl – Curley Taylor Snug Harbor – Indian Blue ft. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Sansone and John Fohl Special Venue – The Manhattan Chamber Players Spotted Cat – Sarah McCoy and the Oopsie Daisies, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp Three Muses – Brett Richardson, Loose Marbles Tipitina’s – Homegrown Night Concdert Series Tropical Isle Original – the Hangovers, Late as Usual Vaso – Bobby Love7 Friends Vaughan’s Lounge – Corey Henry & the Treme Funktet W XYZ Bar – Great Peacock Friday, August 19 Bacchanal – The Tangiers Combo, Harmonouche, Willie Green Banks Street Bar and Grill – PYMP Bombay Club – Steve Pistorius Buffa’s – Mike Dill, John Fohl and Chris Adkins, Rebecca Zoe Leigh Bullet’s – Originial Pinettes Chickie Wah Wah – Michael Pearce, Erica Falls Circle Bar – Richard Bates, Ham Jams with DJ Ham Sandwich Crazy Lobster – Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin D.b.a. – Smoking Time Jazz Club Davenport Lounge – Jeremy Davenport Dragon’s Den – Loose Mrables, the Tipping Point with Dj RQ Away, Upstairs: Comedy Fuck Yeah, Latin Night Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters ft. Big Al Howlin’ Wolf – $pare Change Kermit’s Mother in Law Lounge – Guitar Slim Jr. Kerry’s Irish Pub – Mark Appleford, Rubin/Wilson Folk Blues Explosion Le Bon Temps Roule – Piano Bob Little Tropical Isle – Reed Lightfoot, Frank Fairbanks Mahalia Jackson Theater – Tasha Cobbs Maison – Broadmoor Jazz Band, Shotgun Jazz Band Soul Project, No Good Deed Maple Leaf – Sonic Bloom ft. Eric “Benny” Bloom Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras New Orleans Museum of Art – Quintron Old Point Bar – Rick Trolsen, Jamey St. Pierre and the Honeycreepers Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Sturmlandia Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band ft. Wendell Brunious, Preservation Hall Brass Band ft. Daniel Farrow RF’s – John Marcey and Steve Mignano, Jamie Lynn Vessels Band Rivershack – Vance Orange Rivershack Gretna – Mustard Brothers Rock n Bowl – Bag of Donuts Snug Harbor – Ellis Marsalis Quartet Southport Hall – Eyehategod Spotted Cat – Andy J Forest, Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings Three Muses – Royal Roses Tipitina’s – Johnny Sketch & The dirty Notes, Waterseed Tropical Isle Original – Down River, the Hangovers, Late as Usual Ugly Dog Saloon – Clay Diamond Quartet Vaso – Bobby Love & Friends W XYZ Bar – Hollis Brown Saturday, August 20 Bacchanal – The Tangiers Combo, Red Organ Trio, Miles Berry Banks Street Bar and Grill – Thunderosa, Marina Orchestra Blue Nile – Washboard Chaz Blues Trio BMC – Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band Bombay Club – Charlie Halloran Buffa’s – Spike Perkins, Sherman Bernard and The Ole Man River Band, Michael Liuzza Circle Bar – Circle on the Circle, Happy Talk Band, Rik Slave’s Country Persuasion Crazy Lobster – The River Gang Creole Cookery – Trad Stars Jazz Band D.b.a. – Hot 8 Brass Band Davenport Lounge – Jeremy Davenport

Dmad’s – the 2 Pistols Jam Session Dos Jefes – Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots Dragon’s Den – Swinigin Gypsies, Kompression, Upstairs: Talk Nerdy to Me French Market – Abita Springs Opry Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters ft. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge – Drunktoons, Hustle ft. DJ Soul Sister Howlin’ Wolf – N.O. Southern copmany ft. Kirk Chambers Jazz and Heritage Center – Salsa Night ft. Muevelo, Otra and Asheson Kermit’s Mother in Law Lounge – Neisha Ruffins Kerry’s Irish Pub – Lonestar Stout Little Tropical Isle – Jay B elston, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Chance Bushman and the Ibervillianaires, Leah Rucker, Smoking Time Jazz Club, Big Easy Brawlers Maple Leaf Bar – Song Dogs Morning Call City Park – Billy D Chapman Old Point Bar – Isla Nola Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Kristina Morales and Inner Organ Trio Preservation Hall – Joint Chiefs of Jazz ft. Jamie Wight, Preservation Hall All-Stars RF’s – Lucas Davenport, Hyperphlly Rivershack – Short Street Band Rivershack Gretna – Rick Mocklin & the Southern Voice Band Rock n Bowl – Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters Smoothie King Center – Def Leppard, REO Speedwagon, Tesla Shamrock – BarHoppers Snug Harbor – Delfeayo Marsalas Sextet Spotted Cat – Dominick Grillo’s Band, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns Three Muses – Parscal et Bart, Linnzi Zaorski Tipitina’s – Boyfriend Tropical Isle Bayou Club – The Troubadour, Bayou Cajun Swam Band, T’Canaille Tropical Isle Bourbon – Rhythm and Rain, Debi and the Deacons Sunday, August 21 Allways Lounge – The Kala Bazaar Bacchanal – The Tangiers Combo, the Tradsters, Maddy and her Jazz Friends Banks Street Bar and Grill – Jeff “Guitar” Nelson Blue Nile – New Breed Brass Band BMC – Ruth Marie & Her Jazz Band Bombay Club – David Boeddinghaus Buffa’s – Jazz Brunch with Some Like it Hot, NOLAsynchronicity Circle Bar – Micah McKee and Little Maker, Blind Texas Marlin, Country Night with DJ Pasta Columns Hotel – Chip Wilson Crazy Lobster – the Neon Shadows D.b.a. - Palmetto Bugs Stompers, Kettle Black Dragon’s Den – Konfession, Church Funky Pirate – Mark and the Pentones, Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge – NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic House of Blues – Warren G Howlin’ Wolf – The Hot 8 Brass Band Kermit’s Mouther in Law Lounge – Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry’s Irish Pub – Patrick Cooper Little Tropical Isle – Frank Fairbanks, Mark Parsons Maison – Chance Bushman and the NOLA Jitterbugs, Swamp Donkeys, Too Darn Hot, Higher Heights Morning Call City Park – Billy D Chapman Ooh Poo Pah Doo – South Jones Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Legacy Band ft. Gregg Stafford, Preservation Hall All-Stars ft. Wendell Brunious Ralph’s on the Park – Joe Krown RF’s – Will Kennedy, Tony Seville and the Cadillacs Snug Harbor – Peter Harris Trio Spotted Cat – Jamey St. Pierre and the Honeycreepers, Kristina Morales and Bayou Shufflers, Pat Casey and the New Sound Superior Seafood – The Superior Jazz trio Three Muses – Pascal et Bart, Linnzi Zaoirski Tipitina’s – Sunday Youth Music Workshop ft. Robin Barnes Tropical Isle Bayou Club – Brandon Moreau and Cajungrass, Bayou Cajun Swamp Band Tropical Isle Original – the Hangovers, Late as Usual Vaso – Joe-Joe-And Mo’ Blues Monday, August 22 Bacchanal – Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Banks Street Bar and Grill – Lauren Sturm’s Piano Showcase, Jake Hickey Jazz Jam Buffa’s – Arsene Delay, Antoine Diel Chickie Wah Wah – Alexis and the Samurai Crazy Lobster – The Insta-Gators Columns Hotel – David Doucet D.b.a. – Glen David Andrews Dmac’s – Danny Alexander Blues Jam Session Dragon’s Den – The Rhythm Regulators, Hangover Mondays with DJ Ill Medina Funky Pirate – Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge – Bluegrass Pickin Party, Instant Opus Improvised Series Kerry’s Irish Pub – Paul Tobin Little Tropical Isle – Frank Fairbanks, Reed Lightfoot Maison – Chicken and Waffles, Aurora Newland and the Royal Roses, Mutiny Squad Maple Leaf Bar – George Porter Jr. Trio Morning Call – Valerie Sassyfras Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar – James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars Preservation Hall – Preservation Hall Jazz Masters ft. Leroy Jones RF’s – David Bach, Jamie Lynn Vessels The Saint – Motown Mondays with DJ Shane Love

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Vessel

Food News

By Kim Ranjbar

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illing up Mid-City … In the unique space that once housed Redemption (and before that, Christian's), a brand new restaurant has blossomed, dubbed Vessel. Located on Iberville Street in Mid-City, this old church is once again a restaurant with Nick Vella, from MiLa and Cibugnu, reigning as the executive chef.

The menu features many locally-sourced ingredients prepared with inspiration from “coastal infl uences throughout the world”.

Dishes include Arkansas rabbit rillette with peach mostarda, cast iron lavash with grilled eggplant or ground lamb, whole smoked fi sh, and rice fritters with Three Brothers Farms cane syrup. Vessel is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday.

3835 Iberville St., (504) 603-2775 Smashing sandwiches … Right across from the St. Mary Cemetery in the Carrollton neighborhood, there’s a new spot for sandwiches and a little something extra. Opened by Ellen and Darryl Cortello, Luca Eats is a tiny shop sporting pressed sandwiches for breakfast and lunch, like steak and eggs on ciabatta, apples and brie on a butter croissant, a cubano with houseroasted pulled pork and Swiss, and a fried green tomato BLT with sundried tomato aioli. The breads are sourced from Susan Spicer's Wild Flour Bakery and the coffee is from local small-batch roaster French Truck. Luca Eats also off ers a wicked wedge salad and Oreo beignets … how's that for lagniappe?

7329 Cohn St., (504) 866-1166, facebook.com/lucaeats A slice of the Northshore … Friends and co-workers Vinnie LeDonne and Gavin Jobe recently opened Meribo, a new Southern Italian-infl uenced eatery in Covington. Located on the edge of town

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in a building that once housed The Boulé Bistro, Meribo offers a casual environment where folks can bring the whole family to enjoy their wood-fi red pizza and pasta.

Menu items include dishes like wood-fried octopus, beef carpaccio, Meridionale pizza with smoked pork shoulder and collards, smoked Parmigiano-crusted shortribs, and wild boar raviolo.

326 N Lee Ln., (985) 302-5533, meribopizza.com We hardly knew ye … Within a week of opening, Anna's French gastropub, a new Marigny restaurant that touted a $15 wage for servers and a no-tipping policy, has closed. According to The Gambit's interview with general manager Christopher Jones, owner Jean Ranguin absconded with all the money, neglecting to pay rent or his employees. The restaurant's website is still active and states that the restaurant has “experienced an emergency and will be closed until further notice.” Will they reopen? We can only wait and see…

1913 Royal St., annasneworleans.com Slinging Israeli street food … A casual Israeli street food joint opened up in the space that once housed McClure's BBQ on Magazine Street. Dubbed Tal's Hummus, this new restaurant offers all the usual suspects like falafel, kebab and shaksuka (eggs poached in a tomato-based sauce), and creative pita sandwiches like the Sabich with hard-boiled egg and fried eggplant, or the Green Omelet with fresh herbs and tahini. Owner Tal Sharon, from Doris Metropolitan, launched the quick-service restaurant, which also offers online ordering and delivery service to the Uptown neighborhood. Tal's Hummus is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

4800 Magazine St., (504) 267-7357, talshummus.com

Exhibition over? … Purloo, the Southern-cuisine eatery in the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, and its chef, Ryan Hughes, have pulled up stakes and are moving to a new, yet undisclosed, location. Not long ago, the restaurant posted a statement on Facebook announcing the move, saying, “We will be closed early this summer for our much-needed vacation and will keep everyone updated.” There also has been no information about what might take over the Central City space that Purloo vacated. Stay tuned…

1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 324-6020, nolapurloo.com Transforming Tulane … Fharmacy, located near the corner of S. Broad and Tulane Streets, is one of the latest eateries to pop up near the changing corridor. Taking over the tiny space that once housed Dis & Dem, Fharmacy (run by Chien Nguyen and Nhat Nguyen) off ers an eclectic menu of different eats like mussels and frites, tacos, mini meat pies, a Dr. Tan Burger with grilled jalapenos and chipotle aioli, a pastrami sandwich on rye, and a lemongrass chicken wrap. Fharmacy also offers a full bar and is open Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.

2540 Banks St., (504) 324-6090, facebook.com/Fharmacynola Joining forces … Culinary couple Kristen Essig and Michael Stoltzfus have come together through passions both personal and professional, announcing their partnership at Coquette. Though we were all dismayed when Essig left Cavan and Meauxbar, we knew that something was bubbling for her future and a partnership at her beau's stellar Uptown bistro seems like just the ticket. With Essig's return to the kitchen comes the rebirth of Coquette's “No Menu Tuesday” concept, which began on June 28 with “breakfast for dinner” and continues through the end of September.

2800 Magazine St., (504) 265-0421, coquettenola.com Turning off the red light … As the hotel on Lee Circle morphs yet again, we must say a doleful farewell to Bellocq, the Lower Garden District bar created by the folks from Cure. Themed to honor famed erotic photographer E.J. Bellocq, this unique drinking establishment delved into re-inventing the 19th century cobbler made with herbs, fresh fruits and aperitif wine like sherry. Neal Bodenheimer and his partners will likely avoid opening another hotel bar in the future.

936 St. Charles Ave., (504) 962-0911, facebook.com/Bellocq-267191733334649

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Just like the good old days … The Pontchartrain Hotel has fi nally reopened after an extensive, $10 million renovation, along with the historic Caribbean Room now re-imagined by the Besh Restaurant Group. Closed since 1994, the Caribbean Room and its Mile-High Pie have returned to the city with chef Chris Lusk at the helm. The Besh Restaurant Group is overseeing the entire food and beverage program in the hotel, which includes The Silver Whistle Café, the Bayou Bar, and a new rooftop bar, the Hot Tin. Along with the somewhat controversial pie, the Caribbean Room's menu includes a Waygu beef and beet tartare, shrimp saki, stuffed squash blossom salad, Trout Veronique with hollandaise, and pepper roast rack of lamb.

2031 St. Charles Ave., (504) 232-1500, thecaribbeanroom.com Best outdoor dining … We'd like to offer hearty congratulations to Café Amelie, which was voted as one of the 100 Best Al Fresco Dining Restaurants in America by OpenTable!

The award refl ects the opinions of over 5 million restaurant reviews submitted by verifi ed OpenTable diners all over the world. Café Amelie is a popular French Quarter bistro named for Amelie Miltonberger, the mother of the fi rst American Princess of Monaco who lived in New Orleans during the mid-1800's. Along with a large, lush courtyard, Café Amelie is known for its dazzling brunches and is a gorgeous venue for intimate weddings.

912 Royal St., (504) 412-8965, cafeamelie.com

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The Toast of New Orleans

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elieve it or not, The Toast of New Orleans is actually the title of a 1950s musical starring Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza and David Niven. It's about an uppity opera singer who meets and falls in love with a roguish Louisiana fisherman who happens to be a natural songbird.

Seeing as this is a food column, you surely realize that we won't be discussing that kind of “toast”, but it's certainly something to sing about.

Growing up, my mother would often make us “cheese on toast” as breakfast or an afternoon snack. She'd lay thick slices of jack cheese on whole wheat or sliced sourdough and pop it into the toaster oven. While it cooked, she would periodically spread out the melted cheese with a knife so that the finished product would have an even layer of bubbling cheese. Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think I'd find toast as an appetizer or an entree on a restaurant menu, but over the past few years, it seems to pop up practically everywhere you look.

It's not so surprising to see toast on the menu at a breakfast spot, especially at a restaurant called Toast, but it's not simply toasted bread or even my mom's cheese on toast. It's something quite different, something closely resembling bruschetta, but not quite. Chef and owner of Toast (and Tartine) Cara Benson takes toast to a whole new level using her own freshly-baked multigrain or brioche bread and topping it with cream cheese, cured salmon, and scrambled eggs, or better yet, local honey, prosciutto, and tangy ricotta cheese. If this doesn't tantalize, the price certainly should, with no “toast” breaking the $6 mark. I'll take three, if you please...

Outstanding, well-made bread like Benson's is obviously the key for any worthwhile toast, be it what pops up out of your toaster or the more “elevated” type,

By Kim Ranjbar

and they're definitely on to that fact at the French Truck Café. This bright yellow double shotgun-turned-café, launched by small-batch coffee roaster Geoffrey Meeker, is not only a terrific spot to score an amazing cuppa joe. Using breads made by master “bakester” Megan Forman, owner of Gracious Bakery in Gert Town, French Truck Café offers their own selection of sumptuous toasts. Try one (or two) of each toasted type, like white bean with prosciutto brittle and pistou, fresh avocado topped with red pepper and pickled red onion, or sweeten things up with a “B.N.B”—bacon, nutella, and basil.

Over at Cavan, the new tavernesquetype restaurant hiding inside a stunning 19th century townhouse on Magazine Street, there's a whole section of the menu reserved for toast. Chef Ben Thibodeaux dazzles with his chilled white bean toast with grilled kale and walnut pesto, or the creamy crab and avocado toast with butter beans.

But my favorite so far is the roast tomato with goat cheese and bacon marmalade topped with a sunny-side-up egg for brunch.

I assure you, it's as wonderful as it sounds.

Though it may be bursting at the seams with new restaurants, Freret Street recently added to its culinary repertoire a wine bar and bistro dubbed Bar Frances. Touting “new American” cuisine, Bar Frances seems to have a distinctly French slant with a sprinkling of Asian and Italian influences to boot. Among saucisson, duck rillettes, beef tartare, and chicken liver mousse springs mushroom toast, made with grilled shiitake and pickled honshimeji (brown or white beech mushrooms) atop a thick slice of country bread baked by Bellegarde Bakery.

I've barely scraped the surface of this crusty topic, but I hope I've buttered your appetite for this well-topped trend. As for this article, well … it's toast!

Probably Baking Sweet Tea Cocktail

By Beau Ciolino

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here’s nothing more Southern than a Mason jar full of sweet tea, and there’s nothing more New Orleans than adding a healthy dose of liquor to it. So naturally, this sweet tea-inspired cocktail is a refreshing drink to enjoy on a summer afternoon, made even more pleasurable by the addition of a shot of gin. Make a batch of the lavender black tea simple syrup and store it in the fridge so that you’ll be able to throw together these drinks all week long.

Sparkling Lavender + Black Tea Gin Cocktail (“Sweet Tea Cocktail”) Prep time 30 min. Makes one cocktail

What: • • • • •

1 1/2 oz gin 1 oz black tea and lavender syrup (recipe below) 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice Club soda Lemon slices and mint for garnish

How: Fill a Mason jar or Collins glass with cracked ice and set aside. Add the lemon juice, syrup, and gin to a metal shaking tin, fill with ice and shake until the shaking tin has frosted over, about 15 - 20 seconds. Strain the contents into the prepared glass and top with soda. Garnish with lemon and mint.

Black Tea and Lavender Syrup What: • • •

2 tablespoons loose black tea 4 tablespoons dried whole lavender blossoms 2 cups of granulated sugar

How: Place the tea and lavender in a heat-proof mixing bowl and set aside. Boil 1.5 cups of water in a tea kettle and pour the water over the mixture of tea and lavender and let steep for 10 minutes. Once the tea has steeped, strain out the solids and transfer lavender black tea to a saucepan over medium heat and combine with 2 cups of sugar. Bring to a boil and whisk until the sugar has dissolved.

Remove the syrup from heat and let cool before using in a cocktail or refrigerating (otherwise it'll crystallize in the fridge). The syrup can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one week.

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RestaurantGuide African Bennachin is a cozy little West African restaurant with origins from Gambia and Cameroon.

Carnivores and vegans alike can find something they’ll love at this relaxed, BYOB place. 1212 Royal St., 522-1230, bennachinrestaurant.com

American Belle’s Diner offers tasty diner food and breakfast all day with an early 1950s rock ‘n’ roll, malt shop vibe for added family fun. Jam out to classic tunes while enjoying classic eats in the heart of the French Quarter. 1122 Decatur St., 566-6003, bellesdinerneworleans.com Charlie’s Restaurant is a drive from the French Quarter that’s well worth the trip. Home to some of the best gumbo around, Charlie’s menu features over 300 items. 6129 E St. Bernard Hwy., 682-9057

Crescent City Steaks has provided authentic, timeless New Orleans food and culture for four generations. Their signature sizzling steak with a savory side is sure to make your experience worthwhile. 1001 N Broad St., 821-3271, crescentcitysteaks.com Daisy Dukes has a wide variety of New Orleans dishes. Enjoy their bottomless Cajun Bloody Mary's and fried delicacies 24 hours a day. Not to mention, there’s all-day breakfast. French Quarter, CBD, Metairie, daisydukesrestaurant.com Dat Dog features everything from alligator sausage to spicy chipotle veggie dogs to turducken hot dogs.

Their full bar has draft beer and hard milkshakes to complement any dog. Multiple locations, datdognola.com Gattuso’s Neighborhood Restaurant is located in the Gretna Historical District. With pint nights every Thursday, live music on Thursdays and Fridays, and award-wining po-boys, everyone can find something they like. 435 Huey P Long Ave., Gretna, 368-1114, gattusos.net

The Columns Hotel specializes in seafood and New Orleans cuisine and has an acclaimed Sunday Jazz Brunch. Happy Hour every day from 5 to 7 p.m.

3811 St. Charles Ave., 899-9308, thecolumns.com Copeland’s of New Orleans boasts premium ingredients used in their food, which is made from scratch. They pride themselves on the variety and quality of their Creole-inspired menu options.

Multiple locations, copelandsofneworleans.com

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Ma Momma’s House of Cornbread, Chicken and Waffles has anytime-breakfast, fried chicken and waffles, and “J-Money Fries” (we won’t spoil the surprise for you) that make it a place you can’t miss.

5741 Crowder Blvd., 244-0021, mamommashouse. com Orleans Grapevine has starters like Gumbo du Jour, cheese boards and Angus medallions that are sure to keep your mouth watering. Their expansive wine selection and outdoor courtyard seating will help you enjoy the food even more.. 720 Orleans Ave., 523-1930, orleansgrapevine.com Phil’s Grill’s “burger experience” is their delicious crown jewel food-wise, but Phil and his wife Christina also support local churches and schools through their “PHILanthropy” organization. Multiple locations, philsgrill.com Spudly’s Super Spuds has a casual atmosphere, and is perfect for family and friends. Its famous “Super Spud” giant baked potato has over 20 filling options. Don’t miss it! 2609 Harvard Ave., Metairie, 455-3250, spudlys.com Sun Ray Grill’s unique mix of Thai, Cuban, Mexican and New Orleanian cuisine is worth the trip to Gretna, along with its great food, modest prices and wide alcohol selection. 2600 Belle Chasse Hwy., (Next to Oschner Hospital) Gretna, 391-0053, sunraygrill.com

Cheesecake Bistro by Copeland’s doesn’t just offer their amazing cheesecake. They also serve dishes like jambalaya pasta and BBQ shrimp linguine and have an amazing Sunday Jazz Brunch Buffet. 2001 St. Charles Ave., 593-9955, copelandscheesecakebistro.com City Diner’s comfort foods are great for any of the 24 hours that they’re open. Their giant pancake is so big it’s served in a large pizza box. 3116 S I-10 Service Road East, 831-1030, citydiner.biz

600 Carondelet St., 930-3070, Josephineestelle.com

Gordon Biersch Gordon Biersch brews its own award-winning beers to complement gourmet bar snacks, seafood and more. Brewery tours and beer samplings are also offered by the Brew Master and staff. 200 Poydras St., 522-2739, gordonbiersch.com Josephine Estelle (In Ace Hotel) combines Creole, Cajun and Italian cuisines in their dishes for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner. Their expansive wine selection also contributes to their individuality.

Willie Mae’s Scotch House just might have the best fried chicken in New Orleans, but there’s also other soul food you can enjoy there that’s won awards for “Southern Region” food. Multiple locations, williemaesnola.com Wow Cafe Tulane Avenue is just one location of the New Orleans chicken chain. They have wings, fries, sandwiches, burgers and more, with a plethora of great sauces. 2220 Tulane Ave., 309-9015, wowcafego.com

Asian Bao & Noodle is an authentic, quality Chinese restaurant. Its pleasant atmosphere and outdoor

seating, as well as its free delivery are just some of its great qualities. 2700 Chartres St., 272-0004, baoandnoodle.com Five Happiness has been serving quality Chinese cuisine in New Orleans for over 30 years. It offers both well-known and obscure Chinese dishes at modest prices. 3605 S Carrollton Ave., 482-3935, fivehappiness.com Kyoto is known for delicious Japanese cuisine. Its specialty rolls are impressively creative like the Funky Margarita Roll with crawfish, tuna, salmon and spicy avocado sauce. 4920 Prytania St., 891-3644, kyotonola.com Kyoto 2 is known for delicious sushi and Japanese cuisine at reasonable prices. Check their board for daily specials that are sure to please. 5608 Citrus Blvd., Harahan, 818-0228 La Thai offers traditional as well as contemporary Thai dishes. Make sure to sample the Panko Crusted Sea Bass and Crab Three Ways. 4938 Prytania St., 899-8886, lathaiuptown.com Miyako is a hibachi restaurant and sushi bar that offers entertainment like knife-throwing and blazing onion volcanoes. The spacious venue offers good times and good food. 1403 St. Charles Ave., 4109997, japanesebistro.com Origami fuses Japanese cuisine with Southern flavors to create a truly unique culinary experience.

They specialize in the freshest sushi, sashimi and creative cocktails. 5130 Freret St., 899-6532, sushinola.com Viet Orleans Bistro offers a variety of delicious Vietnamese dishes. Vietnamese po-boys, a wide array of rice dishes, and even beer and wine are just some of their options. 300 Baronne St., 333-6917

Bars with Great Food BB King’s Blues Club serves some of the best barbecue in New Orleans with a variety of the South’s most delicious comfort foods, all while providing live entertainment. 1104 Decatur St., 934-5464, bbkings.com/new-orleans

Backspace Bar & Kitchen offers daytime and late-night cocktails and snacks. Their drinks pay tribute to famous New Orleanian literary figures with a menu that matches the ambience. 139 Chartres St., 322-2245, backspacenola.com

Poppy’s Time Out Sports Bar is the ultimate spot for watching sports with frozen daiquiris, 20 beers on tap and great food. This bar has the eats along with a view. 500 Port of New Orleans Pl., 247-9265, poppystimeoutsportsbar.com

Barcadia is comparable to an adult Chuck-ECheese’s, but with better food. They have an extensive menu, but our favorite is their fried PB&J sandwich. 601 Tchoupitoulas St., 335-1740, barcadianeworleans.com

with all the breakfast and brunch food you’d want. Biscuit Beignets and Cinnamon Roll French Toast are just two examples of many. Uptown, Lakeview, 301-2771, anotherbrokenegg.com

NOLA with authentic French cuisine. Because of this and their sheer quality, they’ve developed quite a cult following. 3127 Esplanade Ave., 9455635, cafedegas.com

Rebellion Bar and Urban Kitchen incorporates Asian, Latin and Southern flavors. The bar specializes in craft beer and Japanese whisky and has the perfect balance of upscale and casual.

748 Camp St., 298-7317, nolarebellion.com

Bagels and Bytes, a soups, salads and sandwiches spot, serves completely authentic New York bagels, bringing a taste of the Big Apple to the Big Easy. Their bagel chips are a must-have.

1001 Metairie Rd., 831-7968, facebook.com/ bagelsandbytes

Jimmy J’s Café is a funky breakfast and lunch spot with a colorful, lively atmosphere. They make everything from scratch with fresh ingredients. Try their Bacon Bloody Mary. 115 Chartres St., (504) 309-9360, jimmyjscafe.com

Bombay Club has fantastic martinis and nightly live music for the perfect romantic setting. Chef Nathan Richard’s delicious menu is influenced by both British and Cajun cuisine. 830 Conti St., 5772237, bombayclubneworleans.com

Rick’s Sporting Saloon, an adult sports bar with a welcoming atmosphere, is modestly priced with $5 drinks on Fridays. The staff is friendly and the service is phenomenal. 522 Bourbon St., 5522510, ricks-saloon.com

Biscuits & Buns on Banks, featured on USA Today’s “10 Best Biscuits”, is a quaint spot for breakfast and lunch in Mid-City. When you go there, try the Blueberry-Brie Waffle. 4337 Banks St., 273-4600, biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com

Bruno’s Tavern is a sports bar with games, quality bar food and great student specials like $2 Tuesdays, providing a variety of $2 deals. 7538 Maple St., 861-7615, brunostavern.com

Rivershack Tavern is known as New Orleans’ most unusual bar, with live music and bi-weekly crawfish boils. A New Orleans bar experience you don’t want to miss. 3449 River Road, 834-4938, therivershacktavern.com

Café Amelie is a gem of Louisiana cuisine. Enjoy their lush, romantic courtyard in the historic Princess of Monaco Carriage House where you might even witness a wedding. 912 Royal St., 4128965, cafeamelie.com

Shamrock Bar and Grill is the largest neighborhood bar in the city with activities like pool, bowling and beer pong. Go for the fun and the great menu. 4133 S Carrollton Ave., 301-0938, shamrockparty.com

Caffe! Caffe! is more than just a local coffee shop. Their extensive menu offers salads, soups, sandwiches, wraps and, yes, fresh coffee that’s brewed daily! Multiple locations, caffecaffe.com

Buffa’s Bar and Restaurant is recognized

by Esquire as one of the best bars in America.

Open 24/7, there’s nightly live music and a great backroom for Sunday brunch. 1001 Esplanade Ave., 949-0038, buffasbar.com The Jimani has a comfortable atmosphere that hosts locals and tourists alike. It’s been a wellknown late-night hangout for food, cocktails and sports since 1971. 141 Chartres St., 524-0493, thejimani.com Mid-City Yacht Club has crawfish boils Fridays at 4 p.m. and boasts one of the best Bloody Mary's in town. Enjoy a sports-bar setting or lunch in the outdoor courtyard. 440 S St. Patrick St., 483-2517, midcityyachtclub.com Mimi’s in the Marigny, voted best bar in New Orleans by the Gambit, is classy yet affordable. A self-proclaimed “house party vibe” exists thanks to their 24/7 cocktails. 2601 Royal St., 872-9868, mimismarigny.com Parasol’s is an Irish Channel hangout. Great for St. Patrick’s Day or any time of year, they have stiff drinks, sports, po-boys, and quality eats. 2533 Constance St., 302-1543

Wit’s Inn is a Mid-City bar with 15 flat screens and gourmet pizzas served till 2 a.m. On Thursdays, those pizzas are just $5! 141 N Carrollton Ave., 486-1600, witsinn.com

Maple Street Patisserie’s Chef Ziggy offers up exquisite pastries, breads and sandwiches.

Sample their delicious breakfast muffins, topped with fresh fruit and rock sugar. Multiple locations, maplestreetpatisserie.com Morning Call Coffee Stand has served their many delicious styles of coffee beverages, breakfast pastries like beignets, as well as jambalaya and rice and beans for nearly 150 years. Multiple locations, morningcallcoffeestand.com Petite Amelie is an extension of Café Amelie, with a smaller, faster vibe. More catered towards a quick, on-the-go experience, it still upholds its freshness and quality. 900 Royal St., 412-8065, cafeamelie.com/petite-amelie.html

Taps Patio Bar and Grill complements their delicious pub grub offerings with an extensive drink menu. Try their Taps' wings, as well as their gourmet burgers and sandwiches. 2802 Belle Chasse Hwy., Gretna, 510-5544, tapspatiobar. com Tracey’s Irish Bar and Restaurant has great roast beef po-boys, raw oysters and many other tasty items. Their weekly crawfish boils on Thursdays around 3 p.m. are not to be missed.

2604 Magazine St., 897-5413, traceysnola.com

Lakeview Brew serves homemade pastries, desserts, and breakfast alongside gourmet coffee and tea, as well as lunch and dinner menus, all in a cozy cafe setting. 5606 Canal Blvd., 483-7001, lakeviewbrew.com

Riccobono’s Panola Street Café is the perfect New Orleans, local neighborhood brunch spot.

From Crab Cake Benedict to waffles and grits, they do New Orleans food right. 7801 Panola St., 314-1810, panolastreetcafe.com

Café Carmo

Italian

Café

Café Carmo’s unique, environmentally-conscious, vegan-friendly, and delicious menu is inspired by the flavors of the Caribbean, West Africa, and South and Central America. 527 Julia St., 8754132, cafecarmo.com

Dolce Vita Pizzeria is famous for its handmade pasta and wood-fired pizzas named after different Italian cities, presented in a casual, family-friendly atmosphere. We highly recommend it. 1205 St. Charles Ave., 324-7674, dvpizzeria.com

Another Broken Egg Café offers a huge menu

Café Degas is the oldest Gallic restaurant in

Mandina’s Restaurant’s menu features

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delicious home-style cooking, including ItalianCreole specialties like their crab fingers in wine sauce. Mandina’s is perfect for anyone looking for home-grown and delicious eats. Multiple locations, mandinasrestaurant.com

the promise that they will roll you a better burrito.

Multiple locations, izzos.com

Mellow Mushroom is rumored to bake some of the best pizza in the South. The small chain offers specialty pies, delicious appetizers and a full bar.

8227 Oak St., 345-8229, mellowmushroom.com/ store/oak-street-nola

Lebanon’s Café has customers flock from all over for some of chef-owner Hussain Sheereef’s hummus and top-notch kebabs, all at a modest price in a beautiful environment. 1500 S Carrollton Ave., 862-6200, lebanonscafe.com

Pascal’s Manale is the home of the original barbecue shrimp. It’s a 100-year-old Creole-Italian traditional restaurant that promises a great meal and the best oyster bar around. 1838 Napoleon Ave., 895-4877, pascalsmanale.com

Pyramids Café is great and convenient for students on a budget who are craving healthy, authentic, Mediterranean cuisine. There are many options that are even under $10. 3149 Calhoun St., 861-9602, pyramidscafeneworleans.com

Red Gravy, named a Top 100 Brunch Restaurant in America by OpenTable, has live music every Sunday brunch and quirky breakfast dishes like chicken-andwaffles and praline pancakes. 125 Camp St., 5618844, redgravycafe.com

New Orleans Cuisine

Reginelli’s Pizzeria goes far beyond pizza. Each of their eight locations delivers and serves salads, sandwiches, pastas and a variety of apps that can satisfy any craving. Multiple locations, reginellis.com Venezia has been making traditional Italian cuisine in Mid-City since 1957. Their expertly-cooked veal and heavily-praised pizzas are exquisite. Venezia is all authentic and all local. 134 N Carrollton Ave., 4887991, venezianeworleans.com Wood Pizza features handmade, thin-crust, wood-fired pizza and over 40 beers on tap. The beautiful patio draped in white lights creates a great atmosphere for any meal. 404 Andrew Higgins Dr., 281-4893, woodpizzaneworleans.com

Mexican Caretta’s Grill serves up Tex-Mex in locations all over NOLA. Live music perfectly complements their Mexican cuisine and margaritas, creating a perfectly spicy environment. Multiple locations, carrettasgrillrestaurant.com Izzo’s Illegal Burrito makes burritos that are so good that it should be criminal. Their motto makes

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Middle Eastern

Louisiana fare in their French Quarter courtyard.

329 Decatur St., 373-4852, evangelineneworleans. com Frankie and Johnny’s was originally opened by Johnny Morreale to feed hungry dockworkers, who loved Frankie and Johnny’s for its fresh seafood and riverside location. 321 Arabella St., 243-1234, frankieandjohnnys.net Kingfish offers Louisiana specialties in the French Quarter. This cocktail restaurant/gourmet kitchen offers an elegant atmosphere and Cajun favorites.

They offer local seafood, beer and so much more.

337 Chartres St., 598-5005, kingfishneworleans.com

all while being a fully loaded restaurant. Located right on the Mississippi River, it’s a perfect location for any given night. 3445 River Rd., Gretna, 8344938, therivershacktavern.com Short Stop Poboys boasts the best po-boys in Metairie. You can choose from three sizes of sandwich and fill them with everything from tuna salad to fried oysters. 119 Transcontinental Dr., Metairie, 885-4572, shortstoppoboysno.com

Seafood Acme Oyster House has been a New Orleans staple since it opened in 1910. Their fresh, handshucked oysters are delicious whether chargrilled, fried or on the half shell. Multiple locations, acmeoyster.com

Antoine’s Restaurant has been a fixture in New Orleans for 176 years, is still operated and owned by the original family, and is not to be missed. 713 Saint Louis St., 581-4422, antoines.com

Crazy Lobster Bar and Grill offers fresh seafood buckets and great views on the banks of the Mississippi. Enjoy a delicious meal with live music overlooking the river. 500 Port of New Orleans Place, 569-3380, thecrazylobster.com

Café 615 Home of Da Wabbit’s great lunch specials are sure to remind you of home cooking and show you that they really are a taste to be reckoned with.

615 Kepler St., 365-1225, dawabbit.net/dine-in.html

NOLA Boils Café is a restaurant and catering company that specializes in on-site boils of all kinds of seafood including crab, crawfish, lobster, shrimp, and more. 601 Metairie Rd., nolaboils.com

Cornet offers up steaks, seafood & Cajun fare in an iconic Bourbon Street building. Cornet serves up authentic Cajun and Creole cuisine made from the heart. 700 Bourbon St., (504) 523-1485, cornetnola. com Crescent City Brewhouse, the French Quarter’s only microbrewery, has a menu that’s also to die for. Where Y’at readers voted them “Best Place to Drink Beer” this year. 527 Decatur St., 522-0571, crescentcitybrewhouse.com EAT cooks traditional Southern dishes with local seafood and seasonal produce. They show their loyalty to New Orleans by displaying the artwork of New Orleans artists. 900 Dumaine St., 522-7222, eatnola.com Evangeline serves seasonal cuisine with ingredients purchased directly from local markets and fishermen. Travelers and locals enjoy feasting on

New Orleans Creole Cookery New Orleans Creole Cookery is supposedly haunted by a ghost named Mary. If you’re brave enough, stop by for traditional Louisiana dishes including Shrimp Creole and Gumbo Three Different Ways. 508 Toulouse St., 524-9632, neworleanscreolecookery.com Poppa’s Poor Boys’ portions are generous and their modest prices make it a great location for a quality, authentic New Orleans po-boy even on a budget. 720 Claiborne Dr., 832-8114 The Praline Connection serves authentic CajunCreole cuisine at affordable prices. Their famous traditionally-made pralines are a smash-hit, making it a can’t-miss destination for foodies. 542 Frenchmen St., 943-3934, pralineconnection.com Rivershack Tavern Gretna features live music, a full bar, games and TVs to watch sports games on,

Poseidon has everything from Creole-style oysters to fresh sushi. They also practice environmentally sustainable cooking and they donate proceeds to ocean conservancy and advocacy programs. 2100 St. Charles Ave., 509-6675, poseidonnola.com Royal House Oyster Bar is an exemplary New Orleans oyster spot. In the heart of the Quarter, you can sit on the balcony and enjoy some of the freshest seafood around. 441 Royal St., 528-2601, royalhouserestaurant.com

Vegan Seed uses natural, organic, and local ingredients in their vegan spins on comfort food classics like po-boys, as well as things like seaweed caviar and blended juices. 1330 Prytania St., 302-2599, seedyourhealth.com

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BarGuide

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Backspace Bar & Kitchen 139 Chartres St. 322-2281

This literary-themed restaurant has unique cocktails and late-night comfort food. Where else can you get milk and cookies for dessert?

Bar Tonique 820 N Rampart St. 324-6045

Known for its delicious craft cocktails and daily drink specials, this neighborhood bar is the perfect spot for cocktail hipsters.

Bruno's Tavern 7538 Maple St. 861-7615

A favorite for Uptowners, this is the place to be for an LSU or Saints game. Come in on Thursdays nights for $3 imports!

Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant 1001 Esplanade Ave. 949-0038

Highlighted in Esquire as one of the “Best Bars in America”, comfort foods and signature drinks will keep you coming back.

Coyote Ugly 225 N Peters St. 561-0003

Their Daily Drink Specials from 9 p.m. to close will remind you why this is the most famous bar on the planet.

Evangeline 329 Decatur St. 373-4852

A full menu of local food and microbrews makes this the perfect place for people looking for some homegrown fare.

Gattuso’s 435 Huey P Long Ave. 368-1114

Head to the Best Bank, the Westbank, for live music, casual lunches and delicious dinner and Happy Hour specials.

Hermes Bar at Antoine's 725 St. Louis St. 581-4422

Experience that classic-style New Orleans flair alongside some delicious eats and classic cocktails at one of the city’s best restaurants.

Kajun's Pub 2256 St. Claude Ave. 947-3735

Karaoke and Saints games are highlights at this 24hour bar. Jello shots are free every time the Saints score a touchdown!

Kerry Irish Pub 331 Decatur St. 527-5954

Get all your live Irish music needs covered here.

Enjoy an Irish coffee alongside their folk, jazz or blues acts.

Martine's Lounge 2347 Metairie Rd. 831-8637

A great local bar in Old Metairie where everybody knows your name. One of the BEST craft cocktail spots in the city.

The Metropolitan 310 Andrew Higgins Dr. 568-1702

A warehouse-turned-nightclub that has the best DJs around. Features all types of music from house to hip-hop to rock.

Mid-City Yacht Club 440 S St. Patrick St. 483-2517

Repeatedly ranked as Mid-City’s best bar, their fantastic beer selection starts at $2 and the food is out of this world.

Pal's Lounge 949 N Rendon St. 488-7257

This hidden gem in Mid-City is filled with great drinks and lively locals. Come for Sunday Funday or try the Bacon Bloody Mary.

Parlay's 870 Harrison Ave. 304-6338

This Lakeview favorite is known for their great nightly drink specials. Meet up with some friends there tonight.

Pat O’Briens 718 St. Peter St. 525-4823

Visit the birthplace of New Orleans’ most famous drink, the Hurricane. A local favorite since 1933, this historic pub is renowned for its piano bar.

Rick’s Cabaret 315 Bourbon St. 524-4222

Enjoy a cocktail on the Bourbon Street balcony or on one of their three floors ... or enjoy the sights indoors.

The epitome of New Orleans’ nightlife.

Rivershack Tavern 3449 River Rd. 834-4938

One of the city’s quirkiest bars, come on by for some great live music and tasty eats. Bring in a tacky ashtray for a free drink!

The Rusty Nail 1100 Constance St. 525-5515

The Rusty Nail is the perfect combination of dive bar and hip downtown venue and offers an extensive list of craft beers and a vast scotch menu.

Shamrock Bar & Grille 4133 S Carrollton Ave. 307-4350

Schedule your next party here or watch some crazy wrestling matches. Between live music and pool tables, there’s plenty to do.

Shots!

315 Bourbon St. 524-4222

Shots! is a beautiful bar that features specialty infusions by the shot ... a must-try the next time you are down on Bourbon Street.

Taps Patio Bar & Grill 2802 Belle Chase Hwy. 504-510-5544

Taps is your Westbank go-to with 24 beers on tap and $2 weekly draft specials. Enjoy a Happy Hour Tuesday through Friday featuring half-off appetizers.

Tracey’s 2604 Magazine St. 897-5413

The original Irish Channel bar offers beers and food in a low-key setting. Happy Hour on weekdays from 4 to 7 p.m.

Tropical Isle Original 721 Bourbon St. 529-4109

Home of the Hand Grenade, this bar rocks a weekday Happy Hour from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Come to this or any of their five locations for great live music.

Living Paintings in New Orleans

By Clay Curry

I

n today’s age of smartphones and Instagram, photographs are among the most commonly captured live records of special events. They allow people to look back on a memory and recall small details which otherwise may have been forgotten or overlooked. Similar to photographs, evocative paintings are able to tell a story. One way a painting differs from a photograph is that it is able to recount an entire storyline from the beginning to end in a single scene. The artist is both the author and the illustrator, and he or she has the ability to convey a vivid narrative using thousands of brush strokes and a myriad of colors. That is exactly what a live event painter does.

Boyett Live Painting St. Louis Cathedral

Growing up in rural Louisiana, Kelly Boyett was introduced to the world of art at an early age. Both sides of the family were artistically talented. Her mother, who owned a hair salon, was also a gifted oil painter.

Boyett recalls helping her mother paint at the salon in between serving customers as one of the highlights of her childhood. She continued painting as a hobby throughout her high school and college years. In 2011, a university professor in Shreveport observed her palpable talent and suggested that she help conduct classes at Painting with a Twist. Boyett took the advice and got an assistant job at the art studio. One night when the lead artist was sick, Kelly was asked to fill in for him. At that time, she had terrible stage fright and was consumed by nerves, but she did as she was told and was surprised at how smoothly the class went. Little did she know that it would one day be commonplace for her to paint amidst large crowds of

Header Photo by Lenore Seal

admiring onlookers.

Boyett eventually moved to New Orleans to work for what was then known as Corks N Canvas, where she soon assumed the title of Corporate Artist. This new role allowed her to travel the country for the franchise’s grand openings to help assimilate the art company into the community. In 2013, a friend asked Boyett if she could paint his daughter’s wedding in Lake Charles. No longer a stranger to painting in front of people, Boyett accepted this challenge, which opened up a new gate in her career as a live event artist.

Oftentimes, when she finds herself at a new painting venue, the entire environment is completely new to her.

She simply arrives with her easel, canvas, and a trunk full of acrylic paint, paint brushes, duct tape, light bulbs, extension cords, and anything else she might need to create her impressionistic or abstract masterpiece. She uses her paintbrush to sketch out the scene and allows the painting to create itself. “I’m just there operating the brush, and, somehow, it develops on its own,” Boyett explained. Naturally, she always tries to incorporate a jazzy New Orleans perspective into her artwork.

Since 2013, Boyett has painted at least 50 live paintings a year, which means it is rare for her to go a single week without capturing the vibrant moments of a wedding, concert, charity event or innumerable other sceneries.

Two of her most prized paintings were crafted for charity events in New Orleans. Her live event painting of Lark in the Park, organized by Friends of City Park, raised $3,000 for the expansion of the park’s Botanical Gardens.

Additionally, she braved the storms at the 2016 BUKU Music + Art Project to raise over $2,000 for charities with Boyett at the BUKU Music + Art Project

her live paintings of the concerts. For a full collection of her breathtaking pieces of art, visit her website at www. kellyboyettart.com, where you can also find links to her social media websites.

Frenchy's Live Musicians

Another well-established live event painter in the Greater New Orleans area is Randy Leo Frenchette, who goes by the name of Frenchy. Originally from Massachusetts, Frenchy has been lucky enough to call New Orleans home for almost 20 years. The Big Easy has served as an inspirational oasis and has allowed him to quench his thirst for the arts through creative expression.

Frenchy enjoys traveling the world to grace people far and wide with his talents as he creates stunning portraits of fundraisers, sporting events, festivals and musical performances, to name a few. To learn more information about Frenchy and browse his works, visit www.frenchylive. com.

It has been said by many that a picture is worth a thousand words; however, a painting contains an infinite amount as the interpretation is dependent upon the interpreter. Each carefully crafted brushstroke is a syllable and each shade of color is a paragraph, working together to capture the hearty laughter and rousing conversations among emotional scenes of dancing, excitement, and natural beauty. These chronicles are immortalized onto a piece of canvas, allowing the admirer to ski-doo into the scene, like Steve chasing after Blue, and interact with the characters inside. Using their paint brushes as a shifter, artists have the ability to transport a spectator to the future or carry them back in time to reminisce a series of events. That is exactly what a live event painter does.

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FilmReviews Jason Bourne

Catch Where Y'at Movie Editor David Vicari and critic Fritz Esker's “Dueling Critics” blog at WhereYat.com.

By Fritz Esker

The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) were solid summer blockbusters. But 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum was the rare third installment that exceeded its predecessors. It’s a terrific film that holds up well on repeat viewings and serves as a fitting end to the story. Unfortunately, Hollywood never met a golden goose it couldn’t strangle. So, nine years later director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon reunited for Jason Bourne.

Sadly, there’s an overwhelming “beenthere-done-that” vibe to the film (a common theme with this summer’s films). Bourne’s on the run from another super-assassin (Vincent Cassel) commanded by another corrupt CIA official (Tommy Lee Jones). There’s also a fresh batch of code names for sinister operations. The only new information viewers learn about Bourne relates to his father and is not interesting enough to center a new film around, which is why so much of its running time is dedicated to rehashing elements of the previous installments.

Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93) is still a good director of action scenes and there is a pretty tense scene where Cassel chases Damon and Julia Stiles through a riot on the streets of Athens. But that comes early on and much of what remains does little but remind viewers of the previous, superior films.

Star Trek Beyond

By David Vicari

This third installment of the “new” Star Trek movies doesn't bring anything new to the franchise and eschews an intelligent science fiction story in favor of wall-to-wall action, but it is solid escapist fare.

Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the USS Enterprise think they are on a rescue mission, but it turns out to be an elaborate trap.

Kirk and company find themselves stranded on a planet ruled by the psychopathic Krall (Idris Elba). Kirk and Chekov (the late Anton Yelchin) find themselves being led around by the untrustworthy alien Kalara (Lydia Wilson) while "Scotty" (Simon Pegg) befriends bad ass warrior alien Jaylah (Sofia Boutella). Meanwhile, McCoy (Karl Urban) and a wounded Spock (Zachary Quinto) seek shelter on the hostile planet. They all must rescue the captured Uhura (Zoe Saldana), retrieve a doomsday device, then get the hell off the planet.

The big chase finale is pretty suspenseful and some of the amped up action is exhilarating. However, this is directed by Justin Lin, who helmed four of the Fast and the Furious films, and he often employs quick cutting and shaky, hand-held cameras, so occasionally it's hard to decipher the action.

While it is intriguing that Beyond touches on the unfair treatment of war veterans, it rehashes the terrorist plot of the previous movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, which seems like lazy writing.

Beyond is an entertaining two hours but nothing more.

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Lights Out

By Fritz Esker

Lights Out is a compact and effective little chiller. It has a short and sweet running time of just 81 minutes and has its share of creepy moments and mild jump scares.

Young Martin (Gabriel Bateman) is terrorized by a wicked and shadowy entity that can only attack in the dark. With the help of his older sister, Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), they find out that this demon has an attachment to their mother, Sophie (Maria Bello).

Lights Out is directed by Swedish filmmaker David F. Sandberg and based on his terrifying 2013 short film of the same title (you can find it on YouTube). Often in low budget horror films, lousy acting comes with the territory, but the performances here are all very good, and screenwriter Eric Heisserer gives us characters to care about. Take the character of Rebecca's boyfriend, Bret, for example. Usually, this role is written as an obnoxious character that we can't wait to see meet a horrible end.

But here we like this guy and hope he survives, thanks to the writer for creating a character that makes sense and to actor Alexander DiPersia for delivering a warm performance.

And the movie is also clever in its rules regarding the demon. Ultraviolet light can harm her, but she can easily hide in the shadows – like under the bed! The filmmakers were also wise to not completely explain away every detail of the villain, leaving some mystery as to how she became the way she is. It is scarier that way.

Café Society

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Like clockwork, the 80-year-old writer/ director Woody Allen continues his film-ayear pace with the new comedy/drama Café Society.

Set in 1930s Hollywood and New York City, the film tells the story of Bobby ( Jesse Eisenberg). He leaves his family in New York to pursue a life on the west coast. He takes a job as an assistant to his shifty agent uncle (Steve Carell). Eisenberg falls in love with Carell’s secretary (Kristen Stewart), even though she’s in a relationship with a married man.

The resolution to that plot line occurs around the film’s midway point. While there are some laughs to be had in the first half, the film gets stronger in its second part. After it shifts gears, Café Society becomes a meditation on how even people with good lives often wonder about opportunities missed and paths not taken.

Woody Allen has frequently struggled to find actors who can play surrogate variations of the character he established in his classic films like Annie Hall and Sleeper. Eisenberg, who headlined what was by far the best segment of Allen’s otherwise disappointing anthology film To Rome With Love, is one of the best (ranking alongside Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris). And in his third film with Stewart, the two share a strong chemistry they also displayed in 2009’s excellent Adventureland.

But the real star of the show is cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Reds).

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By Debbie Lindsay

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ou know that “gimme five” moment when you see or hear something that speaks to you, to your ideals, your political persuasion—to your beliefs?

Well I can get along with most anybody, but I freely admit to a warm and fuzzy feeling when someone of like mind openly shares a tree-embracing sentiment or a good old-fashioned freethinking liberal viewpoint.

Certainly bumper stickers aren’t for everyone, regardless of political position; but I sure enjoy traffic better when cruising behind a fellow pinko-liberal. Until, like a splash of battery acid, I see “Blow up your TV”.

This is a bumper sticker that goes back decades, and it is most always in the company of many decals expressing views and ideals that I hold near and dear and, therefore, never ceases to catch me off guard. Well, of course they have a right to express their intellectual decision to exclude television from their lives, but hey…it hurts. It’s like watching reels and reels of PBS burned. Like seeing Rod Serling kicked to the curb as Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett rush over to save him, only to be taken out by a Mack truck (with that bumper sticker). If left to these misguided folks, Saturday morning cartoons would be history (the only day of the week that parents have to sleep in and hanky panky a bit).

I cannot imagine my childhood Sunday nights without the Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza. And being an afterschool-hours latch-key kid, unaware that that time alone was

meant for getting into mischief, I kinda felt lost waiting for Mom to get home from work—so Hazel kept me company as she fussed over her TV family, the Baxters. Hazel (Shirley Booth), with her huggable stoutness, housekeeping uniform, big smile and gregarious manner made me feel safe. Come on, you don’t dis Hazel.

Through the years, I have watched television influence (if not change) social mores. All in the Family brought AfricanAmericans into the living rooms of folks who’d never think of integrating their own lives. This provocative show used humor as a means to enlighten, through entertainment, an entire generation. Will and Grace brought gay gaiety to households everywhere and perhaps diluted some viewer’s prejudices. It is difficult to hate or fear someone who is making you laugh. Blow up that television? I think not!

Boyfriend and I are blessed with many friends who mean the world to us. But there are only four that are always there for us, able to pop in at any time to commiserate, cheer and commune, and without minding one bit if we are in pajamas, having bad hair, bad moods, bad attitudes. Our house can be a mess and they do not judge. They are our friends: Rose, Dorothy, Blanche and Sophia, and they are golden.

In 1985, Susan Harris gathered four talented actresses, created and gave them each a distinct personality and character, and allowed them to slip into our homes via television. They were The Golden Girls; in fact, they are still golden and their personalities and attitudes ring true to this day (thanks to the wonderful world of reruns). Thirty-one years have passed since they first entered my living room with their pastel, polyester-blended, padded shouldered dresses and overly coiffed hair. As a matter of fact, they all got slightly younger-looking as the seven years of air time played forth. But looks are so minor compared to their characters.

Beatrice Arthur played Dorothy, the more centered and pragmatic of the gang. She was the straight man to

the others. Without her somewhat “bitchy resting face”, height and comedic control, the others wouldn’t bounce off her with such delightful pop. Her mother, Sophia, wonderfully acted by Estelle Getty, is this tiny little old lady with no filter—she blurts out bluntly what’s on her mind and weaves stories of her past and Sicilian homeland that are beyond the pale. Her tales are only to be outdone by Betty White, better known as Rose Nylund of St. Olaf. Her “Rose” is perhaps the best mix of traits in the whole bunch.

Betty White, a national treasure, brought to Rose an airheadedness that vacillates between delusional ditsy to (albeit rare) moments of naïve brilliance. Rue McClanahan’s Blanche is Southern to the point of parody and one of the most delightful tarts (slut as Rose and Sophia point out repeatedly), and gives cred to “Yes!!!! There is sex and lots of it after 50.”

When Boyfriend gifted me a photograph of The Golden Girls, framed and autographed by all four ladies, I was thrilled and then mortified when he proudly hung it in our shop. I thought our funky cool rating would plummet— wrong! The first time a young, hip, macho-looking black man came in and told me that he “loved him some Golden Girls”, and asked if he could buy the photo, I realized that these ladies were timeless and priceless gems. And I certainly never sold it to any of the many young and old fans who offered me money. Hell, they are my friends—you can’t sell ‘em.

It is essential to escape from life’s stresses and disappointments. You cannot avoid them, but you can damn sure take a short reprieve with, in lieu of heroin, an episode of intelligent humor, happy endings and a fat slice of cheesecake.

Fact: Did you know that if you eat cheesecake at the same time the Golden Girls are dishin’ the dirt and slicing up servings of their own cheesecake, that it is impossible to gain a single ounce? Yes, TV Land is a magical place.

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By Phil LaMancusa

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low wind, blow. As you well know, New Orleans has recently gotten in waves of American immigrants. More expensive places in this country are sending disheartened, disillusioned and disenchanted ex-pats here, effectually making New Orleans now the seventh least affordable place in the country for renters. Bam! People who are poor in other places can live comfortably here, displacing those poor here that, now, can no longer afford to live here and have to move on to places where they, in turn, can afford to live.

The new refugees hail from New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and even places like Portland and Seattle (where they claim to have been Cali-fornicated to suffocation), as well as other high-toned towns. These places are losing good people due to inflated costs of living, and in the process, it’s causing our costs to become inflated as well—like a doll at a bachelor party … with the same prospects. But that’s not the point of this missive. The point of this missive is not that we’re becoming gentrified, because we’re not becoming gentrified, we’re being priced out. We got trouble, right here in River City.

Think about it. What we have here is a finite number of domicidal opportunities, and logic tells us that when one person moves in, it’s because another has moved (or been

moved) out.

Allison and her neighbor had small studio apartments when their landlord evicted them to create short term rentals.

They’re in Metairie now. Patricia lost her lease after 33 years and now has moved to Arkansas. Jen, with hubby and baby in tow, is off to Ashville (her parents will follow); Kassidy and hubby are also invading North Carolina. Both Laura (around the corner) and Jacob (next door) have gone north for their residencies. Melanie and boyfriend are moving to California of all places! Every day I hear about more people I know— who have made up the fabric of what it means to be New Orleans—bidding me adieu. Businesses that I’ve relied upon are closing, resources and services cut off, buckling under economic disparities between the movers and shakers who move in and those who are simply re-moved. But that’s still not the point of this missive.

The question (point) is that: considering the “New Orleanian’s Diaspora” (defined as: “the dispersion of a people, language or culture that was formerly concentrated in one place”)… Are ex-New Orleanians not creating the same dispersal elsewhere? Charlotte? Georgetown? Louisville?

Galveston? “Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!” Austin has already fallen. I even hear that our folks are moving to Cincinnati!

I’m fortunate to have a “hidden gem” of a shop in New Orleans, where I get to meet and greet people from all over the country (and the world at large). The stories are the same: it’s happening everywhere. Who are these people, having started this wave, who are leaving my friends left to wash up on other shores? By and large, they’re classified as “techies”, those folks who work from home on their computers and make a living enough to pay and play here without adding much to the culture. Spectators. One of my ex-neighbors explained it thus: “They movin’ us poor folks out so much that pretty soon, they gonna have to bus us in for second lines!”

Example: creative French Quarter chefs had to move into affordable neighborhoods to build their restaurants and reputations. Now, they have to move to (affordable) Arabi?

The question is—what happens to Arabi-ans when they are overrun with Orleanians? Gentrification or dispersal?

And once we’ve all left, when we abandon our (no longer) reasonably rented apartments, when we’ve sold our houses for a profit, when our jobs have been outsourced to Houston, where are we going to go? All the good places have been taken and taken up. Christ on a crutch, we’d have to go somewhere that has winter! Leave the country? That’s an option. However, we’ve already moved natives out of San Miguel, Placencia, Yelapa, Venice, Panama and Chiang Mai; there must be somewhere else! No, nononononono! There is no place like New Orleans. Or, is that: there’s no place like the New Orleans that was, the one in our memory that we came back to and stayed for?

I have long-time New Orleans friends. You know, the ones who like to play the “ain’t dere no more” game, and a few of them opine: “Wait until after the next hurricane, the next evacuation, then we’ll see!” See what? Oh, I know … all the bad guys will leave with their tails between their legs, and all the good people will flock back like birds coming home to roost, giving Newark, Nyack, Norfolk, and Newport News back to their displaced; giving New Mexico back to the Navajos! New Orleans will return to the glory of yesteryear and we’ll all have kickass jobs, killer digs, meet “the one”, and live as happily as crawfish in a muddy pond. Not likely. We created this monster, as well as the myth that there ever was glory in our yesteryear.

The thing that we cherish in our memories is a fact: we were happier before. The thing that we fail to wrap our heads around is that it will never be “before” again … ever. The folks whom we point fingers at, telling ourselves that they are the cause of our New Orleans Blues, came for the same reason we did. And now they, in fact, do live here at the cost of what we selfishly considered our way of life: dysfunctional and licentious, but affordable. See? One theory has it that humans are like a rash upon the planet, another is: “we have met the enemy and he is us”.

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@NOLA_dee: I searched for “best place for salad in New Orleans” and Google laughed at me. #NOLA #NOLAfood #NOLAlife

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission recently approved a proposal that would cease all crab fishing for 90 days over the next three years. Jeff Marx, a crustacean biologist in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, noted that the crab harvest in Louisiana is too high and the overall health of the species needs to be protected.

NetflixPasswordSharingIllegal On July 5, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals put forth an opinion that decided that password sharing could call for prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Although the CFAA does technically prohibit the password sharing, the federal government can’t enforce it with such high numbers, and the companies involved (i.e.

Netflix, HBO), are more for password sharing than against it.

NintendoRebootingClassicNES The popular video game company announced that they will be releasing a new rendition of one of their first video game consoles, the NES, calling it the NES Classic Edition. The NES Classic Edition looks exactly like the original 1983 version, only a lot smaller, and has 30 classic games already built into it. The console will hit the market on November 11 for $59.99.

@_CarolinaCT: Did I mention I saw another #Saints fan here in Rhode Island earlier and we shouted a nice loud #WhoDat at each other? @RocketMean: Seen in New Orleans: a trombone drive by. Kid hanging off an SUV while tromboning. #trombonedriveby #onlyinNOLA @bwaggener: Today I put on a costume, drank before 9 a.m., and got paddled by roller derby girls dressed as bulls #onlyinNewOrleans #NOLAbulls @stpete2you: I’ve been in #Nawlins for over 48 hours and I’m developing an accent, so dere’s dat. @jennifervcole: Quarter Life: Your housekeeper shows up in a 1980s Rolls Royce #OnlyInNola #NewOrleans #Ballin #Traci

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BlueBellReleasesNewFlavor In celebration of National Ice Cream Month, Blue Bell has released a new flavor of ice cream entitled ‘Cookie Two Step.’ It’s filled with hints of brown sugar and chunks of cream-filled cookies and cookie dough. In other words, this new flavor is a mix between Blue Bell’s most popular flavors: cookie dough and cookies and cream, making it a combination for any Blue Bell fan to try.

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Gordon Biersch teamed up with Sucré for a beer and dessert extravaganza.

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The beer drinkers hammed it up at the Westbank Beer Festival at NOLA Motorsports.

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Moxy New Orleans celebrated its Grand Opening in style!

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