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CONTENTS Features 8 10 24 32 34 48 56 58

Luke Hawx Fall Restaurant Guide NOLA Brunch Spots Oyster Shell Recycling Freezy Street Fall Festivals Guide Asian Markets in NOLA 2017-18 Arts Season Preview

Events & Nightlife 38 40 46 66

Jay-Z's 4:44 Tour Music Calendar Lakeside 2 Riverside Bar Guide

Dining 28 Food News 30 $20 and Under

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If you’re reading this new issue hot off the presses, please join us this Thursday, September 21, at 9 p.m. at Generations Hall for our 20th Anniversary Party. It’ll feature a 90s theme with music, food, and a whole lot of fun!

Otherwise, enjoy this issue that includes an interview with Luke Hawx.

Landon Murray got into the squared ring with this local wrestling legend to discuss the ins and outs of the world’s oldest sport.

Go try a signature dish from one of the spots in this edition! This Fall Restaurant Guide also takes a fascinating look at the Oyster Shell Recycling Program. Kathy Bradshaw does a fantastic job investigating the program and teaching why it’s important to support those restaurants that are members.

October is the kick-off to the fall festival season, and this issue offers a great preview of all the best ones. Also, don’t miss Dean Shapiro’s preview of the upcoming Cultural Arts Season—it’s always a great time to put some culture into your life! Enjoy. -Josh Danzig, Publisher

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Luke Hawx and the Rise of the Southern Stomper

By Landon Murray Photos by Romney Caruso

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t’s Friday night at a friend’s house. Steaks are being grilled, beers and various other alcoholic drinks are flowing, and I’m among a crowd of people—old and new acquaintances. Some I’ve just met, others have been friends of mine for over a decade. One of these people is Luke Hawx, New Orleans resident and up-and-coming professional wrestler and entertainer.

In other “squared circles,” people may dismiss him as amateur, but if you know him, his struggles, and the hours he’s put in over the years, you’d be remiss to call him anything but professional.

For starters, his drive is insane and off-the-charts. First off, his body and his strength are a crucial part of his draw and success. “At least two to three hours every day” is spent on just run-of-the-mill (for Hawx) exercises. So, while you and I might feel great about ourselves after, say, an hour on a treadmill, Luke’s exercises are intense stuff. Extensive weight training, as well as acting classes, stunt training, and whatever else needs to be done for his company, WildKat Sports, fill every day as his climb to the top continues.

His love for wrestling runs deep in his body and soul, and when you hear not only his passion, but also how hard he

had to fight to get to where he is, his genuine, hardworking nature becomes quickly apparent. Growing up was a mess for Hawx, with an unstable home life that included drugs, fights, and various other unsuitable interactions for a child to witness and deal with. Through the sport of wrestling, as well as motivators in the ring like the Ultimate Warrior, Luke found enough incentive to dream of getting out of the darkness and making a name for himself.

But to get to where he wanted to be took skill and a furious approach to brandbuilding. Thus, after plenty of hours spent busting ass and making things happen,

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Wildkat Sports was founded. The objective started out simple enough: Hawx wanted to bring his passion to a local environment.

But to do that, he also needed wrestlers to join him on a local surface. So, calls were made, connections born, and with that, WildKat burst upon the scene. If you’ve been to one of these events (often held at local amusement center The Shamrock), you know it’s accurate to say burst. They recently held one of those events, and let me tell you, even as a person not really into wrestling anymore, I can say that these nights are fun, full of action, and they bring the typical debauchery that comes with not only high-quality wrestling, but also just NOLA in general.

Now, even if you haven’t attended a wrestling match, you very well may have seen Luke Hawx before. Whether it be in small roles in movies or shows like AMC’s Preacher, Spike Lee’s Oldboy reboot, or in the excellent film Logan, Luke is branching out and looking at the big picture. On the topic of type-casting, Hawx isn’t fazed. “As far as the tough guy roles go, that's what fits my character, so it's easy for me to play those roles. I get type-casted, and I don't

mind,” Hawx told me during our recent interview. This isn’t to say that he’s only interested in playing the generic “Thug No.1” or the like, but getting your foot in the door is all part of the process.

At the end of the day, Luke is not only proud of his heritage as a local New Orleanian, but also in his approach to business. He’s a straight shooter with whom you may not always agree, but open and honest communication is always the key to getting your point across. And by the looks of his success so far, he seems to be doing a decent job in this area. This all comes from hard work and the experience needed to attain his goals.

If you meet Hawx, he’s friendly and approachable. In the ring, however, the persona completely takes over, and he’s on a collision course to victory. Sometimes in the ring, he’s the winner, sometimes not so much. One thing remains promising, though. With Hawx’s drive and commitment to good entertainment, he’s sure to accomplish every goal he sets for himself, or at least to get as close as humanly possible to his hopes and dreams.

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African

Bennachin offers unique cuisine from the West African region. This BYOB restaurant has options for both meat-eaters and vegetarians alike. The Sisay Singho— baked chicken leg and thigh served with fried plantains, coconut rice, and sauteed spinach—is a standout. 1212 Royal St., 522-1230, bennachinrestaurant.com

American

Bayou Hot Wings uses a unique blend of Creole-seasoned flour to bring you signature wings guaranteed to be finger lickin’. Customize your order with a choice of 10 sauces and flavors, ranging from mild to crazy hot. Not feeling wings?

Try the Southern fried tenders, shrimp, alligator bites, or frog legs instead. 6221 S. Claiborne Ave., 865-9464, bayouhotwings. com

Bobby Hebert’s Cajun Cannon combines Louisiana’s favorite sports with Louisiana cuisine and has become an Eastbank hotspot. Cajun Hebert Fries or Fried Alligator Bites are delicious starters, then try the Cajun Cannon Redfish topped with crawfish and mushroom sauce. 4101 Veterans Blvd., 324-6841, bobbyheberts. com

Gattuso’s Neighborhood Restaurant is a Gretna favorite, locally owned and in the beautiful historic district. Their po-boys and club sandwiches, like the Oyster Club, have won multiple awards, and their live music on Thursdays and Fridays will have you dancing non-stop. 435 Huey P. Long Ave., Gretna, 368-1114, gattusos.net

Opal Basil is a Southwestern restaurant where you can grab a meal or just a glass of wine. This new incarnation of the North Shore restaurant features the same South meets Southwest flavors. Their Pulled Pork Sandwich with Machengo cheese and a poblano salad is a must. 719 S. Peters St., 985-257-0707, opalbasil.com

City Diner is a 24-hour establishment great for any time—morning, noon, or night.

It’s consistently voted the top diner in New Orleans, and their Bottom of the Bowl, filled with seafood and topped with a Cajun cream sauce, is a tasty crowd favorite. 3116 S. I-10 Service Rd. E., 831-1030, citydiner.biz

Gordon Biersch is a beloved craft brewery-restaurant. They have a large menu including gourmet pub food and a splendor of hamburgers made to perfection with your choice of side. Enjoy their patio dining on Fulton Street while watching the big game.

200 Poydras St., 522-2739, gordonbiersch. com

Sala is your Lakefront destination with fantastic drink pairings in an open communal setting. Try their Broiled Gulf Fish Beurre Blanc with grilled asparagus and potatoes. Don’t miss their weekend brunch Happy Hour featuring bottomless mimosas for $5. Lunch service will be available soon. 124 Lake Marina Ave., 513-2670, salanola.com

Daisy Dukes emphasizes a fun atmosphere and is open 24 hours a day.

Some of the best Cajun food, like their Shrimp Sandwich (regular or popcorn), can be found at their locations in the French Quarter, CBD, and Metairie. Multiple locations, daisydukesrestaurant.com

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Ma Momma’s House of Cornbread, Chicken and Waffles serves New Orleans soul food less than 15 minutes from Downtown. The classic staple of Chicken and Waffles made this restaurant well-known.

A perfect place to dine for breakfast or brunch. 5741 Crowder Blvd., 244-0021, mamommashouse.com

Spudly’s Super Spuds is the veteran potato destination for all things potato. Get your spud fix with potato combinations like the Crawfish Spud, which includes crawfish tails topped with their original cheese sauce, cheddar, and chives. 2609 Harvard Ave., Metairie, 455-3250, spudlys.com

Willie Mae’s Scotch House is one of the most beloved fried chicken joints in the country. Their three-piece fried chicken meal comes out crispier than you could ever hope for, served with a side dish. It is truly a jaw-dropping, stomach-pleasing experience.

Multiple locations, williemaesnola.com

WOW Café Doubletree is a familyowned and -operated franchise inspired by the sounds and flavors of Southern Louisiana. Their award-winning signature sauces are made from scratch and come in four tantalizing categories: spicy, sweet and tangy, zesty, and BBQ. And if wings aren’t your thing, try the Memphis Wrap or Crescent City Burger. 300 Canal St., 2123250, wowcafe.com

Asian

Bao & Noodle is a Marigny restaurant that serves up authentic Chinese fare and traditional takeout. All housemade noodle dishes are particularly tasty. The Slow Cooked Pork Shank, slow-cooked in dark soy sauce and rice wine and served with greens and rice, is an excellent choice. 2700 Chartres St., 272-0004, baoandnoodle.com

Five Happiness has over 30 years of experience serving authentic Chinese cuisine. Lunch specials come with a choice of daily soup, choice of rice (shrimp fried rice included!), and fried wonton. The General’s Chicken here is a winner. Check out the Chef’s Specials for something beyond the conventional fare. 3605 S. Carrollton Ave., 482-3935, fivehappiness.com

Jazmine Cafe is a Vietnamese cuisine destination with a calm and welcoming space. The Spicy Mango Salad is fresh and healthy, served with fresh mango, jicama, cucumber, and pickled carrots. Add fresh salmon or tuna to it to make it a full meal.

Jazmine Cafe also has a full bar serving all your favorite drinks. 614 S. Carrollton Ave., 866-9301, jazminecafe.com

Green Tea is a local favorite for Chinese takeout, offering some of the best combinations of Chinese and Southern dishes. Try their classic, mouthwatering options, such as Shrimp and Lobster with mushrooms and broccoli. Green tea has a wide variety of choices and even offers a “Lite and Healthy” menu. 3001 Napoleon Ave., 899-8005, greenteanola.com

Kyoto 2 features all your sushi favorites, fresh seafood, and plenty of sake. Their Tuna Tataki is a favorite, made with fresh seared tuna and served with a spicy avocado sesame sauce. Go by to enjoy one of their amazing value meals, noodle dishes or sushi rolls. 5608 Citrus Blvd., 818-0228, Harahan

Ikura is the new sushi and hibachi restaurant located in the former Little Tokyo location. While continuing the tradition of Japanese classics, they have also created contemporary dishes like the Ikura Roll, served with fried shrimp, crawfish, and cream cheese. 310 N. Carrollton Ave., 485-5658, facebook.com/ikuranola

Mikimoto is great for sushi foodies, with Louisiana-accented sushi rolls at very reasonable prices. Their fun and unique specialty roll options include the Geaux Saints Maki Roll with crawfish, spicy tuna, snow crab, and avocado, and the South Carrollton Roll with tuna tataki, avocado, and green onion. 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., 4881881, mikimotosushi.com

Miyako is a hibachi restaurant and sushi bar right on St. Charles Avenue. They feature amazing cocktails and provide freshness and expertise for their pan-Asian dishes. The Steak and Shrimp Hibachi Fried Rice with a Sexy Alligator Martini is great choice for a night out. 1403 St. Charles Ave., 410-9997, japanesebistro.com

Origami is a beloved Japanese fusion restaurant that offers Japanese specialties, creative sushi rolls, and excellent service.

Located on busy Freret Street, Origami offers a famous Poke Salad and Big Easy Roll that are not to be missed. All of their lunch specials come with miso soup, a small house salad, and rice. 5130 Freret St., 899-6532, sushinola.com

Tsunami is a Japanese-American restaurant that serves some of the freshest fish this side of the Mississippi. Try their signature rolls with Louisiana-centric names like Ragin Cajun and Black & Gold.

The Torched Salmon Belly with blackberry jalapeno jam and crispy salmon skin is the perfect way to start off your meal. 601 Poydras St., 608-3474, servingsushi.com

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Viet Orleans Bistro is conveniently located Downtown near Canal Street, serving Vietnamese food, sushi, and other Asian fare. They have great pho in several different varieties, and their Combination Vermicelli combines chicken, pork, shrimp, and an egg roll in one delicious noodle dish. Check out their great Happy Hour. 300 Baronne St., 333-6917

Compère Lapin is led by Chef Nina Compton, a talented chef and fan favorite on Top Chef. This sophisticated eatery with Caribbean and European accents takes on New Orleans flavors. Dishes like their Curried Goat, served with sweet potato gnocchi, and their Jerk Black Drum never disappoint. 535 Tchoupitoulas St., 5992119, comperelapin.com

Mimi’s in the Marigny is a popular spot in the Marigny, boasting fresh, farm-to-table ingredients, that offers the best late-night dining in town. The dishes are elegant yet affordable and perfect to share with friends. Mimi’s offers an extensive tapas menu with fan favorites like the Mushroom Manchego Toast and Lamb Chops. 2601 Royal St., 872-9868, mimismarigny.com

Picayune Social House is one of New Orleans’s newest gastropubs located in the CBD. Their tandoor oven makes the perfect specialties, like the Rosemary & Thyme Chicken. All the tandoor dishes come with tahini sauce, basmati rice, tabbouleh, grilled tomato, and toasted naan bread, and all are highly recommended by our food critics. 326 Camp St., 308-3583, picayunesocialhouse.com

Poppy’s Time Out Sports Bar is especially convenient for a drink or a bite when you are going to the Outlet Collection at Riverwalk. Start your meal off with Rambo’d Hot Wings and then go for a cheeseburger. Poppy’s is also one of the ultimate places for watching sports in the area. Port of New Orleans Pl., 247-9265, poppystimeoutsportsbar.com

Bars With Great Food

Backspace Bar & Kitchen is a fun and trendy drinking-meets-literary spot for midday and late-night cocktails, or anytime in between. They have delicious food options like the Whitman, a giant classic roast beef sandwich accompanied by kettle chips and fried oysters. 139 Chartres St., 322-2245, backspacenola.com

Effervescence is a champagne bar that is the city’s perfect date spot. They have over 90 different bottles of sparkling wine and prosecco available. Effervescence serves an exquisite menu that includes Cajun Caviar with crème fraîche and pepper mash potato chips. Try it paired with a Krug Grand Cuvee. 1036 N. Rampart St., 509-7644, nolabubbles.com

Ole Saint, backed by former legendary Saints running back Deuce McAllister, offers Southern coastal cuisine in a New Orleansinspired ambiance. Their 12-ounce Prime Pork Chop comes with molasses glazed sweet potatoes and mustard greens and pairs well with one of their many beers on tap. 132 Royal St., 309-4797, olesaint.com

Buffa’s Bar and Restaurant is a bar, restaurant, and club with a lively atmosphere. It’s located right near the French Quarter and has been named one of the best bars in America. They are open 24 hours a day, and their Reuben Sandwich is known to be among the best in the nation. 1001 Esplanade Ave., 949-0038, buffasbar.com

The Jimani is good for watching any sports game and for a great time with a relaxed atmosphere. The restaurant serves up a variety of options like the “Hang Ova” Burger, topped with bacon, a hot sausage patty, cheese, grilled onions, and a fried egg.

They even serve Jell-O shots. 141 Chartres St., 524-0493, thejimani.com

Parasol’s is the place to be in the Irish Channel. This long-time casual hangout is great, especially for football season and around St. Patrick’s Day. The Roast Beef PoBoy is served with a bag of Zapp’s chips and some say it’s the best one in the city. 2533 Constance St., 302-1543, facebook.com/ ParasolsNOLA

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Rick’s Sporting Saloon is an adult sports bar on Bourbon Street that has a welcoming and warm atmosphere with a great, sexy wait staff. Swing by for the Saints or Pelicans games, and check out the hearty Saloon Burger with your choice of a side and a drink. 522 Bourbon St., 552-2510, rickssaloon.com

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Rivershack Tavern is just yards from the Mississippi Riverfront. It is one of New Orleans’s most unique bars, known for its funky bar stools, live club music, and great bar food. Their Stuffed Crab entree with a house salad is the way to go. Don’t miss T-Bone Tuesdays and Dixie & Ribs Night every Wednesday! 3449 River Rd., 834-4938, therivershacktavern.com

Tracey’s Original Irish Channel Bar is in the heart of the Irish Channel and is home to the biggest and best St. Patrick’s Day party. They have 20 TVs always playing your favorite sports, and a great selection of food and libations. The Fried Oyster PoBoy is amazing, as are the Boudin Balls and Fried Pickles. 2604 Magazine St., 897-5413, traceysnola.com

Shamrock Bar and Grill features some of the best bar games accompanied by live music on Saturday nights with a variety of musical talent. It’s the perfect spot for a group of friends to let loose! If you don’t want to drink on an empty stomach, they also serve an amazing 12-ounce Choice Ribeye. 4133 S. Carrollton Ave., 301-0938, shamrockparty.com

Wit’s Inn is a must when you are in MidCity. They have a bar that is open late-night for great food and specialty drinks, and you can enjoy it all with 15 flatscreen TVs. The Mediterranean Pizza is the perfect bar food.

141 N. Carrollton Ave., 486-1600, witsinn. com

Café

The Tahyo Tavern is a dog-centric lower Decatur Street restaurant with food that will blow you away, and the amazingly cool wait staff will impress you with their knowledge and friendliness. Their Nueske’s Bacon and Triple Cream Brie Cheese Melt is to die for.

Tahyo Tavern will keep your wallet fat and your belly full. 1140 Decatur St., 301-1991, thetahyotavern.com

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Another Broken Egg Café offers a huge menu of breakfast and brunch items on both Magazine Street and Harrison Avenue. Start off your day with a Crab Cake Benedict, or go lighter with their Granola, Fruit, and Quinoa option. And they're all even better with a Bloody Mary. Multiple locations, 3012771, anotherbrokenegg.com

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Biscuits and Buns On Banks is a comfy café in the heart of Mid-City that has become a hotspot for early risers and brunch lovers. USA Today voted their biscuits among the top 10 best. Be sure to try their Pot Roast, served over house potatoes with a fried egg. 4337 Banks St., 504-273-4600, biscuitsandbunsonbanks.com

Café Degas is the oldest Gallic restaurant in New Orleans, with authentic French cuisine that is perfect for impressing that special someone or for a “treat yo self” night.

Everything on their menu will blow your taste buds away. 3127 Esplanade Ave., 9455635, cafedegas.com

Café Amelie boasts some of the city’s best cuisine with a lush atmosphere. People flock here from the all around the area for the delicious food and courtyard setting.

Make sure to try their Oven Roasted Salmon, served with asparagus and horseradish cream. 912 Royal St., 412-8965, cafeamelie.com

Café Navarre is open daily and is conveniently located near Delgado College and City Park. Featuring a friendly staff, this relaxed American eatery in Mid-City serves a delicious Cuban Sandwich. Also, enjoy $5 mimosas with the Navarre special. 800 Navarre St., 483-8828, cafenavarre.com

Café Carmo is a tropically influenced restaurant and bar with flavors from all around the world. They have a variety of dishes like the Tiradito Sashimi—a Peruvian-style sashimi of thinly-sliced daily catch, topped with aji amarillo (yellow chili peppers), yuzu sauce, and canchita.

527 Julia St., 875-4132, cafecarmo.com

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Caffé! Caffé! is a locals’ go-to coffee shop. They have an extensive menu ranging from salads and wraps to grits, eggs, and biscuit sandwiches. Their single espresso shots are actually doubles. Everything is made fresh daily and is good, consistent, and consistently good. Sit down for a meal or take it to go; you’ll love it either way!

Two Metairie locations, caffecaffe.com

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Italian

Flying Pig Café is a new hotspot in the former Kyoto Restaurant location on Prytania Street. Their Caribbean Fried Chicken, served with collard greens, cornbread, and mac and cheese, is outstanding. Stop by this newly opened restaurant for brunch, lunch, dinner, or Happy Hour. 4920 Prytania St., 644-2982, theflyingpigcafe.com

Jimmy J’s Café has been a popular breakfast and brunch joint since its inception in 2011. This funky and delightful restaurant has all your classic breakfast favorites, as well as unusual and delicious dishes like Breakfast Pork Chops, Eggs Creole, and Cinnamon Spiced French Toast. 115 Chartres St., 309-9360, jimmyjscafe.com

Morning Call Coffee Stand is a key player in the bustling coffee culture of New Orleans. Known as “New Orleans’s most famous coffee-drinking place,” it’s a great place to eat and enjoy the scenery. They are famous for their beignets, but also make classic dishes like Crawfish Etouffee.

City Park and Metairie locations. morningcallcoffeestand.com

Petite Amelie is the extension of Café Amelie, offering a smaller, more on-thego take on fresh salads, juices, coffee, light breakfast, assorted pastries, and sandwiches. It is a perfect spot, whether you’re in a hurry and need something to grab and go or want to relax and eat in.

900 Royal St., 412-8065, cafeamelie.com/ petite-amelie

Josephine Estelle is an Italian restaurant in Ace Hotel New Orleans. It’s a Southerninspired eatery that serves homemade pastas, Italian wines, and more. For a special night out, try their Pork Tenderloin dish, served with leek ash yogurt, fennel, figs, and salsa verde. Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet Street, 504-930-3070, josephineestelle.com

Riccobono’s Panola Street Cafe is a lovely little daytime spot that serves delicious and fresh breakfast and lunch, and is conveniently in the heart of Uptown. They have three-egg omelettes, “Hand Pattied Burgers,” Eggs Benedict, and much more.

And you can never go wrong with their Crab Cakes. 7801 Panola St., 314-1810, panolastreetcafe.com

Louisiana Pizza Kitchen Uptown serves delicious Italian cuisine like their ThreeMeat Pizza with Italian and andouille sausage and pepperoni. For over 25 years, Louisiana Pizza Kitchen has blessed the community with Italian comfort food and wine. They also deliver, so you can enjoy their pizzas in the comfort of your own home. 615 S. Carrollton Ave, 866-5900, louisianapizzakitchenuptown.com

The Ruby Slipper now has five different locations in the city, as well as others around the Gulf South. They are a favorite with locals and visitors, and their diner-style atmosphere and excellent food explain their popularity. Try the Peacemaker, which is your choice of any two Eggs Benedict varieties. Multiple locations, 525-9355, therubyslippercafe.com

Mardi Gras Zone will certainly take you by surprise. It looks like a regular corner store on the outside, but step inside and be greeted by a huge selection of ethnic groceries, po-boys, and hot and cold meals. They serve wood-fired brick oven pizza, and the real winner here is their Veggie Pizza. 2706 Royal St., 947-8787, mardigraszone.com

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Pascal’s Manale has been credited with creating BBQ shrimp, and their world-famous version of the dish is made up of shrimp simmered in-shell with butter, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and spices. They also have an extensive menu with some unforgettable oyster options. 1838 Napoleon Ave., 895-4877, pascalsmanale.com

Red Gravy serves excellent Italian food and is also one of the top brunch spots in the city, even making OpenTable’s list of Top 100 Brunches in America. They offer wonderful delicacies like Cannoli Pancakes and Skillet Cakes in their homey CBD location, while also perfecting handmade pasta dishes. 125 Camp St., 561-8844, redgravycafe.com

Reginelli’s Pizzeria has multiple locations with salads, sandwiches, pastas, and pizza that can satisfy any craving. They have a new seafood menu, including a Gumbo Pizza, which is a delicious blend of andouille sausage, shrimp marinated in hot sauce, and pickled okra. Multiple locations, reginellis. com

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Venezia is an indispensable Italian restaurant located on North Carrollton Avenue near Canal Street. Heavily praised pizza is just one option among their amazing Italian food selections. Their Veal Pontchartrain is particularly delicious and is topped with crabmeat, artichokes, mushrooms, green onions, and lemon butter. 134 N. Carrollton Ave., 488-7991, venezianeworleans.com

Felipe’s Mexican Taqueria brings you Mexican favorites made from scratch.

Everything from the traditional guacamole to the al pastor is made in small batches with fresh ingredients. Check out the tostada, pork tamales, or flautas for authentic Mexican fare. And their tacos with a refreshing margarita can’t be beat. Multiple locations, felipestaqueria.com

Middle Eastern

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine has multiple locations in Metairie and Uptown, and is the perfect place to go for any occasion. Their classic Italian menu is packed with so many mouthwatering options, you might have trouble deciding what to get! if you can’t pick one, we recommend the Soft-Shell Crab Duel. Multiple locations, vincentsitaliancuisine.com

Mexican

Carreta’s Grill provides a welcoming environment for families, groups, and date nights, with great service and live music.

Their steak, chicken, and shrimp fajitas are the best and are great accompanied by their freshly made guacamole or Mariachi Fries. If you are searching for Mexican food, try Carreta’s! Multiple locations, carrettasgrillrestaurant.com

Halal Guys is a fast casual restaurant that serves up sandwiches or platters made-toorder, including gyros, chicken, falafel, or the Combo Platter that comes with both gyros and chicken. Whether you choose the sandwich or platter, get it with white sauce and a dash of the spicy sauce. Make sure to check out their new location on Manhattan Boulevard on the Westbank. Multiple locations, thehalalguys.com

Lebanon’s Café has vibrant Middle Eastern dishes like hummus, kebabs, or Rosemary Lamb Chops, which are 16-ounce chops marinated in rosemary, spices, and olive oil.

Their lunch menu includes daily specials at lower prices. Their no-charge BYOB policy ensures a fabulous time! 1500 S. Carrollton Ave., 862-6200, lebanonscafe.com

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Pyramids Café, located within walking distance from Tulane University, features fresh, authentic, and healthy Middle Eastern specialties. They serve some of the best hummus in the city and have numerous dishes under $10, great for eating on a budget. Try their tasty Gyro Plate. 3149 Calhoun St., 8619602, pyramidscafeneworleans.com

Crescent City Brewhouse is the only microbrewery in the French Quarter, serving up delicious modern Louisiana cuisine in a sleek space. Request a table on their balcony for a view of all the action. Make sure to try their Crabmeat Stuffed Shrimp or Oysters Rockefeller Pasta, accompanied by one of their many great beers. 527 Decatur St., 522-0571, crescentcitybrewhouse.com

New Orleans Cuisine

Antoine’s has been giving New Orleans some of its finest Creole cuisine for 176 years. It's a great spot to take out-of-towners and you can grab a drink before your meal in their Hermes Bar. For an exquisite dish, try the Filet de Gulf Poisson Amandine: fried filet of Gulf fish du jour, topped with toasted sliced almonds and a hot butter meuniere sauce. 713 St. Louis St., 581-4422, antoines.com

The Columns Hotel is a perfect blend of modern and classic. The renovated mansion offers a one-of-a-kind drinking and dining experience in the heart of the Garden District.

Enjoy cocktails in the breathtaking Victorian Lounge, or grab a snack from the bistro, like the tasty Grilled Chicken Club. Brunch is available Sundays. 3811 St. Charles Ave., 899-9308, thecolumns.com/dining

Crossroads at House of Blues is the perfect spot for dinner before a show or a night out on the town. With a blend of American and Creole-Cajun cuisine, this eatery is also known for their daily lunch specials, Happy Hour, and Taco Thursdays.

Enjoy the music while eating their Voodoo Oysters. 225 Decatur St., 310-4999, houseofblues.com/neworleans

Joey K’s will have you coming back again for delicious comfort food “like mama used to make.” Come down to the heart of the Garden District to try a plate of Fried Chicken along with a choice of sides to complete your dish. Enjoy the local artwork decorating the walls while you’re at it. 3001 Magazine St., 891-0997, joeyksrestaurant.com

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Traditionally-eclectic dishes from South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia & beyond

Tiraditos

The “Rico”

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Unique Tropical Cocktails!!!

Full Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free and kids menus!

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Local farm-fresh produce, certified sustainable seafood and humanely-raised meats

Mandina’s, which started out as a local Italian grocery in the early 20th century, has been serving up Italian and New Orleans specialties for more than 80 years. Mandina’s has all your favorites like Muffalettas and Fresh Gulf Fish Almandines with French fries. They also have a great bar. 3800 Canal St., 482-9179, mandinasrestaurant.com

Melba’s Old School Po-Boys offers some of the best po-boys in the city. A renowned landmark, Melba’s has a wide selection of authentic New Orleans cuisine, such as hot plate meals, sandwiches, and even breakfast.

Try a daiquiri, and while you’re there, you can even do your laundry in the back.

1525 Elysian Fields Ave. 504-267-7765, eatatmelbas.com

New Orleans Creole Cookery is a great spot to visit when in the French Quarter.

Try the Snapper “Ponchatrain”—pan-seared and topped with sautéed jumbo lump crab meat with a delicate herb hollandaise—and accompanied with Creole green beans and heirloom potatoes. 508 Toulouse St., 5249632, neworleanscreolecookery.com

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The Original Fiorella’s Cafe is always satisfying and worth a drive for lunch or dinner. They are famous for their awardwinning soft-shell crab and fried chicken, and even took part in last year’s Fried Chicken Fest. Fiorella’s has an old family charm that makes you feel right at home. This Gentilly eatery will leave both you and your wallet happily stuffed. 5325 Franklin Ave., 3090352, facebook.com/theoriginalfiorellas

Poppa’s Poor Boys is the perfect option for anyone hungry, whether you are in the mood for seafood or feeling a bit more carnivorous. All the food is cooked to order and the service is fast. Try their amazing po-boys stuffed with everything from fried shrimp and oysters to chicken fried steak.

They also serve spaghetti and meatballs, pork chops, and more. 720 Claiborne Dr., 832-8114

The Praline Connection, located on Frenchmen Street in the Marigny, offers a full menu of soul food and local specialties, from Jambalaya and Meat Loaf to their tasty BBQ Ribs. They’re also famous for their delicious spoon-dripped pralines, made daily. 542 Frenchmen St., 943-3934, pralineconnection.com

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Public Service in the NOPSI Hotel is a dynamic community-gathering place that respects the civic spirit of New Orleans. They create a vibrant dining experience with live entertainment and an impressive menu that includes Steak Frites—a ribeye steak with a kick of flavor, served with fries. 311 Baronne Street, 962-6527, publicservicenola.com

Short Stop Poboys offers one of the largest selections of po-boys in the city.

This is your one-stop shop for po-boys, gumbo, and other satisfying staples. Try the Soft Shell Crab sandwich—either small or king-size—which is a local favorite. Order ahead for pick-up in their drive-thru window!

119 Transcontinental Dr., 885-4572, shortstoppoboysno.com

Seafood

Baru Bistro & Tapas is a small, funky bistro with modern Latin-Caribbean small plates, a relaxed vibe, and sidewalk seating. Some of their best dishes include beef empanadas and a pressed Cubano Sandwich, made with pulled pork, ham, Swiss cheese, and pickles. The Leche de Tigre drink is also highly recommended. 3700 Magazine Street, 895-2225

Briquette puts seafood and coastal cuisine at the center of the dining experience. The restaurant is slated to open by the end of September and will feature a large charcoal grill to highlight the fresh Gulf flavors of Louisiana. A preliminary menu includes a Beer-Battered Pompano, served with cauliflower, lobster butter, and a fennel tartar sauce. 701 South Peters St., facebook.com/briquetteNOLA

Crazy Lobster Bar and Grill is the perfect spot for seafood overlooking the Mississippi River and a great place for family and friends after a day out. Check them out near the Outlet Collection at Riverwalk, enjoy their live music, and try their Boiled Seafood Bucket, served with lobster, snow crabs, shrimp, clams, and mussels. 500 Port of New Orleans #83, 569-3380, thecrazylobster.com

Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant doesn’t mess around when it comes to serving fresh seafood like the Soft-Shell Crab Platter. Stop by in the evening and enjoy one of the few true surf-and-turf dinners in the city. The Bananas Foster Ice Cream Cake is the ideal ending to any meal. 738 Poland Ave., 9439914, jackdempseys.net

Oceana Grill is the go-to place for hungry customers anytime of day and is located just off Bourbon Street. They are open from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m., serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For dinner, try their Mardi Gras Pasta if you’re missing the party flavor of Carnival season. 739 Conti Street, 525-6002, oceanagrill.com

Seaworthy showcases wild-caught and sustainably harvested oysters from American waters—both West Coast and East Coast, if you have a geographical preference.

Their celebrated beverage list offers classic and proprietary cocktails, along with a smart selection of house beers and wines.

630 Carondelet Street, 504-930-3071, seaworthynola.com

Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco combines Latin American and Asian flavors from around the world. Ceviche is Tito's signature dish, and The Ceviche Nikkei—with yellowfin tuna, aji limo, avocado, nori, and sesame— is one of their best. Enjoy your meal with a Latin American cocktail and savor the flavor. 5015 Magazine St, 504-267-7612 titoscevichepisco.com

Vegetarian/Vegan

Don’s Seafood has two locations in Greater New Orleans, serving up delicious Cajun and Creole dishes. A few menu highlights include Boudin Balls, Crawfish Bisque, and the Zydeco Shrimp, which is shrimp in a pepper jelly sauce. Be sure to order a chilled Blood Orange Margarita on the side. Multiple locations, donsseafoodonline.com

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Poseidon is a great seafood restaurant and sushi bar that offers a wide array of sushi, hibachi, and even karaoke! Open six days a week and serving until 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, Poseidon pleases the community with their specialties like the house-specialty Poseidon Roll. 2100 St. Charles Ave., 509-6675, poseidonnola.com

Seed takes your New Orleans comfort food favorites and gives them a delicious, healthy, and creative vegan spin. Their Eggplant Sandwich has pan-fried cornmeal batter and is served with roasted red peppers. There are also raw options and cocktails made with fresh-squeezed juices. 1330 Prytania St., 302-2599, seedyourhealth.com

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stacked potato latke, a crab cake, wilted spinach almandine, sunny-side-up quail eggs, and poblano cream sauce.

3903 Canal St., 504-482-1225, canalstreetbistro.com

Another Broken Egg Cafe

House of Blues Gospel singer Kirk Franklin teamed up with the House of Blues to offer “Gospel Brunch,” a weekly event hosted at House of Blues locations throughout the country. The HOB located on Decatur Street opens its doors to welcome guests for brunch every Sunday at 10 a.m. Enjoy live gospel music performed by local musicians along with an all-you-can-eat buffet, which includes breakfast selections, Southern classics, carving stations, and dessert options.

225 Decatur St., 504-310-4999, houseofblues.com/ neworleans/ gospelbrunch

Brunching NOLA New Orleans's Great Brunch Spots

By Camille Barnett

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hether you are a night owl and late riser or just one who has an equivalent admiration for both breakfast and lunch food, brunch is a favorite for everyone. The world is aware that New Orleans is deserving of the “best” title in many culinary categories, and brunch is no exception. From Uptown to Mid-City, Downtown to the Marigny, and everywhere in between, NOLA is filled with some of the best brunch spots.

Toast With a name like “Toast,” it’s no surprise that this breakfast spot with two locations (one Uptown and one near the Fair Grounds) specializes in breads, jams, custards, curds, and other toast-related goodies which are made in-house daily. In addition to delicious baked goods, visitors can select from a list of savory items such as the hangar steak with eggs, tarragon aioli, and lyonnaise potatoes, or sweeter items like the chocolate, marshmallow crème, and

graham cracker crepe.

5433 Laurel St., 504-267-3260; 1845 Gentilly Blvd., 504-351-3664, toastneworleans.com Canal Street Bistro Located in the 3000 block of Canal Street—the heart of Mid-City—Canal Street Bistro offers an upscale brunch each Saturday and Sunday. The menu is filled with jaw-dropping, uniquely crafted delicacies such as the Bayou St. John, a dish with a

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Riccobono’s Panola St. Café Open daily from 7 a.m. till 2 p.m., Panola St. Café is a quaint neighborhood restaurant located Ho Uptown near Tulane u se University, on the corner of B lues of Panola and Burdette Streets. Its menu features traditional breakfast favorites such as a variety of Eggs Benedict options, threeegg omelets, pancakes, and Belgian waffles. Make sure you check out their Pollo Rancheros, a plate layered with corn tortillas, black beans, salsa, grilled chicken, melted cheddar, sour cream, and guacamole. Yum! 7801 Panola St., 504-314-1810, panolastreetcafe.com The Ruby Slipper Café Founded here in 2008, the award-winning chain has five locations throughout New Orleans (in Mid-City, the Marigny, the

Central Business District, Uptown, and the French Quarter), along with three locations in other cities. Ruby Slipper is a NOLA favorite known for putting a unique twist on brunch items. For example, the Catfish Coubion is thin fried catfish over a French bread crostini, with sautéed spinach, tomatoes, artichoke hearts, and pork tasso, all topped with a Creole tomato courtbouillon. Drooling yet?

Multiple locations, therubyslippercafe. net Coulis Chef James Leeming, former chef of Commander’s Palace and Dick and Jenny’s, along with his wife, Heather, opened Coulis Café in 2009.

Although James passed away unexpectedly about two years after the restaurant’s opening, Heather continues to operate the Uptown establishment.

Offered daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. are affordable and satisfying breakfast and lunch items.

Their Eggs Benicio, h which consists of two c n jalapeno-cheddar corn B ru cakes topped with pulled G osp el pork, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce, can be enjoyed for just under $10.

3625 Prytania St., 504-304-4265, coulisnolas.com/breakfast Surrey’s Café and Juice Bar At Surrey’s, you can start your brunch off with a fresh-squeezed juice blended from ingredients such as kale, carrots, apples, pineapples, grapefruit, and ginger. Their menu also features delicious picks such as the Bananas Foster French Toast, a New Orleans-style French toast stuffed with banana cream cheese and topped with powdered sugar and a Bananas Foster

Canal Street Bistro

sauce made with rum, brown sugar, and butter. Surrey’s has two locations: Uptown and in the Lower Garden District.

1418 Magazine St., 504-524-3828; 4807 Magazine St., 504-895-5757; surreysnola.com Apolline Located in the 4000 block of Magazine Street, this shotgun home was renovated into a dining venue that offers brunch Tuesdays thru

Fridays from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Who doesn’t love a good mimosa or Bloody Mary? At Apolline, bottomless ones can be had alongside satisfying items from the menu, like the Confit Duck Bowl or the smoked pork enchiladas.

4729 Magazine St., 504-894-8881, apollinerestaurant.com

Apolline

Atchafalaya Located Uptown near the corner of Louisiana and Magazine Streets in a building

that originated as a grocery store and later a bar, there now stands a restaurant with a rep (a good one): Atchafalaya.

The sophisticated establishment offers a brunch menu loaded with traditional New Orleans dishes such as Shrimp and Grits and the Etouffee Omelette. Make sure to also visit their Bloody Mary bar!

901 Louisiana Ave., 504-8919626, atchafalayarestaurant. com High Hat On Freret Street—a strip filled with establishments of culinary delights—is High Hat, offering brunch on Saturdays

and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Patrons can select from a list of brunch items to be paired with two eggs for $11. The brunch menu includes dishes such as Chicken Atchafalaya and Waffles, Cornmeal Pancakes with Apple-Smoked Bacon, Corned Beef Hash with Rye Toast, and Roasted Pork Debris over Creamy Grits with Poblano Sauce.

4500 Freret St., 504-754-1336, highhatcafe.com Jimmy J’s Are you a slow riser, but still want breakfast or brunch when you rise? No worries, head to the French Quarter and pop into Jimmy J’s. They offer a variety of breakfast items all day from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. on weekdays and until 10 p.m. on weekends. Make sure you check out their French Toast Monte Cristo, a brunch spin on an American classic, which has shaved ham and American cheese.

115 Chartres St., 504-309-9360, jimmyjscafe.com -

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Café Navarre Another Broken Egg Café can possibly be attributed to the Located in Mid-City, Another Broken Egg Café homemade pasta, the local Café Navarre continues is a brunch food chain ingredients used, and to be a delicious and with two locations in New the passed-down family reliable Orleans: one Uptown and recipes closely followed brunch spot. another in Lakeview. by the bistro’s staff.

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Café Amelie Located in the French Quarter in the 150-yearold Princess of Monaco Courtyard and Carriage House on Royal Street, Café Amelie provides a blissful and romantic venue to enjoy brunch.

The menu is just as pleasing as the location, with New Orleans and Cajun favorites such as Chicken Andouille Gumbo and Cajun Country Poutine.

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912 Royal St., 504.412.8965, cafeamelie. com Café Degas Café Degas: another restaurant likely to land on a local’s “favorites” list. As the longest-running French restaurant in New Orleans, they have built quite the reputation. Located on Esplanade Avenue near City Park, they provide a charming, intimate environment. Café Degas offers brunch every Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Their brunch menu includes dishes like their L’Omelette de Crevettes au Fine Herbes (an omelet with shrimp, mushrooms, Applewood smoked bacon, and herbs) and $5 mimosas.

3127 Esplanade Ave., 504-945-5635, cafedegas.com

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Tito's Ceviche & Pisco

Brennan's next generation … Serving up the Creole classics we all know and love, Ted Brennan's Decatur Restaurant opened recently in the French Quarter.

With checkered tile floors and Brennan's signature pink-colored walls, the new eatery feels familiar, though with a much more casual atmosphere. Executive Chef Lazone Randolph is once again leading the kitchen and offering dishes like Maude's Seafood Gumbo, turtle soup, Oysters Rockefeller, Shrimp & Tasso Grits Owen, and Bananas Foster Blangé.

309 Decatur St., 504-525-7877, tedbrennansdecatur.com

Food News

By Kim Ranjbar

Everything's popping up bagels? … The owners of Artz Bagelz, a well-liked bagel shop that closed its just-off-Magazine location over three years ago, have announced a sporadic return. In early September, Art and Kim Zacharczyk began a weekend morning pop-up in the Riverbend,

running out of Stepping Stone Kitchen on Dublin Street. They offer everything from sesame to asiago cheese bagels and plenty of “schmear”—Creole veggie, scallion, and honey almond cream cheese. You may also start to see their fabulous fare at local farmers markets. Keep up on the pop-ups

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Culinary excursions … Get a taste of Peru at Tito's Ceviche & Pisco, a brandnew restaurant on Magazine Street.

Located in the building that once housed Sue Zemanick's Ivy (among others), Tito's is a collaboration between owners Juan and Tatiana Lock and sous chef Nanyo Dominquez Cervantes, formerly of Johnny Sanchez. The menu features traditional Peruvian dishes like “Arroz con Pato,” or duck confit; “Lomo Saltado” with tenderloin tips and crispy potatoes; and “Pescado a lo Macho,” a pan-seared Gulf fish served with mixed seafood and aji cream sauce. Tito's also offers cocktails from their pisco bar like the Pisco 100, or a Lychee or Cucumber Mule.

5015 Magazine St., 504-267-7612, titoscevichepisco.com Only soup for you! … Launched by Kanno's owner and chef Hidetoshi “Elvis” Suzuki and chef Allen Nguyen of Bayou Hot Wings, Nomiya is an exciting new ramen shop on Magazine Street housed in the space formerly occupied by Rivista. The tiny, Zac Maras-painted spot is a mostly ramen-only bar with steaming bowls of bliss dubbed Tonkatsu, Geki-kera (“too spicy”) or Kuro (“black”) ramen. But you can also score pork buns with Japanese mayo, chilled edamame served with a citrusy yuzu sauce, and assorted daily mochi for dessert.

4226 Magazine St., nomiyaramen.com Keepin' it kosher … Talented local chef Daniel Esses, owner of Three Muses and Esses Foods NOLA, recently launched a new kosher restaurant inside Tulane University's Hillel House named Rimon, the Hebrew word for pomegranate. Featuring a menu specializing in farm-to-table, healthy kosher cuisine, Rimon offers ethnically eclectic dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner like New York-style bagels, Korean fried chicken wings, falafel sandwiches with fresh pita, beef empanadas, and griddled Gulf fish tacos.

912 Broadway St., 504-232-0758, rimontulanehillel.com Fall pig-out … The first-ever New Orleans Cochon de Lait Festival kicks off on Saturday, October 21, at Palmer Park. Benefiting the

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Citizens Organization for Police Support 2 (COPS2), the family-friendly festival will be free and open to the public and feature local food and art vendors, live music, and even a cracklin' contest. The inaugural festival is offering a ton of local food from folks like Love at First Bite, Chef Linda The Ya-KaMein Lady, Jacques-Imo's, and Plum Street Snowballs. It's a prime opportunity to pig out on pork and enjoy music from local artists like Rockin' Dopsie Jr., Soul Rebels, and Big Sam's Funky Nation. nolaporkfest.com Saying goodbye … Summertime seems to hit the restaurant industry the hardest, and it's with a heavy heart and a long, sad sigh that we say goodbye to another batch of beloved eateries. Most recently, Chef Duke LoCicero announced the closing of his opera-esque spot Café Giovanni. Open for 26 years, this French Quarter restaurant has long been the destination for “New World Italian cuisine” and LoCicero's signature dishes like the colorful Oysters Giovanni and Southern-Style Louisiana Voodoo Shrimp.

Citing a “changing industry” for a slump in regular customers, Café Giovanni could also be a victim of the disruptive roadwork on Bourbon Street that's progressing at a snail's pace and the national media spotlight on street crime in New Orleans. Regardless, we're sad to see them go.

Another mar to the city's food landscape

came when GG's Dineorama announced their closure in late August. Originally Gott Gourmet, the hotter-than-hot lunch and brunch spot was opened on the corner of Eighth and Magazine Streets almost 10 years ago by Chef David Gotter. We'll definitely miss their most popular dishes, like the St. Patty's Day Massacre sandwich, mac 'n' cheese, and Chicago-style hot dog.

GGoodbye!

We're also saying a bittersweet farewell to Blue Frog Chocolates, who have been in business on Magazine Street for 17 years.

Owners Rick Streiffer and his wife Anne have decided that the time has come to move on, so we're forced to say adieu to the chocolate frogs in blue and all the other sweet memories we have of this local chocolatier.

Finally, fairly recent newcomer Part & Parcel, created by talented local chef and restaurateur Phillip Lopez, has closed its doors. But in this story, there's a light at the end of a dark, diner-less tunnel. Cooks Mike Mericle and Marie Guevara have taken over the location and opened an Italianinfluenced, neighborhood deli and bar dubbed Aglio, the Italian word for garlic.

Considered a “continuation” of Part & Parcel, Aglio will keep many of the more popular sandwiches on the menu with the addition of more salads and several family recipes.

611 O'Keefe Ave., facebook.com/ AglioNola

Aglio

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Ba Chi Canteen's Vermicelli Bowl

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Bowl in One!

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ith workdays getting longer and lunch hours getting shorter (especially a lunch “hour” that only lasts 30 minutes!), it's more important than ever to ensure we are getting all the nutrients we need to keep moving along. While shakes and smoothies may have all of the nutrition we require, they tend to lack a few important details like substance, texture, flavor, and the ability to satiate. While the point of my argument is not to diminish the fruity convenience of a smoothie, there are certainly heartier methods of getting the foodstuffs you need without sacrificing the above qualities. My answer?

The food bowl.

Vegetables, grains, protein—everything you need is right there in one bowl, and all you have to do is shovel it in and hope you make it to your post-lunch meeting on time. Even if you can't finish off your beatific, bountiful bowl in the short moments you are allotted to eat, you can cover it up, stick it in the fridge, and pull it out after your boardroom boredom finally draws to an end.

By Kim Ranjbar

Not only that, I'm willing to bet that said bowl will taste twice as nice after it's sat for a bit, letting all the scrumptious flavors mix and mingle … just like those leftovers you forgot at home from last night's dinner that you intended to bring to work the next day.

Over on the corner of Magazine and Louisiana, you can discover and delight in one of the city's newest spots for food bowl fanatics, Poke Loa. The poke craze sweeping the nation has at last reached the Deep South. Made with a combination of rice and raw fish like tuna and salmon, and topped with items like crab, seaweed salad, tobiko, baby cucumbers, avocado, ponzu, sesame oil, and so much more, one could conceivably make a different bowl of poke every time one ordered. The folks behind Poke Loa are also about to open a second and third location for their popular restaurant, on Metairie Road and Downtown on Girod Street. Plus, they're on Waitr, so your penchant for poke can be placated no matter where you are in the GNO. Well-patronized by denizens of the Riverbend neighborhood, Ba Chi Canteen is

a great go-to for mouthwatering, affordable phenom “in the bag,” there are definitely lunch items that are as sumptuous as other worthwhile options that don't fall they are satiating. Though Vietnamese under this category. Take, for instance, restaurants all over town offer a version of the grain bowls offered Downtown in the Ba Chi's vermicelli bowl, none have their South Market District at The Daily Beet. signature, uber-crispy egg rolls that I can Try the “Morning” bowl any old time with never resist adding to the mix. My favorite quinoa, egg, avocado, black beans, corn, combination includes the usual rice noodle and cotija, or sink your spoon (or fork?) into salad with cabbage, shredded lettuce, a “Wellness” filled with the nutty flavor of carrots, and rice noodles, topped warm wild rice, tangy goat cheese, with charbroiled pork, crispy toasted pistachios, grapes, pork egg rolls, and all the currants, arugula, and Vietnamese fish sauce I sesame balsamic dressing. can get my hands on. It's At no more than $10.50 a meal I usually can't per dish, you can eat manage to finish in one your bowl and have sitting and all for less your smoothie too, than $10. like a Sweet Mint with Doing a roundup pineapple and coconut on food bowls wouldn't or a Chocoheaven with be complete without banana, raw cacao, sea including the ubiquitous salt, and agave.

Korean dish bibimbap, and Finally, set your sights on more particularly, the dolsot a more Southern-type saucer Refuel bibimbap found at Little Korea at Refuel. Known for breakfast BBQ. Prepared and served in a hot stone and brunch, this spot in the Riverbend bowl (a dolsot), the dish includes things on Hampson Street features a “build-yourlike zucchini, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, own” grit bowl where you can add as many cucumbers, kimchi, rice, and your choice or as few ingredients as your little heart of marinated beef, spicy chicken, pork loin, desires. Top a bowl of creamy corn grits short rib, or tofu with a raw egg served on with things like roasted red peppers, fresh top that cooks from the heat of the bowl. avocado, thick-cut bacon, spicy andouille, They also offer several flavors of patbingsu, spinach, eggs (any style), feta, ham, cheddar, a Korean “sno-ball,” that is as tasty as it is and more. Even if you put literally everything enormous. Be prepared to share... they have on your great big ol' bowl-o-grits, Though it's rather obvious that Asian and it still wouldn't cost you more than $16. But Polynesian cooks already have the food bowl how hungry are you, really?

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The Oyster Shell Recycling Program was started in June of 2014, and since that time, the CRCL has managed to gather almost 3,000 tons of oyster shells from New Orleans restaurants.

That’s the equivalent of a quarter of the weight of the Eiffel Tower, or the weight of a thousand giraffes.

Come Shell or High Water Oyster Shell Recycling Along Louisiana’s Coastline

By Kathy Bradshaw Photos by Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana

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ysters Rockefeller. Oysters Royale. Oyster dressing. Panko-crusted oysters over bibb lettuce with a champagne vinaigrette…

New Orleans loves her oysters. Loves them a million times over, as millions of oysters are served every year in New Orleans restaurants and residences. And the city loves them in so many ways—on the half shell, roasted, chargrilled, doused in your favorite sauce…

But if there’s one thing that might taste even better than hot sauce on that fried oyster po-boy, it’s a little dollop of saving the world. Starting with our own state of Louisiana.

So, volunteer. Raise money for charity. Drive a Prius.

Or, just eat oysters.

Thanks to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL)’s Oyster Shell Recycling Program, you can join the ranks of do-gooders and Good Samaritans by simply stuffing your face with oysters. Rather than, say, sweating it out in the hot sun picking up trash beside the I-10, you can pick up a worthwhile cause by simply sitting back and slurping oysters in a posh dining room of one of New Orleans’s finest restaurants.

The CRCL, who promotes the motto, “Once you shuck ‘em, don’t just chuck ‘em!”, collects discarded oyster shells from local restaurants and recycles them, turning them

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into new oyster reefs built along the Louisiana coastline.

We all know the troubles of coastal erosion. Louisiana is washing away—at a rate of about a football field’s worth of land every hour, according to the CRCL website. In fact, we are losing land faster than anywhere else in the country.

But the CRCL is working to stop that. The Oyster Shell Recycling Program was started in June of 2014, and since that time, the CRCL has managed to gather almost 3,000 tons of oyster shells from New Orleans restaurants. That’s the equivalent of a quarter of the weight of the Eiffel Tower, or the weight of a thousand giraffes. Last year, 1.7 million pounds (approximately 850 tons) of these recycled shells were used to create a half-mile-long reef in Biloxi Marsh, designed to counteract the erosive effects of waves and storm surge on the diminishing coastline.

The next reef to be built is planned for 2019 in Barataria Basin in Creole Bay. The CRCL has already begun collecting truckloads of oyster shells in preparation.

The oyster shells and the reefs they form have many benefits. Not only do they help sustain our coastlines against erosion, improve water quality, and allow for crucial research, they also provide a habitat for fish and other wildlife, including the oysters themselves. Oysters shack up and form happy mollusk communities around these reefs, and baby oysters use the discarded shells

Participating restaurants include: Arnaud’s, Borgne, Bourbon House, Cooter Brown’s, Desire, Drago’s, Elysian Seafood, Pêche, Red Fish Grill, Remoulade, Restaurant R'evolution, Tracey's & Two Girls One Shuck

of older generations of bivalves to set up residence where they can grow into tasty morsels for you to eat. So, go ahead, eat oysters. Recycle the shells. By doing so, you’ll help create even more oysters to eat. It’s the circle of life in an oysterhungry world.

And, with the state of Louisiana as the top producer of oysters in the U.S— producing a third of all the oysters in the country—these oyster reefs are also a huge boost to the local and state economy. In fact, of all the oysters eaten in the nation, 70 percent (or 1.3 million tons annually) come from Louisiana. In other words, our state produces 45 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty in oysters every year! That’s a lot of oyster

shells to be recycled.

Standing atop a huge mountain of recycled oyster shells in Buras, Louisiana, Hillary Collis, the former Restoration Program Director for the CRCL, explained, “We experience what we call a shell deficit, in that about 60 percent of shell that is removed from our coast is not returned to help build and sustain future oyster reefs.” Instead of completing their roundtrip journey back to the Gulf again, most of these shells end up thrown in the trash and dumped into landfills, where they do no one any good. Which is what the CRCL is trying to avoid by getting local restaurants involved in amassing shells—100 percent of which will be brought back home to Louisiana waters.

There are currently 13 restaurants who participate in the Oyster Recycling Program—from Arnaud’s to Pêche to oyster experts Drago’s—with more restaurants sure to jump on the shellrecycling bandwagon soon. The CRCL makes it easy for restaurants to take part in the program by providing 35-gallon plastic oyster shell recycling bins to every participating restaurant and then picking up the full bins five days a week. The organization is actively recruiting more oyster-centric institutions (restaurants, shucking houses, seafood processors) to join their program, and hopes to eventually spread the oyster love beyond New Orleans to Baton Rouge and other cities. The world is their oyster.

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Jake Palmer, Senior Director of Operations at Acme Oyster House, one of the restaurants involved with the Oyster Recycling Program, said, “We were excited to get started with the program, because we feel like there’s a big responsibility on the restaurants that use oyster shell stock to encourage the sustainability of that industry. By separating that shell out and putting them into the cans and having the CRCL come pick them up, they’re being repurposed and used to help rebuild the coast.”

And just in case eating tasty “ersters” seems too easy and painless to feel like you’re making a difference, you can also step up your oyster activism to full-on volunteerism. The CRCL is always looking for volunteers to help prepare oyster shells for their use in the reef. Since 2015, over 400 volunteers have lent their shellprep skills to ready over 260 tons of oyster shells (65 times the weight of a hippo) for their final resting place in new reefs.

Never underestimate the power of the oyster. Besides being renowned for their ability to induce feelings of love and sexual prowess as an aphrodisiac, produce the occasional pearl, and provide shells that are an excellent source of calcium and great material for artsy/ crafty folks (as in homemade oyster shell Christmas ornaments, ashtrays, and candleholders), oysters are also especially hearty and industrious critters. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. That’s enough water to fill 300 Starbucks “venti” coffee cups or nearly three beer kegs. And soon, oysters just might help save our depleting coastline.

To put it another way, oysters mean good food, good sex, good teeth, good jewelry, and, just maybe, good coastlines.

But only with your help. So, what are you waiting for? Go on, give ‘em shell.

For more information on the Oyster Shell Recycling Program, go to crcl.org.

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The Runaway Success of Freezy Street

By Rick Swenson

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reezy Street is on a roll. If you haven’t seen them on the local news or heard about them through friends, Freezy Street is a brand-new rolled ice cream store located on 2633 St. Claude Ave. For almost the entire opening day on July 15, Freezy Street had lines out the door, and business has not slowed since. It seems like everyone in the city and beyond is trying to get their hands on these delicious treats.

A huge part of Freezy Street’s success is thanks to the visual appeal of watching the rollers make the ice cream from scratch. To do this, they take a simple dairy base—no stabilizers or preservatives necessary—and pour it on a cold pan that sits at a temperature of -20 degrees Fahrenheit. They then add any

Photos by Zach Ranson other ingredients you want to flavor the ice cream, mash it up to mix the flavors, spread it out into an even square, and roll it up. This whole process takes about three minutes.

This is why there is sometimes a wait for the ice cream; with three cold pans, the orders can pile up on a busy day.

But trust and believe that the wait is worth it. Making ice cream on the spot with fresh ingredients is not only a cool sight, it’s also delicious.

Owners Fran LaMagna and Adam Enterkin first got the idea while visiting New York, where Fran is from.

Once Fran’s sister introduced her to rolled ice cream, she immediately fell in love and knew she had to bring it to New Orleans. To give some context on where the food trend began, rolled ice—also known as stir-fried ice cream—originated in Thailand, where it

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is sold by street vendors. It only popped up around 2009 and did not become widely popular until 2011 or 2012 when it started spreading to neighboring countries. By 2015, news had spread about rolled ice cream through viral videos.

The inception and growth of Freezy Street has been remarkably fast. Fran and Adam had been working as pedicabbers and saving money for the past couple of years, but they did not even decide to start the business until this past Christmas. They ordered the machine as soon as they were back from Christmas vacation and then started going around to different events in the city selling as a pop-up. They were regulars at the Decatur Street art market, which created considerable buzz with

tourists, as well as at Jazz in the Park events, which garnered them local fans. Many of these people soon became regulars, and the word of mouth began to spread from there.

From the beginning, Fran and Adam created sharable videos showing the ice cream-rolling process to get people interested. Fran says this would get about 10 to 15 people to their pop-up on any given day. But this was nothing compared to the crowd the opening day video created.

Fran and Adam set up a $50 gift card reward for anybody who shared the video on Facebook, and this led to the video being shared close to 4,000 times. As a result, hundreds of people showed up to the grand opening. The positive word of mouth has kept up, and subsequently, so have the

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crowds. Adam has been pleasantly surprised at how big the crowds have been, while Fran had a feeling the shop would take off. But even she admits she did not expect it to be as big as it is.

Fran came up with everything that is on the menu herself by experimenting in her kitchen. There are a few classics thrown in there: The Cookie Monster, for example, which mixes an Oreo with the base. But there are other funkier flavors, like the Sweet and Salty, which is caramel, pretzels, and Himalayan sea salt; and the Key Lime, which mixes limes and a graham cracker.

Fran also created the vegan base herself, which consists of almond milk and coconut cream. For all of their future creations, Fran and Adam are committed to thinking

outside of the box for new and different ways to make ice cream, snowballs, and how to combine the two. There are plans to bring soft serve into the mix, but at the moment, they are brainstorming ways to make that more exciting than simply chocolate and vanilla.

What makes Freezy Street so charming is its homey feel. Fran and Adam built the business on their own from the ground up, including everything you see in the store (and the name, which came from repeatedly hearing the song “Easy Street” on The Walking Dead). From the fresh ingredients, to the inviting atmosphere, to the visual experience, there’s no better time to check out New Orleans’s most popular new ice cream shop.

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"One of the Greatest Rappers Alive" Jay-Z Set to Perform His 4:44 Tour on November 9 at the Smoothie King Center

By Emil Flemmon "We can change people through conversation, not through censorship.”

–Jay-Z We’re often taught by spiritual leaders from words of the “Good Book” that we should always speak things into existence.

It might be safe to say that Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z, definitely has fulfilled that. His “conversations” with fans through his music have been igniting thought-provoking concepts since his debut album Reasonable Doubt.

From the Marcy Projects of BedfordStuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York, to being listed as number two on Forbes’s “The Richest in Hip Hop” list of 2017, and now a father three times over— it looks like Jay-Z has one plentiful resume. In the eyes of fans and spectators, he just might have it all.

Rolling Stone listed Jay-Z as “one of the greatest rappers alive,” and whether you agree with that or not, you’d have to give him credit for his work ethic, which happens to parallel that of his superstar wife, Beyoncé Knowles.

His musicality has somehow managed to create hits using R&B classics from the 80s, Broadway gem tunes, and features that have delivered some one-liners repeated generationally. That success has generated 11 number one-charting albums.

Depending on how it’s perceived, JayZ’s life may be considered the “American dream” or some version of it. His humble beginnings included being abandoned by his father while still a young child, shooting his own brother in the shoulder

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for allegedly stealing jewelry in 1982, and selling crack on the streets of New York.

Those circumstances have given way to poetic narratives in his music and have translated into a personal design of success for the rapper. East Coast rapper Jaz-O met Jay-Z during his time of drug dealing. That meeting eventually led Jay-Z to record songs in 1989 titled “The Originators” and “Hawaiian Sophie.”

Not to be confused with Jaz-O, Jay-Z claims his rap moniker originated from his childhood nickname, “Jazzy.” Jay-Z would soon encounter who he deemed his mentor, Big Daddy Kane. A young Jay-Z can be heard on the single “Cut and Prove,” which came out in 1994.

In 1996, Jay-Z and longtime neighborhood friends Kareem Burke and Damon Dash formed Roc-A-Fella Records.

That label gave birth to Jay’s Reasonable Doubt album, which is his lowest-charting album to date. The album chronicled his life as a drug dealer and is considered a staple in the hip hop community for its raw revelations, despite its unpretentious success in sales.

According to a backstory, Jay-Z wanted to reward Jaz-O for his helpful maneuvers by signing him to Roc-A-Fella, but Jaz allegedly found CEO Dash to be untrustworthy for business. This would later be one of the factors leading to the dissolution of Jay-Z’s and Dash’s friendship.

In the coming years, Dash would speak openly that Roc-A-Fella fell apart, partly, due to Jay-Z’s departure. That departure clearly led Jay to “greener pastures” that solidified him as a bona fide rap mogul.

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After Reasonable Doubt came the 1997 release of In My Lifetime, Vol.1. This would create a musical union between fellow mogul and Bad Boy producer P. Diddy and the late Notorious B.I.G. It stood on the single “I Know What Girls Like.” The platinum album did help to raise Jay-Z’s profile and landed him at number three on Billboard.

It wasn’t until 1998 that Jay would garner his first U.S. number-one album: Vol.2…

Hard Knock Life. With the infectious single, “Hard Knock Life” from the Broadway musical Annie, Jay-Z not only had his first hit on his hands, but the album gave him commercial success. Did we mention the album went five times platinum in the U.S.?

It surely did!

Right around this time, rumors began to swirl that Jay-Z was possibly courting Knowles of the then-active group Destiny’s Child. Those rumors would eventually see the duo make magic musically, including their 2002 collaboration of “Bonnie & Clyde.” Other hits would follow in the years to come on the couple’s future solo and joint tours.

Despite his commercial success, Jay would once again have to confront law enforcement over the alleged stabbing of music producer Lance Rivera at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan in 1999. He pled guilty to the stabbing and was sentenced to three years’ probation. That same year, he dropped Vol 3…Life and Times of S. Carter. It featured production from the likes of Timbaland, Swizz Beatz, Irv Gotti, and more. “Big Pimpin’,” featuring UGK, became a summer smash on urban and

pop airwaves all over.

Next on Jay-Z’s solo discography would be 2000’s The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, then 2001’s The Blueprint, which continued his commercial success with both debuting at number one. His first collaborative album with R. Kelly, The Best of Both Worlds, would later be released before his next solo effort, The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse; both albums were released in 2002. Jay’s next six albums, including 4:44, would all debut at number one.

His 4:44 Tour will make a stop in New Orleans on November 9 at the Smoothie King Center beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster and a host of other ticket venues. His promotion of his 13th studio album is allegedly a response to Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed album Lemonade.

With his musical persona on display for the world to see, including dealing with momentary setbacks, handling business affairs, and being a husband and father, Jay-Z still carries himself with an upgraded level of class that has ascended with age.

Beyoncé said it best on the 2006 release of “Upgrade U,” which featured Jay, “I hear you be the block, but I'm the lights that keep the streets on.” Jay-Z has proven to not only be “the block,” but to have staying power to keep the lights on in the hip hop community.

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MUSICCALENDAR Maison - Royal Street Winding Boys + Jazz Vipers + Steve Lands Kota Band Maple Leaf - Gravitones Morning Call - Krewe du Two Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Lars Edegran and Topsy Chapman w/ Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel Rock ‘n’ Bowl - the Yat Pack SideBar NOLA - James Singleton and Karl “Pickles” Kummerle Snug Harbor - Delfeayo Marsalis and Uptown Jazz Orchestra Spotted Cat - Antoine Diel and the New Orleans Power Misfi ts Three Keys - SONO Presents the Shape of Jazz to Come Three Muses - Schatzy Tropical Isle Original - Late As Usual

BigSam'sFunkyNation Big Sam’s Funky Nation will be one of the many artists appearing at the second annual Fried Chicken Fest. Enjoy your fried chicken while grooving to Big Sam’s mix of funk, rock, and jazz. Sun., Sept. 24. 5:30 p.m., Woldenberg Park, friedchickenfestival.com Monday, September 18 Bacchanal - Raphael Bas Banks Street Bar - Adam Crochet’s Mid City Jam and Hang Blue Nile - Jeff Chaz, MOJO Brass Band Bombay Club - David Boeddinghaus Buff a’s - Arsene DeLay, Antoine Diel Chickie Wah Wah - Justin Molaison Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - John Boutte, Soul Brass Band Dragon’s Den - Monday Night Swing feat.

Gentilly Stompers Little Big Band Funky Pirate - Willie Lockett Band Gasa Gasa - Sleeping Lessons, Dusty, Tupelo, Gools Hi-Ho Lounge - Bluegrass Pickin’ Party House of Blues - GRIEVES Jazz Playhouse - the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band Joy Theater - Two Door Cinema Club Kerry Irish Pub - Roy Gele Lafi tte's Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Maison - Chicken and Waffl es, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses Maple Leaf - George Porter Jr. Trio Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras Orpheum Theater - Ice Pit: the Accidentals Preservation Hall - Preservation Jazz Masters feat. Leroy Jones Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band Southport hall - Overkill, Crowbar, Havok, Black Fast Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys Three Muses - Bart Ramsey Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Cajun Drifters Tuesday, September 19 Bombay Club - Josh Paxton Blue Nile - Waterseed Buff a’s - Tacos, Tequila, & Tiaras w/ Vanessa Carr Chickie Wah Wah - Jamey St. Pierre Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat

d.b.a. Dinosaurchestra, Treme Brass Band Funky Pirate - Blues Masters feat. Big Al Hi-Ho Lounge - Plastic Picnic + Killer Dale House of Blues - P.O.D. + Alien Ant Farm + Powerflo Howlin’ Wolf - Comedy Beast Jazz Playhouse - Nayo Jones Experience Joy Theater - 2 Chainz + Young Dolph Kerry Irish Pub - Jason Bishop Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Maison - Jonathan Bauer Quintet + Gregory Agid Maple Leaf - Rebirth Brass Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Latin Night SideBar NOLA - Simon Berz and Brad Walker Snug Harbor - Stanton Moore Trio Spotted Cat - Smoking Time Jazz Three Muses - Messy Cookers Tropical Isle Original - Jay B. Elston Band Wednesday, September 20 Ace Hotel - SONO presents The Shape of Jazz to Come with Cliff Hines & G. Maxwell Zemanovic, jazz, Preservation Hall AfroPunk Mixtape with Saul Williams +sg, jazz Blue Nile - New Orleans Rhythm Devils , New Breed Brass Brand Buff a’s - Open Mic Night w/ Nattie Sanchez Chickie Wah Wah - Mike Doussan Band Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Tin Men, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and the Roadmasters Dragon’s Den - Reggae Night Hi-Ho Lounge - Progression Music Series Howlin’ Wolf - Think Less, Hear More: Improvisational Band to Movies House of Blues - Jet Lounge Jazz Playhouse - Glen David Andrews Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper Little Gem Saloon - Mason Ruff ner

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Thursday, September 21 Ace Hotel - Dreamstates Bombay Club - Tom Hook Duo Blue Nile - Micah McKee and Little Maker, reggae Night with DJ T-ROY presented by Bayou International Blue Nile Balcony Room - Higher Heights Reggae Band Buff a’s - Gumbo Cabaret, Tom Saunders and the HOTCATS Bullet’s - Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Chickie Wah Wah - John “Papa” Gros Band Crazy Lobster - the Spanish Plaza 3 Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Sarah Quintana & the Miss River Band , Andrew Duhon Dragon’s Den - Soundclash Funky Pirate - Blues Masters feat. Big Al Generations Hall - SABOTAGE Beasties Tribute, Stormy Gayle, 610 Stompers Live Howlin’ Wolf - Comedy Gumbeaux Jazz Playhouse - Brass-A-Holics Kerry Irish Pub - Dave Hickey Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Le Bon Temps Roule - Soul Rebels Little Gem Saloon - Cecile Savage Maison - Good for Nothin’ Band + G and the Swinging Gypsies + Dysfunktional Bone Maple Leaf - Johnny Vidacovich Trio NOSH - Helen Gillet and Luke Brechtelsbauer Nunemaker Auditorium - Jazz Underground presents Blue Train at 60 Ogden Museum of Southern Art - Ogden After Hours Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Duke Heitger w/ Crescent City Joymakers Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Louis Ford Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Lil Nathan and the Zydeco Big Tymers Snug Harbor - Dmitri Matheny Quartet Spotted Cat - Jumbo Shrimp Three Keys - Preservation Hall Afropunk Mixtape w/ Saul Williams Three Muses - Paul Kemnitz Tropical Isle Bourbon - Debi and the Deacons Vaughan’s - Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet Friday, September 22 Ace Hotel - Clashback with Yung vul +sg, alt Bar Mon Cher - Samantha Pearl Blue Nile - Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield & Basin Street Records celebrate a Beautiful World Blue Nile Balcony Room - MOJO Brass Band, DJ BLACK PEARL Bombay Club - David Harris Buff a’s - Keith Burnstein, Davis Rogan Bullet’s - Original Pinettes Brass Band Chickie Wah Wah - Lynn Drury’s Farewell to

Showbiz Tour Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat D.b.a - Smoking Time Jazz Club, Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall - Los Hombres Calientes feat. Bill Summers Dragon’s Den - Latin Night Funky Pirate - Blues Masters feat. Big Al Gasa Gasa - Paw Paw’s Medicine Cabinet Hi-Ho Lounge - Chk Chk Chk (!!!) + Algiers House of Blues - Superjoint + KING PARROT Howlin Wolf - Rebirth Brass Band + Waterseed Jazz Playhouse - Trixie Minx’s Burlesque Ballroom Kerry Irish Pub - Van Hudson, Foot & Friends Le Bon Temps Roule - Billy Asprodites and the Lagniappe Band Little Gem Saloon - Diaz Trio Louisiana Music Factory - Basin Street Records album-release party feat. Kermit Ruffins + Irvin Mayfield Maison - Big Easy Brawlers Maple Leaf - Stevo’s Birthday Bash feat.

Frogs Gone Fishing Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras NOSH - DJ Torque and Otto Old U.S. Mint - Music for Mental Health: An Evening of Song and Discussion Orpheum Theater - the LPO presents Old American Songs and Spirituals Palm Court Cafe - Kevin Louis w/ Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Salon Series: Preservation All-Stars w/ Saul Williams Republic Nola - Zoomga + Cofresi + Ryan Viser Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Bag of Donuts Snug Harbor - Ellis Marsalis Trio Southport Hall - Where Y’acht Spotted Cat - New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings Three Keys - Clashback w/ Yung Vul Three Muses - Doro Wat Jazz Band Tipitina’s - The Magnificent Seven Tropical Isle Bourbon - Debi and the Deacons Saturday, September 23 Ace Hotel - La Noche Caliente with Muevelo!

Bar Mon Cher - Barbarella Blue Blue Nile - Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, Toubab Krewe Blue Nile Balcony Room - Ariee Live Dj Black Pearl Bombay Club - Matt Johnson Buff a’s - Jerry Jumonville and Jump City Band, Dirty Rain Revelers Chickie Wah Wah - John “Papa” Gros Band Circle Bar - Mythological Hybrids Creole Cookery - Trad Stars Jazz Band Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - New Orleans Jazz Vipers, King James and the Special Men Dragon’s Den - Kompression Funky Pirate - Blues Masters feat. Big Al Gasa Gasa - Daria and the Hip Drops House of Blues - Dada Forever: 25th Anniversary Tour Howlin’ Wolf - Sexy Fest feat. Sexual Thunder + Sexy Dex and the Fresh Jazz Playhouse - Michael Watson Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Neisha Ruffins Kerry Irish Pub - Hurricane Refugees Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Maison - Dysfunktional Bone + Gumbo Funk Maple Leaf - Lost Bayou Ramblers Metropolitan Night Club - Above & Beyond Morning Call City Park - Billy D. Chapman

NOSH - DJ Torque and Otto Orpheum Theater - SY Soul Sister presents Hustle! And the Ice Pit Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Greg Stafford w/ Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Shannon Powell Rock ‘n’ Bowl - John Mooney and Bluesiana Saenger Theatre - Meek Mill Shamrock Bar & Grill - Claude Bryant & The All-stars Snug Harbor - Dr. Michael White and the Original Liberty Jazz Band Spotted Cat - Shake ‘Em Up Jazz Band Three Keys - La Noche Caliente w/ Muevelo!

Three Muses - Shotgun Jazz Band Time Out - Andre Bouvier and the Royal Bohemians Sunday, September 24 Blue Nile - Mykia Jovan, Street Legends Brass Band Bombay Cafe - Tom Hook Buff a’s - Jazz Brunch with Some Like it Hot, Nattie’s Songwriting Circle , Alex Belhaj with Tim Laughlin and David Boeddinghaus, Steve Pistorius, Orange Kellin & Benny Amón Chickie Wah Wah - Malcolm Holcombe w/ David Robert King Crazy Lobster - The Neon Shadows Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - The Palmetto Bug Stompers, The Fessters Dragon’s Den - Church Funky Pirate - Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge - NOLA Comedy Hour Open Mic Howlin Wolf (the Den) - Hot 8 Brass Band Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub - Chip Wilson Maison - Brad Walker + Higher Heights Maple Leaf - Charlie Wooten Trio Morning Call City Park - Billy D. Chapman

Orpheum Theater - TajMo: Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band + Black Panther Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Sunday Night Swingers Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Wendell Brunious Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Fais Do Do w/ Bruce Daigrepont SideBar NOLA - Albey Balgochian Snug Harbor - John Fohl Spotted Cat - Pat Casey and the New Sound Three Muses - Linnzi Zaorski Time Out - The Moxie Kings Trinity Episcopal Church - Soprano Maria Elise Thomas and friends Tropical Isle Original - Late As Usual Monday, September 25 Bacchanal - Helen Gillet Banks Street Bar - Adam Crochet’s Mid-City Jam and Hang Blue Nile - Jef Chaz ,MOJO Brass Band Bombay Club - David Boeddinghaus Buff a’s - Arsene DeLay, Antoine Diel Chickie Wah Wah - Alex McMurray w/ Jeff Treffinger and Brendan Gallagher Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - John Boutte, Soul Brass Band Dragon’s Den - Hangover Mondays w/ DJ Ill Medina Funky Pirate - Willie Lockett Band Gasa Gasa - Julie Odell Hi-Ho Lounge - Instant Opus Improvised Series House of Blues - the Lany Tour: Part 2 Jazz Playhouse - the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band Kerry Irish Pub - 1916 Band Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Maison Bourbon - Mark Wayne Rhythm and Blues Band Maple Leaf - George Porter Jr. Trio Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel

ArcadeFire Canadian indie rockers Arcade Fire are coming to NOLA to promote their new album Everything Now. They will also be performing hits from their acclaimed albums Funeral and The Suburbs.

Tues., Sept. 26. $26+ Adv, 7:30 p.m., UNO Lakefront Arena, uno.lakefront.arenaneworleans.com Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band Spotted Cat - Jazz VIpers Three Muses - Andre Bohren Tuesday, September 26 Blue Nile - Waterseed Bombay Club - Matt Lemmler Buff a’s - Tacos, Tequila, & Tiaras w/ Vanessa Carr Chickie Wah Wah - Jamey St. Pierre Crazy Lobster - AC and the Heat

Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a. - Dinosaurchestra, Treme Brass Band Dos Jefes - Tom Hook + Wendell Brunious House of Blues - The Covalescence Howlin’ Wolf - Comedy Beast Jazz Playhouse - Pascal’s New Orleans Wildlife Band Kerry Irish Pub - Jason Bishop Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Lakefront Arena - Arcade Fire w/ Wolf Parade

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Little Gem Saloon - NOLA Dukes Showcase Maison - Geovanne Santos Quartet + Gregory Agid Quartet Maple Leaf - Rebirth Brass Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat. Charlie Gabriel Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Latin Night SideBar NOLA - Mike Dillon + Simon Berz Snug Harbor - Stanton Moore Trio Spotted Cat - Smoking Time Jazz Club Three Muses - Messy Cookers Tipitina’s - Yelawolf UNO Lakefront Arena - Arcade Fire

feat. Charlie Gabriel Republic Nola - Zomboy + Trampa + Xilent Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Gal Holiday and the Honky Ton Revue SideBar NOLA - James Singleton and Phil DeGruy Snug Harbor - Terrance Taplin and Uptown Jazz Orchestra Spotted Cat - Antoine Diel and the New Orleans Power Misfi ts Three Keys - Marina Orchestra Three Muses - Leslie Martin Tipitina’s - Skatalites Tropical Isle Bourbon - Debi and the Deacons

Wednesday, September 27 Ace Hotel - Marina Orchestra, worldbeat Blue Nile - New Orleans Rhythm Devils, New Breed Brass Band Bombay Club - Josh Paxton Buff a’s - Open Mic Night w/ Nattie Sanchez Chickie Wah Wah - Mike Doussan Band Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Tin Men, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and the Roadmasters Dos Jefes - George French Trio Dragon’s Den - Reggae Night Funky Pirate - Blues Masters feat. Big Al Gasa Gasa - John Wiese Hi-Ho Lounge - Progression Music Series Howlin’ Wolf - Think Less, Hear More: Improvisational Band to Movies Jazz Playhouse - Glen David Andrews Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper Little Gem Saloon - Mason Ruff ner Maison - Jazz Vipers Maple Leaf - Gravitones Morning Call - Krewe du Two Orpheum Theater - Mac DeMarco Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Lars Edegran and Topsy Chapman w/ Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars

Thursday, September 28 Ace Hotel - Soundbytes with PJ Morton & Friends, multi Blue Nile - Micah McKee and Little Maker, Reggae Night with DJ T-ROY presented by Bayou International Blue Nile Balcony Room 0 Higher Heights Reggae Band Bombay Club - Tom Hook Duo Buff a’s - Tiff any Ann Pollock, Tom Saunders and the HOTCATS Chickie Wah Wah - John “Papa” Gros Band Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a. - Jon Cleary Dragon’s Den - Soundclash presents Throwback Thursday House of Blues - Ravyn Lenae Howlin’ Wolf - Comedy Gumbeaux Jazz Playhouse - Brass-A-Holics Joy Theater - Daniel Johnson and Friends w/ Preservation Hall All-Stars Kerry Irish Pub - Vincent Marini Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Little Gem Saloon - Cecile Savage Maison - Dysfunktional Bone Maple Leaf - Johnny Vidacovich Trio NOSH - Sasha Masakowski and Reed Rex Ogden Museum of Southern Art - Ogden After Dark

KISS Hard rock icons KISS are going to grace the main stage at this year’s Gretna Fest.

Headbang along to their classic hits like “Detroit Rock City,” “Deuce,” and “Rock and Roll All Nite.” Sat., Sept. 30. $20+ Adv, 10 p.m., Huey P. Long Avenue, gretnafest.com One Eyed Jacks - Fast Times ‘80s and ‘90s Night Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Duke Heitger and Tim Laughlin w/ Crescent City Joymakers Preservation Hall - Salon Series: Heart and Soul Queen of New Orleans Republic Nola - Rezz + No Mana + KTRL Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Geno Delafose Snug Harbor - Grayson Brockamp and the Wildlife Band Southport Hall - Byzantine Spotted Cat - Jumbo Shrimp

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September 26................................................................................. Arcade Fire September 29 - October 1.....................................Carden Spectacular Circus October 15 ...................................................................................Justin Moore October 27.......................................... Big Church Night Out with Newsboys November 4 - 5.......................................................................PAW Patrol Live!

Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com, Lakefront Arena Box Office, or charge by phone at 800-745-3000.

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Sun. 9/17 Fri. 3/04

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Sun. 9/17 Patrick Cooper 8:30 pm Speed The Mule 5 pm Mon. 9/18 Roy Gele 8 pm Ruby Ross 9 pm Thurs. 9/21 Dave Hickey 8:30 pm Thurs. 3/10 Foot & Friends 9 pm Fri. 9/22 Van Hudson 5 pm Fri. 3/11 Van Hudson 5 pm (Rock & Irish) Hurricane Refugees9 pm 9 pm Fri. 9/22 Foot& Friends Sat.3/12 9/23 Mark MikeParsons Kerwin5& Geoff Coats Sat. pm 5 pmThe Day! 9 pm Roux Sat. 3/13 9/23 Traditional HurricaneIrish Refugees pm Sun. Session 9 5 pm Sun. 9/24 Traditional Irish Session 5 pm Mon. 3/14 Kim Carson 8:30 pm Sun. 9/24 Chip Wilson 8 pm Mon. 9/25 1916 Band (Irish) 8:30 pm Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! Live Irish Thurs.

9/28 Vincent Marini 8:30 pmMusic w/ Thurs.

Van Hudson Fri. 9/293/17 Patrick Cooper12:00 5 pmpm (Noon) Speed Mule 3:30 pm Fri. Thurs.

9/29 3/17 Jamie LynnThe Vessels 9 pm Sat. 9/30 Talbot (Irish)7:30 5pm Thurs.

3/17 Vali Roux The Day! pm – til the Sat. 9/30 Beth wee Patterson hours (Celtic) Sun. 10/01 Chip Wilson 8 pm Mon. 10/02 Kim Carson 8:30 pm Fri. 3/18 Patrick Cooper 5 pm Thurs. 10/05 The One Tailed Three One Tailed Three 9 pm 8:30 pm Sat. The Mule 5 5 pm Fri. 3/19 10/06 Speed Patrick Cooper pm & Friends Fri. 10/06 Frank RouxSautier The Day! 9pm 9 pm Mon. 3/21 Kim 8:305pm Sat. 10/07 VanCarson Hudson pm Sat. 10/07 Hurricane Refugees 9pm Sat. 3/05

Three Keys - Soundbytes w/ PJ Morton & Friends Three Muses - Arsene DeLay Vaughan’s - Corey Henry and the Treme Funktet Friday, September 29 Bar Mon Cher - Samantha Pearl Blue Nile - Caesar Brothers Funk Box ,Kermit Ruffins Blue Nile Balcony Room - MB3, DJ Black Pearl Bombay Club - Don Vappie

Buff a’s - Steve de Troy Band ,Zoukeys w/ Beth Patterson, Josh Paxton Chickie Wah Wah - the Plowboys Circle Bar - Abe Partridge Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Tuba Skinny ,George Porter Jr. and his Runnin’ Pardners Dragon’s Den - Latin Night Hi-Ho Lounge - Flashback to the Future ‘80s and ‘90s Dance Party House of Blues - Buddy Guy Jazz Playhouse - Trixie Minx’s Burlesque Ballroom Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Guitar SLim Jr. Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper, Jamie Lynn Vessels Little Gem Saloon -Diaz Trio Little Tropical Isle - Frank Fairbanks

Mahalia Jackson Theater - Mann’s World Famil Tour Maison - the Grid Maple Leaf - Eric Johanson w/ Tab Benoit Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras NOSH - Weedie and Khris One Eyed Jacks - Greazy ALice Orpheum Theater - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Kevin Louis and Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation Brass feat.

Daniel “Weenie” Farrow Republic Nola - Rac + Gigamesh Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Crescent City Soul Snug Harbor - Chemical City Rebels Spotted Cat - New Orleans Cottonmouth Kings Three Muses - Doro Wat Jazz Band Tropical Isle Original - Late As Usual

Saturday, September 30 Ace Hotel - PGHxNOLA with Bouff ant Bouff ant, Aaron Clark +sg, dance Blue Nile - Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, Corey Henry’s Treme Blue Nile Balcony Room - Marigny Street Brass Band Bombay Club - Larry Scala Buff a’s - King’s Quartet, Marina Orchestra Crazy Lobster - Poppy’s Poppin’ Saturday Review Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Honey Island Swamp Band Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall - New Orleans Blues Society’s Blues Challenge Gasa Gasa - Big Ups + Hound Gretna Heritage Festival - KISS Hi-Ho Lounge - Pink Room Project House of Blues - Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas House of Shock - Meriwether

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Howlin’ Wolf - MC Trachiotomy Jazz Playhouse - Michael Watson Kerry Irish Pub - Vali Talbot, Beth Patterson Lafi tte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Little Gem Saloon - Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Little Tropical Isle - Reed lightfoot Maison - Soul Company Maple Leaf - Ron Holloway NOSH - DY Torque and Otto Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Duke Heitger w/ Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars feat.

Shannon Powell Rock ‘n’ Bowl - 90 Degrees West Shamrock Bar & Grill - BarHoppers Snug Harbor - Herlin Riley Quartet Spotted Cat - Jumbo Shrimp Three Keys - PGHxNOLA w/ Bouff ant Bouff ant, Aaron Clark Three Muses - Chris Christy Time Out - Andre Bouvier and the Royal Bohemians Tropical Isle Original - Late As Usual Sunday, October 1 Blue Nile - Mykia Jovan, Street Legends Brass Band Buff a’s - Breakfast with the Saints, Jazz Brunch with Some Like it Hot ,Heather Holloway and the HeebieJeebies ,Gerald French Feat. George French Circle Bar - Micah McKee & friends Circle Bar - Dj Pasta Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - The Palmetto Bug Stompers , Sam Price & the True Believers Joy Theater - Cameron Esposito + Rhea Butcher: Back to Back Kerry Irish Pub - Chip Wilson Maison, The - Nickel A Dance featuring Herlin Riley Marigny Brasserie - Dinosaurchestra One Eyed Jacks - Kitten & Lou Palm Court Jazz Cafe - Mark Braud & Sunday Night Swingsters The Shack - Messy Crookers Jazz Band Monday, October 2 Blue Nile - Jeff Chaz ,Brass A Holics Buff a’s - Arsene DeLay, Antoine Diel Circle Bar - Phil the Tremolo King , Dj Shane Love Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - John Boutte , Funky Monkey Gasa Gasa - Zealyn + Valise Kerry Irish Pub - Kim Carson One Eyed Jacks - Cypress Knee Tuesday, October 3 Blue Nile - Waterseed Buff a’s - Tacos, Tequila and Tiaras w/ Vanessa Carr Circle Bar - Carl LeBlanc , Magic Factory + BENNI

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Columns Hotel - Don Vappie Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Dinosaurchestra , Treme Brass Band Prime Example, The - The Sidemen + 1 Jazz Quintet Wednesday, October 4 Blue Nile - New Orleans Rhythm Devils , New Breed Brass Buff a’s - Open Mic Night w/ Nattie Circle Bar - The Iguanas , The Cowboys + Trampoline Team + The Planchettes & more Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a. -Tin Men, Walter Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters Prime Example, The - Jesse McBride & the Next Generation Jazz Quintet Tipitina’s - Joseph + Liza Anne Thursday, October 5 AllWays Lounge - Open Mic featuring Stacey Colangelo Blue Nile - Micah McKee and Little Maker , Reggae Night with DJ T-ROY presented by Bayou International Blue Nile Balcony Room - Higher Heighter Reggae Buff a’s - Gumbo Cabaret, Tom McDermott and James Evans Circle Bar - Natalie Mae & Gina Leslie , Of the Goldmine Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat d.b.a - Jon Cleary , Ponderosa Stomp’s Hip Drop Dragon’s Den “Upstairs” - J. Hurst Kerry Irish Pub - The One Tailed Three Le Bon Temps Roule - The Soul Rebels One Eyed Jacks - The Toasters Prime Example, The - The Derrick “Smoker” Freeman Quintet Tipitina’s - Rainbow Kitten Surprise + Elliot Root

Friday, October 6 Blue Nile - Caesar Brothers , Kermit Ruffins Buff a’s - Pfister Sisters, Keith Burstein Circle Bar - Rik Slave’s Classy Country Combo d.b.a - Hot Club of New Orleans, The Soul Rebels Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Society Hall - Morning Star Baptist Church Choir and St. Rose Lima Men’s Ensemble Hey Cafe - Astro featuring Theophile Bourgeois House of Shock - Riptide, Kyle Thomas, Exhorder/Trouble/Floodgate Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper, Roux The Day Marigny Opera House - New Resonance Chamber Orchestra & more Republic Nola - Space Jesus + Esseks + Digital Ethos Oak Wine Bar - Jenn Howard Glass Old U.S. Mint - Deacon John One Eyed Jacks - VNV Nation + iVardensphere Tipitina’s - Thundercat Saturday, October 7 Ascension Fields (Flambeau Fest) - Sam Hunt, Dustin Lynch, Chase Rice, Jesse James Decker, Jacob Davis, and many more Blue Nile - Washboard Chaz Blues Trio , Nigel Hall Band Blue Nile Balcony Room - Andy J Forest & Sarasota Slim 4tet , DJ Black Pearl Buff a’s - Meryl Zimmerman, James Evans Trio Circle Bar - Jack Symes & Nat Lefkoff, SMiiLE + Pucusana City Park - Festival Grounds - Beignet Fest presents Hill Country Hounds + One Love Brass Band + Brass-a-Holics & more City Park - Festival Grounds - Beignet Fest presents Eric Lindell Covington Farmers Market - The Dirty Rain Revelers Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Streetbeat Evangeline - Lil Josephine & Rhodes Spedale

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Vagabon Born Laetitia Tamko in Cameroon, Vagabon is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in indie rock. She will appear at Gasa Gasa and will perform selections from her debut album Infinite Worlds. Sat., Oct. 7. $10 Adv, 9 p.m., Gasa Gasa, gasagasa.com d.b.a - Tuba Skinny, Little Freddie King House of Shock - Riptide, Kyle Thomas, Exhorder, Trouble, Floodgate Kerry Irish Pub - Van Hudson, Hurricane Refugees Marigny Opera House - New Resonance Chamber Orchestra Metropolitan Night Club - Adventure Club New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Red Hot Brass Band Oak Wine Bar - JAB Nola Republic Nola - Mura Masa with special guest

Joey Purp Shamrock Bar & Grill - Paperchase Tipitina’s - Bonerama + Darcy Malone & The Tangle Sunday, October 8 Ascension Fields (Flambeau Fest) - Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackberry Smoke, A Thousand Horses, Clare Dunn, and many more Blue Nile - Mykia Jovan , Street Legends Brass Band

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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

FESTIVALS NOLA Horror Film Fest Castillo Blanco Art Studios: 321 St. Claude Ave. Thursday, September 21; 6:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Friday, September 22; 5:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Saturday, September 23; 1 p.m. – 1 a.m.

Sunday, September 24; 2 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. nolahorrorfilmfest.com Are you afraid of the dark? You might be after the New Orleans Horror Film Fest, hosted by Castillo Blanco Art Studios during the last weekend of September. The event is created by horror filmmakers for horror fans and curated by award-winning director JT Seaton and Special FX maestro Charles Lucia. The four-day festival celebrates the craft of the horror genre and features indie films from around the world. If you want something a little less spooky, the schedule also includes time blocks featuring short films in sci-fi, comedy, and a WTF screening on Saturday night. Ticket prices are $14 on Thursday, $20 on Friday and Sunday, and $40 on Saturday. Tickets for shorts and feature blocks can be purchased individually for $8. The full event schedule and film list can be found online.

Jennings, Blackfoot, and Christopher Shayne. Doors open at noon on Saturday and includes shows from Dee Snider, Great White, and Brian Howe. The schedule of local bands participating in the event has yet to be announced.

General Admission starts at $20, and other ticketing options can be found online.

FOOD & DRINK

New Orleans Beignet Fest New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds Saturday, October 7; 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. beignetfest.com Head to City Park for the second annual Beignet Fest on October 7. The all-day event celebrates the iconic New Orleans treat and presents awards for best traditional, sweet, savory, and crowd-favorite beignets. Over a dozen vendors will be present, including Café Beignet, Ruby Slipper, The Howlin’ Wolf Den, and Royal House. The festival doesn’t only taste good, it does good too, with proceeds benefitting the Tres Doux Foundation. The foundation provides grants to local non-profits with the intent to celebrate, embrace, and enhance the lives of children with developmental delays and disabilities. The festival will also feature a musical lineup with performances

by Hill Country Hounds, Imagination Movers, One Love Brass Band, Brass-a-holics, and Eric Lindell. Admission to the festival is free; tickets for food and beverages can be purchased onsite.

FUNDRAISERS

St. Charles Rockin' River Fest October 13-14 St. Charles Rockin' River Fest Edward A. Dufresne Community Center: 274 Judge Edward Dufresne Pkwy.

Friday, October 13; 5 p.m.

Saturday, October 14; 12 p.m. stcharlesrockinrivermusicfest.com Let the good times rock and roll! Head out to the St. Charles Rockin’ River Music Fest, benefiting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Festivities begin Friday at 5 p.m. with performances by Molly Hatchet, Shooter

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series at the French Market. The concert is hosted by the New Orleans Opera Association and marks the third and final performance in a three-part installment. Three local opera stars will perform a selected preview from the upcoming 2017-18 season. Songs will be included from: Maria de Buenos Aires, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Orpheus in the Underworld, Tabasco: A Burlesque Opera, and Champion: An Opera in Jazz. The free event is open to the public and will be held in the Dutch Alley Performance Pavilion located at the corner of St. Phillip and Decatur Streets.

Chevron NO/AIDS Walk Crescent Park: 1008 N. Peters St. Sunday, September 24; 8 a.m. noaidswalk.com It’s a walk in the park—and more! Sign up as an individual or a team to participate in the NO/AIDS Walk in Crescent Park. Throughout the 28 years the walk has taken place in New Orleans, participants have raised a whopping $5 million for AIDS care and services provided by the NO/AIDS Task Force. The community-based service organization offers a full spectrum of care for men, women, and families affected by HIV/AIDS at little to no cost. Money raised also contributes to the Task Force’s PrEP clinic, a preventative service offering a daily pill to help people without HIV stay negative. You must register online to participate.

Arcade Fire UNO Lakefront Arena: 6801 Franklin Ave. Tuesday, September 26; 7:30 p.m. arena.uno.edu Get your groove on with Arcade Fire. The Canadian indie rock band is including New Orleans as a stop on their Infinite Content 2017 Tour. The tour follows the release of both their new album, Everything Now, and the single by the same name. Formed in 2001, the band gained popularity in 2004 with the critically acclaimed album Funeral. They’ve been a staple in the alternative music scene since and their popularity has only continued to grow. The group has been nominated for numerous awards, and in 2011, they won the Polaris Music Prize for the album The Suburbs. Their multi-instrumental live show is a performance not to be missed! Tickets start at $24 and can be purchased online.

MUSIC

Latin Party Hotel Storyville Garden: 1261 Esplanade Ave. Friday, September 29; 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. hotelstoryville.net Spice up your life with Papo y Sons for a night of Latin music, food, drinks, and cigars. Born in Cuba, the selftaught Alexis “Papo” Guevara began performing music

A Taste of the Opera at the French Market French Market: 1235 N. Peters St. Sunday, September 24; 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. neworleansopera.org Bellissimo! Feel cultured at the Taste of the Opera Sunday

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NOLA on Tap New Orleans City Park Festival Grounds Saturday, September 23; 12 p.m. – 7 p.m. nolaontap.org

New Orleans Beignet Fest October 7

rost! Kick off Oktoberfest at the 8th annual NOLA on Tap. The largest beer festival in the region will welcome over 25,000 attendees and offer more than 400 varieties of local and national beer. The event will also feature food, art, and merchandise vendors, the Homebrewer’s Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP), and non-drinking activities. Live music will be provided

by Miss Mojo, The Breton Sound, and Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes. Bring your furry friends along for “Barktoberfest,” sponsored by Canine Connection. Besides costume contests and games, the dog-friendly activities will also include rounds of Pupular’s speed dating. The NOLA-based iOS app provides a safe way to connect and meet up with dogs nearby. General admission pre-sale tickets are available for $5. Additional packages can be found online.

Dragapalooza October 1 professionally in 1993. His repertoire spans several genres, including jazz, salsa, and cha-cha. In 2012, Papo emigrated to Louisiana and has since been featured at venues throughout New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Tickets for the show are $10; food and drinks can be purchased onsite.

October 6 will feature a Revue show including a talent showcase performance by former MGA winner Suzy Wong. The top 10 contenders will compete for the 2018 title on October 7. Tickets are $15 for preliminary shows, $20 for the Revue, and $45 for the final show.

ENTERTAINMENT

Dragapalooza House of Blues: 225 Decatur St. Sunday, October 1; 7 p.m. dragapalooza.com Sashay away to Dragapalooza at the House of Blues. Instead of lip-syncing for their lives, international celebrity drag queens will be performing a live musical concert with a live band. The first Dragapalooza held in January of this year broke box office records at Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre, selling out shows two nights in a row. The rotating all-star lineup for the New Orleans performance will feature fan favorites Sharon Needles, Ginger Minj, Coco Montreese, Rhea Litre, and Biblegirl.

Equal parts concert, theater, fashion show, and cabaret, the show offers an absolutely stunning spectacle. Tickets begin at $35; must be 18 or older to attend.

Where Y'at's 20th Anniversary Party Generations Hall: 310 Andrew Higgins Dr. Thursday, September 21; 9 p.m. – 3 a.m. whereyat.com Where Y’at is turning 20! Celebrate our two decades in print with a night of revelry and entertainment. Each month, we bring you the best of New Orleans dining, music, entertainment, and nightlife. So, if we’re hosting the party, it better be where y’at.

Performances include a Beastie Boy tribute

by Flow Tribe, dancing by the 610 Stompers, and burlesque by Stormy Gayle. Tickets can be purchased online starting at $20.

Miss Gay America Hyatt Regency: 601 Loyola Ave. Wednesday, October 4 & Thursday, October 5; 8 p.m.

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Saturday, October 7; 6 p.m. missgayamerica.com The Miss Gay America pageant began in 1972 with the crowning of Norman Jones (a.k.a. Norma Kristie). Upon relinquishing his crown, Jones bought the rights to MGA in 1975, and in the following years, elevated the contest into the most prestigious and well-respected pageant system for female impersonators in the world. For the 47th anniversary, New Orleans will host the culmination of 30 preliminary pageants in a four-day spectacle during the first weekend of October. Hopeful queens will compete for the top 10 spots on October 4 and 5 and will be judged in five categories: talent, male interview, evening gown, onstage question, and pageant presentation.

ART Art For Art's Sake Various Locations Saturday, October 7; 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. magazinestreet.com Show some appreciation and celebrate the beginning of the arts season. Since 1980, the annual Art for Art’s Sake street party has attracted artists and enthusiasts alike for a night of music, wine, gallery openings, and shopping. Dozens of galleries, featuring a variety of media, will be open along Magazine and Julia Streets.

Cash bars will be featured outside, or you can make a reservation at one of the many fabulous restaurants located Uptown and in the Warehouse District. A full list of participating locations can be found online.

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2017 As the seemingly unrelenting heat of summer comes to an end, the people of Louisiana venture out of the air conditioning and into the ever-beautiful Southern autumn to check out the many festivals, concerts, and fairs. Here’s a guide to everything happening this year, from the second annual Fried Chicken Fest to a killer lineup at Voodoo Fest.

Alligator Festival Sept. 21-24 | Westbank Bridge Park, Luling alligatorfestival.org For just $1 admission, the Alligator Festival is four days of live music, Cajun cuisine, baby alligators, and much more. Started by the Rotary Club of St. Charles Parish, it helps fund college scholarships for young people in the area.

Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival Sept. 21-24 | Bouligny Plaza, New Iberia hisugar.org The Sugar Cane Festival honors Louisiana's sugar cane industry. It features different events such as a 5k run, carnivals, parades, the crowning of King Sucrose and Queen Sugar, and of course, enough sweets to give the whole family cavities.

LOVE in the Garden Sept. 22 | New Orleans Museum of Art noma.org/event/love-garden-2017 NOMA's wine-and-dine event, LOVE in the Garden, returns this year. Enjoy food

and music in the beautiful Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden outside the museum. They will be honoring local artists Anita Cooke, Simon Gunning, Karoline Schleh, and Bob Snead.

Best of the Bayou Music Festival Sept. 22-23 | Downtown Houma bestofthebayou.la The Best of the Bayou Music Festival stays rockin’ all day and night the weekend of September 22. Throw in Cajun food, handmade arts and crafts, and a classic car show, and you are in for a fun-filled weekend.

NOLA on Tap Sept. 23 | City Park Festival Grounds nolaontap.org NOLA on Tap is the largest beer fest in the Gulf South. It features over 400 national, local, and micro-brewed beers.

Home-brewers can compete in a Beer Judge Certification Program competition. Live music and food vendors round out the fest.

Fried Chicken Festival Sept. 23-24 | Woldenberg Park friedchickenfestival.com The New Orleans Fried Chicken Festival has grown in its second year. Now held at the more spacious Woldenberg Park, the fest will include food from more than 35 restaurants, two stages for music, and one stage for cooking demos.

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New Orleans Swing Dance Festival Sept. 28 - Oct.1 | Ace Hotel, 600 Carondelet St. nolaswingdancefestival.com The birthplace of jazz music is hosting a Swing Dance Festival. Many musicians, dancers, and artists gather at the Ace Hotel to sing, dance, and perform. Attendees are invited to sign up for beginner dance classes with professional teachers.

Que Pasa Fest Sept. 30 - Oct. 7 | Lafreniere Park, Metairie quepasafest.com The Que Pasa Fest takes place at various locations around the New Orleans area with Latin food and music to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. It ends with a free performance by Luis Enrique at Lafreniere Park in Metairie.

Scales & Ales Sept. 29 | Aquarium of the Americas audubonnatureinstitute.org/scales-andales The 8th annual Scales & Ales event features live entertainment, an open bar serving wine and beer, and food from 40 local restaurants. Attendees can eat and drink while they explore the aquarium and the outdoor plaza.

Angola Prison Rodeo Sundays throughout October | Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola angolarodeo.com This rodeo at the famed Louisiana State Prison includes barrel racing, wild horse races, crafts, and food.

Bogalusa Blues and Heritage Festival Sept. 29-30 | Cassidy Park, Bogalusa bogalusablues.com This celebration of blues music and culture includes art installations, along with performances by musicians such as the North Mississippi Allstars, Anders Osborne, Louisiana’s LeRoux, and others. Weekend passes are $25, and children under 12 are admitted for free.

Treme Fall Festival Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 | St. Augustine Church tremefest.com Produced by the Historic Faubourg

Scales & Ales | September 29 Treme Association, the Treme Fall Festival celebrates the beloved neighborhood with local arts and crafts, food vendors, live music, and plenty of attractions for kids. Proceeds benefit cultural and historic destinations in Treme.

Gretna Heritage Festival Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 | Gretna Festival Grounds gretnafest.com The Gretna Heritage Festival celebrates its 23rd year with 25 blocks of delicious food, fun games, and killer music. This year’s

headliners, KISS, Huey Lewis & the News, and The B-52s, will rock every block of the fest.

Carnaval Latino Sept. 30 | Convention Center Blvd. carnavalatinola.com In its 19th year, the Carnaval Latino is a celebration of New Orleans’s Hispanic heritage and cultural ties. Enjoy a parade through the Warehouse District, salsa and mambo music, and plenty of authentic Latin cuisine from local vendors.

St. Tammany Parish Fair Oct. 4-7 | 1304 N. Columbia St., Covington sttammanyparishfair.info The St. Tammany Parish Fair highlights the parish's unique culture. It includes classic attractions such as a mini farm and livestock showcase, a rodeo, pageant, midway rides, and old-school fair food.

West Louisiana Forestry Fair and Festival Oct. 4-8 | Vernon Parish Fairgrounds, Leesville facebook.com/forestryfestival The West Louisiana Forestry Fair and Festival caters to forestry enthusiasts of all ages. Attractions include carnival rides

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and shows by The Mighty Thomas Carnival, as well as wood-chopping contests, woodcentric arts and crafts, and a rodeo.

Ponderosa Stomp Oct. 5-7 | Various locations around New Orleans ponderosastomp.com/festivalinformation-2017 The Ponderosa Stomp goes above and beyond your average music festival. In addition to musical performances at the Orpheum Theater, Ponderosa Stomp has a music history conference and a vinyl record show at Ace Hotel.

Oktoberfest Oct. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21 | Deutsches House, Metairie oktoberfestnola.com New Orleans’s version of the classic German festival features authentic Deutschland food and beers on tap, historical exhibits and events, Dachshund races, a 5k run/walk, and other contests spread out over three festive weekends.

Gentilly Fest Oct. 6-8 | Pontchartrain Park gentillyfest.com Gentilly Fest includes four stages of music, a gospel tent, artwork from local artists, crafts, and activities for children. Proceeds benefit various groups and organizations in the neighborhood that work to make Gentilly better every day.

Beignet Fest Oct. 7 | New Orleans City Park beignetfest.com Come get your fill of New Orleans’s favorite sweet treat at Beignet Fest. This one-day festival brings together food, music, and entertainment from around the city. All proceeds go to the Tres Doux Foundation, benefiting children with disabilities.

Algiers Fest Oct. 7 | 2500 General Meyer Ave., Algiers This free music festival welcomes families and honors the men and women who serve

in the United States military. Along with the lineup of talented local musicians, Algiers Fest will have an hourly raffle, benefiting active duty military personnel.

Music Under the Oaks Oct. 7, 14, and 21| Audubon Park audubonnatureinstitute.org/music-underthe-oaks This series of free outdoor concerts, including the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet, invites audiences to take in the sounds under the great live oaks of Audubon Park. Local vendors will provide a variety of food.

Roberts Cove Germanfest Oct. 7-8 | 7212 Roberts Cove Rd., Rayne robertscovegermanfest.com Kicking off Oktoberfest, the Roberts Cove Germanfest celebrates German heritage in Louisiana. It features activities for children of all ages, along with traditional music, food, and of course, plenty of beer for those of age.

Fall Garden Festival Oct. 7-8 | New Orleans Botanical Garden neworleanscitypark.com/events The Fall Garden Festival is a kid-friendly fest that includes educational lectures on garden design and urban farming, arts and crafts, exhibits of rare plants, and as it is New Orleans, a bit of live music.

New Orleans Film Festival Oct. 11-19 | Various locations neworleansfilmfestival.org The New Orleans Film Festival showcases both feature-length and short films from New Orleans and all around the globe, in theaters throughout New Orleans. Many showings include events with folks in the industry before or after the film.

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Kenner Wine & Food Event. The event also includes a photo booth, cigar bar, and silent auction, and proceeds will help the Louisiana Hospitality Foundation.

are invited to compete in a pageant for the title of Miss Gumbo 2017.

Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival Oct. 13-15 | Lafayette Square Park jazzandheritage.org/blues-fest Grammy winners Robert Cray and Bobby Rush will headline the Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival this October. This free event includes other musical performances, BBQ from different regions—with a special emphasis on Louisiana BBQ—and an arts market.

Louisiana Cattle Festival and Fair Oct. 12-15 | Downtown Abbeville cityofabbeville.net/louisiana-cattlefestival This festival will crown 2017’s Cattle Queen and include a cattle show, cooking contests, and street dancing.

St. Charles Rockin’ River Music Festival Oct. 13-14 | Edward A. Dufresne Community Center, Luling stcharlesrockinrivermusicfest.com The St. Charles Rockin’ River Music Festival will bring together local bands, as well as national acts, into this one weekend.

Headlining the festival is Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, as well as the lead singer from Twisted Sister, Dee Snider.

Festivals Acadiens Et Créoles Oct. 13-14 | Girard Park, Lafayette festivalsacadiens.com With a whopping six stages of music, the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles spans the entirety of Girard Park and features Louisiana folk music such as Cajun, zydeco, and swamp pop. Along with the music, the three days are filled with arts and crafts, as well as food vendors at the Bayou Food Festival.

West Jeff Family Fest Oct. 13-14 | West Jefferson Medical

Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival | October 13-15 Center, Marrero wjmc.org/Festival The eighth annual free festival has food, music, and a car show, all for the benefit of the West Jefferson Cancer Center. There will be various amusement rides and games, and even a kids zone and a costume contest.

Voice of the Wetlands Festival Oct. 13-15 | 5403 Westpark, Houma voiceofthewetlands.org/vow-festival The 14th annual Voice of the Wetlands Festival, or VOW, includes three days of

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musical performances best enjoyed with one of the several Cajun dishes the festival has to offer. Proceeds benefit environmental and cultural charities.

Bridge City Gumbo Festival Oct. 13-15 | Gumbo Festival Park, 1701 Bridge City Ave. bridgecitygumbofestival.org The Bridge City Gumbo Festival celebrates the beloved Louisiana dish, gumbo. Gumbo chefs are encouraged to compete in the Gumbo Cooking Contest, and young women

Louisiana Gumbo Festival of Chackbay Oct. 13-15 | Chackbay Festival Grounds, Chackbay lagumbofest.com The Louisiana Gumbo Festival in Chackbay brings Louisiana residents together through their shared love of gumbo. Come enjoy amusement park rides, food, and fun, and watch as the 2017 Louisiana Gumbo Festival Queen is crowned.

Andouille Festival Oct. 13-15 | Thomas F. Daley Memorial Park, LaPlace andouillefestival.com The Andouille Festival continues to celebrate Louisiana's favorite sausage with music, crafts, and lots of andouille sausage.

If you are up for a challenge, compete in the Dang Douille Eating Contest, or for some non-competitive fun, see the Gospel Show.

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Madisonville Wooden Boat Festival Oct. 14-15 | Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, Madisonville woodenboatfest.org All things nautical come together at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum this October. The museum will host the fully restored PT-305 from the National World War II Museum, among many other wooden boats.

Greater Iberia World Championship Gumbo Cookoff Oct. 14-15 | Downtown Main Street, New Iberia iberiachamber.org/gumbo-cookoff The Greater Iberia World Championship Gumbo Cookoff is a celebration of gumbo, of course. There will be 100+ teams competing for the prize of “world’s best gumbo.”

There are also two additional competitions: “Meanest Beans” and the Youth Gumbo Cookoff. Bring your appetite, because attendees can sample all 100+ pots of gumbo.

Natchitoches Fall Pilgrimage/Tour of Homes Oct. 14-16 | Melrose Plantation, Melrose natchitoches.net/events-and-festivals/ fall-pilgrimagetour-of-homes The Natchitoches Fall Pilgrimage, or Tour of Homes, celebrates the historic architecture of Natchitoches Parish. Visitors can attend guided tours of the area’s most beautiful antique and restored homes and plantations.

Cajun cooking than you can imagine. Enjoy a motorcycle ride and see the crowning of the rice queen.

Boo at the Zoo Oct. 20-21 & 27-28 | Audubon Zoo auduboninstitute.org/batz The Audubon Zoo’s Halloween party is perfect for kids 12 and younger. Come in your best costume and expect not-TOOspooky attractions like a ghost train and trick-or-treating. Proceeds are donated to the Children’s Hospital.

Boo at the Zoo | October 20-21 & 27-28 Celebracion Latina Oct. 15 | Audubon Zoo auduboninstute.org Celebrate traditional Latin cuisine and enjoy children’s activities at Celebracion Latina at the Audubon Zoo. Local artisans will be selling handmade crafts, and health organizations will offer wellness education and information.

Washington Parish Free Fair Oct. 18-21 | Washington Parish Fairgrounds, Franklinton

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freefair.com Have some fun this fall at the Washington Parish Free Fair. The attractions and events include a parade, a 5K run/walk, an annual quilt raffle, a pageant, music, food, and more.

International Rice Festival Oct. 19-22 | Rice Festival Grounds, Crowley ricefestival.com The International Rice Festival features two stages of live music, as well as more

Southern Garden Symposium Oct. 20-21 | St. Francisville southerngardensymposium.org The Southern Garden Symposium and Workshops is an event perfectly fitted for any green thumb. The festival emphasizes the elegant and beautiful Southern landscape by inviting speakers from around the country to provide gardening tips and inspiration.

Praise Fest Oct. 20-22 | Corner of Orleans Avenue and Jefferson Davis Parkway, Bayou St. John praisefestnola.com Praise Fest is a music festival that celebrates all types of Christian music, including gospel, gospel jazz, and Christian rock. Enjoy beautiful, hand-clapping music by talented Christian musicians from all around the South.

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Asian Markets in NOLA

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By Burke Bischoff

can’t attest to everyone’s taste, but I personally really like to just wander around supermarkets for a good couple of hours. It’s kinda like I’m on a treasure hunt; I go for my desired item, but I always stumble across something new or different that piques my interest and has me wanting to pick it up. I go home with my car trunk full and my wallet nearly empty. After a while, however, I get pretty bored going through the same national brand stores and seeing the same products over and over. Which is why I love visiting different ethnic markets in my area and experiencing what they have to offer, especially Asian markets.

Whenever I walk inside any Asian market, I always feel like I’ve stepped into another world. I can barely read most of the writing that is in these stores, the products that I can make out are usually weird and interesting (like the many different kinds of seafood-flavored potato chips I keep stumbling across), and there are so many products I’m not familiar with in these stores that I basically want to try out all of them. So, I’m going to present some of my favorite Asian markets that I like to visit in the Greater New Orleans Area. Come take a trip with me, and if you haven’t set foot in any of these stores before now, you need to remedy that right away.

I wanted to start out by focusing on my personal favorite Asian market to visit on a regular basis (which is actually fairly close to where I live, so that’s good for my gas mileage), the Hong Kong Food Market in Gretna. Located on 925 Behrman Hwy., the Hong Kong Market is one of the largest Asian markets I have ever been to. As soon as you go through the entrance, before you even get into the

market proper, you are surrounded by a number of different shops like a jewelry store, a beauty salon, and a video and bookstore. There are also two restaurants at the entrance that specialize in different kinds of food: Saigon Noodle House, which serves pho and other types of noodle bowls, and Mr. Bubbles, which makes refreshing bubble tea and delicious sandwiches.

Walking into the market itself, you’ll be pretty amazed by the sheer amount of stuff that is in the store. There are aisles upon aisles of anything you could ask for, like traditional Asian spices, sauces, teas, snacks, candies, canned goods, kitchen utensils, and other household items. (Fun fact: I was able to find and purchase a package of Samyang Spicy Chicken Ramen here, which is what is required for the Fire Noodle Challenge. Interesting challenge to try out if you want, but that product will be rough on your body’s internal plumbing.

Trust me.) There are plenty of meats (like pork and duck), desserts (like mochi balls), and other packaged goods (like meat-, bean-, or cream-filled bread buns) to choose

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from, as well as a large section of the market highly recommend trying out), Kien Giang dedicated entirely to fresh produce from Market is named after a province in Vietnam the typical (tomatoes and cabbage) to the that is known for its fishing and rice farming. more exotic (durian and dragon fruit). The Not only does this market have plenty of market also offers ample amounts of fish fish and rice, but also a good selection of and seafood, including live lobsters, tilapia, produce, canned food, instant meals, Asian and Dungeness crabs. drinks, and more.

Looking to eat something hot and fresh in My favorite part of this market is actually the Hong Kong Market as you walk around? the DVD and CD section that they have near Then make sure to check out the Hong the produce section. I just find it interesting Kong Market BBQ and Deli, located at the to see what kind of entertainment people far right side of the market. They provide from different cultures enjoy. Most of freshly prepared meats like BBQ the DVDs are in Vietnamese and, quail, duck, and pig, as well unfortunately, I don’t think as very affordable banh many of them have mi sandwiches.

English subtitles, so The market also you’re basically going provides many in blind unless you different know how to speak American, the language.

Hispanic, However, you and Middle don’t need to Eastern know another products, just language to enjoy in case you’re the grooves and too skittish to instrumentation try something of some of the different. Don’t music on the CDs forget to check the market offers. out Hong Kong So, head over to Market’s sizable Kien Giang Market, t Go alcohol section lde ke get your shopping r for many different done, and pick up a CD a n Ci ty Asian Food M local and imported drinks or two. You might even (‘cause I know how New discover your next new Orleanians are and what y’all need 24/7). musical obsession.

Honestly, I could talk about the Hong Kong Maybe you’re not in the mood to trek Food Market ad nauseam, but I’ve got a across the river for your Asian market fix. limited amount of space to work with here.

(First off, that’s rude. We Westbankers are As much as I love the Hong Kong Market, perfectly nice over here.) Well then, get I can recognize that its size and the number yourself over to Metairie and stop by the of things in there are a bit overwhelming for Golden City Asian Food Market. Located people who really aren’t that used to Asian off of Veterans Memorial Boulevard at markets. So, as a good starting point for 2712 N. Arnoult Rd., Golden City Market beginners, or if you just want a smaller place welcomes customers with an entranceway to roam around, then the Dong Khanh decorated with a torii (a traditional Japanese Oriental Market in Harvey is a good spot gate usually found at the entrance of Shinto to visit. Located on 3709 Westbank Expy., shrines and Buddhist temples), two lion and within spitting distance of Westside statues, and a little bridge over a small Bowling Lanes, Kim’s Restaurant, and The fishpond.

Four Columns banquet hall, Dong Khanh has Kind of presenting itself as a Korean a simple and friendly atmosphere. If you’re grocery store, this market is fairly wellnot sure what something is in the store or sized (bigger than Dong Khanh Market, but you don’t know how to prepare it, you can smaller than Hong Kong Market) and offers ask the owners who are there and they will a number of fresh produce and seafood be sure to explain everything to you. options, rice, noodles, eggs, seasoning, Despite its size, Dong Khanh Market drinks, snacks, and so forth. Golden City has a lot of variety in its products. Some Market also provides many household items of the items you’ll find here include fresh like pots, pans, bowls, and incense. Along pork and fish, canned and frozen foods, with selling handmade buns, rolls, and banh fruits, vegetables, sauces, spices, fresh mi every day, the market also does a special and dried noodles, rice, tea, and coffee. on Saturdays and Sundays where they serve You’ll find products from many different hot and fresh roasted duck and pork. For a Asian countries and cultures like Vietnam, charming spot with plenty of variety, Golden Thailand, China, Japan, and Korea. Their City Asian Food Market is there for you. prices are also very reasonable, so make Any of these places piqued your interest? sure to keep an eye out for those while (Or are you a regular customer and need you’re browsing for something interesting. to get your shopping done?) Then head on Sometimes, all you really need is something over to any, or all, of these wonderful Asian simple, and Dong Khanh Oriental Market is markets. Don’t fall into the loop of constantly happy to provide just that. going to Walmart or Rouses. Go out and Continuing our trip around the Westbank, be adventurous. Who knows? You might we also have the Kien Giang Market on even learn another language from all the 1900 Lafayette St. in Gretna. Located near shopping you’ll be doing at these places. the Chinese and Vietnamese restaurant 3 Happiness (which is very delicious and I

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Broadway in New Orleans

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2017 - 18 Cultural Arts Season Preview

By Dean M. Shapiro

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o other city of comparable size in the U.S. has the quantity and diversity of live offerings in the cultural arts as New Orleans. Opera, dance, classical music, live theater; you name it, it’s all here—yearround!

Following is a compilation of many of the performances being staged by some of New Orleans’s premiere organizations during the 2017-18 cultural season that runs from September 2017 through June 2018: New Orleans Opera Association The New Orleans Opera Association celebrates its 75th anniversary during the 2017-18 season by offering four mainstage operas, plus a season-ending Diamond Anniversary gala concert featuring some of the greatest stars ever to perform on the local stage. Two performances of each mainstage opera are presented on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons in the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts (1419 Basin St.).

In addition, the company is introducing a series of “chamber operas” presented at various locations throughout the city.

All mainstage operas are accompanied by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Robert Lyall. They are presented in their original languages with English translations projected above the stage.

Mainstage Operas: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (double bill) (In Italian) Composers: Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo October 6 & 8 Orpheus in the Underworld (In English) Composer: Jacques Offenbach November 10 & 12 Champion (a jazz opera about boxer Emile Griffith) (In English) Composer: Terence Blanchard March 9 & 11 75th Anniversary Celebration with the Great Stars of New Orleans Opera (In original languages) Composers: (various) April 20 & 22

June 1 & 2 New Orleans Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

Baroque Christmas featuring selections from Handel’s Messiah December 14

For tickets and more detailed information, call New Orleans Opera at 504-529-3000 or 504-529-2278, or check them out online at neworleansopera.org.

Jurassic Park: Film with Live Orchestra January 20 & 21

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra The 70-member LPO celebrates the New Orleans Tricentennial in 2018 with a specially commissioned piece by world-renowned banjoist and composer Bela Fleck. The piece, which combines elements of some of the city’s best-known musical genres, is being premiered on March 15 and 17 at the Orpheum Theater (129 Roosevelt Way) and will feature Fleck as the guest artist.

Other highlights of the upcoming season at the Orpheum include: Old American Songs and Spirituals September 22

Chamber Opera Series: Tabasco: A Burlesque Opera (In English) Composer: George Whitefield Chadwick (arranged and conducted by Paul Mauffray) January 25-28 Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St.

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Paul Huang October 20

The Medium (In English) Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti

Holiday Spectacular with The 610 Stompers December 9 & 10

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Star Wars and Beyond: The Music of John Williams November 3 & 5

Simply Sinatra with Steve Lippia March 24 Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony April 6 The Music of Prince April 21 Carmina Burana with NOVA Chorale and soloists (season closer) May 18 & 19 Most concerts are conducted by Maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto, but guest conductors are also called in during the course of the season. For more detailed information including performance times, call 504-523-6350 or visit lpomusic.com.

New Orleans Ballet Association NOBA’s 2017-18 slate of five mainstage performances will feature the return of some of the most prestigious companies that have performed in New Orleans in recent years.

Representing the cultures of Spain, Argentina, France, and the U.S., the companies and their performances for the coming season are as follows:

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Ballet Hispanico Mahalia Jackson Theater 1419 Basin St. October 21, 8 p.m.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet NOCCA’s Freda Lupin Memorial Hall 2800 Chartres St. November 10 at 8 p.m. and November 11 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Tango Fire Mahalia Jackson Theater January 27, 8 p.m.

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in Romeo & Juliette Mahalia Jackson Theater February 24, 8 p.m.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Mahalia Jackson Theater April 7, 8 p.m.

For tickets and information, call 504522-0996 or visit their website, nobadance. com. Single tickets may also be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 1-800-7453000 or visiting ticketmaster.com.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

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Broadway in New Orleans Touring hit musicals from the Great White Way return to the Saenger Theatre this fall with seven regular season shows, plus a non-subscription “season option,” all in a wide variety of genres. The productions are:

Escape to Margaritaville (A Jimmy Buffet Musical) October 20-28 The King and I November 14-19 Irving Berlin’s White Christmas December 19-24 An American in Paris January 30-February 4 The Color Purple February 20-25 The Phantom of the Opera* March 14-25 Rent April 17-22 Waitress June 12-17 * Season Option; not included in regular ticket subscription package.

The Saenger is located at 1111 Canal St. in Downtown New Orleans.

For more information, visit neworleans. broadway.com or call 1-800-218-SHOW (7469).

Le Petit Theatre After celebrating its centennial as America’s oldest continually operating

community theater, Le Petit goes into its “Second Century Season” with another varied lineup of classics and newer works, including its traditional hosting of a play during the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival.

The theater is in the heart of the French Quarter at 616 St. Peter St., opposite Jackson Square and the Cabildo. The 2017-18 season includes the following: Once On This Island

By Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty September 15-October 1 The Last Five Years

By Jason Robert Brown November 3-19 A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams March 9-25 An Act of God

By David Javerbaum May 11-27 Crowns

By Regina Taylor June 15-July 1 For tickets and information, call the box office at 504-522-2081 or visit lepetittheatre. com.

Southern Rep Theatre Southern Rep continues its time-honored, founding tradition of presenting original works by local playwrights, and New Orleans premieres of other newly created plays.

Southern Rep’s popular, ongoing soap opera Debauchery, now into its seventh season, will continue throughout the season on dates and at venues to be announced later.

The five mainstage productions are: Fun Home

By Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori September 27-October 22 NOCCA Nims Black Box Theatre 2800 Chartres St. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon November 29-December 23 Loyola University, Marquette Theatre 6363 St. Charles Ave. And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens*

By Tennessee Williams March 21-April 1 Loyola University, Marquette Theatre 6363 St. Charles Ave. Eclipsed

By Danai Gurira April 18-May 13 Loyola University, Marquette Theatre 6363 St. Charles Ave. All the Way

By Robert Schenkkan May 17-27 (location TBA) * In conjunction with the annual Tennessee Williams Festival For more detailed information and tickets, call 504-522-6545 or visit southernrep.com.

Jefferson Performing Arts Society This season, JPAS celebrates 40 years of bringing top-flight entertainment to the Greater New Orleans area. They will be presenting five mainstage productions at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center (JPAC), 6600 Airline Dr. in Metairie, and four shows at

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame February 23-March 4, JPAC

Million Dollar Quartet January 12-28

The Marvelous Wonderettes March 9-25, WPAT

Steel Magnolias March 2-18

Catch Me If You Can April 13-22, JPAC

Little Shop of Horrors May 4-20

Alice in Wonderland: A Storybook Ballet in Two Acts May 18-20, JPAC

Beauty and the Beast July 12-22

For ticket information or other show details, call 504-885-2000 or visit the JPAS website at jpas.org.

The NOLA Project their newly reopened Westwego Performing Arts Theater (WPAT) at 177 Sala Ave. in Westwego.

The JPAS lineup of major productions for the 2017-18 season includes: So Happy Together: The Greatest Hits of The Big Easy Boys September 15-October 1, WPAT Chicago the Musical

October 6-15, JPAC Caroline, or Change October 27-November 5, WPAT Butch Caire’s Holly Jolly Family Friendly Vintage TV Christmas Special (with special guest star Becky Allen) December 1-10, WPAT Tuck Everlasting December 8-17, JPAC

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Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts Located in the Rivertown section of Kenner at 325 Minor St., the Rivertown Theaters are under the management of Theatre 13, founded in 2009 by longtime actor/director Gary Rucker and performer/ choreographer Kelly Fouchi. The 2017-18 season will feature: Guys and Dolls September 8-24 Hello Dawlin!

September 29 & October 1 The Odd Couple November 2-19

For tickets and other information, visit Theatre 13 at their website, theatre-13.tix. com, or call 504-461-9475.

The NOLA Project The NOLA Project, now in its 13th season, is a theatrical ensemble company that consists of about two dozen local actors and “strives to challenge, entertain, and engage diverse audiences through high-quality and innovative performances of relevant great works and the development and production of new plays.”

The company performs in various venues throughout New Orleans during the season.

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By Jim Fitzmorris, directed by Beau Bratcher St. Alphonsus Art & Cultural Center, 2045 Constance St. November 2-18

Tucker Fuller; Music: New Resonance Chamber Orchestra – Francis Scully, Conductor; and Krewe du Voix – Paul Weber, Director.

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By Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Shannon Sindelar Lusher Charter School’s Lions Gate Theatre, 5624 Freret St. March 22-April 8

Christmas Cocktails (3 original worldpremiere dances) Choreography: Diogo de Lima, Maritza Mercado-Narcisse, and Nikki Hefko; Music: Lawrence Sieberth and the Polymnia Quartet December 1-3

The Three Musketeers A new adaptation by Pete McElligott, directed by Mark Routhier.

NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Cir., City Park May 9-27

Made In New Orleans – Jazz Ballets (premieres) Choreography: Kellis McSparrin Oldenburg, Gretchen Erickson, and Diogo de Lima; Music: Russell Welch, Rex Gregory, and Nutria.

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For more detailed information about NOLA Project and its productions, go to nolaproject.com.

Marigny Opera Ballet Marigny Opera Ballet enters its fourth season with four productions between October 2017 and March 2018. The resident contemporary ballet company features local dancers, choreographers, and musicians performing original works with live musical accompaniment.

The lineup for the coming season is as follows: Book of Saints (premiere) Choreography: Teresa Fellion; Composer:

Giselle Deslondes (back by popular demand) Choreography: Maya Taylor; Composer: Tucker Fuller; Music: New Resonance Chamber Orchestra – Francis Scully, Conductor March 23-25 All performances are staged at the Marigny Opera House, 725 St. Ferdinand St. For more information and tickets, call 504948-9998 or visit marignyoperahouse.org.

New Orleans Friends of Music A long-established organization for staging and promoting chamber music, New Orleans

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Friends of Music goes into its 63rd season with a stellar roster of world-class musicians and ensembles, as well as some younger, emerging musicians.

Here is their lineup for 2017-18: Pacifica String Quartet with Sharon Isbin, guitar October 17 Finckel/Sussmann/Neubauer String Trio November 6 Brown/Urioste/Canellakis Piano Trio December 5 Lise de la Salle, piano February 20 Venice Baroque Orchestra March 7 Miro String Quartet with Steve Cohen, clarinet April 9 All NOFOM concerts are held in Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, 33 Audubon Blvd., starting at 7:30 p.m. For more information and tickets, go to friendsofmusic.org.

Musical Arts Society of New Orleans Founded in 1980 by Melvin Alford and Julianne Nice, MASNO aims to provide students and teachers in the performing arts with master classes and workshops, as

well as to expose them to performances by artists in the mainstream of professional activity. MASNO is also the umbrella organization for the biennial New Orleans International Piano Competition (NOIPC) and the annual New Orleans Piano Institute, both of which are held in the summer.

Here is MASNO’s schedule for the 201718 season: From Cuba to New Orleans Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St. September 26, 6 p.m. (free) Flavors of Cuba L'Entrepot, 527 Julia St. September 27, 6:30 p.m.

Nocturne XV with pianist Spencer Myer Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, 921 Canal St. November 5, 5 p.m.

Salon Concert with Pianist Xiaohui Yang Beauregard-Keyes Historic House, 1113 Chartres St. January 11, 6:30 p.m.

Pianist Philippe Bianconi Returns to Louisiana (location TBA) April 7, 6:30 p.m.

For more information and tickets, go to masno.org.

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FilmReviews

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It

By David Vicari Director Andy Muschietti (Mama) takes on an adaptation of Stephen King's IT. This is the second time the horror novel has been made into a film. The first time was as a TV miniseries in 1990, which I felt was just ho-hum. This remake is better, not really because of the horror aspect, but because of the deepness of the main characters and top-notch performances by the young cast.

A group of seven pre-teen outcasts in a small town come together to battle a child-murdering evil entity, which mainly takes the appearance of a clown calling itself Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), though it also takes on many other terrifying forms. The hero of the piece is Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), a loner who has a stutter and whose little brother was killed by Pennywise (in an admittedly shocking opening sequence), months prior. Bill sees the killer clown in what appears to be hallucinations, but he's not the only one, as other kids are seeing it too. The rebellious Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis) sees the grotesque visions, but her home life is just as horrific because her disgusting father constantly lusts after her.

Then there is the lonely, book-smart fat kid, Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor), who has a secret crush on Beverly.

It has many unsettling moments and a few mild scares, but the movie packs in so many of the frightening hallucinations early on that the big “terrifying” finale feels rather toothless.

What saves the film are the scenes with the kids in their day-to-day lives. The moments of loneliness, feelings of loss, and the joy of first love come across very vividly. And when they have to battle pure evil, you feel that there is much at stake.

Home Again

By Fritz Esker Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer is the daughter of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers, who collaborated on hit comedies like Father of the Bride and Baby Boom. For better or worse, Meyers-Shyer’s work feels like a chip off the old block with her debut film Home Again.

A typically plucky Reese Witherspoon plays a mother recently separated from her husband (Michael Sheen). She has moved from New York to L.A. to live in her deceased filmmaker father’s enormous house. While celebrating her 40th birthday with friends at a bar, she meets an aspiring director (Pico Alexander), over 10 years her junior.

Some romantic sparks fly and soon the director, his brother, and their friend have all moved into Witherspoon’s guest house.

Home Again is a piece of benign, escapist wish-fulfillment. It’s a big screen movie for people who like watching Hallmark Channel movies. That probably sounds patronizing, but it’s not intended to be. There’s a place for pleasant escapism in cinema, especially as prevailing trends favor bleak nihilism or gritty neo-realism. But that said, the film never really hits a gear beyond “pleasantly amusing.” The conflicts always feel low-stakes and its farcical elements elicit chuckles instead of laughs. But Meyers-Shyer at least has the sense to keep things short and sweet at 96 minutes.

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28th Annual New Orleans Film Festival to Feature Mudbound and Other Great Films

By Fritz Esker

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he New Orleans Film Society announced the in-competition lineup and the Centerpiece Film, Mudbound, for the 28th Annual New Orleans Film Festival, which will take place from October 11 through 19.

Mudbound, directed and co-written by Dee Rees, is a Louisiana-shot film set in the 1940s American South that was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and was purchased for distribution by Netflix. It stars New Orleans native Jason Mitchell, as well as Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige, Carey Mulligan, and Garrett Hedlund.

Other spotlight films at the fest will include the gay love story Call Me By Your Name, which earned rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also on Cal tap in the category are l Me the biopics Marshall (about By an important case in the life of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall) and The Current War (about the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over whose electricity system would dominate the market).

The film fest received a record number of almost 5000 entries for the 2017 incompetition lineup, an increase of over 20 percent from 2016. Festival organizers highlighted the diversity of the filmmakers in a

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press release. The directors of selected films represent 44 different nationalities. That said, there will still be a strong local flavor to the festival as Louisiana-made films comprise 29 percent of the lineup.

In-competition films include the world premiere of The Organizer, a documentary about the life of community organizer Wade Rathke; Damascene, a film shot in London on helmet GoPros; and Fat Tuesday, a horror film set during Mardi Gras.

All-Access Passes are now on sale at neworleansďŹ lmfestival. org. These give holders access to all screenings, with prior reservation.

They also get early access to online reservations, entry to festival parties, access to the festival lounge, and discounts on film fest merchandise. It costs $225 for New Orleans Film Society members e and $295 for nonm a members. Prices increase Your N by $25 after September 1.

On September 25, tickets go on sale for all New Orleans Film Society members and reservation by All-Access Pass holders. Fullprice tickets go on sale to the general public on October 2. The NOFF main box office will open at Ace Hotel New Orleans on October 9 for advance sales. You can become a member of the New Orleans Film Society by going to their website at neworleansďŹ lmsociety.org.

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TalesFromTheQuarter

By Debbie Lindsay

Surviving The Debacle

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here are those of us who are drawn to the political and social events of these trying times like moths to a flame (blow torch). I am a news junkie. And while I question the soundness of my mind and suspect my spiritual side is slightly skewed for indulging in hours of broadcast and print news, I simply must follow this debacle. I cannot understand the “see/hear no evil” reticence of so many. Yes, I over-watch it, which perhaps makes me some sort of ghoul. Yet I would never gawk at a train wreck, except, as one friend put it, “We are all on this train.” So, I guess it makes sense to “stay tuned” to the daily mishaps, mistakes, and malfeasance of this administration.

I totally get that the world today is rushing towards madness at an alarming rate, and it can be painful to glue oneself to the news too much. So, take a deep breath and stay within your personal comfort zone. But never back away or back down from what is happening—it is serious and requires your attention. Why? Because you have the power to influence, if only on a local level, the course our city and our state will take. If you are concerned about the madcap antics of Trump and the extreme right turn he is attempting to drive our country along, then we must stay actively informed and interested.

If you are a Trump supporter still and have stayed with me this long into my commentary, then allow me to thank you and to commend you on being a voter. Yes, I mean it, thanks for voting. Do I hope you will reconsider Trump and his cronies next election? You betcha.

But I believe that voting is one of the most fundamental methods of being involved in our community and our nation (a nation which affects the entire world). And the freedom to choose your candidate is part of it. So, it is with due respect that I ask you to hear me out and keep your eyes on all reasonable news sources. Same goes for my fellow Democrats and progressives. If you don’t watch Fox News, then how can you begin to understand the other side (right or wrong)?

There is an abundance of worthy news outlets, ranging from television, internet, and radio, to print newspapers and magazines. The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Politico, BBC, NPR, and PBS are a few examples of respectable news

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sources. While this column is primarily about staying informed and sane regarding our nation’s reality show “brought to you via Twitter,” we must never lose sight of our local stateof-affairs. Here are some of my go-tos for local coverage: The Times Picayune, despite its loss of many respected staffers (when it downsized) and visual quality (when outsourced to Mobile, Alabama, for printing), it still brings incisive political commentary to its pages with high-caliber writers. And, of course, they carry the major news outlets’ articles (NYT, etc.). The Advocate has also proven to be well worth the read. Add this to Gambit as a source of wellresearched and -written news commentaries and features.

If you prefer a televised view of our real-life house of cards as it unfolds daily (hourly), then you will find BREAKING NEWS constantly on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. I do take Fox in small dosages simply to see how the Trump supporters are feeling and digesting the actions of such an unstable president. I trust/hope his followers search for facts beyond the “alternative” ones. Personally, I find that Fox has an agenda to promote far-right ideologies, but with that said, I weigh with more than a grain of salt the news from MSNBC. This cable news channel sings loud and clear to my choir, and I tune ‘em in nightly.

However, I need more grounded coverage and less opinion commentary to feel like I have the full story on a political issue. So, I go to PBS. Sure, PBS is in sync with a liberal vibe, but they always report with evenness, keeping it professional and respectful. Friday night is my date night with PBS, beginning with the NewsHour, followed by our local WYES with Informed Sources (local politics) and Steppin’ Out for a culinary and entertainment break. Then, still on channel 12, Washington Week in Review, and capping it all off is Charlie Rose: The Week.

This half-hour PBS show is well-paced and ranges from hard-hitting news to interviews with directors and authors, and finishes up with “The Week Ahead,” which highlights events— some obscure—with one for each day of the week. Sunday mornings offer several great political shows, but alas, I am at work then.

Navigating this strange political world we live in now is frustrating, fascinating, and fastpaced. These are times that polarize more than the members of Congress. Democrats and Republicans are too often unable to reach across the aisle—just as friends and families often can’t reach across the living room. You can stand up for your views without insulting another. Bite your tongue until it bleeds. Count to 10, take a break. Debate rather than argue, and this means staying on point, conceding when valid points are made, and commiserating when frustrations surface. Counter only with facts and resist the urge to be smug. We know that Trump is a danger to our democracy, but that doesn’t mean our best friends didn’t vote with all their hearts for what they perceived to be a necessary change. Do I agree with them? No. Do I want and need them in my life? Yes. We are all facing unstable times to come. So hold tight to your values and even tighter to your nearest and dearest, even when you disagree.

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elcome, my friends, to the show that never ends—1,500 restaurants and counting in New Orleans, and not counting filling stations, bars, and stores (convenience, Mom and Pop, or grocery) that sell food.

Restaurants come and go here: 62 new ones in the last 12 months, and they go out of business just as fast. And as one goes down in flames, a new one rises from the ashes—the Phoenix Factor. A New Orleanian would have to dine out every night to support them. Lucky for us that we have visitors; if the visitors stopped, the restaurant industry would be in the creek, not just up it.

There’s no end to the uninitiated who believe that they can buck the odds and open a successful restaurant that will stand the test of time. Also, there seems to be no end to the successful owners of places like the Petite Elite Sweet-Treatery, Tiny Toney’s Taco Take-Outeria, or Nunzio’s Newfoundland Nosh Emporium who make an attempt at opening locations two, three, or four. Been there, done that. When people decide to try their hands at making a living feeding people, they are basically in for a life without a life. Restaurant work doesn’t end at the closing of the day; it’s a 24/7 occupation on the scale of walking up to your neck into oncoming surf in Murphy’s ocean. Whatever can go wrong, will. But I happen to love the business.

Many establishments have run-of-themill, self-aggrandizing owner/operators with authority issues and indecorous countenances who act like sandbox intimidators when things go awry, and effectually unsettle everyone around them when things don’t go their way.

They place “managers” in charge and motivate them using a self-perpetuating, corporate inspiration/submission system, then wonder why good people leave and rationalize that “quitters” cannot take the pressure (that they have created). This is the best way to success: spend your time perfecting surreptitiousness; stay alert to discrepancies in productivity; and rationalize that if one site is working up to expectations, two or more would be better for you financially, if not spiritually. Make sure that your staff never works unprofitable schedules, avoid offering benefits, and never shy away from terminating the weaker links. To some, this is de rigueur.

Sometimes, a person will ask me if I ever miss the work of owning or “chef-ing” in a joint, bistro, or low-brow or high-end gourmangerie, and I tell them, yes. That’s because the work is the easy part. It’s all the rest of the stuff that goes along with being a conductor in this field of dysfunctional cacophonic Merry Melody orchestras that tests.

Basically—at the beginning—passion is its own reward, until the challenges start to fly at you like an octopus pitching bedlam fastball in an asylum world series.

Numero uno, though, is that to be successful, you have to be able to pay the bills—the 27 different baseballs that you have to knock out of the park each month to stay in the game.

This, of course, is relative to the dollars you take in and how creative you are at spending them. If you want a pretzel-logic, Chutes-andLadders exercise, try conceiving how a $16 pizza cut 20 ways is divided financially for any culinary entrepreneur. Slice one goes to the rent. Slices two thru five pay the waiters, dishwashers, busboys, and bartender; six thru 11 pay for the cost of the pie (averaged out over the whole menu). So, now you have nine slices left. Telephone, electricity, gas, water, trash, insurance, linen, alarm system, computer, booze, office supplies, paper goods, taxes, and workman’s compensation—munchers in a PacMan game eating into your cash flow. And then the ice machine breaks; the drains back up; a rainstorm floods your business, closing you down for two weeks.

The work is the easy part. You get up, suit up, show up, and never give up. You become defined by your work, and you try to balance empathy and discipline with your staff, knowing that you can never pay them a decent wage and realizing that few of them will ever reach their potential. You try to lead by example, admitting when you’re wrong and having that “Come to Jesus” talk when you have to. You fight your demons on your own time and leave your other life (if you’re lucky enough to have one) at the door; you have a job to do. And you mistakenly expect everyone around you to live up to your standards.

And then there’s the food, and that’s what it’s really about. That’s why you’re here— working “the product” so that your customers are whelmed, the critics approve of you, and some crumbs hit the bottom line. And then the dishwasher shows up drunk on Saturday night and passes out in time for the 7:30 rush. You find out that the cleaning crew is having Surf and Turf while working, and the bartender is giving free drinks to his friends and big tippers.

The best thing about working in a restaurant is that you can take your craft with you anywhere in the world. The worst thing about running a restaurant is knowing that that is also going to happen with your most talented staff, and while the worst of your people will fade away (hopefully before damage occurs), what you’ll be left with will be mules that you can rely upon to do their job, but not much more. And all the hopes that you have for making a mark on the world will be forgotten as you row, row, row that boat.

Having been around this block more times than I can count, I’ve seen it all from the inside.

Now, instead, I cook at home every night and leave you with the last line, which is also the first line: welcome, my friends, to the show that never ends.

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Below are our staff's favorite #NOLA hashtags on Instagram for Aug/Sept. Tag us @WhereYatNola or #WhereYatNola to be featured in an upcoming issue.

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TulaneHasNation'sFourthHappiestStudents

@_matthewbird

@coastcycles

@troubadourhotel

Town & Country Magazine has a list of 20 colleges with the happiest students that included Tulane University at number four. It is no surprise that Tulane was voted on the list with the happiest students. Tulane is known for diversity and inclusion. We can attribute this to Tulane's Southern roots that make the students at Tulane some of the happiest in the country.

TurkeyAndTheWolfIsBestNewRestaurant @souffwes

@frenchquarterlife

@misinreallife

@iamericaholland

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@sarahluminate

@lylaclayre

Below are our staff's New Orleans hashtag picks from Twitter for Aug/Sept. Tag us @WhereYatNola or #WhereYatNola to be featured in an upcoming issue.

Bon Appétit Magazine, a food and culture magazine that’s been around since 1956, has named Turkey and the Wolf, the new sandwich restaurant located in the Irish Channel, America’s best new restaurant. Turkey and the Wolf serves sandwiches and cocktails in a quirky, colorful, upbeat environment. The restaurant was just opened this August by Mason Hereford, previously Coquette's chef de cuisine, and Lauren Holton.

LSUCrownsNewMikeTheTigerVII The newest member of LSU is the 11-month-old cub Mike VII, now an official Fighting Tiger. The LSU live mascot tradition originated with Mike I and has remained a continuous presence within the LSU community. This cool cat on campus arrived by a donation from the “Wild at Heart Wildlife Center” in Okeechobee, Florida. The induction of Mike VII succeeds the passing of Mike VI in 2016 from cancer.

@DavidMore: Beautiful blue sky over #NOLA this afternoon. Such a lovely September day in the Crescent City! #followyournola #lawx #onlylouisiana @onneutralgrnd: I'm like a 5 year old on Christmas morning on the first day of the @Saints season. #whodat #MNF #cantwait @alexislynn12: I was just told that in New Orleans you can get daiquiris in a drive through AND they give to-go cups for alcohol #mindblown @VisitNewOrleans: Everyone leaves #NOLA with a story as their souvenir. For our 300th anniversary, we want to hear yours. Share them with #OneTimeInNOLA! @WWIIMuseum: We were honored to host #WWII veteran Lawrence Brooks for his 108th birthday this morning. We look forward to having him back next year! @RevMelanieNOLA: Haunted tour of French Quarter? Tour of snow ball stands? Tchoupitoulas challenge at Creole Creamery? (That'll wipe out a whole day)

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DisneyCommits$1MillionToHarveyRelief The Walt Disney Company and ABC station KTRK-TV in Houston jointly announced a $1 million commitment to the American Red Cross in support of recovery efforts for communities affected by Hurricane Harvey.

CEO Bob Iger said, "We know thousands of people have lost everything and now face the daunting challenge of putting their lives back together, and we’re using our unique resources and reach to help those in need.”

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Christopher Grim and Shelton Carruth celebrated Southern Decadence with the Crescent City Rougaroux rugby team.

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Owners Aimeé Sedky and Fabiola Divins enjoy the afternoon at their salon Paint’d on Magazine Street.

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Redemption Rye Cocktail Contest winner Laura Belluci of SoBou celebrates her victory with Redemption’s Mike Scaglione.

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Extravagent costumes were all the rage during Southern Decandence over Labor Day weekend.

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Brewsiana at House of Blues featured great beers from Port Orleans.

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The Muff-a-Lottas celebrated the spirit of Carnival during the Midsummer Mardi Gras on Oak Street.

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Costumers celebrated Lilo and Stitch at the Midsummer Mardi Gras parade.

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Nothing says Southern Decadence like handsome, shirtless men walking around the French Quarter.

10. Judges Marney Nieters of Delmonico, Bruce Cartwright of Beau Rivage, Abigail Gullo from Compere Lapin, and Dylan O’Donnell of Dr. Gumbo toast at the Redemption Rye Cocktail Contest Finals.

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Napoleon's Itch was created in 2003 with one mission: quality drinks, upscale environment, never a cover, and service to all lifestyles. The Itch is now famous for hand-crafted mojitos, martinis, and a myriad of designer cocktails and beers. Four corners world-famous, The Itch is located at 734 Bourbon at St. Ann.

Chat NIKKI REYES with

<< Ronnie Julian Owner, Napoleon's Itch

<< Jennifer Williams Retired Air Force/Masters Student

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Boudin and chips!

Thigh.

Yes! Supreme pizza.

Chuck, The Passion Flower.

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Houston's on St. Charles.

BBQ ribs.

Thighs ... all day!

Yes! Oreos, grapes, and Hostess-brand goodies.

Pizzi’s knees!

Where Y’at Chat Questions: 1. It's Where Y'at's Fall Restaurant Guide issue! What New Orleans restaurant has the best food, service, and staff ?

2. What food could you eat even in your sleep?

3. September hosts the Fried Chicken Fest! If you were a piece of chicken, what would be fried?

4. After a long "cocktailed" eve, have you ever awoken to halfeaten food next to you?

5. September is Honey(bees) Month! Who or what is your “honey”?

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Mexican.

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You know that place? With piña coladas?

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It was not mine, Nikki!

My mom, Edda.

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The Orleans Grapevine.

Asian summer rolls.

BREASTS! NO! That one and this one…

Doris Metropolitan.

PB&J! My tail.

Yes, an uncooked pork chop! I was getting there.

My mom, Carole.

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<< Storie Gonsoulin Musician/Artist, 801 Royal Hmm, let's see ... 801 Royal!

Crawfish Etouffée!.

Wing.

Oh yeah, definitely! Slice of pizza.

My daughter, Meitha.

^^ Cheryl Charming Award-Winning Bar Manager, Bourbon Orleans

The Grapevine, Nikki!

OYSTERS. So many oysters!

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My little girls … my daughters.