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And just like that, the second weekend of Jazz Fest arrives!

Condolences to the Neville family on the passing of saxophonist Charles Neville. Expect a tribute featuring the music of The Neville Brothers at Cyril and Aaron’s Jazz Fest shows … check out exact times and stages in our Jazz Fest Cubes starting on page 18.

May is a busy month with Cinco de Mayo, graduation, and the New Orleans Food & Wine Experience. But don’t forget Mom on Mother’s Day! Phil LaMancusa writes a fantastic piece on the important, though sometimes difficult, relationship we have with Mom. If you’re looking to catch some live music at night, check out the new Concert Calendar feature at WhereYat.com. This new addition will point you in the right direction to find the hottest acts at the best clubs.

While on the website, be sure to vote in the Best of the Big Easy contest for the best that New Orleans has to offer … from dining to shopping to nightlife and more!

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Trombone Shorty is Not Short on Sound

By Emily Hingle Photos by Romney Caruso

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roy Andrews was born to be a star. Hailing from the Treme neighborhood, the man who would come to be known as Trombone Shorty grew up surrounded by music. His family members are well-known musicians, and he was entranced by the second-line brass bands that would parade through his neighborhood. At the tender age of four, he took the stage next to rock 'n’ roller Bo Diddley at Jazz Fest, and he was the leader of his own band before he turned 10.

Trombone Shorty’s legacy is already known the world over, and it’s only set to grow stronger with each passing year.

Shorty’s fascination with brass instruments began when he watched musicians in his neighborhood take to the streets to celebrate. He explained that when he was a young boy around the age of seven, he witnessed a group of men start up their own second line. “There’s this place called the Treme Music Hall that all of the older people used to hang out at when I was younger. I remember being at home, and there was a trombone playing around the street. I’ll never forget that moment when they walked around. It was probably a school night, and it was probably about 11:00 at night. I heard this trombone, and I heard them coming outside. There was humming

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and singing, and I think that was the formation of the group The Treme Sidewalk Steppers. I don’t think they even know that I remember that,” he happily explained.

Shorty was inspired to lead his own bands from that moment on, specializing in the trombone, although he is a multiinstrumentalist. Despite going on to find fame the world over, there was no bigger honor for Troy than to be named king of the Treme Sidewalk Steppers for Second Line Sunday 2018. "[It was great] being in the Treme neighborhood and being able to be a part of the Treme Sidewalk Steppers, a group that I grew up with—playing the second lines, and to be in the group years later. And for them to ask me to be a king is one of the biggest honors that I’ve ever received. The respect that they have for me, and the respect I have for the guys in the group, it’s incredible; I was very, very honored that they even asked me and considered me to be a part of it.”

Trombone Shorty also helped lead the second line that celebrated the life of Mr. Okra, a beloved street food vendor, on February 25. Shorty believed that it was the largest second line he’s ever been a part of. He said, “Just to be able to bring all those people out and be a part of history; I’ve definitely never seen a second line in my life that big. It was great to be able to be a part of that and experience that in my neighborhood once again.”

There really is no place like home for Shorty since he’s been touring consistently since he graduated high school more than 10 years ago.

He misses New Orleans when he’s on the road, and he’s not here long enough to see all of the major changes occurring.

“I’m gone so much; we do about 200-plus shows a year.

I’ve come back in town; I see new buildings, I see things that I don’t know about. I have to get caught up on what’s happening in the city. I’m not sure if I’ve felt the new New Orleans that everybody’s talking about yet because I’m not here as much. Things in life change. “ When this famed player does come home, there are some things he has to do. Having a shrimp po-boy is at the top of the list. He explained his homecoming ritual: “I try to go and at least catch some brass bands playing, and sometimes I like to jump in with them. Other than that, as soon as I get off the plane and I feel the humidity, I’m back

home. I just drive around, go Uptown, go down to Frenchmen Street, go over to my grandmother’s house and see the family.

That lasts for about three, four days. Then I’m back out for two months. Whatever I can get whenever I’m here, it just happens like that.”

Throughout his illustrious career, Shorty has opened for and performed with some of the biggest musical acts of our time across all genres. He was in Lenny Kravitz’s band in 2005; performed with Steven Tyler and LeAnn Rimes at MusiCares in 2014; and performed at the Grammy Awards with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Madonna, and Queen Latifah. Still, there are some musicmakers out there that he has yet to perform with. “I haven’t played with Sting yet, and I’d like to do something with Jay-Z and maybe Beyonce; that would be fun. I’d like to play or maybe record with Trent Reznor,” he said.

Trombone Shorty puts a lot of thought into his “presentations,” and it’s garnered him a steady touring career. Audiences are thrilled when he plays his spirited shows, and they can’t seem to get enough of him and his New Orleans-inspired tunes. “I’ve been very fortunate to have a great reaction.

Sometimes when you have people that are from New Orleans, audiences can react a bit differently because they get a chance to see you more. Fortunately enough for me, I’ve only been playing a few shows in New Orleans throughout the years to where people are still able to be excited when they see me, because I’m not playing every week.

The end result has been pretty favorable for me,” he said.

In Europe, the audiences seem to stay pretty quiet throughout the show, then applaud for half an hour when the show ends.

In Japan, he can seemingly control the crowd’s reaction with simple gestures.

Australian audiences are so enthralled that they stage dive regularly. “It’s a different thing everywhere, but everybody appreciates a New Orleans sound. I’ve been fortunate enough to experience all sorts of reactions,” he concluded.

Trombone Shorty will have many lucrative and enjoyable music-making years ahead of him, but he’ll never forget that New Orleans is his home.

Trombone Shorty will be the final performance of Jazz Fest on the Acura Stage on Sunday, May 6 from 5:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

“I remember being at home, and there was a trombone playing around the street. I’ll never forget that moment when they walked around. It was probably a school night, and it was probably about 11:00 at night. I heard this trombone, and I heard them coming outside. There was humming and singing, and I think that was the formation of the group The Treme Sidewalk Steppers.

I don’t think they even know that I remember that.”

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Gal Holiday Gentilly Stage 12:20 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.

If you’re a fan of country rooted in Americana, rockabilly, and good ol’ western swing, then look no further than Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue. Lead singer Vanessa Niemann and her band have wowed the audience at Jazz Fest for the last two years, and this year promises to be no different.

This New Orleans The Roots of ensemble has Music Marching three terrific Crusaders albums under Around the their belt (the third Grounds having showcased 11 2:45 p.m. original compositions) You’ve probably and a highly anticipated seen this dynamic fourth in the works with Ben marching band during ma Mardi Gras season in the help of a Kickstarter nach a J a i n 's Jam campaign. Because of that, krewes such as Bacchus this performance will most certainly and Proteus. But, did you know that feature some of their newest tracks before they’ve also performed alongside the 610 you can buy them!

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Top Picks for Thursday, May 3

HeadlinerDecision LIONEL RICHIE vs.

LYLE LOVETT vs.

TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS This one is tricky for sure. All of these musicians have such a distinct sound that I don’t see much crossover happening. You have Richie, who has the name recognition and a vast number of hits, but you also have Lovett, whose classic country has a certain quality to it. But then again, you also have Toots and the Maytals, who have been killing it in the reggae/ska genre for more than four decades. Feet will be moving at all of these sets. If you love Lionel, then go to him for sure, but on this “Locals’ Thursday,” you have plenty of good options for an endof-the-day closer.

VERDICT: If you’re dead-set on Richie, you won’t leave unentertained. But if you want to branch out, go for Toots, where you might just have the time of your life.

2:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

This music legend cut his teeth next to brother Art in The Meters before recording alongside his four siblings in the iconic Neville Brothers band. His sought-after percussionist skills came to use on recordings by artists such as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Now, Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk is redefining the musical genre that’s mentioned in their very name! This show will have special meaning after Cyril Neville's brother, Charles, passed away on April 26. Expect some special guest appearances as they honor Charles's legacy.

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Acura Stage – 5:30 p.m.

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Cyril Neville’s Swamp Funk with Omari Neville & The Fuel Congo Square

Orchestra, at the inauguration of Governor John Bel Edwards, and for President Barack Obama? Yes, they are that good. If you catch any parade at Jazz Fest, let this be the one.

Old Crow Medicine Show Gentilly Stage – 3:50 p.m.

Old Crow Medicine Show Gentilly Stage 3:50 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.

Heading straight from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, this Americana/folk band is celebrating 20 years of recording. Grammy winners for their 2014 album Remedy and frequent guests on A Prairie Home Companion, these guys play everything from blues to alternative country in their eclectic set.

With fun and upbeat music like this, just be prepared for your feet to take on a mind of their own!

Jama-Jama or Poulet Fricassee from Bennachin Restaurant Congo Square This yearly hotspot on the festival grounds knows just what its loyal customers crave.

From the delectable taste of Jama-Jama (a sautéed spinach dish that would make Popeye rethink his eating straight from the can) to Poulet Fricassee, Bennachin’s innovative take on chicken-on-a-stick, your taste buds will be dancing just as much as your feet. Don’t forget to cap it all off with those sweet fried plantains, which are an excellent snacking food for the fest.

Gal Holiday

Gentilly Stage – 12:20 p.m.

Grilled Chicken Livers with Pepper Jelly from The Praline Connection Food Area II Come try an exclusive grilled version of the Praline Connection’s famous fried chicken livers. They will still be served with the sweet, hot pepper jelly that you have come to love.

If you’re in the mood for something fried, the crispy wings and fried okra are two crunchy favorites that are sure to satisfy. Don’t forget to get you some of their signature crowder peas and collard greens!

The Work of Many Lives—Waterways in Louisiana Louisiana Folklife Village Celebrate every aspect of our state’s great natural waterways. Learn about traditional boat-building from Tom Colvin.

If you’re interested in how we get all of our scrumptious seafood, let Kernis Huval teach you about crawfish traps and deepwater nets.

The Robin Family will be on hand to share their knowledge of net-making and miniature boat-building. Last but not least, the amazing woodwork of John Hacsunda will be on display for a wooden duck-carving workshop.

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Darcy Malone and The Tangle Acura Stage 12:35 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Darcy Malone sure knows what makes a great band; she comes from royalty and grew up watching the best, since her father Dave is a founding member of The Radiators. This would explain why her love of rock and roll, coupled with her band’s unique blend of soul, jazz, and punk, has produced one of the hottest and most sought-after bands in New Orleans.

Tank and the Bangas Acura Stage 1:55 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Winner of the 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Contest, Tarriona “Tank” Ball and the Bangas have made spoken word relevant again, with its usage alongside the biting beats of funk, soul, and hip hop. Yet, Ball has also proven herself a powerhouse vocalist to complement their R&B-infused set. Perhaps that’s why the band has just released their debut single, “Smoke.Netflix.

Chill.” from their new major label, Verve Forecast.

This group is surely headed in the direction of stardom, and you ux won’t want to miss them at Macque Cho this stage of their career.

Top Picks for Friday, May 4

HeadlinerDecision BECK vs.

SHERYL CROW vs. LL COOL J Speaking of different styles, Friday has all the bases covered in its variety of musical enjoyment on offer. LL has been known since the 80s with his bona-fide hip-hop hits, but lately, he's garnered more attention for his hosting of the Grammys and his various TV shows. Crow has some hits from the 90s and some crossover appeal for the baby boomers, but she hasn’t been blowing up the charts lately—yet ultimately, that doesn’t matter. Beck, on the other hand, has been able to bring constantly differing musical elements to a career that has seen many hits and styles. In other words, he’s got enough material to entice nearly anyone.

VERDICT: If you love “Mama Said Knock You Out” and the like, go with LL, but if you aren’t sure, go with Beck. His live show is amazing, and he’ll be sure to entertain the crowd after being forced to cancel two years ago.

Men Rollers SAPC (founded in 1996), along with the sounds of the New Generation Brass Band.

Don’t miss this historic changing of the guard!

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Beck

Acura Stage – 5:25 p.m.

New Generation Brass Band with Scene Boosters and Lady & Men Rollers Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Shr Around the Grounds imp 1:20 p.m.

We all know brass bands and second lines are a Jazz Fest tradition. A trip to the festival would not be complete without the white handkerchiefs, dancing revelers, and of course … that steaming hot brass sound. This will be a celebration of multiple generations of Jazz & Heritage, as the Scene Boosters SAPC (founded in 1973) join forces with the Lady &

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Acura Stage 3:25 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

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Tank and the Bangas Acura Stage – 1:55 p.m.

of folk and country music. His latest album with the 400 Unit, The Nashville Sound, garnered Best Americana Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. Make no mistake, this band is also the very definition of a crowd-pleaser! Get back to the basics with some of the purest music on Earth.

Aaron Neville Gentilly Stage 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Aaron Neville is a true music legend. Four Platinum-certified albums, soul music that has crossed over to virtually every other genre, and his first #1 hit, “Tell It Like It Is,” debuted 52 years ago. Now, I’m going to tell you like it is: DO NOT miss this performance. Aaron will surely be paying tribute to his late brother, saxophonist Charles Neville, during this special set.

Alligator Pie, Crabmeat Stuffed Shrimp, and Fried Green Tomatoes from Cajun Nights Catering Food Area I Place yourself firmly into seafood heaven with this decadent dish. A delicious meat pie made with terrifically seasoned Louisiana alligator is served alongside New Orleans-style seafood bliss—that is, tender crabmeat stuffed inside a fried shrimp. Top it all off with some fried green tomatoes, and you have a Coastal meets Southern dish you’re not likely to forget anytime soon.

Smoked Sausage or Creamy Shrimp Macque Choux from United Houma Nation Louisiana Folklife Village This traditional South Louisiana dish brings together the flavors of Acadiana and the Houma Indian Nation. Whether you enjoy savory smoked sausage or Louisiana shrimp (or both!), enjoy them in this phenomenal dish that combines generous amounts of meat and corn in a trinity-based roux, served over rice. Sop it up with some of their famous fry bread.

taste some of the most delicious food in Louisiana. Of course, if you’re here for the music, then you may just want to pick and choose. From 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., Dudley Passman from Zatarain’s will conduct a Louisiana seafood boil that obviously won’t disappoint. From 12:45 p.m. until 1:45 p.m., Bill Jones from Cochon will be sharing the restaurant’s signature Blue Crab Fried Rice. Last but certainly not least, from 2 till 3 p.m., you can “Celebrate 300!” with corn and crab bisque, courtesy of Bryan Gowland of Abita Springs.

Aaron Neville

Gentilly Stage – 4:15 p.m.

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VERDICT: If you like the old-school, go with Aerosmith. If you want something new, wild, and not-as-obvious, go with Cage. Either way, you’ll enjoy your pick.

Top Picks for Saturday, May 5

HeadlinerDecision AEROSMITH vs.

CAGE THE ELEPHANT These two are firmly rock-and-roll, with one having decades of experience and the other being a recent hit-maker of modern rock anthems. Of course, Aerosmith has the back catalog and the name brand to attract the masses and, with that, this Jazz Fest appearance is guaranteed to bring in a huge crowd.

Cage the Elephant also has many tangible songs that festival-goers will flock to and have a blast dancing to. You could also argue that Cage has all the swagger and bravado of early Aerosmith. Having seen Cage before, however, I know they tear it up and bring an energetic show anytime they step on the stage. But you also can’t discount legendary rockers Aerosmith, who have more hit albums under their belt than most of the lineup. I mean, who doesn’t love “Dream On” and all the others you can name?

Aerosmith

Acura Stage – 5:30 p.m.

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RemainingPicks Tribute to Fats Domino Acura Stage, 1:45 p.m. - 3 p.m.

You can’t have a New Orleans festival without Fats Domino, but sadly, the great pioneer of rock and roll and rhythm and blues passed away last year in October. It was his music that gave life and sound to the city of New Orleans. This year, Jazz Fest has a tribute to the late artist, along with some special guests.

You will be missed, Fats, but your sound will forever fill the streets of New Orleans.

Stoop Kids Gentilly Stage 11:20 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.

A performance by this New Orleans band is Coc a one-of-a-kind experience. hon d e The five members blend every musical genre imaginable, with an emphasis on doo-wop, hip hop, and psychedelia. And the result is so good, you just may wonder where they’ve been all your life. Well, thankfully, now they’re here, so enjoy them while you can.

Boyfriend Gentilly Stage 12:45 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

This female rapper from New Orleans (by way of Nashville) is unceremoniously approaching greatness. With her iconic glasses, over-the-top cone bra and lingerie, and a head full of curlers, you’d think this was a novelty act. Well, yes it is, but when you hear her proclivity for laying down fresh raps that are delivered a mile a minute, you’ll quickly realize that the music is no laughing matter. Come see what “rap-cabaret” is all about!

Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk Acura Stage 2:25 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.

The Nevilles are to music as the Barrymores are to film, plain and simple.

This dynasty knows no Boy bounds, and Jazz Fest is o P t Lai shaping up to be quite the family affair! With this kind of heritage, it should come as no surprise that Ivan’s band has been hailed by The New York Times as the “best funk band in New Orleans.” It’s also no wonder that Dumpstaphunk is invited to Jazz Fest year after year. They tear the house down.

Don’t miss what’s been hailed by Rolling Stone

Cowboy Mouth

Acura Stage – 3:50 p.m.

as “one of New Orleans’s most prestigious modern funk ensembles.”

The Revivalists Gentilly Stage 3:40 p.m. - 5 p.m.

By the time they enjoyed crossover success with the 2017 hit “Wish I Knew You” from their critically acclaimed third album, Men Amongst Mountains, this New Orleans septet quickly found themselves in high demand around the country. With the soulful vocals of lead singer David Shaw laid over a fascinating and eclectic rock sound, the band has received the praise of publications such as Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly. Even with all of their success, one thing that The Revivalists have not done is forget their hometown, having appeared at every Jazz Fest since 2012.

Cowboy Mouth Acura Stage 3:50 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

Here’s a band that has gleefully represented New Orleans to the rest of the world for over 25 years. As one of the best jam bands around, any appearance by Louisiana Music Hall of Fame members Fred LeBlanc and Cowboy Mouth ensures a lively and entertaining set.

The prestige of Jazz Fest will certainly be no exception. Jenny says, “Don’t miss this performance!”

each and every one of your taste buds.

Cochon de Lait Po-Boy from Love at First Bite Food Area I Walker’s Southern Style BBQ is known as the home of the cochon de lait po-boy, and their offshoot catering company Love at First Bite has full access to it! Throw out those pork roasts, because there’s only one method of cooking pork good enough to be coined “cochon de lait,” which is tender, marinated, melt-in-your-mouth, roasted suckling pig.

Mardi Gras Indian Beadwork from Golden Comanche Chief Juan Pardo Culture Exchange Pavilion Chief Juan Pardo’s Mardi Gras Indian suit is even more special in 2018, as he’s sewn patches onto the iconic outfit to commemorate the Louisiana tricentennial.

The chief is a busy man these days. In the midst of producing the Voices of the Nation recording with other Mardi Gras Indians, he’s risen through the ranks to become Big Chief.

If tradition holds, you’ll be very likely to see the Big Chief perform. No Jazz Fest would be complete without it.

Po-Boys from Vaucressan’s Sausage Co. Food Area I How do you like your sausage? From Vaucressan, you can choose from three New Orleans favorites. There’s that classic standby, the hot sausage po-boy, which will satisfy just about any Cajun palate. For those who prefer their sausage with a seafood bent, you can’t go wrong with either their delicious crawfish sausage po-boy or the dynamic alligator sausage po-boy. Or just get all three and snack on them throughout the day!

Pheasant, Quail, and Andouille Gumbo from Prejean’s Restaurant Food Area II This Jazz Fest hit really needs no introduction, as this Lafayette restaurant serves up some of the best Cajun cooking in the entire state of Louisiana. Two poultry delicacies—pheasant and quail—share the stage with both andouille and smoked sausage, to make a gumbo that will delight

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RemainingPicks Flow Tribe Gentilly Stage 11:15 p.m. - 12:05 p.m.

With a mixture of funk, brass, fun, and high energy, these New Orleans natives have found themselves in demand at music festivals across the country. (New Orleans sure is one heck of a breeding ground for great bands, right?) Of course, there’s just something extra special when they play before their hometown crowd.

Come witness the Tribe’s fifth consecutive Jazz Fest appearance for a lunchtime performance that promises fiesta, not siesta!

Top Picks for Sunday, May 6

HeadlinerDecision JACK WHITE vs.

STEVE MILLER BAND vs.

TROMBONE SHORTY The closing Sunday of Jazz Fest is always tricky. The biggest act of the day never closes the main stage; instead, the fest opts for local legend Trombone Shorty, who’s never met a crowd he couldn’t entertain.

But you also have Jack White playing before Shorty, who will surely bring a radical rock show to the Fair Grounds. Then, there is also the classic Steve Miller, who will likely appeal to the baby boomers in attendance.

There’s really no reason you can’t bounce around and enjoy all three, honestly, and with the festival ending, you want to soak in all the Jazz Fest you can before it goes to sleep until the 2019 edition.

VERDICT: Don’t miss Jack White, and after that, you can either rock out to Miller or go for local flavor and watch Trombone Shorty close out what’s sure to be another memorable Jazz Fest for all in attendance.

Jack White

Acura Stage – 3:35 p.m.

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can’t this guy do? And you can’t afford to miss this show!

Galactic Acura Stage 1:45 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

These guys have made a name for themselves as the preeminent jazz fusion jam band from New Orleans. Word got out about their unique sound, and now we have to share them with the rest of the country! That’s why this appearance at Jazz Fest is so special, because a concert by Galactic is virtually guaranteed to feature: 1. spellbinding music, 2. special guests, and 3. some of the greatest fans on Earth … making this a Mardi Gras atmosphere for all parties involved!

Anders Osborne The Louisiana IrishAcura Stage Italian Parade 12:25 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

Around the Grounds Spicy It was 29 years ago when 3 p.m. ies P M t a e Anders Osborne released his What’s a Jazz & Heritage first album, Doin’ Fine. Since then, Festival without a parade from two of New the master guitarist has gained a loyal fan Orleans’s most celebratory cultures? If you following and is firmly tied to New Orleans missed their annual parade in Metairie (or culture. When not rockin’ the blues, Osborne even if you just wanna see it again), become spent some time in Nashville, penning hits a part of that number. You don’t even need for the likes of Tim McGraw. Seriously, what

you sing along to, then he sang them with the Miracles. Don’t miss this living legend’s first Jazz Fest appearance since 2004.

Alligator Sauce Piquante from Fireman Mike’s Kitchen Food Area I Everyone’s favorite culinary reptile makes its third appearance on this weekend’s picks in this delicious cousin to shrimp creole and crawfish etouffée. (Well, the animals aren’t cousins, but the rice-based dishes certainly are!) Fireman Mike sure knows how to serve this Jazz Fest staple, with his unmistakable sauce formed from tomatoes and the trinity. The taste will likely make you shout hallelujah!

Spicy Meat Pie from Mrs. Wheat’s Foods Food Area II Sometimes you just crave a meat pie, with succulent ground beef, onion, and a zesty pepper blend. And no one does it better than Mrs. Wheat’s, who also offers a crawfish pie (me oh my oh) and the broccoli and cheese pie, the latter of which is perfect for vegetarians. These handheld favorites are also perfect for eating in between stages!

Anders Osborne Acura Stage – 12:25 p.m.

CEP Cultural Exhibits Culture Exchange Pavilion 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Today’s the day to check out all of the magnificent altars at Jazz Fest. Represented will be the legendary Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, the Day of the Dead (celebrating the Mexican holiday of El Dia de Los Muertos), and St. Joseph’s Altar. Also of note will be an altar celebrating a little-known, heroic man known as Juan San Malo, who helped many families escape slavery during the Spanish Colonial era.

to be Irish or Italian, just show up and have a ball!

The Radiators @ 40 Gentilly Stage 3:15 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.

This truly is a special occasion: our beloved Radiators turn 40 this year! The sultans of swamp rock will commemorate this milestone during this last performance of the year. Their music sounds as great today as it did in 1978, and they have achieved renown for keeping the same fivemember lineup as the day they were formed.

Fishheads unite!

Smokey Robinson Congo Square 3:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

The word legend gets thrown around a lot, but there’s no denying it fits squarely upon the man called Smokey Robinson. With a career that has spanned over six decades, Motown’s most celebrated star has received Legend and Lifetime Achievement awards from the Grammys; has been inducted into the Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, and Songwriters Halls of Fame; was awarded the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress; and was honored by the prestigious Kennedy Center. Just a few accolades, you know. Everybody loves Motown, right? Well, chances are, if Smokey didn’t write the hits

Bonnie Raitt The Radiators

Acura StageStage – 3:30 –p.m.

Gentilly 3:15 p.m.

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love of legendary funk artists like Earth, Wind & Fire and Tower of Power. For more than two decades, the band has brought a new vitality to classic END) funk, matching their smooth and soulful grooves with a hip hop-inspired urgency and mastery of beat. They brilliantly infuse their psychedelic and hip-hop sensibilities into bass-heavy funk.

JazzFest NIGHT SHOWS

(SECOND WEEK WWOZ Piano Night 2018 Monday, April 30, 6:30 p.m.; $50 House of Blues, 225 Decatur St. houseofblues.com/neworleans WWOZ Piano Night, the station’s foremost fundraiser, returns for its 30th year April 30 at the House of Blues. Featuring standouts like Jon Cleary, Marcia Ball, and Ellis Marsalis, the event is a tradition for both local musiclovers and fans around the world. This event features a fantastic lineup of piano musicians, all of whom can be placed among the leading figures in the New Orleans music scene.

The Revivalists Thursday, May 3, 8 p.m.; $39.50 Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St. saengernola.com Formed in 2007, The Revivalists played clubs like Checkpoint Charlie’s and Bamboo Willie’s in Pensacola for years, before their song “Wish I Knew You” broke out in 2016.

It spent 40 weeks on the Billboard Adult Alternative Chart, finally peaking at number one. The song earned them praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Buzzfeed, and saw the New Orleansbased septet perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, and The Today Show, among others. The band will appear at the Saenger after performing at Jazz Fest earlier in the afternoon.

Rage!Fest featuring Lettuce with DJ Soul Sister Thursday, May 3, 10 p.m.; $35 Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St. thejoytheater.com Formed in 1992 when several band members attended a summer program at Boston’s Berklee College of Music as teenagers, Lettuce was founded on a shared

Gov’t Mule Friday, May 4, 8:30 p.m.; $29.50 Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St. saengernola.com Rock torchbearers Gov’t Mule formed in 1994 as an offshoot of The Allman Brothers Band and haven’t slowed down since, releasing 10 studio albums and numerous live records and EPs. The band has also become a staple at music festivals across North America, including Jazz Fest in 2017. This year, the band isn’t making an

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Thursday, May 3

Voyager

Friday, May 4

appearance at Jazz Fest, breaking a streak of five straight appearances. But they will appear at the Saenger Theatre, featuring The Marcus King Band, for a night show full of moments of soul, country, and old-fashioned rock-and-roll.

Voyager Friday, May 4, 1:30 a.m.; $25 Cafe Istanbul, 2372 St. Claude Ave. cafeistanbulnola.com Members of The Radiators, String Cheese Incident, and others have banded together to form Voyager, a perfect example of the kind of only-at-Jazz Fest combinations that are the hallmark of late-night Jazz Fest fun.

Taking you through many shades of rock, jazz, funk, and more at Cafe Istanbul latenight Thursday, Voyager promises a sonic journey unlike any other. Celebrate Jazz Fest in grand style at the beautiful, intimate, and great-sounding Cafe Istanbul when Voyager makes its world debut!

Ryan Adams Saturday, May 5, 9 p.m.; $139 Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St. saengernola.com Iconic singer-songwriter Ryan Adams will perform at the Saenger in a once-in-alifetime performance of one of the greatest rock-and-roll albums of all time, the Rolling Stones’s Exile on Main Street, in its entirety.

Don Was, a longtime Stones producer, will direct the concert event, and Adams will be joined by a plethora of all star-level musicians. Adams, the former lead singer of alt-country outfit Whiskeytown, should be well-suited to tend to the country-, bluesand gospel-tinged tones of the Stones’s classic LP, which contains such classics as “Tumbling Dice,” “Happy,” “Sweet Virginia,” and “Rip This Joint.”

The New Mastersounds Saturday, May 5, 2 a.m.; $30 Joy Theater, 1200 Canal St. thejoytheater.com With a recording catalogue that boasts 25 seven-inch singles, nine studio albums, two live albums, one remix album, and three compilation albums, The New

Mastersounds are at the very top of an elite selection of acts that bring the true soul of funk. Having collaborated with local funk luminaries like George Porter, Jr. and Art Neville, this band commands your respect. In fact, Peter Wermelinger—DJ, collector, and author of the crate-diggers’ bible, The Funky & Groovy Music Records Lexicon—places the band’s 2001 track “Turn This Thing Around” in his all-time, top-10 tunes, along with the likes of Eddie Harris, Funkadelic, and Herbie Hancock.

Turkuaz Gives You Wings Saturday, May 5, 2 a.m.; $25 Tipitina’s, 501 Napoleon Ave. tipitinas.com Brooklyn-based funk rock collective Turkuaz will perform a special tribute to Paul McCartney & Wings, featuring co-founding member of the legendary group Denny Laine who, along with Paul and Linda McCartney, formed Wings in 1971. Turkuaz is a rock band at its core that blends soulful sounds with potent funk grooves. Since hitting the road in 2012, Turkuaz has released a handful of albums and canvassed the U.S. multiple times over, continuing to gather devoted listeners along the way.

The Main Squeeze Sunday, May 5, 1 a.m.; $22.50 House of Blues, 225 Decatur St. houseofblues.com/neworleans Starting out in 2010 at Indiana University as a party band, The Main Squeeze has spent years honing their craft, illustrating their growing musical repertoire and soul, hip-hop, funk, and rock sensibilities. After catching the interest of producer Randy Jackson of American Idol fame, the band has steadily grown in popularity, playing at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre and sharing the stage with acts such as Aloe Blacc, The Roots, Jane’s Addiction, Umphrey’s McGee, and New Orleans’s own Trombone Shorty, as well as making appearances at festivals such as Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, and High Sierra.

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Little Freddie King

Has The Blues

By Emily Hingle

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ittle Freddie King may be the very last of the great bluesmen. A true Mississippian who fell in love with the city and did whatever he could to get here and become a renowned musician, Freddie can still be found rocking and rolling several nights of the week. His journey to become an internationally known blues player was not an easy one, but he knew that he had to come to New Orleans because it was his home.

Little Freddie King was a young boy living on a farm in Mississippi when he learned his musical skills. “Back in the days like that, every day was rough days, hard days. It was a whole lot of work and wasn’t any money—cultivating land and stuff like that, growing our own corn and cotton. My dad [Jessie James Martin], he used to play guitar all the time. I used to watch him, and I loved it a whole lot.

I just kept watching him and asked him to learn how to play. He said, ‘Boy, I can’t learn you how to play, you have to learn yourself.

But I can show you three chords.’ So, I didn’t forget the three chords, but I was too small to really do anything during that time,” he

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recounted.

He kept at his craft, but he was distracted by the idea of big-city living. He traveled to New Orleans on a bus for a church trip, and he knew that it was where he wanted to spend the rest of his life. He explained, “By the time I got off the bus and looked around, everything was so convenient and everybody was having fun, and poppin’ and rockin’ and everything. I said, ‘Wow, this place is for me!

This is where I’m supposed to be at.’”

The 14-year-old Freddie told his mother that New Orleans was “where [he was] supposed to be at,” but she threatened to skin him alive if he even talked about moving there ever again. She was worried that he would be kidnapped or murdered. Freddie appeased his mother for some time, but he ultimately couldn’t stay away from the place he felt like was his real home.

“Momma, she was working out there in the town. She goes to work in the morning and comes home in the evening time. She looked around and said, ‘You still here and you didn’t go yet?’ I said, ‘Yeah, momma, you said don’t go, so I’m not going to leave,’” he explained, saying that she was still threatening him with being flayed if

he ran off.

“The next day, she went to work, so I got my little suitcase. I didn’t have a real suitcase, I had a flour sack. I put a pair of shoes and a couple shirts and a pair of pants. The train was headed south, and the track wasn’t too far behind our house. Around 3:30, here come the big train. At the time, it was burning charcoal, so it had a great big smoke stack. I run on the west side of the track and laid down.”

Freddie knew about “hoboing” the train because he had heard his father and uncle talking about it. He stayed out of sight of the conductor by lying in the grass, and he waited until he saw a train car with one of the doors open. “I ran alongside of the train and was flopping on the side of the car just like a kite. It was hard for me to get inside of the car. I finally got inside and start to thinking. I said, ‘Well if the cops get me, I’m going to jail.’ So that’s how I got down to New Orleans.”

Shortly after Freddie arrived in New

Orleans with his flour sack full of clothes, he met up with some friendly people who helped house him. A local reverend got him a job at a service station, and he went to a thrift store to buy his very own acoustic guitar.

Over the next few years, Freddie honed his guitar skills by playing the notes that he thought of in his head. By the late 1960s, Freddie played around the greater New Orleans area with players like Slim Harpo, Babe Stovall, and Harmonica Williams.

Freddie’s bands often played in rural areas like Slidell and Covington where audiences were more racially mixed than they were in the city.

Though Little Freddie King feels most at home in New Orleans, he is revered in Europe where he often tours. He claimed that they treat him like the biggest rock star there.

You can see Little Freddie King perform on Friday, May 4, at 12:20 p.m. in the Blues Tent.

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M Mother's Day: Hearts & Flowers OR Ya Mama and Dem

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y mother inspired me to graduate from high school early and join the navy. The inspiration was for me to get as far and as fast away from her as possible; I had started running away as a toddler and continued fleeing her presence throughout my childhood. This was my big break.

Needless to say, my mother and I never got along.

My mother was called “Big Red.” She was a child of the Great Depression, and she raised five children in the projects (on public assistance) of lower Manhattan in the 1940s thru 1950s on her own— no easy feat, especially through three disastrous marriages, but there you have it. Big Red was a hard-drinking, brashtalking, fist-fighting, Pall Mall (unfiltered)smoker raised virtually on the streets or with the kindness of relatives. She and her siblings were literally abandoned by the early death of their mother and an alcoholic father; they all have their own stories.

It was no stretch that Big Red drank a case of beer a day—I know, I was the one who went to the store for her. I also went out for cigarettes and an occasional trip to Harry the druggist for “a little something” for when she was “late.”

When I left home, at the ripe age of 17 years and three months, I weighed 137 pounds and was 5’9” tall. At that time, Big Red was 5’11” and weighed 180, and she kicked my ass on a regular basis for any

infraction real or imagined. I grew up in a matriarchy with three sisters and a kid brother, five years my junior. I come from a time where to spare the rod was “to spoil the child” (the rod was not spared).

I was more than eager to go to war; it seemed physically safer than staying.

I was sure that one day, her “love” was going to be my death.

Years later, carrying the weight of Big Red with me—the physical, emotional, and psychic abuse that I was raised under—I examined my feelings, emotions, and my scars. I came to the conclusion that my mother was a product of her times, of an intelligence and instinct for survival and the well-being of her brood. The only way she could do that was by having complete control over her environment.

Fast forward into the 21st century where five grown adults live with their own versions of their childhood, their relationships with their siblings, and the experience of living under the umbrella of Big Red, and each is still haunted. They all, in their own ways, carry the ghost of their captor, and that’s what our childhoods were—living in close quarters in captivity.

And now, like animals grappling with freedom, inhibited by living unfettered, we search for answers quantifying our past influences. Unfortunately, we, as adults in your society, are not anomalies.

The things that my siblings have found out reduces my mother’s stature: she was not a virgin when she married for the first

time, unlike what she told us; her tales of naiveté were lies. My brother, through DNA testing, has found out that there was another father involved in her life, one that she was not married to—his father.

Everything that we were told regarding her world now is suspect; our memories of our given histories of family, friends, and circumstances are now suspect. My blanket forgiveness of childhood abuses does not give absolution and, given leeway, can only lead to condemnation. If I allow it.

Yes, my older sisters know more than what they’re telling; they saw the ugly early days. My younger sister and brother were witnesses of the collateral damage created by Big Red and her life, and I, the middle child, was caught in the “middle.”

Luckily for me, I am not restricted by logic and sanity; I have the ability to think for myself and outside of my opinions. I also possess the ability not to create a person to blame for my inequities; creating blame has got to have the equal creation of a victim. I am not a victim. I am my own person whose life choices and consequences are of my own making.

Sure, Mother’s Day is upon us, and I’m not going to rain in your Cheerios with my unfortunate upbringing. I have been so blessed with knowing the other mothers that have come through my life and consciousness—the evolution of motherhood, if you will. The mothers that I know of and see around me, by and large, are as foreign to my experience

as if I were raised on another planet; and I celebrate them. My daughters have amazed me at how far we, as a species, have come.

However, I still see throwback behavior in parents less evolved in everyday New Orleans attitudes toward our most vulnerable and impressionable children, our precious resources, our future.

Where do I see Big Red now? I see her as a person, nothing more, nothing less. How do I view the people I know and interact with?

They are people, enigmas, coming from places and circumstances that not one of us can imagine from a casual viewing and can only be judged by their actions.

Because, I believe, we are not controlled by our actions based on our pasts; we are, collectively, better than that. We are creatures with the ability of not being defined by others, even our parents.

Happily celebrate Mother’s Day with the mothers in your life. And from Big Red’s point of view, you know, “it ain’t easy dealing with you bastards on a daily basis.” Give mothers a break, they’re doing the best that they can with the tools that they’ve been given to work with. Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers.

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More Than All That Jazz:

Other Music Genres Birthed in New Orleans

By Burke Bischoff

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hen people think of the sound of New Orleans, what do they hear (other than the obnoxious noise that comes from both Bourbon Street and our often-crooked politicians)? More often than not, people think about the sounds of jazz music on every street corner of the city. Understandable, since New Orleans is considered to be the birthplace of jazz, i.e. America’s music (fight me, Mississippi).

However, the city’s distinction with jazz has unfortunately often eclipsed other New Orleans musical genres that deserve to be better recognized. So, here’s a list of some non-jazz-related New Orleans music genres that should always be on your radar.

New Orleans Blues Developed in the 40s and 50s, New Orleans blues is a distinct variation from the Louisiana blues that it spawned from. What sets New Orleans blues apart are the elements of jazz and Caribbean influence that the genre adopted into its sound. Typically, the genre is characterized by pianos, horns (usually saxophones), and guitars, and is generally happy-sounding and laid-back, but with multifaceted rhythms placed just behind the beat. The best representative of New Orleans blues was the late Professor Longhair, whose songs, like his signature “Mardi Gras in New Orleans,” have left a lasting impact on the culture of the city and inspired some of New Orleans’s best-known musicians. The genre hit a hard decline in the 60s as rock-

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and-roll became more popular, but New Orleans blues is a classic genre that built the groundwork for many musicians in our city.

It’s classically New Orleans.

Notable Acts: Professor Longhair, Snooks Eaglin, Dr. John (pictured above) New Orleans Rhythm and Blues One of the most prominent genres to come out of New Orleans blues was New Orleans rhythm and blues (add the rhythm and it’s a completely different beast). Considered to be the granddaddy of rock-and-roll, New Orleans R&B is characteristically made up of soulful vocals, electric guitar, piano, drums, horns, and bass, all of which are used to incorporate strong backbeats and second-line rhythms to create fun and danceable melodies.

Just like New Orleans blues, the genre also incorporates Caribbean rhythms (calypso, mambo, and rhumba) to make its sound more lively and energetic. Keep in mind that if it wasn’t for New Orleans R&B, we might not have gotten the popular rock-and-roll sound that dominated the world from the 60s on. In fact, the late Fats Domino was named as a direct inspiration for some of history’s most highly regarded musicians like Elvis Presley and the Beatles. So the next time you’re rocking out, make sure to pay your respects to the genre that paved that rock-and-roll yellow brick road.

Notable Acts: Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint (pictured top right)

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Sludge Metal Moving on to a fairly recent genre, sludge metal was first formed in New Orleans during the late 80s. Known for its abrasive style, sludge metal combines elements from slow-tempo doom metal (dark rhythms and cynical atmosphere) and fast-tempo hardcore punk (aggressive lyrics and screaming vocals).

Sludge-metal bands often combine these different tempos, and also use heavily distorted instruments, to create a harsh and dirty sound that is meant to put listeners into a feeling of unease and discomfort to match the dark subject matter in these bands’ lyrics. Quite a few bands in this genre also incorporate elements of stoner metal and Southern rock, like the now-defunct Acid Bath, which was helmed by vocalist Dax Riggs (who is very talented, and you should totally check out his solo work and other projects as well: Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen). I know some extreme types of metal just sound like complete noise to a lot of people, but keep your mind open. Sludge metal is harsh, but its dark atmosphere and often introspective lyrics are just too unique to be written off.

Notable Acts: Eyehategod, Acid Bath, Down

Bounce The last genre on this list is probably one of the more prevalent genres of music in today’s popular music world. Finding its start in the early 90s, bounce music is an enthusiastic form of New Orleans-flavored hip hop, which utilizes Mardi Gras Indian chants, dance C call-outs, and call-and-response interactions M to form a genre of hip hop that is high on Y energy. Bounce was strictly an underground genre all throughout the 90s, until, with CM the help of performers like Big Freedia, it MY exploded onto the national scene in the early 2000s. Mainstream labels No Limits Records CY (Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, Soulja Slim) and Cash CMY Money Records (Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj) then started taking in bounce musicians, K helping the genre get more exposure and admiration. Nowadays, bounce is still popular in the mainstream, even inspiring musicians like Beyoncé to incorporate the genre into their own sound. Bounce has definitely come a long way since the 90s, but always remember that New Orleans was there to nurture it in its humble beginnings.

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MUSICCALENDAR Old Ironworks - Threadhead Patry, George Porter Jr., & more One Eyed Jacks - Dragon Smoke, Eddie Logic Project, & more Preservation Hall - Wendell Brunious, Preservation AllStars Prime Example - The Sidemen + Jazz Quintet Siberia - Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue SideBar Nola - Mike Dillon, Reed Maths, Simon Berz & more Snug Harbor - Germaine Bazzle, Herlin Riley, George French & more Spotted Cat - Andy J. Forest, The Little Big Horns, Smokin’ Time Jazz Club The Starlight Lounge - DJ Fayard Three Muses - Keith Burnstein, Grayson Brockamp, & more Tipitina’s - Steve Earle, the Dukes, & the Mastersons Trinity Episcopal Church - Organ and Labyrinth w/Albinas Prizgintas Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Cajun Drifters Tropical Isle Bourbon - Wild Card, Jezebels Chill’n Tropical Isle Original - the Hangovers, F.A.S.T. Vaughan’s Lounge - Jamaican me Breakfast, the Fortifiers

GIVERS GIVERS is a five-member band from Lafayette. Although they are an indie pop group, they have performed in Zydeco, jazz, and Cajun groups. Sat., May 5, 10 p.m., $15, Gasa Gasa, gasagasa.com Monday, April 30 21st Amendment - Russell Welch Hot Trio 30/90 - Dapper Dandies, Super Jam (VR) Ace Hotel - Harriet Tubman Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Bamboula’s - St. Louis Slim, Co. and Co. Travelin’ Show, G-Volt & the Hurts, & more Blue Nile - Toubab Krewe & Water Seed BMC - Lil Red and Big Bad, Paggy Prine and Southern Soul (VR) Bombay Club - David Boeddinghaus The Bourbon Orleans - Chance Bushman & The Ibervillianaires Buffa’s - Arsene DeLay, Antoine Diel Café Negril - Noggin, In Business Carrollton Station - Jimmy Robinson and Michael Skinkus Central City BBQ - NOLA Crawfish Festival Chiba - Lionel Batiste Jr., Rebirth Andrews, Tom Worrell, & more Chickie Wah Wah - Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott, Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Musical Theory Circle Bar - A Motown Monday with DJ Shane Love Civic Theatre - The Darkness, Diarrhea Planet Crazy Lobster - the Insta-Gators Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat d.b.a. - Tommy Mclain, CC Adrock, Steve Riley, & more Dos Jefes - John Fohl Dragon’s Den - Neela & The Shake ‘Em Up Jazz Band, Audio Dope with DJ Ill Medina Fritzel’s Jazz Pub - Chuck Brachman & Richard Scott Fontaine Palace - Louis Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Jonathon Long Funky Pirate - Willie Lockett Band Gasa Gasa - Hard Proof Hi-Ho Lounge - Bluegrass Pickin’ Party, Instant Opus Improvised Series, & more House of Blues - WWOZ Piano Night ft. Jon Cleary, Marcia Ball, & more House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Mikayla Braun House of Blues (The Parish) - Christophe Mae House of Blues Restaurant - Sean Riley Jazz Playhouse - Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge: Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub - Kim Carson Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop: Lucky Lee Little Gem Saloon - Evan Christopher Little Tropical Isle - Mark Parsons, Reed Lightfoot Louisiana Music Factory - Tom McDermott, Alexey Marti, & more Mahogany Jazz Hall - Stewart McNair & Gary Brown Maison - Chicken and Waffles, Sierra Green and the Soul Machine, & more Maple Leaf Bar - George Porter Jr. Trio ft. Michael Lemmler and Terrence Houston Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras Music Box Village - The Residents Neutral Ground Coffeehouse - Lexi Wegiel, Ivor S.K., & more One Eyed Jacks - John Medeski, Frequinox, & more Palmer Park - Organized Crime, Noelle Tannen & more Preservation Hall - Leroy Jones, Charlie Gabriel Santos Bar - Leeway + Rhythm of Fear Siberia - Alex Massa’s Fat Trio, Organized Crime ft. Noelle Tannen SideBar NOLA - Mike Dillon, Brad Houser, & more

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Sidney’s Saloon - Mondaze + Midriff, & more Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys, Jazz Vipers, & more Starlight - Burlesque Bingo with Lefty Lucy Three Keys (Ace Hotel): SONO presents Harriet Tubman Three Muses - Bart Ramsey, Joe Cabral, Tipitina’s - The New Orleans Suspects, Naughty Professor, & more Tropical Isle Bourbon: Rhythm and Rain, F.A.S.T. Tropical Isle Original: Graham Robertson, 5:15p, Trop Rock Express Vaso - Krawdaddy’s Band & The Demi Zaino Band Tuesday, May 1 30/90 - Bayou Saints, Ed Wills, & more Ace Hotel - Naked on the Floor, Steven Bernstein, & redrawblak Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Mark Weliky Bamboula’s - Damn Gina Trio, Big Dixie Swingers, & more Banks Street Bar: Sam Friend Blue Nile - Adam Deitch Quartet Bombay Club - Matt Lemmler Buffa’s - Vanessa Carr Café Istanbul - Johnny Vidacovich Trio, Pete Muller Café Negril - 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, John Lisi, & more Carrollton Station - Grayson Capps Band Central City BBQ - NOLA Crawfish Festival Chickie Wah Wah - Anders Osborne, John Fohl, & Johnny Sansone The Circle - Irma Thomas & The Soul Rebels Circle Bar - Helen Gillet Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat Civic Theatre - Beach House Columns Hotel - John Rankin d.b.a. - Treme Brass Band, Alexis and the Samurai, & more Dos Jefes - Tom Hook & Wendell Brunious Dragon’s Den - The All-Star Covered-Dish Country Jamboree Ellis Marsalis Center for Music - Raion & Donald Ramsey Band Fontaine Palace - Louis Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Monk Boudreaux Frenchmen Theatre - Big Pearl and friends Funky Pirate - Blues Masters Gasa Gasa - Waxahatchee, Guts Club Hi-Ho Lounge - Calvin Johnson, Big Sam, June Yamagishi, & more House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Jim McCormick, Mike Doussan, Kevin Gordon House of Blues (the Parish) - Dangerous Summer, All Get Out, A Will Away Howlin’ Wolf (the Den) - Jouwala Collective, Emily Julia Kresky, & more Jazz Playhouse - James Rivers Movement Kerry Irish Pub - Jason Bishop Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Little Gem Saloon - Glen David Andrews, Honey Island Swamp Band Louisiana Music Factory - Tuba Skinny, Eric Johansen, Walter Wolfman Washington & more Maison - Eight Dice Cloth, Gregory Agid, & more Maison Bourbon - Uncle Yokes Catahoula Music Company Maple Leaf - Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove, Rebirth Brass Band Old Arabi Bar - Jean Bayou

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Wednesday, May 2 30/90 - Justin Donovan Trio, Jasen Weaver, & more Ace Hotel - Henry Butler Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Jesse Morrow Bamboula’s - Eight Dice Cloth, Bamboulas Hot Jazz Trio, & more Banks Street Bar - Glen David Andrews Bar Redux - Aziza, The Cute, & Diako Diakoff Blue Nile - Ivan Neville, Game of Bones, & more Bombay Club - Josh Paxton Buffa’s - Nattie Sanchez Café Negril - Maid of Orleans, Another Day In Paradise Central City BBQ - NOLA Crawfish Festival Chickie Wah Wah - Jon Cleary, Eric McFadden, & more Civic Theatre - The Afghan Whigs, Built to Spill, & Ed Harcourt Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz and the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat d.b.a. - Tin Men, the Iguanas, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, & more Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton) - Jeremy Davenport Dos Jefes - The George French Trio Dragon’s Den - Irie Collective Jam Session & Dance Hall Classics Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine, John Mooney, Marc Stone, & The Johnny Sansone Band Frenchmen Theatre - Harmonica Extravaganza Funky Pirate - Blues Masters Gasa Gasa - Brent Cobb and Them, Savannah Conley Hi-Ho Lounge - Delta Revues, Toubab Krewe, & more House of Blues - Clutch, The Bronx, Red Fang, & more Howlin’ Wolf - Reed Mathis, Rob Ingraham, & more Jazz Playhouse - Professor Craig Adams Band Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper Lafayette Square - Amanda Shaw & Trumpet Mafia Little Gem Saloon - Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers Little Tropical Isle - Mark Parsons Louisiana Music Factory - Palmetto Bug Stompers, Dr. Michael White, Bonerama & more Maison - New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Roamin’ Jasmine, & more Maison Bourbon - Uncle Yokes Catahoula Music Company Maple Leaf - Funk Monkey, Ivan Neville, & more Marigny Brasserie - Grayson Brockamp and the New Orleans Wildlife Band Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - The Creole Stringbeans Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras, Krewe du Two One Eyed Jacks - The Daze Between Band, Cris Jacobs, & more Palm Court Jazz Café - Lars Edegran & Topsy Chapman Prime Example - Jesse McBride & the Next Generation Jazz Quintet Preservation Hall - Preservation Legacy Band, Preservation All-Stars Ralph’s on the Park - Joe Krown Republic - Marian Hill, Michl Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Creole Stringbeans Roosevelt Hotel (Fountain Lounge) - Tom Hook, Wendell Brunious Sandbar (Loyola University) - Herlin Riley Santos Bar - Swamp Moves with the Russell Welch Quartet Siberia - Shane Sayers, Duke Aeroplane, & Epic Proportions SideBar NOLA - Skerik, Simon Berz, & James Singleton Rough Babies Snug Harbor - Marcia Ball, Joe Krown, & Tom McDermott Spotted Cat - Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, & more Starlight - Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue Three Keys (Ace Hotel) - Henry Butler Three Muses - Leslie Martin, Hot Club of New Orleans Tipitina’s - The Radiators Tropical Isle Bayou Club - The Troubadour

Tropical Isle Bourbon - Jezebels Chill’n, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original - Debi and the Deacons University of New Orleans - Herlin Riley Voo Doo Two Lounge - Eddie Roberts & Soul Project Thursday, May 3 30/90 - Andy J Forrest, Smoke N’ Bones, & Walk Talk Ace Hotel - Ivan Neville’s NOLA Nites, Cris Jacobs, & more Armstrong Park - Sporty and the Big Shots, Noisewater Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Mike Harvey’s Hot Club Bamboula's - Marty Peters, Kala Chandra, & more Banks Street Bar - Smoker’s World ft. Derrick Freeman Bar Redux - Ken Swartz & The Palace of Sun Blue Nile - Spuctacular Funkadelic Experience Bombay Club - Kris Tokarski w/ Duke Heitger Botanical Garden (City Park) - Patrice Fisher and Arpa w/ special guests Buffa’s - Pfister Sister, Tom McDermott, & Aurora Nealand Bullet’s Sports Bar - Kermit Ruffins Café Istanbul - GATORATORS, Voyager Café Negril - Revival, Soul Project Carousel Bar (Hotel Monteleone) - James Rivers Movement Chickie Wah Wah - Seth Walker, John “Papa” Gros Band w/ Cris Jacobs Circle Bar - Dark Lounge, Rik Slave, The Bush Hogs Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat Crazy Lobster - the Spanish Plaza 3 d.b.a. - Jon Cleary, New Breed Brass Band, & Cedric Burnside Project Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton) - Jeremy Davenport Dos Jefes - Todd Duke Trio Dragon’s Den - Ariee, Crescent Fresh Stand-Up Fontaine Palace - Ensemble Fatien (Ivory Coast), Louis Fontaine & the Beat Machine Frenchmen Theatre - Junko Beat Funky Pirate - Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters Gasa Gasa - The Iceman Special, Slugger, DJ Recess Hi-Ho Lounge - Skerik, Nikki Glaspie, & more House of Blues - Trombone Shorty, Orleans Ave., & more Houston’s Restaurant - Hansen presents Garden District Trio Howlin’ Wolf - The Daze Between Band, Eric Krasno, & more Howlin’ Wolf (The Porch) - Official Revivalists Afterparty Jazz Playhouse - Ashlin Parker Trio & Brass-A-Holics Joy Theater - Lettuce, DJ Soul Sister Kerry Irish Pub - Rubin Wilson String Division Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Le Bon Temps Roulé - The Soul Rebels Little Gem Saloon - Grahame Lesh, Luther Dickinson, & more Little Tropical Isle - Allen Hebert, Jezebels Chill’n Maison - Good for Nothin’ Band, Sweet Substitute, & Fiyapower Maple Leaf - Sonny Landreth, George Porter Jr., & more Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Chubby Carrier, Geno Delafose, & more Mulate’s - La Touche Old Arabi Bar - Dave Specter, Joe Krown, & more Old Point Bar - The Two’s One Eyed Jacks - Rhe M&M’s, Palm Court Jazz Café - Leroy Jones, Katja Toivola, & more Portside Lounge - Hog Leg, The Iguanas, & more Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars Prime Example - Jose Fermin & Merengue 4 Republic - Anders Osborne, Jackie Green, & more Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Chubby Carrier, Geno Delafose, & more Rusty Nail - Mia Borders Band Saenger Theatre - The Revivalists Santos Bar - Keith Frank, DJ Quintron, & more Saturn Bar - Alex McMurray & His Band Seahorse Saloon - Po Boyz Organ Group with Simon Lott Siberia - Blato Zlato. Eastern Bloc Party SideBar NOLA - Jimmy Robinson, Cranston Clements, & more Snug Harbor - Dr. Lonnie Smith w/ Donald Harrison Special Venue - Soul Project Spotted Cat - Up Up We Go!, Miss Sophia Lee, & Jumbo Shrimp The Starlight Lounge - Lynn Drury Three Keys (Ace Hotel) - Ivan Neville, Cris Jacobs, & more Three Muses - Tom McDermott, Joe Pollack Tipitina’s - Turkuaz, Marco Benevento Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Cajun Drifters, Faubourg Ramblers Tropical Isle Bourbon - Wild Card, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original - The Hangovers, Late as Usual Vaughan’s Lounge - DJ Black Pearl, Corey Henry, & the Treme Funktet Willow - Cyril Neville & Water Seek Friday, May 4 30/90 - Keith Stone, Chris Klein, & more Ace Hotel - The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Apple Barrel - Adam Crochet Audubon Zoo - Bon Bon Vivant Bacchanal - The Tangiers Combo, Willie Green Project

Bamboula’s - Sierra Green and the Soul Machine, Chance Bushman’s Rhythm Stoppers, & more Banks Street Bar - Swamp Donkeys ft. James Williams Bar Redux - JD Hill & the Jammers Blue Nile - Kermit Ruffins, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, & more Bombay Club - Vince Giordano, Duke Heitger, & more Buffa’s - Alexandra Scott, Greg Schatz, & Sam Friend Bullet’s Sports Bar - The Pinettes Brass Band Café Beignet (Musical Legends Park) - Steamboat Willie Jazz Band Café Istanbul - Honey Island Swamp Band & Dirty Dozen Brass Band Café Negril - Dana Abbott, Higher Heights, & more Carousel Bar (Hotel Monteleone) - Antoine Diel, Nayo Jones Experience, * more Carrollton Station - Andrew Duhon Trio Chickie Wah Wah - Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Charlie Wooton Project Circle Bar - Dash Rip Rock, Natalie Mae Civic Theatre - Tank and the Bangas, Naughty Professor, & Maggie Koerner Club Caribbean - Reggae Invasion Crazy Lobster - Ken Swartz & the Palace of Sin Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat d.b.a. - Tav Falco, Panther Burns, Soul Rebels, & Lost Bayou Ramblers Davenport Lounge (Ritz-Carlton) - Jeremy Davenport Dos Jefes - The Panorama Jazz Band Dragon’s Den - DJ RQ Away Fontaine Palace - Ghalia & Mama’s Boys, Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine Frenchmen Theatre - City of Trees Funky Pirate - Mark and the Pentones, & Blues Masters Gasa Gasa - Flow Tribe & Valerie Sassyfras Hi-Ho Lounge - River Dragon, Stooges Brass Band, & more House of Blues - The Motet & Funky Meters House of Blues (the Parish) - Cowboy Mouth Howlin’ Wolf - 16th Annual Bayou Rendezvous Jazz Playhouse - Joe Krown, Nayo Jones Experience, & more John Bukaty Studio and Gallery - Mike Dillon, James Singleton, & more Joy Theatre - Galactic, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, & more Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Guitar Slim Jr. Kerry Irish Pub - Chip Wilson, Paintbox w/Dave James, & Tim Robertson Le Bon Temps Roulé - Joe Krown Little Gem Saloon - Lilli Lewis & Jamison Ross Little Tropical Isle - Reed Lightfoot, Styk Maison - Marco Benevento, Robert Walter, & more Maple Leaf - In Business, James Brown Tribute, & more Mardi Gras World - Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Wayne Toups , Ryan Foret, & Foret Tradition Oak Wine Bar - Jon Roniger Old Arabi Bar - Brother Tyrone & The Mindbenders Old Point Bar - Rick Trolsen, Jamey St. Pierre Old U.S. Mint - Alexandria Scott and her Magical Band One Eyed Jacks - Frogs Gone Fishing Palm Court Jazz Café - Kevin Louis and Palm Court Jazz Band Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars Prime Example - The Bridge Trio Republic - Delta Rhythm Revue, Tab Benoit, Samantha Fish, & Marc Broussard Rivershack Tavern - Roux the Day Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Wayne Toups, Ryan Foret and Foret Tradition Saenger Theatre - Gov’t Mule & the Marcus King Band Santos Bar - Tommy Wright III, Lil Ya, Evil Army, & more Seahorse Saloon - Po Boyz Organ Group with Simon Lott Siberia - Kumasi, Egg Yolk Jubilee, Electric Arch SideBar NOLA - Dayna Kurtz & New Orleans Klezmer All-Star Trio Snug Harbor - Ellis Marsalis Quintet Spotted Cat - Andy J. Forest, Cottonmouth Kings, & more The Starlight Lounge - Belles & Whistles Burlesque, Linnzi Zaorski Three Muses - Royal Roses, Doro Wat Jazz Band, & Glen David Andrews Tipitina’s - The Devon Allman Project, Duane Betts, & more Treo - Nicole Ockmond Group Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Faubourg Ramblers Tropical Isle Bourbon - Wild Card, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original - The Hangovers, Late as Usual W XYZ Bar (Aloft Hotel) - Lynn Drury Windsor Court Hotel Cocktail Bar - Mark Monistere Zeitgeist - James Singleton Saxophone Forest

Circle Bar - The Iguanas Crazy Lobster - the River Gand, Poppy’s Poppin’ Saturday Review Creole Cookery - Trad Stars Jazz Band Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat d.b.a. - Tuba Skinny, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, & more Dos Jefes - Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots Dragon’s Den - MOJO, DJ Jeremy Phipps, & more Fontaine Palace - Les Getrex, Walter Wolfman Washington, National Lagarde, Louie Fontaine & the Starlight Searchers Frenchmen Theatre - Mofongo Funky Pirate - Mark and the Pentones, Blues Masters Gasa Gasa - Givers, ROAR, Naughty Palace Gattuso’s - Treces del Sur Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church - Grace Jazz Ensemble Green Zebra Bar - the Deft Funk DJ’s Uptown Getdown Hi-Ho Lounge - The Iceman Special, Pink Room Project House of Blues - The Motet, Butcher Brown, The Main Squeeze House of Blues (The Parish) - Ripe Houston’s Restaurant - Garden District Trio Howlin’ Wolf (the Den) - Brady Blade, Cliff Hines, & more Jazz and Heritage Center - Naydja Cojoe, Nayo Jones, & Mykia Jovan Jazz Playhouse - New Orleans Swamp Donkeys Joy Theater - Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, the New Mastersounds, & more Julia Street - Jammin’ on Julia Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Neisha Ruffins Kerry Irish Pub - Beth Patterson, Patrick Cooper, & Mark

Carroll Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Little Gem Saloon - Alana Davis, Marc Stone, & more Maison - Chance Bushman and the Ibervillianaires, The Function, & more Maple Leaf - Ari Teitel, Jon Cleary, & more Mardi Gras World - Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Javier Olando, AsheSon, & more Monkey Hill Bar - Luther Kent & Trick Bag Morning Call City Park - Billy D. Chapman Music Box Village - Weedie Braimah and the Hands of Time Oak Wine Bar - Dapper Dandies Old Arabi Bar - The Melatauns Old Point Bar - Misfit Toys One Eyed Jacks - Sonic Bloom, Eric “Benny” Bloom, & Break Science Live Band Palm Court Jazz Café - Duke Heitger with Palm Court Jazz Band Pontchartrain Vineyards - Jazz’n the Vines, Debbie Davis, & Josh Paxton Portside Lounge - Egg Yolk Jubilee, the Redd Foxx Tails Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars Prime Example - Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet Republic - Big Freedia, Sweet Crude, & more Rivershack Tavern - SuperNova!

Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Javier Olando, AsheSon, & more Saenger Theatre - Ryan Adams, Don Was Siberia - Maggie Belle Band, The Tumbling Wheels, & more SideBar NOLA - Larry Sieberth, Brad Walker, & more

Snug Harbor - Herlin Riley Quintet Spotted Cat - Antoine Diel, Arsene DeLay, & more The Starlight Lounge - Oilo Ragtime Burlesque Revue & The Slick Skillet Serenaders Three Muses - Shotgun Jazz Band & Sam Friend Time Out - Andre Bouvier and the Royal Bohemians Tipitina’s - North Mississippi All-Stars, Greyboy All-Stars Vaso- Joe-Joe-And Mo Blues Band, Funk It All, & more Vaughan’s Lounge - Klezmer All-Stars, Morning 40 Federation, & more Sunday, May 6 30/90 - Ceven, the Boys, Ted Hofko, & more Allways Lounge - Catie Rodgers & her Swing Orchestra Bacchanal - The Tangiers Combo, the Tradstars, Roamin’ Jasmine Bamboula’s - Gina & Lindsay, NOLA Ragweeds, & more Bar Redux - Xandra Wong & Dusky Waters Blue Nile - Funky But Better Bombay Club - Kris Tokarski w/Tim Laughlin and Hal Smith Buffa’s - Some Like It Hot!, Steve Pistorius Quartet, & more Bullet’s Sports Bar - The Wizz Café Istanbul - Bonerama, John “Papa” Gros, & Darcy Malone Café Negril - Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie & Vegas Cola Chickie Wah Wah - Ian Moore Band, Mike Dillon, & more Circle Bar - Micah McKee, John Mooney, & more Crazy Lobster - Gator Bites & Neon Shadows Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat

Saturday, May 5 30/90 - The Sleazeball Orchestra, Noah Young Band, & more Bacchanal - The Tangiers Combo, Red Organ Trio, Jasen Weaver Band Bamboula’s - Kala Chandra, Johnny Mastro, & more Bar Redux - Sabertooth Swing Blue Moon Saloon - Valerie Sassyfras Blue Nile - Cris Jacobs Band, Ivan Neville, & more Bombay Club - Leroy Jones Buffa’s - Doyle Cooper, the Red Hot Jazz band, & more Bullet’s - Johnny Sansone Band Café Istanbul - George Porter Jr. & his Runnin’ Pardners Café Negril - Joy Clark, Higher Heights, & more Carousel Bar (Hotel Monteleone) - Robin Barnes and her Jazz Band, Lena Prima Band Carrollton Station - John Mooney & Bluesiana Chickie Wah Wah - Paul Sanchez and the Rolling Road Show, & more

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d.b.a. - Jazz Vipers, Stanton Moore Trio, & more Dos Jefes - Tangiers Combo Dragon’s Den - Anuraag Pendyal &, Church Fontaine Palace - Nappy Hour & Ambush Reggae Band Funky Pirate - Mark and the Pentones, Willie Lockett Band Gasa Gasa - Backtrack, Misery, & more Hi-Ho Lounge - NOLA Comedy Hour, DJ Rusty Lazer, & more House of Blues - George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic Howlin’ Wolf - Bobby Vega, Kirk Joseph, & more Howlin’ Wolf (the Den) - Hot 8 Brass Band Jazz Playhouse - Germaine Bazzle Kermit’s Mother-in-Law Lounge - Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper Mahalia Jackson Theater - Michael Blackson Maison - NOLA Jitterbugs, the Hokum High Rollers, & more Maple Leaf - Joe Krown Trio, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, & more Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Sonny Landreth, Tab Benoit, & Jonathan Boogie Long Morning Call City Park - Billy D. Chapman Old Point Bar - Shawan Rice One Eyed Jacks - Eric Lindell Palm Court Jazz Café - Mark Braud & Sunday Night Swingsters Preservation Hall - Preservation All-Stars Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Sonny Landreth, Tab Benoit, & Jonathon Boogie Long Saturn Bar - Valparaiso Men’s Chorus Siberia - Helen Gillet, Zoe Boekbinder, & Sasha Masakowski SideBar NOLA - RedRawBlak Snug Harbor - Terence Blanchard E-collective Spotted Cat - Aurora Nealand, Kristina Morales, & more The Starlight Lounge - Messy Cookers Jazz Band Three Muses - Raphael et Pascale, Linnzi Zaorski Tipitina’s - Dumpstaphunk, the Nth Power, & DJ Soul Sister Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Roland Cheramie, , Faubourg Ramblers Tropical Isle Bourbon - Rhythm and Rain, Debi and the Deacons Tropical Isle Original - The Hangovers, Late as Usual Monday, May 7 30/90 - Margie Perez Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Helen Gillet Bamboula’s - St. Louis Slim, Co & Co Travelin’ Show, & more Blue Nile - Nth Power Buffa’s - Arsene DeLay & Antoine Diel Café Negril - Noggin, In Business Carousel Bar (Hotel Monteleone) - James Williams Chiba - Lionel Batiste Jr., Rebirth Andrews, & more Chickie Wah Wah - Bill Kirchen & Austin DeLone Circle Bar - Dem Roach Boyz Crazy Lobster - The Insta-Gators Crescent City Brewhouse - New Orleans Street Beat d.b.a. - Soul Brass Band, Funk Monkey Dos Jefes - John Fohl Dragon’s Den - DJ Ill Medina, Monday Night Swing Fontaine Palace - Louie’s Do the Bar Lounge Funky Pirate - Willie Lockett Band Hi-Ho Lounge - Bluegrass Pickin’ Party & Instant Opus Improvised Series House of Blues (the Parish) - KILLY Jazz Playhouse - Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band Kerry Irish Pub - Kim Carson Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Louisiana Music Factory - Smoking Time Jazz Club, John Fohl, Walter Seed & more Maison - Chicken and Waffles, Aurora Nealand, & more Maple Leaf - Big Sam’s Funky Nation, George Porter Jr. Morning Call - Valerie Sassyfras One Eyed Jacks - Blind Texas Marlin

Preservation Hall - Preservation Jazz Masters, Preservation All-Stars Santos Bar - Igor & the Red Elvises SideBar NOLA - Phil DeGruy Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys, Dominick Grillo, & more Three Muses - Bart Ramsey, Miss Sophia Lee Tipitina’s - Papa Grows Funk Reunion, Johnny Sketch, & the Dirty Notes Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Cajun Drifters Tropical Isle Bourbon - Rhythm and Rain, F.A.S.T. Tropical Isle Original - Graham Robinson Band, Trop Rock Express Tuesday, May 8 Ace Hotel - Noruz Bacchanal - Raphael Bas, Mark Weliky BMC - Louise Cappi, Dapper Dandies, Slick Skillet Serenaders Bourbon O Bar - Marty Peters Quartet Cafe Negril - 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, John Lisi & Delta Funk Checkpoint Charlie - Jamie Lynn Vessels Chickie Wah Wah - Chip Wilson Circle Bar - John Fohl, Gools, Dabs, & more Columns Hotel - Don Vappie, Matt Rhody, & John Rankin d.b.a. - Treme Brass Band Dos Jefes - Tom Hook and Wendell Brunious Fontaine Palace - Soul Rotisserie Funky Pirate - Blues Masters House of Blues - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and friends House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Carolena, Kristin Courville, & more House of Blues (The Parish) - Red Wanting Blue, Liz Brasher The Jazz Playhouse - The James Rivers Movement Joy Theater - Ethan Bortnick Kerry Irish Pub - Jason Bishop Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop - Lucky Lee Little Tropical Isle - Mark Pentone, Frank Fairbanks Louisiana Music Factory - New Orleans Swinging Gypsies, Amanda Shaw, Cyril Neville Maison Bourbon - Uncle Yokes Catahoula Music Company Maple Leaf - Herlin Riley, Eric Struthers and Joe Ashlar, Rebirth Brass Band New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Joe Krown Old Arabi Bar - Shawn Williams Santos Bar - Mutoid Man, Lazer Wulf SideBar Nola - Cliff Hines and Simon Berz Snug Harbor - Stanton Moore Trio The Spotted Cat - Andy J. Forest, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, Smokin’ Time Jazz Club The Starlight - DJ Fayard Trinity Episcopal Church - Organ and Labyrinth w/ALbinas Prizgintas Tropical Isle Bayou Club - Cajun Drifters Tropical Isle Bourbon - Wild Card, Jezebels Chill’n Tropical Isle Original - The Hangovers, F.A.S.T. Wednesday, May 9 BMC - Nicole & The Tempted, Hyperphlyy, Funk It All Cafe Negril - Maid of Orleans, Another Day in Paradise Checkpoint Charlie - T Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters Circle Bar - The Iguanas, Jenny Don’t & The Spurs d.b.a. - Tin Men, Walter Wolfman Washington & the Roadmasters Dos Jefes - The George French Trio Fontaine Palace - Marigny Street Brass Band House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Michael Liuzza The Jazz Playhouse - Michael Watson Band Kerry Irish Pub - Chip Wilson Lafayette Square - N’Awlins Johnnys, Bonerama Marigny Brasserie - Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans

MoBettaBrown This is a triple-genre concert with sounds pulling from contemporary jazz, blues-rock, and hip hop with SOUL'D OUT ft. Talib Kweli and Special Guests. There is also a free afterparty. Sat., May 9, 10 p.m., $40 and $80 (VIP), Three Keys at Ace Hotel, threekeysnola. com

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SteelyDan&TheDoobieBrothers This four-time Grammy-winning band will be bringing their roots-based rock-and-roll style to the Smoothie King Center. Some of their biggest hits include "Reelin' in the Years," "Hey Nineteen," and "Babylon Sisters." Tues., May 22, 7:30 p.m., $27. Smoothie King Center, smoothiekingcenter.com Wildlife Band Snug Harbor - Delfeayo Marsalis The Spotted Cat - Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel The Starlight - Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue Thursday, May 10 BMC - Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, Andre Lovett Band, Chrishira Bullet’s Sports Bar - Kermit Ruffins Cafe Negril - Revival, Soul Project Checkpoint Charlie - Grand Ole Uproar Circle Bar - Dark Lounge ft. Rik Slave, Gools, Bug Lord, Dabs & more Creole Gardens Hotel - Davis Rogan Dos Jefes - The Bryce Eastwood Band Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine Hotel Storyville - Yocho House of Blues - Bre Renee, Fantastic 8 Brass Band, Nowater & more The Jazz Playhouse - Brass-A-Holics Kerry Irish Pub - Will Dickerson Ogden Museum of Southern Art - Tonya Boyd-Cannon Old Point Bar - Valerie Sassyfras One Eyed Jacks - DJ Shane Love Snug Harbor - Adonis Rose & NOJO Jam The Spotted Cat - Up Up We Go!, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp The Starlight - Lynn Drury Friday, May 11 Armstrong Park - Crab Festival ft. Michael Franks & Loose Ends Bamboula’s - Bon Bon Vivant BMC - Lifesavers, Hyperphlyy, Luna Mora Bullet’s Sports Bar - The Pinettes Brass Band Cafe Negril - Big Mike & The R&B Kings, Dana Abbott, Higher Heights Checkpoint Charlie - Louisiana Hellbenders, Sheiks of Arabi Circle Bar - Natalie Mae, Roman Gabriel Todd, Man-Alone, Team Creole Gardens Hotel - DJ Black Queen Annie Dos Jefes - Tom Fitzpatrick & Turning Point Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Dave Jordan & MIA House of Blues - Kick (INXS Tribute) House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Jake Landry & the Right Lane Benefits The Jazz Playhouse - Ashlin Parker Trio, The Nayo Jones Experience, Romy Kaye Kerry Irish Pub - Patrick Cooper, Lynn Drury Le Bon Temps Roule - Crazy Whisky Oak Wine Bar - Jordan Anderson Band Old Arabi Bar - Sandra Love & The Reasons Old Point Bar - Rick Trolsen, The Hounds One Eyed Jacks - King Tuff, Cut Worms Republic New Orleans - Bleep Bloop Saenger Theatre - Chicago Snug Harbor- Ellis Marsalis Quintet The Spotted Cat - Andy Forest, Washboard Chaz Trio, Sierra Green & The Soul Machine The Orpheum Theater - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra The Starlight - Linnzi Zaorski Tipitina’s - Dana Ives, Kayla Mims, Richard Rouke & more Saturday, May 12 Banks Street Bar - Valerie Sassyfras BMC - The Jazzmen, Willie Lockett, Jam Brass Band, Epic

Funk Brass Band Cafe Negril - Joy Clark, Jamey St. Pierre & The Honeycreepers, Dana Abbott Band Checkpoint Charlie - Kenny Triche Band, Aden Paul Circle Bar - Debauche Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Society Hall - Hank Mackie Band Dos Jefes - Sunpie & the LA. Sunspots Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Mia Borders, Les Getrex and the Creole Kitchen House of Blues (The Parish) - Parker Millsap, Jillette Johnson The Jazz Playhouse - Daniel Meinecke, Professor Craig Adams Band Joy Theater - Brandon Ray & more Kerry Irish Pub - Roux the Day! New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Seguenon Kone Oak Wine Bar - Jenn Howard Glass Old Arabi Bar - Paggy Prine & Southern Soul Old Point Bar - Jesse Tripp & the Nightbreed Snug Harbor - Quiana Lynell The Spotted Cat - Shotgun Jazz Band, Doro Wat, Jazz Vipers The Starlight - Shawan Rice, The Slick Skillet Serenaders Tipitina’s - Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers Sunday, May 13 BMC - Foot & Friends, Jazmarae, Moments Of Truth Bullet’s Sports Bar - Big Frank and lil Frank Cafe Negril - Jamie Lynn Vessels, Sierra Green & The Soul Machine Checkpoint Charlie - Open Mic ft. Jim Smith Circle Bar - Micah -n- Marlin Dos Jefes - The Michael Mason Band Fontaine Palace - Nappy Hour House of Blues (The Parish) - Bilal The Jazz Playhouse - Germaine Bazzle Kerry Irish Pub - Chip Wilson Marigny Brasserie - Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, Dinosaurchestra Old Point Bar - Amanda Walker, Romy Kaye and Jeanne Marie Harris One Eyed Jacks - Slim & the Beast Snug Harbor - Evan Christopher Southport Hall - Psychostick, House of Goats The Spotted Cat - John Lisi & Delta Funk, Kristina Morales & The Inner Wild, Pat Casey The Starlight - Messy Cookers Tipitina’s - Dweezil Zappa Monday, May 14 BMC - LC Smoove, Lil Red & Big Bad, Paggy Prine & Southern Soul Cafe Negril - Noggin, In Business Circle Bar - Dem Roach Boyz Dos Jefes - John Fohl Dragon’s Den - Renard Boissiere Dragon’s Den “Upstairs” - Dinosaurchestra Fontaine Palace - Louie’s Do the Bar Lounge The Jazz Playhouse - Gerald French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge - Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield & more Kerry Irish Pub - 2 Sheets to the Wind One Eyed Jacks - MC Chris, Bitforce Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band The Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys, Dominick Grillo, Jazz Vipers

Monday April 30 Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine 6pm, 9pm & 11:30pm Jonathon Long, 10pm

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Tuesday May 1 Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine 6pm, 9pm & 11:30pm Monk Boudreaux, 10pm

Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine 6pm, 9pm & 11:30pm The Johnny Sansone Band, 10pm Thursday May 3

Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine 6pm, 9pm & 11:30pm Ensemble Fatien (Ivory Coast), 10pm

Walter Wolfman Washington Saturday May 5

Les Getrex, 9:30pm Walter Wolfman Washington 11:30pm Louie Fontaine & the Starlight Searchers 1:30am Sunday May 6

Ambush Reggae Band, 11pm

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Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine 6pm, 9pm & 11:30pm Ghalia and Mama’s Boys, 10pm

Every Sunday Nappy Hour, 4pm

Every Tuesday Soul Rotisserie, 5pm

Every Monday Louie’s Do the Bar Lounge, 6pm

Every Wednesday Brass Wednesdays: Marigny Brass Band, 9pm, 11pm

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Tuesday, May 15 BMC - Jeff Chaz, Dapper Dandies, Slick Skillet Serenaders Cafe Negril - 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, John Lisi & Delta Funk Checkpoint Charlie - Jamie Lynn Vessels Circle Bar - Alex McMurray & His Band, Witchjail Columns Hotel - John Rankin Fontaine Palace - Soul Rotisserie House of Blues - Pouya The Jazz Playhouse - The James Rivers Movement Kerry Irish Pub - Jason Bishop New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Joe Krown Old Arabi Bar - Dustin Cole Republic New Orleans - Kimbra, Son Lux Snug Harbor - Stanton Moore Trio The Spotted Cat - Andy Forest, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, Smokin’ Time Jazz Club The Starlight - DJ Fayard

The Jazz Playhouse - Ashlin Parker Trio, Brass-A-Holics Kerry Irish Pub - Beth Patterson Ogden Museum of Southern Art - Cha Wa Old Arabi Bar - Gal Holiday & The Honky Tonk Revue Old Point Bar - Keith Stone & Red Gravy One Eyed Jacks - DJ Shane Love Snug Harbor - NOCCA Jazz Ensemble ft. Michael Pellera The Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp The Starlight - Lynn Drury

Wednesday May 16 BMC - Nicole & The Tempted, Hyperphlyy, Funk It All Cafe Negril - Maid of Orleans, Another Day in Paradise Checkpoint Charlie - T Bone Stone & the Happy Monsters Circle Bar - The Iguanas Dos Jefes - The George French Trio Fontaine Palace - Marigny St. Brass Band House of Blues - YFN Lucci, Q Money, YFN Kay & more House of Blues (The Parish) - Company of Thieves The Jazz Playhouse - The Nayo Jones Experience Joy Theater - Dr. Dog, Son Little Kerry Irish Pub - Tim Robertson Lafayette Square - Motel Radio Marigny Brasserie - Grayson Brockamp & the New Orleans Wildlife Band Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - The Yat Pack Republic New Orleans - Dirty Projectors Santos Bar - Russell Welch Gypsy Jazz Snug Harbor - Uptown Jazz Orchestra ft. Terrance Taplin The Spotted Cat - Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel & The N.O. Misfit Power The Starlight - Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue

Friday, May 18 BMC - Lifesavers, Hyperphlyy, La Tran-K Bullet’s Sports Bar - The Pinettes Brass Band Cafe Negril - Big Mike & The R&B Kings, Dana Abbott, Higher Heights Checkpoint Charlie - Important Gravy, Dirty Ram Revelers Circle Bar - Natalie Mae, BobbyRock, Spell Breaker, Gushers Creole Gardens Hotel - DJ Black Queen Annie Dos Jefes - The Mark Braud Band Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Jonathon Boogie Long Guitar Fights ft. Keith Stone House of Blues - Dru Hill, Sisqo House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Jake Landry & the Right Lane Benefits House of Blues (The Parish) - LouMuzik Live The Jazz Playhouse - Joe Krown, Shannon Powell, Romy Kaye Kerry Irish Pub - Vali Talbot, Hurricane Refugees Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - The Boogie Men Oak Wine Bar - Burris Old Arabi Bar - Strange Roux Old Point Bar - Rick Trolsen, Lakeshore Drivers One Eyed Jacks - DJ Soul Sister Portside Lounge - Fury & the Whole World Shakes, Space Republic New Orleans - Ghastly Snug Harbor - Ellis Marsalis Quintet The Spotted Cat - Andy Forest, Cottonmouth Kings, Rhythm Stompers The Orpheum Theater - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra The Starlight - Linnzi Zaorski

Thursday, May 17 BMC - Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, Andre Lovett Band, Chrishira Bullet’s Sports Bar -Kermit Ruffins Cafe Negril - Revival, Soul Project Checkpoint Charlie - Pucusama Circle Bar - Dark Lounge ft. Rik Slave, Kaycee & more Creole Gardens Hotel - Davis Rogan Dos Jefes - The Carl LeBlanc Trio Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine

Saturday, May 19 BMC - The Jazzmen, Willie Lockett, Andre Lovett, DK & The Jakes Cafe Negril - Joy Clark, Jamey St. Pierre & The Honeycreepers, Another Day in Paradise Checkpoint Charlie - Hubcap Kings, The Ubaka Brothers Circle Bar - Precubed, AF the Naysayer, Klyph Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine, Little Freddie King, Les Getrex and the Creole Kitchen Dos Jefes - Vivaz!

EddieB Eddie B's Teachers Only Tour is bringing comedy created for teachers by speaking about what is on the mind of teachers around the world. He has traveled to Africa, Dubai, India, and other destinations, and now he is adding New Orleans to the list. Fri., May 25, 8 p.m., $60, Saenger Theatre, saengernola.com Gasa Gasa - Matron, Neon Mountain and Kuwaisiana House of Blues - Bustout Jazz Band House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Jake Landry & the Right Lane Benefits House of Blues (The Parish) - The Green, Iya Terra, DJ Green Thumb Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - Stefan Moll, Luther Kent Joy Theater - Big Boi Kerry Irish Pub - Mike Kerwin & Geoff Coats, Beth Patterson New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Seguenon Kone,

Reynold Kinsale Oak Wine Bar - Jon Roniger Old Arabi Bar - Josh Benitez Band Old Point Bar - Rebel Roadside Portside Lounge - The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars Republic New Orleans - UZ RF’s - James Martin Band Saenger Theatre - Joe Bonamassa Snug Harbor - Wolff & Clark Expedition ft. Michael Wolff, Mike Clark & Ben Allison The Spotted Cat - Russell Welch’s Mississippi Gypsy, Panorama Jazz Band, Jumbo Shrimp The Orpheum Theater - Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Step into Spotlights with us prior to the event and enjoy our exclusive lounge with private entry, complimentary premium bar and light hors d’ourves.

Tickets for Spotlights can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com or at the Box Office.

May 3 - 6................................. Disney On Ice presents Dare To Dream May 20......................................................................KEM & Johnny Gill May 26..................................................................... Big Easy Rollergirls June 1-3........................................... 65th Annual Symphony Book Fair July 6...............................................................Copeland’s Chicken Jam October 3............ Ms. Lauryn Hill – Celebrating The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com, Lakefront Arena Box Office, or charge by phone at 800-745-3000.

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The Starlight - Shawan Rice, The Slick Skillet Serenaders Sunday, May 20 BMC - Nicole & The Tempted, Jazmarae, Moments of Truth Bullet’s Sports Bar - Teresa B. Cafe Negril - Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, Vegas Cola Carousel Lounge - James Martin Band Checkpoint Charlie - Open Mic ft. Jim Smith Circle Bar - Micah -n- Marlin Dos Jefes - Troi Atkinson Fontaine Palace - Nappy Hour House of Blues (Foundation Room) - Jake Landry & the Right Lane Bandits The Jazz Playhouse - Germaine Bazzle Kerry Irish Pub - Will Dickerson Marigny Brasserie - Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, Dinosaurchestra Old Point Bar - Tres Bien, Romy Kaye and Jeanne Marie Harris One Eyed Jacks - Marina Orchestra Saenger Theatre - ZZ Top Snug Harbor - Evan Christopher The Spotted Cat - Jamey St. Pierre, Kristina Morales, Pat Casey Superior Seafood - Superior Jazz Trio The Starlight - Messy Cookers Monday, May 21 BMC - Zoe K., Lil’ Red & Big Bad, Paggy Prine & Southern Soul Cafe Negril’ - Maid of Orleans, In Business Circle Bar - Dem Roach Boyz Dos Jefes - John Fohl Dragon’s Den - Pandi & Jeremy Poyce Dragon’s Den Upstairs - Hot Toddy & His Fully Dressed Poboys Fontaine Palace - Louie’s Do the Bar Lounge House of Blues - Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Just Juice House of Blues : The Parish - Marcy Playground, Local H Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - Michael Watson Kermit’s Treme’ Mother-In-Law Lounge - Kermit Ruffins, Irvin Mayfield One Eyed Jack’s - Blind Texas Marlin Snug Harbor - Charmaine Neville Band The Spotted Cat - Royal Street Winding Boys, Dominick Grillo & The Frenchmen St. All-Stars, Jazz Vipers Tuesday, May 22 BMC - Jeff Chaz, Dapper Dandies, Slick Skillet Serenaders Cafe Negril - 4 Sidemen of the Apocalypse, John Lisi & Delta Funk

Checkpoint Charlie - Jamie Lynn Vessels Circle Bar - John Fohl Columns Hotel - John Rankin Dos Jefes - Mark Coleman & Todd Duke Fontaine Palace - Soul Rotisserie Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - The James Rivers Movement New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Joe Krown One Eyed Jack’s - Dina Martina Snug Harbor - Mahmoud Chouki The Spotted Cat - Andy Forest, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, Smokin’ Time Jazz Club The Starlight - DJ Fayard Wednesday, May 23 BMC - Aaron Lopez, Hyperphlyy, Funk It All Cafe Negril - Maid of Orleans, Another Day in Paradise Checkpoint Charlie - T-Bone Stone & The Happy Monsters Circle Bar - The Iguanas Dos Jefes - The George French Trio Fontaine Palace - Marigny St. Brass Band House of Blues - Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul House of Blues : Foundation Room - Michael Liuzza Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - The Nayo Jones Experience Lafayette Square - Naughty Professor, Maggie Koerner Marigny Brasserie - Grayson Brockamp & The New Orleans Wildlife Band Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Rocky’s Hot Fox Trot Orchestra New Orleans Jazz Museum - Evan Christopher Portside Lounge - Clever Girl, Night Nurses Snug Harbor - Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Delfeayo Marsalis Southport Hall - Upon A Burning Body, Volumes, Convictions, The Spotted Cat - Chris Christy, Shotgun Jazz Band, Antoine Diel & The New Orleans Misfit Power The Starlight - Gal Holiday & The Honky Tonk Revue Thursday, May 24 BMC - Ainsley Matich & Broken Blues, Andre Lovett Band, Chrishira Bullet’s Sports Bar - Kermit Ruffins Cafe Negril - Revival, Soul Project Checkpoint Charlie - Voodoo Wagon Circle Bar - Dark Lounge feat. Rik Slave Creole Gardens - Davis Rogan Dos Jefes - The Loren Pickford Quartet Hi Ho Lounge - Baby Boy Bartels & The Boys, The Goods House of Blues : The Parish - The Steel Woods, Ross

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Friday, May 25 BMC - Lifesavers, Hearsay, Hyperphlyy, Treces Del Sur Bullet’s Sports Bar - The Pinettes Brass Band Cafe Negril - Big Mike & The R&B Kings, Dana Abbott, Higher Heights Circle Bar - Natalie Mae, DJ Ham Sandwich Creole Gardens - DJ Black Queen Annie Dos Jefes - Sunpie & the LA. Sunspots Fontaine Palace - Knucklebone Oscar (Rock), Bywater Rock Group, Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band Hurricanes Sports Bar - Lakeshore Drivers The Jazz Playhouse - Joe Krown, Quiana Lynell, Romy Kaye Mid City Lane Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Bucktown Allstars Oak Wine Bar - Dapper Dandies Old Arabi Bar - Nicole & The Tempted Old Point Bar - Rick Trolsen, Marshland Portside Lounge - Room Thirteen Snug Harbor - Ellis MArsalis Quintet Southport Hall - Nile, Raise The Death Toll, The Void The Spotted Cat - Andy Forest, Washboard Chaz Trio, James Martin The Starlight - Linnzi Zaorski Saturday, May 26 BMC - The Jazzmen, Willie Lockett, Jam Brass Band, Oski Foundation Cafe Negril - Joy Clark, Jamey St. Pierre & The Honeycreepers, Soul Project Checkpoint Charlie - Alpha Rhythm, The Ubaka Brothers Circle Bar - DJ BuyItNow, DJ Matty & Kristen Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Society Hall - Andrew Duhon & The Lonesome Crows Dos Jefes - The Joe Krown Trio Fontaine Palace - Louie Fontaine & the Beat Machine House of Blues - Nirvanna, Rise Against The Machine, The

Kurt Loders Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - David Meinecke, Shannon Powell Joy Theater - Buckethead Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Javier Olondo, AsheSon New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park - Seguenon Kone, Reynold Kinsale, Westlane High School Jazz Ensemble Oak Wine Bar - Jenn Howard Glass Old Point Bar - 1% Nation Portside Lounge - Jesse Tripp & The Night Breed, The Unnaturals Snug Harbor - Astral Project Southport Hall - Terry McDermott & Justin Molaison, The Breton Sound The Spotted Cat - Jazz Land Ballers, Panorama Jazz Band, Dominick Grillo & The Frenchmen St. All-Stars The Starlight - Shawan Rice, The Slick Skillet Serenaders Tipitina’s - The Continental Drifters Sunday, May 27 Bar Redux - Leigh Guest & Alex Bosworth BMC - Nicole & The Tempted, Jazmarae, Moments of Truth Bullet’s Sports Bar - VL & Just Right Band Cafe Negril - Ecirb Muller’s Twisted Dixie, Vegas Cola Carousel Lounge (Hotel Monteleone) - James Martin Band Checkpoint Charlie - Open Mic ft. Jim Smith Circle Bar - Micah-n-Martin Dos Jefes - The Michael Mason Band House of Blues - Trivium Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - Germaine Bazzle Marigny Brasserie - Debbie Davis & Josh Paxton, Dinosaurchestra Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Bruce Daigrepont Old Point Bar - Anais St. John, Romy Kaye and Jeanna Marie Harris Snug Harbor - Evan Christopher The Spotted Cat - Gouzy Band, Kristina Morales & The Inner Wild, Pat Casey & The New Sound Superior Seafood - Superior Jazz Trio The Starlight - Messy Cookers Tiptina’s - Paris Avenue Monday, May 28 BMC - Zoe K., Lil Red & Big Bad, Paggy Prine & Southern Soul Cafe Negril - Noggin, In Business Circle Bar - Dem Roach Boyz Dos Jefes - John Fohl Dragon’s Den - Renard Boissiere Dragon’s Den Upstairs - Little Coquette

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Cooper Houston’s Restaurant - David Hansen’s Garden District Band The Jazz Playhouse - Ashlin Parker Trio, Brass-A-Holics Joy Theater - David Crosby Mid-City Lanes Rock ‘n’ Bowl - Wayne Singleton & Same Ol’ 2 Step Old Point Bar - Shawn Williams One Eyed Jack’s - DJ Shane Love Portside Lounge - Jennifer Lane Niceley RF’s - Kennedy Kuntz & The Men of the Hour Snug Harbor - Carl LeBlanc The Spotted Cat - Up, Up, We Go!, Miss Sophie Lee, Jumbo Shrimp The Starlight - Lynn Drury

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Sat.3/11 5/05 Fri.

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Sun. 5/06

Patrick Cooper 8 pm 9 pm Hurricane Refugees

Mon.3/12 5/07 Sat.

Kim Carson 8:30 Mark Parsons 5 pm

Fri. 5/11

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Traditional Lynn Drury Irish 9 pmSession 5 pm

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Kim 8:30 pm RouxCarson The Day! 9 pm

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Van Hudson 12:00 (Noon) Sat. 5/19 3/17 Mike Kerwin & Geoff Coatspm 5 pm Thurs. 3/17

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Bayou Boogaloo May 18 - 20

FOOD/DRINK Cinco de Mayo with Carreta’s Grill All Carreta’s Locations Saturday, May 5; 5 - 10 p.m. carretasgrill.com Since 1999, Carreta’s Grill has delivered quality Tex-Mex cuisine for reasonable prices, and their annual Cinco de Mayo celebration is no different. Featuring live music at each of their four locations throughout the metro area, Supercharger will play at the Slidell location, the Top Cats will be in Harahan, Sensation Band will be featured at the Metairie location, and DJ Hollywood and the Bass Wagon will perform at the Covington restaurant. The Jose Cuervo girls will attend the events from 5 to 7 p.m., and there will also be raffles, giveaways, and free prizes to win.

FESTIVALS GiveNOLA Fest Center for Philanthropy: 919 St. Charles Ave. Tuesday, May 1; 5 - 8 p.m. givenola.org Celebrate humanitarianism at GiveNOLA Day, a 24-hour event that raises awareness and support for non-profits in our community. The festival is hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation and admission is free, with proceeds from food and beverage sales benefitting the Lagniappe Fund. And wait till you get a load of this vendor lineup: Taceaux Loceaux, The Company Burger, Ralph Brennan Catering, Blue Oak BBQ, and Pressed. Naturally, there will be some great entertainment on hand, namely the Soul Rebels and Irma Thomas, the legendary Soul Queen of New Orleans. You may even get lucky and win one of two sets of domestic, round-trip Southwest Airlines tickets.

Jammin’ on Julia 300 – 500 Julia Street Saturday, May 5; 6 – 11 p.m. artsdistrictneworleans.com If you’re looking for a little art in your life, then head down to the 300 to 500 block of Julia Street for the annual Jammin’ on Julia celebration. Three world-class museums and 12 galleries will be showing off artwork. This block party also features music from such bands as Bon Bon Vivant and Helen Gillet, as well as Mardi Gras Indians, performance art, and cold Abita Beer. Dress to impress and grab a bite from restaurants like NOSH and Flamingo A-Go-Go.

Jazz in the Park Crab Festival May 11

NOWFE May 23 - 27 New Orleans Wine & Food Experience (NOWFE) Multiple Locations; Times Vary Wednesday, May 23 - Sunday, May 27 nowfe.com One of the city’s premier events, the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience is a five-day celebration of what New Orleans does best: eating and drinking. Entering its 26th year, the festival has become one of the most incredible culinary events in the nation. Hundreds of wineries and restaurants participate, featuring new dishes created by the city’s hottest chefs and over 1,000 wines from around the world, with special tasting events from wineries. You can enjoy grand tasting events, promenade evenings in the French Quarter, and seminar series to hone your palate. Check out the event’s website at nowfe.com for more information on locations and times of events.

Jazz in the Park Crab Festival Armstrong Park: 901 N. Rampart St. Friday, May 11 pufap.org People United for Armstrong Park (PUfAP), the proud presenters of Jazz in the Park, are partnering with Budweiser to present the 2nd Annual Jazz in the Park Crab Festival in Armstrong Park, with music by Michael Franks & Loose Ends. This festival features the crustacean in dishes that range from dips and mac and cheese to soft-shell and boiled crabs. Tickets range in price from $30 to $100.

Bayou Boogaloo Bayou St. John Friday, May 18 - Sunday, May 20 thebayouboogaloo.com The Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo is an outdoor festival full of entertainment, which has worked with community partners such as MotherShip Foundation to raise more than $25,000. This year, anyone arriving to the festival before 3:00 p.m. will enter free of charge; after 3:00 p.m., festival goers will be charged a gate fee. Some of the performers this year include Naughty Professor, Bag of Donuts, Cha Wa, and Mainline. There will also be a marketplace with local pottery, glass, jewelry,

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photography, and other arts and crafts. And let’s not forget the third annual Paddle and Battle race, which has become one of the festival’s highlights. Although this is a family-friendly event, anyone 16 years old and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Gonzales Jambalaya Festival May 26 - 28 Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival 225 F. Edward Hebert Blvd., Belle Chasse Friday, May 18 - Sunday, May 20 plaqueminesparishfestival.com Founded in 2004, the Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival celebrates the rich and diverse culture and people of Plaquemines Parish. Visitors to the festival can enjoy a wide array of fresh local seafood, along with a selection of other unique food items. The festival also features continuous live music from a number of popular area bands, as well as traditional Cajun musicians. There will be a large number of craft booths and carnival rides at the festival, in addition to the Seafood Queen Pageant and helicopter rides offering a scenic view of the mighty Mississippi River.

Bugs & Brew Fulton Street Saturday, May 19; 3 - 8 p.m. drfnola.org/bugsnbrew The Bugs & Brew Crawfish Cook-Off and Beer Festival will feature a crawfish boiling competition, crawfishinspired dishes from local restaurants, a Louisiana beer garden, local music, and children’s entertainment. This family-friendly festival will benefit the Drew Rodrigue Foundation, a New Orleans non-profit honoring a local football coach who battled cancer.

Tremé/7th Ward Arts and Culture Festival N. Claiborne Avenue between Ursulines Avenue and Columbus Street Friday, May 25 - Sunday, May 27 treme7thwardcd.org Celebrate the history, traditions, and culture of two of the oldest, most notable neighborhoods in America under the Claiborne Avenue overpass at the inaugural edition of this festival. Featuring high-spirited tours of historic sites in both the Tremé and 7th Ward neighborhoods; a bar crawl; and music by performers including the Tremé Brass Band, Shannon Powell, James Andrews, and Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers, this event will demonstrate the joie de vivre of these historic neighborhoods and how they have survived slavery, disease, segregation, discrimination, interstates, and hurricanes.

New Orleans Greek Festival Bayou St. John: 1200 Robert E. Lee Blvd.

Friday, May 25 - Sunday, May 27 greekfestnola.com Opa! It’s almost time to go Greek at the 45th annual Greek Festival. This year, the festival is dedicating the celebration

New Orleans Greek Festival May 25 - 27 to New Orleans’s 300th birthday. There will be homemade food and plenty of wine, as well as traditional dancing. You can even take home a piece of Greece with the large shopping selection at the festival, which includes groceries specializing in Greek food, Hellenic imports, and Greek clothing. Don’t miss out on some of the most authentic gyros around.

Gonzales Jambalaya Festival 120 S. Irma Blvd., Gonzales Saturday, May 26 - Monday, May 28 jambalayafestival.org Come out and enjoy the 50th annual Gonzales Jambalaya Festival, hosted right in the jambalaya capital of the world. Gonzales was labeled the jambalaya capital of the world by Steve Juneau to promote the city, but the phrase stuck around and inspired a successful festival celebrating it. The first year the festival was held was in 1968, and by 1971, the festival had approximately 50,000 people in attendance. This year’s festival will have a range of food to satisfy everyone’s taste buds, and it wouldn’t be a jambalaya fest without the Best Jambalaya in Louisiana contest. Other activities include live music and rides. Your whole family will

enjoy the vast variety of food, fun, music and activities that have made the Jambalaya Festival the can't-miss highlight of the year.

SPORTS/FITNESS The Great Huey P. Long Bridge Run Eastbank start line: 900 East Commerce Rd., Harahan Saturday, May 12; 8 a.m. hueyprun.com Compete in one of the most fun and thrilling races in Southeast Louisiana, while taking in the sights and sounds of the mighty Mississippi River in this 5K run/ walk over the historic Huey P. Long bridge.

The race begins behind Regions Bank on S. Clearview Parkway and makes its way to the finish line in Bridge City (a.k.a. when the festivities really get kicked into high gear).

This is where you will enjoy live music from great local bands and chow down on food from Jambalaya Girl and others. In case of thirst, beverages will be provided by none other than the Abita Brewing Company.

Registration is $35 in April, $40 in May, and $45 on the weekend of the race. So, what are you waiting for? #GeauxOverIt

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year 1849, Loyola was in New Orleans. The university was on Baronne and Common Streets at first, but moved to their Uptown location in the 1880s.

As of 2017, Loyola had over 3,000 students enrolled in their university. In the fiscal year of 2009-2010, Loyola had an economic impact of nearly $129 million for the city of New Orleans.

Southern University of New Orleans Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO) opened its doors in 1959 with 158 freshmen and a faculty of 15. A staple of New Orleans’s higher education community since then, SUNO is now also part of the Historically Black College University System (HBCU). In 1964, the institution was sued, resulting in the university having to be made available for all students. But in 1975, they joined the Southern University System, which is the only HBCU System in the United States. The university had over 3,000 enrolled as of 2010.

Old-School New Orleans New Orleans Tricentennial Series: Higher Education

By Christopher Louis Romaguera

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ew Orleans has been making its mark on the country and the world for over 300 years. One of the things that the city can be most proud of is the number of universities and colleges that call it home.

While these schools may not have been around nearly as long as the city itself, they have accomplished a considerable amount in the time that they have been in existence. These institutions do everything from serving our community to bringing new people into our city, from giving our citizens jobs and adding money to the economy, to researching and helping advance our understanding of the world around us.

University of New Orleans The University of New Orleans was established in 1956 by the Louisiana Legislature. The university was founded in part due to citizens of the city asking for “taxsupported higher education.”

The university was built in an abandoned United States Navy air station on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain in 1957 and was officially opened in 1958. The school proudly touts that “this marked the opening of the first racially integrated public university in the South.”

The University of New Orleans is the only public research university in the city.

Combined with the neighboring UNO Research & Technology Park, the university has an economic impact of nearly a billion dollars per year. This creates more than 11,000 jobs for the greater New Orleans area. As of 2017, the University of New

Orleans had nearly 8,000 students enrolled.

Tulane University Tulane was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1847. New Orleans, being a busy port city, was struggling with cases of numerous diseases such as yellow fever, which motivated the then-public university to be built for research. In 1884, the university became private, changed its name to Tulane University, and moved to its current St. Charles Avenue location by Audubon Park.

In 1914, Tulane University opened up a business school, stating that it is the first business school to be established in the South.

In 1961, Pearlie Elloie sued Tulane University in order to force the school to accept all races. Two years later, in 1963, Tulane University became an integrated university (and Elloie went on to get her master’s there).

As of 2017, Tulane had 13,000 students enrolled. Tulane University employs nearly 5,500 people on its New Orleans campuses.

This makes it the largest private-sector employer in the city. In the year 2011, they spent over $121 million in research. The Tulane Medical Center (as well as their other facilities) welcomed over 24,000 inpatient (and over 300,000 outpatient) visits in the year 2013. These are important community achievements for the city of New Orleans.

Loyola University New Orleans Loyola University New Orleans was founded by seven Jesuit priests right outside the city of New Orleans in 1837. By the

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Xavier University of Louisiana A fact that Xavier University of Louisiana leads with on its history page online is that there are 106 black colleges and 251 Catholic colleges in the United States, and Xavier University of Louisiana is the only school that is a Catholic black school, a fact that the school is very proud of. The school’s story started in 1915, when St. Katherine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament built a co-educational school.

That became the foundation from which the university was built. In 1929, construction to add to the school began, with the end result being the completion of the U-shaped gothic administration building. This building is considered a city landmark.

Unlike some HBCUs and religious schools, Xavier University of Louisiana has students from all sorts of communities enrolled.

Currently, about 70 percent of Xavier’s students are not Catholic, while around 30 percent of the students are not black.

Dillard University Dillard University was founded in 1869.

It started off as Straight University and the Union Normal School, and was founded with support from the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Church and the Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Dillard is a four-year liberal arts college, with religious affiliations to the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. It has been ranked as the 11th best HBCU by US News and World’s Best College Rankings.

As of 2017, nearly 1,300 students were enrolled in Dillard University, with over 1,200 of them being full-time students. Around 94 percent of the students attending Dillard University receive some sort of financial aid.

Delgado Community College Delgado is named after Isaac Delgado, a Jamaican migrant who became a wealthy New Orleans businessman and sugar planter. In Delgado’s will, land and money were given to the city in order to build a trade school. This resulted in 57 acres adjacent to New Orleans’s City Park becoming Delgado Community College.

In 1921, Delgado Central Trades School Opened.

On top of being next to New Orleans’s City Park, Delgado also serves a large amount of community living within the city. Currently, there are about 19,000 students enrolled in Delgado Community College. Delgado is Louisiana’s oldest and largest community college.

New Orleans has been one of the most important cities in North America for 300 years. While the city of New Orleans didn’t always have universities, the universities that popped up within the city’s lifetime speak to the class of the people who live here, who call New Orleans home. New Orleans has an eclectic mix of universities, and each one has provided the city with some part of its history that has helped make New Orleans, New Orleans. And each one will have a say in what the future of New Orleans holds—for the next 300 years.

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A Local's Life How Two New Orleanians Pump Life Into the Night

By Leigh Wright

Photo by Jazmarae Beebe

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ew Orleans is a city of unabashed playfulness and walking the edge of life, whatever edge that may be for you. Daytime is known as the time when light shines down and illuminates it all. You can see the old beads and bottles lining the gutters. You smell the street cleaner mixing up dirt, grime, and the morning humidity. Daytime is for color and parades and eating and music.

Then again, here in New Orleans, that all happens at night as well.

We look at two local New Orleanians who operate in very different scenes at night. One produces the musical heartbeat that locals and visitors come to experience in this city. The other maintains law and order when revelers take that experience too far. Both contribute massive amounts of energy, pumping life into New Orleans by night.

Evan Oberla, Musician at Heart and in The Allie Porter Band Are you naturally a night owl, or did you just happen upon a nightly schedule?

“I’ve always been a night owl. There’s a bit of freedom that comes with everything winding down business-wise, so creating and playing music is uninhibited by outside forces. But I also love the morning and the possibilities that come with a new day. I’d say late afternoon is definitely ripe for siesta time if the schedule allows it.”

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What is your favorite thing about your life at night?

“The fact that people from all walks of life can congregate and celebrate the day and let loose

with some music and dancing. Especially being a musician in New Orleans, you can run into other musician friends on a whim and you never know what that might lead to.”

When you are winding down your day, what do you do?

“If I just played a show, food might be in order, and also listening to the recording of the show that I just played. I like to record most of what I do, just on my phone, at the least. If I’m off work, I like to sit at my piano and mess around or watch a movie until I doze off.”

What time do you normally go to sleep?

“Also depends. If I’m playing, it can be 3 a.m. or later, but it usually varies.”

What do you do during daylight hours?

“I try to practice every day, be it trombone, keys, guitar. I send emails, schedule rehearsals and shows; if it’s warm enough out, I love being outside and, hopefully, exercising. Play and work on new music with friends. The opportunities to jam with awesome musicians abound.”

Where do you go at night? Is it for work or for play?

“Mostly work, but on nights off, I usually hang low or at a neighborhood joint to be among people in a low-intensity environment. Also, I love just going to check out other music like George Porter Jr. Trio at the Maple Leaf on Mondays or Corey Henry’s Funktet at Vaughn’s on Thursdays. Some of my favorite spots to see music are the Maple Leaf, Blue Nile, and HiHo. I’ll pop around Frenchmen, especially if I’m playing a gig.”

What is your favorite place to eat/drink at night?

“On Frenchmen, my go-to is 13 and that chicken pesto wrap. Otherwise, Finn McCool’s is my spot. When I first moved to New Orleans, I lived across the street from it. So, it’s kinda home base on that front.”

at 5:30 a.m. for early roll call, which means my mornings begin in the ludicrous hour range of 4:00 a.m. I suppose you can say I am typically a night owl in that aspect, as the night shift rotations are far more compatible with my natural sleep schedule.” (Her shift now ends at 5 a.m.)

What time do you normally go to sleep?

“I typically go to sleep around 6:30 or 7:00 a.m. after I work an overnight shift. My schedule only changes slightly when I am not working, barring any early morning commitments. On a night that I am off work, I will find myself heading to bed between 3:30 and 4:00 am.”

What is one of the craziest things you’ve seen during your nightly shift at work?

“Too many to count, really. All sorts of states of human dysfunctionality abound in a small space. [One time], someone was getting too close to the drummer and hollering incoherently, so the drummer just played the drums on this belligerent dude’s bald head.

That’s one way to deal with a heckler that made me laugh out loud.”

What is your favorite thing about your life at night?

“I love working while everyone is sleeping.

There are certainly pros and cons. However, there is something very soothing about a quiet night—having the city to yourself while a majority of the masses are asleep. The roads are clear of traffic (as my office is a vehicle). There are less crazy people and foolishness that you have to deal with (from a police perspective).

And some nights are so quiet that you can truly dedicate some time to yourself to be alone with your thoughts, books, entertainment, and simply reset.”

What do you do during daylight hours?

“I like to stay active and be productive, even as a night owl. When I work overnight, I will go to bed around 6:30 a.m. and wake up between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. I will typically get a workout or training session in before 5:00 p.m., in case I have to work another shift back-to-back. If I am not working overnight, I also have a second job as a Krav Maga instructor, where I teach self-defense. I also love practicing bikram or “hot” yoga at least once a week, Uptown on Oak Street as well.”

M.A., Anonymous Female Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office (JPSO) Deputy, a.k.a.

Professional Night Owl Are you naturally a night owl, or did you just happen upon a nightly schedule?

“I have always found it difficult to force myself to go to sleep before midnight. Day shift begins

When you are winding down your day, what do you do?

“I arrive home from work at approximately 5:30 a.m. I take off my uniform, which takes several minutes, as I have a lot of equipment. I put myself out of service on the radio and set it on the charger. I shower, brush my teeth, and lie in bed. If I have had an eventful shift that has my adrenaline high, I [take] over-the-counter sleep aids, like ZzzQuil, to help wind down. At this time, I typically catch up on emails and/or with friends through social media via my cell phone. As mundane as that sounds, it helps tire my eyes to fall asleep more quickly.”

Where do you go at night? Is it for work or for play?

“While I am working, the places I am able to frequent are not as plentiful after midnight.

There are quite a few of us on shift who will eat at IHOP as a group around 2:00 a.m., when work is typically calm and we can socialize. On a night that I am not working, I love to do various things. I love visiting friends. I love relaxing at home, and I love to go out Uptown and see live music. I value my off-days very much, and I LOVE festival season in the spring (i.e. Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, and Hangout Fest).”

What is your favorite place to eat/drink at night?

“I just discovered SWEGS Kitchen, which is a new restaurant that provides a healthy option

that is quick, like a fast-food place. That is a place I have to eat or get food to go before work, as they close early. However, they provide meal preps, which is a great, healthy option for night workers.

When I am not working, I love Oak Street for food, drinks, and music. Oak Wine Bar is one of my favorites, and Maple Leaf is walking distance for great local music. Bayou Wine Garden is also a favorite, with wine on tap and delicious food [french fries] to go with it.”

What is one of the craziest things you’ve seen during your nightly shift at work?

“This is the top question that is asked of me as a police officer. With this job, crazy is what I see every single day. So, it depends on what kind of crazy you wish to hear about. Is it the neighbors calling about a naked man running down the street, stripping off his clothes because the PCP he consumed is making him sweat and he thinks people are chasing him? Or, would you like to hear about the woman who calls monthly about people fighting with lasers in her attic? There is a different type of crazy for each day that I work.

I can tell you this: There is no greater feeling than being able to come together with a group of approximately 13 people and apprehend a suspect who is attempting to flee from a crime that he just committed. The communication and the comradeship are incredible to hear, see, and be a part of. I have had a suspect run into my arms because he was running away from one of my partners. That is when your adrenaline hits an all-time high.”

Although not the Big Apple, the Big Easy never sleeps.

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Going Green:

Louisiana Gets a Marijuana Dispensary

By Emily Hingle

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f all of the excesses that one can legally indulge in here in New Orleans, marijuana has not been a priority as much as it has been in other states.

Nevertheless, it's still not uncommon to pass people on the street who either unrepentantly reek of the intoxicating herb or are brazenly smoking it for all to see.

Though people don’t have the legal right to smoke it here at this time, attitudes are far more relaxed about it than they have ever been before. Some lawmakers and politicians are so cool with marijuana use that they’ve allowed a medical marijuana dispensary to open up soon in New Orleans, something that marijuana advocates say is long overdue.

On April 17, The Louisiana Pharmacy Board voted to award H&W Drug Store, Inc. the only medical marijuana dispensary license for Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard parishes. There are nine healthcare regions mapped off for the state of Louisiana and each will have only one dispensary.

The win for H&W Drug Store owner Ruston Henry was a shock, considering he placed fourth out of five candidates during the selection process in early 2018.

The leading candidate was Dr. Roy of the Metairie-based specialty pharmacy Factor One Source FAST Pharmacy, who planned on opening his dispensary on the bottom floor of his existing pharmacy, which he

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would have dubbed the Rx Greenhouse.

During the April hearing, Henry passionately touted his pharmacy as being a historic African-American institution that has proudly served the citizens of New Orleans for decades. “What happened with the board is they evaluated the proposal, they evaluated the company, and they saw that we're the front runners. They say, ‘Hey man, this company has been in business for over 50 years in the New Orleans community.’ They looked at our proposal, they looked at our presentation, and they reconsidered, and they said, ‘Hey, we're gonna go with H&W Drug Store,’” he boasted.

The H&W Drug Store opened in the Lower 9th Ward in 1963. It changed locations several times since then and is currently located at 4718 Paris Ave. in Gentilly. He assured that security measures would be in place when the dispensary is operational.

The vote for H&W did not come without controversy. The Pharmacy Board members who decided who got the sought-after license did not include any members of the initial selection committee, a move that seemed unfair to the other contenders.

“What’s the point of having a subcommittee?

I was on the Maryland Board of Pharmacy, and I can tell you that’s not how we did things,” Dr. Roy angrily stated. He plans on filing a public records request for H&W’s application and may challenge their license.

Dr. Roy explained that his competition attempted to discredit him, which may have tarnished his reputation to the voting committee. He accused GNO Medical Dispensary owner Nathaniel Graff of telling the owner of an indoor playground near where the Rx Greenhouse would have been located that nefarious activities would start taking place too close to where the children play. The owner of the playground confirmed that Mr. Graff did try to convince her that she should take out a complaint against Dr. Roy’s establishment. “We had everything coming after us,” Dr. Roy said. Mr. Graff only added that he was “disappointed” with the board’s choice of H&W Drug Store for the license.

Ruston Henry’s brother and business advisor Troy Henry stated that his brother was “the only adult in the room” during the contentious hearing and that they should be considered the best choice. The H&W Drug Store doesn’t have a timeline as to when they will start operations, saying that they will have to meet with the board to make those arrangements. The availability of their products will depend on whenever they can acquire marijuana from the only state-sanctioned growers.

The LSU and Southern University Agricultural Centers have been chosen to grow the medicinal-grade marijuana for the state’s dispensaries. LSU’s Ashley Mullens explained, “We're carefully moving forward.

We feel like what we're doing is still serving the patients of Louisiana."

In Louisiana, medical marijuana will only

be available in non-combustible forms. It won’t be sold in the bud form or in a form that could be smoked in a vape pen.

The decision to allow Louisiana citizens access to medical marijuana has been a controversial one. On June 30, 2015, Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law HB 149, which allowed medical marijuana to be dispensed across the state, though the infrastructure to dispense pot wasn’t in place yet. On the same day, he signed SB 143, which made the punishments for being caught with marijuana much less strict than they used to be. Still, pot smokers could be given a fine of $300 and sent to jail for 15 days for a first offense.

The next year, Gov. John Bel Edwards surprisingly expanded Jindal’s medical marijuana bill, making it more accessible to citizens. He extolled his decision: “This is one of those bills that I believe will have a positive impact on people who need it the most.” Gov. Edwards passed the bill for people suffering from 10 serious diseases including cancer, epilepsy, Crohn’s Disease, muscular dystrophy, and AIDS. He made it clear that he didn’t want to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Some lawmakers are currently advocating to have more medical conditions added to the list of those that quality for marijuana treatment.

Though recreational marijuana smokers may have to wait a long time to have total legalization, it seems as though the current proceedings are a step towards a potfriendly Louisiana.

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Food News

By Kim Ranjbar

Where's the beet? … Sweet Soulfood, a cafeteria-style vegan restaurant, opened recently on N. Broad Street. Located in the building that formerly housed Seasoned (a second-hand kitchenware store now on Dryades Uptown), this healthful dining option offers ice cream, smoothies, salads, and classic New Orleans soul-food dishes, all of which are guaranteed vegan, gluten-free, soy-free and organic. Dishes include smothered okra, mac-n-cheese, sweet potatoes, baked beans, jambalaya, and pralines. Sweet Soulfood is open every day but Sunday for lunch and dinner.

1016 N. Broad St., (504) 821-2669, sweetsoulfood.net Build-your-own baba ghanuj … Byblos, the local Mediterranean restaurant chain, is opening its fifth location in the building that once housed Flaming Torch on Octavia Street, but this spot will be a little different. Inspired by the build-your-own model, diners at the new Byblos will order assembly-line-style and will also be able to pick up grab-and-go meals pre-packaged for convenience. The menu will offer many of the same items you know and love from the other Byblos locations, just in a new way.

737 Octavia St., byblosrestaurants.com

Curio

Japanese Restaurant, Sushi & Such Mon – Thur 11:30 am – 10 pm Fri & Sat 11:30 am – 11 pm Sun 5 – 9 pm SushiNOLA.com | @NolaSushi 899-6532| 5130 Freret St.

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Belly up … If there's one thing this city needs, it's another bar! Especially when it's a Cuban bar and café opened by extraordinary bartenders Chris Hannah and Nick Detrich.

Opened on Dumaine Street in the tiny spot that formerly housed El Libre, Manolito, according to Nola.com, was inspired by mentor

Carbajo Aguiar who introduced Hannah and Detrich to “cantineros” (bartenders) and taught them the Cuban way of mixing and blending drinks. Manolito's menu offers cocktails like Hannah's mojito, a Floridita Daiquiri, and one of Hemingway's favorites—a Papa Doble with Paranubes Rum, Don Q. Cristal, grapefruit, and maraschino liqueur. Cesar Nuñez, chef de cuisine at Coquette, is offering a small menu of Cuban cuisine with dishes like black bean soup, shrimp ceviche, and ropa vieja arepas. Manolito is open daily from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.

508 Dumaine St., (504) 603-2740, manolitonola.com Changing of the guard … J.N. Zink has left his position as the chef de cuisine at the Bywater's favorite wine bar Bacchanal to take over as executive chef at The Franklin in the Marigny, according to Nola.com. Zink is replacing Ben Wicks, who has become the chef de cuisine at Brasa Churrasqueria in Metairie. At The Franklin, Zinks once again has the opportunity to be “master of his domain” in a restaurant where fresh, locally sourced vegetables and Gulf seafood are the focus.

2600 Dauphine St., (504) 267-0640, thefranklinnola.com A rose by any other name … Jack Rose Restaurant recently opened in the Pontchartrain Hotel, replacing the short-lived Caribbean Room. It's the first restaurant for QED Hospitality, a company formed by Brian Landry and Emery Whalen after the reorganization of the Besh empire. Executive Chef David Whitmore worked with Landry on the new menu offering New Orleans-inspired

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

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Local farm-fresh produce, certified sustainable seafood and humanely-raised meats dishes like crawfish bread with raclette cheese and focaccia, shrimp and okra gumbo, fried chicken parmesan with red gravy, and roast duck with Bellegarde grits and black kale. Pastry chef Erin Swanson has kept the ever-popular Mile High Pie and added some sweets of her own, like grapefruit cake with rosé butter cream and blueberry muffin bread pudding with Dulcey ice cream.

2031 St. Charles Ave., (504) 323-1500, jackroserestaurant.com American-style … After an eight-month renovation, The American Sector Restaurant & Bar, inside the National World War II Museum, has reopened with a larger dining room, patio seating, and a new Victory Garden-totable menu, created by Executive Chef Eric Schutzmann, which includes a weekend brunch. Highlights include peach barbecued baby back ribs, Frito pie, “On the Home Front” meatloaf, and New York cheesecake. The American Sector also now offers a private dining room that seats up to 30 people, and features audio/visual capabilities and dedicated sound systems.

1035 Magazine St., (504) 528-1940, ww2eats.com Eat like an Egyptian … There's a new vendor at St. Roch Market serving up Egyptian cuisine dubbed “Torshi,” the Arabic word for pickles. Rafik Abohattab is the operator of this new installation and is a native of Cairo, who is serving dishes like koshari, rosemary lamb shank, shakushka, tabouli, and fatoush. He also added a New Orleans-like version of a gyro with

his falafel po-boy dressed with tahini sauce.

2381 St. Claude Ave., neworleans. strochmarket.com/torshi New York via Atlanta … Goldbergs Fine Foods, a New York-style deli chain from Georgia, is opening its first location in New Orleans. Combining “authentic New York deli foods with Southern hospitality,” Goldbergs's menu features bagels, breakfasts, sandwiches, po-boys, and more. Items of note include their “Bagel Beignets” made with bagel dough that's deep fried, dusted with powdered sugar, and served with strawberry compote; and a New York-style po-boy with corned beef, pastrami, salami, turkey, Swiss, and kosher pickles on house-made bread. goldbergbagel.com

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Leading the line … Open now for a little over six months, French Quarter restaurant Curio has tapped Brody LeBlanc as its new executive chef. With over 10 years under his belt, LeBlanc attended Delgado Community College for Culinary Arts and has worked in kitchens at the W Hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, Palace Café, Tableau, and Borgne, just to name a few. "We are thrilled to have Chef Brody join us at Curio," Steven Marsella, culinary director for Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts, stated. "He has an extensive background implementing modern American and Creole cooking into his dishes, creating rich, well-composed menus that bode well for Curio's eclectic feel."

301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198, curionola. com

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The Gift of Chocolate

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harles M. Schulz once said “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

There are so many things that can be said about chocolate, it's hard to know where to begin. Like most people I know, especially women, I have what might be called an unhealthy obsession, but really, what's not to love? From the way it's packaged and sculpted to the explosion of body-wide sensations when it hits your tongue, chocolate is something to be cherished, nay, revered.

Though most have seen the film version, the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory differs a bit when it describes Charlie's unique reverence for chocolate, how he hungered for that more than any food in the world, and how he treasured his birthdays when his whole family would save up to give him a chocolate bar.

“And each time he received it, on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would place it carefully in a small wooden box that he owned, and treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold.” And the only thing finer than experiencing the glory of chocolate for yourself is sharing it with somebody else.

Though Mother's Day encourages us to throw a little extra love Mom's way to show appreciation for our existence and for her role in making you what you are today, pretty much any day would be a good day

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By Kim Ranjbar

to buy Mom (or Dad) some chocolate.

While Snickers Bars and Kit-Kats have their own convenience-store charm, there's nothing quite like chocolates made with a little extra love and attention.

When discussing chocolatiers in the area, my first go-to would have to be Sucré. Since 2007, chef and co-founder Tariq Hanna and his team have been slinging delicate, European-quality chocolates to the addicts of the Crescent City. Definitely on the higher-end of the chocolate shops in town, Sucré can be pretty pricey, but it is possible to stay in budget and score fantastic chocolate. Wrapped in pretty pastels, a bar or two of their 65-percent singlebean dark chocolate bars with candied violet, coconut, and toasted almond, or Sicilian pistachio and rose petals, would make the perfect treat for Mom. Or, you can get a four-piece favor box of bonbons of your choice, like the “Avery” with salted caramel and double cream chocolate with fleur de sel; “Raspberry Cheesecake,” a white chocolate truffle blended with cream cheese and swirled with raspberry jam; and, most recently, the Meuniere chocolate created for our city's tricentennial celebration, made with Swiss white chocolate, brown butter, and sea salt, encased in a black and gold, dark chocolate shell.

Known primarily for their chocolate cream cheese-filled king cakes,

Bittersweet Confections' Dark Chocolate & Fruit Bittersweet Confections in the Warehouse District also offers a delightful array of chocolates and other confections.

Founded by local entrepreneur Cheryl Scripter in 2002, this Magazine Street bakery and café is a great spot Downtown to pick up a cup of coffee and indulge in a bite or two of pure bliss in the form

of handmade crème brûlée and blood orange dark chocolate truffles, cherry almond bark, rich caramels, or colorful flower-shaped dark chocolates accented with fresh berries. Oh, and before you're too dizzy, don't forget to save some for Mom. Finally, one of the most recent Willy

Piety & Desire's Bonbons Wonka-ish wizards on the scene is none other than the bean-to-bar dreamers at Piety & Desire. Talk about going the extra mile, Chris Nobles is the artisan extraordinaire who takes fermented cocoa beans and turns them into bonbons and bars with a rare richness in flavor I've never experienced before. The chocolates

available seem to shift on a whim, but if you have the good fortune to taste the Satsuma Zinger, you will definitely know the delights of which I speak. Bring your mom to the South Broad Street shop and return frequently … you know (ahem), to keep up with Nobles's evolving skill and creativity.

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RestaurantGuide African Bennachin offers African cuisine with a decidedly New Orleans twist. Familiar with Jazz Fest favorites Poulet Fricassee and Jama-Jama? Also try their signature lamb and tilapia dishes. 1212 Royal St. | 522-1230 | bennachinrestaurant.com

American City Donuts is open 24/7 and features fantastic donuts, as well as tasty Louisiana fare like po-boys and more. Check out their drive-thru window the next time you need a latenight treat. 3301 S. Clairborne Ave. | 372-581 The Country Club specializes in distinctively modern Creole cuisine, served in a charming Bywater cottage. Try their divine crabmeat beignets, followed by Pan-Roasted Louisiana White Shrimp with Mascarpone Grits. 634 Louisa St. | 945-0742 | thecountryclubneworleans.com

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Tasty Treats Food Truck & Restaurant boasts an inspired menu that includes the Steak and Shrimp Wrap, Crawfish Fries, and burgers and wings that New Orleanians have been raving about! 5000 Old Gentilly Rd. | 237-5875

Mikimoto knows their sushi, and features an extensive menu which contains the likes of sea urchin and red snapper. Be sure to start off with a bowl of their famous miso soup. 3301 S. Carrollton Ave. | 488-1881 | mikimotosushi.com

Ted’s Frostop is still serving the same delicious Loto Burgers and fries that have defined New Orleans lunches.

Enjoy it with a rootbeer float, or try one of their poboys or daily specials. 3100 Calhoun St. | 861-3615 | tedsfrostop.com

Miyako is known for its entertaining hibachi chefs and the high-quality ingredients that speak for themselves, like flavorful New York strip steak and lobster, or their fun, New Orleans-inspired sushi menu. 1403 St. Charles Ave. | 410-997 | miyakonola.com

Willie Mae’s Scotch House is a New Orleans landmark and James Beard Award-winning destination for lovers of fried chicken. Willie Mae Seaton’s 50-year-old recipe is unmatched for flavor to this very day. 2401 St. Ann St. | 822-9503 | williemaesnola.com

Momo Ramen + Poke is one of New Orleans’s newest ramen joints serving up fresh noodle dishes like their Seafood Miso, filled to the brim with five different seafood meats. Also be sure to try their mouthwatering Kimchi Short Ribs. 632 S. Carrollton Ave. | 218-5248 | facebook. com/momoramenpoke

WOW Café Doubletree is so much more than wings. Try their breakfast buffet, including delicious create-your-own omelettes. Or join them for a classic New Orleans brunch showcasing fresh Louisiana seafood. 300 Canal St. | 2123250 | wowcafe.com

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Liberty Cheesesteaks has brought the unmistakably divine taste of a true Philly cheesesteak to New Orleans and has created an all-new companion piece: the colby and cheddar cheese-drenched Wiz sandwich. 5039 Freret St. | 875-4447 | libertycheesesteaks.com

Five Happiness is a chic yet authentic Chinese restaurant that has served locals for over 30 years. House favorites include the Moo Shu Deluxe (shrimp, chicken, and pork) and sauteed crawfish tails. 3605 S. Carrollton Ave. | 4823935 | fivehappiness.com

Daisy Dukes has five locations, including a 24/7 French Quarter hotspot with seafood platters and all-you-caneat crawfish, and a CBD location that’s sure to offer whatever else you may be craving. Multiple locations | daisydukesrestaurant.com

Ma Momma’s House of Cornbread, Chicken and Waffles serves up fresh, delicious fried chicken and authentic Southern fare from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., seven days a week. Join them for a fabulous country breakfast (served anytime). 5741 Crowder Blvd. | 244-0021 | mamommashouse.com

Green Tea offers decadent, delicious Chinese food. The Seafood Delight features lobster, jumbo shrimp, and scallops sauteed in the chef’s special sauce, or try their spicy Dragon (shrimp) and Phoenix (chicken) combo. 3001 Napoleon Ave. | 899-8005 | greenteanola.com

Gattuso’s Neighborhood Restaurant is a neighborhood eatery where you can get your drink on, too. With mouthwatering burgers and sandwiches, they even dish out some impressive salads and seafood platters. 435 Huey P. Long Ave. | 368-1114 | gattusos.net

The Mason Jar is casual American meets Southern, with Bacon-Wrapped Hamburger Steak and Angus Burgers with Garlic-Parmesan Fries alongside local favorites like white beans and fried catfish. 4517 W. Esplanade Ave. | 323-2115 | masonjarkitchen.com

Gordon Biersch is a brewery and restaurant that has mastered both. Enjoy their flagship beers and an elegant entree such as the Chicken Schnitzel, Gorgonzola Ribeye, or Kobe Cheeseburger. 200 Poydras St. | 522-2739 | gordonbiersch.com

Sala serves irresistible small plates like Oysters Panné, and appetizing large platters such as the Golden Fried Drum Almondine. An impressive wine and cocktail menu is simply lagniappe. 124 Lake Marina Ave. | 513-2670 | salanola.com

Cuvee Bistro focuses on new concepts in sandwiches.

You’ll be delighted with the Stuffed Breads (featuring savory pulled pork and brisket verde) or the Wrapped Up Egg Scramblers with bacon and andouille. 701 S. Peters St. | 985-778-2529

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Ikura features an innovative sushi selection based on local favorites, including the Seafood Po-Boy Roll loaded with crawfish, fried shrimp, and fried soft-shell crab. Back by popular demand: the hibachi tables! 310 N. Carrollton Ave. | 485-5658 | ikuranola.net Kyoto 2 is the premier spot for sushi and sashimi in Elmwood. Try one of their popular chef’s creations, including the amazing No-Name Roll with tuna, eel, salmon, and snow crab. 5608 Citrus Blvd. | Harahan | 818-0228

Origami offers a vast menu highlighted by a terrific shrimp tempura and signature sushi creations like the Funky Margarita (crawfish layered with tuna, salmon, and guacamole). 5130 Freret St. | 899-6532 | sushinola.com Viet Orleans Bistro is the perfect spot for lunch or dinner in the CBD. Enjoy a mouthwatering Banh Mi Po-Boy while relaxing with a hot sake, glass of wine, or cold beer in their pleasant dining room. 300 Baronne St. | 333-6917

Bars with Great Food Backspace Bar & Kitchen allows you to delve into delicious, literary-themed sandwich creations like the Hemingway Cuban and the Whitman Roast Beef. If you’re a fan of old-school cocktails, look no further. 139 Chartres St. | 322-2245 | backspacenola.com Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant serves awesome omelettes, bar stalwarts like chicken wings and burgers, and even Chorizo Chili—their delicious take on the comfort food classic. Full menu available 24/7! 1001 Esplanade Ave. | 949-0038 | buffasbar.com Flamingo A-Go-Go has 45 beers on tap and a menu of outstanding local recipes. Indulge in the flavors of Marinated Blue Crab Claws and Bronzed Redfish (with garlic butter and dirty rice). 869 Magazine St. | 577-2202 | flamingonola.com The Jimani is a bar that has everything. Start with a plate

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their gorgeous outdoor courtyard. 412 Girod St. | 5186007 | vyoone.com

Mimi’s in the Marigny showcases original recipes like Goat Cheese Croquettes and Coffee Kahlua Glazed Salmon. Or, order from Chef Hailey’s “Trust Me” menu, accentuated with fresh Louisiana produce and herbs. 2601 Royal St. | 872-9868 | mimismarigny.com

Another Broken Egg Café has created the most succulent omelettes. There’s the Floridian (with garlic butter-sauteed crabmeat) and Stan’s Mardi Gras Omelette (crawfish, Gulf shrimp, andouille, and red peppers). Uptown | Lakeview | 301-2771 | anotherbrokeneggcafe.com

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NOSH (New Orleans Social House) plays upon the tapas craze with flavorsome selections such as LobsterShrimp Tacos, Truffled Mac and Cheese, and Beef Short Rib Poutine (with smoked gouda). 752 Tchoupitoulas St. | 581-7101 | noshneworleans.com

Café 615 Home of Da Wabbit prides itself on being the most affordable restaurant in Gretna. Where else are you going to get seared duck breast for only $18? Also worth mentioning is their divine turtle soup. 615 Kepler St. | 365-1225 | dawabbit.net

Ole Saint offers outstanding dishes inspired by owner Deuce McAllister. Flash-fried Louisiana oysters, Southern catfish with white beans and shrimp, and the Ole Saint Craft Burger are favorites. 132 Royal St. | 309-4797 | olesaint.com

Café Amelie is housed in the historic, 150-year-old Princess of Monaco Courtyard, and serves delicious selections like the cochon de lait sandwich on ciabatta and the Louisiana Crawfish Linguine. 912 Royal St. | 412-8965 | cafeamelie.com

Orleans Grapevine proves that fine food is best paired with the fruit of the vine, with over 375 wines in-house.

Surf and turf is a must here, with the Black Angus filet and Maine lobster tail. 720 Orleans Ave. | 523-1930 | orleansgrapevine.com

Caffe! Caffe! has brand-new items like the grilled chicken sandwich, served on a fresh-baked onion bun, and their Creamy Mac, a love letter to mac and cheese fanatics everywhere. They serve breakfast, too. Two Metairie Locations | caffecaffe.com

Poppy’s Time Out Sports Bar serves Hurricanes that are categorized in intensity from one to five, Blackened Shrimp Queso, Gator Bites (with andouille), 911 Fire Wings for the fearless, and so much more. 500 Port of New Orleans Pl. | 247-9265 | poppystimeoutsportsbar.com

Jimmy J’s Café is perfect for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Try their flagship breakfast: Eggs Lafitte with andouille sausage, hollandaise sauce, and ratatouille, or one of their delicious sandwich creations. 115 Chartres St. | 309-9360 | jimmyjscafe.com

Rick’s Sporting Saloon suggests you make it out for TwoLegged Taco Tuesday, or enjoy a Saloon Burger (short rib, brisket, and chuck) anytime, while watching sports on their massive 92-inch screen. 522 Bourbon St. | 552-2510 | ricks-saloon.com

Petite Amelie has a spectacular marketplace selection of fresh olives, cheeses, sandwiches, salads, pastries, and more. Pick up one of their take-home entrees, perfect for the person on-the-go (aren’t we all?). 900 Royal St. | 4128065 | petiteamelienola.wordpress.com

Rivershack Tavern offers the thrill and excitement of great food and drinks along the Mississippi River bank. Try an amazing “Shank You” Burger, a delicious half-pound combination of beef and hot sausage. 3449 River Rd. | 834-4938 | therivershacktavern.us

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of Jimmy J’s Big Ass Nachos and progress to an array of poboys, burgers, sandwiches, or even a full rack of St. Louis BBQ ribs. 141 Chartres St. | 524-0493 | thejimani.com

Shamrock Bar and Grill has a reasonably priced menu that is highlighted by a Buffalo Shrimp Platter with all the trimmings for $11, and a 12-ounce ribeye with potato and salad for only $13! 4133 S. Carrollton Ave. | 3010938 | shamrockparty.com

G’s Pizza has three locations serving you the best in handtossed pies. Pick up a salmon and caper pizza on Bienville Street, the garlic-loaded Narcissist on Howard Avenue, and the Uptown Special on Magazine Street. Multiple Locations | gspizza.com Josephine Estelle is reimagining Italian cuisine, steeped in Southern tradition. Their wide range of pastas share the stage with platters of duck breast, speckled trout, and veal porterhouse. 600 Carondelet St. | 930-3070 | josephineestelle.com Mardi Gras Zone boasts some truly incredible brick-oven pizza, or try their renditions of local favorites like red beans and rice or hand-carved corned beef. Open 24/7.

2706 Royal St. | 947-8787 | mardigraszone.com

Mosca’s Restaurant has been cooking up Italian specialties for over 60 years, from familiar staples such as spaghetti and meatballs and chicken cacciatore to signature dishes like Oysters Mosca. 4137 U.S. Highway 90 W, Westwego, LA | 436-8950 | moscasrestaurant.com Pascal’s Manale turns 105 this year, and they still serve the most delicious BBQ shrimp you’ve ever had. Have a seat at their world-famous oyster bar, where the mollusks just keep on shucking! 1838 Napoleon Ave. | 895-4877 | pascalsmanale.com Venezia has been serving house specialties such as Eggplant Vatican (fried eggplant filled with shrimp and crawfish in a crabmeat cream sauce) since 1957. Daily specials include seafood paella. 134 N. Carrollton Ave. | 488-7991 | venezianeworleans.net Vincent’s Italian Cuisine is famous for their corn and crab bisque, but you haven’t lived until you’ve indulged in the Seafood Stuffed Pork Chop or the Veal- and Spinach-Stuffed Cannelloni. Metairie | Uptown | vincentsitaliancuisine.com

Café Degas is an experience formulated to recreate dining in the beautiful French countryside. Standout dishes include La Salade Au Crabe, the Pan-Seared Rack of Lamb, and Lamb Merguez Sausage. 3127 Esplanade Ave. | 945-5635 | cafedegas.com Vyoone’s is bringing unique French fare to the Warehouse District. Be sure to try their Chicken Roulade with a refreshing cocktail while you soak up some sun in

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Mexican Carreta’s Grill now has four locations. Dine on one of their sizzling carnitas or carne asada platters.

Carreta’s also offers six different authentic taco styles for the taco-lover extraordinaire. Multiple Locations | carretasgrillrestaurant.com Juan’s Flying Burrito knows you’ll love their signature “Flying” Burrito and enchiladas, but they also make vegetarian synonymous with delicious, with options like the Green Goat Quesadilla. Multiple Locations | juansflyingburrito.com

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menu! Impressive entrees include Southern Roasted Duck and Soft-Shell Crab Decatur. 527 Decatur St. | 522-0571 | crescentcitybrewhouse.com Crossroads at House of Blues celebrates Southern cuisine in all its spectacular forms. Regional dishes such as Delta Fried Chicken, Memphis Baby Back Ribs, and Low Country Shrimp and Grits adorn the menu. 225 Decatur St. | 310-4999 | houseofblues.com/neworleans/menu Joey K’s is that Uptown staple that you can’t possibly live without, with classic New Orleans dishes like chicken fried steak and breaded veal cutlet. All-you-can-eat catfish daily for only $13.95! 3001 Magazine St. | 891-0997 | joeyksrestaurant.com

The Halal Guys is a certified hit, dishing out the tastiest Middle Eastern-meets-Mediterranean fare. Choose chicken, beef gyro, falafel, or a combo, as a sandwich or a platter with hummus. Multiple Locations | thehalalguys.com

New Orleans Creole Cookery understands that great food and music go together. Enjoy the sweet sounds of live jazz while you sip a Category 1 thru 5 Hurricane and feast upon their unbelievable Seafood Tower. 508 Toulouse St. | 524-9632 | neworleanscreolecookery.com

Lebanon’s Café features some amazing platters, such as the Rosemary Lamb Chops and Tuna Steak. There’s also shawarma and kabobs galore. As always, the restaurant encourages you to BYOB. 1500 S. Carrollton Ave. | 8626200 | lebanonscafe.com

The Original Fiorella’s Café has garnered the “Best Fried Chicken” award the last two years from the National Fried Chicken Festival, and don’t miss their Italian classics or hot boiled crawfish. 5325 Franklin Ave. | 309-0352 | originalfiorellas.com

Pyramid’s Café marinates all of their meats to perfection for outstanding kabobs, shawarma, and gyros. Try the Chicken Lula or Kafta Kabab. You also get a free drink with each entree! 3149 Calhoun St. | 861-9602 | pyramidscafeonline.com

The Praline Connection serves landmark Creole/soul food dishes like stuffed bell peppers and fried chicken livers. The “Taste of Soul” includes gumbo, red beans and rice, fried chicken, ribs, and more. 542 Frenchmen St. | 943-3934 | pralineconnection.com

Briquette offers contemporary coastal cuisine in a stylishly chic dining room. Pork Porterhouse with a Bleu Cheese Crust and Crispy-Skin Steelhead Salmon are highlights from an inspired dinner menu. 701 S. Peters St. | 302-7496 | briquette-nola.com

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Public Service (NOPSI Hotel) lives up to their name by serving delectable dishes in the joyous atmosphere of live entertainment. Favorites include the Braised Pork Belly and Bayou-Style Short Ribs. 311 Baronne St. | 962-6527 | publicservicenola.com

Crazy Lobster Bar & Grill is the home of the Steamed Seafood Bucket and live music daily. They also offer a stuffed lobster with crabmeat dressing and jambalaya that is perfect for first-timers. 500 Port of Orleans Pl. | 569-3380 | thecrazylobster.com

Columns Hotel offers elegant dining overlooking historic St. Charles Avenue. Try the Double-Cut Pork Chop stuffed with oyster dressing, Eggplant St. Claire, or their famous Rock Cornish Hen. 3811 St. Charles Ave. | 899-9308 | thecolumns.com/dining

Short Stop PoBoys is a one-stop shop for hungry sandwich-lovers. Their Soft-Shell Crab King must be seen to be believed. Enjoy it with some of their award-winning seafood gumbo. 119 Transcontinental Dr. | 885-4572 | shortstoppoboysno.com

Jaeger’s Seafood specializes in big seafood dinners, whether fried or boiled. An example of the latter would be The King’s Platter, which includes Maine lobster, snow crabs, boiled shrimp, and all the fixins. 901 S. Clearview Pkwy. | 818-2200 | jaegersseafood.com

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Crescent City Brewhouse is a microbrewery in the French Quarter that just so happens to have one heck of a

Acme Oyster House has been specializing in the mollusk fan-favorite since 1910. Their Fish Pontchartrain,

Landry’s Seafood, now open in the French Quarter, is a real seafood-lover's dream restaurant, featuring terrific house specialties like Smoked Bacon-Crusted Scallops and Blackened Catfish Atchafalaya. Multiple Locations | landrysseafood.com

Antoine’s Restaurant has been a New Orleans landmark since 1840, embodying authentic French-Creole dining.

Home of the world-famous Oysters Rockefeller, Antoine's also offers Cerises (Cherries) Jubilé for dessert. Save room!

713 St. Louis St. | 581-4422 | antoines.com

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ColumnsHotel topped with crabmeat, shrimp, and butter cream sauce, is unparalleled in its sheer seafood decadence. Multiple Locations | acmeoyster.com

Robin’s Wharf specializes in exceptional seafood recipes. Take their Catfish Christopher, for example, served over cheesy mashed potatoes and drenched in a delectable, house-made crawfish sauce. Uptown | Slidell | robinswharf.com The Catch Seafood Restaurant serves overstuffed fried seafood po-boys for lunch and great recipes like the Blackened Catfish Nantua (smothered in a creamy crawfish sauce) for a classic New Orleans dinner. 310 Cleary Ave. | 407-3316 Tito’s Ceviche & Pisco captures the authentic, dynamic flavors of Peruvian recipes (and their famous white brandy). Try one of their signature dishes like Seco de Cordero, a traditional plate of lamb shank with cilantro sauce. 5015 Magazine St. | 267-7612 | titoscevichepisco.com

Vegetarian Seed demonstrates that vegan cuisine doesn’t need to sacrifice the flavors that exemplify New Orleans. Check out their pan-fried eggplant po-boy, Creole zucchini wraps, or three-bean chili. 1330 Prytania St. | 302-2599 | seedyourhealth.com

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BarGuide Above the Grid (NOPSI Hotel) NOPSI's dynamic rooftop pool and bar, Above the Grid, is a peaceful oasis for hotel guests, visitors, and locals to 317 Baronne St. savor chilled drinks and dine on creative, healthy fare.

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Alto (Ace Hotel) 600 Carondelet St. 900-1180

Relax poolside at Ace Hotel's rooftop garden, Alto, while snacking on small plates, sipping seasonal cocktails, and enjoying panoramic views of the city.

Backspace Bar 139 Chartres St. 322-2245

Stimulate your mind (and taste buds) at this literarythemed haunt that, while specializing in classic cocktails and comfort food, is known for its milk and cookies.

Bar Tonique 820 N. Rampart St. 324-6045

This joint is the embodiment of the craft cocktail movement, and their impressive cocktail list is only rivaled by the extensive knowledge of their bartenders.

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

This neighborhood gem has been “on the border of the Quarter since 1939,” with 24/7 full service at an affordable price and a live music backroom.

Crescent City Brewhouse Opened in 1991, this microbrewery in the heart of the Quarter became the first brewpub in New Orleans and 527 Decatur St. Louisiana; so grab a pint—prost!

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Fontaine Palace 218 S. Robertson St. 525-3277

The newest bar in town offers great food, live music, and great daily drink specials in a convenient location in the heart of Downtown.

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

Head to Gretna’s Historic District for this Westbank gem with 14 beers on tap and a full menu stocked with New Orleans favorites like crawfish dip.

Golden Lantern 1239 Royal St. 529-2860

Famous not only for the founding of Southern Decadence, the Golden Lantern is also reputed to have one of the best Bloody Marys in the city.

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

Featuring encased Mardi Gras memorabilia, the Hermes Bar is about as Old New Orleans as it gets. Try their takes on the Sazerac or Ramos Gin Fizz.

Hot Tin 2031 St. Charles Ave. 323-1500

This penthouse-turned-bar on the rooftop of The Pontchartrain Hotel offers a 270-degree view of Downtown, the Mississippi River, and St. Charles Avenue.

House of Blues 225 Decatur St. 310-4999

This well-established concert venue also houses its own bar and restaurant with a menu featuring regional dishes, from Nashville hot wings to Voodoo Shrimp.

Jimani 141 Chartres St. 524-0493

If you’re looking for somewhere to end your late-night (or early-morning) adventures, Jimani is the French Quarter spot. Be sure to try their Bacon Bloody Mary.

Kerry Irish Pub 331 Decatur St. 527-5954

With no cover charge, Kerry's offers live music almost nightly. They are also reputed to pour the best Guinness in town, so have a pint or two today.

Martine's Lounge 2347 Metairie Rd. 831-8637

This Metairie neighborhood hideout does Happy Hour right—every day from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Come grab a domestic beer for only $2 or try a seasonal cocktail.

MOXY Hotel Bar 210 O'Keefe Ave. 525-6800

This handcrafted-cocktail bar serves as your check-in desk, as well as a coffee house in the a.m. and the perfect place for a quick bite at night.

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

Located in a nondescript house in Mid-City, Pal’s Lounge will make you feel right at home with affordable drinks, plenty of pool tables, and food pop-ups.

Rick’s Cabaret 315 Bourbon St. 524-4222

Rick’s Cabaret sets itself apart from the rest of Bourbon Street with over 18,000 square feet and two floors; so stop in for a drink and stay for the show.

Rick's Sporting Saloon 522 Bourbon St. 552-2510

Rick’s has all the amenities of a sports bar and gentlemen’s club. Drinks are half-price every day until 7 p.m., making it well worth the stop on Bourbon Street.

Rivershack Tavern 3449 River Rd. 834-4938

Only in New Orleans is there a bar with a barter system involving free drinks for tacky ashtrays. Rivershack Tavern is off the beaten path, but it is worth the visit.

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

With 16,000 square feet of fun, this neighborhood bar is great for groups of friends, with 23 pool tables and dozens of games, including ping-pong and shuffleboard.

The Country Club 634 Louisa St. 945-0742

A Bywater hotspot for over 40 years, this fully renovated restaurant and bar is an absolute tropical oasis for dining in or drinking with friends.

The Starlight Lounge 817 St. Louis St. 827-1655

Come lounge in the French Quarter at Starlight, a live music haven with plenty of great food bites and specialty cocktails housed inside a refurbished New Orleans home.

Tropical Isle Multiple Locations 529-1702

There is arguably nothing more definitively Bourbon Street than the Hand Grenade, “New Orleans’s most powerful drink,” and it is 100 percent the brainchild of Tropical Isle.

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Avengers: Infinity War

By David Vicari

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It's a battle royale in Avengers: Infinity War, which is officially the third Avengers movie, but plot threads for Infinity War have been showing up in other Marvel Comics superhero movies, including 2016's Captain America: Civil War and last year's Thor: Ragnarok.

Infinity War is chock-full of Marvel characters.

Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr,), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Vision (Paul Bettany), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), my personal favorite Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and his Guardians of the Galaxy, and many more take on the major-heavy Thanos (Josh Brolin).

It doesn't look good for the fate of the Earth if Thanos gets his mitts on all six magical Infinity Stones. The Avengers and their allies split up into groups to try and stop him. One complication is that Guardian and Star-Lord's main squeeze, Gamora (Zoe Saldana), was raised by Thanos.

Yes, there are too many characters here, even for a two-hour-and-30-minute movie, but directors Anthony and Joe Russo and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely balance it fairly well. Plus, thanks to all the previous Marvel movies, we know these characters by now.

The character of Thanos is the glue that holds the film together. He is a formidable villain because he is driven and obsessed with power, yet has inner conflict. His menacing presence is felt throughout the movie and you really feel there is much at stake for the good guys.

This is a darker Marvel movie than we are used to, but the humor is still there. In fact, sometimes the humor is misplaced during scenes that should have remained serious.

Infinity War delivers the requisite action, and much of it is exciting. Dr. Strange battling Thanos late in the film is pretty awesome, and Thor's appearance with his new axe is the coolest.

Now, there are shocking moments and a cliffhanger ending, so be prepared. Just know that there will be another Avengers movie next year that will conclude the tale of Thanos.

I Feel Pretty

By Fritz Esker Amy Schumer looks to recapture some of her Trainwreck success with I Feel Pretty, a movie that rom-com fans will likely enjoy.

Schumer plays Renee, a woman who is selfconscious about her weight and physical appearance. During an accident in her spin class, she hits her head and suddenly perceives herself as physically beautiful. This gives her some newfound confidence and changes her outlook on the world. She even begins dating a mildly befuddled nice guy (Rory Scovel).

Written and directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, I Feel Pretty’s biggest virtue is its overall warm-heartedness. The movie’s message about being confident and comfortable in your own skin is a good one.

It also, refreshingly, refuses to turn supporting characters into easy villains. In a lesser movie, characters like Michelle Williams’s makeup-industry scion would have been played as one-dimensional caricatures. But the film extends empathy even to its supporting characters.

Schumer and Scovel have good chemistry together. Perhaps the most important question that can be asked of any romantic comedy is this: are the leads likable and sympathetic? Here, the answer is yes.

The film is not without its flaws. Even though the 110-minute movie is shorter than a lot of bloated comedies these days, it still feels about 10 minutes too long. It lags when Schumer’s newfound confidence turns into narcissism and selfishness. There’s also a speech at the film’s climax that underlines the film’s message in a heavy-handed way.

I Feel Pretty may not break new ground in the rom-com genre, but it makes for an enjoyable matinee.

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TalesFromTheQuarter

By Debbie Lindsey

Dear House

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ear House, We have not gone a day without loving you. Sure, some folks might wonder how one can speak in such human terms about wood, brick, and mortar—well, to them, I say: “Perhaps you have never known a home.” Fortunately, most do know what it feels like to walk in your front door after a long day and feel comforted. Certainly, your personal belongings, your stuff, as I like to call it, can fill most any space with charm and warmth. Some apartments or houses are mere structures, a roof over your head, yet the old adage, home is where the heart is, does allow for just about any building to have possibilities of becoming your very own safe haven—a place of contentment. Still and all, there are those venerable old houses that have a soul of their own, a feel, a smell, a sense of life. We knew this house had its own sense of self the moment we stepped onto the porch.

Ten years ago this April, we fell in love at first sight with this hundred-year-old Craftsman bungalow. Her arrow permanently pierced our hearts upon walking inside the front door. We were introduced to her when we helped our friend Gallivan move into the other half of this double (if you are not from here, a double is the same as a duplex). I generally didn’t volunteer to help folks move—just hated it, something about the chaos and the tediousness of it; I would offer to clean floors, bathrooms, kitchens, or spruce up the yard. But packing and helping organize, forget it. But Boyfriend always offers to help, and I felt if he could give up his day off, I could join in out of solidarity.

Well, karma rewarded us a million-fold. When I walked into Gallivan’s new place, I just felt it—knew this was the kind of place to call home. I threatened to plant drugs on him and have him hauled away so Boyfriend and I could take the lease. He opted to keep me from destroying our friendship and informed us that the mirror image was available for rent. Sure enough, the flip-side of this cottage was empty, and for some wonderful reason, Gallivan was even happy to have us as his neighbors. So, within 20 minutes, Boyfriend and I decided to live together, leave our apartments, and move out of the

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French Quarter. Three major changes and we jumped towards them with glee.

After so many years of apartment-living and no yard of my own, I was suddenly a cardcarrying member of Home Depot, The Green Project (great place for recycled wood, hardware, paints, and architectural stuff), and Harold’s Nursery. We painted, planted, and pruned. We co-owned with Gallivan a lawn mower, washer, and dryer. Despite being under the same roof, we each had a house and our own gardens. Yet, sharing a double also means we can hand over a plate of homemade dinner to him as he slides his ladder over the fence to us. Cohabitation in a double is like having a roommate, yet with total privacy and independence when you need it. But we could never have domesticated this wonderful home without the companionship of our friend on the other side of the walls.

This house, this home, is in the best neighborhood in the world! Just ask any of us who live here. If it’s the people in a house who make it a home, then it is also true that it takes the folks within a house to make a street or streets a neighborhood. You can live in a subdivision of houses and still not have a neighborhood. Community is an attitude that all the fancy granite countertops, matching lawn furniture, and manicured lawns within a gated suburb might never have. Our New Orleans neighborhoods all have their own identity—there are many common denominators and shared architectural attributes, but, like people, they are unique to themselves. Our Bayou St. John faubourg is, of course, my favorite.

In 10 years, our house has comforted us during anxious times, tragedies, and just plain ol’ hard times. We have celebrated 10 Christmases and lit up our house, yard, and trees with enough lights to be mistaken for a landing strip—nothing like having planes circle overhead at night. We use our porch and front yard as canvasses for our various seasonal bling: Saints season, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. We have a flamboyance of pink flamingos (surprisingly great pets) that enjoy nesting next to our titty-pink pedestal sink.

Our yard has become a resting place for beloved pets and a couple of folks whose ashes are proudly tossed among the ferns.

We might be in the heart of the city, but nature doesn’t abide by man’s barriers and pavement—we have raccoons, hawks and every imaginable bird, and opossums (one of which would sit on the porch at night with me). This house on N. Dupre Street is where we had hoped to live for an abundance of years to come. But along with a confluence of delightful representatives from Mother Nature came termites. And this is where the story of our dream house ends—the termites won the war that our landlord chose to fight with one hand tied behind his back (and a somewhat blind eye to the voracious appetite and resilience of these little devils). Though the structure has been eaten from stem to stern, our memories will linger there; because this house is more—it was our home, whose spirit will remain.

Po-BoyViews

By Phil LaMancusa

Grad Gab OR Heaven Can Wait

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kay, second week of Jazz Fest is here, and now it’s gone. Spring break and French Quarter Fest are like skeletons in your memory closet, and so are the Tennessee Williams, Gumbo, Strawberry, and Crawfish Festivals. All the things that you swore last year that you were going to make it to but didn’t, because you had a paper to write, a textbook to read, and/or a test to cram for. The school year’s end is looming like a sunset over the Isle of New Orleans, and you can just about taste the illusion of freedom that we all have felt when “time with no responsibility sunbeams upon us.”

School daze. All year long, it’s been “hurry up and have fun (!)”; “quick, jump in the car, we’re going someplace (!)”; or, “Just one more, tomorrow’s a school day,” and you’ve put your life on hold for the greater good of your future. Fool.

You need to crack open that bottle of Wake Up and Smell the Coffee; sprinkle some of that If Not Now, When? cologne under your armpits, and answer the Get-A-Clue phone: this is now the rest of your life. Have you realized that there is nothing after school but work and work for the rest of your foreseeable future, be it nine to five or five on, two off? The fact is that school has been the freedom that you believed waited for you after you graduated; consider going back for graduate studies because, according to me, there’s nothing out here but bubble bubble, toil and trouble. Consider the lilies of the field. And then consider you.

I know a woman who has been going to school continuously for over 40 years. She’s garnered several study degrees and is not planning on stopping; she’s living happily ever after. They’ll never get back her student loan money (hurray for her, I say).

Have you found what’s going to allow you happiness, provide adequate income, and permit mobility in your life? Have you found a career that you can pursue with a degree of passion that includes the family that you will be ultimately responsible to/for? Have you considered that the American Way of Life is a box of Cracker Jacks where you have to eat all the corn before you get to the good stuff?

Work until you’re old enough to retire and then be too old and tired to enjoy your time off? How do you spell pffft?

Step one on how to avoid that scenario: drink the Kool-Aid, stay in New Orleans, and become a true New Orleanian. This goes for any graduating folks making a foray into the real world where fantasy and fangs are the future, or even those who are considering extending their education. I’ve lived here, on and off, for over 30 years, and there’s

still a boatload about this city that I don’t know, haven’t seen or tasted—300 years of history and mystery lie at your fingertips and all you have to do is open yourself up to it.

There are a thousand things to do in and around New Orleans and an epidemic of guidebooks to tell you about them. Become a native and go out and explore, wander our neighborhoods, delve into our culture, and experience our myriad of subcultures. There are, of note, thousands of people who you haven’t met, a thousand nooks and crannies that you haven’t explored, 200 fried chicken outlets (none of which say “Colonel”) that you haven’t tried, Cajun and Creole gumbos you ain’t et yet, boat rides, trail hikes, farmers markets, musical experiences, art openings, theater performances, po-boys, and breweries. There are books to read, places to go, and people to see. And, you don’t need a lot of money!

Okay sure, you need some dough, but, you know, you never wanted to become rich, famous, or powerful right away. That was pabulum that was fed to you; you’re better than that. Work at something satisfying but not restricting. A couple of years on a construction crew might be good for that sagging body; a tour as a pedi-cab or buggy driver might sharpen your people skills. Busk on the street, volunteer with Habitat, lead history tours for the Cabildo, or sell beignets and coffee to nice families from Peoria, but, for Christmas’s sake, spread your wings before the real world clips them. Enjoy peace and quiet before you accept law and order.

There’s plenty of time before reality rears its head; enjoy the now while you can. Adopt a storm drain, join NOMA, enjoy a sunset, get soaked in the rain, ride your bike just for the fun of it. Cook for friends. Fly a kite.

Did you know that there are swimming pools around the city (free and open to the public) that open at eight in the morning?

Fitness classes and basketball courts? Do you know that NORDC (google this) has free piano lessons—beginner, intermediate, AND advanced? Have you ever made a yo-yo? Sold balloons? Taken photos of cemeteries, skylines, or drunks passed out on doorsteps? Have you baked a pie for your new neighbor? Danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

So, this is your advice from your Dutch Uncle: make your own parade; no matter how long you live, you will only be young once. No matter how long you live, you will never be able to take back any day that is past or even present. Make every day count, and remember what John Lennon said as a child when he was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up: “Happy.”

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Below are our staff's favorite #NOLA hashtags on Instagram for April.

Tag us @WhereYatNola or #WhereYatNola to be featured in an upcoming issue.

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LeanCuisineNamesNewLineAfterNutria

@abcarpenter11

@salubrious_seagan

@peedemarie

@coralie_fery

@nuawlinsown

@graytonbeachgirl

@wandergrammed

@icalzada

@laylo_bjj

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

@ashleynstokes: I twitch every time someone pronounces New Orleans like “New Or-leens”

Lean Cuisine just released a new food line called “Nutria”— but don’t worry — there won’t be a frozen rodent hiding as you peel back the film to dive into your next meal. The line is a customized meal plan designed for people based on their DNA. So what’s up with “Nutria”? Perhaps it could be a combination of “nutrition” and “DNA”, but Lean Cuisine has not yet disclosed any information about the name. In the past, state officials have tried to wipe out the nutria population by incorporating it on food menus, so this new line does raise many eyebrows.

9thCircuitRulesNoCopyrightForAnimals The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that animals cannot have copyrights—in response to a photo of Naruto, a seven-year-old Indonesian macaque, that was taken from a camera set up by British photographer David Slater in 2011. PETA fought Slater in court, defending Naruto and stating he should have copyrights to the photo since he took the picture himself. In addition, the photo surfaced on Wikipedia, preventing Slater from collecting royalties. This ruling has placed full ownership of the photograph back into Slater’s hands.

HollywoodSouthOnTheRiseIn2018 Although Louisiana seems to have experienced a rather slow film season last year, this year it’ll be back up and running with quite a few projects in the spring. Some include the superhero hit Captain Marvel, Al Capone’s biopic Fonzo, Netflix’s The Dirt, and a WWII naval thriller titled Greyhound.

New Orleans, particularly, will continue shooting for NCIS: New Orleans, Claws, and Queen Sugar.

@steffandthecity: Siri can’t pronounce no streets in New Orleans right lol @ChaoticSoul5: New Orleans is exactly the place #TheSimpsons would love. Homer for the food. Lisa for the music. Bart for the voodoo. Marge for the Religion. @strawburberry: Why does Vanessa from Gossip Girl always dress like she’s on her way to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? @ItsJustArianaaa: Eating in New Orleans makes me literally never want to eat anywhere else again. The food is to die for. @kendellj5: New Orleans is the ONLY place on planet Earth where you experience 4 seasons in one day

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BreakingAndEnteringWithASideOfCheetos Twenty-nine-year old Evelyn Washington was arrested for breaking into a house in Monroe, Louisiana, claiming an unidentified man instructed her to do so. The homeowner said she arrived and found Washington naked in a tub full of water as she was eating Cheetos. According to officials, it appeared she used an ice chest to break in. Washington was charged with burglary and damage to property.

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Where Ya Been?

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Andy Overslaugh from Voodoo Lounge celebrated winning the Cruzan Rum Tiki Mix-Off with Cruzan’s Robert Landry.

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Ellis Marsalis wowed the crowds at French Quarter Fest.

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Tory McPhail and wife Britt enjoyed the Best Chefs of Louisiana competition with Chef Eric Cook.

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Head Brewer Nick Anzalone is proud of the launch of Gordon Biersch’s new Maibock beer.

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Costumed actors dressed the part in the Cabildo’s new exhibit “Recovered Memories.”

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Cleveland Spears and Anne Cutler enjoyed the Cruzan Rum Tiki Mix-Off at NOPSI Hotel.

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City Park’s new historical Musical Train Tour features something for everyone.

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The first annual Crawfish for Cancer fundraiser brought the crowds out for a good cause.

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The studios of WYES turned into a disco for their “Studio 12” Gala Fundraiser.

10. Top Taco’s Shane Finkelstein, WGNO’s Hank Allen, Beau Rivage’s Bruce Cartwright, and Bourbon Fest’s Tracy Napolitano judged the Cruzan Rum Tiki Mix-Off.

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Celebrate every MOMent at NOPSI Hotel. Indulge Mom and thank her for all she does with a savory celebration at NOPSI Hotel this Mother’s Day, May 13. Join us for a grand buffet, featuring 12 delicious food stations and bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys. For reservations, please call 504-962-6500.

Chat NIKKI REYES with

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NOPSI Hotel's Dryades Ballroom.

The Good Ole Boys Club.

Patriotic.

Hand-washing my car.

Find me a fun date, Nikki!

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The Dryades Ballroom at NOPSI Hotel. Duh. Opening up a new hotel.

Professor Chef!

Opening up another hotel, for a while.

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Where Y’at Chat Questions: 1. Happy Mother's Day! Where would you take Mother Teresa to Brunch?

2. It's Graduation Day for you! What did you graduate from?

3. Salute! It's Memorial Day. What would you like to be remembered as?

4. May is "National Recommitment Month.” What do you NOT want to recommit to?

5. May is my birthday month. What gift would you like from me to you on my b-day?

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Queen College. All Hail!

“She never cried in catering!”

The straight-hair movement.

Diamonds, champagne...

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Commander's Palace, with a hat, for their 25-cent martinis.

Awesomeness!

“She sang, she loved, she made the world a better place!”

Dieting.

Your beautiful smile, Nikki!

A drag brunch!

The School of Sallie Mae Student Loans.

Knowing the difference between "whom" and "who."

Anyone I EVER dated!

Your company, Nikki! And a bottle of wine.

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The School of Grooming.

A connector.

Wooo! No scuffed shoes.

Put make-up on me!

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My house! I will do the cooking.

Origami! Meaning, organize my closet.

A true son of a saint.

Recommitment!

A trip to Fiji.

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Tableau, sipping mimosas, overlooking St. Louis Cathedral.

Real World 101.

Smiling and dancing for EVERYONE! Khloe Kardashian NOT recommitting to Tristan Thompson.

Bad-ass balloons! Even an air balloon.

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Motorcycle racing.

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Commander's Palace.

Life!

“She was NOT a control freak!”

Being nice to stupid people.

Take me and you to a happenin’ club!