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GIAN DURAND WAS THE QUEEN of the Krewe of Alla last year. She was the first Black queen in the krewe’s 93-year history. Her children rode on the float with her, and it was an amazing experience, she says.
It was so inspiring it got her interested in taking on a bigger role in Carnival.
“I wanted to have a krewe that represented everything I said in my reign,” Durand says.
So she started looking into forming a new krewe.
“I called (float builder) Barry Kern and asked, ‘Barry, do you think it’s possible for me to get a permit?” she says. “And he said, ‘Hell no!’
“But he said, ‘I heard Oshun might need some help.’
The Krewe of Oshun was in the middle of financial and organizational challenges when Durand stepped in and became its new captain last summer. She had a short calendar to get the organization up and running again, and it debuts a brand new look on the Uptown route on Friday, Feb. 6. The krewe’s River Ball follows the parade with music from Mannie Fresh, Flagboy Giz, Dat Band and DJ Raj Smoove.
Durand rebuilt the krewe from the ground up, starting with securing nonprofit status similar to many other krewes. She turned to Carnival veterans for help, including Kern, Muses officer Virginia Saussy, and Beads by the Dozen president Dan Kelly, Durand says.
She also turned to people like rapper and Black Masking Indian Flagboy Giz, who created a theme song for the group.
“I love Giz. He came to my preparty last year,” Durand says. “I was like, ‘Giz, I need a song. I have from August and February to tell people about this krewe.’ ”
The parade will have plenty of music, with marching bands including the Southern University Human Jukebox, the St. Augustine High School Marching 100, and marching bands from Edna Karr High School, McDonogh 35, Durand’s alma mater St. Mary’s Academy and more.
The krewe now uses floats from Kern Studios, and the lineup will feature a few floats that are new to Carnival, including a Louis Armstrong float and one depicting various icons of New Orleans culture. There also will be two three-trailer floats, including Kern’s Riverboat and Jester floats.
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The royalty are artist Terrance Osborne and his wife Stephanie Osborne. This year is both the krewe’s and the couple’s 30th anniversaries.
Terrance is making a crown out of paint brushes, and he’ll toss paint brushes as his signature throw.
The krewe will have roughly double the number of riders it had last year, and one of Durand’s big pushes has been to open the krewe to more families. While the city’s Carnival ordinance allows riders as young as 12, it limits younger riders to family members of riding royalty.
Durand has been able to ride with her children for the past five years because she’s put them in the krewes’ courts.
“I love riding with my kids,” she says. “I wanted a krewe that was different and could have children riders.“
Durand’s giving the krewe a large royal section, so children as young as 6 will ride with family members. Some floats will have all adults, but 60 riding slots will be occupied by families with children.
“Our motto is, ‘Families that ride together thrive together,’ ” she says.
For Durand, building up the family-friendly side of Carnival is a priority. Mardi Gras has always been a family affair for her.
“On Mardi Gras day, we were the family that woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning to get our spot on Canal Street,” she says. “Camping out for your spot, walking up and down Canal
Street for hours, that’s what you did in the ’80s and ’90s.”
She was in her first parade as a teenager, and it was in the first Krewe of Oshun parade in 1996, when it paraded in Mid-City. Durand was in a horse-riding group started by Mid-City Carriages.
As an adult, she joined several krewes, including the now-defunct Nyx, Pandora, Muses and Iris.
When she was Alla’s first Black queen, she spoke a lot about krewe membership.
“My reign was so symbolic,” she says. “Whether it’s intentional or not, Mardi Gras is segregated. It’s not OK. It shouldn’t be. Mardi Gras should look like the city it represents.
“I want my daughter to look up at anybody on that float and believe she can do that. Any kid should be able to do that,” she adds. “That was my message: Mardi Gras should be for all.”
Durand dedicated her ride to Dorothy Mae Taylor, the civil rights activist, Louisiana state representative and New Orleans City Council member.
In the early 1990s, Taylor introduced an ordinance designed to diversify krewe membership. Some krewes chose to stop parading instead.
Members of Taylor’s family will be in the parade as grand marshals, along with former U.S. congressional representative and presidential advisor Cedric Richmond and New Orleans Chief Administrative Officer Joe Giarrusso.
The krewe will also have many people riding in their first Carnival float parade. That recalls the original mission of krewe founder Ann Clark, who wanted parade riding to be more accessible. Durand believes the spirit of Carnival is a lesson for the city.
“You’re in the street, it doesn’t matter who you are, your background,” she says. “Everybody is just together, getting along.”
For more about the Krewe of Oshun parade, see page 15, or visit kreweofoshun.com.
Saturnalia Ball
The Saturnalia Ball is a dance party and spectacle of go-go dancers and circus arts. Burlesque performer Audacious Miss Vivacious and drag artist Tarah Cards curated the event, and the second edition’s theme is Venus! at the Disco. There’s music from DJ Phlegm and DJ Siren and performers include Lola van Ella, Mamie Dame, La Reina, Lauren Mearcat, Eddie Lockwood, Lexis Redd D’Ville, Eddie Divas, Sailem and Santana. At 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at Joy Theater. Tickets $34 and up at audaciousnola.com/saturnalia.
Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor’s influential band, which now officially includes his collaborator Atticus Ross, launched the massive Peel It Back tour across Europe and North America last year after a stretch where Reznor and Ross focused more on film scores. Past concerts have featured two stages: one where Nine Inch Nails plays its better known songs and a B-stage for deep cuts and remixes featuring producer Boys Noize. Nine Inch Nails kicks off the 2026 leg of its tour at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Smoothie King Center. Tickets start at $62.95 via smoothiekingcenter.com.
Joshua Redman Quartet
Saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman has been a top name in jazz since he won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 1991. His most recent albums include 2023’s “Where Are We,” featuring New Orleans vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, and last summer’s “Words Fall Short.” His quartet includes pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Philip Norris and drummer Nazir Ebo. At 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Jazz
Gian Durand leads the renewed Krewe of Oshun
Gian Durand is the new captain of the Krewe of Oshun.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded two prestigious grants to the New Orleans Foundation for Francophone Cultures, also known as Nous, which works to preserve and promote Louisiana’s French, Creole and Indigenous cultures. Nous will use a $25,000 Celebrate America grant and a $50,000 Public Impact Project grant to support two exhibitions focused on Louisiana’s French and Creole communities at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Louisiana Purchase.
The National League of Cities has included New Orleans in its Prenatal-to-Three Impact Lab, a new initiative focused on addressing the factors leading to poor maternal and infant health, including climate and environmental factors and economic and housing insecurity. New Orleans is among 16 cities taking part in the lab, and city workers will be connected to early childhood experts, resources and networks to better shape the city’s plans to support young children.
Ralph Abraham, Louisiana’s former Surgeon General who recently became the principal deputy director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says he is unbothered by the chance the U.S. could lose its status as a measles-free country, saying it’s “just the cost of doing business” and misleadingly blaming the increase in measles cases on immigration rather than reduced vaccination rates resulting from anti-vax propaganda.
CONDEMNED THE TRUMP REGIME’S ONGOING VIOLENT ANTI-IMMIGRANT RAIDS in and around the city and the rest of the nation in the wake of the murder of two people in Minneapolis by the administration’s paramilitary forces in the last two and a half weeks.
During a Jan. 26 field hearing at New Orleans City Hall, U.S. House Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) denounced the regime’s policies, calling them “out-of-control immigration operations that have torn communities apart, terrorized immigrants and citizens alike, and injured and killed people across this country.”
Democrats called immigration agents’ presence in Louisiana an “invasion,” with U.S. Congressman
Troy Carter, whose district includes New Orleans, criticizing the feds’ lack of communication with New Orleans officials.
“We welcome partnership with federal authorities, but we do not welcome occupation,” Carter said, adding, “If you’re here to have shock and awe political theater and to violate people’s rights, we just don’t need you here.”
New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno testified that she had not received any direct information from Border Patrol or a response to her letter of demands to the agency’s senior official Gregory Bovino. However, some local law enforcement agencies have been working with federal agents, including the Kenner police chief who previously said Bovino gives him 15-minute notices before raids.
THE NUMBER OF LOUISIANA PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN DEEMED ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE UNDER GOV. JEFF LANDRY.
That’s the lowest number in 20 years and a roughly 78% drop in parolees over a two-year period when compared to a similar timeframe under Gov. John Bel Edwards, according to an analysis by Verite News and ProPublica. The parole system allows people to be released from prison early under certain conditions, incentivizing good behavior in prison. Under Landry, there is a lot less hope.
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U.S. Congressmen Troy A. Carter, Sr., left, and Bennie G. Thompson hold a hearing about Operation Catahoula Crunch at the New Orleans City Council Chambers at City Hall Monday, Jan. 26, 2026.
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The hearing in Louisiana was one of several the group of Democratic lawmakers plans to hold across the country to hear from immigrant and civil rights advocates on the ground and call attention to the treatment of people during the crackdowns.
“Congressional Republicans have repeatedly refused to engage in oversight of the Department of Homeland Security because they are complicit in this crime,” Thompson said. “So we’re here on the road doing the work that they refuse to do.”
In late November and early December, the administration sent around 250 agents to the New Orleans area for an immigration crackdown they dubbed “Catahoula Crunch.” They said they planned to arrest 5,000 people in the area, from Baton Rouge to Mississippi.
Over the last two months, they’ve claimed to have made around 560 arrests, including an unverified allegation that 36 of those people had “criminal backgrounds,” a Department of Homeland Security official told The Times-Picayune last week.
DHS has a long history of openly lying and making baseless claims.
Additionally, there are numerous incidents of the regime falsely claiming people it has disappeared had criminal records or are accused of committing crimes.
However, many of the agents in Louisiana were sent to Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier this month, where an ICE agent killed U.S. citizen Renee Good on Jan. 7. In Minneapolis, tens of thousands are braving subzero temperatures to protest ICE’s tactics, including the killing of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti over the weekend.
Council President JP Morrell said seeing what was happening in Minneapolis, he feared the situation in New Orleans could eventually worsen under a Republican governor who supports immigration raids.
“If Minneapolis is the tip of the spear, New Orleans is the handle, a blue city in a red state being used as a test case,” he said, adding, “It starts with immigration enforcement, moves to voter suppression and ends in military occupation.”
Homero Lopez, legal director of Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy (ISLA), told Congress members that one of his clients is a 22-year-old who ICE arrested outside his workplace despite having legal status and a work permit. He has been detained in ICE processing center in Jena, Louisiana ever since and spent his birthday there earlier this month, Lopez said.
Tania Wolf, the southeast advocacy manager of the National Immigration Project, said the group’s meal distribution requests increased from 30 to 400 families in response to the raids. She also said people are missing doctor’s appointments out of fear of immigration agents.
“A doctor in the community told me that one of their patients went off their blood thinners because they were so afraid of getting tackled and sustaining a brain bleed at the hands of ICE,” she said.
Alanah Odoms, ACLU Louisiana executive director, said Louisiana has 10 immigrant detention facilities. Many are in remote areas that make it difficult for lawyers and
legal advocates to get to them, especially if they’re out of state.
Wolf said Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, a five hour drive from New Orleans, only allows them to have six lawyers or legal assistants at a time for eight hours. Previously, they’d been able to send between 10 to 15 people.
“We’re lucky if we see 60-70 people,” she said.
Advocates called for members of Congress to abolish ICE, which was formed in 2003, and shut down immigration detention centers.
“The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti demonstrate that ICE is beyond reform and must be abolished,” Lopez said.
The Congress members stopped short of promising to shut down the agency but vowed change if Democrats gain control of Congress in the mid-term elections later this year.
“When we take the majority back next year, we are going to do the job of reining in ICE, reining in this lawless administration and restoring the rights of the people,” said Congressman Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island. — Kaylee Poche
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According to Dr. Stephen Hales’ history of the Rex Organization, the first Rex ball was at Exposition Hall. Where was it and how many years did Rex or other krewes celebrate there?
Dear reader,
EXPOSITION HALL WAS LOCATED IN THE 700 BLOCK of St. Charles Avenue between Girod and Julia streets. According to an article in “Preservation in Print” by Richard Campanella, it was designed by Albert Deitel and built by William Ames in 1870-71.
Campanella explains that the building was conceived after the Civil War as a way to revive industry and “attract commerce by creating a space to convene and display wares.” Its first major event was the 1872 Grand Industrial Exposition, staged the same year as the first Rex parade.
There was no ball for that first Rex procession, but for its second year the krewe hosted a ball at Exposition Hall on Mardi Gras night. In the book “If Ever I Cease to Love: 100 Years of Rex 1872-1971,” Charles L. “Pie” Dufour and Leonard V. Huber write that some 4,000 invitations were issued. The King of Carnival was Edward B. Wheelock and his queen was Frances “Fanny” Hewitt Fearn.
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According to Hales’ book, “Rex: 150 Years of the School of Design,” the organization staged its Carnival balls at the Exposition Hall from 1873 to 1906. In 1878, the name was changed to Washington Artillery Hall when the building was purchased by the Washington Artillery Battalion as its headquarters and arsenal.
Campanella writes that the building’s upper floor was used for Carnival balls, expositions, conferences and other activities while the lower floor was used to stock “rifles, cannon, uniforms, ammunition, and material of all sorts; it even had a live shooting range…”
The Washington Artillery moved to Jackson Barracks in 1922, although the building remained as a venue for other groups. It became a car dealership before being demolished in 1952. An office building replaced it and, in 2016, a condominium complex.
THIS WEEK WE CONTINUE OUR LOOK AT SOME OF THE NAMES AND VOICES BEHIND SOME CLASSIC CARNIVAL TUNES by profiling the writers of two songs that have become Mardi Gras standards: Earl King and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson. King, whose real name was Earl Johnson IV, was born in New Orleans in 1934. He took up guitar as a teenager and was discovered after entering local talent shows. King earned a contract with Specialty Records, intending to record as “King Earl” until the names were reversed by mistake.
His songwriting credits include “Come On” (often known as “Let the Good Times Roll”), “Trick Bag” and “Those Lonely, Lonely Nights.” His Carnival classic “Big Chief,” was released in 1964. It features Professor Longhair on piano with King’s vocals and memorable whistling. King’s 1972 “Street Parade,” also is a Carnival favorite. He died in 2003.
Al Johnson was born in New Orleans in 1939. Originally a trumpeter, he switched to piano and cut his first record at 17. He wrote the iconic song “Carnival Time” and recorded it in 1959. At first, the song wasn’t a hit, and Johnson said it was years later while he was stationed at Fort Bliss in the Army that he began to hear from friends back home that the song had gained popularity.
For decades, he didn’t see a penny from the song’s financial
success and drove a cab to make ends meet. In 1999, after a long court battle, Johnson finally secured sole rights to the song.
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Parades and events in New Orleans and Metairie
THE KREWE OF OSHUN kicks off a big weekend of parades in New Orleans with a new look and a revitalized membership. It’s the beginning of a host of big float parades in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish.
Oshun has a new captain and a new approach, with more spots for young riders and their families to ride together. The krewe is now working with Kern Studios and new floats featuring Louis Armstrong and jazz music and history will debut in its parade. For more on the krewe, see page 7.
A couple of krewes will celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary. That includes the Legion of Mars, which is made up of many active duty and veteran members of the armed services. The Knights of King Arthur also celebrate the milestone by highlighting the food culture of many states.
The Krewe of Freret continues its focus on popular musicians with a float honoring Diplo, who performs at its after party.
The Metairie parades of Excalibur and MadHatters roll by Family Gras on their respective nights. The parade-side festival features bands including the Gin Blossoms, Herman’s Hermits with Peter Noone, Imagination Movers and more. See page 27 for more about Family Gras.
There also are more French Quarter walking parades this week, including Krewe of Cork and Barkus (See page 23 and 25).
The following pages include parade previews, schedules and maps, and there’s information on royalty, throws, themes, bands and more.
The Krewe of Freret parades with a bust of Dr. John.
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PARADE PREVIEWS
FRIDAY, FEB. 6
Oshun
5 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Culture, Community & Legacy Floats: 16
Queen: Stephanie Osborne
Shango: Terrance Osborne
Throws: glitter hearts, various items with heart images, doubloons and beads
On its 30th anniversary, the Krewe of Oshun is a rejuvenated organization, with a new captain and double the number of riders as last year, including families with children. The theme celebrates everything New Orleans, with floats depicting jazz, riverboats, alligators and more. The Southern University Human Jukebox band will lead the parade. The grand marshals include children of Dorothy Mae Taylor, the civil rights activist, state representative and New Orleans City Council member who in the early 1990s introduced a city ordinance to prevent discrimination in Carnival krewe membership. See page 7.
Cleopatra
6 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Friday Night is for the Girls Floats: 25
Queen: Stephanie Buras
Throws: decorated beverage cups, travel neck pillows, crawfish trays, jewelry, scented candles and more
The all-women Krewe of Cleopatra has grown to more than 3,000 members. This year’s theme celebrates special nights, with floats titled “Bachelorette Party,” “Date Night” and more. The krewe’s signature floats include the Royal Barge, Queen Tutt and Cleopatra’s Nile… The River of Life. The parade’s lineup of 18 bands includes marching units from Alcorn State and Mississippi State universities.
Excalibur
6:30 P.M. METAIRIE
Theme: Celestial Knights Floats: 18
Queen: Sandra Kruse Nix
King: John Vincent Valenza III
Throws: hand-decorated dragon eggs, plush baby dragons, socks, doubloons and more
The krewe is all about Camelot and the Knights of the Roundtable, but this year’s theme looks to the stars, gods and mythology. Float titles include “Helios Lights the Way,” “Vayu Brings Life Force and Breath” and “Lunar Omens and Prophecies.” The procession passes by Family Gras near Lakeside Shopping Center.
The Magical Krewe of MadHatters parade in Metairie
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Parade-goers cheer for throws.
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SATURDAY, FEB. 7
Pontchartrain
11:30 A.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Super Pontchartrain Floats: 16
Queen: Elizabeth Hummel Merino
King: Steven Edward Sloan
Throws: plush Super Groupers, crawfish trays, superhero capes and t-shirts, beads and doubloons
The Krewe of Pontchartrain formerly paraded in the neighborhood where it was founded along Lake Pontchartrain. The Super Grouper has long been its icon and mascot. This year, the krewe celebrates everything super, including superheroes and spins on super things including “Super Trooper,” “Super Mario Brothers” and “Superstition.”
Legion of Mars
NOON UPTOWN
Theme: 250 Years of Defending Freedom
Floats: 23
Queen: Victoria Rose Talamo
Primus: Lance Corporal
Frederick Burmaster
Throws: krewe camouflage
boonie hats and red, white and blue
items related to the military and first responders
The krewe honors military service people and veterans and first responders, and the king is Lance Corporal Frederick Burmaster, a Vietnam War veteran and Purple Heart recipient. Major Gen. Justin M. Swanson is the grand marshal. This is its biggest parade yet, with 550 riders. Floats represent various branches of the military, and a new Army float that features a tank with a 25-foot cannon will carry active duty service and Army National Guard members. There’s also a float honoring health care workers.
Choctaw
2 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Choctaw Sparkles with Timeless Hollywood Glamour Floats: 15
Princess: Toni Sisung
Chief: Troy Serpas
Throws: hand-decorated tomahawks, beads, doubloons, wooden nickels, koozies and more Born on the West Bank, the krewe has paraded on land and on the river in its more than nine-decade history. The group is rebounding from an October warehouse fire that destroyed some throws and costumes.
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Krewe of Pygmalion rolls in Uptown.
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Freret
3:30 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: The Pulse of Mardi Gras Floats: 23
Queen: Shannon E. Thomas
King: Joseph Warren Gerrity IV Throws: hand-decorated masks, fanny packs, hats, totes, wooden coasters, soap, gumbo mix, doubloons and more
The krewe has rolled out likenesses of local music luminaries in recent years, including Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews on a float with a 30-foot trombone. This year, a float celebrates Diplo, the DJ who will perform at Shorty Gras, the krewe’s afterparty. The event also features Trombone Shorty, Big Freedia and the New Breed Brass Band. The krewe does not toss beads, but throws include packages of red beans and jambalaya as well as reusable totes.
MadHatters
5 P.M. METAIRIE
Theme: Alice in Wonderland Floats: 35
Alice: Karen Waldrup
MadHatter: Pierre Thomas
Throws: krewe T-shirts, hats, toothbrushes, toothpaste and lighted beads
In lieu of royalty, the MadHatters present local celebrities and media personalities as the characters from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
This year, the characters include Doug Mouton as King of Hearts, Travers Mackel as a Flamingo and Liz Reyes as the Red Queen. Irma Thomas is the grand marshal, and other guests include Rockin’ Dopsie, Amanda Shaw, Vince Vance and the Valiants, Kinfolk Brass Band and more. The procession passes by Family Gras near Lakeside Shopping Center.
Spartan Society
5:30 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Sparta Silver Celebration, A Diamond Jubilee Floats: 27
Spartan Society includes the Knights of Sparta and the Mystical Order of the Phoenix, which joined forces with the krewe in 2020. Reigning as Phoenix VI is Thea E. Narkiewicz. Mule-drawn chariots will carry figures representing Greek gods and goddesses, and there’s a
The singer Boyfriend rides in the Krewe of Freret parade.
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new float featuring the Greek hero Agamemnon.
Pygmalion
6:15 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Tales of the Brothers Grimm Floats: 26
Queen: Isabella Bearden
King: Desi Vega
Throws: pigs, lighted tumblers, socks and beads
The theme celebrates the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, including Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White. The parade also features signature floats like the Pygmammoth and the Jester float. New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough is the grand marshal. The parade is followed by Pygmalion Fest at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, and there will be music from Marshmello, Mannie Fresh, The Party Crashers and DJ Rachii.
The theme celebrates good times, with floats depicting happy hour,
Carnival, spa days and more. Black Masking Indian Queen Tahj Williams is the grand marshal.
Carrollton
12:30 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Date Night Floats: 23
Queen: Faith Elizabeth Hammons
King: Marcel Eugene Cambus Jr. Throws: decorated shrimp boots, krewe fedoras and doubloons
The century-old krewe’s theme celebrates great matches and the finer things, with floats titled “Tequila and Togetherness,” “The Perfect Match” and more.
King Arthur
1 P.M. UPTOWN
Theme: Cooking Across America, Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary Floats: 60 pull units
Queen Guinevere: Victoria Alexis Jordan
King Arthur: Dr. Paul Gordon Throws: hand-decorated grails, plush Merlin dolls, gloves, pot holders, aprons, Cheesy Korn and more
The theme celebrates the nation’s 250th anniversary with floats depicting popular dishes from various states, such as poi from Hawaii and sushi for California. There will be many culinary items as throws. The krewe’s most prized throws are hand-decorated grails, including one extravagant Grail of Grails.
The Krewe of King Arthur parades in Uptown.
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PARADE SCHEDULE & MAPS
FRIDAY, FEB. 6
OSHUN 5 P.M.
Uptown 1
CLEOPATRA 6 P.M.
Uptown 1
EXCALIBUR 6:30 P.M.
Metairie
SATURDAY, FEB. 7
PONTCHARTRAIN 11:30 A.M.
Uptown 1
MARS NOON
Uptown 1
CHOCTAW 2 P.M.
Uptown 1
FRERET 3:30 P.M.
Uptown 1
MADHATTERS 5 P.M.
Metairie
SPARTAN SOCIETY 5:30 P.M.
Uptown 2
PYGMALION 6:15 P.M.
Uptown 2
SUNDAY, FEB. 8
FEMME FATALE 11 A.M.
Uptown 1
CARROLLTON 12:30 P.M.
Uptown 2
KING ARTHUR 1 P.M.
Uptown 2
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Krewe of Cork
3 P.M. FRIDAY, FEB. 6
FRENCH QUARTER
French Quarter construction isn’t much to toast to, but roadwork has caused the extension of the parade route of the Krewe of Cork, and that’s worth raising a glass.
The krewe of local hospitality professionals, vintners and wine industry people and wine lovers convenes for its annual parade and ball on Friday, Feb. 6.
The queen is New Orleanian Adrienne Boothby. The grand marshal is Jody Bogle of Bogle Vineyards, located south of Sacramento, California. Patrick van Hoorebeek, owner of Patrick’s Bar Vin, is the krewe’s king.
Krewe members don wine-themed costumes and gather for a luncheon at the Court of Two Sisters. The parade starts on Royal Street and circles the heart of the French Quarter on Bourbon and St. Ann streets. The altered route takes it to Jackson Square and a short trek on Decatur Street before returning to Royal. The parade ends at the Royal Sonesta, where the group holds its King and Queen party.
For more information about krewe events, membership and the parade, visit kreweofcork.com.
The Krewe of Cork parades in the French Quarter. PHOTO BY BRETT DUKE / THE TIMES - PICAYUNE
CARNIVAL
Barkus
1 P.M. SUNDAY, FEB. 8 FRENCH QUARTER
There’s no place like home for the canines of the Mystic Krewe of Barkus. But this Carnival event is their chance to don a costume and lead their human escorts on a walk around the French Quarter. The theme for 2026 is the “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and “Wicked” inspired “Wicked and Wagged: Barkus Believes in Change for Good.”
New Orleans’ first dog, Nacho, will be the grand marshal. The French bulldog belongs to Mayor Helena Moreno and Chris Meeks. Nacho is a longtime member of the krewe and has served in its court before.
The royalty are King JoJo Kravitz and Queen Drift, both Bahamian potcake dogs, rescued and brought to New Orleans by Sidney Torres IV, owner of IV Waste.
The pack’s traditional route is slightly altered due to road construction in the French Quarter. It still begins on St. Ann Street at Armstrong Park, passes the reviewing stand at Good Friends Bar, and circles the heart of the historic district. It returns to the park on Orleans Avenue.
The krewe has its traditional pre-parade party in Armstrong Park beginning at 10:30 a.m., as well as its after-party when the procession returns to the park.
The Barkus Royal Ball is Friday, Feb. 6, at the Windsor Court Hotel. Proceeds from the parade benefit regional animal care organizations, including Animal Rescue New Orleans, Jefferson SPCA, Humane Society of Louisiana, Louisiana SPCA, Zeus’ Rescue and more. Visit kreweofbarkus.org for information, ball tickets and to register to walk in the parade.
PHOTO BY SOPHIA GERMER / THE TIMES - PICAYUNE
Family Gras
FEB. 6-7
METAIRIE
Family Gras brings a music festival, parade watching and more to Veterans Memorial Boulevard across from Lakeside Shopping Center. The festival takes place Friday, Feb. 6, when Excalibur parades, and Saturday, Feb. 7, when the Magical Krewe of MadHatters rolls.
The Friday night music lineup is topped by Herman’s Hermits featuring Peter Noone. The 1960s British pop band is still led by Noone, its original singer, and has other original members as well. Friday also features country singer Karen Waldrup, who was a finalist on NBC’s singing competition “The Voice.” Tom Petty tribute band Heartbreakers Jukebox rounds out the night.
Saturday is headlined by 1990s alt rock band the Gin Blossoms and Lady A, the Nashville band formerly known as Lady Antebellum. Also performing are Elton John tribute band The Rocketmen, Uncle Kracker, the longtime Kid Rock turntablist Matthew Shafer, and local family-friendly group The Imagination Movers. Bands perform throughout the day, and there’s a break while parades pass the festival grounds.
Family Gras also has a kids area with face painting, games and activities. The art market has a variety of vendors and many offer Carnival costume accessories. There also are 10 food vendors offering barbecue, tacos, Cajun and Creole dishes and more.
Family Gras is free, but VIP passes offer front-of-the-stage viewing areas, backstage access and limited food and drinks.
Veterans Memorial Boulevard at the festival grounds is closed to traffic during Family Gras hours. Gates open at 3 p.m. Friday, and music starts at 4 p.m. On Saturday, gates open at 9 a.m. and the music begins at 11 a.m. For more information, go to familygras.com.
Imagination Movers return to Family Gras on Saturday. PHOTO BY JOHN MCCUSKER / THE TIMES - PICAYUNE
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Comfort food
A new Metairie cafe with a mission by Beth D’Addono |
DON’T WORRY ABOUT OVER-INDULGING AT ST. MARY’S RESTAURANT, a casual and welcoming new cafe in Metairie. Get the grits and pork grillades, the Irish breakfast that’s available all day, or the red beans and rice plate lunch special on Mondays. Go ahead, order the fluffy Basque-style cheesecake for dessert. St. Mary’s is meant to be a guilt-free zone, where the more you eat, the better you feel.
That’s because the restaurant has a mission, and 15% of all tickets go to St. Mary’s Residential Community & Services, a home for developmentally disabled adults in Alexandria. Partner Bob Hecker has organized fundraisers for St. Mary’s for years as a way to show his gratitude for the community taking care of his 32-year-old son Christopher for two decades. He’s been thinking about how to do more.
Hecker has known his business partner at St. Mary’s, chef Bradley McGehee, since the chef was in the kitchen at Ye Olde College Inn. McGehee created Blue Line Sandwich Co. a dozen years ago, and he knows what it takes to run a successful niche restaurant.
“We’d talked about the idea for a while now,” Hecker says. “When this place became available, we jumped on it.”
The strip mall location at 4445 W. Metairie Ave. used to house Nephew’s Ristorante, which closed last year when the owner retired.
The refreshed space can accommodate about 100 guests, between the long bar and scattered cypress tables, each of them handmade. Hecker’s main business is construction, which came in handy getting the restaurant ready to open in mid-November.
Beverage pro Daniel Victory is the bar director, overseeing a menu of bloody mary variations and $11 specialty cocktails like the Lakeside Smash with tequila, mint and citrus. The bar offerings also include house wines, imported and local beers and soon, Guinness on tap.
Chef de cuisine Jeremy Jordan recently joined the team. The Metairie-born chef has worked for a branch of the Brennan family at Cafe Adelaide, Emeril Lagasse at NOLA and John Harris at Lilette. He’s traveled as a pizzeria consultant, worked at a resort in Martha’s Vineyard and the swank Los Angeles restaurant Alma. Back home for five years, he discovered St. Mary’s by accident.
“My girlfriend and I wanted breakfast and saw they did an Irish here,” he says. “We had that and the grits and grillades and just loved it. I’ve been very deliberate about who I’ve worked for and why, and I totally support the mission here.”
McGehee’s opening menu is rich with comfort food influenced by Louisiana, along with a smattering of global flavors. The chef is from the Bay Area and came to New Orleans to do a six-month internship with Tory McPhail at Commander’s Palace.
“I had no intention of moving here,” McGehee says. “That was 25 years ago. I just fell in love with the people and culture here.”
The menu has some riffs on New Orleans’ greatest hits, including
his barbecue shrimp, the Cajun Benedict with boudin, a fried green tomato remoulade po-boy on Dong Phuong brioche and more. There’s a paneed pork chop with rice and gravy for the Wednesday plate special.There are other influences, too, like the French-kissed coq au vin, spaghetti with meatballs and the Europeanstyle fish and chips, notable for its beer-battered whole cod fillet.
The redfish amandine on the dinner menu is made using chef Anne Kearney’s recipe, a reminder of McGehee’s time working with her at Peristyle. Steak frites is served with a classic French chasseur sauce, and a thick cut pork chop tops tasso-braised Southern greens.
During the day, guests order at a back window, but come dinner time, there is table service. Prices are moderate, with dishes falling between $11 and $20. A “social hour” keeps things lively at the bar, and happy hour specials include bar bites and drink specials.
From opening day, the restaurant has been busy, especially for breakfast.
“We’re filling a need,” McGehee says.
Hecker comes in every day, helping to bus tables and deliver food. “I live and work close by, so it’s easy for me to just pop in,” he says. “I’ll clean tables, but mostly what I do is thank people for coming. Turns out people love the idea of eating good food and being charitable.”
Bywater Bakery keeps on baking
FROM A FESTIVE CARNIVAL BLOCK PARTY TO FIRES BLAZING UP AND DOWN THEIR STREET and inside their delivery van — to news of national recognition, last week was a wild week for Bywater Bakery.
On Jan. 17, Chaya Conrad and Alton Osborn hosted their 10th annual King Cake Festival, this year to benefit another local organization, demonstrating the community spirit the couple has built into their business. A day later, they thought it may have all gone to ash in a series of suspected arsons.
And then, with another bit of emotional whiplash, there was exaltation as Bywater Bakery was announced as a James Beard Awards semifinalist, a recognition the couple never saw coming but that can lift a small shop like theirs.
“It was the most eventful week of my life,” Conrad says, taking a quick break at the bakery as customers alternately offered consolations and congratulations.
In the way the bakery has rolled with it all, and the community response it has inspired, it also illustrates how integral Bywater Bakery has become in its neighborhood.
The bakery’s annual block party always draws top New Orleans music talent to perform and gathers a joyful crowd. This time, it was also a benefit for WWNO, the public radio station that has seen its finances upended by the Trump administration’s funding cuts to public broadcasting nationwide. The event raised $7,400 for the station and left the bakery crew exhausted but grateful.
Bob Hecker opened St. Mary’s Restaurant.
PHOTO BY MADDIE SPINNER / GAMBIT
PHOTO BY IAN MCNULTY / THE TIMES- PICAYUNE
On Jan. 19, at around 2:30 a.m., Osborn and Conrad were awakened at their Bywater home by their frantically barking dogs. They saw flames engulfing their delivery van parked outside on Desire Street. It was one of eight vehicles torched in quick succession on their block and adjacent streets, apparently at random.
The fire kept them temporarily penned in their house. It was a terrifying time as they tried to comprehend what was happening.
“We thought it was targeted at us — we are vocal politically,” Osborn says. If so, they were afraid the bakery was at risk as well.
“We’d had this huge joy, and then this huge fear,” Conrad recalls.
The bakery was untouched. But the scene in the neighborhood was surreal, with multiple vehicles blazing, and days later the charred shells of some remain where they were parked that night.
The bakers had to get back to work quickly. It’s the middle of Carnival season, a pivotal time as king cake sales keep the business viable through slower months.
On Jan. 21, with more king cakes in the oven, news came that Bywater Bakery had been listed as one of 20 semifinalists for the James Beard award for Outstanding Bakery. The list gets narrowed to finalists on March 31, and the winner will be named in June.
In the wake of the arson, the honor arrived with extra meaning, an unanticipated validation of the bakery’s work.
The now-destroyed bakery van is a key part of that work.
Year-round it’s how the bakery delivers wedding cakes, and during Carnival season it does double duty supplying King Cake Hub and other distribution points with its cakes. The couple is working on replacing the van now.
But they are encouraging people who want to help to support their neighbors instead and donate to a relief fund started by the Krewe of Red Beans, the Carnival group and creative community organization based in the Bywater.
“For us, just come support us as a business. That’s what we are, that’s the best way to help us,” Conrad says.
Still, musicians who regularly play at the bakery’s events quickly got in touch, eager to help. The gears are turning for another benefit, this time aimed at helping offset losses from the arson.
But just when things felt more or less normal at the bakery, the kitchen’s industrial dough mixer, dubbed Big Bertha, chose that day to bite the dust. It means the bakery will be working with smaller batches for a while.
But neighborhood life keeps flowing through the shop. Between walls
FORK & CENTER
decked in art and emblems of New Orleans cultural life, people with dogs on leashes breezed in for self-serve coffee and pastries. Some tucked into gumbo served in go-cups, and others gathered stacks of king cakes.
Over a mellow soundtrack of reggae, Osborn explained to customers how the Cajun bouille king cake was based on the famous custard pie of Louisiana bayou country.
The place has become a local institution since opening in 2017. For Conrad, a tumultuous week just puts their journey into perspective.
“It’s everything I ever dreamed of,” she says. “We’re here able to live our core values every single day. I’m literally living my dream. And I think that comes through, and people want to support that and be part of that.”
— Ian McNulty / The Times-Picayune
34 Restaurant & Bar closes
34 RESTAURANT & BAR, THE UPSCALE PORTUGUESE RESTAURANT from Emeril Lagasse and his son E.J. Lagasse in the Warehouse District, was scheduled to close after service on Jan. 31.
“The restaurant has been a true labor of love, but due to the high costs of operating in the current environment, we have made the difficult decision to close,” the Emeril Group said in a statement.
The company said it will offer 34’s staff “opportunities at other Emeril Group ventures” after the closing.
The restaurant had a run of about 15 months, and the Lagasses expressed gratitude for what it accomplished, especially “introducing many guests to the joys of Portuguese cuisine for the first time.”
The closure comes amid a hot streak for the Lagasse family. Their flagship, Emeril’s Restaurant, received an extraordinary two-star Michelin ranking in November, and it has drawn other prestigious international accolades. E.J. Lagasse this week was named a semifinalist for the James Beard Foundation’s award for Emerging Chef, a national honor.
There’s no word yet on what could be next for 34’s address.
— Ian McNulty / The Times-Picayune
Mardi Gras Specials
E.J. Lagasse (left) and his father Emeril Lagasse at 34 Restaurant & Bar.
PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
James Beard semifnalists
A NEW SLATE OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA AND GULF COAST RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS ARE IN THE RUNNING FOR THIS YEAR’S JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARDS, including well-known names, rising talent, bakers and pros in the wine realm.
The culinary organization released its list of semifinalists for these high-profile honors.
The long list of national semifinalists has for the past few years shown a broader range of restaurant styles, price ranges and cuisines, and once again that’s true of the local semifinalists, too.
The list will be narrowed to finalists, scheduled to be named on March 31, along with winners of the foundation’s leadership, humanitarian of the year and lifetime achievement awards.
Chef and restaurant awards winners will be named during a gala event in Chicago on June 15. New Orleans typically has many contenders each year, but has won fewer awards in recent years.
In 2025, more than a dozen local names were listed as semifinalists, though just one made the cut to finalist, Lagniappe Bake House, the bakery cafe in Central City from Kaitlin Guerin, and none won chef or restaurant awards.
Dooky Chase’s Restaurant also was named last year to the group’s America’s Classics, an honor recognizing restaurants that are notable contributors to their community’s food, culture and traditions.
New Orleans semifinalists for 2026 are as follows.
Outstanding Restaurateur: Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski, Link Restaurant Group (which includes Pêche Seafood Grill, Herbsaint, Cochon, Gianna, Cochon Butcher, La Boulangerie, and Chemin a La Mer with the Four Seasons Hotel). These two chefs started working together at Link’s first restaurant, Herbsaint, started a partnership with the next, Cochon, and as a restaurant group have six James Beard awards among its restaurants, chefs and Link’s cookbooks and numerous nominations through the years.
Emerging Chef: E.J. Lagasse, Emeril’s Restaurant. The son of restaurant founder Emeril Lagasse is now chef at the flagship, which has been transformed into a world-class tasting menu experience built around Louisiana flavor. Last year, it made an extraordinary two-star debut in the Michelin Guide. Best New Restaurant: Evviva. This seductive, modern Italian restaurant in the Marigny is run
by Heather Lolley and Humberto Suazo, with chefs Marcus Jacobs and Rebecca Wilcomb sharing the kitchen. Wilcomb won the Beard Foundation’s Best Chef: South in 2017. Saint Claire. The second restaurant from chef Melissa Martin, of Mosquito Supper Club, developed with Cassi Dymond of Kalimera construction firm, feels like a country retreat near the levee in Algiers.
Outstanding Bakery: Bywater Bakery. Since baker Chaya Conrad opened her shop in 2017, it has grown into a neighborhood anchor, known for its block parties, community outreach and one of the most popular lines of king cake each Carnival.
Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service: Braithe Gill, Brennan’s Restaurant. The beverage director for the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group (parent company of this French Quarter landmark,) Gill is a sommelier who led the effort for Brennan’s to regain its Grand Award status from Wine Spectator in 2021 following a long hiatus after Hurricane Katrina ruined its previous collection.
The Best Chef: South award covers a region including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Puerto Rico.
Ana Castro of Acamaya. With her sister Lydia Castro, the chef opened this modern and stylish Mexican seafood restaurant in the Bywater, which has gained many accolades. Castro has been a semifinalist or finalist for numerous James Beard awards for her prior work at other restaurants and for Acamaya.
Serigne Mbaye of Dakar NOLA.
The chef started with a pop-up and in 2022 with partner Effie Richardson
opened the modern Senegalese tasting menu restaurant. It’s been a magnet for high profile accolades since. The James Beard foundation named it Best New Restaurant in 2024 and last year it landed at No. 6 on North America’s 50 Best Restaurants List.
Charly Pierre of Fritai. This casual, vibrant Treme restaurant blends traditional and original Haitian dishes, as well as cocktails. Lately, Pierre has brought these flavors to French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest too. Fritai was a semifinalist for the James Beard Best New Restaurant award in 2022. Cory Bahr of Parish in Monroe. A modern take on Louisiana and Southern flavors makes Parish a standout in north Louisiana. Bahr, a Monroe native, is an official culinary ambassador for Louisiana and has appeared on numerous Food Network competitions.
Hunter Evans of Elvie’s in Jackson, Mississippi. Created as an homage to the chef’s grandmother, who lived in New Orleans, this is an all-day cafe shifting from Southern breakfast classics to a more sophisticated dinner menu. It’s the fourth year for Evans as a semifinalist for the award.
One change in the James Beard awards in recent years has been the inclusion of smaller markets. This year, Wild Child Wines in Lafayette is a semifinalist for Outstanding Bar. It’s a wine store, a wine bar, a bakery and an overall epicurean delight in downtown Lafayette, with everything from cookbooks to tinned seafood to events, first created by Katie and Denny Culbert in 2020 and growing ever since.
— Ian McNulty / The Times-Picayune
—BRUNch —
Breakfast
Burgertopped w/ FriedEgg &Bacon
“3 little Pigs Buiscut”
Pulled Pork,ham & bacon w/ Eggs &jalapenoaioli
Bananas
Foster Waffles —LUNCH —
CrawfishEtoufee w/ FriedCatfish
SmotheredPorkChops over rice
MardiGrasPizza —DINNER—
FriedRedfish over dirtyRice w/ creole creamsauce
8ozfiletw/ potatoes au gratin &veggies S w
Ana Castro (left) and sister Lydia Castro opened Acamaya in Bywater.
PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES- PICAYUNE
OUT TO EAT
Out to Eat is an index of Gambit contract advertisers. Unless noted, addresses are for New Orleans and all accept credit cards. Updates: Email willc@gambitweekly.com or call (504) 483-3106.
Angelo Brocato’s — 214 N. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-1465; angelobrocatoicecream.com — This Mid-City sweet shop serves its own gelato in flavors like praline, salted caramel and tiramisu, as well as Italian ices in flavors like lemon, strawberry and mango. There also are cannolis, biscotti, fig cookies, tiramisu, macaroons and coffee drinks. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. $ Annunciation — 1016 Annunciation St., (504) 568-0245; annunciationrestaurant. com — Gulf Drum Yvonne is served with brown butter sauce with mushrooms and artichoke hearts. There also are oysters, seafood pasta dishes, steaks, lamb chops and more. Reservations recommended. Dinner Thu.-Mon. $$$
Bamboula’s — 514 Frenchmen St.; bamboulasmusic.com — The live music venue’s kitchen offers a menu of traditional and creative Creole dishes, such as Creole crawfish crepes with goat cheese and chardonnay sauce. Reservations accepted. Lunch, dinner and late-night daily. $$
The Blue Crab Restaurant and Oyster Bar — 118 Harbor View Court, Slidell, (985) 315-7001; 7900 Lakeshore Drive, (504) 284-2898; thebluecrabnola.com — Basin barbecue shrimp are served with rosemary garlic butter sauce over cheese grits with a cheese biscuit. The menu includes po-poys, fried seafood platters, raw and char-grilled oysters, boiled seafood in season, and more. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lakeview: Lunch and dinner Tue.-Sun. Slidell: Lunch Wed.-Fri., dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Sat.-Sun. $$ Broussard’s — 819 Conti St., (504) 581-3866; broussards.com — The menu of contemporary Creole dishes includes bronzed redfish with jumbo lump crabmeat, lemon beurre blanc and vegetables. Brunch includes Benedicts, avocado toast, chicken and waffles, turtle soup and more. Reservations recommended. Outdoor seating available in the courtyard. Dinner Wed.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$$ Cafe Normandie — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The menu combines classic French dishes and Louisiana items like crab beignets with herb aioli. Sandwiches include po-boys, a muffuletta on flatbread and a burger. No reservations. Breakfast and lunch Mon.-Sat., dinner Fri.-Mon. $$ The Commissary — 634 Orange St., (504) 274-1850; thecommissarynola.com — Dickie Brennan’s Commissary supplies his other restaurant kitchens and also has a dine-in menu and prepared foods to go. A smoked turkey sandwich is served with bacon, tomato jam, herbed cream cheese, arugula and herb vinaigrette on honey oat bread. The menu includes dips, salads, sandwiches, boudin balls, fried oysters and more. No reservations. Outdoor seating available. Lunch Tue.-Sat. $$ Curio — 301 Royal St., (504) 717-4198; curionola.com — The creative Creole menu includes blackened Gulf shrimp served with chicken and andouille jambalaya. There also are crab cakes, shrimp and grits, crawfish etouffee, po-boys and more. Outdoor seating
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available on balcony. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$ Dahla — 611 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 766-6602; dahlarestaurant.com — The menu includes popular Thai dishes like pad thai, drunken noodles, curries and fried rice. Crispy skinned duck basil is prepared with vegetables and Thai basil. Delivery available. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$
Desire Oyster Bar — Royal Sonesta New Orleans, 300 Bourbon St., (504) 586-0300; sonesta.com/desireoysterbar — A menu full of Gulf seafood includes oysters served raw on the half-shell or char-broiled with with Parmesan, garlic and herbs. The menu also includes po-boys, po-boys, gumbo, blackened fish, fried seafood platters and more. Reservations recommended. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$
Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House — 144 Bourbon St., (504) 522-0111; bourbonhouse.com — There’s a seafood raw bar with raw and char-broiled oysters, fish dip, crab fingers, shrimp and more. Redfish on the Half-shell is cooked skin-on and served with crab-boiled potatoes, frisee and lemon buerre blanc. The bar offers a wide selection of bourbon and whiskies. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner daily. $$$
Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse — 716 Iberville St., (504) 522-2467; dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com — The menu includes a variety of steaks, plus seared Gulf fish, lobster pasta, barbecue shrimp and more. A 6-ounce filet mignon is served with fried oysters, creamed spinach, potatoes and bearnaise. Reservations recommended. Dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$
El Pavo Real — 4401 S. Broad Ave., (504) 266-2022; elpavorealnola.com — The menu includes tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, ceviche. tamales and more. Pescado Vera Cruz features sauteed Gulf fish topped with tomatoes, olives, onion and capers, served with rice and string beans. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and early dinner Tue.-Sat. $$
Juan’s Flying Burrito — 515 Baronne St., (504) 529-5825; 2018 Magazine St., (504) 569-0000; 4724 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 486-9950; 8140 Oak St., (504) 897-4800; juansflyingburrito.com — The Flying Burrito includes steak, shrimp, chicken, cheddar jack cheese, black beans, rice, guacamole and salsa. The menu also includes tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas, fajitas, nachos, salads, rice and bean bowls with various toppings and more. Outdoor seating available. No reservations. Lunch and dinner Thu.-Tue. $$
The Cajun Cuban with roasted pork, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard. The eclectic menu also includes char-grilled oysters, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, fried seafood platters, pasta, salads and more. Delivery available. Reservations accepted for large parties. Lunch and dinner daily. $$
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Kilroy’s Bar — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The all-day bar menu includes sandwiches, soups, salads, flatbreads and a couple entrees. A muffuletta flatbread is topped with salami, mortadella, capicola, mozzarella and olive salad. No reservations. Lunch Fri.-Mon., dinner daily. $$ Legacy Kitchen’s Craft Tavern — 700 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 613-2350; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes oysters, flatbreads, burgers, sandwiches, salads and sharable plates like NOLA Tot Debris. A slow-cooked pulled pork barbecue sandwich is served with coleslaw on a brioche bun. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Legacy Kitchen Steak & Chop — 91 Westbank Expressway, Gretna, (504) 513-2606; legacykitchen.com — The selection of steak and chops includes filet mignon, bone-in rib-eye, top sirloin and double pork chops and a la carte toppings include bernaise, blue cheese and sauteed crabmeat. There also are burgers, salads, pasta, seafood entrees, char-broiled oysters and more. Reservations accepted. Outdoor seating available. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Mikimoto — 3301 S. Carrollton Ave., (504) 488-1881; mikimotosushi.com — The menu of Japanese cuisine includes sushi, signature rolls, tempura items, udon noodle dishes, teriyaki, salads and more.The South Carrollton roll includes tuna tataki, avocado, snow crab, green onion and wasabi roe. Reservations accepted. Delivery available. Lunch Sun.-Fri., dinner daily. $$ Mosca’s — 4137 Highway 90 West, Westwego, (504) 436-8950; moscasrestaurant.com — This family-style eatery serves Italian dishes and specialties including shrimp Mosca, baked oysters Mosca and spaghetti Bordelaise and chicken cacciatore. Chicken a la grands is sauteed with garlic, rosemary, Italian herbs and white wine. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Sat. Cash only. $$$ Mother’s Restaurant — 401 Poydras St., (504) 523-9656; mothersrestaurant. net — This counter-service spot serves po-boys dressed with sliced cabbage like the Famous Ferdi filled with ham, roast beef and debris. Creole favorites include jambalaya, crawfish etouffee, red beans and rice and more. Breakfast is available all day. Delivery available. No reservations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$ Neyow’s Creole Cafe — 3332 Bienville St., (504) 827-5474; neyows.com — The menu includes red beans and rice with fried chicken or pork chops, as well as shrimp Creole, seafood platters, po-boys, chargrilled and raw oysters, salads and more. Side items include carrot souffle, mac and cheese, cornbread dressing, sweet potato tots and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat., brunch Sun. $$ Nice Guys Bar & Grill — 7910 Earhart Blvd., (504) 302-2404; niceguysbarandgrillnola. com — Char-grilled oysters are topped with cheese and garlic butter, and other options include oysters Rockefeller and loaded oysters. The creative menu also includes seafood bread, a Cajun-lobster potato, wings, quesadillas, burgers, salads, sandwiches, seafood pasta, loaded fries and more. No reservations. Lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat. $$$
Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar & Bistro 720 Orleans Ave., (504) 523-1930; orleansgrapevine.com — The wine bar offers cheese boards and appetizers to nosh with wines. The menu includes Creole pasta with shrimp and andouille in tomato cream sauce. Reservations accepted for large parties. Outdoor seating available. Dinner Thu.-Sun. $$ Parish Grill — 4650 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 100, Metairie, (504) 345-2878; parishgrill.com — The menu includes a variety of burgers, sandwiches, wraps, pizza and salads. For an appetizer, sauteed andouille is served with fig preserves, blue cheese and toast points. Reservations accepted. Lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. $$ Peacock Room — Kimpton Hotel Fontenot, 501 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 324-3073; peacockroomnola.com — At brunch, braised short rib grillades are served over grits with mushrooms, a poached egg and shaved truffle. The dinner menu has oysters, salads, pasta, shrimp and grits, a burger, cheese plates and more. Reservations accepted. Dinner Wed.-Mon., brunch Sun. $$
Rosie’s on the Roof — Higgins Hotel, 480 Andrew Higgins Blvd., (504) 528-1941; higginshotelnola.com/dining — The rooftop bar has a menu of sandwiches, burgers and small plates. Crab beignets are made with Gulf crabmeat and mascarpone and served with herb aioli. No reservations. Dinner Mon.-Sat. $$
Tableau — 616 St. Peter St., (504) 9343463; tableaufrenchquarter.com — The menu features traditional and creative Creole dishes. Pasta bouillabaisse features squid ink mafaldine, littleneck clams, Gulf shrimp, squid, seafood broth, rouille and herbed breadcrumbs. Outdoor seating available on the balcony. Reservations recommended. Dinner Wed.-Sun., brunch Thu.-Sun. $$$
Tacklebox — 817 Common St., (504) 827-1651; legacykitchen.com — The menu includes raw and char-broiled oysters, seafood platters, po-boys, fried chicken, crab and corn bisque and more. Redfish St. Charles is served with garlic-herb butter, asparagus, mushrooms and crawfish cornbread. Reservations accepted. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$
Marilynn Pota Supreme pie is topped with mozzarella, pepperoni, sausage, hamburger, mushrooms, bell peppers and onions. There also are salads, sandwiches, wings, breadsticks and more. Delivery available. Lunch and dinner daily. $
The Vintage — 3121 Magazine St., (504) 324-7144; thevintagenola.com — There’s a full coffee drinks menu and baked goods and beignets, as well as a full bar. The menu has flatbreads, cheese boards, small plates and a pressed veggie sandwich with avocado, onions, arugula, red pepper and pepper jack cheese. No reservations. Delivery and outdoor seating available. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. $$
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and Blues Market. Tickets $36.60$88.15 at ticketmaster.com.
BrechtFest
The annual festival celebrates the works of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht near his birthday, and it features his granddaughter Sarah Brecht, who is a visual artist. There are two nights of music, spoken word and puppetry performances. Organized by accordionist David C. Symons and pianist and puppeteer Harry Mayronne, this year’s Brechtfest will feature contributions by cellist Chris BeroesHaigis, percussionist Hannah Davis, vocalist Kitty Baudoin and more. BrechtFest also recently launched a Kickstarter to produce a new album of music influenced by the event. BrechtFest is at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, and Wednesday, Feb. 4, at the AllWays Lounge & Cabaret. Tickets are $30 via brechtfest.com.
LSD Clownsystem
Each Carnival season, New Orleans’ premier clown-themed LCD Soundsystem cover band throws a joyful, themed blowout show. This year, the band piles into the clown car for a sightseeing road trip. Grab some face paint and throw the map out the window, ’cause LSD Clownsystem “Takes a Trip” at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Joy Theater. Tickets are $35 via thejoytheater.com.
Katt Williams
Katt Williams started his comedy career in his teens and quickly jumped to TV and film roles, appearing in “NYPD Blue,” “Wild ’n Out,” “Norbit,” voicing a character on “Boondocks” and more. He’s currently on an arena tour, and performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at Smoothie King Center. Tickets $81.40 at ticketmaster.com.
‘Electric Blue Tears’
Composer and keys player Neal Todten premieres a new work, “Electric Blue Tears,” on Thursday, Feb. 5, at the New Marigny Theater, where Todten has been an artist in residence. The minimalist work will feature Todten and Ashalen Sims on electric organs, saxophonists Byron Asher and Owen Callahan, vibraphonist Zak Garn and marimbist Logan Schuttes working closely with a live sound engineer to heighten the sound and use the space’s acoustics. The program also will feature works by Philip Glass. Todten hosts
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a pre-show discussion at 6 p.m., and the performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 via eventbrite.com.
Southern Nights
The February edition of the monthly series focused on women songwriters will feature performances by Gina Leslie, Marcella Simien and series organizer Dusky Waters. Each show ends with all the musicians together on stage for a set dedicated to an icon, and this month, they’ll perform the music of Aretha Franklin. Southern Nights is at 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at Snug Harbor. Tickets are $24.35 via snugjazz.com.
People Museum
Synth-pop band People Museum throws a hometown Carnival show on Sunday, Feb. 8, at Gasa Gasa. Maggy Kirgo opens at 8:45 p.m. Tickets are $23.85 via gasagasanola.com.
‘Water for Elephants’
The musical adaptation of the 2006 novel of the same name tells the story of Jacob, who as a boy jumped a train during the Depression and began a new life. He joined a circus and took care of animals as he learned the ropes and met an array of colorful circus people. The touring Broadway production is at Saenger Theatre Feb. 3-8. Showtimes vary. Tickets $39-$159 via saengernola.com.
Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars
Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars recently brought its mix of horn-backed New Orleans rhythm and blues, jazz, indie rock and calypso to NPR Music’s Tiny Desk. The group next plays at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at the Marigny Opera House. Tickets are $25 general admission and $15 for students and seniors (and no one turned away for lack of funds). Find info and tickets at marignyoperahouse.org.
‘Easy Rider’
Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider” was a landmark independent film about disillusionment with the American dream. The road trip film has a memorable sequence featuring Mardi Gras, as Hopper and Peter Fonda’s characters drop acid with prostitutes and wander around the French Quarter and a cemetery. The film screens on Carnival Movie Night at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Broadside. Tickets $5.73 via broadsidenola.com.
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HOUSE OF BLUES — Geof Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime - The Final Chapter, 8 pm
JOY THEATER Saturnalia Ball: Venus! at the Disco ft. DJ Phlegm, DJ Siren + More!, 8 pm
LE BON TEMPS ROULÉ — Isaac Eady and Third Moon, 11 pm
THE LITTLE HOUSE — Little House Ball with Valerie Sassyfras, 7 pm
MAPLE LEAF BAR Tephra Sound feat Nikki Glaspie, Helen Gillet & Brian Haas, 8 pm
NO DICE — The Asylum Chorus, 8 pm
ORIGINAL NITE CAP — Davis Rogan, 5:30 pm
THE RABBIT HOLE — SPACE VIKINGS VALHALLA BALL 2026, 9 pm
THE REPUBLIC Borgore, 11 pm
ROCK ‘N’ BOWL — Dale Watson & his Lone Stars, 8:30 pm
SATURN BAR Latin Night with La Tran-K, 9 pm
SIBERIA SLEAZE PROM: An Evening of Indie Sleaze with DJ Warm Advice, 9 pm
AROUND CARNIVAL TIME IN 2024, ESTHER ROSE ENDED UP AT POOR BOYS to see The Shitty Stones. Rose had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2020 after a decade ensconced in New Orleans’ singer-songwriter community. But needing “a perspective shift,” she says, she came back to town for a few weeks to be around friends, work on her forthcoming album, and continue to write music.
Rose had been in a raw, emotional place, she says, and the crowded Shitty Stones show gave her space to “excavate my heart,” she sings on “Want Pt. 2,” the closing track to her 2025 album, “Want.” She found immediate inspiration for the reflective song in that night at Poor Boys, including the profound lyric, “Your heart will keep breaking until it stays open,” spoken to Rose by folk musician Gina Leslie.
want in life, and notes the rawness that can come from therapy work.
“I was going through a lot of questions about partnership and what I want from the album, having a lot of doubts,” Rose says. “So hearing that line from Gina in that moment felt like a touchstone, something I didn’t want to forget.”
“It’s like that paradox that’s so human,” she adds, “which is we all want love and to experience love, but nobody wants to get hurt anymore … You have to be willing to put it on the line and get hurt and be vulnerable and expose yourself. That’s part of growing and loving other people.”
Rose is again spending time in New Orleans during Carnival and plays a show at 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Saturn Bar with Thomas Dollbaum and Sundarta. Rose and Dollbaum also will tour the West Coast together in March.
Rose released her fifth full-length album, the alt-country record “Want,” last May and earned praise from publications MOJO, No Depression and American Songwriter. The album also landed on Stereogum’s list of 10 best country albums of 2025.
Rose’s songwriting has always been straight from the gut and the heart. Vulnerability in her music isn’t new, and the directness has resonated with listeners. But on “Want,” Rose found herself revealing more of herself in songs tackling complex and emotional topics. She reflects on her restlessness both in places and in relationships, confronts the contradictions of what she may
“With this album, I felt like I was able to feel powerful in my vulnerability, and that felt new,” she says. “I am sharing, vulnerable, laid open, and in that I’m finding this massive strength.”
When it came time to record the album, Rose turned to several New Orleans-based friends, including guitarist Kunal Prakash of the band Silver Synthetic (and The Shitty Stones), The Deslondes’ Howe Pearson and John James Tourville, and Gina Leslie, who plays bass here. Ross Fabre produced the album and appears with his Video Age bandmate Ray Micarelli on the track “tailspin.”
Singer-songwriter Dean Johnson also guests on the duet “Scars.”
“Want” is rooted in country, but with a full band behind her, Rose expands her sound into indie rock and pop. She can ease the energy back, like on the bare, piano-backed performance on “Color Wheel,” and accelerate things with songs like “Ketamine” and “New Bad.”
“I really believe in this album and everything that it kind of took to get to the point of writing these songs,” Rose says. “Joni Mitchell has this quote from when she wrote ‘Blue,’ that her skin felt like cellophane at the time of writing it. And I really relate to that feeling of being raw in the most amazing way.”
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