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Antoine wants to keep his family unit together, but can’t help cheating on his girlfriend with the strippers from the club he’s been playing at. Last night he found out that Kermit’s band went to play a gig up in New York City without inviting him; Antoine’s resulting drunken stupor landed him in jail, and now he’s back out on bail (thanks to Toni Burnette), but his trombone’s either in police custody or gone for good. Albert, meanwhile, has discovered the corpse of one of his tribe mates under a boat in the back of the guy’s house, and has also met an attractive neighbor whose nephew, it looks like, will be doing some work for Albert. Davis continues to do battle with everyone around him, from the rich gay neighbors who have moved into the apartment next door to the Louisiana National Guard, who arrested him for drinking out in the open. LaDonna, getting no answers about her brother’s whereabouts — and no …

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Truth is, once music forms become popular, the places of their origins are rarely big enough to support them. Reggae cannot survive in Kingston alone; neither Memphis nor St. Louis can fully support the blues. That New Orleans cannot provide work for all its jazz musicians reflects the fertility of the city in nurturing so many performers rather than the lack of jobs. Nashville inspires more country crooners than there are places for them to sing.
        
In New Orleans, jazz survives mostly because of tourism. But because tourists are citizens of the world, that might be a tribute to the music’s far-flung popularity.
        
Brinkley might not have ever known it, but he prompted a jazz preservation movement. In the spirit of the movement, Preservation Hall, a place dedicated solely to traditional jazz, opened in the French Quarter amid the strip clubs. Other traditional jazz spots would follow, including the Palm Court Café. It is the festival, however, that has given jazz the most visibility in the town of its nativity. Curiously, while jazz gave the event a name, the fest has made big names out of other native music forms.
       

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The third installment of Treme, titled “Right Place, Wrong Time” after a Dr. John song, was the series’ first great episode, and should reassure doubters. With exposition largely taken care of, characters’ storylines are starting to weave together, themes are emerging organically, and, more importantly, there is a lot of boning.
If music is the first sign that vitality is returning to New Orleans, sex is the second. The episode begins with a bang, as Antoine Batiste humps a stripper in her FEMA trailer, reminding her what they call his instrument in the music world—“a bone.” When he returns, with exculpatory beignets, to his girlfriend Desiree, she rightly suspects him of running out on her. The only way he can prove to her that he isn’t—and that he isn’t just riding out the Katrina aftermath with her out of necessity—is if he has enough in him for an encore. “If you ain’t got nothing for me know, I’m gonna know for sure.” Cut to credits.

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Davis (Steve Zahn), “I’ve Got Strippers Moving in My Neighborhood” Davis’ neighbors, who were last seen trimming bushes in their fully-bloomed garden weeks ago, stop Davis as he leaves his apartment. They want a few things cleared up, but Davis doesn’t want to hear it. “This place was a wreck. We fixed it up with love — and a great deal of cash, I might add. It’s called, historical preservation,” says the neighbor.
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But most of the, um, stuff that they have to deal with? It might just be Davis’ overwrought hubris. And that pride finally starts peeling away from Davis in “Right Place, Wrong Time,” because all of this gentrification that he morally opposes is starting to benefit him in the short term. He writes “I’ve Got Strippers Moving in My Neighborhood,” a short, bluesy tune about his well-endowed female neighbors that can now afford to live nearby. And it has this reprise: “You can call it gentrification/ I’m gonna call it good.” For the first time on the show, Davis — who has labeled himself a musician from the outset — has written a song. And it’s all about the new neighborhood.

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Antoine and Davis are probably the most strongly realized characters so far, and their stories were consequently the easiest to get involved with as they began to feel like main players among the ensemble. Antoine is still struggling to make ends meet by blowing his horn in a Bourbon Street strip club, and though he at first enjoys the sleazy perks — the episode opens with him working a stripper from behind while they stand in her trailer, which taught me more about Wendell Pierce than I ever wanted to know — his wife puts him on the straight and narrow. His new life backfires a bit when, walking home one night, he staggers and bumps into a parked police car, earning him a beating from some keyed-up NOPD officers. They thrash him and toss his horn, and he has Toni bail him out.

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Treme, after all, is a series created by two non-New Orleanians (for a largely non-New Orleans viewership) and it thus seems unsurprisingly fixated on questions of authenticity; it seems deeply to want to find a way to live in New Orleans and not come to it as a tourist. The idea of complicating its vision, showing that there are many ways of being “authentic” in New Orleansâjust as Dr. John’s and Albert’s “Indian Red” can be very different yet equally legitimateâis rich material for this show.
Now for a hail of bullets:
* So it turns out that Antoine’s lady did have a reason to suspect him getting more than paid while he’s out on those gigs.
* Having said that I liked the run-in between Davis and his gay neighbor, his stripper-neighbor subplot and song I could have done without entirely; it was another case where I felt like the show expected me to find the character as funny and charming as he does himself.

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A local stoner metal band called Wicked Finger, fronted by a guy named Medicine Wolf who wore feather clips in his fluffy hair, also performed. Later, the drummer’s girlfriend, who had drawn a pentagram on her chest and had fake blood dripping from her mouth, got in a screaming match with a sweet stripper in a fur coat and leg warmers. Then, at 5 AM, it was time for the parade. Quintron and his friends take their responsibilities as seriously as any legit krewe. They even publish a newsletter called the “Marching Band Times,” which lays down the rules: No fire. No clown gear. Uniformity above individuality. No jamming. Practice until you are bored. Only at Mardi Gras. And pay attention to security, even when it’s fake security: every year MC Trachiotomy and Bob Global dress as cops and direct the band, stopping traffic and keeping the parade in formation. This trick has so far prevented the 50-piece ensemble from getting busted by real cops.

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I have two favorite spots. One, Tan Dinh, has a Thit Nuong (grilled pork strips) Banh Mi so good, so rich with the flavors of char, pork and its sweet garlicky marinade, it’s still amazing cold from the fridge the next day, even after the cilantro’s gotten a bit wilty and the bread limp.
The other is Dong Phuong, a wholesale bakery and restaurant sitting in the middle of what looks like nowhere: the Chef Menteur Highway that stretches from the core of the city to the arm called New Orleans East, the home of infamous post-Katrina garbage dumps, massive coffee and sugar plants, and the city’s most vibrant Vietnamese community. You speed by all these broken-down places that you expect to be gas stations or weird leasing companies or strip clubs, but then you realize that they’re all catering halls and restaurants. One of these restaurants, with a sign reading “NOW OPEN” in red, marks the otherwise nondescript Dong Phuong, whose main business is supplying much of the city — white, black, and Vietnamese — with its bread.

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I have two favorite spots. One, Tan Dinh, has a Thit Nuong (grilled pork strips) Banh Mi so good, so rich with the flavors of char, pork and its sweet garlicky marinade, it’s still amazing cold from the fridge the next day, even after the cilantro’s gotten a bit wilty and the bread limp.
The other is Dong Phuong, a wholesale bakery and restaurant sitting in the middle of what looks like nowhere: the Chef Menteur Highway that stretches from the core of the city to the arm called New Orleans East, the home of infamous post-Katrina garbage dumps, massive coffee and sugar plants, and the city’s most vibrant Vietnamese community. You speed by all these broken-down places that you expect to be gas stations or weird leasing companies or strip clubs, but then you realize that they’re all catering halls and restaurants. One of these restaurants, with a sign reading “NOW OPEN” in red, marks the otherwise nondescript Dong Phuong, whose main business is supplying much of the city — white, black, and Vietnamese — with its bread.

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After a nervous audience member read a prepared introduction, Snyder and Willis took over the show, singing an irreverent song about their own awesomeness and how famous they totally are.  The duo then took some time to showcase their non-voiceover work, including Dana Snyder’s one line appearance on an episode of “ER” and a completely fabricated “Sopranos” clip in which Dave Willis ate spaghetti and insisted repeatedly that he was Sicilian. 
The rest of the night continued in this vein, with appearances in puppet form by characters from Aqua Teen and its sister show, “Squidbillies.”  Aqua Teen neighbor Carl stopped in to harp on New Orleans’ faults while at the same time extolling the virtues of readily available alcohol and strippers. Later in the show an uncomfortable looking audience member read an extremely suggestive recipe for “red snapper” while being fondled by Squidbillies’ Granny Cuyler. 

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