crime

NOPD: Suspect arrested in Garden District shooting

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A 26-year-old man has been arrested for shooting a 42-year-old in the hand in the Garden District early Monday morning, police said. Quinnan Adams has been charged with aggravated battery in the shooting, which took place in the 3200 block of Prytania about 5 a.m., according to the New Orleans Police Department. Adams has been arrested before, said Officer Janssen Valencia of the NOPD public information division, but Valencia said any information about the circumstances of the shooting remain a part of the investigation. Adams was booked into the Orleans Parish jail shortly before 10 a.m., according to records there, and no bond has been set.

arts, books and music

Film Festival to dominate Prytania’s schedule

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Screenings of nearly 30 different films in the New Orleans Film Festival will dominate the schedule at the Prytania Theatre from Friday to the following Thursday.The schedule, available at the Prytania’s website, includes the sole showings of some of the festival’s highest-profile features: The Black Swan (by The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky, starring Natalie Portman), 127 Hours (by Trainspotting’s Danny Boyle, starring James Franco) and festival opener Welcome to the Rileys (by music-video director Jake Scott, starring James Gandolfini of The Sopranos and Kristin Stewart of The Twilight Saga). In addition to an assortment of other features, foreign films and classics, the Prytania will also feature a number of documentaries with specific New Orleans interest, such as Bury the Hatchet (about Mardi Gras Indians), Race (about Mayor Ray Nagin’s re-election), Canal Street Madam, a showing of Harry Shearer’s The Big Uneasy and pieces on authors John Kennedy O’Toole and Walker Percy. The New Orleans Film Festival takes place at a number of other venues around the city, including The Theatres at Canal Place and Contemporary Arts Center. (See the complete schedule.)