Fully Dressed: NOPD Crystal Hot Sauce

🚔 NOPD partnered with Crystal Hot Sauce in a new effort to recruit officers through branded bottles in restaurants. (The Times-Picayune 🔒)

🏗️ The Lower 9th Ward is "facing an onslaught of catastrophic projects that could be more permanently damaging" than Hurricane Katrina, The Nation writes.

💔 A preschool classroom in Shreveport, Louisiana, is mourning the loss of a student who was among seven siblings fatally shot by their father. (AP)

🏡 Suleika Jaouad and husband, Jon Batiste, renovated a 200-year-old farmhouse. They jokingly refer to their aesthetic as Tunisiana. (Garden & Home home tour)

• Batiste also cut up with Ina Garten in a new episode of her cooking show. His mom's advice: Your red beans water should look like the swamp. (Facebook)

🦞 Remember the crawfish ice cream we told you about in Houston? The Washington Post has a video of how it's made. We just don't know about that, y'all.

📚 New Orleans author Michael Allen Zell's new book concludes his crime trilogy that's set in the city. (Offbeat)

• Read Chelsea' previous interview with him.